On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 05:53, Shii <s...@shii.org> wrote: > Five hours later (hmm, 9AM EST...), a reviewer finally looked at my > article and failed me on one count: THE FACT THAT THE EVENT TOOK PLACE > IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY. No joke. He informed me that because the people > at the press conference were not speaking English, and the reporting > on the article was not in English, it was likely the article would not > pass anyone's review. I asked for clarification on this astounding > statement, requested another review for the article, and waited. > > And waited. > > And waited. > > And waited. >
Wikinews doesn't have a systematic bias against non-Western topics. Wikinews has a systematic bias towards bureaucracy. I wrote a story about the Israel Philarmonic Orchestra being protested in London and it took four days to be published. The Wikinews review process is slow and broken but it handles non-Western topics: see http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:Chile -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l