[Foundation-l] Formal request: Wikinews project

[Delirium]

Erik Moeller wrote:

>The details of the proposed policies can be worked out on the live site as  
>they currently are on the Wikimedia Commons. The question right now is if  
>there is a rough consensus to start a Wikimedia project whose goal is
>* to provide summaries of external news sources
>* to do original, neutral reporting around the world.
>
>If there are no serious objections, I'd like to start ASAP.
>
>I believe this project has the potential to be as relevant as Wikipedia,  
>if not more so.  I'd love it if we could prove to the world that, using  
>wiki principles, we can create a neutral, reliable news source for  
>everyone.
>  
>
Given that on en: at least, Current Events is fairly mediocre in 
quality, is there a need for an entirely separate site?  Why not work to 
make [[en:Current Events]] a truly good summary of current news, and 
once that happens, expand to original reporting?

-Mark