On 24 March 2012 18:13, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 24 March 2012 17:51, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> You're not going to get that through for
general events (natural
> disasters or revolutions), because they've long been heralded as one
> of en:wp's great strengths.
But they *should* be one of Wikinews' greatest
strengths, not
Wikipedia's. I know it isn't likely to get adopted, which is why I
never bother proposing it, but I still think it would be a good idea.
Wikinews suffers sufficient gatekeepers that it doesn't attract a
froth of contributors the way Wikipedia does. It could do with some
statistical and experimental loving from the Foundation, if anyone
feels up to putting a proposal together. But trying to channel
volunteers in this manner strikes me as a way to kill motivation
rather than channel it.
- d.