On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:19 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
"So, in essence, many Wikipedia articles are another way that the work of news publications is quickly condensed and reused without compensation."
This is more than a little rich considering Wikipedia is the number-one universal backgrounder for working journalists.
I do think it's a valid complaint.
I feel that Wikinews might be pushing things; it is still essentially a distillation of other people's work.
And the *most* newsworthy stuff makes it into Wikipedia. As a reader of Wikipedia I think it's absolutely great. As an editor I'm astonished at what fellow editors accomplish with topics. But if I put myself in the shoes of journalists and newspaper owners I would be thinking there's something unfair going on.