User:Brian McNeil/current Wikinews workflow

Introduction
Wikinews is the news-based sister to Wikipedia. In dealing with news, articles must be completed and published in a very short timeframe. The easiest articles for most contributors are synthesis articles, where Wikinews article aims to provide more complete, rounded, and NPOV-compliant coverage based on multiple mainstream sources.

Following the development of Extension:FlaggedRevs, and its deployment on the German Wikipedia, Wikinews requested the extension be installed and configured to allow enforcement of a peer-review process prior to publication of articles. This is covered in the reviewing policy. The gadget mentioned therein, Easy Peer Review (EzPR), aids a reviewer in completing a passing or failing review (in the latter case, an article is marked as "not ready" with a to-do list from the five criteria applied (Copyright, Newsworthiness, Verifiability, NPOV and Style).

Illustrated narrative
The initial creation of an article sees it tagged with the template {{develop}}, which, through use of a Javascript-handled button, may be moved to {{review}}. At this point, those who have the FlaggedRevisions reviewer permissions may access the EzPR gadget from the page options drop-down menu (just before the search box). A screenshot of EzPR in use is below: In addition to the drop-down options against each of the review criteria, there is a free-form text area into which a reviewer may place additional remarks. These need not be restricted to critique in failing an article, reviewers are encouraged to give positive feedback when a quality article passes review and is published.

The checkbox, "I have read all the important information on the talk page" is only displayed where the article's associated talk page is non-blank. Generally, this is due to the article failing a prior review; although, there may be comments from collaboration, or original reporting notes.