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Wikinews has also had issues with maintaining a separate identity from Wikipedia, which also covers major news events in real-time.

Columnist Jonathan Dee of The New York Times pointed out in 2007 that " So indistinct has the line between past and present become that Wikipedia has inadvertently all but strangled one of its sister projects, the three-year-old Wikinews ... has sunk into a kind of torpor ; lately it generates just 8 to 10 articles a day ... On bigger stories there's just no point in competing with the ruthless purview of the encyclopedia.

" Andrew Lih and Zachary M. Seward commented on the continuing issue in a 2010 piece in the Nieman Journalism Lab, " Why Wikipedia beats Wikinews as a collaborative journalism project.

" Lih wrote " it's not clear that the wiki process really gears itself towards deadlines and group narrative writing " and that " if you're trying to write something approaching a feature piece, it's much harder to get more than two or three people to stay consistent with the style.

" Lih considers Wikipedia's stricter " formula " for article composition an advantage in a large wiki with many editors.