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New Zealand Recorded Crime Statistics available online

February 12, 2005

New Zealand's Recorded Crime Statistics are now available online from Statistics New Zealand.

In an unheralded change to its website on January 20, 2005, Statistics New Zealand now provides the last 10 fiscal years of Recorded Crime Statistics for New Zealand. Using the Table Builder service, the country's Crime Statistics can now be examined and analysed online in unprecedented detail.

Although New Zealand Police has previously published Official Crime Statistics reports online, these statistics have only ever been available at a summary level, as a printed style document. This development allows detailed information, that was only ever available though an information request to Police, to now be seen immediately and desired statistics can be manipulated interactively.

Statistics are available either nationally or by each Police district and area for the each of the last 10 years or each of the last 24 months. Recorded Crime Statistics can be analysed down to the individual offence, with scene information for recorded and resolved crime. Offender apprehension statistics are also analysed down to the individual offence as well as the age, gender, ethnicity and resolution action taken with the offender.

The Recorded Crime Statistics also have a significant amount of accompaning metadata. Relevant legislation for each offence, together with caveats and interpretation notes for each parameter accompany these statistics. Users can now interpret these statistics for themselves, rather than relying on other agencies interpreting, or possibly misinterpreting, their requirements.

This innovation appears to be a leading edge breakthrough in publically available crime statistics. Although a number of jurisdictions place statistical reports and summaries of crime statistics on websites, these all are in the form of printed style documents. This move appears to be the first time that internet users can interact with a website to extract their own customised reports from the available crime statistics.

Internationally, crime statistics have been difficult to obtain, and even more difficult to compare. Interpol, the international policing organisation, for example, does not even make international statistics publically available on its website but restricts them to authorised law enforcement officials. Other countries present their statistics in detailed reports that need to be read and interpreted with care to understand them correctly. Different countries also count crime in different ways, often ignoring less serious offences or only counting the most serious of multiple offences occurring at the same time.

In New Zealand's case the basic data is now online. The analysis can be done by the user.


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French economy picks up but falls short of government's hopes

After stagnation starting from 2001, the French economy grew at a rate of 2.3% in 2004, with growth picking up especially in the last three months of the year. However, the growth rate falls short of the 2.5% predicted by the French government. The seasonally-adjusted growth rate of 0.7-0.8% in the fourth quarter of 2004 is also the most solid growth since early 2002.

France, and the Eurozone as a whole, has faced economic stagnation since the September 11 World Trade Center attacks, which had profound effects on the global economy. Growth, however, picked up in 2004 and is expected to further improve in 2005. Unlike Germany and Italy, France's economy has shown to be more resilient, even though it too slowed down in 2001-2003.

The government's target for 2005 is 2.5% growth. While the rebound in output is good news for Europe's third largest economy, unemployment remains one of the highest in Europe at 9.9%.


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Iraqi elections kept low-key, but secure, in Paris French television authority stops broadcasts of Iranian station for antisemitic content

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California public school requires RFIDs on students

An elementary school in northern California has been testing a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag-based identification program on its 7th and 8th grade students since January 18th, 2005. According to the ACLU, this is the first time that public school students in the United States have been required to wear devices that enable automatic identification. RFIDs have previously been used to track students in Japan.

RFID tags contain antennas to enable them to receive and respond to radio-frequency queries from an RFID transceiver, enabling identification of pupils when they are in the vicinity of the detectors.

Each student is required to wear an ID card on a lanyard around their neck. An RFID tag, manufactured by local Sutter corporation Incom, is attached to the card. The school has installed RFID detectors at the doors of seven classrooms as well as the bathrooms, though they claim that the bathroom units were not turned on, and subsequently been removed after complaints from parents.

While some parents have complained about the system, local high school teacher Tim Crabtree told the San Francisco Chronicle, "It's baffling why so many people are bothered by the district being able to tell them where their kids are at,"

On the other side, the San Francisco Chronicle quotes the 13-year-old daughter of Michelle and Jeff Tatro as saying:"Look at this. I'm a grocery item. I'm a piece of meat. I'm an orange." Another couple in Sutter, Michael and Dawn Cantrall, filed a complaint with the American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU. The complaint centered on the violation of privacy and concerns about safety.


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Pfizer and Microsoft team up against Viagra spam

"Buy cheap Viagra through us - no prescription required!" Anyone with an active email account will recognize lines like this one. According to some reports, unsolicited advertisements (spam) for Viagra and similar drugs account for one in four spam messages.

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Spamming remains one of the biggest problems facing email users today. While users and systems administrators have improved their defenses against unsolicited email, many spammers now insert random words or characters into their letters in order to bypass filters. The Wikipedia article Stopping email abuse provides an overview of the various strategies employed by companies, Internet users and systems administrators to deal with the issue.

Ever since pharmaceutical giant Pfizer promised to cure erectile dysfunction once and for all with its blue pills containing the drug sildenafil citrate, spammers have tried to tap into male anxiety by offering prescription-free sales of unapproved "generic" Viagra and clones such as Cialis soft tabs. Legislation like the U.S. CAN-SPAM act has done little to stem the tide of email advertising the products.

Now Pfizer has entered a pledge with Microsoft Corporation, the world's largest software company, to address the problem. The joint effort will focus on lawsuits against spammers as well as the companies they advertise. "Pfizer is joining with Microsoft on these actions as part of our shared pledge to reduce the sale of these products and to fight the senders of unsolicited e-mail that overwhelms people's inboxes," said Jeff Kindler, executive vice president at Pfizer.

Microsoft has filed civil actions against spammers advertising the websites CanadianPharmacy and E-Pharmacy Direct. Pfizer has filed lawsuits against the two companies, and has taken actions against websites which use the word "Viagra" in their domain names. Sales of controlled drugs from Canadian pharmacies to the United States are illegal, but most drugs sold in Canada have nevertheless undergone testing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This is not the case for many of the Viagra clones sold by Internet companies and manufactured in countries like China and India. While it was not clear that CanadianPharmacy was actually shipping drugs from Canada, Pfizer's general counsel, Beth Levine, claimed that the company filled orders using a call center in Montreal, reported the Toronto Star.

For Microsoft's part, they allege that the joint effort with Pfizer is part of their "multi-pronged attack on the barrage of spam." As the creator of the popular email program Outlook, Microsoft has been criticized in the past for the product's spam filtering process. Recently, Microsoft added anti-spam measures to its popular Exchange server. Exchange 2003 now includes support for accessing so-called real-time block lists, or RTBLs. An RTBL is a list of the IP addresses maintained by a third party; the addresses on the list are those of mailservers thought to have sent spam recently. Exchange 2003 can query the list for each message it receives.


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Former Google employee says he was fired because of blog comments

February 12, 2005 A former employee of Google, Inc. has said he was fired after he made a series of unfavorable comments about the company on a publically-viewable blog. Mark Jen, formerly a Microsoft employee, began work at the Mountain View, California company on January 18. He then went on to make several observations about the company over the following week. In particular, some of the comments included information on the company's financial situation garnered from an internal conference and indications of the company's new products for 2005.

Nine days later, apparently of his own volition, Jen removed the comments from his blog. However, on January 28, Google fired him, an act which Jen attributes to his blogging. Google has not commented on his dismissal to other news sources, but has acknowledged that Jen no longer works at the company.

In his blog, on February 11, 2005, Jen appeared positive about his future. "I've actually viewed this as a great learning experience. Obviously, I've gotten a first-hand chance to learn about the power of blogging. I've also learned to be a little more analytical about situations, a lot more cautious and a lot less assuming."


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Hamas considers ceasefire talks after Abbas meeting

Hamas announced that it will continue its undeclared ceasefire while it considers whether to officially join a ceasefire with Israel declared this week by the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli Government at a conference in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas held talks earlier in the day with Hamas leaders at an undisclosed location, with the aim of persuading them to officially join the ceasefire. The BBC is reporting that Hamas is concerned about the pace of peace talks, worrying that protracted negotiations may lead to little benefit for the Palestinians.

