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Spoken Wikinews
Thanks for all the Spoken Wikinews Articles done today, Keep up the good work! Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 01:29, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the compliment! You´re welcome, or to be more precise: The pleasure was mine.

I´ve got two questions, actually three, and I the first one involves, that I do hope, this is the correct way to reply and to post my question to you.

N° 2: By reading loads of help-pages, I found contradicting info. One time I found the words which I use as opener and as ending for the audio files. On another page (http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Audio) I found, that the opener should sound like: * Tell people where it's from. Begin your recordings with: "Article name, from Wikinews, the free news source, at wikinews-dot-org." and end each one with "This sound file and all text in the article are released into the public domain."

Whereas in another help-text I found, that I´m not supposed to read the title of an article. Which is, what I´ve been doing now. And that I should start the audio file with the words: "This is a spoken Wikinews article from wikinews.org, recorded by ..." and end with: "You can find this article and others at wikinews.org. Wikinews is a nonprofit independent news site run by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation. This recording has been released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License"

Which version is right? Or are they both ok?

N° 3: On one help page I found that the news should be mixed with the sound-file: WikinewsOpenerTheme2.ogg This should be no problem with audacity, but I wonder, should the whole news article be "underlined" with this sound, or only the opener and the ending? Or should I play the sound file, than my recorded message? This does seem a little bit long to me. I guess, I misunderstood the whole idea with the sound opener in the first place.

Gumboyaya 17:21, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

 * First, let me start by saying good job! Second, let me clear some questions up.  :).
 * Most spoken articles are recorded with the opener and closer, however the closer should be modified to read "Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution License", instead of Public Domain (we switched in September of 2005, about the time when our spoken project was gaining its momentum). You can choose to use them or not, but there should be some attribution to Wikinews under our license.
 * The Wikinews theme is usually only used with News Briefs and Full Reports. For Spoken Wikinews articles, they just take up a lot of time that users would generally not care to hear.  But, do whatever makes you comfortable, there's really no restrictions to Audio Wikinews.
 * Thanks for contributing! I look forward to future releases.  --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 17:23, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for the advices and the compliment! I´ll change the end at my next audio file contributions. Gumboyaya 18:37, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

RE: and now for something completely different ...
Yeah, MediaWiki is a little weird, but calls all uploaded files "Image:". The reason why the Java player doesn't pick up on them is because it can't read MediaWiki's Image pages, so the URL must point to the actual file's location on the server, and not the image page (in this case, it would be http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Newsbriefs_May_3rd_2006_UTC_1830.ogg). Due to spam control, your addition to the feed was probably also rejected by the filters, as it didn't point to this full URL. You can get the full URL by going to the Image page, and right-clicking on the link to the file, and selecting "copy link location" (or similar). If you need any more help, I lurk around in IRC often ;), or I can respond to my talk page fairly quickly. --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 21:27, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * You can also use Special:Filepath to find the exact url. (may or may not work. Don't use the image prefix on it. (Don't know if thats helpful or not). Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 22:37, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Great work
I have noticed you have been doing alot of news readings. It's great to see someone interested in the other parts of the site. Keep up the good work! -Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 22:50, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Exceptional newcomer award!
Take a look at your user page! :) — THIS IS M ESSED OCKER  (TALK) 06:44, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Great work
I just wanted to say Great Job, with the audio stuff. I was wondering though, shouldn't template:Audio Upload go on the image description page as it looks a little weird on the article, and have the more concise template:audio on the article? To me the big one just looks a bit out of place on the article. But I don't know what the policies and stuff are at the audio section. Bawolff ☺☻ 02:25, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Please add Category: Brief to Transcripts
Hi there! First of all, great job on the audio releases, keep them up! Could I please ask you to add to the transcripts, though? They stick under "developing articles" if they're not tagged. Thanks! --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 00:24, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

What software i need to open *.ogg files ?
Hi ! How do i open sound files ? For some reasons, I couldn't open it. Please send me a note.Indrajitneogi 13:36, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Audio Wikinews
I must say. I am really happy to see that someone is taking the time to report news articles via audio. I am very much interested in the future of Wikinews and I am happy that you make the effort to record the news :) I hope that you continue your "quest" (I guess you could say). Great job, and I have listened to nearly every article you recorded :) Jason Safoutin 12:51, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Public apology
The audio file for newsbriefs on May 15th, 17:00 UTC, 2006 is lousy. It didn´t sound that weird, when I listened to it. There will be a reloaded version on this very evening. This can´t be wikinews standard! I´m working on improvement! Gumboyaya 17:12, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Congrats
Thank you for reading the "Wave of attacks strike policemen in Brazil", your pronunciation of Portuguese words were very convincing. Just a recommendation: the words Sul and Capital have a u sounded l... in your reading it sounds Spanish. -- Sitenl 21:49, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Here you go - The U sound Sitenl 16:52, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Going realy to the point, it sounds like this, at least I do sound like this - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikinews/en/6/6e/Pccandms.ogg

Thanks for reading "Alonso wins Spanish GP"
That was quite surprising for me! :) After another busy working day, to come home and listen to the article wrote by yourself... I'm happy :o) Thanx. 42. --Yuriybrisk 18:09, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Re: Cheers & Servus
Nah, there are lots of Krauts here like User:Eloquence, User:Aholtman, User:SonicR and User:vonbergm (in exile). --Deprifry|+T+ 10:18, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Survey about Wikinews
Hello Gumboyaya. A user at de.wikinews has made a survey for a scientific work about Wikinews and professional online journalism. She is still searching for users, who would like to answer the survey (it's in german language). You can find more information here. Thanks and I hope you don't mind that I've spammed your userpage ;) Regards --SonicR 14:15, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the advice. Since I think, people who are doing scientific research should be supported, I will gladly join in and support this survey. Afterall, a couple of years ago, I was a student myself and participated in the development of surveys, and of course I was always happy, when people provided me with "input". :-)
 * So, no bother, mate! Your "Spam" is very welcome, indeed!
 * Gumboyaya 22:21, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Spelling
I'm going to nitpick (because that's what I do), but "labor" is actually as correct as "labour." I am guessing (only guessing) that English is your second language, so you probably learned British spellings for these words? Especially in articles relating mostly to America, it makes sense that the American spellings would have priority. I didn't revert the edit because it doesn't really matter at all, but I thought you'd be all the happier for knowing. (The same goes for "centre"/"center", "theatre"/"theater", "tonne"/"ton", etc.) Thanks! Fearwig 18:21, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

 * YIP! You are very right! (2nd language, british influenced)
 * I wasn´t aware of that.
 * Hence, thanks very much indeed for your correction!
 * I´ve learned something (to be honest:) "a-"new :-), ´cause I´ve heard this years ago, but I´ve just forgot it. "Shame on me!" ;-)
 * Please do not hesitate to correct me further-on!! I DO appreciate support like this A LOT!
 * Since it helps to broaden my knowledge.
 * Ta Gumboyaya 21:42, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikinews briefings RSS Feed
Hi there,

Great work on the audio news broadcasts! I think it's fantastic that Wikinews offers this service. In fact it's been wonderful to see wikinews maturing in so many ways.

One suggestion: when you upload, could you possibly add your briefs to the audio podcast? There are instructions at http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Audio_Wikinews/Releases/News_Briefs/Release

This would be really helpful for receiving your broadcasts, and the RSS feed is available from the main page.

Thanks again for the amazing work!

