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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. Serious Thought: Quality, not Quanity, of News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Wikinews would do well to follow the example of Yahoo! News. Yahoo! News screens its news sources and, specifically, does not provide articles published by the "Chinese People's Daily (also known as the Xinhua News Agency)". It the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party (although most Chinese support the position of Beijing on most matters).

    By contrast, Google News frequently provides links to the "Chinese People's Daily". For this reason, I no longer read Google News.

    Screening a news source is not censorship in the usual sense. Here screening is not an attempt to hide the facts. Rather screening is an attempt to accept only accurate articles written by reputable Westerners.