User talk:Tommyv7326

-- Wikinews Welcome (talk) 05:35, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Thoughts on your user page
Hi! Was just looking at your user page. Love what you say about collaboration and open source. I had a couple of small thoughts, and figured I'd share them.
 * The project name is typeset as, rather than  . :-)
 * I get what you're saying about instant gratification and Wikipedia. More than just the fact that Wikipedia by policy instantly "publishes" edits.  Wikinews also has a significant initial learning curve, and even once you know what you're doing, publication takes some time because you have to wait for review (and worse, sometimes it doesn't happen in time, frustrating everyone).  On the other hand,
 * it's been remarked that writing an article here is technically much simpler than writing an article on Wikipedia; this was from someone with a lot of experience with meeting Wikipedia's Good Article and Featured Article criteria. It's also been remarked our publication criteria are roughly comparable to Wikipedia's GA criteria. Imagine trying to achieve GA status on Wikipedia within a few hours of creating the article, and it's clear why our criteria have to be streamlined. Also,
 * contributions to Wikinews, once made, stay put. Any contribution to Wikipedia is instantly visible but then has a ; if it isn't instantly reverted, it is slowly washed out by successive alterations, and that too can be frustrating.  Since a news article is a snapshot in time, it is protected under our archive policy, so contributions here accumulate rather than slowly disappearing.

--Pi zero (talk) 12:19, 6 June 2017 (UTC)