Thread:Comments:Author Amy Scobee recounts abuse as Scientology executive/Do we really want to be the Anonymous News Network?/reply

People here write about what they're interested in; Wikinews isn't a workplace, it's a volunteer effort. In addition to this there are very few people who actually write articles for Wikinews. The vast majority of the content is produced by less than 30 people, all of whom are very part time volunteers.

Because of these two facts our article creation tends to lean strongly toward whatever any given Wikinews reporter happens to be interested in that week. The reporter who has been writing these articles happens to have an interest in stories related to Scientology. That's fine. Their is nothing wrong with his or her articles. The problem comes from that fact that because there is so little content being produced by Wikinews (due to the small number of people actively involved at any given moment) we appear to be concentrating a lot of time on particular topics. This week, Scientology. A few months ago we were inundated (or so it appeared to casual observers) by stories about Chilean aftershocks.

Unfortunately this type of thing is going to happen in a community as small as ours. The only way to combat this issue is to create more stories, so that a single topic of interest doesn't comprise so great a percentage of our output.

Do I hear any volunteers vowing to help the effort? ;)