[Imc-strategies] WikiNews

[Chris]

Hi

On Thu 03-Mar-2005 at 06:01:28PM -0700, Mike wrote:
> 
> IMO, any decent articles from IMCs should be submitted
> to http://www.wikinews.org which is already shaping up
> to be a pretty useful resource after only a few months.

There was a discussion wikinews this on imc-tech that started
last November:

  http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-tech/2004-November/thread.html#742

And continued into December:

  http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-tech/2004-December/thread.html#831

Last time I looked at wikinews indymedia type articles
were marked up for deletion, eg:

  http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-tech/2004-December/1208-um.html
  
for not following the NPOV policy of Wikipedia:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPOV

Don't get me wrong, I think the Wikipedia and it's
projects are fantastic, they represent one of the best
examples so far of the free software mode of production
being applied to something other than software (my view is
that *everything* can and should be produced in this
way...) and the more activists that get involved with
wikinews the better it will get, but personally it's not
a project I'm going to put much/any of my limited time
into -- I *like* the fact that Indymeda isn't burdened
with a NPOV policy :-)

Chris
  
PS This is a great quote from John ;-)

   "i'm tempted to say that the N in NPOV stands for
   "neoliberal"."

   http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-tech/2004-December/1208-pf.html