Rico,
I'm very sad to read this.
I'm not a native speaker either, and some of my stories from Belgium are probably not important as well. You were a prolific contributor and I was proud we had a Taiwanese reporter.
Bullying by local press occurs all around the world, in Belgium as well. This is, to an extent, understandable: we move into a field were professional journalists earn their money. I saw an interview with a French reporter on CNN a few weeks ago; they had difficulties reporting from the Democratic National convention because they had limited access, and had to compete with US bloggers! I've been pushed around by Reuters photographers... I just pushed back :-)
I hope your experiences are a lesson for us Wikinewsies and how we should make more efforts to communicate and be more welcoming to "outsiders", who don't speak perfect English, etc.
I'm glad to see you will remain active on the Chinese Wikinews, but mostly, I'm sad that it had to become such a frustrating experience.
I wish you all the best in your future projects!
Steven Fruitsmaak
From: ricoccshen@wikinewsie.org
CC: wikinews-l@lists.wikimedia.org; scoop@wikinewsie.org
To: jason.safoutin@wikinewsie.org
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 00:43:22 +0800
Subject: [Wikinews-l] Quit for a long rest......
If anyone see this e-mail written by me, it meant that I had quitted
Wikinews AR from this time.
Dislike to do this, but I have to do......
Since I joined Wikinewsie Team, I got more opportunities to participate in
several press events especially TAITRA Taipei Trade Shows, but several
things below confused me until now because....
1. English-language skill (majorly for Wikinews)
2. I'm bulled by several local reporters especially United Daily News in
several press conferences ("Serious than last")
3. I didn't believe some Wikipedians from Taiwan because of several unhappy
experiences at Wikimania 2007
4. No ONE think my articles are "IMPORTANT"
Because of them, I always think that the Wikinews (in any language) should
have more articles related to TAITRA Taipei Trade Shows different from the
other news organizations. But several postponements on my articles drove me
to quit this group ASAP and start a new life for me. In fact, I wanted to
make an e-book from my written articles related to Taipei Trade Shows for
all Wikinewsies, but this will be no longer available because I quitted the
AR although I ever did an experiment on this file
(http://brockf5.googlepages.com/Wikinews_Print_Edition_2008_Taste_of.pdf).
Hope my experience will be a great lesson for the Wikinewsies who is not
native in English. I will start a long-time research for Taiwan's Exhibition
Industry and its history and transfer my work to Chinese Wikinews. In
addition, I will also prepare another Wiki site for my research at Wikia to
harm my unhappy experience at English Wikinews.
Regards,
Rico Shen (former Accredited Reporter of Wikinews in English)
Start het nieuwe schooljaar sterk en voordelig! Windows