On 10/08/06, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/10/06, jkelly@fas.harvard.edu jkelly@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
To what extent are we duplicating effort or competing with Wikinews here? Are we doing something substantially different?
We're citing everything to external sources, for one. The WikiNews policy of allowing "original reporting" basically makes their articles unsuitable for direct copying to Wikipedia, which means that we have to write our own if we think the topic deserves an encyclopedia entry rather than merely a news report.
Yep. I've just added my photo to the Wikipedia and Wikinews articles (original photojournalism! and then there were the other five photojournalists on the corner as well) and I'm about to write up what I saw this morning. And [[User:Arkady Rose]] got some shots of the helicopters overhead around the time of the actual raid, and I'll add those and note down what she saw as well for the Wikinews article. But only the photos would be suitable for Wikipedia.
- d.