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Iraq: Uneven voter turnout elects women who push sharia law while anti-woman violence rages

April 1, 2005 Half of those who won seats reserved for women in the new of Iraq are members of a coalition dominated by Shi'a religious parties, and they say they want Islamic sharia-based laws with legal differences in treatment for the sexes, and which permit a certain level of domestic violence.

Says Nada al-Bayiati, of the Women's Organisation for Freedom in Iraq, "It's weakening our position. How can you argue for women's rights when the women are undermining you?"

Eighty-nine in all, women make up one-third of the current parliament.

United Iraqi Alliance pushes for sharia
The Shi'a cleric-backed (UIA), holds the majority of seats in the National Assembly since the, and asserts that sharia is "non-negotiable".

"If you say to a man he cannot use force against a woman, you are asking the impossible," turned politician, Jenan Al-Ubaedey of the UIA, told The Times.

"So we say a husband can beat his wife, but he cannot leave a mark. If he does that, he will be punished."

"If you don’t allow your husband to take another wife, he'd have an affair anyway [...] I'd rather know my husband has another wife that I know about."

Under a proposed law, men would be allowed up to four wives, regardless of the desires of the first wife, while women may have only one husband.

And if two other laws currently slated for debate go through, women will only be eligible for half the inheritance given to men, and denied custody of children over the age of 2 in the event of divorce.

Skewed vote, with little choice on women's rights
Legitimacy of the election, and the Assembly it elected, has been questioned.

Forty Sunni groups via the, had called for boycotting to protest the U.S.-led occupation, while Shi'a on the other hand vigorously promoted voting in the election, influencing not only voter turnout, but also what candidates were on offer.

And over 40% of Iraq's population live in mostly-Sunni of Baghdad,,  and , where entrenched violence was significant-enough to dissuade willing voters.

Turnout in these four governates ranged from a mere 2%, in Al Anbar, to a high of only 51%, in Baghdad. Comparatively, in the nine more peaceful, mainly-Shi'a regions in the South, turnouts averaged 71%; and for the three Kurdish regions in the North, the average was 85%.

Final official figures of the (IECI), reveal that overall,  in the 2005 election — however many who were eligible did not register including three quarters of expatriates.

One woman who abstained, Houzan Mahmoud, a UK based spokesperson for The Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, did so not because of a clerical command or to protest the occupation. In a published statement she says that violence that has erupted against women since the invasion, and that policies do not differ significantly between candidates, when it comes to women's rights.

"If Iraqi women take part in Sunday's poll, who are they to vote for? Women's rights are ignored by most of the groupings on offer," she writes.

"In reality, these elections are, for Iraq's women, little more than a cruel joke. Amid the suicide attacks, kidnappings and US-led military assaults of the 20-odd months since Saddam's fall, the little-reported phenomenon is the sharp increase in the persecution of Iraqi women. Women are the new victims of Islamic groups intent on restoring a medieval barbarity and of a political establishment that cares little for women's empowerment.

"Having for years enjoyed greater rights than other women in the Middle East, women in Iraq are now losing even their basic freedoms. The right to choose their clothes, the right to love or marry whom they want. Of course women suffered under Saddam. I fled his cruel regime. I personally witnessed much brutality, but the subjugation of women was never a goal of the Baath party."

However, according to the US State Department's Fact Sheet Iraqi Women Under Saddam's Regime: A Population Silenced, Iraqi women in fact endured significant political repression under the regime of Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi government and its representitives are claimed to have used beheading, rape, torture, and murder as political tools against certain women such as political dissidents or those whom the government declared to be prostitutes, in order to maintain their party's hold on power.

Some of these kinds of violence continue to be perpetrated by certain individuals and groups in the new Iraq. Mahmoud continued, "In the last six months at least eight women have been killed in Mosul alone - all apparently by Islamic groups clamping down on female independence. Among these, a professor from the city's law school was shot and beheaded, a vet was killed on her way to work, and a pharmacist from the Alkhansah hospital was shot dead on her doorstep."

Move to sharia started before election
But the move to sharia law actually came before the election. In January 2004, the (IWL) expressed horror at the interim Shi'a dominated Iraqi Governing Council's Decision 137, which they explain replaced Iraqi civil law concerning family law, with sharia law.

"Decision 137 establishes sectarianism and gives formal power to informal, unaccountable and self appointed religious 'leaders'," the IWL statement said.

"The Iraqi family law (otherwise known as the Personal Status Law) is the achievement of the struggle of the Iraqi people for much of the past century not a law written by Saddam Hussein."

After protest by IWL and others, and appeal to former U.S. administrator Paul Bremer, the Decision was anulled.

