Shoichi
Welcome edit
Shoichi, 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! Brock contact... 06:33, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
ZH edit
Hello (er, well... Rico said that above - but anyway).
We could always do with help from people from non-English projects. Rico CC Shen is quite active here (User:BrockF5) and a lot of his work could do with copyediting to put a bit of polish on the English. Alternatively, you can work the other way and take stuff here and put it on zh.wikinews.org. We're a small community, something that has both advantages and disadvantages, but the thing to stress there is that we have a community. We prefer to call ourselves Wikinewsies, we even have http://www.wikinewsie.org with Foundation permission to use derivatives of the project logo on it.
Don't worry too much about feeling you're lazy in your contributions to the project, we can always do with more eyeballs on the lookout for spelling and grammatical errors. Don't get discouraged it you run into one of the oddities where we differ significantly from Wikipedia. News and encyclopedic content are so "worlds apart" that this is inevitable. --Brian McNeil / talk 06:44, 14 April 2008 (UTC)