[WikiEN-l] BBC blog on WSJ study

Fri Nov 27 22:41:08 UTC 2009

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:25 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:

> We add background information and context from wider sources than
> newspapers.

Do we? On topical subjects?

> It's also somewhat questionable how much of a dent we make
> in traffic for day to day news. Sure we take a decent percentage of
> the traffic for the really big stories (2008 Mumbai attacks, Michael
> Jackson's death, the new pope) but not so much for day to day news.

So what's Wikinews for?