[WikiEN-l] Is Wikipedia a News Portal (among other things)?

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On 9/19/06, Peter Jacobi <peter_jacobi at gmx.net> wrote:

> * Wasn't WikiNews designed to be for news?

Wikinews usually does short little articles and is usually written in
an entirely different style than a Wikipedia article. Having one
centralized encyclopedia article allows constant update rather than
the spawning of a dozen new stories everytime something changes.

> * Is at a good idea to write an encyclopedia article based a news tickers and CNN?

Is it a bad idea? It'll evolve like everything else, perhaps even
better than most other things because it will be highly attended to.
It will no doubt need a little more synthesis from the vantage point
of a few month's hindsight but that's no reason not to have it
operating concurrently.

FF