[Foundation-l] Chinese Wikinews: board action required

Sat Apr 16 14:39:09 UTC 2005

Yann Forget wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le Friday 15 April 2005 05:33, Andrew Lih a écrit :
> 
>>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)
> 
> 
> I think that Jimbo refers to the French Wikinews which is still in beta with 
> no real participant. There is still no consensus on what to do with this 
> project within the French community. Some people proposed to close it untill 
> there is a wider consensus.

Yes, this is what I had in mind.  The French Wikinews was started 
according to existing policy, but clearly that policy is inadequate to 
ensure a proper launch with solid community support.  When we were in 
Brussels a while back Delphine/notafish was making a valiant effort to 
get it going/get it organized/make it work, but to my knowledge this 
hasn't been successful.

I don't support closing it; I don't support keeping it open.  I just 
think we should observe and learn from the process.

It's probably worth noting that a polarized community (as zh is) is of 
course different from a community which simply doesn't have people 
interested (fr, and I think some other existing wikinews).  Zh might be 
successful just because it is controversial.

There are many many factors to consider in making these decisions.

--Jimbo