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 Friday, 22 April 2016, rupert THURNER <rupert.thur...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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, thousands of pages created, degree in journalism, > dissertation about news on wikipedia, administrator.[1] > > jimmy, as wikinews refers an old mail of you from 2003 as the holy > grail of NPOV, could you please clarify once and for all that your > NPOV statemant you sent to wikien-l was valid for wikipedia. and not > for wikisource, wikiquote, wikinews. best on the wikinews talk page > concerning NPOV [2][4]. i understand of course that certain publishing > standards might apply - but NPOV, and "sourced" in the sense of > published somewhere else cannot be amongst them [3]. > > 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". i hate that > signpost [7] cannot be read on mobiles because of formatting. i hate > the glam newsletter [6] for the same reason, despite beeig again on a > different wiki, no "read in different languages". which is the main > reason i write this mail ... and asked joe why not using wikinews. and > i hate that wikinews does not use mediawiki features to properly > classify what quality an article has, e.g. "blog", "npov", etc. > > [1] > https://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-ec/?user=Foxj&project=en.wikipedia.org > [2] > https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_talk:Neutral_point_of_view#raphael_honigstein_and_outreach_blog_on_wikinews.3F > [3] https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Pillars_of_Wikinews_writing > [4] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2003-November/008096.html > [5] blog: > http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/22/ted-wikimedia-collaboration/ > [6] glam newletter: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter > [7] signpost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost > > best, > rupert > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> > ?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
