[Foundation-l] On Wikinews

[Milos Rancic]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 14:34, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wikipedia has never had paid staff writing content, which is what was
> suggested for Wikinews. The community doesn't need managing, it needs
> to be large enough to produce enough content to attract readers (some
> of whom will then become writers, and the project will become
> self-sustaining).

Wikipedia is attractive without having to add 100 articles per day
which won't be interesting tomorrow and without large community. Proof
for that are many smaller Wikipedias.

Not everything is working on voluntarism exclusively: among them,
servers and creating very large community around news service which
doesn't have news.

And, as Andrew Lih mentioned, Wikipedia *had* payed editor at the beginning.