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Suspected US missile strike kills eight Taliban fighters

October 1, 2009

Pakistani security officials have said that at least eight fighters were killed following a suspected US missile drone strike in the country on Wednesday.

The drones struck the region of Pakistan, the fourth missile attack in the area since the beginning of the week, after the US decided to step up its offensive against insurgents in the region.

"One missile hit the compound while the other hit a vehicle parked outside. We have confirmed reports of six dead," said an unnamed security official.

Intelligence officials reported that two missiles, fired from a US airplane, struck a compound and a vehicle, in a village about twenty kilometres east of North Waziristan's main city of Miranshah.

Three Pakistanis, three Arabs, an and a  were among the people killed by the blasts, the national intelligence agency said.

The US military has not confirmed the attacks, but it and the are the only organisations in the region to use the drones.


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US to withdraw over 4,000 troops from Iraq

October 1, 2009 General Ray Odierno, the senior US military commander in Iraq, has said that over four thousand troops serving in the country will be withdrawn from the country over the course of this month.

The general announced the move on Wednesday, to a US congressional panel. After the withdrawal, due to be complete by the end of October, 120,000 troops will remain in Iraq.

"That's a bit faster than we originally planned. As we go forward, we will thin our lines across Iraq in order to reduce the risk and sustain stability through a deliberate transition of responsibilities to the Iraqi security forces," Odierno said.

The quickened withdrawal of forces was due to increased competence of Iraqi armed forces, Odierno noted, saying that "Iraqi security forces are now in the lead across the entire country."

However, Odierno said that he will maintain a substantial force until after the Iraqi election in January of next year, to ensure the transition to a new government does not become violent. However he added that the US will meet the target of having not more than 50,000 troops in Iraq by August 2010.

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Change of name
flag This province was renamed in 2010. I think we should rename the category to match the new name, especially in light of two new articles using the new name and the merger that has been authorised between this province and the neighbouring Federally Administered Tribal Areas. I realise this will involve fixing sixty articles but I think it's better to start using the current name rather than continuing with an outdated name. Green Giant (talk) 00:31, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Indeed. Fixing this has been on our wish-list (as in, "I wish I had time to do that") for a long time.  I was actually thinking of maybe tackling it today, and only when I came sniffing around here found you'd added this note.  (I wasn't only thinking of it because of the recent FATA merge, as it happens; I'd also coincidentally encountered a reference in an alternative-history fiction novel that answered something I'd vaguely wondered about for years:  why would a province in east-of-central north Pakistan be called "north-west frontier province"?  Because, of course, when it got that name it wasn't in Pakistan, it was under the British Raj.  Doh.)  --Pi zero (talk) 15:15, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Done. --Pi zero (talk) 15:45, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Cheers. Green Giant (talk) 16:19, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

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Philippines braces for next storm

October 1, 2009

The Philippines, still reeling from the destructive Typhoon Ketsana just days before, is bracing for another strike from Typhoon Parma, which is expected to hit the region on Saturday.

Ketsana brought torrential rains to the northern Philippines on Saturday, inundating most of the capital Manila and surrounding provinces. Scores of people were killed and many are still missing. Overall, Ketsana affected nearly two million people.

Now Parma, a "super typhoon" packing winds of 150 miles per hour, is threatening to devastate the region again. The storm could be more powerful than Ketsana: "We are dealing with a very strong typhoon (and) there is a big possibility that this typhoon will gather more strength," said Nathaniel Cruz, a forecaster in the Philippines.

Officials are preparing evacuation plans, and refugees from the prior flooding were advised to remain in shelters and avoid returning to their homes.

The thought of another disaster is unbearable for some residents. Glen Juban, who lost his 4 year-old daughter to Typhoon Ketsana, said, "I hope the typhoon will hit another place. We've been hit so hard. The situation now is just so difficult and I don't know if we can take some more, another calamity."

Elnora Avarientos, World Vision's chief in the Philippines, was also concerned. "Families are now just starting to pick up what was left of their lives. Now, I'm afraid [...] Typhoon Parma would make it a lot harder for the affected families to cope and for the relief [...] agencies to respond," Avarientos said.

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Rhode Island borrows $90 million from US for jobless claims

October 1, 2009

Rhode Island will receive US$90 million in funding from the United States federal government to support unemployment benefits in the state.

Rhode Island's Department of Labor and Training stated on Wednesday that it requested the line of credit because the account utilized to provide funding to unemployed individuals in the state had decreased to only $2 million; enough to last only a few days.

In a statement released by the Department, the agency said: "Unemployment insurance customers will not experience any delays in receiving their weekly payments."

Unemployment in Rhode Island was 12.8 percent in August 2009 – the third-highest rate in the United States. During the first eight months of 2009, Rhode Island's state unemployment insurance trust fund has provided over $300 million in unemployment benefit funding.

In addition to Rhode Island, 20 other states have outstanding balances on money they borrowed from the Federal Unemployment Account of the United States Department of Labor. Rhode Island has an outstanding balance of approximately $90.68 million due to the account. The loans are interest-free until December 2010.


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Rollback
Has there even been a discussion about enabling the rollback feature for non-sysops? – Juliancolton  | Talk 15:35, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't believe so, but I think this is a very good idea. Cirt (talk) 21:49, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I think we have a low bar for sysop and a very high sysop/regular contributor ratio. The additional administrative efforts in determining which users should have rollback seem to outweigh the benefits. --SVTCobra 21:57, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * It's really not hard; I give rollback to anybody with a couple hundred edits on enwiki and Commons. – Juliancolton  | Talk 22:01, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * That's kinda what we do for Editor status, perhaps the two should go hand-in-hand. That way there will be zero additional burden administratively. --SVTCobra 22:09, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Good idea, I'd support that. – Juliancolton  | Talk 22:11, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Cirt (talk) 22:30, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Yep, support that.    Tris   07:39, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Great idea.  hmwith τ   19:20, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

If rollback can be tied into Editor, I'd fully support that. It seems like a sensible approach. --Brian McNeil / talk 19:23, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

 * Who should we ask to find out if it is technically possible? --SVTCobra 00:26, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
 * If a couple more people chip in on this we just bugzilla it into "technically possible" ;-) --Brian McNeil / talk 00:32, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Doesn't non admins already get an 'undo' feature? Not that it makes any difference to me. I thought everyone had rollback or did at one point. If we enable it for non admins, I suggest we do it so that accounts are at least active for a week or so after creation. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 00:18, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, we have undo, but rollback is far more efficient (and if I recall correctly, it puts less strain on the server). – Juliancolton  | Talk 01:02, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

If we trust you enough for editor, we should trust you enough for rollback, and vice versa. I like the sound of this. Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 22:11, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Seems like we have pretty solid consensus now. Anybody feel like filing a bugzilla? – Juliancolton  | Talk 03:40, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

As I think Rollback is fairly harmless compared to the fact that we allow the Editor group to PUBLISH articles, why not. Bug 19815 filled. -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 22:24, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Seeing that Wikipedia has it [I have permissions for it], I fell all Wikimedia Wikies should have one too.. --Rsrikanth05 (talk) 17:14, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

 * I see i'm a bit late to the discussion, but I would also like to endorse the idea of enabling rollback here (especially if it's possible to combine it with editor status). Tempodivalse [talk]  00:16, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

 * Update: Rollback has been enabled as part of the ' ' package. – Juliancolton  | Talk 21:12, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Removed flag from above. I think this is ✅. :) Cirt (talk) 21:17, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Indeed it is ✅ -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 21:31, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Flagged Revisions on Portal namespace
Spotted some edits to Portal:North America today and wondered why they don't need sighted.

