Wikinews talk:Writing a Photo essay

What to include

I think there should a real focus on keeping this to an absolute maximum of three printed pages. There's probably a need for Category:Photo essay (and associated work to identify the ones already done). The wikicode for a 'gallery' of pictures is pretty crappy, but there are several templates that can be used. It'd be good to identify all of those, and they may need {{documentation}} set up for them.

Points I see needed then are:

• Headline writing
• in-article templates ({{date}}, {{develop}}, {{review}}, {{source}})
• Put the photos in context, and clearly identify the focus is around a news event (5W & H - but not obliged to do three full paragraphs)
• Image credits

--Brian McNeil / ^talk 14:30, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

IMHO, Image Credits only if it is done by a non-WN photog. Also, don't require it to be done with {{image credit}} if all the images are done by the same photog - do it once somewhere else. I'd also love to see what other templates we could use, or try out. And as an FYI - I've got 2 events to test this on, possibly later today (the 10th) and another on the 20th. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 04:37, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Examples

• "Photoessay: The Idiotarod: When Good Shopping Carts Go Bad" — Wikinews, March 15, 2006
  • Comment Lot of text (something we don't want to insist on here). Good example of title (apart from the camel case).
• "Wikinews visits the 2008 Reno Air Races" — Wikinews, September 16, 2008
  • Comment I wrote/shot this one. You can see the original version that went up for review was much, much shorter. I got kicked back for WN:SG not hitting 3 para. --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 04:34, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
• "Fanime convention winds down in San Jose, California" — Wikinews, May 27, 2009
  • Comment This one I actually got into writing about, but another on the basic line of "lots of pictures" --ShakataGaNai ^{^_^} 04:34, 10 September 2009 (UTC)