I've seen Federated wiki. Distributed publishing is interesting, but I think the wiki format, and even the article-based format of wikis and news sites is not

I've seen Federated wiki. Distributed publishing is interesting, but I think the wiki format, and even the article-based format of wikis and news sites is not suited to news on the web. We are basically making a database on news events that can be sorted and filtered by the readers, and wikis are not good at on-page sorting etc.