Hamas (حماس), an acronym for Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah (Arabic: Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas is also Arabic for 'zeal' or 'courage'), is a Palestinian Islamist paramilitary and political organization, regarded by some as a militant organization and by others as a terrorist group.

The United States, Canada, Israel and the European Union, among others, consider Hamas a terrorist organization.

Hamas was founded by Shaikh Ahmed Yassin (later assassinated by the Israelis) and Mohammad Taha in late 1987, inspired by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Currently led by Khaled Mashaal, the movement is dedicated to fighting the Israeli occupation of Palestine, which, in Hamas' definition, includes all of Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. The organization is highly popular among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. It also has a following in the West Bank, and, to a lesser extent, in Israel, other Middle Eastern countries and throughout the Palestinian diaspora.

The movement's popularity stems from its paramilitary activities and its charitable operations; the provision of welfare and social services to the Palestinian poor.

Hamas is notorious for using the tactic of suicide bombing against Israel, particularly against civilians in busy city areas.


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Wikinews:Archive conventions

Archive conventions on Wikinews are particularly important because Wikinews is not an encyclopedia. Articles presented on Wikinews reflect the specific time at which they were written and published, and do not attempt to encompass events which occur, or knowledge which becomes available, after publication.

Because articles published on Wikinews may serve as references of their time, the project description describes a final stage for articles in which they are protected from further edits. This protection serves to keep articles as snapshots in time; editing them is considered equal to editing history.

Age for protection
Any article which is published and dated no less than seven days from the current date should, ordinarily, be archived per the process described below. Articles which have been published for more than 24 hours should not undergo significant edits; in case of a conflict on this basis, administrators may apply protection early. In such circumstances, the article should have the pre-protection process described below applied once it is seven days old.

Articles may be page-move-protected at any time after publication, to preclude page-move vandalism.

When, during times of slow output, the number of articles shown on the main page has dropped to just ten, archiving is usually suspended until additional articles are published. The theory behind this practice is that the main page should display a reasonable variety of the project's published work.

Talk pages are not protected
Article talk pages are not protected. Discussions regarding post-archival edits to an article should take place on the article's talk page. Ideally, the template editprotected should be used to notify administrators about required post-archival edits.

Post-archival edits
After an article has been protected, it should no longer be edited on elements of content, sources, or other substance. It should be edited for non-content issues (such as spelling, typos, punctuation and so forth) on a case-by-case basis. Questions of grammar are prone to dispute, and should be implemented after consensus on the talk page. Images are considered content and should not be changed or removed, even if deleted on Commons. They can, however, be converted using missing image, which takes into account the removal of an image whilst preserving as much content as possible.

A note about {{DEFAULTSORTKEY:}}
Please note: It is important that  (or equivalents such as changing the sortkey on individual categories) never be added to an archived article (If you need to do this, do it at or before time of publish, never after publishing). This is because changing the sortkey of an article in a category changes the date the categorylink was last modified. Wikinews (DPL) uses this date to figure out when an article was published. Changing the sortkey causes the article to jump to the top of recently published lists; a bad thing if it was actually published last year.

Curating the archives
Archive curation is a constant and ongoing process. Due to protection, it is generally only carried out by administrators. Below is a non-exhaustive list of tasks requiring work;
 * 1) Some years ago Wikinews fell behind with archiving. A robot was used to automatically archive all articles that required it. These bear Archive-unreviewed and are in Category:AutoArchived. These predate the current review process. They can be checked and, if in suitable shape, Archive-unreviewed should be replaced with Archive
 * 2) Creating new topic categories is a constant task. Once a topic, such as a city or politician, has three to five relevant articles, a category should be created and added to relevant articles. To maintain compatibility with w, redirects must be set up.
 * 3) As mentioned above, articles in Category:Pages with broken file links require processed with missing image.
 * 4) Wikinews has begun using image credit to credit photographers and other media creators; this should be appended to old image captions where not already included in the caption.
 * 5) Before the sisters template, sister links were sometimes placed in what is now viewed as inappropriate locations, simultaneously implying they were used as sources for information in the articles whilst also degrading their importance as sister projects. Older articles using the outdated methods still exist in the archives. They should be converted to comply with the current style guide on sister links.

Pre-protection process
Administrators carrying out archiving should give all articles being archived a general check for problems. Per notes above, substantial changes cannot be made. Remove outdated tags such as expand and breaking. Once protected an article cannot be expanded and thus this is confusing.

The Archived tag should be added at the end of the article, preferably by putting Publish, Archived on individual lines, followed by the categories. Interwiki links to non-English Wikinews sites go last.

Articles should be given a final check for format, small style errors, proper categorisation, spelling, and similar minor points. Since all changes are reviewed, there should be no major problems outstanding at this time. Wikipedia's AutoWikiBrowser supports Wikinews and is a useful tool for catching typos and common errors. It is, however, no substitute for the current version of the human eyeball.

To archive
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Talk:Pfizer and Microsoft team up against Viagra spam

A comment in the article suggested Jeff Kindler's quote needed a confirmation. I checked Pfizer's news release, and the remark was there. So I removed the comment.

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Somalians protest against deployment of African Union troops

February 13, 2005 On Friday thousands of Somalis made a peaceful protest in Mogadishu against the planned deployment of African Union troops into the country.

The Islamic Courts' Union, the Umbrella organisation of Islamic Clerics and the supporters of two warlords-turned-cabinet ministers, Husein Aideed and Osman Ali Ato organised the demonstration.

Many of the protestors claimed to reject the intervention of foreign troops on grounds of faith.

The African Union plans on deploying troops forming a Peace Support Mission to support the return of Somalians from. The country has been without government since 1991 when President was overthrown, with various factions and warlords fighting for control since.

The new Transitional Federal Government, headed by President, is due to take control on February 21.

Abdullahi Yusuf was elected President by Somalia's transitional parliament on October 10, 2004. He won the votes of 189 of the 275 members of parliament, with the election held in a sports hall in Nairobi, Kenya. His government is recognized by most western nations as the country's legitimate rulers


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Talk:Former Google employee says he was fired because of blog comments

This is news worthy? How reliable is this anyway, given that the only sources seem to be blogs about this guy who blogs? --Fastfission 00:52, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * This is the biggest story in the tech blogosphere, which shows that it is of wide interest, let alone the fact it's been picked up on by the NYT. You've also got some guts if you're doubting Jeremy Zawodny's veracity :) Dan100 (Talk) 07:55, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * The Zawodny piece is still just an interview the fellow who was apparently fired. It doesn't get the other side of the story. Note that even the NYT article simply says that Google declined to comment on the reasoning of his termination. Surely you can see why this is a methodological problem, yes? Also note the way that the NYT article is structured: rather than saying, "Google did X," it says, "Blogger says Google did X." That's a big shift in assumption of veracity. I still find it mostly irrelevant, but I'll take your word on it. I've tried to make the article more NPOV.--Fastfission 01:09, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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Wikinews:Fair use

Fair use is a defense against accusations of copyright infringement in the U.S.A. It is not a right. A similar concept is Fair dealing, found in the legal systems of most members of the Commonwealth of Nations (such as the United Kingdom or Canada).

On Wikinews, application of fair use is almost exclusively the subject of discussions about media, rather than text.

If uploading fair use media, you must add both the correct copyright tag and a fair use rationale for each use in any article, or the media may be deleted on sight. It should be noted some copyright tags have a fair use rationale built-in (i.e. logo).

Fair use on Wikinews
Wikinews is more restrictive about fair use than Wikipedia. Instead of describing forbidden uses, this page serves as a whitelist use types which are permitted. This is driven by the most-useful media for Wikinews being that produced by competing news organizations. Use of such media is absolutely taboo: It is very difficult to claim fair use in a competitive environment, particularly where Wikinews allows commercial use of content. Media from competing news organizations uploaded without permission can be deleted on sight.

