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Thai Government rejects amnesty proposal for southern insurgents

November 29, 2005

Deputy Prime Minister Chidchai Vanasatidya has rejected calls by Prawes Wasi, the leader of the government-appointed National Reconciliation Commission for an amnesty to be offered to insurgents in Thailand's troubled Muslim-majority south.

Government and police officials claim that current action targeting the funding of the insurgency is proving effective and an increasing number of local people are cooperating with authorities. It is widely believed that drugs play a role in the violence, with traffickers believed to be involved in funding the militants and recruiting for them.

Raids last Friday in Sungai Padi and Tak Bai districts netted more than ten million Baht in assets from suspected drug dealers who the local governor, Pracha Terat, said were involved in the insurgency.


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I think your article needs an tag if you were present at the event. I'm not sure how to re-title it (which you can't do without creating an account), but it needs some reference to what the event was in the title. If you want to put any suggestions on the talk page I'll try and get round to changing it for you, but I'm at work at the moment so I can't monitor wikinews all the time. Brian McNeil / talk 13:08, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Thai Government rejects amnesty proposal for southern insurgents

I've just received an unsolicited email from Neutralizer claiming this article isn't NPOV in the claim that drug traffickers are involved with the insurgency. Can someone impartial (I wrote this) take a look and give a considered opinion? Brian McNeil / talk 15:22, 29 November 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Suicide bombers blast two Bangladeshi cities

I have received two unsolicited emails from user User:Neutralizer regarding this article.
 * Title: blatant pov
 * "just noticed this;...."'PROBABLY'" the work of suicide bombers" is a quote in the story. The title says "Suicide bombers blast two Bangladeshi cities" stating it as a fact that it was suicide bombers.....this is exactly my point Brian; we need to apply the same NPOV diligence when it comes to what the other side is accused of as we do to what our side is accused of. Please correct the title of this story if you agree with me".

The second is a duplicate, which I believe was probably a mistake.

I will not take action on behalf of a blocked user, but have put the above here for review by the community. Brian McNeil / talk 16:00, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I realised the error before I had a chance to ammend. Updated the article to reflect more recent information.--elliot_k 18:43, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

 * While I agree we need to be diligent and need to be sure they are suicide bombers, the issue of NPOV doesn't come up. Either it was due to suicide bombers or it wasn't. It is simply a matter of determining the cause of the explosions and showing that the bombers killed themselves as part of the attack. Whether they are terrorists or not however is a much more NPOV issue obviously. Nil Einne 21:09, 29 November 2005 (UTC)


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Well, I hope you stick around and keep contributing to the site, I've not seen your article as I'm in Europe and when I'm working I keep an eye out for bad vandalism and new users needing a welcome. :) I hope the above links are useful in getting an idea about how to contribute. Brian McNeil / talk 17:33, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the article!
The photo is cool! Could you answer some questions I asked at Talk:Stars pose for ITV ice-skating show (UK)? I've also marked the article as original reporting because we count photojournalism as original! -  Amgine | talk en.WN 22:55, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
 * This whale article is great. Please continue to report on this. I am also watching it live right now and am very concerned. You are doing a good job and I hope this article ends up being very informative. Keep up the good work. DragonFire1024 is Jason Safoutin 14:44, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

The fixtures are publicly released to everyone. They are NOT copyrighted.
Frankie, to answer your question on if the fixtures are copyrighted, i will answer you briefly, seen as they are PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE.

NO

Spum 09:07, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Hmm, well good. If you say so... Frankie Roberto 09:58, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

British vote on smoking ban
Thanks for 'no smoking' story. Best regards. -Edbrown05 08:22, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Accreditation!
Congratulations, your request for accreditation has been approved! Please contact MrMiscellanious regarding an accreditation image to be printed. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 17:59, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Article IDs vs. names
You could try to explain the article ID idea on meta, where MediaWiki developers hang out. It'd be good if such people muse about the idea for a couple miniutes, as there could be related changes for totally unrelated purposes/projects. Of course, you might also read the feature request and extensions lists to see if it exists. :) Nyarlathotep 16:30, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the suggestion. I asked a question on the Mediawiki developers mailing list... Frankie Roberto 23:20, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Welcome
Wikinews desperately needs more gutsy reporters; please give the project as much time as you can spare. Neutralizer 23:41, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks! Indeed I will. I'm actually planning to do a little experiment in taking some dedicated time to do original reporting - but more on that later when I have a bit more confirmed... Frankie Roberto 23:43, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

