On 20 March 2012 23:42, Laura Hale <laura(a)fanhistory.com> 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. :)
On the Wikinews front, I'd like to make an offer to any female
editors: I'm an experienced Wikinews editor, and have both reviewer
rights and adminship on there. If you have any questions about
Wikinews that you want to ask off-wiki and off-list, feel free to
email me and I'll do my best to answer them. If you've got any
questions about it on-list, I can also have a shot at answering.
Finally, if you submit something to Wikinews and it doesn't get
reviewed quickly, feel free to email me and I'll try and review them
(subject to being awake, London-time).
Just to give some idea of what is possible on Wikinews, I wrote the
following four articles. One is a featured article, another is an
interview with Sue Gardner, and two others are original reporting from
events.
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/UK_Parliament_to_vote_on_tuition_fee_rise_on_T…
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Knight_Foundation_and_Mozilla_send_geeks_into_…
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%27Stop_being_so_damn_respectful%27_say_free_s…
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_interviews_Sue_Gardner_on_Wikipedia_b…
If you are going to an event, a protest, or pretty much anything
interesting and newsy, please, grab a camera, grab a notebook,
interview, photograph, video and help improve Wikinews.
--
Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>