Changes erode hard-won equality for women
''[http://www.countercurrents.org/iraq-dasgupta151004.htm|Liberating Iraq! What About Iraqi Women?]'', an essay by Bhaskar Dasgupta, tells that Iraqi women were winning rights as early as the 1920s and 30s, which improved their status. By the time of the overthrow of Hussein, they had formal equality under law, including not only the right to vote and freedom from wearing of veils, but the right to work with equal pay, paid maternity leave, higher education, extensive medical coverage, and eligibility for political office or voluntary military service, among other rights.

According to Dasgupta, these rights made Iraq a leader in equality of the sexes in the Middle East for the better part of last century, although a number of studies reveal horrific abuses of both women and men, under Hussein's regime, and Hussein enabled laws allowing men to kill their wives in certain situations (see Wikipedia article Honor killing for background on the practice).

The first Gulf War in 1991, and ensuing sanctions, made economic conditions in Iraq difficult, and literacy and employment rates of women began falling.

Now the majority party in the only internationally recognised parliament of Iraq wants to reaffirm the interim Iraqi Governing Council's repeal of the Personal Status Law, and its replacement with laws based on sharia, a doctrine which in some countries sees women stoned to death as punishment for engaging in extra-marital love affairs.

Random and pernicious violence against women sanctioned by some Islamists
The Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq in its latest newsletter, Equal Rights Now, alleges widespread violence against women since the U.S.-led invasion. The violence has been facilitated by the general lack of order, and includes documented cases coming from U.S. troops, as well as locals.

"Violence against Iraqi women in general and in the city of Mosul in particular continues. Groups of political Islamists, in collaboration with remnants of the Ba'ath Party, have launched a campaign of terror and killing against women for no reason other than that we are women," reads one report.

The report continues to detail killings of women attributed to Islamist gangs, who "have sanctioned the raping of 'quislings' and 'infidels' because they claim those women's souls, property and bodies are fair game for all so-called freedom fighters".

Many other such reports exist, despite a strong taboo against discussion of sexual abuse, which could be expected to result in significant under-reporting of these cases. However, many of the allegations have not had the degree of media coverage that the notorious abuse cases of Abu Ghraib Prison of 2003-04 received.

Puppet politicians
According to Dr Udaedey, many of the women legislators are in fact puppets. "It's true that many of them — maybe a third — have just been put there by the men. They are not aware and don't come to meetings, so they don't know what's going on," she told The Times. "About 10 per cent of them are learning, but the others don’t really care."

However, Dr. Udaedey plans to remained focused on protecting the role of Iraqi women as shar'ia law seems destined to become a guiding influence on Iraq's new constitution. According to her interview in the Christian Science Monitor, "She plans to encourage women to wear the hijab and focus on nurturing their families. At the same time, she says, she will fight for salary equity, paid maternity leave, and reduced work hours for pregnant women."

Elected Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari, in an interview with Der Spiegel, also asserts that women will not be forgotten in the new Iraq. He says that sharia law will remain "only as one of several sources of jurisprudence" and that women will "Never [be required to wear veils in the new Iraq]. They will be free to choose for themselves."


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Minutemen gather to patrol US-Mexican border in April

April 1, 2005

Starting April 1, an organization of volunteers known as the Minuteman Project is planning to begin patrolling a 23-mile stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border in the search for illegal immigrants. The project is described as the "nation's largest neighborhood watch group" by Minuteman field operations director Chris Simcox.

The goal of the project is to make Americans aware of porous and undefended American borders. Motivated by a concern for illegal drug trafficking, the availability of entry points for potential terrorists, and a lack of effective enforcement of immigration laws by US federal and state officials, the name Minuteman was used in order for the group to portray itself as a "grassroots effort to bring Americans to the defense of their homeland, similar to the way the original Minutemen from Massachusetts (and other U.S. colonies) did in the late 1700s," according to the group's website.

The activities of the Minutemen are protected by legal rights found in the US Constitution, according to various commentators. Says Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, "People are entitled to exercise their First Amendment rights and entitled to assemble...That's why you can't stop the Minutemen from coming even though, from a law enforcement perspective, it's worrisome to have untrained people, potentially armed, performing what should be a law enforcement function." Some of the Minutemen plan to be armed in order to defend themselves in case of aggressive action by potential armed illegal immigrants and those who transport them. The carrying of handguns is allowed under Arizona law and is protected by the Second Amendment.

The Minutemen are not allowed by law to arrest or detain potential illegal immigrants, and any such action is forbidden by the group's organizers. The project's goal is to survey the area using planes and binoculars, and to alert the appropriate authorities and follow suspected illegal immigrants until they are detained. Observers from various groups, most prominently the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), plan to be on hand to monitor the activities of the Minutemen with a view to mounting possible legal challenges against them.

