[Foundation-l] Re: Intent to launch pt., pl., ro. Wikinews; further procedure
Anthere
anthere9 at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 18 06:58:17 UTC 2005
No, please keep it to the procedure we agreed upon just a couple of days
ago.
When I suggested that we added this requirement of "activity", there
were two reasons
* activity shows interest, so avoid missed launches such as the french
wikinews one
* past activity of at least 2 editors on a wikipedia (for example)
indicates that at least 2 editors are aware of our basic principles and
in particular NPOV requirement.
Again, the is a security measure. If 5 people, not even one oldby on one
of our project, decide to launch a wikinews with no experience at all,
there is rather high risk that some of our principles are not respected;
and since it is not in a language we necessarily manage, it might go on
for a long time.
You mentionned yourself that wikinews was a tricky project, with rather
serious liability issues. I agree with this. And this is just as much a
reason to avoid launching by people who just happened to visit a couple
of days sooner and found the concept great. We need at least 2
experienced people.
Anthere
Erik Moeller a écrit:
> As per the procedure on
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Start_a_new_edition
>
> I'd like to launch three new editions later today or tomorrow:
> Portuguese, Polish, and Romanian. For Portuguese, I count Carlosar as a
> valid vote, because he has made 3000+ edits on the English Wikinews, and
> he is a native speaker.
>
> For future editions, I'd also like to suggest changing the language
> procedure in the following way:
>
> The "activity on existing Wikimedia projects" requirement can be
> dropped if a few support pages (FAQ, Mission Statement, etc.) are
> created on Meta for the project to be launched. These can be
> translations or original creations.
>
> Such an effort indicates a genuine interest in working on a Wikinews
> edition in a language. It also reduces the dependency of new projects on
> existing ones -- we already know that many key people working on
> Wikinews have not done substantial work on Wikipedia or other Wikimedia
> projects. There would still be a requirement of at least 5 signatures,
> so it's not just one person playing an overarching role.
>
> If this works out, perhaps we can substitute one procedure for another;
> I prefer the translation procedure, because it also makes sure that
> certain pages are in place before the wiki is set up (a problem on some
> new editions which were essentially blank for several days).
>
> I'd like to credit the Memory Alpha wiki for this procedure, which has
> successfully used it for setting up new languages.
>
> Regards,
>
> Erik
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