I honestly don't remember.
-bawolff
On 10/21/06, James Hare messedrocker@gmail.com wrote:
What's the difference between that guy's plans and what I'm proposing?
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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