The biggest problem for Wikinews in my mind is that delivering news is a competitive and innovative business. In the on-line and comprehensive encyclopedia vacuum, Wikipedia was able to be "get there first, with the most" and draw eyeballs and participants by being the leader. Wikinews, by contrast, is at a substantial disadvantage when it comes to online news reporting. There are hundreds of major news sites that offer content at no charge (although not "free" in the sense we usually mean), with the huge benefit of full time, paid reporting staff.
If the best news sources online go behind a paywall (which is inevitable, I think, as a WSJ subscriber...), Wikinews might draw enough participants to reach the wiki "critical mass." I'm not sure what else will do it - some series of high profile scoops or major interviews, perhaps? Nathan _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
