That's the thing, FOX News DIDN'T give us credit. And when you go look
back on the recent coverage such as the LDS copyright notice, you will
see that agencies picked that up themselves. How else would they have
gotten the stories if we are not sending out press releases? They watch
us. Though it may not look like it in contributions, the people that
read us are in the hundreds of thousands maybe more...I don't know. But
of those people about 2% or less actually contribute to the site. If you
can imagine the Chris Benoit story we broke, or London Bombings, or LDS
and Scientology and such...I would want people to take our stories...if
they provide credit. But in my experience, they don't.
Jason
Wikinewsie: Anonymous101 wrote:
I want someone to steal our reports (as long as they
give Wikinews
credit), that is how we promote Wikinews. And do you really think Fox
News have people monitoring RC? If you have to stop people reading
your article before its published, prepare on a word processor. the
WMF shouldn't support restrictions like this. In addition, if we had
this wiki, I don; thtink stories
like
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/8044-wikimedia-foundation-board-censoring-wik…
would be revealed.
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Jason Safoutin
<jason.safoutin(a)wikinewsie.org <mailto:jason.safoutin@wikinewsie.org>>
wrote:
Wikinewsie: Anonymous101 wrote:
Sure embargo's can be useful, but I think
creating a private
wiki will
result in many problems including:
1. A two tier system where some editors can access the private wiki
2. No transparency
If you have to agree not to publish a quote, leave the space
blank and
create the article in Wikinews:Story Preparation.
That way Wikinews
will have the transparency that Wikimedia was founded on
From the Wikimedia values :
"All the legal freedom to modify or distribute educational
content is
useless if users cannot get access to it."
And people cannot access it if it is in this private wiki.
Thanks,
Anon101
Well let me clarify something...if this were to happen, which in my
opinion would be great...I think in RE to your concerns: 1) Would be
accessed by accredited reporters only. The Wiki would and should
be used
only for stories that are OR and that HAVE to be embargoed. 2)
Transpanrency can be fixed. There can be admins there and crats
and such
like on WN. Its not a replacement Wiki just something to do our OR
work,
without someone stealing it or what not.
Preparation does't work because people can still see the articles in
recent changes. If something can be done to remove those articles from
popping in RC then that would be good, though I doubt its possible.
Wikinews is a news agency...and we have to be the only news agency
that
reveals our material before its even ready to be published. I for one
would love somewhere to post my OR work and get it formatted and such
without worrying if someone from FOX News (no pun intended because
they
really did steal stuff from us in the past...we have proof!! :-})
steals
our material.
Jason Safoutin (DragonFire1024)
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