Flamingspinach

Welcome

Flamingspinach, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these!

Wikinews:Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
Wikinews:Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced

Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews:

Wikinews:Introduction - overview of the site
Wikinews:Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
Wikinews:Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
Wikinews:Style guide - how articles should look before publishing
Wikinews:Contents - the contents page.

There are always things to do on Wikinews:

Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
The front page lead articles often need updating
Developing stories need finishing and publishing
Discussions need your input
Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
And of course, stories need writing!

By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes (~~~~), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome!

(glad to see you move from IRC to here!) -- IlyaHaykinson 09:08, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hehe, thanks! :) I was already on Wikipedia, but not here yet. Just out of curiousity, though... are the Wikimedia sister sites very connected to each other in terms of userbase? Would you consider someone who is registered at Wikipedia but not Wikinews closer to a full Wikinews membership than someone who is not registered at any Wikimedia site? — flamingspinach | (talk) 01:42, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Good question — I'm not sure! I would say in general people with Wikipedia experience have a better handle on the technical side of working at Wikinews, but that's not something that's very hard to learn here either. -- IlyaHaykinson 04:53, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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