On 22 April 2016 at 12:42, rupert THURNER <rupert.thur...@gmail.com> 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 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]. >
A discussion about whether the Communications Team should do blog posts on Wikinews instead of the Wikimedia Blog seems quite off-topic for this very general mailing list. Why don't you try contacting the Communications Team? > 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. > If you have criticism to give, then using strong language such as "hate" in every single sentence will likely cause people to tune out. This means you are unlikely to achieve anything. Almost everyone here is open to constructive criticism, but this message is quite far away from that. Please be respectful of your fellow Wikimedians, and try to restate your criticism more constructively and neutrally. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ 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>
