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 Welcome! Thank you for joining Wikinews; we'd love for you to stick around and get more involved. To help you get started we have an essay that will guide you through the process of writing your first full article. There are many other things you can do on the project, but its lifeblood is new, current, stories written neutrally.
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Listed here are the official policies of the project, you may be referred to some of them if your early attempts at writing articles don't follow them. Don't let this discourage you, we all had to start somewhere.

The rules and guides laid out here are intended to keep content to high standards and meet certain rules the Wikimedia Foundation applies to all projects. It may seem like a lot to read, but you do not have to go through it all in one sitting, or know them all before you can start contributing.

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Wiki projects work because a sense of community forms around the project. Although writing news is far more individualistic than contributing to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, people often need minor help with things like spelling and copyediting. If a story isn't too old you might be able to expand it, or if it is disputed you may be able to find some more sources and rescue it before it is listed for deletion.

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Write your first article for Wikinews!

Use the following box to help you create your first article. Simply type in a title to your story and press "Create page". Then start typing text to your story into the new box that will come up. When you're done, press "save page". That's all there is to it!



It is recommended you read the article guide before starting. Also make sure to check the list of recently created articles to see if your story hasn't already been reported upon.


-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 01:43, 30 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

Indonesian submarine sinks along with crew of 53 edit

Can you please add image File:KRI Nanggala (402) in 2015.jpg to article? --Gryllida (talk) 01:21, 26 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Congratulations! Your article is published! Please go through the edit history to see how the article could have been improved! Keep up the good job!
•–• 18:06, 27 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Congratulations, Pizza0614. Well written. Thank you! Gryllida (talk) 06:47, 28 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

An award for you! edit

  The Order of the Modest Pencil


For getting your first article published!

Great work! Keep it up!--•–• 18:07, 27 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hi, there are some problems with the article. Can you please fix them quickly?
•–• 16:28, 28 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

User:Pizza0614/Ontario church holds large service defying province guidelines We usually don't allow failed articles to be kept on-wiki, since wikinews is not a web-host. Any good reason to keep it there?
•–• 04:13, 29 April 2021 (UTC)Reply
Ok. Just delete it Pizza0614 (talk) 15:04, 29 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Re your articles edit

Hi, Pizza0614. Just a note -- when you are writing a news article, please try writing at least three paras to meet the minimal length requirement. And please make sure to submit it for review when you as the author think it is ready. I as a reviewer can't start reviewing an article if it is not submitted for review. If you are facing problems with submitting the article for review, or how to write, let me know. I am here to help.
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I will be adding to them later. Pizza0614 (talk) 17:07, 1 May 2021 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for adding more to 45 crushed to death in stampede during Jewish festival. Could you please check the talk page review comments once, and fix the styling issue of the article and resubmit for review?
•–• 04:48, 2 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan complete troop withdrawal edit

There are two simple problems to this article.

  • In the lede, you need to specify wn:when the said event took place to establish if the article is new to be news. Can you please add that?
  • To meet the minimal length criteria, the article needs at least three paras with each having at least two sentences. Can you please add a couple more sentences to the article to pass the minimal length requirement?
    •–• 04:52, 5 May 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hello!! edit

You still around?--Bddpaux (talk) 16:06, 15 July 2021 (UTC)Reply

? Pizza0614 (talk) 22:15, 20 July 2021 (UTC)Reply

If you get a quick second........ edit

Could you jump over to Request for Permissions and vote on various items there, please?--Bddpaux (talk) 19:35, 24 July 2021 (UTC)Reply