Why Jimmy Wales thinks WikiTribune can succeed with crowdsourcing news where Wikinews failed
ANALYSIS: More than a decade ago, when Wikipedia remained a new but controversial source of information, the foundation that ran it announced an effort to reinvent news using a similar crowdsourcing method.
Wikinews was born in 2004, in an era where people still somehow believed that there might exist a kind of “wisdom of the crowd.” It’s a hopelessly naive notion, looking back from our current era where the internet has been overrun by fake news and trolls and abusiv
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