AP vs. wiki

"Creating authoritative canonical pages based on the latest from the AP sounds like a good idea they should have implemented years ago." Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia on possible AP topic page strategy.

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=173537

 

Problem: Most journalists don't hyperlink so online stories are flat.

Problem (cont.): Newspapers have fewer employees making it impractical to add hyperlinks to stories after they have been published, so online stories stay flat.

Solution: Give a subset of registered readers access to versions of the articles to add relevant hyperlinks