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Orthography

There is a little mistake on the Main Page concerning NSW Supreme Court upholds non-publication order for lawsuit filed against Australia's richest person: the name is Gina Rinehart, not Gina RInehart! --House1630 (talk) 12:10, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

No News is WikiNews?

Seems like WikiNews has really slowed down lately—10 articles in the last 11 days, and not a single Article since October 1? Frankly, the Wikipedia Main Page has been a much better news source than WikiNews lately. What's going on around here, folks? 109.246.254.186 (talk) 00:53, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

There was a discontent among editor which led to a fork (theopenglobe.org), so i guess the slow down might simply be a result of less editors. The fork is already covering the strike and unfolding events in the Italian wikipedia, maybe they are more active than wikinews.--Kmhkmh (talk) 09:17, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

What was the discontent about? It always seemed to me that there was a lot of hostility to new contributors here; I wrote a couple of articles, but the process has really put me off from contributing more. I may not have been the only one. 109.246.254.186 (talk) 23:18, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Where is the OCCUPY WALL STREET coverage??? Good Grief 96.45.6.215 (talk) 17:50, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Italian Wikipedia shutdown

Is there a reason why there is no mention here in the last 2 days of the Italian Wikipedia shutdown? Jane023 (talk) 08:30, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

We aren't a blog or a wikimedia-internal newsletter — by which no offense is meant, but on one hand, an article would have to meet our publication standards and pass a rigorous peer review to be published —those [evidently, thus far,] interested in writing on that subject are unfamiliar with our site, and there is a steep learning curve for newcomers (over-commitment to a particular story is likely to interfere with one's ability to learn the site)— and on the other hand, being related to wikimedia does not increase its newsworthiness (which must be established by other means) and does present possible problems for avoiding conflict of interest. The COI problem may be insurmountable, as COI includes appearance of COI. One of the much-reduced number of active Wikinewsies (after the fork) has actually resigned from all wikimedia projects over the foundation's actions in this matter. It would be a daunting exercise in WN:NPOV even if the appearance of COI could be avoided. Also, nobody has tried; no article has been written and submitted to us for review. A stub was started some time back, which is woefully inadequate on many (most?) counts, and some of its shortcomings have been pointed out via tags/notes, but no [little] attempt has been made to improve it. --Pi zero (talk) 11:46, 6 October 2011 (UTC)