Wikinews Importer Bot has helped improve the amount of links incoming to Wikinews' Main Page and to individual Wikinews articles - Perhaps not directly from en.wikipedia's Main Page itself - but certainly from Portal pages, and pretty prominently at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Brian McNeil <[email protected]>wrote: > Do we want the Wikipedia news people? They'd need to put in a lot more > effort - at the moment they just make 2-3 sentences from an item that is > being included in Wikipedia, and their work appears on the 8th most popular > site on the Internet. > > Wikinews does okay having a link above the crease on WP's main page. > Selling > a link like that on the main page would probably be worth six figures, > we're > not capitalising on that. And we cannot order people from Wikipedia to work > on Wikinews to do so. It is like the meta discussion on a global BLP, we > don't want told what we can and can't write, let alone even risk it. WP > people involved with their news section would not take kindly to being told > to do a full report on Wikinews. > > > Brian. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason > Safoutin > Sent: 25 May 2009 21:53 > To: Wikinews mailing list > Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Wikipedia's 'In the news' > > That can already be done easily as it is now. Those who write the news > on WP can write the news on WP. It should not be a matter of popularity, > but a matter of getting out the most information, the easiest, quickest > way possible, with as much *collaboration *as possible. As it is, with > the contributions on WP for the news, we are not collaborating we are > competing. It may or may not be an intentional competition but is its > one. It seems the only time we get any contributors from WP is when they > do something to piss everyone else off. When the incident is settled, > they go back to writing news on WP...the same news that they were just > writing on WN. So I am just lost as to what exactly the point of all > this would be? Its like taking what WMF stands for and ignoring it > because something may or may not be as popular as it was before. > > -- > Jason Safoutin > Wikinews accredited reporter and administrator > [email protected] > > > > Brian McNeil wrote: > > I would agree were Wikinews a far, far more active project. In such > > circumstances Wikinews would do the news, and it would be filtered to a > > small section on the Wikipedia main page. > > > > > > Brian. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason > Safoutin > > Sent: 25 May 2009 20:01 > > To: Wikinews mailing list > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Wikipedia's 'In the news' > > > > I have my stance on Wikipedia and the news section. Wikipedia is an > > online encyclopedia. Not a news site. Whether or not it was around > > before Wikinews makes no difference. The mere fact that Wikipedia has a > > news section, makes it almost like Wikinews is to compete with them. > > There would be no real problem, other than those who would scream about > > it, to move the Wikipedia news to Wikinews. There would be nothing lost > > on Wikipedia, given the fact Wikinews and WP are run by the same > > foundation and are all sister projects. I hear the same argument of > > "Wikinews is not a reliable news site", but there is no logical reason > > for Wikipedia to have a news section. It just seems, in my opinion, that > > having it on Wikipedia, just takes one of the fundamental goals of WMF > > away: collaboration. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikinews-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikinews-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l > -- Cirt [email protected] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cirt>
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