Critics, such as some Arizona state Hispanic lawmakers, are planning to show up at the public gatherings and press conferences of the Minutemen, in order to raise criticism and present contrary points of view in the public eye about what they believe to be the current state of illegal immigration. Some opponents have also complained that many participants may be motivated by racism or vigilantism; however, the organizers of the Project make a point of emphasizing their lack of participation with separatist or supremacist groups and the racial diversity and inclusiveness of their volunteers.

Illegal immigrants and their public benefits have come under increasing scrutiny in recent months in Arizona, with the passing of Proposition 200 on November 2, 2004 by a margin of 56% of voters in favor. This proposition attempts to prevent illegal immigrants from voting or receiving some government services. The effort to define what benefits they can legally be excluded from is ongoing, for example with the recent failure of HB2264 to pass an Arizona senate committee; the bill would have required some illegal immigrants to pay higher out-of-state rates for college tuition.

Similar efforts to the current Minuteman Project have been organized in the past few years, but with few participants and without notable success. Some local residents were concerned that possible violence could erupt from the presence of additional armed individuals, either among the Minutemen or the illegal immigrants. Others welcomed the presence of the Minutemen, considering them tourists helping the local economy, and appreciating their drawing attention to the perceived lax enforcement of border control by Federal authorities. Their activities are planned to last for about a month.

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Maine passes gay rights law

March 31, 2005 With the stroke of a pen, Gov. John Baldacci of Maine signed into law a gay rights bill that extended legal protection against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The new law does not legalize same-sex marriage.

Known officially as "LD 1196," the bill's wording adds the term sexual orientation to the list of protected classes in the Maine Human Rights Act banning discrimination in employment, housing, education, credit, and public accommodations. The bill was passed by the Maine House of Representatives by a vote of 91-58 Wednesday. The State Senate approved the bill the same day by a vote of 25-10.

Already protected classes under the state's human rights act are gender, age, religion, race, and physical and mental disability. Additional language was added to LD 1196 before it passed clarifying that it would not extend marriage rights to same-sex couples and exempts privately-funded religious groups from having to comply with its provisions. The new law takes effect June 30.

Government official said the new law is needed to send a message. The office of the Maine Attorney General says that the number of hate crimes against gays and lesbians increased by 12 percent in 2003. Baldacci said those figures underscore why the new law is needed.

"This act not only offers essential civil rights, but serves as a welcome," Baldacci said in a press conference after signing the new law. "Our doors are open to all people. This is a proud day for Maine."

But at least one group is organizing to stop the new gay rights law in its tracks. According to reports, the Christian Civic League of Maine has filed initial paperwork to put a voter initiative on the November 2005 general election ballot to overturn the new law.

The group must get at least 50,519 valid signatures from registered voters of the state by a June 28 deadline. Michael Heath, executive director of the group, told the Associated Press that the League has a goal of 70 thousand valid signatures and hopes to raise $2 million to fund a campaign, called a "people's Veto," to repeal the new law.

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No thanks... but a fun offer. - Amgine 06:03, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Harvard hosts conference on technological future of news media

What's this all about? It's 3-week-old news... confusing. Sj

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Could a sysop please move the date stame on the top of the page so that it is on its own line and doesn't run into the text? Thanks, ♪ Tempo  Di  Valse ♪ 17:01, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

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Talk:Google starts prefetching top search results for Mozilla and Firefox browsers

Obvously you work for google ehh.
 * Or possibly not. While we're not a 'techy' site, the bottom line is that our readership is more technically orieentated than most and find this kind of story interesting! Dan100 (Talk) 08:29, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * yeah, wiki* sites have been accused of being a "slashdot crowd".--Veritos 02:08, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I do not work for Google.Pingswept 15:32, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Increasing costs criticism
I removed this claim until we have a source for it: "Users of capped-download and pay-per-download Internet Service Providers have criticized the move for using their allowance or increasing costs." Pingswept 15:32, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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The Vatican: Pope suffers from congestive heart failure

April 1, 2005

According to the Vatican, the medical condition of Pope John Paul II is very grave, and reports indicate that during today's treatment his heart momentarily stopped beating.

The pope has been undergoing treatment for a urinary infection, and yesterday developed a high fever. He has been breathing through a tube in his throat, and a feeding tube was inserted as the pope was having trouble swallowing.

Earlier, news organizations reported that the pope received the sacrament for the sick and dying — commonly known as last rites. The Vatican today confirmed this. These rites are administered to those close to death, but may also be administered to those very sick, and may be repeated if necessary. The pope has previously received last rites after an assassination attempt on his life in 1981.

