[Foundation-l] On Wikinews

Kim Bruning kim at bruning.xs4all.nl
Wed Sep 14 17:34:09 UTC 2011


On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 07:17:49PM +0100, Thomas Morton wrote:
> The elephant in the room in all this is that Wikinews lacks the critical
> mass of editors to overcome these issues.
> 
> So...
> 
> Producing a functional daily news outlet (website) requires a substantial
> full time staff... of course so does an encyclopaedia, but an encyclopaedia
> doesn't have a weekly time limit on story completion... so we can adopt a
> more leisurely model.


Actually, wikipedia did have a paid full-time editor at bootup. Perhaps
wikinews needs something similar, and never really booted properly, due
to lack of it?

sincerely,
	Kim Bruning

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