TEA
Care for a cuppa? --Brian McNeil / talk 17:53, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

 * A virtual cuppa, eh?, how does that work then... ;-) Thanks very much - Earl Grey if you have it... Frankie Roberto 18:01, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations
Congrats, you are now a Wikinews Administrator! You have the glorious, highly rewarding job of cleaning up after vandals and being responsible for page deletions :-). Thanks for volunteering for the position, and good luck. -- IlyaHaykinson 06:48, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Welcome to the Cabal :) Congrats Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 08:38, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks all... :-) Frankie Roberto 12:55, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * congrats. now that you see all your new buttons, time to press them randomly :) Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 00:49, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Secret Cabal mesage: There is no cabal!

Rfda
This is a message to inform you that I have added every administrator to the Rfda section on WN:A. This is not personal and I feel as if the community, who did not have the option of voting for or against most of the administrators, should be able to choose who they want to be in charge. I also want to say that I value everyones work on this site and I know that everyone does their best. I hope that none of you will take this personally and I hope that all of us will continue to work together. Jason Safoutin 12:14, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Hay
Wanna hear a joke? Wazzawazzawaz 14:33, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I take it you just dont give a damn how you make newcomers feel either? Wazzawazzawaz 15:54, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi Wazzawazzawaz, I'm not quite sure why you're going around trying to tell us all jokes... We're mostly interested in writing news stories here - what kind of things do you think we should be covering? Frankie Roberto 16:01, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
 * You know, at this point I have just given up trying to change you. If you really want to hear the joke, got to MessedRocker to hear it. Wazzawazzawaz 16:06, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

BBC
intresting article :) Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 08:09, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Hehe, yes. It's good to be able to promote Wikinews and other sites like this. How are things in New Zealand? Frankie Roberto 09:09, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * This is just great Frankie. Thank you so much for doing it. How did you get in contact with the BBC? --Deprifry|+T+ 10:50, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I just proposed the idea to them via e-mail.
 * I've had quite a few suggestions of stories to cover come in via e-mail, so I'll try to post up some of them in case anyone else wants to take a look. Frankie Roberto 11:24, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * This has to be the best, and most out-of-the blue idea about promoting wikinews that I've ever seen, it's brilliant and I applaud you managing to get them interested. If you can promote the idea that anyone can write here then the diary and series of articles should dramatically increase UK contributors.  I believe we have to interview you in IRC afterwards to do a wikinews article on "one writer's foray behind 'enemy lines'" ;-) --Brian McNeil / talk 19:30, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi Brian - thanks for your message. It was really interesting from a personal point of view and really good to promote Wikinews. Incidentally, I also did a short interview for BBC 5 Live (radio station) for Monday night's pods and blogs show, which I think you can listen to online... Frankie Roberto 17:59, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi Frankie! Not sure if you check this page anymore, but we have another BBC proposal that we are working on and need input as well as people to add to the proposal which will eventually be sent to the BBC news. I hope that you can help, or give use some discussion on the proposal. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 21:46, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Image:Summer solstice at Stone Henge.jpg
In future, please be more specific then permission given by photographer. Bawolff ☺☻ 03:51, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

New Policy has users up in smoke
Hello. I am not sure if you check this page anymore, but I thought you might be interested as to what is going on here at Wikinews: Image use policy/New wikimedia policy action plan. I am outraged as well as others...do you have an opinion? DragonFire1024 09:50, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Long time
Hope to see you back some day. DragonFire1024 06:58, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I still read it now and again, but haven't had time to contribute much... :-( Frankie Roberto 12:17, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Glad you are back
Nice to see an old face around here. Welcome back :) DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 08:38, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks! I do try to drop in now and again when I have time.... Frankie Roberto 13:01, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

RFDA
Please note i have put you up for de-admining at Administrators. --Mark Talk to me 16:22, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Accreditation Expiration
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EU states warned on CIA prisons

November 30, 2005

The European Union's highest justice official has warned EU member states that any nations found to have hosted a covert CIA jail could have its "voting rights suspended". EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini said the consequences would be "extremely serious" if reports of such jails turned out to be true.

