Wikinews talk:Writing a Photo essay

What to include
I think there should a real focus on keeping this to an absolute maximum of three printed pages. There's probably a need for Category:Photo essay (and associated work to identify the ones already done). The wikicode for a 'gallery' of pictures is pretty crappy, but there are several templates that can be used. It'd be good to identify all of those, and they may need documentation set up for them.

Points I see needed then are:
 * Headline writing
 * in-article templates (date, develop, review, source)
 * Put the photos in context, and clearly identify the focus is around a news event (5W & H - but not obliged to do three full paragraphs)
 * Image credits

--Brian McNeil / talk 14:30, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
 * IMHO, Image Credits only if it is done by a non-WN photog. Also, don't require it to be done with image credit if all the images are done by the same photog - do it once somewhere else. I'd also love to see what other templates we could use, or try out.  And as an FYI - I've got 2 events to test this on, possibly later today (the 10th) and another on the 20th. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 04:37, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Examples

 * Lot of text (something we don't want to insist on here). Good example of title (apart from the camel case).
 * I wrote/shot this one. You can see the original version that went up for review was much, much shorter.  I got kicked back for WN:SG not hitting 3 para. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 04:34, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * This one I actually got into writing about, but another on the basic line of "lots of pictures" -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 04:34, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I wrote/shot this one. You can see the original version that went up for review was much, much shorter.  I got kicked back for WN:SG not hitting 3 para. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 04:34, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * This one I actually got into writing about, but another on the basic line of "lots of pictures" -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 04:34, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * This one I actually got into writing about, but another on the basic line of "lots of pictures" -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 04:34, 10 September 2009 (UTC)