[Foundation-l] Formal request: Wikinews project

Sun Oct 10 20:28:58 UTC 2004

There were many examples that some projects/or even companies lost
control and finally died because some leaders were too confident after
seeing some little success.  I am really worrying about there may be
such leaders in wikipedia.

Even Bill Gates says it is only 18 months for MS to go bankrupt at
anytime. And I don't think wikipedia is doing better than MS. We
should see more problems in wikipedia rather than getting happy and
expand it without boundary by previous success.

Focus, please. For wikipedia's sake. In chinese saying, Faithful words offend
the ears, good medicine tastes bitter. Please forgive me if I offend you.

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:08:04 -0500, Kiss All <kissall at gmail.com> wrote:
> You guys are going so far.
> wikipedia is not designed for anything. It is for encyclopedia. We
> should focus on what we should do and not to be distracted.
> There are many things to do to improve wikipedia, don't waste our
> limited resources to do something meaningless.
> I can only expect troubles if we set up a news site.
> 
> 
> 
> On 10 Oct 2004 17:22:00 +0200, Erik Moeller <erik_moeller at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Fred-
> > > Is it proposed that Wikinews would allow original reporting? If so, how
> > > would we deal with libel risks?
> >
> > See the proposal. All articles have to pass through a review stage before
> > they are formally published. Factual statements are attributed to external
> > sources or to named Wikinews reporters. Hence, the situation with regard
> > to libel is the same as for any news publication: We do our best to make
> > sure to prevent it, and we protect our reporters from legal harrassment if
> > they have exercised due diligence.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Erik
> >
> >
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