I think the Portal: namespace should use FlaggedRevs too. If there's some general agreement I'll submit a bug to have that done. --Brian McNeil / talk 08:08, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Yep, good idea,     Tris   08:44, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Cheers, Van der Hoorn (talk) 09:54, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. Bawolff ☺☻ 02:38, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Good idea. Tempodivalse [talk]  11:16, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Submitted to bugzilla. --Brian McNeil / talk 12:13, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

 * Post-bugzilla . – Juliancolton  | Talk 13:40, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Geonotice improvements that could make Wikinews great
I just wanted to point you to a great idea/proposal of User:Ragesoss, see "Geonotice improvements that could make Wikinews great (among other benefits)"! It is about getting people that are near to an upcoming event to take photos, reports, interviews etc. --- Kind regards, Melancholie (talk) 23:19, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
 * This has been raised on the strategy wiki too. --Brian McNeil / talk 10:06, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Right, see there (talk). --- Best regards, Melancholie (talk) 00:37, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Flood flag
The flood flag feature has been enabled; sysops have the ability to grant the flag to themselves and others. – Juliancolton  | Talk 19:43, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Ok, I didn't know that existed;). Next time. Gopher65talk 04:37, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Javascript bugs
I recently discovered that the comments namespace js magic did not work in internet explorer. Looking through the history of mediawiki:Comments.js, it was apparently discovered long ago, but at that time we couldn't think of a fix at the time and forgot about it. Anyways its fixed now, but I think it proves we need a page to list outstanding bugs in the javascript. To that end: Javascript - please report any outstanding issues - especially issues present only in specific browsers on that page, so they do not get lost in the sands of time. Bawolff ☺☻ 03:51, 8 August 2009 (UTC)

Articles appearing under wrong dates on main page
I just noticed that some articles, published on August 11, are showing up on the list for articles published on August 13 (today). Not sure why or how to fix it. This has happened a few times before. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 11:02, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

It's the following DPL embedded in the main page:  category=published notcategory=No publish notcategory=Archived notcategory=AutoArchived stablepages=only count=20 addfirstcategorydate=true ordermethod=categoryadd namespace=0 suppresserrors=true showcurid=true

The talk for the main page misleadingly still lists Latest news which correctly lists the articles. This seems to be some unreliability with addfirstcategory not recognising when an article was really first added to the publish category. Is it perhaps something like renames that causes problems? I know there have been other oddities with old articles popping up in the OR section when someone has done a sweep of categorisation or other things. --Brian McNeil / talk 11:20, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I have no idea. I am not a technical type person so what you just said doesn't make sense to me :P I just noticed the issue as I was updating main page leads. Beyond that, I am at a loss. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 11:23, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Renames do cause articles to show up at the top. IIRC the basic way the database handles renames makes it impossible to determine if the article was renamed or created as far as categories are concerned. There probably is a bug about it somewhere. --Cspurrier (talk) 15:38, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Who runs feedburner? http://feeds.feedburner.com/WikinewsLatestNews Maybe something to do with that? DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 17:07, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Eh? What? No, and I have no idea how you come up with that suggestion other than desperately flailing about and clutching at straws. feedburn reads from Wikinews, it does not write to it. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:13, 13 August 2009 (UTC)
 * In this case it was caused by an IP anon-user vandalizing the page. He removed the publish tag from the page. This vandalism was later reverted. Unfortunately the published articles are sorted based on the last edit to add publish to the page:P. The edits don't even have to make it through flagged revisions, so even an IP can seriously mess us up using this method.

 * Someone remind me, why did we stop using the "use the date at the top of the page" method of sorting? Surely that still works, and using that method would get rid of the constant headache this new system is causing. Gopher65talk 04:04, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I think this is actually a buggish issue with DPL. Someone might consider looking into it a bit and filing a bug. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 04:10, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Well regardless, I blocked the IP address for one month, until September 14. If I had my way i would block it forever. Traced back to the The Corporation for Financing & Promoting Technology in Vietnam. So someone over there is bored. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 05:08, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * SGN is right, it's a DPL bug. I'm out all day, I'll file one if nobody has by the time I'm back in. --Brian McNeil / talk 08:49, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Bug added, please go, comment, and vote. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:16, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Some of this is the IP, However a lot of these issues are caused by people adding which unfortunatly screws everything up. See 16287. I filed a bug to add some method of manually changing the timestamp, so we can at least fix the issues as they appear. see 20378. Also note that the page move issue was fixed a while ago (by Zach i think, can't quite remember). Cheers. Bawolff ☺☻ 20:31, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Easy peer review
I noticed, though I might have missed something, that the easy peer review does not flag the review it does. At the moment you have to manually flag the revision in the history, by clicking 'prev' DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 17:27, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It's not too hard to just click the sight thingy at the bottom of the page right after doing the review. :P However, I agree that if this step could also be automated, it'd be yet another helpful part of the tool. :) Cirt (talk) 02:35, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Ah yes. I was not aware you still had to do that. I assumed that it was all automated and yes it should be automated, at least in this gadget. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 15:42, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes that should be automated. Bawolff ☺☻ 18:42, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
 * It should sight the correct revision now. You may have to do a hard refresh to get the changes. Cheers Bawolff ☺☻ 17:41, 25 August 2009 (UTC)


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Talk pages
While having a look at the weather on the Serbian Wiki, I came across this design they have on talk pages for replying to messages-. Would people be interested in having this? I think it helps to sort messages much better, and might help newbies.