Fair use or not, media lacking appropriate tags may also be deleted on sight, incorrectly tagged media may also be immediately removed. Media descriptions must include a link to, and description of, its source. Media without source links may also be removed expeditiously. It is in your best interests to complete Media descriptions and justifications immediately.

The use of non-free media outside the main article namespace does not constitute fair use, and is not permitted.

Local uploads vs. Wikimedia Commons
You can make a local upload to this edition of Wikinews through Special:Upload. Local upload should be exclusively for fair use media. Free content should be uploaded to the Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository used by all Wikimedia projects. This ensures other language editions of Wikinews can immediately use said media without re-uploading, as well as other Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia and Wikibooks.

Remember that you must be logged in to upload files.

Free content includes images in the public domain, under Creative Commons licenses (except for the "non-commercial" or "no derivatives" variants), under the GNU FDL, and under other free licenses. See the complete list of licenses allowed on the Wikimedia Commons and the list of free content image sources.

Rule of preference
When two media files depict the same subject, and one is free content where the other is not, use the free version, even if it is inferior in quality. Keep in mind, the goal of Wikinews is to create a free content news source that can be used by anyone for any purpose. Media under non-free licenses are an impediment to that goal.

Fair use whitelist
Any use not covered by this whitelist is not allowed. If you feel the whitelist should be expanded, please comment on the discussion page.

Logos, publicity shots, and screen captures
By their nature, logos and publicity shots are designed to be used to refer to a person, organization, and some readily identifiable locations. Screen captures may contain copyrighted information even though the image is made on a personal computer, but may perfectly illustrate an article about software or the Internet. When used this way, they are fair use.

Publicity photos
Publicity photos must be tagged with the publicity template, which categorizes the images into Category:Publicity photos. Book covers may instead be tagged with non-free book cover and album covers with non-free album cover, which are tailored to those specific publicity images.

Public figures, places, and more may have photos made available for use by the media. These images are usually copyrighted and are released specifically to present the figure, location, or corporation in a positive light. They should be viewed critically for this form of bias.

Example of appropriate use: Original graphic of Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin from the Canadian Government in an article about his visit to the United States.
 * Publicity images from the Canadian Government are copyright and licensed for restricted use, which makes them non-free. An original unaltered image in an article about the figure is appropriate.

Example of inappropriate use: The same image, with the logo of the Liberal Party of Canada added to the graphic. Or the image used in an article about politicians in which Paul Martin is not specifically named.
 * Copyrighted images may not be altered or defaced. Images used must be specifically relevant to the story they illustrate.

Trademarks and logos
Copyrighted logos must be tagged with the logo template, which categorizes the images into Category:Logos. If the image is simple enough to not be copyrightable (as in just merely text), tag it with pd-ineligible and trademark. Logos bearing logo require no further rationale.

Corporate logos exist to make instant recognition of a company and its products or public image, usually with an intent to be a message, and this form of communication may be POV. Trademark law is somewhat unique, in that use of a trademark is a reasonable substitution for the corporation's name; but they may not be altered or defaced in any way.

Example of appropriate use: To illustrate an article about the joint General Motors and Toyota fuel cell project, both original trademarked logos are displayed separately.
 * Separate original logos used to illustrate an article about the two corporations.

Example of inappropriate use: A collage of over-lapping oil company logos to illustrate an article about a U.S. Senate debate over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
 * Altered (put together into a collage) logos of corporations which are not the focus of the article; the U.S. Senate is the focus.

Screen shots
Screenshots must be tagged with the screen shot template, which categorizes the images into Category:Screen shots.

Screenshots are images created on a user's computer from what is visible on the computer screen. The software or information visible in the screenshot may still be copyrighted, so these images are often not free. A limited number of images (for example, not every page of a website or every screen of a computer program) may fall under the Fair Use description if they are used to illustrate a newsworthy story.

Example of appropriate use: A capture of a program's splash screen or a shot highlighting a specific newsworthy item in an article about the program or news item.
 * An image specific for the article, and not attempting to cover every element of the program, website, or other data.

Example of inappropriate use: Screen captures showing important elements of how a software works or substantial elements of a copyrighted material, like how to solve a game or much of a website.
 * Too much, or too general, and not being used to illustrate the article but rather to convey much of the copyrighted information through the graphics.

IRIN photographs
IRIN photographs must be tagged with the irin template, which categorizes the images into Category:IRIN.

Photographs from the IRIN photo gallery, as well as all IRIN material distributed on the IRIN website and e-mail services, are owned by the Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), a project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

IRIN materials (articles, photographs, radio broadcasts and films) may be reposted on a website or reprinted in media services and humanitarian reports free-of-charge. The reprinting/reposting of IRIN materials by commercial and non-commercial media services in print or on the web and their reproduction for TV or radio broadcasts is also permitted free-of-charge.

Crown Copyright
Photographs or images that are Crown Copyright must be tagged with the crown copyright template, which categorizes the images into Category:Crown copyright image.

Crown copyright protected material (other than the Royal Arms and departmental or agency logos) may be reproduced free of charge in any format or medium - provided it is reproduced accurately and not in a misleading context. Where the material is being published or issued to others, the sources and copyright status should be acknowledged. Where any of the Crown copyright items on this site are being republished or copied to others, the source of the material must be identified and the copyright status acknowledged.

Some images that are Crown Copyright are also licensed under the Open Government Licence. If this is the case, they can be uploaded to Commons, as OGL licensed images are considered "free" for use on Wikimedia projects more generally. Some government photos are also published on Flickr under a CC license. This does not override either an implied OGL license or Crown Copyright.

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Wikinews talk:Policies and guidelines/Fair use

Amgine, thanks for creating this introduction to the concept of "fair use".

What do you think about adding these points?

 * The Administrators of the Wikimedia Commons site have a policy which explicitly states that the Commons site cannot host "fair use" images.

 * Upload is normally disabled on all Wikinews sites, so contributors cannot post images to a local repository which uses different rules than the Commons.

Long-time contributors are already aware of these points, but it would help new contributors to understand the current ground rules that are framing this discussion.

Looking forward, this page will be useful as part of a presentation to the Wikimedia Foundation board to make the case for allowing Wikinews to host its own "fair use" images, so thanks again for putting this material together.

Regards,

— DV 01:25, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * It's a lot harder to write than I thought! I'll add those points immediately. - Amgine 01:31, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Wikicommons does not allow fair use images
Maybe we should note that since WN uses Wikicommons, we cannot allow storage of copyrighted or registered trademark images - that the use of a "fair use" tag in an upload is akin to nominating the image for deletion. (see: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:FAQ ) -- Davodd | Talk 01:49, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Did that address it? I think I already say "do not upload fair use to commons". - Amgine 01:53, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

How this page should be developed
I've explained the fair use situation with regard to Wikinews a bit more in this mailing list post. In a nutshell, coming up with a legally sane policy on fair use is a prerequisite for re-enabling local uploads.--Eloquence 06:09, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The policy on image use specifically
Since this page only talks about fair use (and there are other cases of image licenses, such as image grants, that have to be addressed), I created Policies and guidelines/Image use policy. That is meant to explain what images may and may not be uploaded locally.

This came about because I've been trying to arrange a license grant of a particular image under the cc-by-sa license, but the copyright holder would have preferred to simply grant us a license. While not preferred, this should still be acceptable (i.e. this way we could also, for example, purchase stock photography and use it if we really really need to, with restrictions that they normally come with. Such use will let us build the news site that we need to build.) -- IlyaHaykinson 07:27, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Fair use and Firefox logo
I ran into this problem when putting the Firefox logo on a bunch of Mozilla-related pages; Amgine said no and reverted my edits. I'm not the only editor who has ran into this problem. I believe that there should be a repository on Wikinews specifically and solely for images which are permitted on Wikipedia but not Wikimedia commons, such as fair use images. Any other image should be transwikied to Commons and deleted. Andrew pmk 00:56, 11 May 2005 (UTC)


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User:Andrew pmk/monobook/main.css

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Wikinews:Image use policy

This policy is meant to apply to images only, but may at a future date extend to other media accepted by the upload process.

