Wikinews:Site notice of the week

See also Water cooler (proposals) for discussion.

On this page, you can nominate a link to be featured in MediaWiki:Sitenotice, the notice at the top of each Wikinews page, for a period of one week. The site notice is only shown to logged in contributors; anonymous users see MediaWiki:Anonnotice instead. This allows us to highlight current collaborations, contests, important policies, discussions, votes, and so forth. Simply add your nomination as a new section below, or add your comment in support or opposition. If there is consensus support for the link (or no objections) it will be added to the site notice and featured for one week. Nominations will be featured in the order in which they have been made, unless you specify otherwise (because the nomination is associated with a particular event or deadline) and there is support for special treatment.

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= Current nominations =

Featured article candidates
I'd like to highlight this for a week. I often write or talk about Wikinews and need a good list of our most exemplary work (so far I've been using my own list from the State of the Wikis, but they're out of date). I think this page is not very well known and featuring it could lead to more participation.--Eloquence 04:32, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes I agree with this. I tried to get that going for a little bit, but no-one voted at all for the things I nominated. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 00:50, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Oppose...for the moment. I am not really in favor of this...yet...I think if we pick and choose feature articles, we would in a sense be going through some kind formal editorial process. News changes everyday and some articles get written better than others on a daily basis. At the moment, this would require a good deal amount of work and constant 24/7 up to date article(s). I also think by picking and choosing, in this sense, would defeat the purpose of this Wiki and could drive some users away. This is not to say I am opposed to this in the future, and having a clear picture of what this would require. Jason Safoutin 01:08, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I disagree, I think this is more of a process for after the fact. Gives the author something to be proud about, and lets us show off what some of are best work is. This is not for the random article of the day that got written well, but more for the article of the month that got written great. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 01:45, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Would this be on the current featured template? or would a new one be created? I would sway more towards it if something like that were done. Jason Safoutin 01:59, 19 March 2006 (UTC)


 * This has nothing to do with the "featured story" on the Main Page. The goal is to identify some of the best work of Wikinews contributors in the past. I fail to see how doing so diminishes anyone's work anymore than choosing featured articles on Wikipedia diminishes the non-featured ones. After all, anyone can nominate any article to be featured; there's no upper limit. All you have to find is community consensus.--Eloquence 20:55, 19 March 2006 (UTC)


 * First off, this isn't an accepted practice. There are no objective guidelines. And it's not being very successful in encouraging good journalism. Second objection is we have no method of promoting featured articles if we had a reasonable practice; in short, what's the point? Until then, let's not not even consider adding this to SNOTW. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 19:30, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Bragging rights. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 22:09, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
 * ?? what does that mean? I should know what my own comment means, but yet it escapes me... Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 03:29, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Story propagation
Another page which has been forgotten - an attempt to more systematically submit Wikinews stories to other sites. Could do with some featuring.--Eloquence 05:38, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Support I was actually discussing something similar to that with MrM not too long ago. Jason Safoutin 00:58, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Support - I think this is something quite important that we should work towards - and it was/can be quite useful in gaining new contributors. Lyellin 18:02, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Spread Wikinews
Something we should all do... Dan100 (Talk) 21:36, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
 * -  Amgine | talk en.WN 07:29, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Audio Wikinews
We really need volunteers to work on this, especially producing daily news briefs for the podcast! Dan100 (Talk) 10:18, 5 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Support. Project can use some exposure.--Eloquence 14:14, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Extreme Unreasonably Strong Support Project is very cool and needs a boost. (man, I wish I had more time away from a phone to do it) irid:t 14:17, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Used Dan100 (Talk) 08:56, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Featured article candidates
We need more show-case FAs! Dan100 (Talk) 08:55, 10 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Still oppose this one. Non-standard, not ready for prime-time. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 07:33, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Support. Let's get this off the ground. --Deprifry|+T+ 09:38, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

See top&uarr; Bawolff ☺☻ 03:30, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

special:statistics
As we near 5000 articles, I think it'd be good to remind everyone how far we've came. Bawolff ☺☻ 20:44, 18 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Support, together with some other stats which really need to be updated, e.g. Awareness statistics.--Eloquence 09:52, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Interview of the month
Page on Meta many people might not be aware of, yet very important.--Eloquence 09:55, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

A nice cup of tea and a sit down
Feature as "Annoyed? Have a nice cup of tea ..". More a reminder than anything ;-).--Eloquence 09:57, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 03:31, 2 June 2006 (UTC)