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Assignment 1. Take a look at Wikipedia’s “In the News” section at Main Page. How does the community choose what news to feature? Look and comment at discussions at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates Which news do you support adding or removing? Make one or more comments (votes) for adding or removing news. (Before leaving a comment, make sure to read first the instructions on "Voicing an opinion on an item" at: Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#Voicing_an_opinion_on_an_item)
Bonus: Can you suggest a news piece to be added? (Section on "Nomination steps" Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#Nomination_steps)
Assignment 2: Is the Wikipedia news section global? Think about famous news related to Korea or China. Check the archive of the In the News section - was this incident/event mentioned? (section Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#Archives)
Assignment 3. Discussion question: do you think Wikipedia is a good news site?
Assignment 4. Discussion question: Compare‘In the News’boxes on front pages of English, Korean and Chinese Wikipedia. Are they different? How?
Assignment 5: Discussion question: Read about Wikinews. Why is this project not as famous as Wikipedia?