Wikinews:Reporters' Workshop/London August 2012/Presentation notes
Planning to trial prezi.com – if can build most of the presentation within it.
- Introduction to Wikinews
- When founded, the 'grand idea'
- Project mission, early days, rise of original reporting
- Using a wiki for news
- MediaWiki sub-optimal for news, standardisation of article format, avoiding inline citations
- Social media integration
- Share the stories, copying from the BBC, 'push'
- How Flagged Revisions got us into Google News
- "Why aren't my articles available via Google news?", previously lost listing, anyone can publish?, publication policy and independence
- Article style
- insert-witty-quote-here
- The inverse-pyramid and active voice
- Don't bury the important bits, what do people best-remember? Origin of the style/terminology
- "Facts don't cease to be facts, ..."
- News is new, people don't buy stale bread
- Content guide
- "Learn the rules before you break them"
- How fair use/fair dealing differs from Wikipedia
- never from competing agencies, not constrained to "wait until someone is dead" to claim FU
- credit, always credit
- Video and audio
- Conversion a pain (but we're working on that)
- Original reporting
- "digging up the dirt"
- The policy in a nutshell
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- On-the-ground
- photographs (and the photo-essay), talking to J. Random Public, dealing with those in authority (eg emergency services), getting your name and face known
- Interviews
- Email (brief, in-depth, drawbacks), in-person, phone/skype, IRC, preparing questions (and discarding sensibly)