User:Pi zero/Archives/header

Wikinews archive — Welcome

A collection of about 21,830 individual snapshots in time. History preserved under our archive policy; written by Wikinewsies over a span of more than twenty years, dedicated to our fusion of journalistic and wiki values: Neutrally report objective facts, and get it right before publishing. Write everything without copying, and make it all freely available permanently — no pay-to-read archives here. On this page you'll find a high viewing platform, from which you can see our whole archive spread out below: topics — places — people — dates — article types — combined searches our corrections department — because after we've done all we can to get it right, it's a point of pride that we own up to our mistakes. corrections our curation department, coordinating maintenance tasks on the collection. curation

Documentation

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Usage

This template provides the header for User:Pi zero/Archives. Its design functions, to be realized highly compactly, include:

• Explain why a free news archive is important. (Note allusions to snapshots in time, neutrality, objectivity, accuracy, copyright, free-to-read.)
• Explain why they're protected and how to request changes. (Note link to archive policy, prominent featuring of corrections section.)
• Provide basic stats on the size of the archive. (Note number of articles, number of years.)
• Provide a table-of-contents/guide to the rest of the page.

See also

• {{User:Pi zero/Archives/header/years}}, a subtemplate converting number of years into words.
• {{User:Pi zero/Archives/on this day}}, which is also part of the archives page front matter.