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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
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