[Wikipedia-l] Spinoff "newspedia" project?

[Jason Williams]

Has anybody considered a spinoff project dedicated to being a
"wiki newspaper"?

I'd envisage several categories of article;

 * Time-based (day/week/month/year/decade); Brief summaries of the
    news items of the day/week/whatever.

 * Sections; broad, persistent areas of news - politics, war,
    media, etc

 * Threads; this is where most of the actual content would reside.
    A "thread" would represent a discrete story; the Washington
    Sniper, the US 2002 mid-term elections, the UK Tory leadership
    uncertainty of Autumn 2002.

This project would rely on wikipedia for background, and things like
"Current events" could be migrated out to this project if desired
(if and when the project was established and proven).

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