How the Skyluma Journal works: source first, publication after review

The Skyluma Journal exists so important skydiving information does not end as a context-free social post or an automatic translation. The system can collect candidates, but automation has no authority to publish on its own.

The source stays visible

Each story shows the organisation, document or announcement title, publication date and direct link. We prefer federations, membership bodies, manufacturers, event organisers and regulatory documents. A social post can trigger research, but it is not enough on its own for a consequential claim.

From candidate to publication

Every story goes through the same stages. It starts as a candidate: a subject with a named source that someone, or something, judged worth checking. It then becomes a draft, which the desk writes and revises. Next comes review, in which a person checks the text against the source. Only after that can a story be scheduled or published.

The order cannot be skipped. A draft edited after review goes back to being a draft and has to be reviewed again, and nobody but an administrator can change a published story. Every save is kept in the version history.

Translation must preserve scope

Copy is edited to read naturally while organisations, dates, figures and jurisdiction remain faithful to the source. A USPA rule is labelled as such rather than presented as a Polish requirement. A manufacturer bulletin links to the full document rather than pretending a news article is a service instruction.

Risk determines review depth

Each story is given one of three risk levels: low, medium or high. A competition result or an event preview is usually low. Training changes are medium, because they are easy to read as instructions. Accidents, equipment bulletins and regulation are high.

• sport reporting needs a confirmed result or organiser statement
• training stories separate explanation from operational instruction
• safety and equipment reporting requires primary material and a clear limitation
• publication always requires a conscious human decision

Three languages, no pretending

The journal is written first in Polish, then in English and Ukrainian. A story appears in a language only once someone has written and checked it in that language. We do not substitute the Polish text where a Ukrainian one is missing, so the list of stories in one language is sometimes shorter than in another. We think that is more honest than a story in a language the reader did not choose.

Covers

Every story has its own cover and none is used twice. AI-generated artwork says so in a label on the image. A photograph from the Skyluma archive that does not show the event described is captioned as illustrative.

The goal is not the largest number of headlines. It is a regular, useful view of developments in sport, training, equipment and drop-zone culture, written clearly without manufacturing drama that the source does not contain. The full rules are in the editorial standard, which the byline on every story links to.