Also, something like this on comments page, because at the moment I find it nigh on impossible to differentiate between comments so I can't imagine what it must be like for new users! Dotty•• |☎ 12:31, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * This only works because you fiddle about putting code in the page to make the skin show different comments. It won't solve problems of people not signing comments or not indenting them. --Brian McNeil / talk 14:06, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Can we try and make a better way for comments pages then, because ips won't sign their comments, not realising they are meant to.    Dotty••   15:17, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * If you try and idiot-proof everything, the world just makes a better idiot. --Brian McNeil / talk 18:46, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Yep, but, a wiki is not the most intuitive thing for someone with no experience of them, very different to leaving a comment at BBC or CNN. I don't think it's neccesarily idiots(although some of the comments are dire!)    Dotty••   18:54, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * That was actually from the french wikinews originally if i recall. Its currently available in special:preferences as a gadget. Well it will not make people sign comments, it will perhaps allow people to better see which comment belongs to who. If a lot of people agree, we can enable it by default. (personally i want liquidthreads) Bawolff ☺☻ 20:33, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * What are liquid threads sorry?    Dotty••   21:12, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
 * See mw:Extension:LiquidThreads. There's a demo wiki here. Bawolff ☺☻ 03:07, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Or even failing liquidThreads, i think we could do a lot using templates to make the system better. (To plug my own idea from a while ago: User:Bawolff/idea. However, from what I've found most people don't like that idea) Bawolff ☺☻ 03:11, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Well the comment thing from the French site is fine as long as people still understand all the Wiki syntax and indent etc, which is highly unlikely. Having looked at the liquid threads, I like the idea.  If we could get it implemented, while looking good, I would definitely support.  Maybe some way of registered users turning it off if they prefer the standard stuff? Don't know if that would be possible?     Dotty••   07:24, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Searching category namespace by default
Currently when you do a search on wikinews, assuming you haven't changed anything in special:preferences, you search in the main namespace (ns 0) and the portal namespace (ns 100). Since most times when searching wikinews, you are looking for a list of stories on a topic rather than a specific article, perhaps we should add the category namespace (ns 14) to the default search namespaces. Well most categories have a portal, not all do, and its not hard to imagine people will want to find a category page from the search box. Thoughts? Bawolff ☺☻ 03:02, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd say it is a no-brainer to add ns 14. --SVTCobra 22:13, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

iPhone/iPod Touch Icon
Any chance of dropping in our icon for iPhone's & Touch's so that it displays nicely on the home screen if bookmarked. Info here Wikipedia have it-. Don't know who would be capable of this? Cheers!   Tris   21:50, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Upload an acceptable version to commons and file a bug requesting this. -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 22:12, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, will do, cheers!    Tris   22:13, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, bug 19831 filed, correctly I hope. If it's not right, please can someone let me know?      Tris   18:55, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Google News adding random 'authors'
GNews woes return: this time, it's decided to randomly pick a name to stick beside articles as the 'author'. Not most articles, but some of them. Redcar, UK steelworkers march to save their jobs is the work of 'Stuart Kerr' (link) and Former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani leads Friday prayers is credited to one 'Ali Akbar Hashemi' (link). Erm... WTF? Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 13:19, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * It is not so random. Apparently it tries to generate the authors out of the information provided with Files/Images. Do we have a contact with Google who may be able to ensure that no author information gets displayed? Cheers, Van der Hoorn (talk) 17:06, 19 July 2009 (UTC)


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Welcome message gadget and Easy Peer Review 'unwatch'
Is there any way a script or something can be added to the Welcome message gadget and easy peer review that would make it so the talk pages of people you welcomed and articles are NOT watched? As of now, any welcome message I post or article I review using the gadgets, I have to 'unwatch' the page manually. IMO users should decide for themselves whether or not to 'watch' a page. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 21:14, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
 * That is your settings, not the gadgets. I know for a fact that the user messages gadget doesn't watch by default.  Go to 'My Preferences' > 'Watchlist'.  See the lines titled " Add pages I edit to my watchlist" and " Add pages I review to my watchlist".  Those are probably checked, uncheck them, save.  Problem solved. PS, remember, the gadgets do nothing but EDIT on your behalf.  From mediawiki there is no difference between _you_ and _your javascript_.  -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 21:21, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Yup. You were correct. Done. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 18:32, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Can't delete a page
I was looking through Special:BrokenRedirects recently, and noticed the page Talk:Talk:Channel Seven loses control of audio/Comments. However, when I clicked the page link to delete it, it told me that the title was invalid. However, running a search reveals that the page does indeed exist. How to delete it? Tempodivalse [talk]  00:20, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Probably the restriction on page names became more strict after the page was created. Try asking the devs on #wikimedia-tech. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:29, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Doesn't work for me either. Odd... – Juliancolton  | Talk 01:17, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * "Bad title" ... can't even view it. I do see it on the Special:BrokenRedirects page. --SVTCobra 01:34, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Its the same with all pages with a double namespace: talk:talk:Food for example wouldn't work either. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:55, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * But how are we going to get rid of it? Will it require a developer going into the database and removing it manually? (p.s. there seems to be other content on the page other than the redirect. Although you can't actually open the page, i could preview its contents with lupin's popups and it showed an external link.) Tempodivalse [talk]  23:18, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thats the begining of the xhtml 1.0 transitional dtd reference. Its used at the begining of html pages to denote the version of html being used. Lupins popup uses the url http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Talk:Channel_Seven_loses_control_of_audio/Comments&action=raw&ctype=text/css&maxage=0&smaxage=0 to generate the preview. Normally this would generate just the unformatted wikimarkup, but in cases of a bad title it gives an html error page, and the lupin popup is interperting the html from the error page as wikimarkup. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:17, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅Ah ha. it works if you use the pageid instead of the title.

[21:51]		Special:Log/delete delete * Bawolff * deleted "Talk:Talk:Channel Seven loses control of audio/Comments": Redirect to a non-existent page: Muhuhuhu! i Reign superrior!!! content was: '#REDIRECTComments:Channel Seven loses control of audio' Bawolff ☺☻ 00:56, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Indef-blocked proxies
http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Wikinews:Water_cooler/technical&action=edit&section=14 I've just noticed that several thousand IPs/open proxies are blocked indefinitely. It is my understanding that IPs should never be indef'd, as even static IPs might be reassigned at some point, and not all proxies operate on static IPs. I think it would be a good idea to re-block them for 1 year or 5 years or whatever. – Juliancolton  | Talk 21:38, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Open Proxies should stay dead... perma dead. If you want, you can leave proxyblock for them so they know what to do if they ever un proxify themselves.  Plus, you want to reblock thousands of IP's for X years, all at the same time.  So in X years, we'll have THOUSANDS of IP's that will need re-evaluation/unblocking... ALL at the same time. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 21:41, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Per ShakataGaNai. If they get changed, then the users can inform us on their talk page(s). DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 21:50, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, I think a newcomer isn't very likely to figure out how to request an unblock when all they want to do is fix a typo. The editing process is complicated enough as-is; we don't need more potential contributors being driven off at the moment – Juliancolton  | Talk 21:56, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