Cheers, Mark

 * Thanks for the compliments!
 * And thank you for your advice!
 * But, alas!, I seem to be not clever enough to understand the instructions.
 * Could it be the link I sent, since everything else can´t be done wrongly.
 * My link was: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikinews/en/b/b5/200606_1800_newsbriefs.ogg
 * Now I re-uploaded the file to: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/200606_1800_newsbriefs.ogg
 * But it does not seem to work either.
 * I do appreciate every help I can get.
 * Cheers mate,
 * Gumboyaya 18:28, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

 * It looks like the second link worked (presumably there's a little delay before it shows up in the feed). Maybe this is a bug with the RSS submission mechanism, I'd have thought we should be able to submit links to Wikinews content??? Mark Williamson 23:00, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I simply try again when I manage to do the newsbriefs. Thanks Gumboyaya 12:58, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Solution found! It does not take 1 minute, but around 15 to 20 Minutes. :-) That´s all.
 * Gumboyaya 19:14, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Excellent stuff! Thanks, it'll be nice to get the briefs as a podcast.  Thanks again, you do really good work.
 * 128.232.9.91 23:30, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

 * :-] Gumboyaya 15:42, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Theme
During your audio newsbriefs it sounds like you are playing a different version to the Wikinews "Theme song" to the one I downloaded. Is it possible for me to get your copy of the song? nzgabriel 05:43, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Sure thing, I found it here:
 * http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews_talk:Audio_Wikinews#New_Opener_Music
 * I wasn´t aware of this new opener up until the moment, when Skenmy used it for his draft for Wikinews Weekly.
 * Gumboyaya 18:01, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

New template for audio reports
I was annoyed with the position of the audio box on this article, so I created Template:Audio-left and you now have this version. The new template should be useful for articles where there's an infobox or pictures down the right. I like to see all the graphical elements before the sources and related stuff (including boxes). Anyway, you seem the most prolific recorder so I thought it best to point it out to you. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:39, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your idea, but allow me to be straight forward: I don´t know, whether this just happend with this article, because it is under development. When I clicked on your link(s), I was redirected, and again redirected, because the article was under constant development due to the actual crisis. Hence the outcome I saw was: In the original version, the audio-box was on the right-hand-side, underneath all the relevant graphical elements, and after the actual news-text ended.
 * In your version the audio-box was in the middle of the ending paragraph of the news-text. Hence the readers "were forced" to read "around the audio-box" to finish reading the article.
 * I don´t mind, whether the audio-box is left or right of the article, but it should be at the end (or the beginning) of the article. Certainly not within the last paragraph. What I write, might have to do with the fact, that the article is still evolving.
 * Nevertheless, that is why I would like to ask you, if you´ve got an idea, how to place the "audio-box/template" in a way, that people who are reading the article can read it, without being "stopped" by the template.
 * Or is it - in the end - simply a question of how I put the template onto a site? And I did not understood how to do it properly so far?
 * I think, the question is also, whether we offer the read-version of an article right at the start, or at the end of an article. I think, the offer at the top would be more service-orientated: "Read it, or listen to it! Wikinews offers both!" (At least for certain read articles.)
 * I do hope I could make my point clear. Tara Gumboyaya 00:12, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

at the cooler
any thoughts on this? i think an easy way to do it is create "Latest Audio", etc pages and put redirects to the new files as they are uploaded. are u uploaders willing to do the work each time? (perhaps its better to continue this conversatio on WC) Doldrums 18:07, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Commas in news briefs
Hey Gumboyaya, when you create news briefs pages from now one, do you think you could put a comma between the date and the year, e.g. August 25, 2006? I personally don't mind either way, but the lack of comma is grammatically incorrect and it doesn't allow the news brief to show on date categories, like on Category:July 23, 2006. Anyways, I'm in the process of moving all the ones without commas (luckily there aren't that many of them). —     05:34, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the advice! I´ll have an eye on it, from now on.
 * Gumboyaya 15:11, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Audio Wikinews?
Hi

Whose currently reading these?

ShakespeareFan00 09:17, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi,
 * good question. ;-)
 * Sorry, but I was - and still am - extremly busy, hence I can´t do the audio newsbriefs that regularly.
 * Gumboyaya 18:15, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Giving your voice a break, eh? --Nzgabriel | Talk 08:50, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Kind of ...
 * But not really.
 * I need my voice now someplace else.
 * Hope that I can arrange to change that soon ...
 * Cheerio Gumboyaya 19:40, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

WikiBureau Germany
Would you like to join WikiBureau Germany? Kingjeff - (talk) 15:55, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

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// - // Language support, taken from phase3/languages/* // - var rollbacklink = 'rollback'; var cantrollback = 'Cannot revert edit; last contributor is only author of this page.'; var alreadyrolled = 'Cannot rollback last edit of $1 by $2 (Talk); someone else has edited or rolled back the page already. Last edit was by $3 (Talk). '; var revertpage = 'Reverted edits by $2 to last version by $1'; switch (document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0].lang) { case 'fr': rollbacklink = 'rÃ©voquer'; cantrollback = 'Impossible de rÃ©voquer: dernier auteur est le seul Ã avoir modifiÃ© cet article'; alreadyrolled = 'Impossible de rÃ©voquer la derniÃ¨re modification de $1 par $2 (Talk); quelqu\'un d\'autre Ã  dÃ©jÃ  modifer ou rÃ©voquer l\'article. La derniÃ¨re modificaion Ã©tait de $3 (Talk). '; // lol @ pathetic grammar revertpage = "RÃ©vocation des modifications de $2 et restauration d'une prÃ©cÃ©dente version de $1"; break; case 'de': rollbacklink = 'ZurÃ¼cksetzen'; cantrollback = 'Die Ã„nderung kann nicht zurÃ¼ckgenommen werden; der letzte Autor ist der einzige.'; alreadyrolled = 'Die ZurÃ¼cknahme des Artikels $1 von $2 (Diskussion) ist nicht mÃ¶glich, da eine andere Ã„nderung oder RÃ¼cknahme erfolgt ist. Die letzte Ã„nderung ist von $3 (Diskussion)'; revertpage = 'Ã„nderungen von Benutzer:$2 rÃ¼ckgÃ¤ngig gemacht und letzte Version von Benutzer:$1 wiederhergestellt'; break; case 'es': rollbacklink = 'Revertir'; cantrollback = 'No se pueden revertir las ediciones; el Ãºltimo colaborador es el Ãºnico autor de este artÃculo.'; alreadyrolled = 'No se puede revertir la Ãºltima ediciÃ³n de $1 por $2 (DiscusiÃ³n); alguien mÃ¡s ya ha editado o revertido esa pÃ¡gina. La Ãºltima ediciÃ³n fue hecha por $3 (DiscusiÃ³n). ';   revertpage = 'Revertida a la Ãºltima ediciÃ³n de $1'; break; case 'it': rollbacklink = 'rollback'; cantrollback = 'Impossibile tornare ad una versione precedente: l\'ultima modifica Ã¨ stata apportata dall\'unico utente che abbia lavorato a questo articolo.'; //alreadyrolled = ''; revertpage = 'Riportata alla revisione precedente da $1'; break; case 'pt': rollbacklink = 'voltar'; cantrollback = 'NÃ£o foi possÃvel reverter a ediÃ§Ã£o; o Ãºltimo contribuidor Ã© o Ãºnico autor deste artigo.'; alreadyrolled = 'NÃ£o foi possÃvel reverter as ediÃ§Ãµes de $1 por $2 (Talk); alguÃ©m o editou ou jÃ¡ o reverteu. A Ãºltima ediÃ§Ã£o foi de $3 (Conversar com ele). ';   revertpage = 'Revertidas ediÃ§Ãµes por $2, para a Ãºltima versÃ£o por $1'; break; }

