Wired: Wikipedia Creators Move Into News
The makers of the Wikipedia launched a new communal content creation effort, this time geared at news content. Wikinews launched as a form of open-source journalism designed to publish newly reported information, rather than merely summarized and cited information from other sources. Founders hope that the wiki format - a form of publishing that allows for communal editing - will help remove bias from reporting, as they believe it has done with their version of an encyclopedia.
