Also, isn't it harmful to divert effort that could be going into WikiNews to a different project? WikiNews already struggles from a lack of editors. Is this substantially different in some way?
If wikinews isn't able to get this idea working, why is everyone else required to keep supporting it. Maybe it's time for an alternative.
But Wikinews isn't some just started website. It launched in 2004.
The idea that everyone needs to keep working on it until it's successful is becoming a joke.
It's been a decade. It hasn't worked.
People should feel free to develop an alternative. Wikinews has no right to a monopoly on an idea.