What's the difference between that guy's plans and what I'm proposing?
On 10/21/06, bawolff <bawolff+wn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hmm, Another user tried to do this before, and it was not very well
accepted, but I have no real problem with it.
-bawolff
On 10/20/06, James Hare <messedrocker(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings to the mailing list!
A short while back, I thought that since Wikinews only goes back to
November
2004, that is far from the kind of comprehensive
current events archive
we
want to be. Compare less than two years of
archive to the New York
Times's
history of hundreds of years. While in a hundred
years Wikinews will
look
far more comprehensive, NYT will look even -more-
comprehensive.
In addition, I have access to databases containing news articles from
the
New York Times, as well as other newspapers. I
could use this to fill in
the
gap -- create articles on events from before
November 2004, as well as
during 2004 and 2005 when our coverage has been a bit spotty. Any of
these
articles would go through a different process:
while they would be part
of
date categories, they would use {{supp develop}}
in lieu of {{develop}}
and
{{supp publish}} in lieu of {{publish}} (both tag
the articles as part
of
"Supplementary Wikinews" and put them
into the No Publish and
Supplementary
Wikinews categories). After the article is
finished and tagged with
{{supp
publish}}, it would spend a short amount of time
to be looked over by
others, then protected as part of the archive.
I understand that the idea of Wikinews is that news stories are written
based on knowledge at the time, so that future generations can see what
we
know and what we think. That's why I would
aim to limit myself to using
verbatim scans/copies of newspapers I have access to -- I highly doubt
those
get modified. I also understand that the
databases may carry only
American
newspapers -- unless someone knows where I may
find foreign newspapers,
there's nothing I can do about it.
Any thoughts?
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