[Wikipedia-l] start a new Wikipedia / Wikinews

Sat Jan 1 04:30:09 UTC 2005

I'm not suggesting that we balkanize or limit to only locally relevant
news...I'm just fine with the idea of en.wikinews.uk being a redirect to the
English wikinews site, though that'd be a bit redundant.  That's the good
thing about wiki as a whole is that it gets over the local bias (the
European bias, American bias, etc.) with so many contributors.

James

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[mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jens Ropers
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 3:53 AM
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Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] start a new Wikipedia / Wikinews

On 31 Dec 2004, at 02:14, James R. Johnson wrote:

> That's a good idea there...en.wikinews.uk or en.wikinews.usa sound 
> good.

'''Oppose.'''
Beware of balkanization.
The above proposal would lead to a situation where people would not 
only just read about the so-called "locally relevant" issues that 
interest them, but it would probably very soon also lead to the 
respective wikis mostly containing the locally predominant POV -- which 
may be sharply at odds with the rest of the world. There are enough 
global media franchises whose "localized" products sell well enough due 
to added local slant and preselection. Our mission, I dare to believe, 
is to transcend these things and reach for higher goals.

-- ropers [[en:User:Ropers]]
     www.ropersonline.com

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