Free images
Images which meet the Definition of Free Cultural Works (see the specific licenses meeting this standard) should be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository shared by all projects.

Fair use images
Images can be accepted locally if they fall under the fair use defense. Since Wikinews is a news organization, the fair use defense would not apply to images from other news web sites or blogs.

Under this clause, the following image types may be uploaded to the English Wikinews:
 * logos
 * publicity photos
 * covers of books and electronic media
 * some screenshots

Specifically, images that are part of "press kits" or are otherwise made available for press use can be uploaded locally.

Wikinews has a general policy on fair use which governs this issue.

Grants of license
Wikinews may be granted an explicit license to use particular images, even if the image remains under the copyright. The uploaded image must have the name of the copyright holder in the description. The description may also contain the name of the user who arranged the license grant. If Wikinews was granted a license in situ — in a statement on the copyright holder's website, for example — the grant statement should be included instead.

Images with license grants may be subject to certain requirements. This may include their use in derivative works, or requirements of attribution. These restrictions must be clearly noted in the image description. Images with attribution must be attributed in every article where they are used.

Images with a grant of license must be uploaded to Wikinews locally, and not to the Wikimedia Commons. They should have either url of copyright statement or gol image on the image description page as well.

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Template talk:MainPageHeader

Writing smaller than 100% is quite hard to read at 1024x768 and above Dan100 (Talk) 09:20, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Edit->write
I've gained some good feedback on the site last night. One comment was that it was hard to see a 'way in' for writing stories, even though a very good one exists! So I've changed 'edit' to 'write' as it definitely draws more people in. Dan100 (Talk) 14:55, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Remove redirect
Please shift About to Introduction to avoid redirect link. Shyam ( T / C ) 06:48, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * good point. done.  -- IlyaHaykinson 09:42, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

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Chicago chef invents edible menu

February 13, 2005 Cordon-bleu chef Homaru Cantu has announced a technique which allows him to create dishes made of edible, inkjet printed paper. Cantu, a head chef at the Moto restaurant in Chicago, has modified an ink-jet printer with the help of computer specialists from local firm Deep Labs and loaded it with cartridges containing concoctions of fruit and vegetables. Using this modified printer Cantu then prints onto edible sheets of soybean and potato starch tasty images downloaded from the web.

“You can make an ink-jet printer do just about anything,” says Cantu. Once the items have been printed they are dipped into a powder made of soy sauce, sugar and vegetables before then being further processed by frying, freezing, or baking them.

Cantu has applied the technique to the printing of menus so that diners can further flavor their soups by ripping up the menu and adding it to the dish.

He hopes that his idea may find its way into popular media. “Just imagine going through a magazine and looking at an ad for pizza. You wonder what it tastes like, so you rip a page out and eat it,” says the chef who is working at perfecting the flavors and has applied for a patent on the technique.

Cantu also has plans for further culinary innovations. He plans to cook steak using a handheld laser that will sear the inside of the steak well done whilst leaving the outside medium rare. He also plans to use the laser to produce bread baked from the inside out thus producing a crust on the inside.

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Crosswords/2005/February/14

February 14, 2005

Quick crossword
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 * 4. Not young (3)
 * 8. A device to keep rowing paddles slipping (7)
 * 9. Very angry (5)
 * 10. Toboggan (4)
 * 12. In a concessive and sorry manner (10)
 * 13. Mathematically thorough (8)
 * 15. Cows, for one (6)
 * 17. Not aesthetic structure (7)
 * 19. Throat tissues (7)
 * 21. Place pitch upon (6)
 * 23. Olive-like bush (8)
 * 26. Digestion and energy creating processes in the human body (10)
 * 27. Joint (4)
 * 29. Musical direction not to play (5)
 * 30. Turned (7)
 * 31. Communicate via speech (3)
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 * 1. Calm and collected (4)
 * 2. Poke (4)
 * 3. Edible tuber (6)
 * 4. Sea north of Sakhalin (7)
 * 5. Someone once married (8)
 * 6. Today, _________'_ day (8'1)
 * 7. Automatically call a number again (6)
 * 10. Glut (7)
 * 11. Reproductive half (3)
 * 14. The honoring of an occasion or custom (10)
 * 16. Support (7)
 * 18. British soldiers (esp. in the US) (8)
 * 20. Shaping of hedges, bushes (7)
 * 22. Representatives (6)
 * 24. Hostility (6)
 * 25. Brown (3)
 * 27. Japanese instrument (4)
 * 28. Small whirlpool (4)
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Howard Dean elected chairman of U.S. Democrats

February 13, 2005 was elected the chairman of the Democratic Party of the United States on Saturday. The former governor of Vermont and a presidential candidate in the 2004 elections was chosen by a voice vote of the 447-member. Dean replaces as chairman of the committee.

The election of Dean to the post reflects the party's trust in his accomplishments during the presidential campaign. As a candidate, Dean mobilized support from across the country in his Dean for America campaign, using the Internet as a medium for organizing fundraising. According to MSNBC, the House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said "He has used the power of technology, the force of his personality and the depth of his ideals to bring new people into the party." Dean did not win the party's nomination, which instead went to.

In his acceptance speech, Dean called for increased organization, and standing up for the party's platform. He said "Standing up for our beliefs, organizing, and transforming our party into a grassroots organization that can win in all 50 states: That's how we will rebuild the Democratic Party."

Dean's new position faces a mixed reaction from other politicians. The chairman of the, Ken Mehlman, said that "Howard Dean's energy and passion will add to the political discourse in this country and he will be a strong leader for his party." Former of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich has recently said that the Democrats should only elect Dean "if they have a true death wish."


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UN troops accused of rape in Congo; UN staff suspended due to Iraq Oil-for-Food corruption

February 13, 2005

United Nations (UN) troops based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo face 150 allegations of rape including gang rapes committed against children as young as twelve.

The UN's Office of Internal Oversight Services reported these crimes which occurred even while investigators were in Congo. The Secretary-General of the UN, Kofi Annan has condemned the soldiers and has banned the peacekeeping troops (those deployed in Congo) from having sex with local residents.

The soldiers are believed to have bribed young starving children with eggs, milk or a few dollars to have sex. There are believed to be at least fifty different soldiers involved. Kofi Annan pledged personally to "root out this problem." The United Nations has 65,000 troops in 16 different locations, with 16,700 UN soldiers and other staff in Congo alone.

Annan also faces serious allegations of impropriety for the UN's $64 billion oil-for-food program which allegedly enriched Annan's relatives, senior officials within the Russian and French governments and deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. The UN's own internal inquiry headed by former United States Federal Reserve Board chair Paul Volcker confirmed misconduct allegations leading to the termination of several senior UN officials.


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Portal talk:European Weather

This is called "European weather", but north-northern Europe is missing. The same is true for east-eastern Europe, by the way. The map should go al the way to Murmansk. and the Ural if it would be European weather. Gerrit 10:34, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Gerrit, you are quite right. The map only represents parts of Europe. ---ArneEide 14:35, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry about that. Unfortunately, I had to zoom in to fit some of more popular cities onto the map without overlapping each other's names or temperature dots. I'm working on extending the region support so I can add sub-regions that are more zoomed in, as well as differently shaped maps, after which I will change the Europe regional map to show the entire extent of the region, per my trusty Hammond World Atlas. — DV 10:23, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

There is a star beside Zurich, I thought Bern was the capital of Switzerland? Earl Andrew 06:33, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Darn it, that's what I get for not zooming in on my reference map closely enough. From a distance, the capital star looked like it was attached to Zurich, but you are quite correct - I'll fix the map to use Bern in the next update. Sorry for not being more careful. I appreciate your taking the time to review my work for accuracy. — DV 10:23, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

What is even worse that the template name is "WeatherEU". One, EU is a political organization, and two, not the whole of EU is in the map, not even the continental EU.

