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While it's cool that Wikipedia could be used for breaking news, "Recentism"[0] is generally not seen favorably on Wikipedia [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W

• TillE 3y ago
  Wikipedia itself isn't ideal for this, but I keep waiting for some major news institution to migrate away from the ancient newspaper article format and towards something more wiki-like for covering stories. I think you could productively fit any kind of news coverage into a wiki article plus a stream of recent updates.
  • dewey 3y ago
    Having a newspaper article giving context and then having updates at the bottom isn't really something that doesn't exist. It happens all the time.
  • pests 3y ago
    That's just love coverage CNN and major news do nowadays. Find the live event page and there's minute by minute updates, background information / quick recap, other sources and links, images, etc all updated in real time.
    • diggan 3y ago
      That seems to nail the "news" aspect, but missing the vital "wiki" aspect which is all about collaboration and user-edits, which I think the parent was hinting at.