I am not interested in participating in a system where my hard work is discarded regardless of excuses.
So you end up with notability being rather arbitrarily decided by admins who see nothing wrong with long articles on obscure pieces of geek fandom while being unconvinced about the notability of people like influential executives at major companies, journalists, and the like.
I think the it's a good idea, but it's not a good fit for wikipedia as it exist today. I think it's grown to the point that for good or bad, it needs to be managed more like the Google corpus, than a traditional encyclopaedia. I'm not advocating abandoning human editing all together, but I think a new ideas are needed: wp's success has made it into a fundamentally new thing. It exists in the conceptual space between the sum of all newspapers and scientific journals, traditional encyclopaedia and the whole World Wide Web.
All of which were basically from the same small, inexpensive PR campaign.
Wikipedia runs a serious risk of becoming a commercial echo chamber (if it hasn't already).
What're you guys doing at Newslines to prevent it from turning into a vehicle for self-promotion?
And getting into Wikipedia has some obscure benefits that make it worthwhile.
The problem arises on Wikipeida because its editors act as fact checkers. But your idea of what a fact is can be quite different from mine. On Newslines we create the archive and let the reader decide what is true, by marking claims as claims.
Very few bloggers break original news. If they do we can add it as a source.
I don't buy the argument that there isn't enough space on the internet. Wikis are at their worst on high-profile, contested topics, and at their best in minutiæ Wikipedia's entrenched cabal passionately hates.
Curious, as a social experiment. It's interesting it became as good as it did, but it's firmly in maintenance mode now and that won't keep the cobwebs off forever. I wonder how much it's being gamed by PR companies and governments now.
So basically, if you publish a blog with some information about a topic, then have "your friend" make the change and cite your blog, it's good. But try to do it yourself and it's no good.