On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:45:46 -0400, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Given that on en: at least, Current Events is fairly mediocre in quality, is there a need for an entirely separate site? Why not work to make [[en:Current Events]] a truly good summary of current news, and once that happens, expand to original reporting?
Current Events is getting an awful lot of hits for something supposedly "mediocre". After Hurricane Ivan and the Main Page, it was the most visited page last month. [[Current events]] is also the most edited page on the English Wikipedia. Of the 20 most edited pages across all Wikimedia projects, the current events page, and its equivalent in other languages, shows up four times. This demonstrates a huge interest in not only reading the page, but also in collaborating in its creation. I believe this level of interest demonstrates that Wikinews will be a success.
Wikipedia does not allow original research, and it will never be the ideal venue for in-depth news reporting. A news report simply is not the same as an encyclopedia article. It does, of course, feed into Wikipedia though, and having a free, neutral, news resource will be of great value to Wikipedia's topical articles, and to the current events pages.
I strongly support the creation of this project.
Angela.