 * As argued above. The only way to deal with these, given the numbers, is indefblocking. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 21:58, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * per above arguments. The chance that the IP will be reassigned and a legitimate user will be prevented from editing because of the block is slim, and in my opinion isn't enough to merit the enormous effort we'll need to put in to annually recheck and reblock all of the thousands of IPs we've banned over the past several years. Tempodivalse [talk]  22:07, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I think the page at meta says it best. Open proxies are disruptive by nature. Personally i prefer that they should be soft-blocked (but thats just imho), and the talk page (And block message) shold indicate the block is due to an open proxy. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:53, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

 * Wikinews does not have the required volunteer hours available to devote to management of pests that might not be a pest anymore. I won't go into the reasons why they should be hard blocked instead of soft, suffice to say there's a "security through obscurity" aspect to it. --Brian McNeil / talk 23:25, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I'd be all for a review of proxyblock and a discussion on auto-adding it to IP talk pages when permablocked (widget?). --Brian McNeil / talk 23:27, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Proxyblock is in our user messages gadget. So if you turn that on, it is real easy to leave them the message. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 23:41, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

 * For those that don't know, a couple of us admins competed at flooding RC with proxyblock then we got smart and pulled out the bot. Right now User:ShakataBot is running about tagging proxyblock on userpages (not Subst'd, per BrianMC's suggestion).  I'm also skimming the lists and unblocking any indef'd IP for non-proxy reasons (vandalism, spamming, etc).  Most of them that got unblocked have been blocked for years anyways, so I figure that's enough punishment. -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 00:52, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
 * This sounds like a good idea. Thanks, SGN. --SVTCobra 01:28, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

 * Run Is Done. ShakataBot tagged 6,675 user talk pages with proxyblock.  I'm really glad we didn't do that by hand... -- Shakata Ga Nai  ^_^ 15:53, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

Google News ?
= Is Wikinews still regularly being seen in Google News hits? Cirt (talk) 20:17, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes and more yes -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 00:33, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Vector problems after mediawiki update
Well, the devs seem to have just finished some changes to the mediawiki interface - and it sucks when viewed in the Vector skin. The main page leads suddenly have big ugly spaces in them, the sidebar links have become tiny, and some gadgets (like WikiEd) don't work. Anything we can do about this? I don't want to have to revert to monobook. Tempodivalse [talk]  01:30, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * WikiEd we can't, thats maintained by people on wikipedia. I assume it will be fixed in due course, but I can't really do anything about that. Any other gadgets not working? I noticed that stuff in jsMsg (review alerts) is now huge, that can be fixed on our end. I don't see the tinyness on on sidebar link, or the spaces on the leads. I'll try to see if i can find the difference between the css somewhere to see what might be causing it though. Bawolff ☺☻ 01:36, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I changed it so stuff using jsMsg is at 80% font size (about normal text). I'm not seeing the other issues you mention though. From what i understand, vector changed from using fixed fonts to relative (resizable) fonts, so some font sizes have changed. Which gadgets (other than wikied) don't work? p.s. you may want to leave a message at the feedback page. Bawolff ☺☻ 02:04, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm, maybe I exaggerated, it appears that only WikiEd doesn't work - I thought popups were broken too but they seem fine now. The other gadgets work ok, aside from the supersized reviewing widget, which I see you've fixed. I'll see if I can upload a screenshot of the main page spaces later. Tempodivalse [talk]  02:18, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. Bawolff ☺☻ 02:24, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * ok, here's a screenshot: Image:Mainpagespaces.jpg. Note the wide spacing between lines in the leads and the unusually small text in the sidebar on the left. Tempodivalse [talk]  02:26, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I see what you mean. Appears to be an issue with the line-height being different if text is in a paragraph (almost everything) vs if it is not (leads). They are both set to 1.5 em, but vector does some weird stuff with font size, so em is probably re-defined. this might be a bug with vector. Also gadgets that define tabs at the top of the page (like opinion/comments thing) seem to have broke. (should be easy to fix)
 * Line height on lead is fixed (I wrapped it in a p). that was probably a bug in vector. Bawolff ☺☻ 03:39, 17 September 2009 (UTC).
 * Comment/opinion system fixed. Other gadgets that add content to the top actions bar (but not those that add too the drop down) will also be broken (I'm not sure if any others exist, i don't think so). Please let me know if you see anything. small text in sidebar remains unresoloved, WikiEd is the wikied maintainers problem. we just steal it from Wikipedia Bawolff ☺☻ 03:51, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Hm, things are really wonky today. When i logged in, the system had placed my time zone 45 hours (?) ahead of UTC. I couldn't figure out why the RC showed changes from tomorrow. On a side note, WikiEd seems to be back working again. Also, the spacing issues still need to be sorted out on a few more pages: MediaWiki:Anontalkpagetext still has the double spacing. Page titles seem to be unusually large too, can anything be done about that? Tempodivalse [talk]  16:51, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I added some rules to mediawiki:Vector.css which should sort out the line-height (Also made line-height on category box at bottom of article less, as well as in the caption of news in pictures template). (I also filed 20698). If you see any line-height related ugliness, try doing a hard refresh. Bawolff ☺☻ 19:36, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks better now, thanks! Tempodivalse [talk]  21:48, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Comments are still broken in Vector. The comments themselves work, but I see no comments tab on any story (unless I am actively viewing the tab. As soon as I click to another tab it disappears again). Gopher65talk 03:07, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I responded on my talk page as well. Try to do a hard refresh of some page on wikinews. If that still doesn't work, do a hard refresh of and . If they still don't work tell me what browser your using, and if there are any js errors (generally you have to look that up in the js console, which is under tools in firefox, and hidden in other places in other browsers). Bawolff ☺☻ 12:50, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Hard refresh of those two js pages worked. It's bullshit that that is necessary though:P. No regular reader is ever going to know to do that if they're having the same problem (using the latest stable FF3 release btw). Gopher65talk 16:44, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
 * "Regular Readers" probably wont notice most of our issues. -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 17:36, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Cache would of expired after about a month any how. Bawolff ☺☻ 17:39, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

(od) There are some other problems that need to be resolved, for instance boxed text

such as this

appears in annoying super-small letters to me, is this something we can fix ourselves or do we need to file a bugzilla request? Tempodivalse [talk]  23:22, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

 * ✅ -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 23:25, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

 * That looks better. Thanks. Tempodivalse [talk]  23:33, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

 * Hmm, actually it's not completely fixed, for example the ); can that be fixed too? Tempodivalse [talk]  00:47, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ Bawolff ☺☻ 01:09, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

 * The <tt> code needs to be increased to a larger font size as well. Tempodivalse [talk]  13:33, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ Bawolff ☺☻ 17:19, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Portal:Current events
The Wikinews sections at w:Portal:Current events are fudged up. They aren't showing the latest sutff; it's all days old. Anyone who has the vaguest idea how all this works fancy trying to sort all this out? It's beyond me, sorry. Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 18:19, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Wikinews importer bot seems to have died. (it last edited on the 17th). I left the maintainer a note. If i was to geuss, due to the timing, I would geuss it has something to do with the mediawiki updates. I've been hearing rumours that some bots have been afected by them negativly. (but thats just a random geuss, could be anything, I really don't know). Hopefully it will be fixed soon. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:24, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Correct guess. Configuration updated to use the API where possible; bot back online. Cheers! Миша 13 22:36, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Bawolff ☺☻ 22:37, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

 * Good work, thanx all Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 13:35, 20 September 2009 (UTC)


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Protests in Ecuador kill one, injure 49

October 1, 2009

Ecuadorean police clashed with Amazon Indians protesting new laws they fear will increase oil drilling, leaving one person dead and at least 49 others injured on Thursday.

