All I am saying is Wikipedia is not a news site. And if we have to have a policy on why we are not Wikipedia, then they should have one on why they are not Wikinews.
-- Jason Safoutin Wikinews accredited reporter and administrator [email protected] Brian McNeil 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. > > _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
