[Foundation-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikinews

[Fred Bauder]

Significant flaws have been pointed out. Legal exposure; and to raise one
which I suppose others have: On controversial issues Wikipedia itself is
often unable to realize in NPOV in practice. In the news context it is dead
certain we will not; experienced news organizations employing trained
journalists don't and there is no rational basis for supposing we will.

Fred

> From: erik_moeller at gmx.de (Erik Moeller)
> Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
> Date: 31 Oct 2004 11:59:00 +0100
> To: foundation-l at wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikinews
> 
> In general, however, as an innovative organization, I believe we should be
> willing to try out new things if a majority is enthusiastic about them,
> and if no significant flaws in the proposal have been pointed out.