Authorities said the violence occurred Wednesday in Morona Santiago province, a major oil producing region. The clash came after three days of demonstrations in which indigenous groups had blocked roads in the jungle region to protest laws they say would encourage more oil drilling. The officials say one protester was killed and 40 police and nine protesters were injured.

"We can confirm that there are 29 policemen injured and one civilian is presumed dead," said government minister Gustavo Jalkh. He denied that the police opened fire on the protesters, although he said security officials had used "progressive force" to clear a highway blockade. The Ecuadorian Indians had blocked highways across the country since Monday to demonstrate against the laws.

At a news conference late Wednesday, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa blamed the protesters for the clash. "Tremendously violent groups armed with shotguns and rifles waited for police and met them with gunshots", the president said, repeating his call for dialogue with the indigenous people to address their concerns.

For years, indigenous communities in Ecuador have accused oil companies of damaging the environment and the health of community members while operating petroleum facilities. Several such conflicts between the indigenous communities and government have occurred in several Andean countries in the recent past, such as in Peru, where a government crackdown at a road blockade in the Amazons killed ten Indians and 23 police officers in June.

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UN report says number of "abject poor" tripled in Gaza

October 2, 2009

One in every five Gazans is living in "abject poverty", according to a report issued today by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza. People are placed under the "abject poverty" category when they are no longer able to feed themselves or their family, even with UN assistance.

The head of UNRWA, Jon Ging, claimed that poverty rates inside Gaza had tripled. He described the situation in Gaza as "unbearable" and called on Israel to end its blockade of the territories immediately. "At the start of this year, there were 100,000 people that were in our special hardship category, now we have another 200,000 added to that.

"Of course, sadly, this is the predictable consequence of the blockade and of the siege on Gaza. We want, once again, to call for the lifting of the siege on Gaza."

Israel has maintained its blockade of the Gaza Strip since June 2007, when Hamas took control over the area. Gaza's 1.5 million inhabitants are not allowed to enter or leave the area without Israeli permission.

The United Nations currently provides food aid to almost one million Gazans.


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Militant factions clash in Somalia

October 2, 2009

Witnesses in Somalia have said at least 20 people have been killed and 50 wounded as two Islamist militant groups battle for control of the port city of Kismayo, located about 300 kilometres from Somalia's capital of Mogadishu.

Hundreds of families fled the southern city on Wednesday, anticipating a clash between the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab and the militant group Hizbul Islam.

The two sides began exchanging heavy gunfire early Thursday. Residents in Kismayo told Voice of America that al-Shabab took control over the entire city.

"The fighting is very intense, al-Shebab launched an offensive on Hizbul Islam positions at Kismayo," resident Abdi Baruud said, as quoted by the Agence France-Presse news agency.

The Islamist groups were previously allied in an effort to overthrow Somalia's weak transitional government. But tensions arose recently over which group should administer the port city, which is an important source of revenue for the militants.

The two groups jointly captured Kismayo in August 2008 and had been running it together until last week, when al-Shabab named its own local governing council. An al-Shabab spokesman, Sheikh Hassan Yaqub, told reporters Wednesday that al-Shabab has declared a "holy war" on Hizbul Islam. He also accused the rival group of promoting "un-Islamic" practices.

Al-Shabab is known for enforcing a strict interpretation of Islamic law in the areas it controls. On Monday, the group publicly executed two men it accused of spying for foreign governments, and flogged another person charged with making counterfeit US dollars.

Violence in Somali has resulted in the deaths of nineteen thousand Somalis since the start of 2007, and has displaced an estimated 1.5 million more.

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Romanian coalition government collapses

October 2, 2009 Romania's coalition government fell apart on Thursday, after all of the Social Democrat (PSD) ministers resigned, protesting the firing of another cabinet member. PSD member Dan Nica was fired earlier in the week after he made a statement suggesting the possibility of election fraud in November's upcoming presidential ballots. The PSD party leader, Mircea Geoană, said that the entire PSD had resigned to protest against Nica's sacking.

"All PSD ministers, supporting Dan Nica, are announcing their resignation from government. The president succeeded in triggering a political crisis, Geoana said.

The other major party, the Liberal Democrats (PD-L), will be able to rule by itself until the elections come. However, appointments for new ministers will have to be approved by the parliament.

The collapse has prompted concerns that Romania will not be able to meet the International Monetary Fund's fiscal targets in exchange for US$29 billion in aid given to the country in 2009.

Koon Chow, a strategist for Barclays Capital said to the Reuters news agency that "one needs to see how a minority government, if that's what we do get, can continue to adhere to the IMF programme. That's key. The worst that could happen is that the next tranche will be delayed for a few months, I don't think the next government will walk out of the programme."

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Tropical Storm Olaf forms in the Pacific

October 1, 2009

Tropical Storm Olaf, the seventeenth named storm of the ongoing 2009 Pacific hurricane season, formed today off the coast of Mexico.

As of 2 p.m. PDT (2100 UTC), Tropical Storm Olaf is located within 30 nautical miles of 19.4°N 117.8°W, or about 565 miles (905 km) west-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula.

The cyclone is packing winds of 40 miles per hour (65 km/h), with stronger gusts. Minimum central pressure is 1002 mbar, and the system is moving west-northwest at 6 miles per hour (9 km/h).

The storm is expected to turn towards the northeast over coming days, which would bring it on a course towards Mexico. However, it is expected to begin weakening and dissipate before it approaches land. Forecasters say Olaf won't have much of an impact during its existence.

Hurricane season officially ends on November 30.


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U.S. tariffs on Chinese solar panels to be contested

October 3, 2009 The United States continues to implement new trade barriers; the most recent tariffs emerged on Wednesday, targeting solar panels imported from China.

The new tariff is a result of a query submitted in December 2008 by GES USA, an American solar company. The resultant inquiry sought to clarify tariffs levied on solar panels imported from China, imports which, for nearly two decades, were considered a duty-free commodity.

In early January, U.S. Customs officials reportedly informed the company that the solar panels contained electronic devices that place the panels in the electric generator import category which is subject to a 2.5% import tariff. Specifically, the ruling cited the presence of diodes on the solar panels as evidence of electric generation and hence they must be treated as an electric generator. Small solar panels already incur a 3.9% tariff. The January decision was made by a U.S. trade specialist whose rulings can be overturned.