 * Please don't read too much into the template name - it's just a short abbreviation used to make it easier to type. If I've overlooked a place where the template name is visible to readers who aren't looking under the covers at the page source, please let me know and I will fix it. — DV 10:23, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

City of Belgrade is missing from the map.

Hope I'll be able to see something about Reykjavík in Iceland soon on the map. Last time I knew, Iceland is in Europe. --193.4.198.10 8 July 2005 11:18 (UTC)

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User talk:210.81.251.143

Welcome
210.81.251.143, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! -- IlyaHaykinson 11:28, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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User talk:Aphaia

Hi Aphaia! I've done the translation now. Thank you for asking me about it. See you! / Mats Halldin 14:02, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

==Moving protection
 * Do you want your user pages move-protected? Normally I ask this of anyone who's had their pages moved, but I er, forgot :-). Best reply on my talk page so I see it. Dan100 (Talk) 09:22, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

There you go! Dan100 (Talk) 10:59, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks ;-) --Aphaia 13:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Good to see you! - Amgine/talk 04:05, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * hugs*--Aphaia 05:55, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Nagasaki article
I truly think you should start it off...because you may have some good emotional fuel. Paulrevere2005 16:45, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

60th anniversary of the end of the war in the Far East and Pacific commemorated
I'm almost regretting having created this article :-D Anyway, I hope the title is ok now. Would you say its NPOV enough now? When I first started the article this morning, I was intending to have sections on each country (including Japan) to show how it was being marked. Ah well. By the way, it would be great if you could find some a quote from a Japanese veteran of the war. Take care! SoLando 01:37, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your note, I have some comments from families of dead soldiers but try to find, if any. Regards, --Aphaia 01:51, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Back to work?
Good to see you working on some Wikinews articles!  Thunderhead  ►  20:06, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for warm welcoming :)

CEs
Dont worry - anytime. Nice to have some new articles to do ces to though!!--Mark Talk 18:23, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

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User talk:TalkHard/In-Depth Articles

I plan to set up a poll on adding an In-Depth Article section to the main page. Before I do I'd appreciate feedback on the following:

 * More criticism of the idea that needs to be addressed.
 * More examples of potential stories.
 * In-Depth Article a good name for the idea? Other suggestions?
 * Anywhere else the piece could be clarified or improved?

TalkHard 14:45, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Comments

 * Timing - Wikinews as a beta project has been in existence since late November. Although investigative reporting is a great goal, it isn't likely to be encouraged until we have more news coming in than we have room for.
 * Critical investigative reporting requires time, resources, and high standards. It would be useful to develop the standards first.
 * In-Depth is not a good title, imo
 * Front page - the main page will be undergoing major changes in the next weeks, when we get certain technical upgrades implemented in the software. Until then it would be very inappropriate to ask for changes. The current main page layout is primarily to reduce maintenance requirements while awaiting these technical upgrades.

There is much more I'd like to say, but I haven't the time to address this in-depth; there are too many things which require my time and attention. I think the same will be true for many of the dedicated wikinewsies - which is why I would strongly suggest you hold off on this.

Also, develop discussions and avoid polls. See Wikinews talk:Crossword poll for some idea of why. This is a fine place to begin, as well as the water cooler. - Amgine 16:25, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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New Ariane 5 ECA rocket launch a success

February 13, 2005 http://www.esa.int/export/images/KOU01-182614-pih_L.jpg The European Space Agency's new Ariane 5 ECA rocket placed two satellites in orbit Saturday February 12, successfully completing its initial qualifying flight. The Ariane 5 ECA is to be the ESA's new workhorse launcher for injecting payloads into geostationary orbit.

Launched from the Guiana Space Centre at Kourou, French Guiana, the new rocket design carried three payloads: the X-TAR-EUR communications satellite, the Sloshsat FLEVO experimental satellite, and the Maqsat B2 which remained attached to the Ariane upper stage.

The Ariane ECA can carry up to ten tons of payload improving on the launch capacity of the Ariane 5 Generic by 4 tonnes.

This launch was the second test for the new design following a launch failure in December 2002.


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Shiites win dominating role in Iraq

February 13, 2005

Iraq – The Shi'a United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) candidates have won at least 132 of 275 seats in the Iraq National Assembly, according to the results announced Sunday.

Capturing 48.1% of the national vote, the UIA is the largest single block in the Assembly. Yet even so large a block must create alliances with other parties to form a unity government. There has been ongoing speculation the UIA is in negotiations with the Democratic Patriotic Alliance of Kurdistan in advance of the poll results.

The union of the Khurdish parties garnered 25.4% of the national vote, equivalent to 71 seats, giving Khurds a vital voice in the National Assembly. The parties have reiterated their call for a Khurdish president or prime minister.

al-Qayimaal Iraqia, dominated by Iyad Allawi's Iraqi National Accord party, polled at 13.8%, and secured 38 seats.

Sunni voters stayed away from the election in droves, leaving them with very little representation in the Assembly. The Iraqis, the largest Sunni party in Iraq, received only 150,000 votes, less than two percent of the votes reported. The next largest, the Independent Democrats Movement, gained less than 0.1 percent.

The National Assembly vote on January 30 also included elections for governors, and the Khurdistan Assembly.

There are approximately 14.2 million eligible voters and 7,761 candidates in the Transitional National Assembly race. Approximately 58% of eligible voters cast their votes in the election, in line with pre-election projections.

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Talk:Chicago chef invents edible menu

Diary Queen prints images onto edible paper? They have been doing it for years. -Scott

Wait - I thought menus were already edible! -- Phyzome is Tim McCormack 13:45, 2005 Jun 24 (UTC)

edible menu
Moved to the Comments namespace by Anonymous101 (talk) at 14:38, 17 July 2008 (UTC) as not related to improving the article

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The Aviator and Vera Drake scoop top prizes at the 2005 Orange BAFTA Film Awards

February 13, 2005

LONDON – The big-budget Hollywood movie The Aviator and the low-budget Brit flick Vera Drake have scooped the main prizes at the 2005 Orange BAFTA Film Awards. Four gongs went to The Aviator with the top ones being Best Film and Cate Blanchett for Best Supporting Actress. Vera Drake got three gongs with Best Director, Best Actress & Costume Design. Jamie Foxx got Best Actor with Ray and Clive Owen got Best Supporting Actor with Closer.

