Re: Wikinews Launched

Something I was thinking about recently, which if not part of wikinews project
would be an interesting project in its own right, would be simply a free,
online news clearing house. By this I mean a central point to which people may
send press releases, then projects like wikinews could pick up those press
releases more easily to form stories.

Any ideas on this? The hard part would be making it big enough to gain the
critical mass needed for it to become the obvious first point of contact.
Second hard part, which if tackled successfully would help make it popular,
would be organising categories etc so that submitted press releases are quickly
located by authors. Both of these wikipedia probably has tackled quite well
already in its existing formats, but I doubt that this falls strictly into the
wiki model, and I suppose it would be seen as a burden by wikietc mob.

Simeon


Quoting Erik Moeller <[email protected]>:

> The Wikinews project has now been officially launched in English and
> German:
> http://en.wikinews.org/
> http://de.wikinews.org/
>
> Similar to Wikipedia, Wikinews allows anyone to participate in the
> creation of news articles as long as they follow a strict neutrality
> policy. Original reporting is explicitly encouraged, bringing this
> project into the highly interesting realm of citizen media and p2p
> journalism.
>
> For background, see
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/Thinktank
>
> - and my brand-spanking new article "Wikinews and the Growing Wikimedia
> Empire", which also describes other recent developments:
>
> http://www.infoanarchy.org/story/2004/12/3/213547/371
>
> As the lead instigator of the Wikinews project, I'll be happy to answer
> any questions you may have.
>
> Regards,
>
> Erik
>
>
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