According to Human Rights Watch, the secret prisons are located in Poland and Romania. This comes amid an EU investigation into claims that the US ran clandestine jails in eastern Europe. In the case of Romania, a senior Euro MP has questioned whether its accession to the EU should go ahead as planned. The US has declined to confirm or deny the reports of secret jails, which became public in the US earlier this month.

Speaking at a news conference in Berlin, Mr Frattini called for tough penalties against any involved state, saying "I would be obliged to propose to the Council of EU Ministers serious consequences, including the suspension of voting rights in the council." He said a suspension of voting rights would be justified if any country is found to have breached the bloc's founding principles of human rights, democracy and the rule of law. Such a move would be unprecedented for the EU.

However, a diplomatic source said that to suspend a member state's voting rights in the Council of the European Union, the other 24 member states would have to vote unanimously to take such a step, which would be unlikely to happen in practice.

Mr Frattini said the Bush administration had asked for more time to deliver a response to the accusations after a senior commission official formally raised the issue on a visit to Washington last week. "Right now, there is no [US] response," he said. The allegations that the CIA held al-Qaeda suspects in secret prisons in Eastern Europe were first reported in the Washington Post on November 2, but the newspaper withheld information on the location of the prisons on the request of the U.S. government.

During his first U.S. visit, the newly appointed German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier failed to receive any clarification on the question of secret CIA prisons, but the United States has now officially recognized that this is an issue of great concern to its European allies. Seceretary of State Condoleezza Rice promised an official U.S. clarification on this matter in the near future.

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Hi. I have also started an article on the same event and want to help merge the two. Wisekwai 13:23, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
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Talk:EU states warned on CIA prisons

Clean up requests
A range of issues with this new article, but one in particular: jail, prison, and detention center. In journalism usage, jail is generally for holding persons before and during trial, prison is where convicted persons serve their sentences. Detention centers are used to hold people (usually temporarily) without a legal basis - that is, people who have not done something illegal but who are being held anyway, such as persons being deported for failing to gain a residence visa or who are being held as an illegal combatant according to the current administration in the United States. -  Amgine | talk 21:01, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

 * the following definitions of prison confirm that the usage of this term in the article is appropriate. (lookup jail in wiki or wordnet to confirm that too.). further, the washpost report which brought this to light and other news reports too speak of prisons. if no further issues are raised over the article, i propose moving it from develop to publish. would amgine care to source the distinction b/w the three terms s/he oulined?

 * a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
 * a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
 * wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

 * A prison is a place in which people are confined and deprived of a range of liberties. Prisons conventionally are institutions authorized by governments and forming part of a country's criminal justice system, or as facilities for holding prisoners of war. A prison system is the organizational arrangement of the provision and operation of prisons.
 * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison

 * Doldrums 07:49, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Title proposal
"EU states warned on illegal CIA interrogation and detention centers"International 14:40, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

 * title is accurate as it stands. the bbc article is titled " EU warned on 'secret CIA jails'", (their quotes), so this wiki article will report correctly that the EU states were warned in that manner.

