One of the areas where wikipedia is better than other encyclopedias is in our coverage of current events. However, the current scenario has a couple of disadvantages: * The amount of information about a particular event that can meaningfully be incorporated into the article on the person/thing etc. is quite limited * The info. is often dispersed among more than one article * Readers have to scan the whole article to get to the one line or paragraph about the current event
So why not have wikinews? A collaborative news wiki.
It would be somewhat like indymedia, but with important differences: * Wiki * NPOV * News about an event would be integrated into a single comprehensive article rather than having a collection of articles written at different points of time
So how about it? (Don't know if this has been proposed before...)
Arvind