Significant flaws have been pointed out. Legal exposure; and to raise one which I suppose others have: On controversial issues Wikipedia itself is often unable to realize in NPOV in practice. In the news context it is dead certain we will not; experienced news organizations employing trained journalists don't and there is no rational basis for supposing we will.
Fred
From: erik_moeller@gmx.de (Erik Moeller) Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@wikimedia.org Date: 31 Oct 2004 11:59:00 +0100 To: foundation-l@wikimedia.org Subject: [Foundation-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikinews
In general, however, as an innovative organization, I believe we should be willing to try out new things if a majority is enthusiastic about them, and if no significant flaws in the proposal have been pointed out.