Wikinews:Education/Core topics
Wikinews Training
The Core
An introduction to Wikinews's policies and guidelines
This module is intended to provide an overview of Wikinews’s core policies and guidelines. You'll get to know a little about the basic processes for how Wikinews works.
By the end of this section, you should be able to answer:
- What are core policies and guidelines for getting articles published on Wikinews?
- How are copyright and plagiarism handled on Wikinews?
We have designed this module primarily for educators/instructors who are either new to Wikinews or have limited exposure to the Wikinews publishing standards. If you already have a firm grasp of Wikinews's core publishing guidelines, you can skip ahead:
- Module 3: Article writing (including information on training students)
- Module 4: Using Wikinews in your classroom.