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Wikinews:Newsroom

From Wikinews, the free news source you can write!

Welcome to the hub of the Wikinews community. Begun in November 2004, we have so far written 3,071 articles. You can and create articles on Wikinews right now, or just play around in the sandbox. Remember you can always talk live to other Wikinewsies on Wikinews IRC.

Please feel free to post comments and questions at the Water cooler. If you haven't done so already, you may want to create an account .

Policies
Directory
FAQ

Tasks

These article tasks could use your hand:

Update or replace the Main Page lead story
Make sure new stories listed on today's new articles page have been listed on the correct region or topic pages
Expand or copy- one of the almost-complete stories with a final polish - then move it to Latest news
Bring an abandoned article back to life by completing what another wikinewsie could not finish
an article under dispute to bring it up to Wikinews standards
Try implementing one of the great ideas the community has come up with, but haven't yet figured out how to do!
Review the Accration requests page and vote on outstanding requests.

Policy polls

Help Wikinews develop its official policy and procedures and set its future look and feel by voting in the following pools:

Open polls

none at the moment

Closed polls

Polls ended February 20, 2005:

Should Wikinews have crosswords? Wikinews:Crossword poll

Polls ended January 20, 2005:

Should British or American-style English be used in Wikinews, or a combination of both? – Wikinews:English spelling poll
How should headlines be capitalized? – Wikinews:Capitalization poll
Should Wikinews allow opinion columns? – Wikinews:Opinion articles poll
What should the function of the Main Page be and what should it include? – Wikinews:Main Page poll

WikiBureaus

Wikinews regional bureaus

Africa
Asia
Europe
Middle East
Latin America
North America

USA
Canada

Oceania
South America

Tip of the day

How to link to Wikipedia

To link to our sister project Wikipedia, simply type the following: [[w:WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE NAME|]] or [[w:WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE NAME|New Name]] to change the name of the link.

About Wikinews

New user information

Getting started – Help

Frequently asked questions

FAQ list – What Wikinews is – What Wikinews is not

Ways to communicate

Water cooler – Discussion pages – lists – IRC chat
IM and quick contacts to Wikinewsies

Community information

About Wikinews – About Wikimedia – How to start a Wikinews in another language – Donations

Common procedures

Deleting a page – Administrator nominations – Reporter Credentials

Help using Mediawiki

User's Guide – Table format – TeX, math and formulae – Images and embedding

Account maintenance

Logging in – User preferences

Wikinews reporter resources

Policies

Neutral point of view – Writing style guide – Writing content guide

Resources

Wikinews:Reporter's tools – Wikinews:Reference desk – News sources on wikipedia – Wikinews:Template messages – Special pages

Projects

Welcommittee – Writing contest – Country of the Week – Story preparation

Technical information

The Mediawiki software – Requests and bug reports – Browser notes – User styles – Multimedia – Bots

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