--- Erik Moeller [email protected] wrote:
Whether or not the majority of the people on Wikinews/Vote/Fr voted for or against the project is irrelevant. The project vote, as it was agreed by everyone involved, was an aggregated vote. The French Wikimedia community is part of the larger Wikimedia Foundation, which is an international organization. That organization has made the decision to launch the Wikinews project. It was only a matter of time until the French edition of that project was set up.
As has already been pointed out, Wikinews is a bit different than other projects we have created before. This is due to a significant amount of overlap between updating the encyclopedia and reporting on the news. Thus each language community should be able to decide if they have the critical mass of editors who do updates. If there are plenty already, then the few they lose to Wikinews will not adversely effect the encyclopedia in that language (and may in fact have a large net positive effect by making sure trivial current news does not choke encyclopedia articles).
Above all else, new projects should do no harm to existing ones. Whether or not this is now the case for any particular language community, is up to them.
Yes - I guess I am proposing an amendment to 'creating a new language version' policy. The overlap in Wikinews makes this necessary, IMO.
-- mav
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