On Thursday 15 September 2011 01:43 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 14 September 2011 21:02, Achal Prabhala<aprabh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that the world now follows the >> Wikinews model. > > No, you're describing bare skimming of the unedited social media pool. > Wikinews follows a process-heavy review model, so laborious that news > dies before getting through it and contributors give up and fork.
The hazards of not knowing about how Wikinews works I guess :) But I think it would be right to say that Wikinews - at least in a citizen journalism context - was far ahead of mainstream media; behind Indymedia, but ahead of many others. And that the reason I haven't been to Indymedia (or read anything significant from there in a long time) is also possibly because it was ahead of the curve, i.e. ahead of the infrastructure that could have really enabled it? > > Quality is important, but Wikinews seems to consider it important > enough to die for. > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
