On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 2:27 PM Jennifer Pryor-Summers < jennifer.pryorsumm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Wikinews may not be doing too well, but (English-language) Wikipedia seems > to have taken up a news-gathering role not entirely consistent with its > encyclopediac mission: perhaps that's the reason. Maybe the WMF should > sort out the demarcation issues. > Jennifer, This has been a topic of discussion for more than a decade and the vast majority of the community has converged on the conclusion that Wikinews hasn't and won't ever work at any scale given its fundamental properties. News is often described as "the best obtainable version of the truth given the constraints of a deadline." News depends on memorializing direct observation at a point in time. Therefore, the following policies that make Wikipedia work are a bad fit for original, deadline reporting: Wikipedia:NOR - no original research Wikipedia:RS - requirement for reliable sources Wikipedia:V - verifiability Wikipedia:NORUSH - there is no deadline/eventualism Most anyone who tries Wikinews first hand will experience this mismatch and realize it is a poor fit. However, rather than lament why Wikinews doesn't work, we should celebrate the fact that we have found a better mode: entries that evolve minute to minute (oftentimes second to second) to best reflect the world as we know it. Embrace that new, live, constantly updated snapshot of reality – the Wikipedia article. If you want to see some of the earlier debates about the origins of Wikinews, October 2004 is a good place to look: [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2004-October/thread.html [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2004-October/061017.html -Andrew _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
