[Foundation-l] Chinese Wikinews: board action required

Fri Apr 15 03:33:40 UTC 2005

Perhaps it's apparent to all parties, but could somone elaborate on
"Given the struggles that some Wikinews projects have had already"?

-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)

On 4/14/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> Given the struggles that some Wikinews projects have had already, I feel
> that we should be very conservative about
> creating new versions.  As Erik says, this is a board decision, and by
> convention on such matters, I vote with Angela
> and Anthere anyway if they disagree with me.
> 
> So, unless Angela and Anthere tell me to vote otherwise, I would vote to
> not create Chinese Wikinews at this time, and
> not until we have greater consensus in that community to do it.
> 
> --Jimbo
> 
> 
> Erik Moeller wrote:
> 
> > There has now been a vote, organized by Formulax, among Chinese
> > language Wikimedians on whether there should be a Chinese Wikinews.
> >
> > The results are at:
> > http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E6%8A%95%E7%A5%A8/%E7%BB%B4%E5%9F%BA%E6%96%B0%E9%97%BB
> >
> >
> > In an amusing demonstration of the problems of voting, there were 13
> > votes opposed to the project, 13 votes in support, and 1 vote with
> > support only if compromises could be made about NPOV.
> >
> > There was a larger vote earlier on whether this should be up to the
> > global community to decide, or to the Chinese community. That vote was
> > inconclusive, too, with opinions evenly split (50% want it to be a
> > global decision, 50% want it to be a local decision) and very strong
> > expressions of emotions on both sides.
> >
> > We can continue voting until we get a nice result, but I think it
> > would be best now for the board to make a decision about this.
> >
> > My recommendation is a compromise: the project should go ahead under
> > somewhat more rigid conditions (at least 10 support votes with at
> > least 6 of them from Wikimedia regulars PLUS the process at
> > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_language_pre-launch ). We can deal
> > with problems of censorship as they arise.
> >
> > Erik
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