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(a)gmx.de (Erik Moeller)
Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 31 Oct 2004 11:59:00 +0100
To: foundation-l(a)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.