Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
I didn't intend to contradict Angela when I said "go ahead and create it" a few minutes ago. What she says should be done of course before creating it!
In my opinion, this strategy has a serious problem. People join and show their interest more easily if there is something to join. We've had 6 or 7 people in #de.wikinews two days ago.
This number won't increase with waiting for something to happen. There is currently a small but significant wave of press regarding wikinews and hey, it's a wiki. People won't understand it unless there is something to show.
I certainly want to start now and try to integrate all those who have objections against it. It took wikipedia 2 to 3 years to become an everyday-source of information. I guess it will take this amount of time (or even longer) for wikinews to become something that my mother could use. There is no point in delaying this development.
de. has a userbase, a significant demand and a general nescessity.
and so on...
Mathias