// - // XMLHttpRequest support // - if (document.implementation.createDocument) { var gml_xmlparser = new DOMParser; }

function gml_XMLParse(string) { if (document.implementation.createDocument) { return gml_xmlparser.parseFromString(string, "text/xml"); } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { var gml_xmldoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM"); gml_xmldoc.async = "false"; ret = gml_xmldoc.loadXML(string); if (!ret) return null; return gml_xmldoc.documentElement; } return null; }

var gml_xmlhttp;

function HTTPClient { var gml_http; if(window.XMLHttpRequest) { gml_http = new XMLHttpRequest; } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { try { gml_http = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); } catch (e) { try { gml_http = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); } catch (E) { gml_http = false; }   }  }  return gml_http; }

// - // MD5 hash calculator // - // Version 2.1 Copyright (C) Paul Johnston 1999 - 2002. // Other contributors: Greg Holt, Andrew Kepert, Ydnar, Lostinet // Distributed under the BSD License // See http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/md5 for more info. // - var hexcase = 0; var b64pad = ""; var chrsz  = 8;

function hex_md5(s){ return binl2hex(core_md5(str2binl(s), s.length * chrsz));}

function core_md5(x, len) { x[len >> 5] |= 0x80 << ((len) % 32); x[(((len + 64) >>> 9) << 4) + 14] = len;

var a = 1732584193; var b = -271733879; var c = -1732584194; var d = 271733878;

for(var i = 0; i < x.length; i += 16) {   var olda = a;    var oldb = b;    var oldc = c;    var oldd = d;

a = md5_ff(a, b, c, d, x[i+ 0], 7, -680876936); d = md5_ff(d, a, b, c, x[i+ 1], 12, -389564586); c = md5_ff(c, d, a, b, x[i+ 2], 17, 606105819); b = md5_ff(b, c, d, a, x[i+ 3], 22, -1044525330); a = md5_ff(a, b, c, d, x[i+ 4], 7 , -176418897); d = md5_ff(d, a, b, c, x[i+ 5], 12,  1200080426); c = md5_ff(c, d, a, b, x[i+ 6], 17, -1473231341); b = md5_ff(b, c, d, a, x[i+ 7], 22, -45705983); a = md5_ff(a, b, c, d, x[i+ 8], 7 ,  1770035416); d = md5_ff(d, a, b, c, x[i+ 9], 12, -1958414417); c = md5_ff(c, d, a, b, x[i+10], 17, -42063); b = md5_ff(b, c, d, a, x[i+11], 22, -1990404162); a = md5_ff(a, b, c, d, x[i+12], 7 ,  1804603682); d = md5_ff(d, a, b, c, x[i+13], 12, -40341101); c = md5_ff(c, d, a, b, x[i+14], 17, -1502002290); b = md5_ff(b, c, d, a, x[i+15], 22,  1236535329);

a = md5_gg(a, b, c, d, x[i+ 1], 5, -165796510); d = md5_gg(d, a, b, c, x[i+ 6], 9 , -1069501632); c = md5_gg(c, d, a, b, x[i+11], 14, 643717713); b = md5_gg(b, c, d, a, x[i+ 0], 20, -373897302); a = md5_gg(a, b, c, d, x[i+ 5], 5 , -701558691); d = md5_gg(d, a, b, c, x[i+10], 9 ,  38016083); c = md5_gg(c, d, a, b, x[i+15], 14, -660478335); b = md5_gg(b, c, d, a, x[i+ 4], 20, -405537848); a = md5_gg(a, b, c, d, x[i+ 9], 5 ,  568446438); d = md5_gg(d, a, b, c, x[i+14], 9 , -1019803690); c = md5_gg(c, d, a, b, x[i+ 3], 14, -187363961); b = md5_gg(b, c, d, a, x[i+ 8], 20,  1163531501); a = md5_gg(a, b, c, d, x[i+13], 5 , -1444681467); d = md5_gg(d, a, b, c, x[i+ 2], 9 , -51403784); c = md5_gg(c, d, a, b, x[i+ 7], 14,  1735328473); b = md5_gg(b, c, d, a, x[i+12], 20, -1926607734);

a = md5_hh(a, b, c, d, x[i+ 5], 4, -378558); d = md5_hh(d, a, b, c, x[i+ 8], 11, -2022574463); c = md5_hh(c, d, a, b, x[i+11], 16, 1839030562); b = md5_hh(b, c, d, a, x[i+14], 23, -35309556); a = md5_hh(a, b, c, d, x[i+ 1], 4 , -1530992060); d = md5_hh(d, a, b, c, x[i+ 4], 11,  1272893353); c = md5_hh(c, d, a, b, x[i+ 7], 16, -155497632); b = md5_hh(b, c, d, a, x[i+10], 23, -1094730640); a = md5_hh(a, b, c, d, x[i+13], 4 ,  681279174); d = md5_hh(d, a, b, c, x[i+ 0], 11, -358537222); c = md5_hh(c, d, a, b, x[i+ 3], 16, -722521979); b = md5_hh(b, c, d, a, x[i+ 6], 23,  76029189); a = md5_hh(a, b, c, d, x[i+ 9], 4 , -640364487); d = md5_hh(d, a, b, c, x[i+12], 11, -421815835); c = md5_hh(c, d, a, b, x[i+15], 16,  530742520); b = md5_hh(b, c, d, a, x[i+ 2], 23, -995338651);

a = md5_ii(a, b, c, d, x[i+ 0], 6, -198630844); d = md5_ii(d, a, b, c, x[i+ 7], 10, 1126891415); c = md5_ii(c, d, a, b, x[i+14], 15, -1416354905); b = md5_ii(b, c, d, a, x[i+ 5], 21, -57434055); a = md5_ii(a, b, c, d, x[i+12], 6 ,  1700485571); d = md5_ii(d, a, b, c, x[i+ 3], 10, -1894986606); c = md5_ii(c, d, a, b, x[i+10], 15, -1051523); b = md5_ii(b, c, d, a, x[i+ 1], 21, -2054922799); a = md5_ii(a, b, c, d, x[i+ 8], 6 ,  1873313359); d = md5_ii(d, a, b, c, x[i+15], 10, -30611744); c = md5_ii(c, d, a, b, x[i+ 6], 15, -1560198380); b = md5_ii(b, c, d, a, x[i+13], 21,  1309151649); a = md5_ii(a, b, c, d, x[i+ 4], 6 , -145523070); d = md5_ii(d, a, b, c, x[i+11], 10, -1120210379); c = md5_ii(c, d, a, b, x[i+ 2], 15,  718787259); b = md5_ii(b, c, d, a, x[i+ 9], 21, -343485551);

a = safe_add(a, olda); b = safe_add(b, oldb); c = safe_add(c, oldc); d = safe_add(d, oldd); } return Array(a, b, c, d);

}

function md5_cmn(q, a, b, x, s, t) { return safe_add(bit_rol(safe_add(safe_add(a, q), safe_add(x, t)), s),b); } function md5_ff(a, b, c, d, x, s, t) { return md5_cmn((b & c) | ((~b) & d), a, b, x, s, t); } function md5_gg(a, b, c, d, x, s, t) { return md5_cmn((b & d) | (c & (~d)), a, b, x, s, t); } function md5_hh(a, b, c, d, x, s, t) { return md5_cmn(b ^ c ^ d, a, b, x, s, t); } function md5_ii(a, b, c, d, x, s, t) { return md5_cmn(c ^ (b | (~d)), a, b, x, s, t); }

function safe_add(x, y) { var lsw = (x & 0xFFFF) + (y & 0xFFFF); var msw = (x >> 16) + (y >> 16) + (lsw >> 16); return (msw << 16) | (lsw & 0xFFFF); }

function bit_rol(num, cnt) { return (num << cnt) | (num >>> (32 - cnt)); }

function str2binl(str) { var bin = Array; var mask = (1 << chrsz) - 1; for(var i = 0; i < str.length * chrsz; i += chrsz) bin[i>>5] |= (str.charCodeAt(i / chrsz) & mask) << (i%32); return bin; }

function binl2hex(binarray) { var hex_tab = hexcase ? "0123456789ABCDEF" : "0123456789abcdef"; var str = ""; for(var i = 0; i < binarray.length * 4; i++) {   str += hex_tab.charAt((binarray[i>>2] >> ((i%4)*8+4)) & 0xF) + hex_tab.charAt((binarray[i>>2] >> ((i%4)*8 )) & 0xF); } return str; }

