[Foundation-l] Formal request: Wikinews project

Sun Oct 10 13:38:56 UTC 2004

Is it proposed that Wikinews would allow original reporting? If so, how
would we deal with libel risks?

Fred

> From: Angela <beesley at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Angela <beesley at gmail.com>, Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 07:29:01 +0100
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Formal request: Wikinews project
> 
> Wikipedia does not allow original research, and it will never be the
> ideal venue for in-depth news reporting. A news report simply is not
> the same as an encyclopedia article. It does, of course, feed into
> Wikipedia though, and having a free, neutral, news resource will be of
> great value to Wikipedia's topical articles, and to the current events
> pages.
> 
> I strongly support the creation of this project.
> 
> Angela.