 * do not understand the rationale behind the proposed change since, as it stands, neither this article nor its title makes any claim about the existence or character of these 'prisons'. Doldrums 17:05, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * As I understand it, by calling them a prison (whether they really exist or not) you imply that the people detained in them have been put through some sort of due process and convicted. Brian McNeil / talk 17:57, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Brian, the fact is, we don't have a term to addess this properly. Amgine tried to make some distinction, but according to him, people in a detention center are "innocent". I guess calling it "detention center" is POV too then. He also argued that "prison" and "jail" would not work. Let's face it, we don't have a word to describe the nature of these new type of establishments that is accurate. The inaccuracy in termenology is not really the important issue here. --vonbergm 18:25, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I pretty much agree with you on this, but I do notice that a lot of other sites are calling them "jails". Incidentally, have you seen the addition at the bottom of the Water Cooler?  Jimbo Wales is to be interviewed and the guys doing so are looking for questions.  Time is short, as I believe the interview is on Monday. Brian McNeil / talk 18:30, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Maybe "concentration camp" would give a rather accurate description...--85.49.230.2 19:21, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Vonbergm: I don't believe I said they were "innocent"; I thought I said they were held there for extra-legal reasons, such as being processed for deportation or for a status which is not a legal one (the USA's detention of "illegal combatants".) The term "detention camp" describes what they are for, what they do, while jail and prison have more precise definitions as you can see in many journalism style guides (this AP-based style guide adds Federal detention centers house those awaiting federal trials.) -  Amgine | talk 19:31, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, you did not say "innocent" but explained that detention centers are for "people who have not done something illegal but who are being held anyway". I can't really tell the difference. But maybe that is not what you meant. But those people are not "awaiting federal trials" either. I can't find a word that fits the nature of these (alleged) establishments. --vonbergm 20:12, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I would use the term detention center, as it is descriptive rather than prescriptive, and is used in many non-US countries for official centres where people are held awaiting government processing and are often controversial. It seems to fit exactly what is being discussed. -  Amgine | talk 20:29, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Detention center is fine with me, although I don't think it fits exactly. For exmaple, the traditional use of "detention center" just means that people are held there for a certain (finite, usualy well defined) period. Also, people are not interrogated at detention centers. Looking at other news reports it seems that the problem of finding the right term is quite widespread. We could pick a specific term and make it Wikinews policy (and I could agree on any one of the mentioned options), or we could keep using the terms in a fairly liberal manner, as aspects of any one term fit the current situation, and other do not. This way, the floating use of vocabluary reflects the floating nature of these establishments. But again, I also have no objections to deciding on one specific term. --vonbergm 21:17, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

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I know I've put this on your IP-only page before, thanks for your original reporting contribution, I hope you'll become a regular contributor and give us some local news from your area too. Brian McNeil / talk 21:48, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

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Bot Boffins Birthday Bash
Hi there! I've fixed up the pictures on your article so they aren't quite so big. What I'm not sure on is if you were a participant and can add any information to make the article merit an tag to denote original reporting. Brian McNeil / talk 22:56, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

I think the only thing you need to do on this article before changing to  is fill out a little background on the talk page for the article to justify your original reporting. Then it'll appear on the front page of the site along with the rest of the news. I'd like something that mentions that it is computer bots in the title, but I'm loath to change such a lovely alliteration. :-) Brian McNeil / talk 23:46, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Doubly 12:11, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Hello, this is Doubly Aimless. I am the lead programmer for Pandorabots.com, a free bot hosting site that uses Dr. Wallace's ALICE and AIML chat bot technology. I attended the ALICE 10th birthday bash and Colloquium on Conversational Systems in Guildford, UK on November 25th and contributed much of the text to this story. I spoke with conference speakers and participants before, during and after the conference; online and in person. There was a party the night before in London and an informal luncheon and drinks afterward. The photos were taken by Ulrike Spierling. Doubly Aimless / talk
 * I'll copy this onto the article's talk page. Brian McNeil / talk 12:20, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

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Computer professionals celebrate 10th birthday of A.L.I.C.E.

November 30, 2005

More than 50 programmers, scientists, students, hobbyists and fans of the chat robot gathered in, U.K. on Friday to celebrate the tenth birthday of the award winning   On hand was the founder the , an annual , designed to pick out the world's most human computer according to an experiment laid out by the famous British mathematician Alan Turing more then 50 years ago. Along with A.L.I.C.E.'s chief programmer Dr. Richard S. Wallace, two other Loebner prize winners, Robby Garner and this year's winner, Rollo Carpenter, also gave presentations, as did other finalists.

The University of Surrey venue was chosen, according to Dr. Wallace, not only because it was outside the U.S. (A.L.I.C.E.'s birthday fell on the weekend holiday there, so he expected few people would attend a conference in America), but also because of its recently erected statue of Alan Turing, who posed the famous A. I. experiment which inspired much of the work on bots like A.L.I.C.E.   University of Surrey Digital World Research Centre organizers Lynn and David Hamill were pleased to host the event because it encourages multi-disciplinary interaction, and because of the Centre's interest in interaction between humans and computers.

