Event Spore
The Event Spore is a spore for current and also past events, meant to parallel the bullet point items of wikipedia:Portal:Current events and the sort of microevents that would typically be excluded from Wikipedia by the wikipedia:WP:NOTNEWS criteria.
Typical events included in the spore might be:
- governmental appointments and resignations
- controversial public statements
- electoral debates and forums
- international observances
- protests in particular localities
Monthly highlight collaborations, particularly suitable are international or national observances that are largely scheduled ahead of time:
- 11/2019: Event:Armistice Day 2019
- 12/2019: Event:World AIDS Day 2019
- 01/2020: Event:Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2020
- 02/2020: -
- 03/2020: Event:International Women's Day 2020
We have drafted this custom form for protest events, to create new Wikidata items to tie to Wikispore narrative content:
Unlike Wikinews, the intention is for perennial pages with in-depth description of events that occurred on specific days, as well as a review of wider media coverage, and not a news article published with a fixed dateline and final published form. Thus, the Event Spore can be linked to and expand on microevents that might be described in a Wikipedia article in only one or two lines.