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It's seems to be carved out of news section from Wikipedia frontpage, like Wikia was carved out of Wikipedia trivia sections. It's again Jimmy who launches a pr

by frik 10y ago

It's seems to be carved out of news section from Wikipedia frontpage, like Wikia was carved out of Wikipedia trivia sections. It's again Jimmy who launches a private company and suddenly Wikipedia changes the rules to forbid trivia section to boot his for profit offspring. Conflict of interest it's called.

cooper12 10y ago
> It's seems to be carved out of news section from Wikipedia frontpage Other than the fact that WikiTribune will use actual journalists doing original reporting? Wikinews just summarizes current events. > suddenly Wikipedia changes the rules to forbid trivia section to boot his for profit offspring What evidence do you have for this? Conspiracy theorists love making outlandish claims they can't substantiate at all.
- frik 10y ago
  Ask someone who is older than 20, everyone remember the trivia sections on many Wiki pages on Wikipedia. Search for trivia eg on this page: http://www.slashdot.org/story/91607 http://www.slashdot.org/story/91607 It of course not easy to point to older events with a still working link, when 1) Wikipedia deletes it's own history, 2) Wikipedia and trivia are such common words it's hard to find, 3) even news sites change so much.
  - cooper12 10y ago
    Random slashdot comments aren't a source and don't back up what you portrayed as a conscious effort by Jimmy Wales to forbid trivia sections for his own personal gain. Maybe it's just possible that the editors themselves decided those sections weren't appropriate? > Wikipedia deletes it's own history Only for copyright violations and offensive vandalism. It never has for anything else, but of course you won't back this claim up either and will make up more excuses. Conspiracy theorists just dig themselves further and further into a hole, to the point where everything else is also a conspiracy against them getting their "truth" out.
- JdeBP 10y ago
  > Wikinews just summarizes current events. Not true. It has original reporting, too. * https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Original_reporting https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Original_reporting I wrote an original reporting article for Wikinews once.

by frik 10y ago

cooper12 10y ago

> It's seems to be carved out of news section from Wikipedia frontpage Other than the fact that WikiTribune will use actual journalists doing original reporting? Wikinews just summarizes current events. > suddenly Wikipedia changes the rules to forbid trivia section to boot his for profit offspring What evidence do you have for this? Conspiracy theorists love making outlandish claims they can't substantiate at all.

frik 10y ago
Ask someone who is older than 20, everyone remember the trivia sections on many Wiki pages on Wikipedia. Search for trivia eg on this page: http://www.slashdot.org/story/91607 http://www.slashdot.org/story/91607 It of course not easy to point to older events with a still working link, when 1) Wikipedia deletes it's own history, 2) Wikipedia and trivia are such common words it's hard to find, 3) even news sites change so much.
- cooper12 10y ago
  Random slashdot comments aren't a source and don't back up what you portrayed as a conscious effort by Jimmy Wales to forbid trivia sections for his own personal gain. Maybe it's just possible that the editors themselves decided those sections weren't appropriate? > Wikipedia deletes it's own history Only for copyright violations and offensive vandalism. It never has for anything else, but of course you won't back this claim up either and will make up more excuses. Conspiracy theorists just dig themselves further and further into a hole, to the point where everything else is also a conspiracy against them getting their "truth" out.
JdeBP 10y ago
> Wikinews just summarizes current events. Not true. It has original reporting, too. * https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Original_reporting https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Original_reporting I wrote an original reporting article for Wikinews once.