Wikinews demo up and running Hi I m writing to let you know that the Wikimedia Board of Trustees has approved the first stage of the Wikinews project There s now a fully operational English demo site at demo wikinews org This will be used for experimenting with various review models and basic policies before the site is launched officially in about a week demo wikinews org will become the English version later You voted for the Wikinews project so I m asking for your participation now Everything is open nothing is final What Wikinews will and can be depends in large part on you There already is a global Wikinews mailing list for discussing the project If you are interested at all please subscribe coordination is of key importance There s also an IRC channel wikinews on irc freenode net Realtime discussion can help to polish up articles If you re looking for something to do check out the articles in development and articles in review Or start a new story in the Wikinews workspace or ignore the proposed review system it s up to you I hope you ll join us soon in this exciting experiment 01 59 Nov 17 2004 UTC