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'Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, is set to launch a community-driven online news service in response to the widespread distribution of deliberately misleading information masquerading as news.
The project, #Wikitribune, will be a hybrid model in which paid journalists will work with a broad network of contributors. “We want to bring some of that fact-based, fact-checking mentality that we know from Wikipedia to news,” Wales says....'
2 starting questions I have about #Wikitribune is
a) how exactly I, as a user/participant, join and contribute?
b) What happened to https://en.wikinews.org as a official project? Did that fail? If so, Why?