Dr. Wallace gave a keynote address outlining the history of A.L.I.C.E. and. Many people commented on the fact the he seemed to have moved around a lot in the last ten years, having lived in New York, Pennsylvania, San Francisco, Maine, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, while working on the Alicebot project. The A.L.I.C.E. and AIML software is popular among chat robot enthusiats primarily because of its distribution under the GNU free software license. One of Dr. Wallace's PowerPoint slides asked the question, "How do you make money from free software?" His answer: memberships, subscriptions, books, directories, syndicated ads, consulting, teaching, and something called the Superbot.

Rollo Carpenter gave a fascinating presentation on his learning bot Jabberwacky, reading from several sample conversations wherein the bot seemed amazingly humanlike. Unlike the free A.L.I.C.E. software, Carpenter uses a proprietary learning approach so that the bot actually mimics the personality of each individual chatter. The more people who chat with Jabberwacky, the better it becomes at this kind of mimicry.

In another interesting presentation, Dr. Hamill related present-day research on chat robots to earlier work on dialog analysis in telephone conversations. Phone calls have many similarities to the one-on-one chats that bots encounter on the web and in IM. Dr. Hamill also related our social expectations of bots to social class structure and how servants were expected to behave in Victorian England. He cited the famous Microsoft paperclip as the most egregius example of a bot that violated all the rules of a good servant's behavior.

Bots have advanced a long way since philanthropist Hugh Loebner launched his controversial contest 15 years ago. His Turing Test contest, which offers an award of $100,000 for the first program to pass an "audio-visual" version of the game, also awards a bronze medal and $2000 every year for the "most human computer" according to a panel of judges. Huma Shah of the University of Westminster presented examples of bots used by large corporations to help sell furniture, provide the latest information about automotive products, and help customers open bank accounts. Several companies in the U.S. and Europe offer customized bot personalities for corporate web sites.

Even though Turing's Test remains controversial, this group of enthusiastic developers seems determined to carry on the tradition and try to develop more and more human like chat bots. Hugh Loebner is dedicated to carry on his contest for the rest of his life, in spite of his critics. He hopes that a large enough constituency of winners will exist to keep the competition going well beyond his own lifetime. Dr. Wallace says, "Nobody has gotten rich from chat robots yet, but that doesn't stop people from trying. There is such a thing as 'bot fever'.  For some people who meet a bot for the first time, it can pass the Turing Test for them, and they get very excited."


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Virginia Governor commutes 1,000th US execution

November 30, 2005

Virginia Governor Mark Warner commuted the death sentence Tuesday of convicted murderer Robin Lovitt, preventing him from becoming the 1,000th person executed in the United States since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Lingering doubt over Lovitt's guilt was a key factor in Warner's decision. Lovitt's sentence has now been reduced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

This is the first time Warner has granted clemency in his four years in office. All eleven previous clemency petitions have been denied. Warner chose this petition to be his first, and likely last, granted, noting that clemency should only be used in an "exceptional circumstance. Among these are circumstances in which the normal and honored processes of our judicial system do not provide adequate relief - circumstances that, in fact, require executive intervention to reaffirm public confidence in our justice system".

Lovitt was sentenced to death in 1999 for the murder of a pool hall manager. His defense team, including former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, argued that DNA tests could have exonerated Lovitt, but weren't performed due to a mistake by a court clerk which resulted in key evidence being thrown away after the trial.

Due to the commution of Lovitt's sentence, Kenneth Boyd, who is scheduled to be executed in North Carolina on Friday, will likely become the 1,000th person executed since 1976.


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Tropical Storm Epsilon forms as 2005 Atlantic hurricane season comes to an end

November 29, 2005

Tropical Storm Epsilon formed today as the record breaking comes to a close tomorrow. Storms created after this date will still be included in the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season but it is not officially under the date. The storm is the 26th storm in a season that has broken many records including number of storms.

