I honestly don't remember.
-bawolff
On 10/21/06, James Hare <messedrocker(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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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