[Foundation-l] WikiNews...no NOT Wikinews

Kevin Gorman kgorman at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 21:32:50 UTC 2012


His most recent comment on the video: " Just found out about WikiNews.org 5
minutes ago. Whoops. "

so.. looks like he did this as a mockup and literally didn't know that it
was already a thing.

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Kevin Gorman
User:Kgorman-ucb

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > On 27 February 2012 20:18, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > It looks like it's just a promotion for Wikinews. It doesn't refer to
> or
> > > link anywhere else. It's not totally accurate, from what I understand
> of
> > > Wikinews, but I'm not sure how it's a threat?
> >
> > Yes, it is clearly talking about our Wikinews. It's very odd,
> > though... it sounds like it is supposed to be an official advert from
> > us, but if there were any plans to implement such radical changes to
> > the Wikinews model I would have expected to have heard about them, so
> > who actually made that video and why???
> >
>
> He's a designer and ad guy, so he might have just been doing it as an
> exercise. Why guess when you can email?
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