To the initial thread:
Jimbo, Thanks for sharing this, and good luck with the project. Do you see WikiTribune collaborating with De Correspondent and other reader-collaborative news efforts? How are you thinking about the topic selection, and work in various languages? Are you focusing more on investigating the unknown, or clarifying messy current events where 'reliable sources' are dominated by rumor and propaganda?
SJ
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 5:59 PM, Jimmy Wales jimmywales@wikia-inc.com wrote:
Today I announced a new initiative, outside of my Wikimedia activities, to combat fake news. It is important to me that I share directly with all of you information about this new initiative early on.
The new project will use a wiki-style setup and experiment with bringing together professional journalists and community contributors to produce fact-checked, global news stories. At launch, we'll be using a hacked version of wordpress and we'll be evaluating whether that's the right tool moving forward. Wordpress has a lot to commend it (free software, mature platform, used by lots of newsrooms, active developer ecosystem) but also has some philosophy that's quite "top down" in a way. (Not many people would think in a wiki way when setting up a newsroom!)
This new initiative, Wikitribune, will be a learning experience - my vision is one that I've had a hard time explaining... except to Wikimedians who tend to immediately get it.
While I am launching this project independent from Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation, it is my plan that this new project will work alongside Wikimedia in the free knowledge movement. For example, I hope that the numerous Wikinews/Wikinoticias/Wikinotizie/etc. communities can collaborate with the Wikitribune community in way that allows both to learn and benefit from each other. Additionally, Wikitribune will utilize the same Creative Commons license (CC-BY) as other free content projects in the news space - so they can take the stories written by our professional journalists and communities and make use of them.
You can find out more information about Wikitribune at: https://www.wikitribune.com
Thank you for your time and I'm happy to answer questions! (But I'm quite swamped with everything at the moment so please forgive me if I answer in bursts!)
--Jimbo
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