Best film

 * The Aviator
 * Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
 * Finding Neverland
 * Motorcycle Diaries
 * Vera Drake

Best British film

 * My Summer of Love
 * Vera Drake
 * Dead Man's Shoes
 * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
 * Shaun of the Dead

Best actor in a leading role

 * Jamie Foxx - Ray
 * Gael Garcia Bernal - The Motorcycle Diaries
 * Jim Carrey - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
 * Johnny Depp - Finding Neverland
 * Leonardo DiCaprio - The Aviator

Best actress in a leading role

 * Imelda Staunton - Vera Drake
 * Charlize Theron - Monster
 * Kate Winslet - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
 * Kate Winslet - Finding Neverland
 * Ziyi Zhang - House of Flying Daggers

Best actor in a supporting role

 * Clive Owen - Closer
 * Alan Alda - The Aviator
 * Jamie Foxx - Collateral
 * Phil Davis - Vera Drake
 * Rodrigo De La Serna - The Motorcycle Diaries

Best actress in a supporting role

 * Cate Blanchett - The Aviator
 * Heather Craney - Vera Drake
 * Julie Christie - Finding Neverland
 * Meryl Streep - The Manchurian Candidate
 * Natalie Portman - Closer

Original screenplay

 * Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
 * The Aviator
 * Collateral
 * Ray
 * Vera Drake

Adapted screenplay

 * Sideways
 * The Chorus
 * Closer
 * Finding Neverland
 * The Motorcycle Diaries

The David Lean Award for achievement in direction

 * Mike Leigh - Vera Drake
 * Martin Scorsese - The Aviator
 * Michael Mann - Collateral
 * Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
 * Marc Forster - Finding Neverland

The Carl Foreman Award for special achievement by a British Director/Producer or Writer in their first feature film

 * Amma Asante - Director/Writer (for A Way of Life)
 * Andrea Gibb - Writer (for Afterlife)
 * Matthew Vaughn - Director (for Layer Cake)
 * Nira Park - Producer (for Shaun of the Dead)
 * Shona Auerbach - Director (for Dear Frankie)

Best film not in the English language

 * Diarios de Motocicleta (The Motorcycle Diaries)
 * Les Choristes (The Chorus)
 * Un Long Dimanche de Fiancailles (A Very Long Engagement)
 * La Mala Educacion (Bad Education)
 * Shi Mian Mai Fu (House of Flying Daggers)

The Anthony Asquith Award for achievement in film music

 * The Motorcycle Diaries
 * The Aviator
 * The Chorus
 * Finding Neverland
 * Ray

Cinematography

 * Collateral
 * The Aviator
 * Finding Neverland
 * House of Flying Daggers
 * The Motorcycle Diaries

Editing

 * Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
 * The Aviator
 * Collateral
 * House of Flying Daggers
 * Vera Drake

Production design

 * The Aviator
 * Finding Neverland
 * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
 * House of Flying Daggers
 * Vera Drake

Costume design

 * Vera Drake
 * The Aviator
 * Finding Neverland
 * House of Flying Daggers
 * The Merchant of Venice

Sound

 * Ray
 * The Aviator
 * Collateral
 * House of Flying Daggers
 * Spider-Man 2

Achievement in special visual effects

 * The Day After Tomorrow
 * The Aviator
 * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
 * House of Flying Daggers
 * Spider-Man 2

Make Up and Hair

 * The Aviator
 * Finding Neverland
 * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
 * House of Flying Daggers
 * Vera Drake

Short animation film

 * Birthday Boy
 * City Paradise
 * Heavy Pockets
 * His Passionate Bride
 * Little Things

Short Film

 * The Banker
 * Can't Stop Breathing
 * Elephant Boy
 * Knitting a Love Song
 * Six Shooter

Orange Film of the Year (public vote)

 * Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban


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User:Gkhan~enwikinews

Hello!!

I'm a relativly new wikinewsian and don't contribute much, although I do enjoy the crossword puzzle.

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User:Gkhan~enwikinews/Crosswords

Feb 13:

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 * 1. Head of state (9)
 * 6. Severely beat up (5)
 * 10. 2005 U.S. Secretary of State (10,5)
 * 11. Level (4)
 * 12. Takes drugs above recommended levels (9)
 * 15. Basketball manoeuvre (7)
 * 17. Spiny mammal (7)
 * 19. Having no function (7)
 * 20. Mollusc; mussel, for one (7)
 * 23. Chromosomal makeup (9)
 * 26. Mix (4)
 * 29. Putting it off (15)
 * 30. Nevermore bird (5)
 * 31. Covered liberally (9)
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 * 2. Cock-a-doodle-doo bird (7)
 * 3. Edge along sideways (5)
 * 4. Not shiny; less intelligent (4)
 * 5. Maiden name is Eve (literally) (3,3)
 * 7. Mouth organ (9)
 * 8. Riches (5)
 * 9. Russian emperor (4)
 * 13. Sequence of sequential notes (music) (5)
 * 14. Money donated (4)
 * 15. Imbibed (5)
 * 16. Complain, whine (9)
 * 18. Magazine; holding clasp (4)
 * 21. Wordy (7)
 * 22. Phlegm (6)
 * 24. Heart artery (5)
 * 25. Streetcar (4)
 * 27. Honorific (5)
 * 28. Flat; apartment (4)
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Talk:Canadian PM Martin testifies before sponsorship scandal inquiry

I read with some concern that Martin lead a round of applause for Chretien's discreditable conduct at the Sponsorship Inquiry.

People praise Chretien for keeping us out of Iraq....an amusing comment....we couldn't have helped out in Iraq in the first place. While the United States makes history in Iraq, we sit a moan about a hockey strike. I have watched Canada, the country of my birth, become a small minded, left wing bastion of nothing, run by people who THINK they are making a difference in the world...what a difference Martin made walking along the beach in Phuket with his wife. What is wrong with us? We put down our neighbour to the south, yet if ONE Canadian wins a U.S. golf tournament, or wins a nomination for an Oscar, it is front page news.

We are not much above a third world country, in fact Martin even mentioned this in his "OUT OF THE LOOP" testimony...do Canadians and the Canadian Government think we look important when we constantly crticize the United States. If anything it makes us look less important than we are.,

I am ashamed of Canada and the politicians who try to run the country.

God Bless the U.S.A.


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Wikinews talk:Submit a story

Please avoid instruction creep on this page
It is essential that the instructions on this page remain as simple as possible. Links to complex outside policy pages should be avoided in the main instructions. Instruction creep, the well-intentioned addition of more and more guidelines and restrictions, would defeat the purpose. The page is intended for people who want to get their feet wet. It's OK if they violate some policies and style guidelines. We're here to welcome them into the fold, and point them to the right places, once they have familiarized themselves with the interface.

I therefore suggest as a rule that the header of the page should be at most 1000 characters long. It is currently at 1144, so I encourage you to help abridging it.--Eloquence 21:47, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I believe checking the content guide should be the first step in the process as many users are coming to this page then writing material totally unsuitable for Wikinews, which wastes their time and ours. A sentence later on the page isn't as prominent as is less likely to be read. Dan100 (Talk) 01:36, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I feel I should add that as one of the few editors tending this page I speak from some experience - this step is needed. Further, don't under-estimate the potential negative effects of not having this step, eg a user writing an story not worthy of use, seeing it's not used, and then being disaffected with the project. If he'd known from the outset what is likely to be published, he would've been more likely to have had a more satisfactory experience. Dan100 (Talk) 01:46, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * The kind of people who would use this page aren't likely to follow any further links, I'm afraid, especially if they lead to long explanations. What we want to say could perhaps be summarized in one sentence on this page instead.--Eloquence 01:54, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm just not sure it's possible to put it all into one sentence. Dan100 (Talk) 02:10, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * In that case, I suggest editing the instructions based on your experiences with the page. For example, now we got some commentary, it makes sense to point out that commentary is not allowed. If we can keep the whole thing shorter than 1000 chars, that would be fantastic.--Eloquence 02:22, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree that a user of this page probably wouldn't wade through a policy page first; I was suffering from wishful thinking. I'll try and write a sentence, or maybe just move yours up a bit. Dan100 (Talk) 11:46, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Thats a lot better... all we need now is for someone to actually submit a story! Nice work dan. CGorman 15:22, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ushering contributors to other pages defeats the point
Wikinews is complex. Wikinews isn't as fun as it should be for someone who has never used a wiki. Unlike Wikipedia, it's not enough to just follow an existing red link somewhere to create a story, because there aren't many of these. You have to figure out how the development and publication cycle works. In the long term, I hope we can simplify things substantially. Absent such changes, the purpose of Submit a story is to encourage new contributors to get their feet wet and, hopefully, get their story posted.

I realize that maintaining this page is work. But it also reduces work in other ways, in that problematic stories are centralized on one page, and newcomers who are genuinely interested in writing stories can be relatively easily welcomed and tutored on the process.

