[Foundation-l] Wikinews - not so much a state of the wiki

[Thomas Dalton]

> The courts have already ruled that what an anonymous contributors
> posts to an online message board is not the responsibility of the
> owners of that message board. An online version of the New York Times,
> if it's open for anonymous submissions, would fall under the same
> category.

No-one is disputing that. I'm talking about an online newspaper taking
submissions from the public, not a public message board. The key
difference is that the newspaper selects stories it thinks are good
from the submissions.