history, fiction

[pynchonoid]

...on that Truth, fiction, history, multiple
perspectives tip, this recent announcement:

from the Wikinews mission statement:

On January 15, 2001, a group of people started a
daring experiment: They let the whole world create an
encyclopedia in all languages, freely available to
everyone on the planet, forever. In the following
months and years, it was not just technology that made
this dream a reality, but also an incredibly dedicated
community of volunteers who wrote articles and
formulated the policies and guidelines for the
project. They did so through an open, evolutionary
process, in a belief in the possibility of consensus,
in a desire for the betterment of the human condition,
and in love of the human spirit.

The idea behind the Wikinews project is no less
daring. We seek to create a free source of news, where
every human being is invited to contribute reports
about events large and small, either from direct
experience, or summarized from elsewhere. Wikinews is
founded on the idea that we want to create something
new, rather than destroy something old. It is founded
on the belief that we can, together, build a great and
unique resource which will enrich the media landscape.


Wikinews will already be useful even if we start out
by having relatively few original reports - because it
will provide free, neutral, aggregated summaries of
the news from elsewhere. It will already be useful
even if the subject range which we cover will
initially be full of gaps - because in these subject
areas, we will already benefit from the collaborative
wiki model. It can grow to become more useful every
day.


While Wikinews aims to be a useful resource of its
own, it will also provide an alternative to
proprietary news agencies like the Associated Press or
Reuters; that is, it will allow independent media
outfits to get a high quality feed of news free of
charge to complement their own reporting. Thanks to
copyleft, anyone can create their own free news source
- even a non-neutral one - on the basis of our work.
Even if our articles will initially be few, they will
be free, permanently available and not require
registration before reading.

While we are faced with many new challenges, Wikinews
will adopt the key principles which have made
Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia websites what they
are today: neutrality, free content, and an open
decision making process.

We seek to promote the idea of the citizen journalist,
because we believe that everyone can make a useful
contribution to painting the big picture of what is
happening in the world around us. The time has come to
create a free news source, by the people and for the
people. We invite you to join us in this effort which
has the potential to change the world forever.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews

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