Wikinews:Mission statement - Wikinews

Wikinews:Mission statement - Wikinews: "On January 15, 2001, a group of people started a daring experiment: They let about 10% of the whole world (those people with internet access) create an encyclopedia in all languages, freely available to everyone on the planet with internet access, forever. In the following months and years, it was not just technology that made this dream a reality, but also an incredibly dedicated community of volunteers who wrote articles and formulated the policies and guidelines for the project. They did so through an open, evolutionary process, in a belief in the possibility of consensus, in a desire for the betterment of the human condition, and in love of the human spirit.

The idea behind the Wikinews project is no less daring. Wikinews is a free content news source, and is a subproject of the Wikimedia Foundation. We seek to create a free source of news, where, provided that we can overcome the digital divide, every human being is invited to contribute reports about events large and small, either from direct experience, or summarized from elsewhere. Wikinews is founded on the idea that we want to create something new, rather than destroy something old. It is founded on the belief that we can, together, build a great and unique resource which will enrich the media landscape."