Event Spore
The Event Spore is a spore for hosting information on past, current and maybe also future(?) events, meant to parallel the bullet point items of wikipedia:Portal:Current events and the sort of microevents that would/could 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
- events organized with and for activists and movement
- including Wikimedia events like Wikipedia day, Wikidata, WM Commons birthdays ... and Wikispore Day.
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
- 03/2020: Event:International Women's Day 2020, Event:St. Patrick’s Day 2020
- 08/2020: Event:Green Academy (periodic int. political education event in Croatia)
- 0x/2020: —
- 12/2020: Event:World AIDS Day 2020
- 01/2021: Event:Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2021
- 0x/2021: —
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.