The latest malady to affect the pope — the urinary infection — is treatable with antibiotics, and according to a Vatican spokesperson the pope was responding well to such treatment. Some physicians fear that a failure in one system may "cascade" to a failure in other organs, further deteriorating the 84-year-old pope's health.

Some Italian newspapers have already claimed the Pope is dead, which the Vatican has denied.


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Wikipedia victim of onslaught of April Fool's jokes

April 1, 2005

Today Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone with access to the Internet can edit, was the victim of an onslaught of practical jokes, as April Fool's Day kicked in various timezones around the world, at least those parts which follow the Gregorian calendar. It is believed that Wikipedia contributors were kept busy tidying up and removing prank articles and changes made by other Wikipedia contributors, and were expecting to be cleaning up the aftermath for days afterwards.

Pranks
The most highly visible prank was the 2005 Britannica takeover of Wikimedia encyclopaedia article. Other pranks included:
 * the changing of the deletion notice, affixed to encyclopaedia articles whose deletion is being discussed, to a "termination notice", complete with a picture of The Terminator;
 * the nomination of the deletion discussion maintenance area of the encyclopaedia for front-page article status;
 * "In my days at Wikipedia, I've seen fancruft, middle schools, band vanity, hoaxes, [biased] forks, spam, patent nonsense, [copyright violations] and [system operator] accountability policies. Now we have ONE article with all of those!" said Wikipedia contributor Szyslak, in "opposition" to the motion.  (Articles with such content are generally deemed unacceptable for Wikipedia and deleted.  Their deletions are of course discussed in the deletion discussion area.)
 * the corresponding nomination of the discussion area for whether an article should have front-page status for deletion;
 * "Hopelessly biased in favour of good articles. Mistreatment of stubs and short articles are known to have occurred." said Wikipedia contributor Andylkl.
 * the nomination of the article on April Fool's Day itself for deletion by Alkivar;
 * "Not only is this utter nonsense, but terribly [biased] . This falls way below encyclopedic standards. At this rate we'll have to be making articles for every arbitrary day of the year." said Wikipedia contributor Arkyan. (Wikipedia does, in fact, have articles for every day of the year, listing important anniversaries of historical events and people.)
 * Requests for de-Godkingship
 * modification of the article navigation tabs that appear on Wikipedia web pages, amongst others replacing "history" with "time travel";
 * the translation of the user page of Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales, founder of Wikipedia, into Spanish;
 * Creation of the M1126A Fryker Armored Combat Deep Fryer ("The M1126A Fryker Armored Combat Deep Fryer is a modified M1126 Stryker capable of preparing the main course of a meal, under combat conditions, for 150 soldiers.") article.
 * Addition to the Wikipedia:Votes for Deletion page of an image of a toaster (kitchen appliance) with the following caption: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion was first hosted on this BSD powered toaster. When that broke down, they had to use solar panels. Hence the reason the page loads so slowly.

Ongoing cleanup
Most edits which were judged (rightly or wrongly) as April Fool's Day pranks were quickly undone, although tacit community consensus left several to stand throughout the whole period of April Fool's Day. Being accessible worldwide (by people who can afford Internet access) in all timezones, April Fool's Day lasts for more than 24 hours at Wikipedia. The change to the deletion notice was undone within 31 minutes, for example, despite the notice being altered at 05:08 UTC, night-time in Europe and the United States.

Several Wikipedia contributors have expressed their dismay at the amount of work being generated, though these views may or may not be indicitive of the contributor base at large:
 * "How do we tell people not to vandalize the encyclopedia when everybody's doing it?" said Wikipedia contributor RickK.
 * "This is getting out of hand. Sneak vandalism everywhere, and it seems like every wikiuser feel they should have their own April Fools prank somewhere. I'm thinking maybe the best joke would be to let wikipedia not be editable today. Use the day to reindex tablebases or whatever it is that a day off can be used constructively to. Wikipedia should be correct all the year. God knows how long all this misinformation will live on on forgotten pages and various [caches] around the net." said Wikipedia contributor Shanes.

Other Wikipedians have shown dismay at how quickly the April Fools gags are undone:
 * "I spent two hours creating the M1126A Fryker article but it was deleted from M1126A Fryker in about 20 minutes. It seems it was even deleted with out going through Candidates for speedy deletion and I do not believe it qualified for deletion on the spot (nor do I believe it would of qualified for speedy deletion). Its important to have a sense of humor and rather than trying to squash the April Fools jokes perhaps we should find a way to work together. How about a template that is available to mark an article as an April fools joke or another template that helps track changes to articles done in the name of April Fools." said Wikipedia contributor Triddle.


