User talk:Robert Važan

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 01:17, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

How to make news writing easier
Hi Robert

I see you are suggesting to do this by writing shorter stories.

I am just wondering whether you think that it would be easier for people to write news if there were tools to handle the annoying wiki markup and requirements, such as


 * ask authors to confirm the date of the event to ensure it is not stale
 * prefill source templates
 * warn the users against copy pasting
 * assist authors with free/libre image search
 * assist authors with categorization
 * assist authors with article layout
 * inform authors of the need to follow up their edits and reviewer comments, or mark themselves as gone
 * near-instant feedback to their draft by engaging others at the time of creation (User:Gryllida/welcome a bit

If you find any of this useful, do you think it is enough to implement it at the wikinews website, or do you think it is also important to bring it to peoples' preferred platforms (social networks or email, their favourite news reader, etc)

Please let me know. Thanks

--Gryllida (talk) 00:33, 21 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi. Actually, my limited experience with editing long articles on Wikipedia is that the current Visual editor is a joy to use for long text with wikilinks and references. All you need to add a reference is to paste in a URL and the software does everything else (fetching title, recording date, ...). I have positive experience with specialized gadgets too, for example the one for merging Wikidata entries. So yes, tools can be quite useful, but no, they aren't the limiting factor here, because existing tools are already good enough. Also, tools are probably the wrong place to explain the rules. Prominently linked project pages serve that purpose better. Redistribution of Wikinews (social networks, email, ...) is a good idea, but there's currently little to redistribute. — Robert Važan (talk) 10:34, 21 June 2019 (UTC)