Greetings to the mailing list!<br><br>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.
<br><br>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 &quot;Supplementary Wikinews&quot; 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.
<br><br>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.
<br><br>Any thoughts?<br>