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Wikinews:Modelling Wikinews' growth

This page is the Wikinews equivalent of Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia's growth. It deals with predictions for Wikinews' growth. See also Awareness statistics and the google timeline

Article Count
I was doing a little work in Excel one night for the Wikinews Awareness stats dealing with our growth rate and an interesting trend emerges if we continue to grow at our current rate (Note this is a bit old. Months refer to 2005):
 * March - 354 articles - 44.5% growth
 * April - 512 articles - 44.5% growth
 * May - 739 articles - 44.5% growth
 * June - 1068 articles - 44.5% growth
 * July - 1543 articles - 44.5% growth
 * August - 2230 articles - 44.5% growth
 * September - 3222 articles - 44.5% growth
 * November - 4657 articles - 44.5% growth
 * December - 6730 articles - 44.5% growth

Great isn't it! Hard to imagine though, so heres perhaps a more realistic forecast using decreasing % rates.

 * March - 354 articles - 44.49% growth
 * April - 499 articles - 41% growth
 * May - 684 articles - 37% growth
 * June - 862 articles - 26% growth
 * July - 1009 articles - 17% growth
 * August - 1149 articles - 14% growth
 * September - 1299 articles - 13% growth
 * November - 1454 articles - 12% growth
 * December - 1585 articles - 9% growth

Still not bad either - thats 51 articles a day by December.

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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.

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Sorry for the inconvenience.

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User talk:66.222.37.58

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User talk:81.217.42.95

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Talk:Wikipedia victim of onslaught of April Fool's jokes

 * LOL @ Wikipedia --    NERD42    [mailto:nerd42@gmail.com EMAIL ]  TALK  H2G2 PEDIA UNCYC   18:42, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Mis-spelling in quotations
user:Shane did write "cashes" but meant caches. Should it be invisibly corrected or [sic] added?
 * I only changed the quotations to clearly paraphrase jargon that I didn't expect a non-Wikipedian readership to understand, such as " [biased] " for "POV". There are arguments for and against correcting spelling mistakes.  On the one hand, it makes people look stupid to leave them as they stand.  (Print newspapers will remove hesitations and mistakes from verbal quotations for this reason.)  On the other hand, it's modifying what people actually said/wrote, and makes us less credible if we are being seen to silently modify things. Uncle G 13:50, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Quotations
The following was added by 81.178.100.83:
 * "I'm wondering if it wouldn't be easier to lock the Wikipedia database once it is 12:00am GMT-12, and unlock it when it is 12:01am GMT+12." said Wikipedia contributor Spe88.
 * Spe88 later added: "It should be best to do this every year."

Checking w:Special:Contributions/Spe88 I find that Spe88 did not say that, and in fact has not made any edits at all during April Fool's Day. Uncle G 18:54, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Deletion notices
I actually changed Template:Delete too, it's also worth noting that I copied it from is:Snið:Tortíma which is. uses as its normal deletion notice. — 22:11, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

You forgot to ligature it!
In the article you wrote 'encyclopaedia', and you obviously meant to ligature it. KirbyMeister 02:12, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Newsworthy?
I don't see how the subject is newsworthy. Delete? — Jeandré du Toit, 2005-04-03t09:29z

Spanish-language Wikinews prank
As some of you may know, on December 28 Iberoamericans (except Brazil) commemorate the Massacre of the Innocents with pranks. Spanish-language Wikinews features an article about a supposed BP acquisition by PDVSA, as the Spanish-language Wikipedia presents an article about the Krill War. 168.176.160.13 16:10, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Portuguese-language Wikipedia prank
You could also add to the article, that the sysops on the Portuguese Wikipedia posted as a featured article a article about a fake animal. -- Visitor 18:59, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Edit Protected
editprotected Could someone please add Category:April Fools' Day, please? Surf Dog (talk) 04:04, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
 * ❌ Insufficient coverage to merit category. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:20, 5 July 2012 (UTC)


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Zimbabwe election victory for Mugabe

April 1, 2005

Amid claims of rigging by the opposition party, news reports today from the Zimbabwe capital city of Harare, say current President Robert Mugabe has again clinched a party victory in this round of national elections.

This national election bears similarity to the 2000 election when allegations that Mugabe's dominant political party, the Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF), used its position in power to steal the election were widespread. Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), who after that election appealed to the nation's courts for justice, appears ready this time to take the argument to the street, possibly sparking violent protests and unrest. The leader urged, "Zimbabweans must defend their right to vote and they must defend their vote."

Past MDC street protests were met violently by Mugabe's regime, and the court system in Zimbabwe is seen as largely supportive of the Zanu-PF agenda.

The Zanu-PF took 55 of the 120 seats in the Zimbabwe Parliament. The MDC took 34 seats. The MDC had received strong support during pre-election rallies and had hoped to gain enough new seats to gain a legislative majority in the parliament. Mugabe, now 81, will appoint another 30 seats, which will ensure his party a majority.

