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by Jeppe Kabell, Dec 14, 2007

Analysis: Wikinews

Wikinews is a media entirely produced and edited by it’s users. Articles is developed in a separate section in the same way as Wikipedia-articles. The articles are moved to the front page when there is consensus among the users that articles are finished.

Wikinews
Organization
 		Non-profit
Object
 		Original content
Presentation
 		Prioritized
Conversation
 		Conversation
Editing
 		Decentralized
Editor type
 		Human
Frequency
 		Continuously
Object provider
 		User

Wikinews is probably the most open type of media out there, and it’s impressive that it seems to work quite well, even though the amount of participating users should be higher before it would be a useful news resource. For now it’s an interesting experiment and a demonstration of how relatively simple and freely available tools as wiki-software actually can work.

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