On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 16:39 +0000, Brian McNeil wrote: > NB! This email is CC'd to several people who have requested parts of > Flagged Revisions be enabled on various Wikinews language versions. I > would urge these recipients to subscribe to wikinews-l. > > I would like to see so as many language versions of Wikinews as possible > listed in Google News. Erik Moeller, WMF Deputy CEO, graciously put me > in touch with someone who helped make it happen for English Wikinews, as > far as I can tell it should be possible for > > English > French > Hungarian > Polish > Portuguese > Spanish > > There are processes that need to be visible to Google and assure them of > certain editorial controls, and at the moment there are some technical > kludges required to meet other requirements laid out by Google. > > For technical issues, some work is being done on a new MediaWiki > extension: > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20818 > > Hopefully Amgine will have another patch on offer soon, but I encourage > all Wikinewsies to vote for this bug. > > For non-English Wikinews editions, I'm happy to try and help get > appropriate pages interlinked and presented to Google as proof of > editorial control. Bawolff can also help with some of the technical > measures and helper tools. > > Ideally, given the six languages above, Google News could list us in a > special way where a story is covered in several languages. > > I would also like to see the upcoming Writing contest > ( http://enwn.net/WC2010 ) expanded to languages that can get a Google > News listing before the start date. This might encourage Google to > sponsor a prize or two in light of having to implement measures to limit > public access to certain newspaper websites.
I am not actively developing on this project. I spent 8 weeks developing, 5 of which were spent attempting to get feedback from WMF devs, after which I abandoned the project when I was working on feature requests without any hope of it being implemented. When I did get feedback it was live review in IRC, was told (paraphraased) 'I don't want to look at the sql [the primary element of the script] for potential xss', and the developer did not like my style of development so I should 'clean it up and resubmit it.' Whatever the hell that might mean since 90% of the script is the sql. The script as-is meets the specification, is secure, and it works. Spec: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Amgine/Google_News_Sitemap. Working implementation: http://wiki.enwn.net/index.php/Special:SpecialGNSM. Amgine _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
