First day of competition saw lots of success. We had an even 30 articles published today (with quite a few more pending review. 29 of the published articles appear to be contest related). To compare, on day 2 of the first international wikinews writing contest (september 2, 2005) we had our previous record [to my knowledge] of 24 articles. There was some initial confusion about where to record the scores, but they are now being recorded at http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Writing_contest_2010/Standings/log and http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Writing_contest_2010/Standings .
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 )
With a ~4 points pending for tempodivalse depending on how a combined effort is divided up.
Also congratulations to Blood Red Sandman for opening the competition with the article http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%22Osama_to_Obama%22:_Bin_Laden_addresses_US_Pre...
Good luck to all the competitors
p.s. Its not too late to join see http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Writing_contest_2010 for details -- - Bawolff Caution: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85 million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight.
I thought I'd chip in my 2 cents also. http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:ShakataGaNai/ENWN_stats#Click_through_by_da...
Out of curiosity I decided to pull stats on the number of click through's of enwn.net links. The daily average for clicks is 603, yesterdays (Day 1 the competition) saw almost 5x times that amount, or 2913 clicks. That is the most clicks in a single day so far.
Impressive day, keep up the good work. -Jon
PS. I'll try to remember to update these stats periodically through out the competition.
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 17:00, bawolff <bawolff+wn@gmail.combawolff%2Bwn@gmail.com
wrote:
First day of competition saw lots of success. We had an even 30 articles published today (with quite a few more pending review. 29 of the published articles appear to be contest related). To compare, on day 2 of the first international wikinews writing contest (september 2, 2005) we had our previous record [to my knowledge] of 24 articles. There was some initial confusion about where to record the scores, but they are now being recorded at http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Writing_contest_2010/Standings/log and http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Writing_contest_2010/Standings .
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 )
With a ~4 points pending for tempodivalse depending on how a combined effort is divided up.
Also congratulations to Blood Red Sandman for opening the competition with the article
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%22Osama_to_Obama%22:_Bin_Laden_addresses_US_Pre...
Good luck to all the competitors
p.s. Its not too late to join see http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Writing_contest_2010 for details --
- Bawolff
Caution: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85 million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight.
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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).
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@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@wikinewsie.org Wikinewsie.org
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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.
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