The storm formed 845 miles (1,360 km) east of Bermuda. According to forecasters, the storm is only a threat to shipping. At 10am EST, the storm had sustained winds of 45 mph. The storm is moving west at 8 mph and is expected to continue that movement for 24 hours.

The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season broke many records including number of storms and number of and number of tropical storms that evolved into hurricanes. Although the season ends tomorrow, forecasters warn that tropical storms can form in December.


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Talk:ABC's "Alias" to end run in May 2006

Alias wikilinks
I removed the redundant Alias Wikipedia links. It is linked in the first paragraph, and only one per article is necessary; secondly, the links were pointing to "alias", instead of the correct article on the TV show. – Mipadi 23:50, 29 November 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Computer professionals celebrate 10th birthday of A.L.I.C.E.

Original reporting
Whoever did the original reporting for this article needs to leave some comments here explaining where their information came from, e.g. attended the conference, interviewed conference attendee's, etc. - Borofkin 00:59, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

 * This is a new Wikinewsie, here's his Original reporting bit that he put on his talk page...

Hello, this is Doubly Aimless. I am the lead programmer for Pandorabots.com, a free bot hosting site that uses Dr. Wallace's ALICE and AIML chat bot technology. I attended the ALICE 10th birthday bash and Colloquium on Conversational Systems in Guildford, UK on November 25th and contributed much of the text to this story. I spoke with conference speakers and participants before, during and after the conference; online and in person. There was a party the night before in London and an informal luncheon and drinks afterward. The photos were taken by Ulrike Spierling. Doubly Aimless / talk

Cake picture
I put back an Image (cake) because images are beautiful and wroth a qroduple de double billion trillion words☺. Good work to anyone who worked on this article. Bawolff ☺☻ 23:59, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Typo
"powerpoint" => "PowerPoint" Van der Hoorn (talk) 12:57, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Sken   my talk 14:55, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Category Robitcs
I would include this article in the Category:Robotics —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mac (talk • contribs) 18:09, 27 April 2007

(Moved from comment page) editprotected 117.198.185.1 (talk) 16:51, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

 * My understanding of this is that it's a, which is not a — no hardware, just software.  It would go in a category for , if we had one.  --Pi zero (talk) 17:31, 18 July 2017 (UTC)


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Category:Sandbox

This category is to keep track of different ideas for redesigns or experiments. Some of them are duplicates, some only work in certain browsers (Yes, I know that sucks), some in only certain skins.

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Australian Senate passes resolution opposing death penalty in shadow of Van Nguyen execution

November 30, 2005

The Australian Senate has passed a resolution "opposing the death penalty" in response to the looming execution of Van Tuong Nguyen. The 25-year-old Australian salesman was convicted of trafficking 396 grams of heroin through Singapore, a country which has a mandatory death sentence for trafficking more than 15 grams of heroin.

There was some argument in the Senate, however, over the exact wording of the resolution. The motion, as originally moved by Senator Bob Brown, leader of the Australian Greens, expressed the government's "abhorrence of the death penalty."

Senator Chris Ellison, Minister for Justice and Customs, moved to substitute "abhorrence of" for "opposition to."

Greens members and Australian Democrat members were angered at this. "Should we just say 'We oppose that but we don't abhor it'...Is trade so important that we cannot speak our mind on utterly important matters of life and death[?]" Senator Brown asked.

There was confusion about whether the Australian Labor Party supported the Government amendment.

Australian Democrat's Senator Natasha Stott Despoja made her opposition to the amendment clear. "What is wrong with this place? How can two major parties be such wimps and wimp out on this word? If 'wimp' is considered inappropriate, I could say 'weak', 'timorous' or 'ineffectual'," she said. She later apologised to the Labor Party and redirected her criticism to the Government.

Senator Ellison later said, "when you look at international instruments, you do not often find the language of emotion. You do not often find language which is colourful or extreme. You find language which spells out the situation...We should not bring emotion into the debate which could well hamper other efforts being made in relation to the Van Nguyen matter."

A division on the amendment was called and the motion was amended in the Government's favour, 34 to 30. The amended motion was then carried.


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Groups prepare for December WTO talks

November 30, 2005

Members of the WTO have made statements in preparation of the next WTO meeting in December.

