On 10/21/06, bawolff <bawolff+wn@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@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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