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?!
2010/1/26 Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org>
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 21:00 -0400, bawolff wrote:
The top 3 at the end of day one:
Rank User pts articles
1 Tempodivalse 31 10
2 Bencherlite 27 5
3 Dendodge 21 3
full list:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Writing_contest_2010/Standings
I was disappointed to see a focus on doing the absolute bare minimum to
write an article that qualifies for points. However, 30 articles is a
good tally for one day.
Tris should've shaken people up a little bit - I published his one entry
so far, an interview with the PRS. 26 points for a single article.
So far the niggles are: put {{review}} at the top; write more than the
minimum; find some pictures and correctly put them in articles per the
[[WN:SG]] (or be mocked on twitter).
--
Brian McNeil <brian.mcneil(a)wikinewsie.org>
Wikinewsie.org
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