[Foundation-l] On Wikinews

[Milos Rancic]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 16:52, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> In my book I described Nupedia, and how that system of having a paid head
>> didn't work out (namely, Larry Sanger as editor in chief).
>>
>
> In fact, if you look at the process-heavy system that Wikinews has created
> over the years, and the desire to have paid staff be part of the team, the
> more it resembles Nupedia.
>
> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Writing_an_article

I didn't create those rules, but some of the things behind those rules
have sense. Flagged revisions were introduced just because Wikinews
could be treated as relevant source of information, not blogs, by
Google.

I am not highly involved on English Wikinews and it shouldn't be
interpreted that en.wn community wants paid staff just because that's
my position.

I agree that structural changes are needed, but I don't think that
they are enough. Wikinews was popular just at the beginning of its
existence, while Wikipedia hype was at the top. Many of the present
rules didn't exist when Wikinews went down.

BTW, you are using Nupedia as archetype for "something wrong". While
it proved to be wrong, you are missing a lot of things if when you
compare one encyclopedia with one news outlet.