[Wikimedia-l] The Wikinewsie Group Newsletter - Edition 1

Originally published at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikinewsie_Group/Newsletter/1 <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikinewsie_Group/Newsletter/1#mw-navigation><http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikinewsie_Group/Newsletter/1#p-search> The Wikinewsie Group Newsletter Sharing news about the group's activities and things taking place on local Wikinews projects. Shortcut <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Shortcut>: WM:WIKINEWSIE <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WM:WIKINEWSIE> Key resources - Home <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikinewsie_Group> - TWG Newsletter<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikinewsie_Group/Newslette… - #wikinews-group <irc://irc.wikimedia.org/wikinews-group> - The Wikinewsie Group IRC Channel - wikinewsie[image: at ]googlegroups.com - Email discussion list - join here!<https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=de&fromgroups#!forum/wikin… The Wikinewsie Group News[edit<http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Wikinewsie_Gro… ] Since mid-April, supporters of The Wikinewsie Group have been quite active, doing a number of activities in support of the organization. These include selecting a provisional board, engaging in research projects, working to support original reporting, discussing setting up off-line events, and promoting our efforts and the broader work being done by Wikinews reporters. - On May 4, a meeting was held to select the provisional board. It was decided that the board would be composed of the following people: LauraHale <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:LauraHale> (Chair), Pi zero <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pi_zero>, Brian McNeil<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Brian_McNeil> , Bjarki<http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Bjarki&actio… ,ProtoplasmaKid <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ProtoplasmaKid>. The total number of people and roles was based on the draft bylaws. 18 people, a little under half of all people who were listed as supporters, attended the meeting. aff-comm has been advised of this, and that we are ready to discuss the group's bylaws with them. They have responded back to indicate their review will start shortly. - Tentative steps are being taken to have a Wikimedia conference in Iceland with a Wikinews workshop as a component of it. This would likely be in December to coincide with the 10th birthday of Icelandic Wikipedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/is:>s:>. Having some discussions about the possibility of having a small Wikinews conference somewhere in Europe sometime in the next year. - Wikinews:GLAM <http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/en:Wikinews:GLAM> was created after writing about previous experiences with GLAM projects on English Wikinews<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/en:Wikinews:GLAM/Case_studies> and content related to GLAMs across all projects<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/en:Wikinews:GLAM/Coverage>ge>. Hopefully, with groundwork underway, there should be two announcements about Wikinews and GLAM projects by the end of June that will build upon previous success. - It does not look like there is a single presentation about Wikinews at Wikimania in Hong Kong has been approved. Given that, plans are to have some sort of Wikinews meetup while there independent of the official tracks. - Efforts are underway to do a better job at translating articles from one language to another, and successfully guide them through any local review processes. This is not a one way street of material from English Wikinews to other languages: We have successfully had two articles start on Spanish Wikinews that were translated to English Wikinews, where they passed the local review process and were successfully published. Comments on this effort are welcome at The Wikinewsie Group/Project planning<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikinewsie_Group/Project_pla… and User talk:LauraHale: WORTNET<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/en:User_talk:LauraHale#WORTNET> . - Efforts are underway to develop a matrix to understand key policy, community and content requirement differences between different Wikinews projects. Once complete, this should ease cross Wikinews collaboration by having a starting point to discuss content related issues when translating for review, and trying to standardize any policies across projects. - Four pieces of research have been completed. They include Blocks on English Wikinews<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/en:User:LauraHale/Blocks_on_English… , Wikinews:GLAM/Coverage<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/en:Wikinews:GLAM/Cove… , Research:Wikinews Review Analysis<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikinews_Review_Analysi… and English Wikinews and the Gender Gap<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/en:User:LauraHale/English_Wikinews_and_t…ap>. If you are doing any research, formally or informally, about any language Wikinews project, please share it with The Wikinewsie Group as it will help better inform our decisions. - The development of a reviewing tool for English Wikinews continues. There are some concerns that the future roll out of Lua may hinder this. Once complete, this tool should make it easier for reviewers to leave feedback and check articles against all criteria. - Migration of the wikinewsie.org server to Iceland should be complete by the end of June. Once funding is secure, one of the first upgrades to the server will be to create a secure server and a dedicated host in order to encourage more investigative reporting and reporting of embargoed news stories. The server could also be used for development of bots, and mobile reporting tools. The planning is being done to give The Wikinewsie Group cloud space to host reporting notes, video and audio to support journalism efforts. - Icelandic Wikinews <http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/is> and Malayalam Wikinews <http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wn/ml> are both hosted on incubator. The Icelandic Wikimedia mailing list and Indian editors have been contacted to encourage local editors to get the projects viable to move to the main space. - On social media, a few The Wikinewsie Group supporters are answering questions about Wikinews on quora<http://www.quora.com/search?q=Wikinews>ws>. This is part of an effort to expand awareness about the Wikinews in general. - Follow @wikinewsie, The Wikinewsie Group<https://twitter.com/wikinewsie> on Twitter. Please tweet us any original reporting you are aware of on any project so we can tweet about it. Original reporting[edit<http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Wikinewsi… ] *This list is May 1 to May 15. Needs update prior to publication.* Ukrainian*See also: Авторський репортаж<http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Category:%D0%90%D0%B2%D1%82%D0%B… .* - У російській Вікіпедії мільйон статей<http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:%D0%A3_%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%96%D0… (created by Yakudza <http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:Yakudza>) 2013-05-11 - 100 шедеврів світової скульптури<http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:100_%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B5%D… (created by Antanana <http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:Antanana>) 2013-05-12 Spanish*See also: Wikinoticias:Reportajes originales sin notas<http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Category:Wikinoticias:Reportajes_or… , Artículos publicados<http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Category:Art%C3%ADculos_public… .