Robin Shannon wrote:
At any rate, plenty of well-respected journalistic and news authorities aren't above celebrating April Fool's Day. I don't see why we should hold Wikinews to different standards.
Because others hold wikimedia projects to higher standards than traditional media. If the NYT or britanica gets something wrong, then that just shows that no one's perfect. If we get something wrong it proves that this damned new-fangled wiki stuff shouldn't be trusted.
paz, -rjs.
And there is an epidemic of people writing "Wiki[blank] carried an April Fool's Day joke, ergo, Wiki[blank] is hopelessly unreliable"? While I don't pretend to have my finger on the pulse of the Internet, the scuttlebutt does not seem to head in that direction to my knowledge. While our errors are certainly overcriticised from time to time (and our inclusions more so!), our jokes are, to my knowledge, not.
Reversing the bad rap Wikinews and its ilk get is a good thing, but this seems to be barking up the wrong tree to me.