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Getting started as a contributor
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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. Remember, you should enjoy contributing to the project. If you're really stuck come chat with the regulars. There's usually someone in chat who will be happy to help, but they may not respond instantly. |
The core policies
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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. There are always discussions going on about how the site could be improved, and your input is of value. Check the links here to see where you can give input to the running of the Wikinews project. |
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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!
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Your contributions edit
Hi. The article you've been working on, Ali Talkies, is encyclopedic — it's not about a current event. Also, it comes across as rather promotional. Those are both things not to do on Wikinews. At any admin's discretion, the article could be speedy-deleted for either of those two reasons. So, you probably shouldn't be continuing to put work into the article here; it has no future here, unless there's some specific event related to it that's happened within the past day or two (see WN:Newsworthiness). --Pi zero (talk) 12:14, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
I'm afraid this reads more-like a promotional piece than any sort of news report. On that basis, it is likely to end up deleted. The above template gives links to numerous policies and guidelines, but an article must have a specific focus, on a specific event, which has taken place recently. It must be of-interest to a broad audience, and written so that someone unfamiliar with the subject will not find it completely pointless and out-of-context. On that latter point, the subject tells me — and, I suspect 99%+ of our readers — absolutely nothing.
What you appear to be trying to write might be a press release, and we do not publish those. That is not a universally-accepted view. Many more-traditional publications blur the line between news and 'advertorial' such that this may not be apparent if you follow such. The issue therein lies with our non-negotiable neutral point of view policy. Similarly, any submission must be at-least close to the project's style guide. This is not remotely like that of Wikipedia, which seems to be where some of this material might be better-placed. --Brian McNeil / talk 12:15, 17 October 2014 (UTC)