* - Deportivo Cali vence por la mínima diferencia al América en la octava fecha de Copa Postobón<http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Deportivo_Cali_vence_por_la_m%C3… (created by Sahaquiel9102 <http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:Sahaquiel9102>) 2013-05-09 - El movimiento YoSoy132 conmemora su primer aniversario con escasa asistencia<http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:El_movimiento_YoSoy132_conmemo… (created by ProtoplasmaKid <http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:ProtoplasmaKid>) 2013-05-13 - Barack Obama llega a Costa Rica para participar en la cumbre del SICA<http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Barack_Obama_llega_a_Costa_Rica_para… (created by MadriCR <http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:MadriCR>) 2013-05-12 - La presidenta de Costa Rica inicia el último año de su gobierno<http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:La_presidenta_de_Costa_Rica_inic… (created by MadriCR <http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:MadriCR>) 2013-05-09 Russian*See also: Оригинальные репортажи<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Category:%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%… , Опубликовано<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Category:%D0%9E%D0%BF%D1%83%… .* - Центр компетенции Национальной программной платформы открыт в Переславле-Залесском<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:%D0%A6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D… (created by Competence Center<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:Competence_Center>) 2013-05-06 - Танец жизни<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%86_%D0%… (created by Schekinov Alexey Victorovich<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:Schekinov_Alexey_Victoro…) 2013-05-11 - 15 мая «Викимедиа Украина» проводит концерт из серии «Мировая классика на украинском»<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:15_%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%8F_%C2%AB%… (created by Dmitry Rozhkov <http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:Dmitry_Rozhkov>) 2013-05-15 - Миллион статей в русской Википедии!<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B8… (created by Амшель<http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:%D0%90%D0%BC%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%B…) 2013-05-11 Norwegian*See also: Førstehand<http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Category:F%C3%B8rstehand> , Publisert <http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Category:Publisert>.* - Økende spenning rundt Nord Korea: Wikinews intervjuer Scott Snyder og Dr Robert Kelly<http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:%C3%98kende_spenning_rundt_Nord_Kor… (created by Computron <http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:Computron>) 2013-04-08 - Man drukner i Texas innsjø etter fall fra båt<http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Man_drukner_i_Texas_innsj%C3%B8_etter… (created by Computron <http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:Computron>) 2013-04-28 French*See also: Reportage original<http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Category:Reportage_original> , Article publié<http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Category:Article_publi%C3%A9> .* - France : 68ème commémoration de l'armistice du 8 mai 1945<http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:France_:_68%C3%A8me_comm%C3%A9morati… (created by Grondin <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:Grondin>) 2013-05-08 Italian*See also: Notizia originale<http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Category:Notizia_originale> .* - Giro d'Italia: crono a squadre a Ischia<http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Giro_d%27Italia:_crono_a_squadre_a… (created by Simo495 <http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:Simo495>) 2013-05-05 - Assegnata a Napoli la prima maglia rosa del Giro 2013<http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Assegnata_a_Napoli_la_prima_maglia_r… (created by Simo495 <http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:Simo495>) 2013-05-05 Chinese*See also: 原创报导<http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Category:%E5%8E%9F%E5%88%9B%E6%8A%A5… , 已发布 <http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Category:%E5%B7%B2%E5%8F%91%E5%B8%83>. * - ChinaJoy西安预选赛落下帷幕<http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:ChinaJoy%E8%A5%BF%E5%AE… (created by Aoke1989 <http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:Aoke1989>) 2013-05-02 Catalan*See also: Reportatges originals<http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Category:Reportatges_originals&… .* - França: 68a. commemoració de l'armistici del 8 de maig del 1945<http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Fran%C3%A7a:_68a._commemoraci%C3%B3_… (created by Grondin <http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:Grondin>) Polish*See also: Materiały autorskie<http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Category:Materia%C5%82y_autorsk… .* - Ogólnopolski Zjazd Rodzimowierczy 2013<http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Og%C3%B3lnopolski_Zjazd_Rodzimowierc… (created by 194.41.12.2 <http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:194.41.12.2>) 2013-05-15 - Łódź: Warsztaty z aktywności obywatelskiej dla seniorów<http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA:_Warsztaty_z… (created by Ixtlilto <http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:Ixtlilto>) 2013-05-08 - Niemcy: Związek Polaków w Niemczech wybrał nowe władze<http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Niemcy:_Zwi%C4%85zek_Polak%C3%B3w_… (created by Macia11 <http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:Macia11>) 2013-05-06 - Koncert charytatywny "Stefan Fest" w Warszawie: fotoreportaż<http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:Koncert_charytatywny_%22Stef… (created by CLI <http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/n:User:CLI>) 2013-05-05 English*See also: Original reporting<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:Original_reporting> , Published <http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Category:Published>.* - 13th Annual Beverly Hills film festival opens<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/13th_Annual_Beverly_Hills_film_festiva… (created by Bddpaux <http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Bddpaux>) 2013-05-07 - Caloundra defeat Nambour 24-10 in week seven of Sunshine Coast Rugby Union<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Caloundra_defeat_Nambour_24-10_in_week… (created by RockerballAustralia<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:RockerballAustralia…) 2013-05-07 - Black and Blue Belles win in Canberra Roller Derby League blowout<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Black_and_Blue_Belles_win_in_Canberr… (created by Hawkeye7 <http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Hawkeye7>) 2013-05-07 - National Rugby League Women in League Round celebrates sons<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/National_Rugby_League_Women_in_League_R… (created by LauraHale <http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:LauraHale>) 2013-05-14 - Fifth Expo Gastronomía finishes in Caracas<http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Fifth_Expo_Gastronom%C3%ADa_finishes… (created by LauraHale <http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:LauraHale>) 2013-05-12