Hilfe:Veröffentlichung describes how articles are published. There is no formal review procedure, but a two hour waiting period is required between the initial draft and the published article for other users to edit or raise concerns.
↑Reporter's notes may include images, audio, video, emails (need not be publicly shared, must be available to reviewer). Talk page original reporting section should make reference to other media or email.
↑Accreditation, issuing of @wikinewsie.org email, and access credentials to the site, has – in some circumstances – been extended to contributors on other-language projects where a review process is in active use and a corresponding accreditation request/approval process exists.
↑"Absolute" dates (eg: April 20, 2024) are considered 'encyclopedic' and on-project experience is such are jarring in the context of a news report. Relative dates encourage active voice, and are a common journalistic convention. Examples would be: 'yesterday', 'last Friday', 'this weekend'; more vague forward-looking references may be used – such as 'early next month'.
↑Full protection at seven days old instigated for multiple reasons: limits opportunities for vandalism; deter well-meaning - but contrary to policy - changes made with the benefit of hindsight; prevent/highlight removal of images from Commons (which may-well be suitable for local upload).
↑Sources are checked for verification, neutrality, and non-plagiarism, this requires significantly better understanding of sources than automatic translation provides.
↑AGF is judged overly idealistic, and counter to journalistic principles of "trust, but verify".
↑Content creators may not adopt Fair Use (-NC, -ND, GoL) for their own work; efforts should be made to obtain the most-liberal license terms with 3rd-party media.
↑The ideal is each key fact being verified from two independent sources; this frequently highlights conflicting figures (eg death tolls) and enables Wikinews reportage to be more-informative and accurate.
↑This includes, but is not limited to, avoiding plagiarism such as copied sentences with a few word changes and reordering; and, following a source's flow/order of presenting facts.
↑This constraint introduced to avoid issues of a single source, regardless of license, being liable to have non-obvious neutrality problems.
↑A native speaker, when asked about article quality, said the use Farsi was rather poor and looked as-if written by people taught the language whilst growing up outside the country. They observed numerous grammatical errors, which may suggest a non-thorough review process.