[WikiEN-l] Is Wikipedia a News Portal (among other things)?

Wed Sep 20 19:58:18 UTC 2006

On 20/09/06, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> Peter Jacobi wrote:

> > Yeah. I've recently managed to get an "Wikipedia is not a News Portal"
> > into the German equivalent of [[WP:WWIN]]. But this POV seems to collide
> > with the consensus at enwiki.

> I guess as a reader I don't see the benefit in *not* covering
> everything.  I agree there is a slant towards more coverage of recent
> news events, but that's simply because they're easier to cover.  The
> solution, IMO, is not to cover recent events less, but to cover older
> events more.  I want to know the equivalent of this stuff for other time
> periods!  Were there short-lived but at the time massively-covered
> events in the 1890s, equivalent to today's frenzies over child
> kidnappings?  What about the thousands of political scandals, major and
> minor, that have at various times shortened governments' tenures, forced
> cabinet reshuffles, etc., etc.?  It's all good info we're missing!

I concur. Good well-written and well-referenced articles can be
written about these things, are being written and *should* be written.
I would go so far as to say that de: is wrong to arbitrarily keep
these things out considering how well they can be done.

- d.