OpenNewsMap

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🚀 Report a news at OpenNewsMap

By completing this form, you agree to licence your text under the following licence: [[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en|CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International]].

<form>
action   template userstpl @@Headline:@@

fieldset "🚀 Headline"
textbox "Headline"

fieldset "📝 Report" "Headline"
static "Aim for around one to three paragraphs, or more; do not copy paste from external sources."
textarea "News report" x33
Textarea "Sources" "=  * URL1
  * URL2" x6
yesno "Done"

fieldset "📍 Metadata" "Done"
static "Include data about location and topic where the event happened."
select "Region tag" "Americas|Europe|Asia|Africa|Oceania|MiddleEast|Antarctica"
select "Topic tag" "CrimeAndLaw|CultureAndEntertainment|DisastersAndAccidents|EconomyAndBusiness|Education|Environment|Health|Obituaries|PoliticsAndConflicts|ScienceAndTechnology|Sports|Wackynews|Weather"
textbox Latitude "=50.3"
textbox Longitude "=130.0"
textbox Placename "=Bradford University"
textbox Country "=Egypt"

fieldset "Create the page"
submit "✅️ Add news report"
</form>

Longer version:

Writing a news report is easy -- anyone can do it! Write below. Do not worry about completing all fields, the page can be completed by another volunteer. Do not forget to Submit. :-)

<form>
action   template userstpl @@Headline:@@

Fieldset "🗓 Event date"
yesno "Event date is CURRENT (less than three days ago)"

fieldset "🚀 Headline"
textarea "Headline:" "=Miles find Jobby in UK" "x1"
yesno "sentence case"
yesno "active voice"
yesno "present tense"
yesno "⏭️ Proceed to 📝 news text"

fieldset "📝 Report" "⏭️ Proceed to 📝 news text"
static "Aim for around one to three paragraphs, or more; do not copy paste from external sources."
textarea "News report:" "=On April 28, firefighters found a lost pup in their truck at 7am in the morning."
yesno "5W (Who, What, Where, When, Why How) in first paragraph"
yesno "past tense"
yesno "active voice"
yesno "no plagiarism"
yesno "not an opinion piece; includes angles from various parties, with attribution"
yesno "⏭️ Proceed to 🔍 sources"

fieldset "🔍 Sources" "⏭️ Proceed to 🔍 sources"
static "Without at least two sources, the news report will be challenging to verify. It is necessary to include at least two independent sources."
Textarea "Sources" "=  * URL1
  * URL2"
yesno "includes at least two sources (URLs or other)"
yesno "date and publisher name and title are specified for each source"
yesno "⏭️ Proceed to 📍 Metadata"

fieldset "📍 Metadata" "⏭️ Proceed to 📍 Metadata"
static "Include data about location and topic where the event happened."
select "Region tag" "Americas|Europe|Asia|Africa|Oceania|MiddleEast|Antarctica"
select "Topic tag" "CrimeAndLaw|CultureAndEntertainment|DisastersAndAccidents|EconomyAndBusiness|Education|Environment|Health|Obituaries|PoliticsAndConflicts|ScienceAndTechnology|Sports|Wackynews|Weather"
textbox Latitude "=50.3"
textbox Longitude "=130.0"
textbox Placename "=Bradford University"
textbox Country "=California"
yesno "⏭️ Proceed to 🪧 Procedure"

fieldset "🪧 Procedure" "⏭️ Proceed to 🪧 Procedure"
yesno "I understand the page will be subject to peer review, and the text may be changed."
yesno "I joined live chat, to coordinate editing with other users."

fieldset "Create the page"
submit "✅️ Add news report"
</form>

See also: [[onm:doc:report checklist]]