Re: [Wikimedia-l] wikinews has a NPOV policy derived from wikipedia, mamamia ...

2016-05-01 Thread David Gerard
For comparison: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Special:Statistics the twitter version: "Wikinews is half as active as Citizendium." - d. On 1 May 2016 at 17:45, rupert THURNER wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Tilman Bayer wrote: >>

Re: [Wikimedia-l] wikinews has a NPOV policy derived from wikipedia, mamamia ...

2016-05-01 Thread rupert THURNER
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Tilman Bayer wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:42 PM, rupert THURNER > wrote: > >> hi jimmy, >> >> i asked on the facebook group wikipeda weekly if joe/ed could publish >> an upcoming blog post on wikinews. joe

Re: [Wikimedia-l] wikinews has a NPOV policy derived from wikipedia, mamamia ...

2016-04-30 Thread Marc A. Pelletier
On 16-04-22 05:04 PM, quiddity wrote: >> > i hate that >> > signpost [7] cannot be read on mobiles because of formatting. > > Last discussed in November at > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Wikipedia_Signpost/Archive_9#Mobile_view_not_great With luck, the work on

Re: [Wikimedia-l] wikinews has a NPOV policy derived from wikipedia, mamamia ...

2016-04-22 Thread quiddity
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:42 PM, rupert THURNER wrote: > > [snip] > > just as a note, i hate that the blog [5] opens 20 times slower than > wikinews on my mobile phone, that it is not in different languages, > that i do not have the "usual mediawiki features". For

Re: [Wikimedia-l] wikinews has a NPOV policy derived from wikipedia, mamamia ...

2016-04-22 Thread Dan Garry
On 22 April 2016 at 12:42, rupert THURNER wrote: > > i asked on the facebook group wikipeda weekly if joe/ed could publish > an upcoming blog post on wikinews. joe sutherland mentioned ".. I > simply cannot get my head around its attitude to news coverage". which > i

Re: [Wikimedia-l] wikinews has a NPOV policy derived from wikipedia, mamamia ...

2016-04-22 Thread Oliver Keyes
You're publishing on the main movement mailing list to complain about another user and ask Jimmy a yes/no question? This could've been handled with a neutral description of the background. I'm not sure if you're in a position to be frightened by the comments of long-term editors right now. On

[Wikimedia-l] wikinews has a NPOV policy derived from wikipedia, mamamia ...

2016-04-22 Thread rupert THURNER
hi jimmy, i asked on the facebook group wikipeda weekly if joe/ed could publish an upcoming blog post on wikinews. joe sutherland mentioned ".. I simply cannot get my head around its attitude to news coverage". which i find frightening. an editor for 10 years, tens of thousands contributions,