Oh that's too bad, it was an interesting concept while it was running. I did notie that it takes a lot more effort to do real world journalism than it is to write an encyclopedia. And accreditation is a tricky thing in a pseudonymous community.
Hendrikto•16m ago
The idea was cool, but WMF is doing too much, just like Mozilla. They should focus on their core offering.
I don’t think this is a bad move, they might even want to divest from their other side projects too. They are mostly distractions and money sinks.
Kim_Bruning•1m ago
Ah, it is/was a volunteer community, so not really a thing the WMF needs to put much effort in besides running the server. I bet even I could take over the job if I really wanted to, and not because I'm amazing or anything. Well at least, if this were 2010 or so. By now scraper mitigation might be a challenge. <scratches head>
snvzz•9m ago
Good call.
Hopefully they can now focus on making Wikipedia itself neutral.
Kim_Bruning•57m ago
Hendrikto•16m ago
I don’t think this is a bad move, they might even want to divest from their other side projects too. They are mostly distractions and money sinks.
Kim_Bruning•1m ago