// - // Our nice Revert functions // - var gml_vandal, gml_editor, gml_url;

function PerformRevert { var l, token = '', revert = false; // Look for '&fakeaction=rollback' in URL gml_url = location.pathname; l = location.search.substring(1).split('&'); for (i = 0; i < l.length; i++) { var n = l[i].indexOf('='); var name = l[i].substring(0, n); if (name == 'fakeaction') { if (l[i].substring(n + 1) == 'rollback') revert = true; } else if (name == 'vandal') { gml_vandal = unescape(l[i].substring(n + 1)); } else if (name == 'token') { token = unescape(l[i].substring(n + 1)); } else if (name == 'title') { gml_url += '?' + l[i]; } }  if (!revert) return; document.getElementById('bodyContent').innerHTML = 'Please wait, reverting edits by ' + gml_vandal + '...'; // Avoid XSS kiddies by using a special token if (token == '' || token != hex_md5(gml_url + gml_vandal + document.cookie)) { document.getElementById('bodyContent').innerHTML += ' Bad authentication token!'; return; }

gml_xmlhttp = HTTPClient; if (!gml_xmlhttp) return; history_url = gml_url + '&action=history&limit=50'; document.getElementById('bodyContent').innerHTML += ' Getting article history (' + history_url + ')...'; gml_xmlhttp.open("GET", history_url, true); gml_xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = RevertStepTwo; gml_xmlhttp.send(null); }

function RevertStepTwo { if (gml_xmlhttp.readyState != 4) return; var l; var oldid; // Get the vandal and new editor names gml_vandal = gml_vandal.replace(/_/g, ' '); gml_editor = ''; // Hack for a MediaWiki bug xml = gml_xmlhttp.responseText.replace(//, ''); doc = gml_XMLParse(xml); if (!doc || !doc.getElementById('pagehistory')) { document.getElementById('bodyContent').innerHTML += ' Failed to parse XML data returned by the server.'; document.getElementById('bodyContent').innerHTML += ' Hint: try to disable both "Enable section editing by right-clicking on section titles (JavaScript)" and "Edit pages on double click (JavaScript)" in your editing preferences until a proper fix is found.'; document.getElementById('bodyContent').innerHTML += ' Dump of the unparseable page : ' + xml.replace(/&/g, '&').replace(//g, '>'); return; } l = doc.getElementById('pagehistory').getElementsByTagName('li'); //l = doc.selectSingleNode('//*[@id="pagehistory"]').getElementsByTagName('li'); for (i = 0; i < l.length; i++) { var name = l[i].getElementsByTagName('span')[0].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].innerHTML.replace(/_/g, ' '); if (i == 0 && name != gml_vandal) { document.getElementById('bodyContent').innerHTML += ' Error: Last editor is ' + name + ', not ' + gml_vandal + '!'; return; } else if (i > 0 && name != gml_vandal) { oldid = l[i].getElementsByTagName('input')[0].value; gml_editor = name; break; } }  if (gml_editor == '') { document.getElementById('bodyContent').innerHTML += ' Error: ' + gml_vandal + ' is the only editor!'; return; }

gml_xmlhttp = HTTPClient; if (!gml_xmlhttp) return; document.getElementById('bodyContent').innerHTML += ' Getting article edit form (GET' + gml_url + '&action=edit&oldid=' + oldid + ')...'; gml_xmlhttp.open('GET', gml_url + '&action=edit&oldid=' + oldid, true); gml_xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = RevertStepThree; gml_xmlhttp.send(null); }

function RevertStepThree { if (gml_xmlhttp.readyState != 4) return var form, newform, l; // Insert the downloaded form in our current page, using // only hidden form inputs. doc = gml_XMLParse(gml_xmlhttp.responseText); form = doc.getElementById('editform'); newform = document.createElement('form'); l = form.getElementsByTagName('textarea'); for (i = l.length; i--; ) { var t = document.createElement('input'); t.type = 'hidden'; t.name = l[i].name; t.value = l[i].value; newform.appendChild(t); } l = form.getElementsByTagName('input'); for (i = l.length; i--; ) { if (l[i].name == 'wpSummary') { l[i].value = revertpage.replace(/\$1/g, gml_editor).replace(/\$2/g, gml_vandal); } else if (l[i].name == 'wpMinoredit') { l[i].value = '1'; } else if (l[i].name == 'wpWatchthis') { if (!l[i].checked) continue; // Donâ€™t touch the "watch" status l[i].value = "on"; } else if (l[i].name == 'wpPreview') { continue; } else if (l[i].name == 'wpDiff') { continue; }   l[i].type = 'hidden'; newform.appendChild(l[i]); } newform.name = form.name; newform.method = form.method; newform.id = form.id; newform.action = form.action; document.getElementById('bodyContent').innerHTML += ' Submitting form...'; document.getElementById('bodyContent').appendChild(newform); // Submit the form newform.submit; }

// - // Add revert buttons to the page // - function AddRevertButtons { var l, article = '', vandal; // Add 'revert' links to a diff page l = document.getElementById('bodyContent').getElementsByTagName('td'); for (i = 0; i < l.length; i++) { if (l[i].className == 'diff-otitle') { article = l[i].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].href.split('&')[0].replace(/[^\/]*\/\/[^\/]*/, ''); } else if (l[i].className == 'diff-ntitle') { var toplink = l[i].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].href; vandal = l[i].getElementsByTagName('a')[1].title.split(':')[1]; var t = l[i].innerHTML n = t.indexOf(') ) = 0 && article != '' && toplink.indexOf('oldid=') == -1) { l[i].innerHTML = t.substring(0, n + 5) + '   [' + rollbacklink + '] ' + t.substring(n + 5, t.length); }   }  }  // Add 'revert' links to a contributions page if (location.href.indexOf(':Contributions') != -1) { var c = document.getElementById('contentSub'); var a = c.getElementsByTagName('a'); if (a.length >= 2) { vandal = a[0].innerHTML; } else { vandal = c.innerHTML.replace(/ \(.*/, ).replace(/.* /, );   }    l = document.getElementById('bodyContent').getElementsByTagName('li');    for (i = 0; i < l.length; i++) {      var t = l[i].innerHTML      // If we are already a sysop on this wiki, abort      if (t.indexOf('>' + rollbacklink + ']') != -1)          break;      //if (t.indexOf('&diff=0') != -1) {      if (t.indexOf(' (') != -1) { article = l[i].getElementsByTagName('a')[0].href.split('&')[0].replace(/[^\/]*\/\/[^\/]*/, ''); l[i].innerHTML += ' [' + rollbacklink + ']'; }   }  } }

// - // Modify the page once it is loaded // - if (window.addEventListener) { window.addEventListener("load", PerformRevert, false); window.addEventListener("load", AddRevertButtons, false); } else if (window.attachEvent) { window.attachEvent("onload", PerformRevert); window.attachEvent("onload", AddRevertButtons); }

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User talk:ManiaJD~enwikinews

Welcome
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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.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called ManiaJD. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name ManiaJD~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.

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Kucinich asks Bush about alleged US support for armed insurgency in Iran

April 21, 2006

U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) claimed in a letter to President George W. Bush on April 18, 2006 that the US seems to be supporting both the (PEJAK), an armed group associated with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and based in Iraq, and the  (MEK) in insurgent activity in Iran during 2005 and in particular in killing twenty four Iranian soldiers in March 2006.

