On 13 September 2011 13:06, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:24, <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's my opinion, that Wikimedia should try to support a Wikinews by >> paying a editor in chief and a core team of reporters to secure that >> the project always stays above the critical mass. > > That's a kind of heresy. But it's impossible to drive [relevant] news > source without paid editors. In a private talk with Sj, I mentioned > that to him a year or so ago in private conversation, but it was, as I > said, heresy, For his ears :P
If volunteer written news is an impossible model to make work, then we should just close Wikinews. We shouldn't turn it into a professional project. That's not what we do. It's not even something we know how to do. Our expertise in is voluntary, collaborative content generation. We shouldn't stray away from that. So, the question is whether it is possible to write a newspaper using volunteers. I suspect it is, but only if you can somehow reach the critical mass. Once you've got there, it should be relatively easy to stay there. Does anyone have any ideas for how to achieve that? _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
