Erik Moeller schrieb:
I believe the totally open wiki model is unsuitable for such a project.
Hi Erik,
when I read your mail, it reminded me on the typical reactions of some people who did not know wikipedia and heard about writing an encylopedia bye allowing anyone to post :)
When I read your suggestion about limiting and certain steps of editing an open news project, I was reminded on Nupedia somehow.
Indeed, wikipeadia was one of the best resources on March 11 when the bombs hit Madrid and people outside wikipedia have noticed it.
By the way: There is an increasing number of articles containing the following phrase: "according to wikipedia". This is great and I guess there are more occasion when journalists used wikipedia to get facts without citing the source in their article.
Has anyone an idea how to intensify this? Does anyone work for a newspaper or a news agency? It's a simple tradeoff: They are delivering keywords what they actually need in the near future and interested people might write something about it in wikipedia...
Mathias