[Foundation-l] The systematic and codified bias against non-Western articles on Wikinews

[Thomas Morton]

On 6 September 2011 13:54, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Thomas Morton
> <morton.thomas at googlemail.com>wrote:
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> > But as Tom say, online media has quickly found that the traditional
> > editorial process doesn't work so well on the internet. On the other hand
> > the net does allow very quick rewrite & expansion for a developing story.
> >
> > It's this last step that WN perhaps hasn't learned or adopted yet.
> >
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> That sounds weird. Basically what you're saying is that Wikinews is less
> wiki-like than traditional news venues.
>
> --
> André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com
>

Well, yes, in some ways certainly!

The BBC is definitely the poster boy for this situation - as a traditional
news vendor (as opposed to some of the blogs turned media outlets) they have
masterfully converted from the old to the new. There is a lot to be learned
from them.

On the other hand, sure, WikiNews is more open to random edits :)

Tom