The Wikinewsie Group/Local Wikinews policies
Appearance
Language | Original reporting | Accreditation | Relative date use | Archival policies | Reviewing | Never assume / AGF / Interaction | Local file upload policy | Synthesis | Byline | Republished content |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Articles need to be verifiable based on author notes[1]. | Demonstrate commitment to values, be a Wikimedian in good standing, have contributed substantially to Wikinews articles. Handled by en.wn[2]. |
Used in text. Not used in sources or dateline[3]. | Twenty-four hours after publication, major fixes require use of a correction notice. After seven days, articles are locked from editing[4]. | Rigorous source-checking with good understanding of sources language(s). Reviewers limited to article edits small enough to avoid becoming a notable contributor.[5] | Relatively recent as explicit guideline; pragmatic underpinning of community interactions and reviewing[6]. | Local upload enabled for Fair use; media from 'competing' publishers prohibited. Copywritten publicity shots, screenshots, CC-BY-NC and GoL allowed[7]. | Require at least two sources from other news organizations[8]. Must present this content in new way/perspective while meeting publishing guidelines[9]. | Reporters are not credited as the writers by name on the article. Reporters may add their work to a category that contains their own work. | Third-party content not republished; all content requires multiple independent sources, and subjected to local review process[10]. | |
No policy page of either Assume Good Faith or never assume. | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | |||||||||
Принципи и политика на акредитиране. | No policy page of either assume good faith or never assume. | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | ||||||||
Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | ||||||||||
No policy page of either assume good faith or never assume. | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | |||||||||
Reporters are credited in the footer. These articles are not sorted by category where you can find all the contributions by a reporter. | ||||||||||
Originäre Berichterstattung | No protection is used for older articles, but a list by month and year of articles is kept using the DynamicPageList feature. | 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. | Assume Good Faith policy exists on the project. | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | ||||||
No policy page of either assume good faith or never assume. | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | |||||||||
No policy page of either assume good faith or never assume. | Authors get a byline in the footer. | |||||||||
Reportajes originales | Contribute 10 original reports, edit 100 news articles, demonstrate understanding of key policies including NPOV. Handled locally on es.wn. | Archivado de artículos. | Wikinoticias:Revisión de artículos | No policy page of either assume good faith or never assume. | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | |||||
ویکیخبر:خبر_دست_اول | Not vigorous. Project mainly maintained by people outside Iran[11]. | Appears to have adopted a form of AGF. | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | |||||||
Oma raportointi is listed as a policy page. | Assume Good Faith is listed as a policy page. | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | ||||||||
Reportage original | Demonstrate commitment to values, be a Wikimedian in good standing, have contributed substantially to Wikinews articles. Handled by en.wn. |
Content always freely editable. No archival. | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | Whole articles or parts of articles republished from articles from sources like Voice of America. This is indicated in a template on the page. | ||||||
ויקיחדשות:דיווח_מקורי | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | |||||||||
Notizie originali | Convenzioni di archiviazione. | No policy page of either assume good faith or never assume. | Synthesis reporting includes Wikipedia style footnotes to sources used in the article text, in addition to a separate list of sources. | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | ||||||
ウィキニュース: 独自の取材 | ウィキニュース:査読 | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | ||||||||
위키뉴스:단독 보도 | 위키뉴스:지난 기사 보존하기 | Local upload enabled, but no fair use. | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | |||||||
Originele reportage | Content always freely editable. No archival. | Each user can customize text after publication. No reviewing. | Wikimedia Commons except for certain files. | Authors of a news article are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. Exception for opinions and original reports: place your name or a pseudonym at the bottom of the text. | Press releases or news articles with free license with interesting content can be republished on the project. | |||||
Først.-nn | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | |||||||||
Materiał autorski | Reporters are credited as authors on the bottom of the page in an infobox on the article. | |||||||||
Reportagens originais | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | Content is republished in whole or in part from other sites including Brazil Agency. | ||||||||
Condiţii de arhivare. (Sporadic enforcement as of 2020.) | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | |||||||||
OR is not verified. | Accredication is not currently used. | Relative dates same as at en, | Reviewing same as at en (except admins can self-publish). | AGF/NA is absent at this scale, they look at context, | Synthesis is lax and can work as a c/p from one free external source without requirement of two sources. | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | Republishes third party content. | |||
Articles are archived and are not editable after a certain date. | Content is translated republished from other Wikinews projects. It is credited as republishing from that language. | |||||||||
Оригинални прилог | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | The project used to allow republishing but this practice was discontinued in mid-2013. | ||||||||
No policy page of either assume good faith or never assume. | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | |||||||||
This project is currently in Incubator. No recent articles published. | ||||||||||
Özgün haber | Arşivleme politikası. | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. | ||||||||
Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. Articles that were published originally by another site are credited in a footer. | Articles are republished in whole or part from other sites including Tyzhden.ua. | |||||||||
原创报导 | 存檔常規. Articles are archived after a certain period to prevent editing. | Authors are not credited with a byline. Their articles are not in categories based on the reporter. |
|
Wikinews |
Policy |
Local policies |
Accreditation |
Coordination |
Forum |
IRC |
Appearance |
Wikinews.org template |
Wikinews on Commons |
Launching |
Language proposal policy |
Requests for new languages |
Notes
[edit]- ↑ 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: October 18, 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.