User:Lyellin~enwikinews/Personal Challenge

On Hold till after Finals calm down

Page for my personal challenge that I am issuing myself.

Every so often I come back from a school induced wikibreak to write articles for Wikinews. I'm a news junkie, and I like the way wikinews is set up to cover things. It doesn't seem to be working as well. Or, at the least, it seems to be floundering a bit. My personal committment to fix this will focus on a challenge I am issuing to myself.

My Issues

 * 1) Article production seems to be way down for the amount of users we have. Instead of writing, we are arguing on talk pages and getting angry at each other.
 * 2) Article Collaboration is way down. Instead of editors working together to ensure that we have good, solid articles written and published, we are basically writing a story, claiming ownership, and publishing near to immediatly.
 * 3) There are constant fights on articles, with rather biased crowds claiming that they see biases in articles - tagging them, attacking them, deleting things, without actually trying to improve the article. This has happened from multiple people, but in each instance tensions rise and collaboration falls.
 * 4) Due to the above, the quality of the articles and wikinews in general has dropped.
 * 5) Also due to the above, the sense of community in wikinews has died.

The Terms

 * I will write at least one article a day.
 * I will collaborate and significantly comment on or edit one article a day.
 * If I miss a day, I will be able to make that up by writing or working on two articles another day.
 * I will actively work to encourage others to do the same.

Articles written - 7 days behind

 * March 30th: Luxembourg, India spar over Arcelor takeover bid
 * March 31st: Faust seeks Murphy disqualification in PA Congressional primary
 * April 3rd: Judge throws out petition case against Patrick Murphy
 * April 4th: University of Florida wins NCAA basketball championship
 * April 4th: Berlusconi in trouble over use of bad word - Make up for April 1st
 * April 5th: Apple unveils "Boot Camp"; allows Windows to work on Macs
 * April 6th: Mckinney apologizes for confrontation with security guard
 * April 10th: NASA plans to send probe into Moon's surface

Articles collaborated - 7 days behind

 * March 30th: First Brazilian astronaut accompanies ISS replacements
 * March 31st: Man receives 30 years in prison for plotting Bush assassination - expanded, date bumped, and published it out of developing.
 * April 4th: TV stations are watching the flood in Dresden - Rewrite for English, publish, still needs more work, but OR reporting from DE wikinews.
 * April 4th: Collyer brothers to bid for Everton F.C.? - Make up for April 1. Rewording.
 * April 5th: Homeland Security spokesman arrested for trying to seduce a minor - Added a paragraph to get past brief stage, published.
 * April 6th: Libby says Bush authorized NIE leaks - greatly expanded

Other Users matching this challenge

 * MrMiscellanious - Full matching
 * Neutralizer - 2 new articles a week, collaborating on one a day.
 * Borofkin - Starting Monday, April 3rd