{"id":193,"date":"2008-07-18T14:52:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T13:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2008-07-18T14:52:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T13:52:26","slug":"brian-mcneil-craig-spurrier-wikinews-for-wikipedians-how-news-is-easier-then-an-encyclopedia-wikimania-2008-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/brian-mcneil-craig-spurrier-wikinews-for-wikipedians-how-news-is-easier-then-an-encyclopedia-wikimania-2008-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian McNeil, Craig Spurrier &#8211; Wikinews for Wikipedians &#8211; How News is easier then an Encyclopedia [Wikimania 2008 notes]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; float: right; display: block;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:WikiNews-Logo-en.svg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; display: block;\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/2d\/WikiNews-Logo-en.svg\/202px-WikiNews-Logo-en.svg.png\" alt=\"The current Wikinews logo\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zemanta-img-attribution\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:WikiNews-Logo-en.svg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>Wikinews is:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Easy<\/li>\n<li>A type of document you see every day<\/li>\n<li>Goal of NPOV and professionalism<\/li>\n<li>Balance through diversity<\/li>\n<li>The option to do news briefs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Writing your first articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First start with a synthesis article.\u00c2\u00a0 You gather multiple independent sources and read them, then use this to write the story in your own words. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important to attributes quotes and claims to relevant sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wikinews allows and encourage original reporting. This is fundamentally different from the way Wikipedia works. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an accreditation process.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wikinews did some interesting investigative work:<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wikipedia usage by U.S. Senate staff members. Discovered some fascinating facts.<\/li>\n<li>Wikimedia fundraiser highlights webc-omic community\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s frustration with Wikipedia guidelines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project peculiarities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Weekly quiz (in german, english, spanish, italian)<\/li>\n<li>The NPOV-freee Comments: namespace<\/li>\n<li>Email addressees for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Accreditation\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Accreditation\">accredited<\/a> contributors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Wikimedia foundation has legal issues with giving out press credentials. So they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re working on a new organization to solve this problem. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re hoping to have this launched for end of summer 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wikinews also have <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"RSS\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RSS\">RSS feeds<\/a>. This allows you to get news \u00e2\u20ac\u0153as it happens\u00e2\u20ac\u009d into your <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Aggregator\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aggregator\">feed reader<\/a>. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re expanding this with categorization, so you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be able to subscribe to only certain categories.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>News-edition weekly, is a printed weekly project done in a newspaper style. Depending upon communities support for project should be available in a few months.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There is also large interest in audio-news briefly, done in a podcast format.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/0ac8fde8-c9f0-40b0-b3b9-ffe39b6fc583\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_c.png?x-id=0ac8fde8-c9f0-40b0-b3b9-ffe39b6fc583\" alt=\"Zemanta Pixie\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image via Wikipedia Wikinews is: \u00c2\u00a0 Easy A type of document you see every day Goal of NPOV and professionalism Balance through diversity The option to do news briefs \u00c2\u00a0 Writing your first articles First start with a synthesis article.\u00c2\u00a0 You gather multiple independent sources and read them, then use this to write the story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[330,333,300],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","tag-wikimania","tag-wikinews","tag-wikipedia"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}