A potentially huge development for the PR community is in the works. Dan Gillmor reports the Wikipedia community is debating whether to create Wikinews - a Wikipedia for news.
The project will aim to collaboratively report and summarize news on all subjects from a neutral point of view. You can view the full proposal here. The site describes the project's goals and outlines five basic requirements. This passage is perhaps the most interesting of all...
While Wikinews aims to be a useful resource of its own, it will also provide an alternative to proprietary news agencies like the Associated Press or Reuters; that is, it will allow independent media outfits to get a high quality feed of news free of charge to complement their own reporting. Thanks to copyleft, anyone can create their own free news source - even a non-neutral one - on the basis of our work. Even if our articles will initially be few, they will be free, permanently available and not require registration before reading.
I bet this wiki will form, if not here, then somewhere.
