Analysis

November 28, 2018

Jimmy Wales wanted the crowd to write the news. The crowd said no

WikiTribune was supposed to improve trust in the media. It's still trying to figure out how.


Layli Foroudi

10 min read

Before founding Wikipedia Jimmy Wales had another encyclopaedic project called “Nupedia”. It failed miserably. Eight months after going online in March 2000, only two full-length entries had been published. The Nupedia experience is now a source of hope for Wales as he works to save his latest venture “WikiTribune”, a year-old website that is trying - but has so far not managed - to crowdsource the news.  

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