Hi,
Firstly, if your native language is not English, I apologize for not
addressing you in your native language.
After consulting with a number of Wikinews community members, we have
started the first step in creating a potential Wikimedia Affiliate
group. The details can be found at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikinewsie_Group . The purpose of
the group is to:
# support open license, independent journalistic efforts that provide
neutral and verifiable reporting of news stories,
# support the education of future journalists in trying to insure they
maintain historical journalistic ideals regarding reporting standards,
# support efforts to increase journalist freedom to report around the globe,
# encourage participation of and facilitate non-professional
journalists practicing their craft on Wikinews, and
# support the mission statement and vision of the Wikimedia Foundation.
This aims to compliment and support existing efforts, and there is
zero intention of imposing one language's policies on another
language. The project should assist in increasing original reporting,
improving original reporting according to local project standards,
better supporting our small community and increasing participation.
Please sign at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikinewsie_Group#Participants
by listing your name to indicate you support our group. If you have
any questions, please do not hestitate to ask as we will be more than
happy to answer them.
Thank you,
Laura Hale
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See http://gmane.org/about.php and
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Overview for info on Gmane
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Sorry for crossposting.
Nemo
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From: Jon Davis <wiki(a)konsoletek.com>
Date: Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 2:52 AM
Subject: [Wikinews-l] Should srwn be shut down as abandoned?
To: Wikinews mailing list <wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
This might seem a little callous against our SR brethren, but SRWN is
dead. Take a look at Recent Changes
http://sr.wikinews.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%BE:Rece…
- It is a serious fight to find anything happening that isn't a bot.
Yes, the article count is increasing, scarily so... but that is only
because news is being copied wholesale from other sites. In the end,
99.9% of their articles never get touched by a human.
Take a look at http://sr.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Hju_D%C5%BEekmen_i_Ali%C5%A1a_Silv…
for example. One bot uploads it, another fixes it... that's the
entire wiki.
The real truth in death I think comes from the Wikimedia Stats page:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikinews/EN/ChartsWikipediaSR.htm - Take a
look at the new reporters chart. The last new reporter they had was
in December.
Sure, it is great they have a lot of articles, gaining at the rate of
about 100 a day... but wow can we even say that this project NPOV when
all the stories are bot imported, and never touched by human hands?
Food for thought.
--
Jon
[[User:ShakataGaNai]] / KJ6FNQ
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Vikivesti na srpskom uskoro dobijaju 20.000 vest. Tokom proslog meseca bilo je 741.000 poseta sto je za 275% vise od proslogodisnjih 198.000 u istom periodu (oktobar mesec) i rast od 36% u odnosu na septembar 2009.
Trenutni udeo posecenosti Vikivesti na srpskom jeste 3.51%. Poredenja radi proslogodisnji udeo je bio 1.51%.
Zabelezen je rast u svim segmentima osim u orginalnim prilozima gde je veliki pad od preko 70%.
Belezi se i rast broja korisnika.
Vise detalja uskoro...
MikyM