Peter Mandelson, the EU's trade commissioner, has proposed a six-point package to help poor countries. The package includes guarantees of access to cheap drugs, special help for the 40 least-developed nations, compensation for poor countries affected by the loss of their access to Europe for bananas and sugar, relief for African cotton producers, and assistance to help countries build their capacity to trade. The EU is holding strong on its agriculture position while keeping internal dissent in check. Mandelson warned France not to veto any agreement saying that failure of the talks would be a "huge missed economic opportunity and a huge setback for multilateralism. Those who want to frustrate us, throw logs at us and impose vetoes on us - even from within our own ranks - will not find me giving up." Resistance is expected from the US, especially in the areas of textiles, and drugs. These two areas have been a areas of contention between the US and other WTO members.

Several South American WTO members complained about the current sluggishness of talks. Brazil's WTO ambassador, Clodoaldo Hugueney, said earlier this week, "We are seriously concerned about the current state of the negotiations. The burden of adjustment is being placed on developing countries."

The IMF also released a policy discussion paper titled "Africa in the Doha Round". In the paper, written by IMF Africa Department Senior Economist Yongzheng Yang, states that the representatives of Africa in the current round of WTO talks may be too fixated on the markets of wealthy nations. Yang writes, "African negotiators may have overlooked the potential market access gains in developing countries, where trade barriers remain relatively high and demand for African imports has expanded substantially." According to the paper Africa has primarily sought access of wealthiest nations including the US and the EU while limiting it's attention to China and other countries who imported 30 percent of Africa's exports. Recent trade issues Africa has pushed have included cotton exports, an area that has met much resistance to the wealthier WTO members. IMF policy discussion papers describe research in progress and are not opinions of the IMF.

The WTO has also agreed to extend an exemption for members classified as "least developed" from intellectual property rules until July 2013. These members already have an exemption, valid until 2016, for pharmaceutical products. The new extension applies to trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and geographical names indicating goods' place of origin. If a country improves out of the classification, the exemption will no longer apply.

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Talk:Virginia Governor commutes 1,000th US execution

An issue with this article - "prevents" isn't technically correct, as unless there is a congressional ruling that the death penalty is unconstitutional (or etc.), there will be a 1,000th execution. Perhaps a change to "Delay" will be more appropriate? --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 04:07, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Good point. Renamed in attempt to fix. -- IlyaHaykinson 05:24, 30 November 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Canadian government falls in non-confidence vote

So, what does this all mean? --MrMiscellanious (talk) (contribs) 04:11, 30 November 2005 (UTC)


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Tennessee town mulls 'stop work order' as construction of controversial grain tanks begins

December 3, 2005

Mayor Scott Jewell of the city of Dyer, Tennessee did not issue a "stop work order" to Dyer Grain Company late Tuesday afternoon as had been expected. The order would have temporarily halted construction of new grain storage tanks.

Dyer Grain's efforts at expansion have been blocked several times over the past few years both by zoning restrictions on the height of structures and by citizens groups who filed suit against the grain company and the city's board of zoning appeals. The lawsuit was dismissed two months ago. The Dyer City Council then amended the zoning ordinance to include "grain storage tanks and bins" in a section of the ordinance listing exclusions, such as free standing spires and towers, to the regular 40 foot height restriction on buildings.

Several citizens spoke at the November 28 city council meeting to address alleged deficiencies in the building permit issued to Dyer Grain. The citizens claimed that according to the site plan filed with the application for the permit, the location of the tanks will violate another provision in the zoning ordinance restricting the height of all structures to the distance from surrounding property lines plus ten feet. The citizens were also concerned over a "grain conveyor" that will cross a city street. Mayor Jewell indicated that he would contact the Gibson County building inspector (who is contracted by the city to act as the municipal inspector) to research the citizens' concerns.

Jewell contacted Ricky Bailey, Gibson County Building inspector, on Wednesday. Bailey reportedly could find no deficiencies with the permit and, based on this advice, Jewell chose not to issue the stop work order himself. The City Council could still meet and vote to issue the order. The council meets the second Monday of each month.