Both the PKK and the are listed by the  and by the Council of the European Union as terrorist organizations. The FBI alleges that the is "an integral part of the MEK", i.e. essentially the same organisation as the MEK, while the NCRI itself claims that the MEK is just one of five components of the NCRI.

Kucinich compared the alleged US support for against the government of Iran with Bush's previous criticisms against insurgent groups, writing to Bush, "U.S. support for insurgent activity in Iran is not tolerable.  You have claimed numerous times that the object of the so-called '' is to target lawless insurgent groups."

Kucinich asked Bush to report to Congress both on US military operations in Iranian territory and on US use of organisations in military actions against the Iranian government, stating, "Previously I asked you to immediately report to Congress on the extent of U.S. military operations currently in Iran.  Now, in light of the evidence described above, I urge you to report to Congress on U.S. support for military operations in Iran by anti-Iranian insurgent groups."

Bush's response is not yet known.


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User talk:219.16.28.136

You have been blocked because you are editing from an open proxy. --Chiacomo (talk) 02:50, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

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User:Cema

I am Cema in Wikinews and Cema in Wikipedia.

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Wikinews:Events Calendar/2006/April

 * Refresh 29 July

25 April
Australia -- ANZAC Day -- Jasabella 04:11, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

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Wikinews:Briefs/April 20, 2006

Audio Wikinews Transcript, 0900 UTC, April 19, 2006
Hello and welcome to Audio Wikinews Newsbriefs, at 0900 UTC, April 19, 2006.

Headlines
New Zealand, Australia fly in extra personnel to help quell Solomon Island riots
 * The New Zealand and Australian Governments are to send reinforcements to the Solomon Islands following an written request for help from the Solomon Islands government. A contingent of 110 Australian soldiers and 80 Australian federal police officers left for the islands today. Thirty New Zealand Police and twenty five New Zealand Army personnel will leave on a Royal New Zealand Air Force plane on Thursday morning. The violence began yesterday when protestors took to the streets of the capital Honiara, protesting the election by parliament of Snyder Rini as the new Prime Minister. The streets of the capital witnessed arson and widespread looting.

Sudan reports first bird flu case
 * In Sudan, one farmer and about 100,000 chickens were diagnosed with the first appearance of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. The samples will be sent abroad to the World Health Organization for further testing. Most of the infected poultry has already been disposed of. H5N1, which has spread throughout Europe, northern Africa (including neighboring Egypt), central Asia, and the Middle East, has already killed about 100 people. There is no word yet on the man's identity or condition.

Greenpeace report says Chernobyl death toll has been underestimated
 * A report published by Greenpeace questions an estimate made by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that 4000 deaths have resulted from the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Greenpeace claims that this estimate is 'a gross simplification of the breadth of human suffering' and that over the last 15 years, 60,000 have died in Russia because of the accident, and estimates that the total death toll for Ukraine and Belarus could be another 140,000. The IAEA has not yet responded to the report.

Closing Comments
We invite you to visit wikinews.org for up-to-date news and information. This has been Audio Wikinews Newsbriefs. Until next time, have a good day.

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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II turns 80

April 21, 2006

Today marks the 80th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, whose reign has lasted over 54 years.

Her Majesty became the first female to become the sovereign since Queen Victoria, who died in 1901 after a 64-year reign.

She was crowned on June 2, 1953, in Westminster Abbey. It was the first coronation that was televised live. She is Queen of sixteen independent nations known as the Commonwealth Realms, which includes the United Kingdom.

One of the most peculiar incidents of her reign was when Michael Fagan broke into Buckingham Palace and entered the Queen's bedchamber in the early hours of July 9, 1982.

The Monarchist League of New Zealand, said in a press release: “there is scarcely a single public figure who can compare with The Queen. She is universally admired and respected for her professionalism, dignity and example.”

Despite her age, royal watchers say Her Majesty will never abdicate. If Her Majesty is reigning on September 9, 2015, she will become the longest reigning monarch in British history.

Cries of “God save the Queen!” have been said across the Commonwealth today.

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7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Kamchatka peninsula

April 21, 2006

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, an earthquake struck at 23:25:05 UTC April 20 (local time 12:25:05 April 21) on the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia.

The hypocenter of the quake was located at 61.092° N 167.100° E at a depth of 43 km. According to the Japanese Meteorological Agency and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, there was no danger of a tsunami.

According to wire reports, damage has been reported in several villages in Russia. The Associated Press reports via local reports that public facilities in the village of Telichiki near the seashore have been damaged and that transmission of electrical power has been affected. CNN reports that the population of the village is 2,000.


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Employees of Mumbai's bus service BEST announce indefinite strike

April 21, 2006

At least 45,000 employees of the BEST, Mumbai's public transport provider, are going on strike indefinitely. Workers are unhappy with changes made to wages and are concerned about their working conditions. Union leaders say the strike will end when the company rethinks its decision.

Nearly 3,300 buses will be taken off the road since talks with union leaders have drawn an inconclusive response; at least 450,000 commuters are expected to be affected by the strike. Another round of talks is expected to take place later today. An Industrial Court has termed the strike call illegal. BEST has warned employees participating in the strike that they would be faced with disciplinary action.

Sharad Rao, General Secretary of BEST's workers union, said that "the management took this decision arbitrarily without even coming to the negotiating table. They moved to the committee to change the wages and other conditions on their own, and that is absolutely illegal. Three days ago, they have again moved to the BHT committee asking them to freeze the dearness allowance which no worker is going to tolerate". Dearness Allowance is an inflation-linked component of wages.

"I have been on the road for the last one hour. Normally I would have just hopped on to a bus," said commuter Mukul Chandan. Commuter Janki Patel reported, "I travel by bus everyday, but today because of the strike I have had to take an auto and its going to cost me Rs 200 just one way."


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Talk:Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II turns 80

"Her Majesty"
what's the wikinews style guidelines on the use of honorifics? 'pedia says, in Manual of Style (biographies): "Styles shall not be used to open articles on royalty and popes. Thus the article on Pope Benedict XVI shall not begin "His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. . . " nor the article on Queen Victoria begin "Her Majesty Queen Victoria. . ." They should, however, be discussed in the article proper."

Doldrums 09:14, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * This would be just another birthday were Elizabeth Windsor anyone other than the Elizabeth II, the Queen woman... Title is fine. --Chiacomo (talk) 23:27, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

 * The Wikinews style guide says
 * "Wikinews honors the protocol common in the country of origin of the royalty mentioned.

British: royalty and anointed positions: use title plus first name, eg "Lady Catherine", "Prince Charles"" Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 23:48, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm fine with the title of the article, but to play the devil's advocate -- the "honorific" part of the title is "Her Majesty".. :D --Chiacomo (talk) 23:48, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * True :) Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 23:51, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

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 * I'm not sure what's to be discussed. It's an 11-year-old article. We could certainly issue a correction regarding the title if it's an issue, but at this point is seems pretty unneeded. —mikemoral (talk) 08:08, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't know what made you think it is "unneeded", but if you have been following the recent changes (and/or IRC) you would know a good headline is not that easy to frame. In this case, there should be no "Her Majesty", and should mention Queen of which kingdom. This is to be used as an example that do not make such mistakes thinking everyone knows "English-speaking-white-skinned-dudes-which-happen-to-be-leaders-of-some-*developed-nation". (*Reminds me of this) •–• 08:47, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Just like how we have a case study for COE, we need some good examples for the other policies and this might be just one of those I was looking for. ("Her Majesty" -- also for the quote: "Omit needless words.") •–• 08:53, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * The article isn't going anywhere; there are lots of articles in our archives, from before the era of review, that don't meet current standards. It's not a matter for correction unless it wanders into factual errors or... well, mostly just factual errors.  I recall at least one case where we issued a correction for a just-published article that was a really severe neutrality violation, but I doubt we'd find anything that severe in the old archives, not sure just how we'd choose to handle it, and this doesn't seem to be anywhere near that appallingly bad. Although we have sample links of good examples at (for example) WN:Newsworthiness, I think it's best we not provide links to bad examples.  We might mention bad examples in passing, being very careful that they are unambiguously not to be imitated, but not mention that those bad examples actually exist in our archives.  --Pi zero (talk) 14:37, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * It is not going anywhere, but I need something for WN:Headline to show how to write a good headline. And using this article, I would want to bar some articles from being newsworthy. So. •–• 14:40, 27 November 2017 (UTC)


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Talk:Nepal's King Gyanendra cracks down on protests; 3 dead

"... but the an alliance of political parties demand ..."

