Wikinews:Accreditation requests/Gryllida
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- Closed as successful. ---Pi zero (talk) 00:11, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
- Name: Svetlana Tkachenko
- Location: Australia
- Areas of interest: Natural sciences, ecology, environment, local news.
- Reason: During the last round of Paralympic articles, I realised that help with reviews needs access to scoop; this is what prompted me to look into requesting accreditation. I'm chasing access to the internal accredited reporters e-mail medium for reviewing OR articles submissions. I could use the Wikinewsie e-mail for exclusive interviews to increase the rate of responsive interviewees with, as my own practice shows as well, "many attempts to obtain comment or interviews failing because of Hotmail or Gmail addresses being ignored" --wikinewsie.org homepage.
- Accomplishments: Recently I am doing a little original reporting, mostly exclusive interviews, as listed and tagged on my user page.
- Wikinews interviews British sensory biologist Dominic Clarke about floral electric fields and bees 2013-02-24 (Original Reporting - exclusive interview)
- Wikinews interviews DuckDuckGo, Opera, Mozilla, Wikimedia about DoNotTrack feature 2013-02-05 (Original Reporting - exclusive interview)
- Australian Manns Mitre 10 hardware store closes after rent dispute 2013-01-27 (Original Reporting - first-hand journalism)
- Wikinews interviews Aurélien Miralles about Sirenoscincus mobydick species discovery 2013-01-24 (Original Reporting - exclusive interview)
- Wikinews interviews Spanish evolutionary biologist Francisco G. Gonzálvez 2012-12-19 (Original Reporting - exclusive interview)
Other than that, an education in the area of sciences (computer science and natural sciences) in a rural university and a few small maintained open-source projects (a mediawiki bot, a Wikinews statistics website, JS patches or add-ons for Mozilla applications, mobile things).
Comments
[edit]- I'm not being snarky here (I promise, I'm not) but I hear alot of people prattle on about how this bit or access to that bit yada-yada-yada will open up this door, that door or the other door. Now, I can't argue what a person says they experienced first-hand (especially so, if I wasn't there when whatever supposedly happened, happened), but I've ground it out in the dirt getting my OR material. There's rarely a shortage of people who want to talk about something that's newsworthy and a little old-school reporter work will often reveal a nice little stable of folks willing to chat. Big events? OK, that's cool.....I can guess they want to see some kind of credential or whatever, and I made myself up an accredited reporters' badge (after receiving my accreditation here) for just such needs. I suppose that everytime I hear this "argument" from someone, the word SELFISH creeps up in my mind (and, admittedly, that's a bit harsh on my part, I mean.....we're all here because being here brings us some form of gratification, doesn't it?). But, I think of it like this: the news is happening out there. Watch for it. Sniff the air for it. Listen for it. You'll find it. You don't need to be granted some Super-sleuth decoder ring to be a friggin' citizen journalist, man.....just go get the story for cripes sake. People will respond to you via a homing pigeon if they want to talk, and have something worth discussing. Oh, and by the way.....I'll vote 'yes' for this person. --Bddpaux (talk) 19:03, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Votes
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Support Good track record of producing quality OR interviews. --LauraHale (talk) 11:03, 25 March 2013 (UTC)- Support Good OR, real commitment to the project. Can't think of a single reason not to support. --Pi zero (talk) 13:00, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
- Support Same reasons as Pi zero; xe is a committed contributor. --Brian McNeil / talk 23:31, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
- Support Cannot get enough people like this. Hawkeye7 (talk) 21:08, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
- Support Dedicated contributor. --Patrick M (TUFKAAP) (talk) 00:10, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
- Strong support, someone give me a shout when email et-al needs issued. --Brian McNeil / talk 18:42, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
- Support lots of great OR --Cspurrier (talk) 19:34, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
- Support -- CalF (talk) 22:37, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
- Support Raystorm (talk) 10:28, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
- Support Sure, I just hope the commitment lasts. --Bddpaux (talk) 19:06, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
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