On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Bod Notbod bodnotbod@gmail.com wrote:
Is it possible that sometimes Wikipedia steals Wikinews' thunder?
You get something like that kid (not) in a balloon and it struggles/fails to get on Wikipedia but I assume did OK on Wikinews.
Sometimes a current event is big enough that Wikipedia can cover it without fear of deletion (I think of Katrina) and I seem to recall the coverage in Wikipedia was amazing.
Perhaps that means Wikinews can only ever be a little brother because Wikipedia gets to cover the big stories as well as Wikinews ever will.
The [[Colorado balloon incident]] Wikipedia article has had 120,000 views. I'm sure that the [[6-year-old boy in Colorado found alive, unhurt after runaway balloon allegedly carried him away]] article on Wikinews received far, far less attention.