Whats this supposed to be? Genjix 10:34, 21 April 2006 (UTC)


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Talk:Kucinich asks Bush about alleged US support for armed insurgency in Iran

U.S. support for the Iranian "Resistance"
This news article may be one of the first to illuminate how the USA prepares the world for the upcoming attack on Iran (likely by Israel as it would seem more "defensive" in nature). It would be good to have an info box for the various propaganda and strategic movements that are being made to pave the way for another pre-emptive attack on a sovereign nation.

There is this paradox in Google's "advanced" search for these "exact phrase" comparisons;

 * "Iranian insurgency" .....          202 references

 * "Iranian resistance" .....       78,700 references

Notice the enormous disparity between the use of the words resistance and insurgency when it comes to Iran.

Obviously, the word "resistance" is used to invoke sympathy or allegiance with the "resistance"(ala French Resistance in WW2) and the word "insurgency" is used to invoke hostile feelings toward the "insurgents".

Notice the enormous amount of stuff being put on the internet about an Iranian Resistance and much of it is being put on by US Gov. and military think tanks. I think the Psyops activities to put people on the side of the Iranian "resistance" is now at warp speed. Neutralizer 12:15, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, both PKK and MEK are classified by the US Dept of State and Council of the EU as terrorist organisations. However, if you look at Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan you'll see that the Washington Post article says these are a fine bunch of lads and mentions nothing about PEJAK being closely linked to the PKK. And there's some attempt to claim that NCRI is unrelated to MEK - whereas even the FBI claim that these are essentially a single organisation. The depth of the hypocrisy is hard to believe.

Anyway, i'm sticking a link here for another wikinews article - i don't know if i'll have the time to do it: http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Cheney_has_tapped_Iranian_expatriate_arms_0420.html The key point is (rough sketch of a title):

Raw Story: unnamed sources claim Cheney, Rumsfeld using Iran-Contra arms dealer to prevent diplomatic resolution of US-Iran conflict

Again, the hypocrisy is hard to believe. The title's a bit long, anyway, feel free to start the article (maybe put a link here) if someone does it.

For people who are too young to remember the Iran-Contra Affair, trying clicking on the wikipedia link. The NPOV first few lines are presently:

''The Iran-Contra Affair was the biggest political scandal in the United States during the 1980's. President Ronald Reagan authorized his administration's plan to sell arms to Iran, an avowed enemy, and used proceeds from the sales to illegally fund the Contras, a right-wing guerrilla group in Nicaragua. At the time, Americans were being held hostage in Lebanon by Hezbollah, a militant Shi'a organization loyal to Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini.''

And now one of the arms dealers from "the biggest political scandal in the United States in the 1980s" is being used to stop diplomacy from being used to peacefully resolve a crisis related to next-6-months or next-few-decades nuclear war???

Anyway, enough rant, the link is there, if noone else does it, i may get on to it tomorrow. Boud 22:37, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

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King of Nepal to restore democracy

April 21, 2006 In an address to the nation, the king of Nepal, Gyanendra said that he was turning the nation pro-democratic.

"We are committed to multi-party democracy and a constitutional monarchy. Executive power of the kingdom of Nepal, which was in our safekeeping, shall from this day be returned to the people. We hope peace and order is restored to the country by protecting multi-party democracy. We ask the seven-party alliance to recommend the name for the post of prime minister at the earliest," said the king in his address to the nation today.

Girija Prasad Koirala, the former Prime Minister of Nepal and leader of the opposition alliance said he will meet and discuss the announcement made by the king, before responding.

Earlier, United States Ambassador James Moriarty, had said that "his [the king's] time is running out" and that "ultimately the king will have to leave if he doesn't compromise. And by 'ultimately' I mean sooner rather than later."

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Talk:Employees of Mumbai's bus service BEST announce indefinite strike

Publishing article.
I think this article is ready for publishing now,I'll report back when the strike ends.If it's not please revert back to "developing"PVJ 14:21, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

indefinIte not indefinate.. the high-school educated americans won't notice, bless em.. 200.150.62.245


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Nigeria announces clearing of Paris Club debt

April 21, 2006

President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria announced that Nigeria will complete repayment of all debt owed to the Paris Club of creditors by Friday. The Director General of the Debt Management Office (DMO), Mansur Muhtar confirmed that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) would transfer $4.5 billion to the recipient countries on Friday.

The Paris Club is an informal group of creditor governments from major industrialized countries. Under the terms of an agreement signed last year, Nigeria will pay $12.4 billion in exchange for a debt cancellation of an estimated $18 billion, representing about 60% of the $30 billion Nigeria owed the Paris Club creditors. The agreement is the biggest debt relief deal for an African nation.

Nigeria, Africa's largest producer of oil, has used "windfall" earnings from the prevailing high oil prices in making these payments.

The Paris Club agreement was negotiated in October 2005, with the Nigerian delegation headed by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the minister of finance. The deal is part of the free-market reforms pursued by President Obasanjo.

The announcement comes in the wake of the endorsement of the reform programme by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which marks the last step for the debt relief deal to be completed. Nigeria is the first country to qualify for the IMF's Policy Support Instrument (PSI), which provides assessment and endorsement of a country's economic policy by the IMF, for those countries that do not require fund assistance.

Speaking before the commencement of the Federal Executive Council meeting at the Council Chambers, State House, President Obasanjo said, "By Friday, April 21, we would have cleared ourselves of all debts owed to Paris Club." He also added, "Considering the outstanding debts to the London Club and those owed internally, we are not out of the woods yet."


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Condoleezza Rice will visit Greece and Turkey

April 21, 2006

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit Athens and Ankara during next week by the opportunity of her participation in the NATO Foreign Ministers meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria. The announced that the head of US diplomacy will meet with Greek Prime Minister  and Foreign Minister  as well as with the Turkish prime minister,.

In the two Mediterranean countries, Rice will have the opportunity to discuss the mutual interests between the USA and its strategic allies, Greece and Turkey. The promotion of democracy and peace in the Middle East, the Cyprus issue, the possibility of Turkey's accession in the European Union, and war against terrorism in North Eastern Europe and Asia will likely be discussed.


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PBS show asserts greenhouse gases, atmospheric pollutants dimming future

April 22, 2006

This week, the Public Broadcasting Service aired a NOVA program titled “Dimming the Earth”, which presented research by leading scientists on the complex systems of our global climate and human activity's effect on it. One of the largest interactions (or "inputs") humans have with the atmosphere is the ever-increasing use of fossil fuels. Consumption has risen 2% per year for this decade.

Fossil fuels burnt in factories and automobiles send their waste into our atmosphere in two forms. The first is CO2 and other greenhouse gases, which have received substantial attention in the last few years because of the way they trap heat in the atmosphere. The second is the tiny particles of sulfur dioxide, soot and ash, which scientists call aerosols (basically smog). Research into understanding the negative health effects of air pollution has resulted in the development of catalytic converters for cars as well as devices to remove particulate solids from industrial waste before it reaches the air.

