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_guideand 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-tim.... 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 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-tim... . 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
On 20 March 2012 23:42, Laura Hale laura@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-tim... . 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_Th... https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Knight_Foundation_and_Mozilla_send_geeks_into_n... https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%27Stop_being_so_damn_respectful%27_say_free_sp... https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_interviews_Sue_Gardner_on_Wikipedia_bl...
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.