Tsvangirai cites the area of Manyame located near the capital as an example of election rigging. Mugabe's nephew, Patrick Zhawao, the ruling party candidate was declared winner. On Thursday night election officials reported 14,812 votes were counted. Then early Friday morning, the total vote count was reported at 24,000, with Zhawao getting more than 15,000 of the vote.

The over-night voting count inconsistency led him to charge, "The government has fraudulently, once again, betrayed the people," he told reporters at a news briefing.

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Talk:The Vatican: Pope suffers from congestive heart failure

I think that the title of this article is misleading. The pope is suffering from heart failure, but that doesn't mean that his heart ever stopped beating. I couldn't anything that said this in the reference. Teeks99 14:58, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I just read the source listed. I agree with Teeks99. IlyaHaykinson, do you have a different source for the "heart briefly stopped beating" claim? (On another note, perhaps this article could be rolled into the lead, Pope in medical crisis or improved and made the lead itself. I have no problem with new articles on the same subject as news develops, but I think the most prominent should be the most recent, which is not the case right now.) Pingswept 15:21, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I just noticed that the summary for the lead has the same problem...but I didn't want to put a disputed tag on the summary (and I'm not sure how). Teeks99 15:38, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * My understanding is that heart failure does not mean that your heart would stop beating. My grandmother has been living with conjestive heart failure for over a year.  I believe it is just a term used to mean that the heart isn't working correctly.  See: Heart failure

 * The Pope suffered from a cardio-circulatory collapse. Easiest way to generally explain cardio-circulatory collapse according to Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN and Assistant Professor of Department of Neurological Surgery, Associate Chief of the Neurosurgery Service at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta : cardio-circulatory collapse means NOT ENOUGH BLOOD FLOW which can lead to LOW BLOOD PRESSURE which can lead to HEART FAILURE but cardio-circulatory collapse is not technically the same thing as heart failure.:::

This is another matter entirely from the normal news stories, as this is an ongoing matter. This is such an important story that you cannot remove it. While it is misleading, it is certain that people like myself will be looking for updates desperately on the ailing pontif's condition. And this provides a much needed summary. Please, do not take this article off.

 * I don't think this is an issue anymore, but for future reference I think the thing to do would be take this down and replace it with another article (with a good title) and the same content.

From MSNBC - help needed to correct main page
MSNBC Said:

On Thursday afternoon, the pope suffered heart failure and a condition called “septic shock” during treatment for the infection, the Vatican said Friday, but it denied an Italian news report that he was in a coma.

SO.... he did suffer heart failure, but if you look at the wikipedia explanation of heart failure you'll see that this doesn't mean that his heart stopped beating, even briefly. Therefore, I think this article needs to be removed because the title suggests something which isn't true. Also the lead article summary should be edited to remove this line. I'd do it, but I'm not sure how to do either of those things. Teeks99 16:42, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Heart failure / heart stopped beating
I looked at the MSNBC story, and indeed the heart stopped beating part isn't there anymore. However, this is not something that I made up: it was there in the original story. If you search Google news for pope "heart stopped beating" you'll see references to other wire stories picked up by other agencies where the words "heart stopped beating" are no longer part of the story, even though they're in Google's cache as having that phrase.

I imagine what happened is that the AP story was incorrect in the version that I saw. It must have gotten corrected by the AP overnight to say "heart failure". -- IlyaHaykinson 23:37, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Just click on MSNBC's history tab, and you'll be able to check . . . oh, that's right--they don't have a history tab. Pingswept 23:46, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * There was a brief revert war over a paragraph or three earlier... I havne't had a chance to get back to figure out what was going on, just had a second to try and stop it from escalating.
 * Heart stopping is not a usual feature of heart failure though. - 24.86.201.239 23:59, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Moving article to new title...
Spoke with a couple people, including the initial dispute tag applier... Have agreement to a new title and to remove the dispute tag. - Amgine 00:11, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Title is still wrong
Cardiovascular collapse secondary to sepsis is not "congestive heart failure".


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Bus drivers to strike in Auckland

April 1, 2005 Stagecoach, Auckland's main busline, may suffer strikes from its workers on Monday. British-owned Stagecoach believes a one day strike has become unavoidable after unions representing over one thousand workers walked out of renewed negotiations yesterday.

Eighty thousand passengers making one hundred and fifty thousand trips in and area from Orewa to Pukekohe will be affected by the proposed industrial action. More strikes are also threatened for the following week.

Company operations director, Warren Fowler said, "They are looking hellbound to have a strike. We have now made four offers or proposals to the combined unions to reach a settlement and avert industrial action, but we just don’t seem to be making any headway - it’s very frustrating."

