On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:02 PM, wrote:
> Wikinews should be gracefully shut down. It's long since failed to serve
> any service to the community or to the world. Few to no Wikipedia articles
> point at Wikinews even when there is a Wikinews article. And I submit that
> no outside agency points
a project should
be shut down.
Will Johnson
-Original Message-
From: George Herbert
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Sent: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 1:16 pm
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikinews has failed
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:02 PM, wrote:
> [...] Few to no Wikip
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:02 PM, wrote:
> [...] Few to no Wikipedia articles
> point at Wikinews even when there is a Wikinews article.
I believe that there's a policy determination that Wikinews is not a
Wikipedia "Reliable Source" as defined in [[WP:RS]], so not having
pointers from Wikipedia t
We keep it because some people use it, some people contribute to it,
and it costs us very little to keep it going. All projects that are
useful and well used were at one point completely obscure, including
the English Wikipedia. That obscurity is not, of itself, a good reason
to delete the entire p
Wikinews should be gracefully shut down. It's long since failed to serve
any service to the community or to the world. Few to no Wikipedia articles
point at Wikinews even when there is a Wikinews article. And I submit that
no outside agency points at Wikinews articles for anything.
Why do we
