User:ShakataGaNai/CC Salon Presentation

What Is Wikinews?
Wikinews is the free news source written by you! Everything you read here is written by individuals just like yourself. You can edit any article — fix spelling mistakes, punctuation or grammar, correct mistakes or further expand the article!

What is Wikinews' Mission?
To cover news in a non-biased manner, to provide a platform for creating news that anyone can edit!

Stats on Wikinews

 * Founded November 8, 2004
 * 10k Articles in September 2007
 * Over 13k Published Articles
 * 48 Administrators
 * ~100 Regularly active Users
 * Over 700k edits
 * 27 Featured Articles
 * Wikinews In the News and Criticism of Wikinews

Topics to talk about

 * The review proccess
 * Review
 * Peer reviewed
 * copyright
 * newsworthy
 * verifiable
 * npov
 * style
 * What makes us us wiki but still similar to traditional news
 * No "By" Lines
 * Collaboration
 * IRC/Communication
 * The google news adventure
 * What they didn't like
 * FlaggedRev
 * The review system
 * DPL's & Curid
 * Access to large stock photography (Commons)
 * Content copied by several other sites (e.g. MND)

Boasts

 * Coordinated terrorist attack hits London
 * Shimon Peres discusses the future of Israel
 * Death of Nancy Benoit rumour posted on Wikipedia hours prior to body being found
 * Wikinews international report: "Anonymous" holds anti-Scientology protests worldwide

Handout

 * Enough of the day's print edition to go round.