Unions advocate Gary Froggatt said he is frustrated the different offers represented different ways of dressing up the same amount of money. "They are using the same money - there is no increase in the money they are offering," he said.

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Parents of Terri Schiavo to sell list of supporters to marketing firm

April 1, 2005

A local news station reported the parents of the late Terri Schiavo, the Schindlers, are to sell a list containing the names of people who donated money to their fund. The fund was used to finance legal battles for keeping their daughter alive.

A spokesperson for the Schindlers confirmed the story.

The company who will receive the list, 'Response Unlimited', usually pays $150 a month for a list of 6,000 names, and $500 a month for a list of 6,000 e-mail addresses.

The Schindlers have declined to reveal how much money they will receive for their list.


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Re:Northwest storm article
I just wanted to clarify that the storm was in the US, wasn't the one who mentioned the "four dead, most without power" part. Zeest(Talk)(Newpages) 09:37, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

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User:Edbrown05/sandbox

Crime and law
 * British journalists on trial in Zimbabwe
 * ACLU: Gen. Sanchez possibly perjured himself at 2004 Senate inquiry
 * 51 suspects named by UN for war crimes in Darfur

Culture and entertainment
 * 'Great' title for John Paul?
 * ABC to move Internet news network back to U.S. TVs

Economy and business
 * Businesses shy to adopt Windows XP SP2
 * Toronto transit union threatens strike for Monday
 * Harvard University divests $4.4m of PetroChina stock

Obituaries
 * Prince Rainier III of Monaco has died

Politics and conflicts
 * Militants attack Kashmir bus route safe house*Canada presses Iran for an international investigation into Kazemi death
 * Sixteen dead as US Chinook crashes in Afghanistan
 * Iraq elects Kurdish president, Saddam said to be shaken
 * Nigeria destroys illegal small arms
 * North American citizens dealt passport requirement
 * US Highway Administration releases interim report on Boston's Big Dig: press release claims tunnel safe, but report does not
 * Bomb explodes on historic Kashmir bus route

 * Brazil organizes Summit of South American and Arab Countries

Science and technology
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Flora springing into Spring in Mid-Atlantic coastal region, USA

April 2, 2005 Mid-Atlantic Coastal Region,USA While residents of the northeast U,S, may doubt that Spring is really here judging from the recent cool, damp and rainy weather March has afforded the region, local flora are now springing forth from the winter chill. Throughout the region, outdoor life has begun to burst forth with buds on trees and shrubs alike.

Area forsythia are in full bloom. This common and sturdy shrub can be found all around the region and is used as a source for seasonal flower cuttings suitable for various floral arrangements. The dormant stems of forsythia may be cut and brought inside before they bloom, where they will later flower when placed in a vase filled with water. Once spent, the yellow pedals fall off fairly quickly, usually within a few days.

After months of wintry nakedness, Bradford pears also are entering their blooming season. In summer months while in full foliage, the trees are used as shade trees along city streets. But during spring bloom the resulting mess of dropping flower petals coupled with a spring rain can cover cars parked under such a tree with a sticky mess.

Regional rain fall accumulations for 2005 for January and February were 2 inches less than normal. That deficit was made up during March as the region was repeatedly soaked by rain. As a result, the total accumulation of rainfall for the year now is an inch above normal.


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Your test worked, and was reverted. Please don't vandalise. -- Phyzome 20:19, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Rural African school goes to Sweden for environment award

April 1, 2005

Emwatsi Primary School in western Kenya has been selected as a 2005 international finalist for the Volvo Adventure Award for their project "Biodiversity Conservation through Beekeeping", which focuses on income diversification through honey production, conservation of natural vegetation and planting of bee forage trees.

It is the first time in the history of the Volvo Adventure Award that a Kenyan project has been selected as an international finalist. Emwatsi Primary School is a member of the Lake Victoria Schools Agroforestry & Environmental Education Network, which is facilitated by the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and the Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI) within the framework of the 'Farmers of the Future' initiative.

Volvo Adventure was set up to recognize and reward practical environmental action being taken by young people in their local community. It is open to young people around the world aged between 10 and 16 years, working with schools and youth and community groups. Volvo Adventure is supported by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

15 projects from all over the world have been selected by a jury of international experts out of hundreds of applications. Five pupils and two teachers of Emwatsi Primary School will take off to Sweden in May to participate in the Volvo Adventure Conference and present their innovative project and practical action. The project will also be showcased to the world on the Volvo Adventure website and will contribute to an international handbook of practical environmental action.


