[Wikipedia-l] Spinoff "newspedia" project?

[tarquin]

there's been vague rumblings on this idea over at Meatball:

http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?TimeStream

Jason Williams wrote:

>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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