[Foundation-l] On Wikinews

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Fri Sep 16 19:33:25 UTC 2011


On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think Wikinews could work well on some topics, news that don't last
> a single day, but instead
> needs a history and a timetable. On those topics, Wikinews could fill
> an informative gap,
> because even newspapers archives are just aggregating different
> articles on the same subjects,
> but none of them write a (neutral) narrative integrating all of them.
> This could be an interesting direction.

A wiki for news that doesn't last a single day, but instead needs a
history and a timetable is already done.  It's called Wikipedia.



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