More recently, atmospheric scientists have come upon the phenomenon of the reduction of direct sunlight reaching Earth's surface— observing a nearly a 5% decline between 1960 and 1990, with evidence of a recovery since then. This has been dubbed the "global dimming" effect, and is probably due to the way these aerosols act upon clouds. It is important to realise that this does not represent a net loss of this much sunshine to the climate system - if so, large temperature declines would have been observed. Instead, the sunshine is absorbed elsewhere in the system, with a much smaller net loss.

Clouds form when moisture gathers around airborne particles, such as pollen or dust. Clouds formed by the aerosol particles emitted by fossil fuel consumption are made of many more tiny droplets than "natural" clouds. These smog-created clouds have two notable effects: they shield sunlight from reaching Earth's surface and, due to water's reflective nature, the millions of tiny droplets suspended in them reflect light back into space, allowing even less light to reach Earth.

Many scientists now believe that global dimming caused by these pollutants has mitigated the temperature rises brought about by global warming. Over the last thirty years, Earth's temperature has increased by about 0.5 oC.

In the absence of global dimming, however, the Earth might be 0.3 oC warmer than it currently is, suggesting that a "tug-of-war" exists between greenhouse gases and particulates released by burning fossil fuels. Efforts to mitigate the human health dangers of smog have allowed more heat into our atmosphere and brought about a sharper increase in global warming.

Dr. James E. Hansen, professor at Columbia University and the head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, believes that if we continue on our current pattern, this warming could be as much as five degrees in the next thirty years and ten to fourteen degrees over the course of the century. Such a temperature rise would devastate life on Earth, likely bringing on a cascade of self-reinforcing warming effects. Earth's forests drying and burning, a steady thawing of the Greenland and arctic ice sheets, and, most dangerous of all, a release of the methane hydrates that are now frozen at the bottom of the oceans, could remake the planet into something inhospitable to human life. Dr. Hansen warns that, according to his research, man has just 10 years to reduce greenhouse gases before global warming and other responses to human activity by Earth's climate reach a "tipping point", becoming unstoppable.


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Pakistan says senior al-Qaeda official killed in shootout

April 21, 2006

A Saudi Arabian man named Abu Marwan al-Suri, 38, suspected of being a senior al-Qaeda "bag man", was killed in a shootout on Thursday, according to the Pakistan army spokesman Major-General Shaukat Sultan. It is believed he has been killed at a checkpoint in Khar, a town in the tribal district of Bajaur, Pakistan, when he opened fire on security officials from inside a car. According to Sultan, al-Suri opened fire when asked to stop his car. Al-Suri wounded two people and killed one Pakistani security official.

"His death is quite a significant blow to al-Qaeda," said officials.

Al-Suri is believed to be one of several senior al-Qaeda officials targeted in a United States lead airstrike in January in the Damadola village of Bajaur, Pakistan against Ayman al-Zawahiri, which killed at least 18 civilians and several militants. Zawahiri was not killed in the strike. Suri was also believed to be giving money to the families of Iraqi militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as well as other militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Al-Suri is also believed to have been a close associate of Zawahiri.

"He was giving them money every three months," said officials.

Pakistani officials say they have his body and that it will be examined to determine its true identity at a hospital in the city of Peshawar.

Officials also say a notebook with instructions in Arabic on making bombs and explosive devices was found with al-Suri. The notebook also contained diagrams and drawings of circuits.


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Talk:PBS show asserts greenhouse gases, atmospheric pollutants dimming future

Since i do not see any other stories on this issue(likly one of the single most important issue we will face as humans during this century) I assume you are refering to this.

"News stories focus on a single current event or phenomenon. (If developments to an on-going event or issue occur, start a new story, don't edit an old one.)"

I have to admit this focus of yours puzzles me it does not allow for ongoing stories or any knd of investigative work. I belive these have been fairly important to the "news" in the past. Just because newspaper and television have just about ended this practice does not mean it is invalid as news. You can not possible belive that Global Warming and Global Dimming are not News worthy. Or that they should not be reported on untill some major disruptive event happens as a result of these forces. I would say this story focuses on a single current Phenomenon.

Be that as it is, i have hooked this story to the broadcast of the PBS show nova. It was a recent event that is news worthy. This show discusses many little known and discussed reasearch projects by scientist around the world. my research shows that the puplictaion of this material in a popular forum is unique in the United states. You may not see that as a event but it is obvious that scientists in the field do see it as one.

To verify and strengthen the information presented and provide additional sources for readers i have linked it to many sites on the web that directly discus the issue.

Or maybe you just wanted my signiture I don't really know but here it is Isles 19:37, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Headline had no…
… verb. That was the first problem with this story.
 * Now the headline issue is addressed, the story is about "global dimming", the phenomena of an observed reduction (about 1-2% per decade since ~1960) of sunlight reaching the surface of the Earth. Karen 23:33, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Besides the "green house" mistake (should be "greenhouse"), I'm thinking a better title might be:
 * PBS show asserts greenhouse gasses, atmospheric pollutants dimming future
 * Opinions? Karen 03:30, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

For the same reasons the headline was changed to PBS report claims greenhouse gases, atmospheric pollutants dimming future (to attribute the reporting to make NPOV), I'm changing it to my suggested headline. Maybe there will be more discussion on headlines before people just change them, next time. Karen 22:45, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Problems with this story
DragonFire1024 will eventually post reasons here for tagging the story, hopefully before Earth Day. He's correct in tagging this story for editorial cleanup, however the story (at least the topic) clearly is news. The story as currently written does not sound like news - it sounds more like an educational awareness public service announcement. I'd suggest that the work put into it be salvaged by editing it into more of a news story. Don't let this sit without making edits. Karen 21:17, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Oops...thought I had removed the notnews tag. So i just did :) Jason Safoutin 21:20, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Hey, I gave it a quick once-over. It really needs a lot of help. Thanks for removing the not-news tag.  I'll get back to this story in a few hours. It really needs the attention of the original author. I'll leave a note on the talk page. Karen 21:35, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Now it's gotten a twice-over, still needs a lot of work. I'll be back again, later. Until then, have at it! Karen 00:08, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Third major edit - could use another editor's input. Karen 02:41, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Rewrite and re-rewrite
Here is rewrite to the story. I belive it is in more of a news form. It would be nice if the story was updated to todays news instead of yesterdays or whenevre. I doupt i will be going through this process in the future. I am much more interested in well sourced and verfiable information that is important to a large amount of the worlds population and is presented in a readable form then I am in sounding like a real news organisation. Isles 14:20, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

 * You certainly did well in the "well sourced and verifiable (I spelled it right.) information that is important to a large amount of the worlds population" department. The "sounding like a real news organization" part is mostly copy-edit (Like returning "CO2" back to "CO2" and re-adding the link, and the whole bit about "Earth" being a proper noun), but there are some larger editorial decisions that sometimes don't promote stories that don't make the traditional media.
 * Personally, I'd rather see Wikinews become a source of shared news, while still providing contributors who can make your story sound more professional. The niche that Wikinews holds right now is somewhere between blog and commercial news outlet - a good place to be to promote the sharing of stories like yours. Karen 21:45, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

If you think it's "well sourced and verifiable" enough to publish, just add   somewhere in the story. The editorial cleaning flag was removed and other contributors have made edits, so there may not be any more objections. Karen 22:12, 22 April 2006 (UTC) Oh, never mind - seems someone published it. Congratulations! Karen 22:22, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Category - Arctic
Would like to add the category to a number of arctic related news articles to begin a wikinews Arctic portal to complement and support the Wikipedia Arctic portal and wikiproject. Kind Regards [[User:SriMesh|SriMesh]] | [[User talk:SriMesh|<small>talk</small>]] (talk) 01:55, 25 August 2008 (UTC)


