- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikinewsie_Group/Newsletter/5
- The Wikinewsie Group News
- Edition 5, November 8, 2013
- Project news
- The Wikinewsie Group/Local Wikinews policies
is the start of a guide that explains local Wikinews project policies
with the goal of making it easier to recognise credentials across
project, build on accumulated reputation from one project to another and
facilitate translation work.
- Historical Czech Wikinews experiment is a blog entry by Okino
that looks at the community impact of allowing writers to write
Wikinews articles from a past perspective, IE writing a story about a
historical battle as if you were a journalist writing that article the
day after it happened. The purpose was to attempt to make Wikinews more
collaborative in nature and avoid the time constraints of the immediacy
of news reporting. Okino shows that while the reaction to the idea was
positive, the true interest in writing the articles of this type was
small as the vast majority of them were written by him.
- A conversation is taking place on Wikinoticias about allowing CC-BY-NC images to be locally uploaded.[1]
- A conversation is taking place on English Wikinews with a WMF staff
member about the future of search and potential special search features
for Wikinews projects.[2]
- Training materials
A video for new reporters who lost their first article on English Wikinews
- A one page guide and a screencast
were created that explain how to avoid plagiarism on Wikinews.
Available data suggests this is somewhat of an issue for new and student
reporters on English Wikinews, with roughly 10 to 20% of all submitted
articles having some sort of copyright issue.
- Training materials were created to better support new reporters wanting to produce photo essays. They can be found at Photo Essays for Wikinews, Photojournalist worksheet, and Wikinews Photo Essay Formatting.
Assistance is requested in translating these to other languages and
localizing them to local project requirements. This would be very
helpful ahead of the Sochi Paralympic Games, where there are expected to
be a number of photo essays produced.
- Given the difficulty of new reporters being unable to get their
first article published on Wikinews, a video was created to encourage
these writers to stick with it. It can be found at The first time writing for Wikinews good.ogv.
It is somewhat tongue in cheek, and tries to address the emotional
implications of a not ready review. The problem of getting new reporters
who are unsuccessful at getting their article published has been
identified as a major area for work. It has a large impact on reporter
retention.
- Of interest for journalists
- Education
- Provisional Chairperson LauraHale is made a presentation at the EduWiki Conference 2013
in Cardiff, Wales about educational efforts on English Wikinews.
Findings she included that changes in reviewing practices between
semester 1 and semester 2 for one university course saw similar
improvements for new reporters. What is good for students is good for
the whole community.
- With the Education Extension[3] installed successfully on English Wikinews, a portal was started at WN:EDU[4]
to encourage and provide training for educators to use Wikinews in
their coursework. This is something The Wikinewsie Group is hoping to
expand upon in the future, and plans to try to get translated into other
languages. Plans are also underway to create a student portal to
provide training for students. Many things to Sage Ross for his assistance in setting up the educator portal.
- GLAM
- The major GLAM work being done by a Wikinewsie at the moment is a
Wikimedian in Residency with the Comité Paralímpico Español. A report
was created this month for CPE based on interviews done in August. It
can be found here.
- Paralympic work being done with the US Olympic Committee is progressing.
- Original reporting - summary
Between May 1 and October 31, when The Wikinewsie Group Newsletter
first began tracking original reporting taking place across all
projects, 227 stories have been published by 78 reporters 14 different
language Wikinews projects. The projects with the greatest number of
reporters engaged in original reporting were English with 15, Russian
with 14, Polish with 13 and French with 10. Beyond these, original there
were one or more journalists engaging in original reporting on Catalan,
Chinese, Esperanto, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Serbian,
Spanish and Ukrainian. The peak month for reporting across all projects
was May with 52 articles. It was followed by June with 49, August with
44, September with 43 and July with 39.
In the past four months, Spanish, Polish, French, Ukrainian, Russian
and English have all produced over 20 total pieces of original
reporting, with Russian Wikinews publishing 41 stories and English
Wikinews publishing 60 stories.
LauraHale, RockerballAustralia, Antanana, Agamitsudo, Dmitry Rozhkov, Plogi, Krassotkin, Schekinov Alexey Victorovich, and MadriCR have each produced 5 or more pieces of original reporting in the past four months. Another group of users, Joan301009, Bddpaux, Computron, Laslovarga, Fed4ev and Yakudza, have produced four articles each.
For September, only three pieces of 43 original reports produced were translated from one language to another. They were Wikinews interviews specialists on China, Iran, Russia support for al-Assad, Wikinews interviews Dr Thomas Scotto and Dr Steve Hewitt about potential US military intervention in Syria, Atlético de Madrid defeats Real Madrid 1-0 in 2013 derby and Tokio gana la sede de los Juegos Olímpicos 2020.
Original reporting is a major strength of Wikinews. It is one we should
be playing to. The Wikinewsie Group would like to encourage everyone to
assist translating Wikinews work into another language, or finding a
local reporter to assist with translating a work from where it was
originally published into that language. This will benefit all
languages, promote more cooperation between projects, and expand news
reach for our reporting which we can leverage to provide more
opportunities for reporters.
- Original reporting output
- Ukrainian
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- See also: Авторський репортаж. The wiki uses nothing for the publish process.
- Spanish
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- See also: Wikinoticias:Reportajes originales sin notas, Artículos publicados. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
- Russian
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- See also: Оригинальные репортажи, Опубликовано. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
- French
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- See also: Reportage original, Article publié. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
- Serbian
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- See also: Изворни извештај, Објављено. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
- Chinese
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- See also: 原创报导, 已发布. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
- Polish
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- See also: Materiały autorskie. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
- English
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- See also: Original reporting, Published. The wiki uses flagged revisions for the publish process.
- German
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- See also: Wikinews:Originalbericht, Veröffentlicht. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
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