Sorry if this point may have been brought up before, but a difference between Wikipedia and Wikinews is also the text sort. Journalistic texts have a broader range of stiles, neutrality is handled differently, opinion is less taboo than in an encyclopedia. This makes journalistic texts more individualistic - and less collaborative. And journalism is digging out original knowledge, this requires a person who is responsable and can be made responsable. Ziko
2009/5/11 Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com>: > All of the questions enumerated by Lars are exactly on point - and > ultimately, I wonder if there is an answer in there that will allow Wikinews > to be widely useful. It may be that there isn't, for now, and that it won't > be broadly useful as a news source until the dynamics of the online news > business changes. > > I say useful as a news source because it seems like there may be other > positive uses for Wikinews as a project. Our focus with all projects is > generating (or collecting) free content in a reusable and easily accessible > format - but that doesn't have to be the limit, and over time the Foundation > is branching into other niches where we can have a beneficial educational > impact outside of our now "traditional" role. > > There is, for instance, much discussion in the news world about the future > of journalism[1] and specifically investigative reporting and the role of > reportage in democracy. Wikinews may not be able to play a significant role > in developing the future of journalism as a source for news, but I could see > it being a significant player as an alternative method of training > journalists and as a way to give new journalists experience and exposure in > an era of shrinking newsroom budgets. Perhaps the best role for Wikinews in > the Wikimedia movement is not in its reporting, per se, but in generating > experienced journalists and developing the news field for a post-newspaper > future. > > Nathan > > > [1] As a good example, see Frank Rich's column in the New York Times, "The > American Press on Suicide Watch", > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/opinion/10rich.html > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Ziko van Dijk NL-Silvolde _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
