[Foundation-l] Wikinews has not failed

[David Gerard]

2009/11/5 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk>:

> We did astonishingly, staggeringly, unbelievably, improbably well with
> Wikipedia. Failing to replicate that is to be expected; it's unlikely
> we could deliberately manage such a success without a shedload of good
> luck. "It's got a wiki in it" isn't a magic spell, after all.


I've always thought the next likely hit would be Commons. It'd need
something like the cats-as-tags feature, though. I'd like not to be
able to describe it as "Sorta like Getty Images but the search sucks."


- d.