Wikinews:Upcoming events

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This page centralizes information about upgoing events or invitations from third parties. Wikinews users are encouraged to cover them. Events are be sorted geographically

Geographical areas

Possible newsworthy events which may require coverage are presently listed by continent plus a few sub-continents. As usage of this service expands further regional splits will be implemented.

	View listed upcoming events in Africa	Add a new upcoming event	Add with template (advanced)
	View listed upcoming events in Asia	Add a new upcoming event	Add with template (advanced)
	View listed upcoming events in Central America	Add a new upcoming event	Add with template (advanced)
	View listed upcoming events in Europe	Add a new upcoming event	Add with template (advanced)
	View listed upcoming events in the Middle East	Add a new upcoming event	Add with template (advanced)
	View listed upcoming events in North America	Add a new upcoming event	Add with template (advanced)
	View listed upcoming events in Oceania	Add a new upcoming event	Add with template (advanced)
	View listed upcoming events in South America	Add a new upcoming event	Add with template (advanced)
	View listed upcoming events in all regions	Please add to the individual continents

These subpages could also be added in the design of relevant portals.

Syntax

It is better to use Template:Upcoming event to format your events.

{{Upcoming event
|title=
|city=
|country=
|day=(two-digit number)
|month=(two-digit number)
|year=(four-digit number)
|description=
|contact=
|addedby=~~~~
|coveredby=
}}

Example

(Paris, France) Eiffel tower to be painted in yellow

Date: 2009-07-10

Description: The French President has decided to have the Eiffel tower painted in yellow, because this is the favorite colour of his dog Kittie (see the official announcement). The painting is scheduled at 8:00 a.m. as the President gets up early.

Contact:

Added by: guillom 14:25, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Covered by: TinkerSmurf

Other ideas

Calendar

A calendar-like layout could be very useful to display such information. There would be a calendar per region.

List of MediaWiki calendar extensions:

• mw:Extension:Calendar (Cdamian)
• mw:Extension:Calendar
• mw:Extension:Calendar (Barrylb)
• mw:Extension:Calendar (Shane)
• mw:Extension:Calendar (Shane) extended
• mw:Extension:SpecialCalendar
• mw:Extension:Simple Calendar
• mw:User:Hex2bit/Calendar

We might be able to do that with fancy templates somehow (hard, but possible I think). Bawolff ☺☻ 22:06, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

That would be good for us internally, but that seems useless for outsiders to add to. -- Zanimum 14:30, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

RSS feeds

RSS feeds for each region could be useful both for Wikinews users and other journalists.

Well we have the crappy history feed. It doesn't format nicely, but it gets the needed info through: http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Wikinews:Upcoming_events/North_America&action=history&feed=rss Bawolff ☺☻ 22:07, 18 May 2007 (UTC)