there's been vague rumblings on this idea over at Meatball:
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?TimeStream
Jason Williams wrote:
Has anybody considered a spinoff project dedicated to being a "wiki newspaper"?
I'd envisage several categories of article;
Time-based (day/week/month/year/decade); Brief summaries of the news items of the day/week/whatever.
Sections; broad, persistent areas of news - politics, war, media, etc
Threads; this is where most of the actual content would reside. A "thread" would represent a discrete story; the Washington Sniper, the US 2002 mid-term elections, the UK Tory leadership uncertainty of Autumn 2002.
This project would rely on wikipedia for background, and things like "Current events" could be migrated out to this project if desired (if and when the project was established and proven).