On 20 March 2012 23:42, Laura Hale <la...@fanhistory.com> wrote: > woot woot. :D There have been two news stories about women on the front > page of Wikinews in the past two days. (Both are sport stories about > softball.) It is nice to see front page coverage for them. > > If you haven't written for Wikinews, I highly encourage you to do so. The > style guide can be found at http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Style_guide > and if you follow the directions, it is pretty easy to get your article > published, have it appear in Google News searchers and appear on the front > page. I wrote up my first editing experience at > http://editors.wikinewsie.org/2012/03/writing-for-wikinews-for-the-first-time/laura-on-mainpage/ > . I found the process much easier, especially for original research, than > English Wikipedia. The expectations are very clear. There is a review > process to let you know issues. The people helping have been fantastic and > are pretty accessible for asking questions. If you do an interview with > some one or some other original reporting, you can use the source you create > for Wikipedia as an article source. (Though sadly, not for notability.) > > It would be great to see a wider variety of women's topics covered on > wikinews. :) >
On the Wikinews front, I'd like to make an offer to any female editors: I'm an experienced Wikinews editor, and have both reviewer rights and adminship on there. If you have any questions about Wikinews that you want to ask off-wiki and off-list, feel free to email me and I'll do my best to answer them. If you've got any questions about it on-list, I can also have a shot at answering. Finally, if you submit something to Wikinews and it doesn't get reviewed quickly, feel free to email me and I'll try and review them (subject to being awake, London-time). Just to give some idea of what is possible on Wikinews, I wrote the following four articles. One is a featured article, another is an interview with Sue Gardner, and two others are original reporting from events. https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/UK_Parliament_to_vote_on_tuition_fee_rise_on_Thursday https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Knight_Foundation_and_Mozilla_send_geeks_into_newsrooms https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/%27Stop_being_so_damn_respectful%27_say_free_speech_supporters_in_London https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_interviews_Sue_Gardner_on_Wikipedia_blackout If you are going to an event, a protest, or pretty much anything interesting and newsy, please, grab a camera, grab a notebook, interview, photograph, video and help improve Wikinews. -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
