[Foundation-l] Re: Chinese Wikinews: board action required

Sun Apr 17 17:58:49 UTC 2005

I am undecided as well about closing or not closing fr. There is one 
contributor to it. What worries me is that he is not a wikipedian, and 
seems to have strange ideas about npov. I tried to discuss it a bit with 
him... but basically, npov is not so much about "explanation", but 
rather more about "habit and precedent". Most learn and understand it by 
working with others. As he is alone.... I am dubious. But for now, 
content seems fine. It is essentially working along the same line that 
the french wikipedia current events.

So, the main drawback of its existence is for now a bad image propagated 
to french journalists; But well....

Ant

Jimmy Wales a écrit:
> 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.
> 
> --Jimb
> o