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Brilliant Idea Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 01:08, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree. Jason Safoutin 01:16, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * When you're right, you're right. And this is a very right and long overdue idea. Well done,MrM. Neutralizer 02:32, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * YES. Absolutly great. Good Job. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 04:16, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Conduct code misses the point
Besides all the perhaps previously undefined policy stuff being put forward with this page, it does not address the real problem, that an attitude prejudiced against a news story can use policy to censor it from publication. -Edbrown05 08:03, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * This form of censorship, condenscending from neutral-point-of-view pushing, is almost impossible address in a "get the news out environment", and you are expert at utilizing that for your own purpose.
 * The idea I am sincerely trying to develop, is a more open policy for allowing for people to report what's on their minds. And I don't mean a weblog. -Edbrown05 08:16, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * If the #4 item on the Conduct page is meant to address anything, it doesn't, etiquette is well travelled. Less well travelled is the conduct by yourself on this old story: Bush's Iraq 'Strategy' seen as public relations exercise, where you fought to have it keep off Wikinews. There are 3 recent examples of very recent stories where you did the same.
 * How does this code of conduct of yours address examples of stories you have seriously stood in the way of publishing, when in the end, they get published anyway, after wasting the angst of the community? -Edbrown05 08:44, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I mean, you can't seriously believe that at a really local level, neighbor Martha wants to publish a neutral story about Sam's dead tree in the next yard. But at a Main Page level, you can't seriously believe that story would make there can you? So let Martha rant on the portal page, that's what they are there for.

NPOV is an ideal, not a requirement. News is the requirement. -Edbrown05 09:01, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * If a story doesn't meet Main Page standards, push it off to the appropriate portal and let those folks deal with it there. -Edbrown05 09:23, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
 * No, Ed. NPOV is the requirement.  It is pretty much the only requirement we have.  Removing it makes us a blog.  Removing it destroys the wiki.  New news comes second after neutral news. --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 18:46, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Umm, NPOV is a requirement too, but its a requirement meant to facilitate the one true requirement of delevering the news. The implicit belief of Jimbo & the foundation is "It is not even possible use a wiki to write an encyclepedia, news, etc. without imposing NPOV." If NPOV were an obstical, it would be scrapped, but it has always been viewed as an essential tool.

Anyway, the suggestions here are only about admin powers since this was a responce to a wheel war; and they look pretty darn good. Of course, I'd prefer that all admins followed 1RR with admin powers, but I'm not sure that should be a requirment. AFAIK, only Amgine and MrM have a serious history of violating 1RR with admin powers.

Now its true many many people has issues with MrM's editing style/strategy. But such issues are best addressed by adding a "How to tag/untag an article" section to the Etiquette guide. Eloquence has "threatened" to make such policy changes in the past, but has never done so. So I don't really think wider editing style issues need to be addressed here. Nyarlathotep 13:29, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Strongly Ditto what Ed said above; Neutralizer 15:00, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

 * What is the 1RR? Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 23:22, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

 * With all due deference to Nyarlathotep's post above, I would agree that Wikinews would descend into a free-for-all if simple opinion and editorial content is passed as news stories. On the other hand, if holding to the policy of neutral-point-of-view is used as an excuse to suppress news, then something ventured (in the form of a news story) is nothing gained. News has value without a 100% NPOV. Wikipedia, on the other hand, has less value without a neutral-point-of-view.

 * There should be a NPOV distinction between Wikipedia and Wikinews, based on the circumstantial differences between the two different environments. This is the mistake of MrM's policy mongering... Wikinews is not an encylclopedia. -Edbrown05 07:38, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

 * News reports are the first efforts to understand history, and are excused from getting it right if, like war, the truth is the first casualty. -Edbrown05 07:41, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Ed, there's a reason why WN:NPOV is a policy here. Too many news sources as it is does exactly what you say.  Wikinews is not traditional news; NPOV is the wiki's utmost responsibility.  New news comes second.  The wiki must have neutral news coming first.  --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 18:07, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

BTW, Its "impossible" to eliminate all blocks for admin actions. For example, its completely standard across foundation projects to block admins for 3RR violations with admin powers. Likewise, you can't really eliminate blocking for "disruption" using admin powers either. So its maybe best to tone down the line about "bad blocks" to simply say "blocks for missuse of admin powers must be supported by the sites wider blocking policy", i.e. 3RR, disruption, etc. Nyarlathotep 12:45, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

 * What is "New news"? -Edbrown05 07:50, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Wouldn't you want to know what the "new news" is first, and wonder about the neutrality of it secondly? -Edbrown05 10:28, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
 * If true, that means your little equation MrMiscellanious is wrong.... news comes first. -Edbrown05 10:47, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

1RR
Bawolff, 1RR for admin powers might mean something like this:
 * Admins should not revert admin actions, (un)blocking & page (un)protection, twice within one day. If they do revert twice, they must recuse themselves from using admin powers for the next 24 hours.

Or some such thing. Its maybe the the simplest & most effective way to prevent wheel wars. Nyarlathotep 12:45, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thats proabbly a good idea, But I don't believe its policy anywhere. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 22:31, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Definition of dispute
What do you define as a user with whom an admin is in dispute? - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 08:25, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, a fight only becomes a fight after the second punch, so after the second revert perhaps? That is: Admin A edits, User B reverts, Admin A reverts the revert (or vice versa)?  Admittedly, this doesn't address ongoing disputes, and exceptions would need to be made for overt vandalism.  Aloha, KeithH (talk) 05:40, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


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Woman arrested for heckling Chinese President Hu at White House

April 22, 2006 , who was seen on television heckling President Hu Jintao during his  appearance this week, was formally charged in a United States federal court for the misdemeanor of willfully intimidating, coercing, threatening, and harassing a foreign official.

According to the, Wang Wenyi gained press credentials for working with the -run newspaper . She then stood on a camera stand and shouted in Chinese: "Stop oppressing the Falun Gong," as well as "Your time is running out," and "Anything you have done will come back to you in this lifetime." She also shouted in English, "President, stop him from persecuting the Falun Gong." The Falun Gong is a religious group who is currently being persecuted in China for unconventional beliefs.

Wang Wenyi was then "escorted" by the Secret Service away from the South Lawn where the appearance was taking place. Over 35 supporters attended Wang's arraignment on Friday. If she is convicted, she could receive up to six months in jail and a $5,000 fine.

This is the 47-year-old Wenyi's second incident in five years involving protest of a Chinese leader. July 2001, she confronted then-President during a tour of Malta. According to Wang, she introduced herself to Jiang and then urged him "to stop the killing of Falun Gong practitioners in China." Security officials dragged her away, but Jiang called her back and spoke to her in Chinese saying that the "Falun Gong practitioners were killing themselves."

Wenyi's court-appointed lawyer, David Bos, challenged the criminal charge on the basis of free-speech.

"It's making the First Amendment rights of all Americans just evaporate," he said, while he said Wang's remarks were "relatively innocuous."

The first amendment to the states; "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech ... (or the freedom) to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Hu is in the U.S. for a weeklong conference with President Bush.


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Abortion
No, unless Think about it a little. When a woman has sex, she (should) accept whatever results from her willing sexual contact. As soon as you have intercourse with someone, you accept that a baby may be born and that you will be responsible for that baby. It's simple. If you don't want the baby, don't have sex. Birth control pills are fine, but once you're pregnant, all bets are off.
 * having the baby born will injure the mother beyond the extent of a normal childbirth
 * baby results from a rape.

Illegal Immigration
Let's take a look at the past, when the

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