[Foundation-l] On Wikinews

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 20:13:28 UTC 2011


On 14 September 2011 21:02, Achal Prabhala <aprabhala at gmail.com> wrote:

> It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the world now follows the
> Wikinews model.


No, you're describing bare skimming of the unedited social media pool.
Wikinews follows a process-heavy review model, so laborious that news
dies before getting through it and contributors give up and fork.

Quality is important, but Wikinews seems to consider it important
enough to die for.


- d.



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