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Wikinews talk:Modelling Wikinews' growth

Being a Free project, you should be using OpenOffice... :) Dan100 (Talk) 20:31, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I knew it would be dangerous to say I was using Excel! But I did'nt pay for it! It's on the computer im using anyways. I have OpenOffice on my computer aswell... but sometimes it just does'nt preform as well as Excel! Its improving though.

To keep the hounds at bay; i've been using Firefox since Dec. → CGorman (Talk)  20:37, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey, you coulda fixed my crap wikilinking ;). BTW have you tried one of the OOo 2.0 betas? I've been using them for a few weeks and I'm finding them an improvement on Office XP. The new database, in particular, is a godsend, if still a little buggy Dan100 (Talk) 20:58, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * To be honest besides using excel to create the odd chart the only other piece of software I seem to use on my computer is Wordpad to write up wikinews stories before publishing them! → CGorman (Talk)  22:31, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Modelling
Appreciate the work on this, CGorman. Are we thinking about keeping some ongoing data available for complex modeling, or are the ones on Awareness statistics enough? - Amgine 03:38, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * To be honest I was just messing about in Excel one night and came up with those figures - i've no plkans as to where we go from here. As regards data wikistats has been launched, plenty there for other charts and projections. → CGorman (Talk)  14:19, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Rural African school goes to Sweden for environment award

I know its a small story, but hey we want to encourage people to use the Submit a Story feature facility and the only way to do so is to actually publish the articles. Besides its a feel good story, something news media in general lacks. → CGorman (Talk)  20:33, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Thanks
Thanks for catching the vandalism on the Schiavo article Dan100 (Talk) 23:25, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Parents of Terri Schiavo to sell list of supporters to marketing firm

Is this some sort of April Fools' joke?
 * No. I would never try and make a 'joke' from something so distasteful. If you check the original source, the story is actually a couple of days old (I only picked it up on hownottoblog.com today).

 * PS thanks to whoever dug a second source out. Dan100 (Talk) 23:24, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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MS-13 gang threatens the Arizona "minutemen"

April 1, 2005

Ebner Anivel Rivera-Paz, a leader of the vicious Mara Salvatruchas, nicknamed the MS-13 gang, issued orders from his prison cell for his followers to teach the American "Minutemen" volunteers a lesson when they begin patrolling the Mexican border today.

MS-13 gang members, considered by some to be America's most violent gang, is accused of engaging in such acts as cutting off the testicles of their enemies and feeding them to their dogs, and cutting the heads off their opponents to play soccer with. However, such allegations of brutality don't seem to frighten the "Minutemen", a group of more than 1,000 volunteers planning to patrol the Arizona-Mexico border beginning April 1st. They have been called vigilantes by President Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox. They sometimes sarcastically refer to themselves as "undocumented border patrol agents". James Gilchrist, a Vietnam veteran and spokesman for the Minutemen, in response to the MS-13 threat said; "We're not worried because half of our recruits are retired trained combat soldiers... they [MS-13] are just a bunch of punks."

The MS-13 gang now has about 20,000 members nationwide. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, nicknamed ICE, began to focus on the gang with an initiative called "Operation Community Shield". The very existence of MS-13 is considered by the "Conservative Voice" to be a direct consequence of the USA government's 1980's policies in Central America; "the chickens are coming home to roost. Its MS-13 members are the sons of immigrants from El Salvador and other Central American countries that were forced to flee because of the CIA instigated war during the Reagan Administration that completely destroyed the physical, economic, social, religious and cultural infrastructure of the region. MS-13 was founded in Los Angeles by the offspring of the immigrants for protection.


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Witnesses saw truck "rev up and race" before recent Texas oil refinery blast

April 1, 2005

Witnesses say a truck was idling near the scene of an explosion at a Texas refinery which killed 15 and injured over 100 others on March 23, according to U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Manager Bill Hoyle.

"Witnesses saw vapor in the area of the truck and observed the engine begin to rev up and race," Hoyle's statement said. "This behavior by a diesel engine indicates the presence of a flammable atmosphere entering the air intake. A driver reported trying to shut off the engine but was unable to do so." Hoyle's statement continued, "There are multiple possible sources of ignition in an operating refinery unit and we have made no determination about the ignition source at this time."

The investigation has been delayed by BP and Occupational Safety & Health Administration officials, who are trying to preserve evidence at the site for their investigation. They are also concerned about further injuries from hazards left over from the explosion, such as falling debris and unstable structures. The Environmental Protection Agency also detected in the atmosphere over the plant, which was treated with a layer of foam.

BP has retained control of the plant since the March 23 accident. Police arrived quickly the day of the explosion, but left after the initial emergency was over.

"Our officers could respond over there, but they don't have a clue," Texas City police Sgt. Curtis Pope told the Houston Chronicle. "The fact is they have chemical and equipment hazards. We don't know the chemicals."