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From the folks who created the amazing Wikipedia site comes the new Wikinews:
[A] free content news source. We started in November 2004, and have currently written 121 articles. Our mission is to create a diverse environment where citizen journalists can independently report the news on a wide variety of current events.I'm not sure this can work, but it will be interesting to see. A wiki, of course, is a site where *anyone* can add or edit *any* entry. Seems like a recipe for disaster, but it has worked surprisingly well at Wikipedia. The problem here, I would guess, is that news (and especially political news) is so much more contentious than most encyclopedia entries. It's hard to see how different political factions won't just endless rewrite each other's articles. But it's always easy to see the downside. I'm glad they are trying. And perhaps it's just so crazy it might work.
Playing around with the page design. Feedback welcome. It is supposed to look something like: