Hello Andrew, These are very fine ideas indeed. I have always found the 'breaking news' stories on Wikinews to be among its least interesting content, for all of the reasons you note.
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Andrew Lih <andrew....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, reading this thread with much interest. Lots of ideas on this... > Immediately, I saw how Wikinews could step up to this challenge. Oral > Citations is fundamentally an act of journalism ... in essence, if People > are Knowledge, create referenceable works and stories from those people. <snip more interesting observations> > And, in Wikipedia's crowdsourced way, potentially a re-oriented, > mobilized Wikinews could produce in one week what National Geographic > normally produces in one year. This could be a multimedia endeavor > that could kick up the Wikimedia efforts in audio and video that seem > to have stalled lately. > WMF's mission is about giving free access to "the sum of all human knowledge." > > Wikipedia is about condensing and curating knowledge. > > Wikinews can be the force to go explore and acquire it. My hat is off to you. I went and put one on just to reread this email. This is an inspiring and powerful idea for what Wikinews can be, and I hope we realize it -- and continue to capture oral history, for citation and otherwise. Sam. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l