The tariffs will be levied on imported panels that provide electricity for all uses. Additionally, tariffs will be collected dating from the beginning of 2009. The Solar Energy Industries Association estimates that the accumulated tariffs from this year may total more than US$ 70 million. This week's tariff revelation caught many industry leaders off-guard and yesterday the Solar Industries Association moved to block the tariff. The Association president, Rhone Resch, stated "... We're taking it [the tariff] very seriously and we will be responding. ... The industry is in the process of preparing a challenge". The Association intends to file their appeal with senior U.S. Customs officials who have the option to overrule the decision to implement the tariff. However, if the officials do not revoke the tariff, then the case must go before the U.S. Court of International Trade.

The U.S. amount spent on imported solar panels roughly matches the income from exported panels; US$ 605 million imported versus US$ 555 million exported, according to the Commerce Department figures on the first seven months of this year. Major solar panel importers have already begun to move their operations to the U.S.


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Comments:British nursery worker admits sexually abusing children

Now all he has to do is make a lot of critically-acclaimed films, and the world will accept these actions as praiseworthy. 206.74.5.136 (talk) 03:43, 2 October 2009 (UTC)


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Uitspraak

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User talk:Ranjeeta~enwikinews

Welcome
Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 05:34, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Ranjeeta. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Ranjeeta~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:23, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

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Plaintiffs and Amazon propose settlement to Kindle deletion lawsuit

October 2, 2009

Parties to a lawsuit against Amazon.com agreed September 25 to a proposed settlement resolving claims that Amazon unlawfully deleted content from users' Kindle reading devices. Justin Gawronski, a Michigan high school senior, and Antoine Bruguier, a California engineer, had sued on July 30, after Amazon deleted George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four from their Kindles. Gawronski also said his digital notes lost value because they were no longer associated with the relevant text. The plaintiffs argued that Amazon had breached its terms of service and violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and Washington Consumer Protection Act. Amazon had first claimed it was forced to delete the books when it learned it did not have the right to sell them. However, it apologized on July 23 and on September 7 offered affected customers either US$30 or a copy of the deleted book.

The proposed settlement includes a commitment that Amazon will only delete e-books remotely under four circumstances: the user consents, the user fails to pay or gets a refund, the government mandates it, or the deletion is necessary to "protect" the consumer, device, or network. Amazon would also pay KamberEdelson, the plaintiffs' firm, US$150,000 in legal fees, with the proviso that it go to charity. Michael Aschenbrener, an attorney at KamberEdelson, described the agreement as a "great settlement" that "provides protection for Kindle users and provides confidence to them that the books, newspapers and magazines they purchase will not be subject to remote deletion by Amazon. It sends a message to digital media purveyors of all kinds that sellers really need to respect users' rights to that content." Amazon spokesman Drew Herdener refused to comment.

The agreement is still subject to court approval.


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User talk:Symonweedon~enwikinews

Our submission guidelines
I'd like to let you know that here at the English Wikinews, we only accept English language news. You've recently made contributions that don't qualify as news. We appreciate your contributions, but we cannot accept the edits you've made, so they have been reverted or deleted.

In the future, if you'd like to submit news, we are more than happy to have your help! Just make sure to check out this article, which talks about what Wikinews is not.

Thank you for your contributions! Brian McNeil / talk 09:53, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

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Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Symonweedon. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Symonweedon~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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User talk:Sanchita~enwikinews

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.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Sanchita. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Sanchita~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Indian Maoists blamed for the deaths of sixteen villagers

October 3, 2009

Maoists attempting to seize land in one of India's poorest communities are being blamed for the execution-style killings of at least sixteen villagers, including children, in the eastern part of the country.

Authorities in the state of Bihar say heavily-armed rebels fired on a makeshift camp at midnight, pulled sleeping villagers out of huts, tied their hands and feet and then executed them. Police say most of those killed were teenagers but five children are also among the dead.

Paro Sinh, a witness to the attacks, described his experiences to the BBC; "We were [sic] seventeen of us. When they fired at us, I wasn't hit, but I fell down on the ground and pretended to be dead. They shot dead all the others, including my son".

Media reports say the area has been the site of an inter-caste feud and that the victims were trying to protect six-and-a-half hectares of cultivated land the rebels are trying to seize.

Bihar Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar, said additional forces have been sent into the area, about 200 kilometers north of the state capital, Patna, to catch the suspects.

The state's chief minister said violence has no place in society and compensation of approximately US$ 3,000 will be given to the families of each victim.

A private television station said one of its reporters received a mobile phone text message from a Maoist leader, identified as Dabloo, threatening to kill Kumar if two top rebel leaders are not released from jail. Police are taking the threat seriously and have tightened security for the chief minister, a state official said.

One person has already been arrested in connection with the incident. State's director general of police Anand Shankar said, "we have arrested one farmer and are interrogating him to nab the others involved. We will track [down] all of the perpetrators of this heinous crime. The incident has triggered panic among residents of Bihar," he told the Agence France-Presse news agency.

The Maoists rebels, known as Naxalites, have been waging a violent campaign in several Indian states for decades, demanding land reform and more rural jobs for the poor.

A massacre of underclass villagers, however, is unusual. The rebels typically target government officials, police and others accused of helping wealthy landlords exploit the poor.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently called the Maoist insurgency the single biggest domestic security threat facing the country.

The country's air chief marshall, Pradeep Vasant Naik, told reporters on Thursday that the Air Force is seeking permission from the Defense Ministry to return fire when its aircraft are targeted by the Maoists. Several Air Force helicopters have been shot at by the rebels during the past year.

India's military is not directly involved in the counter-insurgency but is providing logistical, surveillance and intelligence support to para-military and police forces fighting the Maoists.


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US unemployment rate reaches 9.8%

October 2, 2009

Companies in the United States are shedding more jobs, pushing the country's unemployment rate to a 26-year high of 9.8%.

The US Labor Department said on Friday that employers cut 263,000 jobs in September, with companies in the service industries — including banks, restaurants and retailers — hit especially hard. This is the 21st consecutive month of job losses in the country.

The United States has now lost 7.2 million jobs since the recession officially began in December 2007. The new data has sparked fears that unemployment could threaten an economic recovery. Top US officials have warned that any recovery would be slow and uneven, and some have predicted the unemployment rate will top 10% before the situation improves.

"Continued household deleveraging and rising unemployment may weigh more on consumption than forecast, and accelerating corporate and commercial property defaults could slow the improvement in financial conditions," read a report by the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook, predicting that unemployment will average 10.1% by next year and not go back down to five percent until 2014.

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com, said that “it’s a very fragile and tentative recovery. Policy makers need to do more.”

