User talk:Snaseraddeen

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 07:43, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Covering new scientific results on Wikinews
Hi! I saw you'd created an article about region-like particles. I wrote some comments there, but wanted to say things here, too, where I can phrase things more in terms of people writing things rather than in terms of the particular article.

Covering newly published scientific results is definitely something Wikinews can do. To make it work, though, it needs to be in the form of one of the kinds of news articles that Wikinews publishes. Your first try on the region-like particle thing came out kind of encyclopedic. The two main kinds of Wikinews articles are synthesis and original reporting, and each of these has been used successfully to cover new scientific results on Wikinews. (For a compact overview of the project, I recommend WN:Pillars of Wikinews writing.)


 * A synthesis article is about some specific event that happened within the past day or two &mdash; three at the very outside, by the time it's been written reviewed and published. For a new scientific result, the specific event would be an announcement or the public release of a scientific paper (usually these two things happen at the same time, so they're a single event).  We have a two-source rule for synthesis, calling for at least two mutually independent, trust-worthy sources corroborating the focal event.  There are usually some secondary sources that come out just after the publication itself, providing a bit of somewhat independent perspective on it.  It can be quite difficult to pull all that together fast enough (news coverage does tend to be about racing a deadline), but we've sometimes managed it.  Here's an example of a successful article of this kind:
 * Of cabbages and things: Dutch researchers study wasp hyperparasitoid
 * Alas, in the particular case of your region-like particles thing, the publication isn't recent enough.


 * Another &mdash; quite challenging, but if it works well, highly rewarding &mdash; approach is to contact a researcher involved in the result and ask for an interview. This requires planning things out carefully; OR requires really intensive documentation, a really successful interview needs really well-thought-out questions, and is best conducted once one has a bit of experience with Wikinews writing (gained through synthesis writing), and thus also accumulated reputation on Wikinews (on the philosophical underpinnings of that, see WN:Never assume). Here's a good example of a successful Wikinews article of this kind:
 * Wikinews interviews Dr. Michael Mazilu on creating world's fastest spinning manmade object

--Pi zero (talk) 11:58, 14 October 2015 (UTC)