User talk:LauraHale

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-- Cirt (talk) 21:03, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

WORTNET

I didn't know whether you knew about WORTNET - I found a link to it on Norwegian Wikinews. It's about getting original reporting into multiple languages. http://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/WORTNET --Computron (talk) 06:10, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

By the way, this user can speak in Farsi and for Wikinews - http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:ZxxZxxZ. --Computron (talk) 12:17, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

• I've been here long enough to remember WORTNET. It rarely worked; like most of Meta, it's useless for people who want to get something done. Meta is - to me - a monumental waste of recycled electrons, and the best place to spot the most irksome Wikimedians who care more about politics than content. (This coming from someone who is a Bureaucrat here...) --Brian McNeil / ^talk 22:43, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

My gut feeling is if/when we try to get translation set up better, it needs to be done purely in a Wikinews context. This means creating pages on local projects or on The Wikinewsie Group website. We need this to clearly come from inside the community, and it will involve a lot of encouragement. (Right now for example, it would be really good to push the Icelanders to start translating things from other projects into Icelandic Wikinews on incubator.) --LauraHale (talk) 23:00, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

• Yes, that sounds likely of more-use that WORTNET ever was. Are there any tools we can provide to help? --Brian McNeil / ^talk 08:16, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Not sure. I think pi zero might be working on something. Things to possibly if building tools would be creating a list of criteria for review to see cross project review compatibility, develop a matrix of original reporting from one project to the next that updates regularly (possibly bot? on local projects?) to encourage local participants to translate original reporting. (Bonus: This assists with WMF reporting.) Also, encouraging more people to translate this. --LauraHale (talk) 08:21, 19 May 2013 (UTC)