Interview with Jimbo Wales

xandroid writes to tell us that Wikinews has an interesting interview with Jimbo Wales of the Wikimedia Foundation. From the interview: "The [Wikinews] project is a bit over a year old, with the English and Deutsch editions opening their sites officially the first week of December, 2004. Since then the project has produced more than 13 000 articles in 16 languages, with recently created editions in Hebrew, Russian, and Japanese. The project has not been without its detractors, and the questions asked of Mr. Wales reflected some of the most common criticisms."

Comments

What's the difference?

[gasmonso]

I find the interface pretty clean and easy to navigate, but how is this different than Google News or even Yahoo News for that matter? It has nice links to Wikipedia and Wikionary, but other that it seems rather "already been done".

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Re:Wikinews? What's the point?

[dubl-u]

Are these people just repackaging news from the mainstream news sources?

I ask the same thing about my local paper every time I pick it up.

Re:Wikinews? What's the point?

[ScottyH]

I didn't realize I was making an argument. From what I can see, the only advantage is multiple contributors filling out a piece of news, but if all the news is coming from the same place (AP or Reuters) the wiki model doesn't add anything.