"The number came in weaker than expected. We saw a lot of artificial involvement by the government to prop up the markets, and now that that is starting to end, the private sector isn't yet showing signs of life," said Kevin Caron, a market strategist for Stifel, Nicolaus & Co.

Also on Thursday, the US Commerce Department said factory orders fell for the first time in five months, dropping eight-tenths of a percent in August. Orders for durable goods — items intended to last several years (including everything from appliances to airliners) — fell 2.6%, the largest drop since January of this year.

The US government has been spending billions of dollars — part of a $787 billion stimulus package — to help spark economic growth. There have been some signs the economy is improving.

The Commerce Department said on Thursday that spending on home construction jumped in August for its biggest increase in 16 years. A real estate trade group, the National Association of Realtors, said pending sales of previously owned homes rose more than 12 percent in August, compared to August 2008.

A separate Commerce Department report said that consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of US economic activity, rose at its fastest pace in nearly eight years, jumping 1.3 percent in August.

Other reports have provided cause for concern. A banking industry trade group said Thursday the number of US consumers making late payments, or failing to make payments, on loans and credit cards is on the rise. A survey by a business group, the Institute for Supply Management, Thursday showed US manufacturing grew in September, but at a slower pace than in August when manufacturing increased for the first time in a year and a half.

Stock markets reacted negatively to the reports. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 41 points in early trading, reaching a level of 9467. This follows a drop of 203 points on Thursday, its largest loss in a single day since July. The London FTSE index fell 55 points, or 1.1%, to reach 4993 points by 15.00 local time.

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New 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes South Pacific

October 2, 2009

A fresh, 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck the South Pacific again on Friday. The tremors were felt in Tonga and Samoa, which are still reeling after a stronger earthquake and tsunami struck the area several days earlier.

According to the US Geological Survey, the tremors began underwater at 02.46 GMT on Friday, with the epicentre about 242 kilometres off of the Tongan island of Neiafu, at a depth of ten kilometres. The earthquake is among the dozens of aftershocks that occurred in the region since Tuesday's big quake.

No damage and casualties from that earthquake have been reported, and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue a tsunami warning.

Experts did not think it likely that the earthquake would cause any tsunamis. "I don't think there is a particular tsunami danger from that earthquake," said seismologist Phil Cummins to the Agence France-Presse news agency.


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Rio de Janeiro to host 2016 Olympics

October 2, 2009 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has selected Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to host the 2016 Summer Olympics. IOC President made the announcement Friday in an IOC meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark on Friday.

The other three contestants, Chicago, Madrid, and Tokyo, were eliminated in earlier rounds of voting. Chicago was the first candidate city eliminated in voting, with Tokyo being dropped in the second round. Rio de Janeiro was left to compete with Madrid. [[image:Lula - foto oficial05012007 edit.jpg|thumb|left|160px|Brazilian president Lula said that his country would "deliver an unforgettable Games." Rogge said that Rio de Janeiro had "a very strong technical bid, built upon a vision of the Games being a celebration of the athletes and sport, as well as providing the opportunity for the city, region and country to deliver their broader long-term aspirations for the future." He added that "this call to 'live your passion' clearly struck a chord with my fellow members, and we now look forward to seeing Rio de Janeiro staging the first Olympic Games on the continent of South America."

"Rio is ready. Give us this chance and you will not regret it," Brazil's president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had told the committee before the vote. "Rio will deliver an unforgettable Games. You will see for yourselves the passion, the energy and the creativity of the Brazilian people."

"All those people who thought we had no ability to govern this country will now learn that we can host the Olympics," Lula had said after the winning city was named. "There is a lot of work ahead of us and we will start working early. The Brazilian people are good and generous and the country deserves it."

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Category:Sports and Category:Culture and entertainment should be addedBenny the mascot (talk) 00:42, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

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Top militant in Pakistan killed by suspected US missile drone

October 3, 2009

Pakistani authorities have said that a suspected US drone attack along the Afghan border is believed to have killed an militant leader with links to.

Pakistani intelligence officials say a US missile strike in in late August wounded  and that he reportedly died a few days later.

Yuldashev was the leader of the (IMU). He began fighting in the 1990s to topple Uzbekistan's government.

A Taliban spokesman has denied the report of Yuldashev's death. The Taliban gave him refuge in northern, but after the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, analysts believe Yuldashev and his fighters fled east into Pakistan's tribal regions.

Yuldashev had been involved in insurgencies in Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, allegedly with the goal of creating an state across Central Asia.

Security analyst Khalid Aziz told that if authorities are able to confirm Yuldashev's death, this would be a major blow to the militants operating in Pakistan's tribal regions.

Aziz says the power vacuum left by Yuldashev's death would provide a good opportunity to strike at his men and those of leader, whose stronghold is believed to be in South Waziristan.

"For the last two months, there has been a blockade of this territory and obviously the Mehsouds are feeling the pinch," said Khalid Aziz.

The Pakistani military has already seen success in its prior campaign in and around Swat Valley targeting militants. But Aziz says he expects the military to change its strategy in the mountainous and isolated region of South Waziristan.

"We are going to see the first snowfall in that region, and it becomes even more difficult to fight there," he said. "So one foresees counter-terrorist operations rather than large-scale military operations as in Swat."

He says that type of strategy would drain the militants of their resources and put the military in a better position to respond to any threats that might arise elsewhere in the country.

The government insists it is not launching any major operation in South Waziristan at the moment. But UN officials say about 80,000 civilians have fled the tribal area in anticipation of a new military offensive.

The IMU is a militant group that was formed in 1998. It was almost completely destroyed when fighting with the Taliban against US forces in Afghanistan in 2001, but has since appeared to be regaining strength, having opened training camps in Waziristan.


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that is verygood to take 4,000 troops out of iraq!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Even if we were to take troops out of Iraq, why should we announce this so that every one of our enemies knows exactly the time and date by which we will be gone? --Wikitiki89 (talk) 00:04, 15 March 2010 (UTC)


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Talk:U.S. tariffs on Chinese solar panels to be contested

Sorry, you can't do that. -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 17:03, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * This should have failed review or been corrected anyway as a showstopper part of a review. An article with an unambiguous url indiciating it was from, and on, a Reuters source was 'supposedly' from the NYT. --Brian McNeil / talk 13:25, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I hope you do realize the Reuters/NYT reference was a mistake. The link that he has is exactly the same article that I linked, it is just at a different url.  Also, quite a bit of the revisions that were made was nothing but organizational changes which, is a matter of someone believes an article should be presented.  I find it quite interesting that there wasn't a single substantive change in the article rather, the vast majority of the changes were commas, word choice and re-ordering.  I thought we're about reporting the truth from a neutral point of view.  If that's the case then the failed comment I think is totally out of line.--JaylanHaley (talk) 18:26, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

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Please add to Category:Renewable energy. Thanks. —Elekhh (talk) 23:14, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
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Mudslides kill at least thirteen in Italy

October 2, 2009 At least thirteen people have been killed after torrential rains caused mudslides in Italy on Friday.

