---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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 http://photo.snowulf.com/ - Buy a pic, feed a photog. http://snowulf.com/ _______________________________________________ Wikinews-l mailing list Wikinews-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l