On 3/20/12 7:42 PM, Laura Hale wrote:
woot woot. :D There have been two news stories about
women on the
front page of Wikinews in the past two days. (Both are sport stories
about softball.) It is nice to see front page coverage for them.
If you haven't written for Wikinews, I highly encourage you to do so.
The style guide can be found at
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Style_guide and if you follow the
directions, it is pretty easy to get your article published, have it
appear in Google News searchers and appear on the front page. I
wrote up my first editing experience at
http://editors.wikinewsie.org/2012/03/writing-for-wikinews-for-the-first-ti…
. I found the process much easier, especially for original research,
than English Wikipedia. The expectations are very clear. There is a
review process to let you know issues. The people helping have been
fantastic and are pretty accessible for asking questions. If you do
an interview with some one or some other original reporting, you can
use the source you create for Wikipedia as an article source. (Though
sadly, not for notability.)
It would be great to see a wider variety of women's topics covered on
wikinews. :)
This is awesome. I'd love to see more women's coverage for sure on WikiNews!
It's like a whole new can of worms! So thanks for sharing your
experience. It has been on my own to-do list to experiment with WikiNews
post-grad school. I was recently in Chile for a GLAM event, and had the
pleasure of meeting with some women activist who work in journalism in
Chile. After seeing this post, I think I'll talk to them about utilizing
WikiNews as an option for their journalism students.
This is great, thanks Laura!
-Sarah
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