User:ShakataGaNai/CC Salon Presentation
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What Is Wikinews?[edit]
Wikinews is the free news source written by you! Everything you read here is written by individuals just like yourself. You can edit any article — fix spelling mistakes, punctuation or grammar, correct mistakes or further expand the article!
What is Wikinews' Mission?[edit]
To cover news in a non-biased manner, to provide a platform for creating news that anyone can edit!
Stats on Wikinews[edit]
- Founded November 8, 2004
- 10k Articles in September 2007
- Over 13k Published Articles
- 48 Administrators
- ~100 Regularly active Users
- Over 700k edits
- 27 Featured Articles
- Wikinews In the News and Criticism of Wikinews
Topics to talk about[edit]
- The review proccess
- {{Review}}
- {{Peer reviewed}}
- copyright
- newsworthy
- verifiable
- npov
- style
- What makes us us wiki but still similar to traditional news
- No "By" Lines
- Collaboration
- IRC/Communication
- The google news adventure
- What they didn't like
- FlaggedRev
- The review system
- DPL's & Curid
- Access to large stock photography (Commons)
- Content copied by several other sites (e.g. MND)
Boasts[edit]
- Coordinated terrorist attack hits London
- Shimon Peres discusses the future of Israel
- Death of Nancy Benoit rumour posted on Wikipedia hours prior to body being found
- Wikinews international report: "Anonymous" holds anti-Scientology protests worldwide
Handout[edit]
- Enough of the day's print edition to go round.