[Foundation-l] On Wikinews

[M. Williamson]

Only the English Wikipedia, and while en.wp is our most successful project
so far, there are other successful Wikipedias that were formed only through
community efforts with no paid editors.


2011/9/14 Kim Bruning <kim at bruning.xs4all.nl>

> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 07:17:49PM +0100, Thomas Morton wrote:
> > The elephant in the room in all this is that Wikinews lacks the critical
> > mass of editors to overcome these issues.
> >
> > So...
> >
> > Producing a functional daily news outlet (website) requires a substantial
> > full time staff... of course so does an encyclopaedia, but an
> encyclopaedia
> > doesn't have a weekly time limit on story completion... so we can adopt a
> > more leisurely model.
>
>
> Actually, wikipedia did have a paid full-time editor at bootup. Perhaps
> wikinews needs something similar, and never really booted properly, due
> to lack of it?
>
> sincerely,
>        Kim Bruning
>
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