Wired news posted a story that the team behind Widipedia is creating a collaboratively writing model for journalism and “a world where citizen journalists report the news on a wide variety of current events.”

For those of you who may not be familiar, a wiki is a software platform for contributing, sharing, and managing content. The most famous of these being, Wikipedia.

The new sit will follow a similar set of rules as the encyclopedia which will allow anyone to edit and/or post entries, with each change recorded. The members of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation reported on their message board that the new site’s goal is based as an effort “to collaboratively report and summarize news on all subjects from a neutral point of view.”

While the site may not be the best resource for breaking news, all sources will be original in content not copied from another source. While the site is still in test mode, it will prove interesting to check and see if, over time 1] it lends itself to cover a broader scope of international news we don’t normally get here in the states due to lack of interest or economic drivers 2] posted comments lend themselves to larger news story follow-ups where consumers actually get to read both sides of the story.

As we all witnessed, the recent election brought out the both the best and the worst of liberal and conservative media biases. [Just how important did Factcheck.org become to most of us?]

Traditional media outlets and companies continue to decry the importance of blogging and weblogs. But who knows? Wikinews just may prove an interesting turn of events - - imaging someone taking a picture of a news event with their cell phone live on the scene, uploading it to the site and reporting on what they see - - that changes the very way “breaking news” is handled.

If you want to check it out for yourself here’s the link: Click to Open Web Page