"The main problem is that the grain company is in an industrial zone -- which is located smack in the middle of a low-density residential zone." Nathan Reed, an elected Alderman of Dyer said, "The property values in the area have increased (with inflation) but not at the same rate as other properties."

Normal buildings, such as offices and warehouses, can't exceed 40' plus 10' to the eave. The requested change in the ordinance changes the status of the towers from a building to the same status of an antenna or tower.

Mr Reed added, "The height to the eave is 76', the height to the top of the tank is 105', the height to the top of the elevator (atop the tank) is 133'. The 133' is the only measurement that matters now because the change to the zoning ordinance means this is no longer a "building", but rather the same as an antenna or tower."

"The grain company specifically requested that change to the ordinace -- which was opposed by several citizens...They can build it as high as they like so long as it conforms to the overal height restriction for towers, spires, etc."

Mr Reed commented on additional concerns, "The citizens are concerned about the health effects of (additional) grain dust, noise, and grain explosions."

The new construction is expected to generate annual property tax revenues of $10,000 to $16,000.


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Original reporting notes
I attended the meeting. --Chiacomo (talk) 04:48, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

I interviewed a town Alderman --Sfullenwider 00:04, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Front page news
No offense, but why is some story about a grain tank in a town of ~2000 people, making it to the front page news?

 * Currently, consensus seems to be that all stories published here appear on the Main Page. It is possible, I believe, by using to keep it off the Main Page. In that case, it will appear only on Portals associated with its Categories, like Tennessee listed at the bottom of the story. -Edbrown05 04:40, 3 December 2005 (UTC)

The hope is that once we reach a "critical mass" or articles daily, only national/international stories will make the front page (at least in large type/top of the page)... Until we reach that "critical mass" all stories make the front page. My dream for Wikinews (or at least one of them) is that we'll some day have as many state/local stories as we have national/international stories. --Chiacomo (talk) 04:53, 3 December 2005 (UTC)


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Co-creator of Berenstain Bears dies at 82

December 1, 2005 Stan Berenstain, co-creator of the popular Berenstain Bears children's books, has died due to complications from cancer at age 82. Along with his wife, Jan Berenstain, Stan and Jan Berenstain published over 200 books aimed at teaching children to read and helping them with lessons such as sharing, new siblings.

The first Berenstain Bears book was published in 1962 and titled "The Big Honey Hunt". With the help of head of children's publishing at Random House, author Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, the Berenstains created a franchise that drew millions of young readers.

Until 1997, when they hired an employee to run the company's computer, Mr. Berenstain and his family managed the entire ursine enterprise, which has branched out into two television series, videos, stage musicals, toys, cereal and other products.

According to an interview of the Berenstain Bears official website, Papa Bear is based on Stan, Mama on Jan; Stan clarifies that he's "not as stupid" as Papa.

Stan fed his interest in drawing as a child, by drawing on paper bags and cardboard.


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Time
Don't have enough time to write the full article; Hope someone else want to pick this up. icon256 07:47, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Wow Great write up
Wow, very good write up, Thank you for picking this article up who ever was IP:72.128.220.73. I used to have almost all of the Berenstain Bears series when I was much younger, almost 190. I am very sadden to hear about this event. Thanks for the Wikinews Community. icon256 05:01, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:"7th Heaven" television series comes to an end

Thank God. What a trainwreck this show has been - a sappy, miserable catastrophe of terrible acting and awful dialogue, not to mention its revoltingly unbalanced right-wing slant. Good riddance.

 * They must have gotten enough viewers to be able to produce for ten years. Viewers' could have not thought it was that bad; or it was so bad (in your view) that it was funny and/or enjoyable to laugh at for last couple years.  LOL

not cancelled
According to the wikipedia page, the series went on another season on WB and now it's been picked up by "the CW"… never heard of it, whatever. Don't follow these things but it's funny this article would be dead wrong. 74.134.236.69 12:18, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
 * This is a news site. As such, we write based on the knowledge of the time. And at that time, it was the belief that no more episodes of 7th Heaven would be ordered. By the way, "the CW" is the result of the merger between the WB and UPN, so really it's the same network. ★ MESSED  ROCKER ★  12:20, 29 November 2006 (UTC)


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