If we put a big green box on this page, as Davodd suggested, that directs contributors to the complex instructions, we might as well do away with it completely. But I'd rather keep it in use at it is for a while. If you (the reader of this comment) get annoyed maintaining it, then just let other people do it, and don't worry if stories linger here a bit -- well-written ones usually get promoted fairly quickly as it is.--Eloquence 22:47, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * While I do agree with most of your points, letting a story linger, unposted, defeats the purpose of this page and is contrary to the definition of newsworthiness of news. I removed the green box - but previously reverted the anon edit since it also affected other portions of the article i.e. removing wikimarkup. -- Davodd | Talk 22:56, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * The types of stories that linger are often the ones which shouldn't be posted anyway. Of course we should strive to be fast at moving good ones out of the queue, and I'll spend some more time on it from now.--Eloquence 01:18, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Me too. :-) -- Davodd | Talk 02:05, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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Gunman opens fire at upstate New York shopping mall

The Hudson Valley Mall in Kingston, New York, U.S. is under lockdown after at least one man entered the building and opened fire. The mall is located about 90 miles north of New York City.

Police said that two people were injured. One of the victims received a serious gunshot wound in the leg. That victim, a 20-year-old Army recruiter, was taken by helicopter to an Albany hospital where doctors said the man may lose his leg. Another victim was hit in the hand by shrapnel.

Police took a 24-year-old man into custody. The suspect is currently being interviewed at the Ulster County Sheriff's Department. Police report that an assault rifle has been recovered at the mall.

Officials say that the man entered the Best Buy store and opened fire as he walked towards the entrance to the rest of the mall. When the gunman ran out of ammunition, he surrendered to a mall employee.

A Gap employee told a Fox News reporter that mall staff ordered shoppers into the back room of the store when the first shots were fired.

A shopper, Heather Craig, told CNN by phone that, when shots were fired, the numerous people filling the mall corridors were tripping over each other trying to exit the building, while some people stood dumbfounded. None of the frightened shoppers confronted the gunman before his surrender.

Officials said that the mall will not be reopened until at least Monday. Police have locked down the mall as SWAT teams continue to search the building.

Earlier reports said that there were as many as three gunmen but police now believe that there was only one gunman.

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Talk:Shiites win dominating role in Iraq

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Are population percentages available?
If we knew the percentage of the population of Iraq that is Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish then the election voting percentages would be more meaningful. For example the knowing the percentage of Sunni along with the percentage of Sunni voting would tell us what the Sunni turnout was. FrankH 23:36, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Accurate percentages are not. The best guess is Shiite 60%, Kurdish 20%, Sunni 15%, other 5%. That is probably within +-5% of the real numbers. 66.51.192.14 03:15, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I will wait...
Thanks for that information. The other part I was hoping to find somewhere was the complete breakdown of the 111 political parties that were registered for the election. I assume a those parties were split among Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish. What I would then like to see is a comparison between the total vote for the Shiite parties compared to the 60% Shiite population percentage etc. I think both the Shi'a United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) and the Iraqi National Accord parties are Shiite so adding their percentages gives 62% but their must be other Shiite parties that I haven't seen reported anywhere. It is clear that the Kurds got 25% of the vote for 20% population. And I read somewhere that the biggest Sunni party got like 2% of the vote. But the problem is that only adds up to 89% of the total vote, so the other 100+ parties must have split the remaining 11% of the vote. How did that divide out and how do the totals compare to the population percentages?

I think we will have to wait till this is finalized and they actually come up with the seat assignments in the assembly. Parties that got too low a percentage will get 0 seats. Once those seat counts by party and minority are available, we can get the information I want. So I will just wait... FrankH 06:03, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Shouldn't the title of this article be "...chairman of the U.S. Democratic Party" ? That's the actual name of the party, the current formulation just makes it seem awkward. MikeCapone 08:41, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Leave a message hear and I will reply here...

About Edits to United Iraqi Alliance win slight majority
I'm really glad you asked that, because it makes me think it through.

 * So doesn't the fact that this was "reported" by a major US newspaper make it a fact and not a NPOV violation?

No, it doesnt. News reporting is almost always biased in favor of the intended audience. If something which cannot be known factually is reported, it is an opinion and needs to be ascribed. So, in this case, you might say "Reports in U.S. media say Sunni voters..." which is a fact. If someone claims to have done a poll showing the reason you would ascribe it to the report; "A Gallup poll found..."

This is my interpretation of the NPOV as applied to reporting on Wikinews, of course, but I think it is a fair one. Main stream press does not need to justify what it reports; Wikinews does. - Amgine 17:01, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Im aware you've good experience writing for Wikipedia, so its great to see you over here at WikiNews the last few days. So heres an offical welcome!

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The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

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Wikinews:Wikiday

Wikiday is an idea to break up the 24 hour day into three color zones, to make for easier real-time meeting and coordination. The graph is intended to make understanding time zone shifts easier, by using color to represent the local time of day: from light blue morning to orange dusk to dark blue late night. Vertically, the zones are placed in same-time relation to each other.

The three main timezones used are CHT (China), GMT (Europe), and PST (America). Where green and blue meet represents the only reasonable common meeting timeframe for all zones, namely late night in China, afternoon Europe, and early morning in the United States.

A day progresses from left to right. If GMT 12:00 is the base, PST localtime is early morning, and China time is 8pm evening, etc.

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Not sure what this isnt being used for. I mean why this is not being used anymore - its been a while, anyway. -Stevertigo 00:14, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Brazilian Medicine Council against Cuban privileges

February 14, 2005 The Brazilian Regional Council of Medicine has protested against a Ministry of Education decision to accept the diplomas of Cuban medical school graduates without subjecting them to a more rigorous evaluation process.

Under the Brazilian 44045 Edict of July 19, 1958, all students of Medicine, Brazilian or non-Brazilian, who studied in a foreign institution must undergo a strict evaluation before their professional registration is granted. The law aims to ensure that the physicians who graduated at foreign universities are properly prepared for and familiarized with the particular medical conditions of Brazil. Some diseases like malaria and dengue for example are very rare in some countries but are more common in Brazilian territory.

However the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC) has come to an agreement with the Cuban government to allow medical students who studied in Cuba to go through a less rigorous examination. Furthermore the MEC wants to exempt the students from the Cuban Escola Latino Americana de Medicina (Latin American Medicine School) or ELAM located in Havana from the examination. Under the agreement, the diplomas of ELAM students would be automatically recognized as valid in Brazil. The Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed the endorsement of this agreement last year during his visit to Cuba.

The Brazilian Regional Council of Medicine from São Paulo is opposed to the idea of accepting the Cuban diplomas and is to dispute the deal in Court. The council says the government decision is unfair and disadvantages Brazilian students. It also says that the decision puts the Brazilian community at risk because of differences between Cuban and Brazilian medical education. Cuban physicians are prepared for Cuban conditions and necessities in health which differ from Brazilian ones. Additionally the council argues that the decision is against the law because the Brazilian 44045 Edict demands that all medical students from foreign schools have to pass a careful examination.

The Cuban First Secretary of Technical and Scientific Collaboration in Health, Filisberto Perez, recognizes that both Brazil and Cuba have different models of apprenticeship in medicine. However he believes that Cuba and Brazil can recognize each other's diplomas without difficulty.

Early this year, a team of Brazilian inspectors visited the leading medical schools in Cuba to evaluate them so the degrees can be formalized.

The MEC's decision has angered some Brazilian students. "Why would I study for two years so I could get admitted to a Brazilian school if it would be easier to "buy" my diploma in Cuba?" asks Artur Oliveira Mendes in a email sent to a academic organization. He added: "...our schools of medicine are demoralized before the president's declaration."

The Brazilian students who are in Cuba were selected by the PT, PCdoB, and MST.

