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Wikinews Project Launched

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the they-report-you-decide dept.

Eloquence writes "The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia and other wiki-based projects, has just launched the English and German editions of Wikinews, a free news-source created collaboratively by volunteers around the planet. See my article Wikinews and the Growing Wikimedia Empire for more on this and other recent developments in the Wikimedia world."

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  1. Wired Article by KamuZ · · Score: 5, Informative

    I submitted this story like 5 days ago but it was rejected, nothing personal, yeah right. Anyway, there's a Wired article talking about this with the creators, here's the link:

    http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65819,00. html?tw=wn_story_top5

  2. RESOLVED: WORKSFORME by tepples · · Score: 2, Informative

    MediaWiki software stores the nick of everybody who contributed to an article, and any user can extract diffs to see who contributed what.

  3. Re:Soviet-era Pravda and Al-Jazeera = "LA Times"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Al-Jazeera isn't that bad. The governments of practically all Arab countries think they are too liberal, and some of them have banned AJ. This certainly indicates that they are in fact trying to be real journalists, and not propaganda. As is the fact that when BBC pulled out of their Middle Eastern offices, several of their reporters who lost their jobs, got hired by AJ instead.

    Are they as good as LA Times? Maybe not, but they are nowhere near Pravda.

  4. Re:still no atributions by Doomie · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can understand that there's not much need to recognize authorship in something like a science textbook, but for a news site, it is essential.

    Well, The Economist has no authors as such for the articles published in it. It doesn't diminish from its value, though...

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    Doomie