If it's not working, then it needs needs to figure out why people aren't engaged. Otherwise, the natural progression is for people to move on to 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.