--- Andrew Lih <alih(a)hku.hk> wrote:
I've thought quite a bit about Wiki for
"news." My
feeling is that
Wikipedia is already journalism, but not news. The
Wiki concept would
not be suitable for news because news requires a
deadline, an end, a
static form. It necessarily has to capture the
state of affairs at a
point in time. That's why mantras in the news
business go: "Make air,
not art", "Tomorrow's fishwrap" and "Better never
than late [sic]"
Time limits don't serve Wikis well. Wikis are good
for continually
evolving content. An arbitrarily set deadline would
drastically change
the nature of edit wars, neutrality disputes,
community and evolution.
I would equate it to an eBay auction where bidders
having an infinite
amount of money, because we all have an inifinite
amount of opinions. :)
-Fuzheado
Well, an encyclopedia typically has the goal of a
static end product too, don't they? And they need to
meet some sort of deadline.
LDan
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