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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: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