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In December 2004 the site went from demo phase to beta phase, and in August 2005 to alpha phase.
For future submissions, the organizers also want to set up a system for accrediting Wikinews reporters who actively participate in the project. The pages on the website contain editing links that users can click to edit passages created by other authors. Wik Wikipedia runs an application that allows users to collaborate on web documents.
Many longtime Wikipedia employees, who pointed to the existence of Wikipedia's own news overview, dodged the question of how it could be implemented as a new project for the Wikimedia Foundation. Wales believes the collaborative editing process will allow Wikipedia, which contains more than 1.5 billion pages of information about world history, to be maintained. A demonstration wiki has also been set up to show how a collaborative news site could work.
The site has evolved from a beta phase to a full-fledged project with more than 500,000 active users in the last two months.
A localized version of the website, which will be launched shortly in chronological order, is available for download from the Google Play Store and Amazon Web Services.
The paper examines the first year of the project, roughly at the same time as the AoIR conference, with a focus on developing a web application for the US government.
We will assess the successes and failures of the first year, draw parallels and highlight some of the key lessons for the future of Wikinews and other news sites. As is common with many other websites, a generalist approach to Wik inews can be successful, but we will draw some parallels. We started with the goal of creating a space where real and current news is written and stored.
We certainly have a much lower profile than Wikipedia and have not grown as fast, but one of the main reasons is that writing a news story with a preamble, a coherent narrative and a time limit is very different from writing an encyclopaedic article. So why do we spend so much time updating articles about a tsunami or a train bombing?
The current version of Wikinews is an experimental version that gives an insight into what will come as news efforts gain momentum. While Wikipedia has already published entries related to current events, Wales says the Wik uses a different writing style and approach. Instead of just collecting and summarizing information found elsewhere, WikInews presents a more comprehensive and comprehensive view of the current state of the world's news and events.
While the team behind Wikipedia has done much to revolutionize the way encyclopedias are built and maintained, it is also trying to apply its collaborative information - and apply the model to journalism. The new efforts at Wikinews encourage members of the open source community who write and edit Wikipedia encyclopedia entries to test their skills as journalists.
The news page follows in the footsteps of Wikipedia, an encyclopedia that allows anyone to edit and correct entries as long as the changes are recorded. Wikinews is a collaboration between the Wikimedia Foundation and the University of California, Berkeley School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Wikinews does not have any size restrictions, can be more up-to-date and contain links, but it also means that the style and length of writing suitable for essays may not be appropriate here.
However, a maximum of three comments are allowed per article and no more than four comments are allowed in a single article.
The continuous intercast of blog entries has therefore led to a kind of peer-to-peer newssharing system that extends beyond the blogosphere. However, there is no longer a single blog - with author messages - but a network of blogs connected to the news. Although they remain largely individual authors, they have been extended to mutual monitoring and commentary between bloggers and bloggers, and they have formed a loose network by sharing their blog posts together.
In the second half of 2004, the project was supported by Wikinews, a new website that wanted to translate the idea of open editing of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia into the realm of news audiences .