The mudslides occurred in the city of Messina, located in the northern part of Sicily. The mud blocked rails and road, cut off communications, and destroyed several buildings.

Search and rescue teams were using dogs to locate survivors buried beneath the rubble. Around forty people were hospitalised.

"Most of the dead and seriously injured were in two buildings that collapsed in mudslides," emergency services spokesman Giampiero Gliubizzi told the Agence France-Presse news agency.

Over one hundred people were forced to evacuate when mudslides threatened their homes, officials said. Some escaped onto roofs, where they were airlifted by helicopters.

"I didn't understand what was happening. I was at home and everything started moving. Then I found myself surrounded by rubble," said a survivor. Witness reports suggest the depth of the mud reached seven metres (23 feet) in some areas.


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Hello, !

This is Wikinews, a free news source. Wikinews is an experiment in citizen journalism, not an encyclopedia. You may be confusing us with our sister project Wikipedia. Your encyclopedic addition to Wikinews was deleted. Please add it to Wikipedia if it is relevant there. We would be happy to welcome you as a contributor to Wikinews! Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 17:57, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

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Ticker
Hello, I imported the new Ticker on French Wikinews, but it has an error; the news are on another line. Can you help me? I contacted, but he is on vacation. And in addition, the template does not appear in IE, while on your wiki, it's perfect. Best regards, --Sniff (talk) 14:47, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Responded on user's fr talk. Basically their was a typo in fr:mediawiki:Common.css that caused things to fail in weird ways. I don't have access to IE at the moment, so i don't know if its the same issue or not. (Perhaps the issue has something to do with the lack of a hasClass function which the nav tab boxes use, which might throw an uncaught exception [but then it wouldn't work in firefox either...]) If it still doesn't work after the css changes, let me know and i'll find a computer with IE on it and take a look. cheers. Bawolff ☺☻ 01:08, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

EPL football
Regarding the main football page for the EPL. (http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Portal:Football/English_Premier_League)

Why is it so out of date?
 * The contributor who did most of the football coverage, user:Dark Squall, has left (or perhaps has gone on wikibreak). Thus there is nobody currently covering football/soccer. If you want to help add to our coverage of Football, see How to write an article and template:Howdy. Cheers. Bawolff ☺☻ 01:17, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Just to note, I think the correct link is to Writing an article, not How to write an article. Tempodivalse [talk]  01:26, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Senator Ted Kennedy dies at age 77

 * Senator Ted Kennedy dies at age 77

I moved this out of obit prep and into a page to develop. Could use some help now with expansion. I added 2 sources to start from. Cirt (talk) 06:56, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

Girl found dead in truck in Northamptonshire, England
I suppose this is a reasonable water-cooler page for this.

Recent published article Girl found dead in truck in Northamptonshire, England contains an extended quote from Detective Chief Inspector Tricia Kirk. However, looking at the sources, there is no source that actually claims Tricia Kirk said all those things consecutively in that order. It seems to be a patchwork of individual sentences, each of which is attributed by one or another source to Tricia Kirk — excepting that two of the sentences are glued together in the article here with some words that don't seem to come from any source; the likely source shows two separate sentences with a fullstop between them.

So... how ought one to handle this sort of thing? --Pi zero (talk) 20:52, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Whoops—I guess my review was a little lax there. I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to split the "quote" up into separate ones—I'll see what I can do. Den dodge T\C(en.wp) 07:33, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅—I rearranged the quotes to match the ones given in the sources, separating them with the phrase "She also said,". One quote was not attributed to her specifically, but to "A police spokesman". I gave this quote its own paragraph to avoid confusion. Den dodge T\C(en.wp) 07:46, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

 * That looks solid to me. I'd overlooked that one of the sentences was someone else.

 * I still feel a little bad that I didn't have sufficient time (and spare neurons) to undertake repairs myself at the time. Though acutely aware that I had the power to de-publish it, sending it back to the Newsroom for repairs, I hesitated to do so — I wasn't sure it was a serious enough problem for that measure, I felt I ought to have tried to fix it myself, and it seemed an awfully unconstructive action for a recently minted editor to be depublishing an article when they haven't even judged themself ready yet to publish any.  Apparently I'm not yet quite ruthless enough.  --Pi zero (talk) 13:08, 31 August 2009 (UTC)


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how do I erase stories I have made

 * It has been done already. --Brian McNeil / talk 07:09, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

need the news of last week

 * 2009/June & 2009/July. Look for the specific days you are interested in. Cheers. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:58, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Comments/amendments welcome on first Wikinews contribution
Hi I've created Conductor_of_opening_public_performance_at_Sydney_Opera_House_dies_in_double_assisted_suicide and welcome any input on making it conform to house style etc.--Peter cohen (talk) 14:45, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Hi, welcome to Wikinews! That article looks good for your first try. Regarding any improvements, the sources should be formatted using the source template; you can find more info about this at WN:CITE. Once that's done I can help you with copyediting and minor formatting. – Juliancolton  | Talk 14:52, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks.I've now used the source tag and had a brief copy edit. I'll try to look in regularly for progress but I have an erratic connection, so I'm happy for thearticle to be pushed through whatever hoops are necessary in my absence.--Peter cohen (talk) 16:27, 14 July 2009 (UTC)

NEED Fr-> EN translator !
To translate the interview :
 * fr:JLG_France_:_les_employés_menacent_d'exploser_plusieurs_machines => French workers put gas canister around factory's vehicules to get fair extra cash. My English is too terrible to do this. Tonneins (talk) 13:53, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Simple Wikinews ASAP if you can get back to me.
Please tell me if their is one? I would love to try and contribute to it. Thanks --71.254.110.148 (talk) 00:19, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
 * This discussion is continued here. Cheers, Van der Hoorn (talk) 14:36, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

Politicians whitewashing Wikipedia again — newsworthy?
Given United States Department of Justice workers among government Wikipedia vandals and Congressional staff actions prompt Wikipedia investigation, are we interested in similar original reporting of the same thing, but this time with the U.K. Parliament doing it? For more information, see w:Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents. Uncle G (talk) 17:06, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Could be. I note from the discussion the parliament has a proxy. I doubt we'd get the actual office details via a freedom of information request - but that'd be really nice to add to it. It might be a proxy that gives XFF (X-Forwarded-From) information. That would reveal to a checkuser the internal IP that made the edit; forget gettting CU data out past the WMF privacy policy. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:34, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Given this and this it seems unlikely that a FOI request will be answered promptly enough for publication deadlines, or even at all. Uncle G (talk) 19:19, 28 July 2009 (UTC)