On 8/10/06, jkelly@fas.harvard.edu jkelly@fas.harvard.edu wrote:
To what extent are we duplicating effort or competing with Wikinews here? Are we doing something substantially different?
We're citing everything to external sources, for one. The WikiNews policy of allowing "original reporting" basically makes their articles unsuitable for direct copying to Wikipedia, which means that we have to write our own if we think the topic deserves an encyclopedia entry rather than merely a news report.