sending again as it didnt do right the first time, lets see if it works this
time
markie
On 10/10/07, Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, I think that Wikinews with 10% of Wikipedia contributors
will become a huge nightmare. Of course, if we wouldn't be prepared
for that.
I may imagine large scale edit wars on Wikinews, large scale legal
problems backed by a large scale of state authorities and
multinational companies. Wikinews in the top ten websites would mean
that a person who has access to Internet doesn't read/listen/watch any
other media.
large scale edit wars?? i think you need to come and spend some time with
us. our latest 3rr block was for a dispute between two users and everyone
knows everyone in our small community so discussion avoids this.
From such position WM community will be able to have a
significant
influence in the populations where Internet is a dominant source of
informations. This means that some facts presented on Wikinews may
lead to the victory/defeat of some political option... Or to much
higher/lower market share of some multinational company. And those
fields are dangerous and may lead to:
so how is this different from what the BBC or CNN etc reports?
1) closure of Wikinews (and other projects?) or
2) making of Wikinews (and other projects?) a
battlefield of different
*real* interest groups (implicitly or explicitly) or
3) "pacifying" community and driving it into the stagnation and decline or
4) Wikimedian community as dominant global political force.
one of our key values is the widely know NPOV. i cant see us becoming
politicians with this. also the "closure of the project", you mean
suppresion of free speech?? cant see this being likely.
If not 1, the most possible is merging of the rest three.
I don't want to say what is the good option and what is not (maybe all
of them are good, maybe all of them are bad). The only fact is that it
will be a real nightmare if we wouldn't be prepared.
well if anyone wants to join us at wikinews then there welcome and we look
forward to our predicted growth.
markie