On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 14:08 +0000, Tristan Thomas wrote:
I agree that long stories are good, but also remember that it's very good if we can get lots of stories out so that when people come to Wikinews, they see, "Oh yes, that story is covered here; it's not some amateur, crappy, hit-and-miss news website".
On the other hand, we're no different if we don't have anything of our own!
But hey, 30 articles in a day is pretty damn good. Anyone fancy some sweepstakes for the final competition total?!
As expected, activity has tailed off today. And, regrettably, there's a lot of sign-ups who've not put anything in yet.
My key objection to the bare-minimum articles is they will encourage people to go elsewhere for details.
Next, I'd like to raise a few points I keep seeing when copyediting.
* Monday was yesterday - use the latter, not the former. * At least 8 times out of 10 the word "that" can be omitted. * Active voice invariably reads better. * The narrative has to be coherent; yes, you may draw from what several sources identify as different stories, but make it clear how it is all interrelated. * It is "BBC News Online"; look at the Wikipedia page this links to for the justification for this pet hate of mine.