On 10/08/06, Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/10/06, jkelly(a)fas.harvard.edu
<jkelly(a)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.