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
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