Erik Moeller wrote:
The details of the proposed policies can be worked out on the live site as they currently are on the Wikimedia Commons. The question right now is if there is a rough consensus to start a Wikimedia project whose goal is
- to provide summaries of external news sources
- to do original, neutral reporting around the world.
If there are no serious objections, I'd like to start ASAP.
I believe this project has the potential to be as relevant as Wikipedia, if not more so. I'd love it if we could prove to the world that, using wiki principles, we can create a neutral, reliable news source for everyone.
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?
-Mark