User talk:Mr vili

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-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 07:46, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

New secessionist group forms in Australia

Hi. I've looked this over and composed a set of review comments. --Pi zero (talk) 21:06, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Interesting story. I would be greatly interested to know why this group is being formed.

Also, since the group was created a while ago, what is the recent event here? I can see "The organisation launched its own news publication on the 8th of February", but this comes off weirdly without knowledge of when the group has been formed. Why did they launch its news publication specifically now?

Pi zero appears to be questioning "relevance" so I would suggest to find events which have a bigger impact than this. When this occurs, one of the symptoms of larger impact is coverage in major mass media outlets, or a large number of people participating or affected by the event.

If there has been no recent event with high impact, Wikiversity's original research venue may be of interest instead. Gryllida (talk) 20:03, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

@Gryllida: Yeah, that's what I was unsure about. I wasn't sure how to make it into something related to recent news when they have been around for a few months. I just thought it was newsworthy because of its novelty. I guess they would need to launch an important part of their government to be considered newsworthy DominusVilicus (talk) 01:09, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

It does seem potentially interesting. As Gryllida says, one would like to know why, and it would really help if something happens with a bigger impact. Having various social media pages, though it may cause us to ask whether there is a news story here, is not in itself news-relevant.

Re timeliness, we're somewhat limited because you don't have an accumulated reputation at en.wn as a foundation for original reporting (OR). Supposing we could find a way around that problem, there are ways for OR to achieve freshness on its own — but the why and impact concerns would still apply. --Pi zero (talk) 03:02, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Greetings

Hi DominusVilicus

How are you?

That new secessionist groups thing didn't work out, but you're still reading news, right?

• Perhaps if you have interesting news to share, without committing to writing a complete article? If the event is sufficiently recent (i.e. today or yesterday), Wikinews:Requested articles can be a good venue for this.
• Or you can just continue to create full articles, like you did before, and volunteers would keep trying to help you! This would be a bit more difficult, but if you are committed to it, this could help you with your next story; the way you'd write it would improve every time.

Are you a programmer? If so, what programming languages do you know?

Do you speak a second language?

Many thanks. --Gryllida (talk) 00:21, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

• Hey Gryllida, I would still like to share news and contribute to WikiNews, I have been keeping an eye on recent events. I am indeed a programmer. I can code in VueJS, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Node.JS, PHP and a bit of C#, what makes you ask? I do speak a second language, but I'm not fluent enough in it to write news. I could help translate some things perhaps. I can read and speak Albanian, but not so great at writing it. DominusVilicus (talk) 03:37, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your response.

Writing-wise, what would you prefer of the options which I listed above?

Programming-wise, growth of Wikinews has been somewhat hindered by lack of intuitive software for such mundane tasks as article creation, plagiarism check, and article review. Pi zero is working out a wiki markup based wizard for this at Help:Dialog. At some point I brainstormed and came up with a long list of tasks, at this page: User:Gryllida/Tasks. The first tools from this list that I was able to implement are notifications delivery and add-ons for Firefox which make it easier to work with sources (list (addons.mozilla.org)). Do you have an interest in any of these tasks? Or perhaps something else that you would like to have?

Also please note live chat at freenode (w:freenode), where groups exist for various things, such as

• #css ^{live connect}
• #html ^{live connect}
• and finally of course #wikinews ^{live connect}

An app, such as Quassel IRC or Hexchat, can be used to access these live chat groups. Perhaps you might be interested in this, if not merely for news writing, but also for programming and meeting new people in that area.

Regards, -- Gryllida (talk) 04:07, 7 April 2020 (UTC)