Senator José Agripino Maia (PFL) asked the Minister of Education Tarso Genro to explain before the Senate Education Commission why the students from Cuba are being favoured by the Brazilian government.


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U.S. drones reported in Iranian airspace

February 14, 2005

Three U.S.-government sources have reported the existence of U.S. military drone flights made over Iran, carrying surveillance equipment and particle filters capable of detecting nuclear materials. Confusingly, U.S.-military sources denied the overflights.

Iranian military personnel said they were aware of them, and sightings had prompted a number of UFO reports in the area of Iranian nuclear installations. They viewed them as provocative and probably designed to trick the Iranians into turning on their radar so that the US could determine potential targets.

Because Iran does not have political ties with the US, it has formally issued its objections to the flights through Swiss diplomats.


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American nun murdered in Brazil

Gunmen murdered an American Catholic nun, Sister Dorothy Stang, 73, in, Brazil.

The crime occurred Saturday, Feb. 12, at 9:00 a.m. Her attackers shot Stang six times: once in the head, three times in the back, while she was carrying a Bible. Another shot, at her neck, was fatal. The crime occurred in, Pará, inside the Amazon region.

Stang is from Ohio, United States. She had been living in Pará for about 38 years. She came to Brazil in 1966. She is a member of the Catholic group Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. She was an activist and had been working at the region of Anapu. Earlier this year, the missionary received an "Honorary Citizenship of the State" from the state of Para.

Stang had been defending the Projeto de Desenvolvimento Sustentado (Project of Supported Development) or PDS for short. The Trans-Amazon development project was designed to generate jobs and income in Anapu. It supported the creation of an fruit processing industry, the construction of two small 500 kilowatt hydroelectric power plants, and aided reforestation in degraded areas. According to Reuters, loggers, ranchers, and large farmers have been strong opponents of the project and of Stang.

Stang has already received death threats several times before. In March 2004, she asked for help from Brazilian Federal authorities, saying she and other persons were on a death list.

On another occasion, in August 2004, she said, "It is not my safety but that of the people that really matters. All of the Sisters of Notre Dame working in Brazil work very closely with our people and want to be a sign of hope. It is wonderful to be a part of this struggle and this is the contribution of Notre Dame."

The police requested the arrest of four suspects. Two are the alleged gunfighters Eduardo and Fogoió, one is a man called Tato who supposedly contacted the gunfighters and the other one is a farmer, Vítor Miro Bastos de Moura, known as Bida who is believed to have contracted the assassins.

The Brazilian police also found a body of another man 500 meters from the place were they found the body of the nun. The murdered man was identified as the peasant Adalberto Xavier Leal, known as the Cabeludo or the Hairy Man. He was working for a farmer who had already invaded the area of the PDS maintained by sister Dorothy.

The Brazilian police commissioner Marcelo Ferreira said the peasant was killed as a revenge for the murder of sister Dorothy. He received several shots from an armed group. According to the police the group would be connected to the missionary.

The funerals of sister Dorothy Stang will take place in Anapu and. She is scheduled to be buried on the morning of Feb. 16 in Anapu.

In the United States, a funeral mass is scheduled on March 19 at Mount Notre Dame Convent Chapel in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The Brazilian government declared the resolution of the case a high priority. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sent two ministers and the federal police force to the region. Eight Ministers are scheduled to have an extraordinary meeting and discuss the case.

Rosana Gisele da Costa, a friend of Stang's from the Institute of Environment Research, told reporters that there must be a more active government presence in the region.

"Unfortunately this is not a isolated case", da Costa said.

She said other people will die if the Brazilian government does not start good political development of the region. She hopes the current actions by the government after the murder of sister Dorothy will not be temporary.

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The crisis in Darfur is severely under-reported on North American media. How can bloggers help the stop the killing?

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Welcome
Tgaulkin, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! -- Davodd | Talk 09:05, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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User talk:61.68.109.33

Welcome
61.68.109.33, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! -- Davodd | Talk 09:34, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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 * Style guide - how articles should look before publishing
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
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Welcome
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Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! -- Davodd | Talk 09:36, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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Severe weather warning issued for Samoa

February 14, 2005

The Fiji Meteorological Service issued a severe weather warning for Samoa at 0835 UTC today. Forecasters are predicting damaging gale force winds, heavy rain, squally thunderstoms and heavy seas that may cause the flooding of low-lying land in the South Pacific island of Samoa within the next 24 to 36 hours.

The intensifying tropical cyclone Olaf is following in the footsteps of cyclone Nancy and the two storms are expected to interact in some way over the next 3 to 4 days. Some predictions indicate the two storms may merge.

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Madrid skyscraper devastated by fire

February 14, 2005

The 32-story Windsor Tower, located in the business district of Madrid, Spain, was devastated by the largest fire in the city's history.

The fire destroyed large parts of the building, completely gutting the top 14 floors. Parts of the structure collapsed during the blaze, which was extinguished on Sunday evening.

The 106m high tower is now extremely unstable, and experts believe there is a chance it could collapse in the next 24 hours. Surrounding areas have been evacuated, traffic diverted, and trains stopped on the three subway lines beneath the building.

The fire is believed to have been started by an electrical short-circuit on the 21st floor. No-one was in the building (which was undergoing refurbishment) at the time of the blaze; the only casualties being three firefighters treated for smoke inhalation.

The top twenty floors of the building housed the Deloitte & Touche auditing firm. The remains will be demolished at a future date.

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Good idea, although I'd have preferred the use of ':' rather than '--' in the titles, as I've never seen '--' used before.

Btw what/who is "A.Q. Khan"? Dan100 (Talk) 14:22, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Doesn't matter to me. The double-dashes are just how most library catalogs do library of congress subject headings, but it really doesn't matter to me how it is done. A.Q. Khan was the "father of the Pakistani nuclear bomb" who recently was discovered to be a major nuclear trafficker. He comes up occasionally as new countries are found to have had connections with his network (I just thought of it because the most recent TIME magazine features him on the cover). --Fastfission 02:50, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I've now realised that I didn't recognize '--' because it's an American usage. I think I can get used to it! Similarly, TIME magazine isn't widely read here in the UK so A.Q. Khan isn't quite so well known :) Dan100 (Talk) 17:59, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Human Genetics
Added an image and category marker. Do we have articles on human genetics? I haven't found any yet. MikeEdwards 06:53, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * No, but it'll be useful for when we do :) Dan100 (Talk) 17:59, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Mars
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Awesome idea.
I wish I'd known about this earlier. It's a great idea and I'd love to tackle it. I kind of feel like some of the graphics are a little intrusive and clunky, but that can certainly be resolved. There are a ton of issues that come up all the time here. irid:t 16:12, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

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Iran rejects EU nuclear reactor offer

February 14, 2005

Iran has rejected an offer by the European Union to supply a light-water nuclear research reactor.

Iran currently plans to build a heavy-water reactor at Arak in central in Iran, which could be used to convert uranium into plutonium, an element used to build atomic bombs.

The reactor design being offered by the EU would demand the use of enriched uranium, while a heavy-water reactor only requires natural uranium for fuel. Were Iran to take the EU reactor, their ability to use the reactor would be limited by outside supplies of enriched uranium—presumably allowing better regulation of their ability to use the civilian reactor for military purposes. With a heavy-water reactor, Iran would be able to presumably use uranium from its own uranium mines, and would be less dependent on Western technology or approval. According to GlobalSecurity.org, Iran has as many as 10 active uranium mines.

According to BBC News, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi rejected the offer saying "We intend to turn into an important and a major player in the nuclear fuel supply market in the next 15 years because there will be an energy shortage in the future."

The U.S. and the EU want Iran to cease all operations that could be used to produce weapons-grade nuclear material—namely uranium enrichment and the proposed heavy-water reactor operation.

title: Iran rejects EU nuclear reactor offer