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# Whatever happened to WikiTribune fixing news?
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2019/05/whatever-happened-to-wikitribune-fixing-news/
- Published: 2019-05-14T14:50:35.000Z
- Updated: 2019-05-14T14:50:35.000Z
- Description: Wait… wasn't Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales fixing news? What happened to that?
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: jimmy wales, wikipedia, wikitribune, fixing news

Last month, WIRED picked over what looks suspiciously like [the soon-to-be corpse of WikiTribune](https://www.wired.co.uk/article/jimmy-wales-is-having-another-crack-at-wikitribune?ref=onemanandhisblog.com), Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales' attempt to "fix" news:

> According to other former staffers (who asked not to be named), that was not the project’s only miscalculation. They paint a picture of generalised improvisation and lack of direction, in which founders scrambled to chart a way forward while failing to grasp the practicalities of journalism and news-gathering. Wales wanted to rescue journalism, but, to his team, it was not clear whether he understood journalism in the first place.

It's a lovely mix of the arrogance of the one-hit founder, and the general lack of understanding of how complex journalism actually is. Wikipedia has [enough problems of its own](https://tedium.co/2017/06/13/windex-glass-cleaning-history/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) (and new competition) - this feels like a not-terribly-useful distraction.