On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Steven Walling
steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote:
At this point in time, the project should act just like any other news
organization, and never assume that readers are going to flock to them.
How about getting Amazon to offer free Wikinews subscriptions on their
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,
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
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
Magnus Manske wrote:
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Steven Walling
How about getting Amazon to offer free Wikinews subscriptions on
their Kindle Newspaper channel? They'd have something they can
offer for free
Wikinews being free (as in CC-BY) or for free doesn't matter,
if the
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
If things were different, they would be different. Right now Wikinews can
serve as an aggregator of news first published elsewhere, but Google and
Yahoo can do it better. We can do some original work, at our own expense.
When and if the crisis affecting paper newspapers gets worse an
opportunity
Fred Bauder wrote:
If things were different, they would be different. Right now Wikinews can
serve as an aggregator of news first published elsewhere, but Google and
Yahoo can do it better. We can do some original work, at our own expense.
When and if the crisis affecting paper newspapers
Nathan wrote:
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.
Sage Ross wrote:
You're right about Wikinews as an all-purpose news source: the
commercial sites were there first and do it better.
But as a hub of citizen journalism, Wikinews does still have a chance
to be the first important site. At this point, the world of citizen
journalism is
