--- Erik Moeller <erik_moeller(a)gmx.de> wrote:
While I am not a fan of the idea of a Wikinews
spinoff project (primarily
because I think that news and encyclopedia are very
closely linked), I do
believe that this could be the beginning of an
expansion into the news
area, and similar agreements might be reached with
other publications.
It's a fair deal: They give part of their content to
the public, we
provide them with a steady stream of traffic to
their site -- without
advertising it, simply by citing it as a source. I'm
sure some other
independent news websites might be interested in
such a deal.
But speaking only about the basics--the wikinews
concept is an interesting idea. But just to throw it
out there--Indymedia blew it with Google news by
virture of not having a means to community edit
content. Wiki allows people to edit willy nilly--our
experience on wikipedia shows that a community can
deal with vandalism, but with an encyclopedia we can
take it easy. With "news" there would be a need to
have current states of articles in tip top shape,
allowing a much much smaller margin of leeway for
vandals and cranks, etc. Ideally a sysop pool of maybe
2-300 might be able to deal with issues quickly enough
-- some extra protections like limitations on anons,
etc would be necessary.
Just throwing it out there-- how much would the
Wikimedia ware have to change to meet the needs of
such a project?
~S~
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