This would be a great place for wikimedia news reporting. There shouldn't be
encyclopedia articles on current events. If there is a contraversy about what the facts
are, then any product that comes out will have to be unencyclopedic. We don't want to
just be a quote book. Instead, we should have a seperate branch of wikipedia. We were
talking about it before but the conversation just petered out and everyone forgot about it
all. The changes in code would be trivial: just a few text changes. Somebody registered
Wikimedia.org for wikipedia (I'm not sure about the state of the transfer of
ownership) and I think it would be great to put it on the server and turn "current
events" into a link to it. The news is unfitting for an encyclopedia. History, even
recent history, however, is. Maybe news from a month or more ago should have a clone
transfered to Wikipedia so that if you edit one it changes both.
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