[WikiEN-l] Cooperation with EUobserver

Mon Sep 29 22:26:25 UTC 2003

> But speaking only about the basics--the wikinews
> concept is an interesting idea. But just to throw it
> out there--Indymedia blew it with Google news by
> virture of not having a means to community edit
> content.  Wiki allows people to edit willy
> nilly--our
> experience on wikipedia shows that a community can
> deal with vandalism, but with an encyclopedia we can
> take it easy. With "news" there would be a need to
> have current states of articles in tip top shape,
> allowing a much much smaller margin of leeway for
> vandals and cranks, etc. Ideally a sysop pool of
> maybe
> 2-300 might be able to deal with issues quickly
> enough
> -- some extra protections like limitations on anons,
> etc would be necessary.
> 
> Just throwing it out there-- how much would the
> Wikimedia ware have to change to meet the needs of
> such a project?
> 
> ~S~

Whenever a new subproject is added to Wikimedia,
people say that we'll need more security. But that's
completely pointless. Remember Nupedia? That would
have been completely accurate, but it was too
constricting and not many people contributed to it. In
any event, there is no reason why news should be more
restricted than an encyclopedia; if anything, it
should be the reverse.
LDan

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