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Shel Holtz
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Community journalism may be harder than online knowledge sharing

Wired has an interesting piece today about the problems Wikinews is experiencing that its parent, Wikipedia, never had to deal with:

“In Wikipedia, the writing style of an encyclopedia is more timeless. You can get it right eventually. It’s going to be the same article for many years,” said Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia’s founder. “With a news story, the actual story has a limited lifespan. If it’s not neutral, you’ve got to fix it quickly.”

Community journalism may be a tougher nut to crack than simple online knowledge sharing. Read the whole story here.

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