Hello Jimmy, Thank you for your mail to this list; I saw the announcement earlier this day and read the Wikitribune.com website, watched the video, and also read a newspaper article. Honestly, I am still not quite sure whether I understood fully what Wikitribune is supposed to be. :-)
- What is the exact purpose of the site? To produce something, or to judge something? What is the product? Wikitribune pages with a specific kind of information or knowledge? A label to be put on news sites? - "Anyone can flag or fix an article and submit it for review." - Who is going to start a segment or item on the Wikitribune site? Are people allowed to create several items about the same issue? - How to resolve conflicts or differences in opinion? Will there be a statute or rule codex people can stick to? Will there be specific people in authority about a segment or the whole site? Will people vote? - "Supporting Wikitribune means ensuring that that [sic!] journalists only write articles based on facts that they can verify" - how will Wikitribune ensure that, force journalists to do that? Will Wikitribune provide a kind of certificate for news sites? Kind regards, Ziko 2017-04-25 23:59 GMT+02:00 Jimmy Wales <[email protected]>: > > Today I announced a new initiative, outside of my Wikimedia activities, > to combat fake news. It is important to me that I share directly with > all of you information about this new initiative early on. > > The new project will use a wiki-style setup and experiment with > bringing together professional journalists and community contributors to > produce fact-checked, global news stories. At launch, we'll be using a > hacked version of wordpress and we'll be evaluating whether that's the > right tool moving forward. Wordpress has a lot to > commend it (free software, mature platform, used by lots of newsrooms, > active developer ecosystem) but also has some philosophy that's quite > "top down" in a way. > (Not many people would think in a wiki way when setting up a newsroom!) > > This new initiative, Wikitribune, will be a learning experience - my > vision is one that I've had a hard time explaining... except to > Wikimedians who tend to immediately > get it. > > While I am launching this project independent from Wikipedia and the > Wikimedia Foundation, it is my plan that this new project will work > alongside Wikimedia in the free knowledge movement. For example, I hope > that the numerous Wikinews/Wikinoticias/Wikinotizie/etc. communities can > collaborate with the Wikitribune community in way that allows both to > learn and benefit from each other. Additionally, Wikitribune will > utilize the same Creative Commons license (CC-BY) as other free content > projects in > the news space - so they can take the stories written by our > professional journalists and communities and make use of them. > > You can find out more information about Wikitribune at: > https://www.wikitribune.com > > Thank you for your time and I'm happy to answer questions! (But I'm > quite swamped with everything at the moment so please forgive me if I > answer in bursts!) > > --Jimbo > > _______________________________________________ > 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: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ 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: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
