[Foundation-l] Wikinews has not failed

[David Gerard]

2009/11/5 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
> 2009/11/5 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk>:

>> We did astonishingly, staggeringly, unbelievably, improbably well with
>> Wikipedia. Failing to replicate that is to be expected; it's unlikely
>> we could deliberately manage such a success without a shedload of good
>> luck. "It's got a wiki in it" isn't a magic spell, after all.

> I've always thought the next likely hit would be Commons. It'd need
> something like the cats-as-tags feature, though. I'd like not to be
> able to describe it as "Sorta like Getty Images but the search sucks."


(And I know the search has improved a lot of late.)


- d.