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Idea:No Duplicates On The Main Page At Once
I'm because of all the Viktor Pinchuk articles. It is unreasonable that at any point 80% of our Main Page should be filled up with one very obscure topic. Imagine if the Guardian, The New York Times, BBC, The Washington Post, or any other similar newspaper had 80% of it's front page covered in 1 obscure author talking with an obscure news source. I think we should have a general limit of 1 article on the Main Page at once on a specific topic. Examples of things prohibited: Article 1 is about an Airstake by Country X on Place Y during a war with a lot of airstrikes, Article 2 is about a similar airstrike by Country X on Place Z 2 articles about 1 person, unless this is a very notable person and they are covered constantly in the news (ex.Joe Biden does not count, Victor Pinchuk does) Anything clearly in the spirit of this (preventing the Main Page from being clogged with a lot of the same/similar story) is also counted What do you all think. Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 23:09, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't agree and I totally agree. We appreciate OR around here and God knows we need more of it. Viktor is smart and capable and does interesting 'lowbrow' photo journalism -- which is super cool. Because of his photos etc., I've bent the rules a few times, in various ways. That has stopped, pretty much effective 5 minutes ago. The problem is that how his submissions work here, it is all filled with a heaping tablespoon of COI, navel gazing, and general self-focused puffery. Not to mention, when the article mentions "Russian Wikinews", he was the reporter getting the story while he was mostly the focus of the story -- problem after problem. Moving forward, his articles must have a broadened gumbo of sources, inputs or what-have-you. He did improve (in a tiny, granular fashion) on focusing the article on THE ACTUAL PRESENTATION EVENT ITSELF... but that may not be enough for the future.--Bddpaux (talk) 17:13, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
 * This isn't just about Victor Pinchuk though, I general I don't think anything insignificant should be taking up 80% of our front page@Bddpaux Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 21:58, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

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I am seeking CU status -- go here: https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Requests_for_permissions I have been heavily involved here for roughly 16 years or so and I truly believe in this project. I deeply appreciate any support votes that might be provided!!--Bddpaux (talk) 20:08, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Staleness
I just thought I'd share my thoughts on this. Our normal route is to wait until four days have passed without edits (or talkpage discussion) and then tag an article with subst:aband. Then, if there are no edits for another two days, the article would be deleted. I have been thinking of suggesting we reduce this timeframe from 4+2 days to 3+1 days or even 2+1 days. I feel this might encourage people to not leave articles for too long. On the other hand I am often loathe to delete what might be otherwise decent articles, so alternatively we could extend the timeframe to perhaps 5+2 days? I am especially eager to build on the small changes we implemented last year when we increased the window of freshness from 2-3 days to 5-7 days and reduced the minimum length of an article to 100 words. What would you think of a change to the timeframe of the subst:aband route? [24Cr][talk] 20:11, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

 * @Cromium, I'll follow sensus, sorry about before I get confused easily... BigKrow (talk) 21:19, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
 * It would be nice if it was more apparent how long an article has gone unedited, y'know? The article on the potential ceasefire in Ukraine was sitting around for a while, and I assumed it would just move forward, and it just kinda... didn't. I think this could be bystander effect, possibly? In this case, that articles don't get published because people (including me) assume the process will continue? Professor Penguino (talk) 03:12, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * How about 7+1 days. Afterwards for synthesis it's stale anyway and not going anywhere and for OR it's not reasonable to expect theyll continue in a reasonable timeframe after an 8 days break. Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 21:10, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I have been using the following logic-flow for queue management that I found in an old conversation:

 * abandoned ← stale ← develop → review → publish → archive

 * In that flow, an article starts in development and generally follows two routes; either review or stale. Once they go stale in the review queue, if they haven't been edited while in the queue (which is often the case) they now qualify as abandoned, which I disagree with. I think we should always go from the review queue to either published or stale and from stale we give a grace period for gatwicking without calling the article 'abandoned,' which when I see on my articles makes me cringe.

 * A better way to understand article flow may be the following:

← →  →  →                      ↓             ↓

 * How about we

 * Amend stale to incorporate a 2 day grace period before it is automatically marked for deletion (as proposed here: Template_talk:Stale). Note; I would also like to remove the first sentence of stale, as mentioned there.
 * Amend abandoned to a 2+2 (2 days w/o editing = abandoned, to be deleted 2 days after template application) for consistency and to incentivize activity.

 * With the shortened abandoned, we hopefully never, or at least rarely go from developed → stale. And I propose we never go from reviewed → abandoned (understanding abandonment as a reporter thing, not a reviewer thing).

 * Pinging, as he has proposed lengthening the time before an article is abandoned and is involved in the discussion at Template_talk:Stale. —Michael.C.Wright (Talk/Published) 16:17, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Proposal for second page of the Main Page
There is a proposal for a second page of the Main Page. Please see the discussion for more details. Also look at the Main Page 2 that is the subject of this discussion. Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 21:21, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Script for quickly creating date categories.
Hello, everyone. There is a script that might help with easily and quickly creating (or updating) date and month category pages. This will let you know which pages are being created before they are created, so you can identify any mistakes. To use the script, add the following code to your common.js page: After that, you also need to use the following code somewhere on your subpage to invoke the operation. Or just visit this subpage after installing the script, to access the form. Thank you! Asked42 (talk) 16:57, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

 * It can also be used for wikinews date and month list pages. Asked42 (talk) 18:40, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

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See the image above. For some (unknown) reason, Google is convinced that we are. I don't really know what we should do about this, but probably something. Me Da Wikipedian (talk) 21:01, 30 June 2024 (UTC)

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Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations released

January 12, 2006 The Screen Actors Guild™ recently announced the nominees for its 14th annual SAG Awards™.

Nominated for "Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture" are Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Crash, Good Night, and Good Luck., and Hustle & Flow.

"Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role" includes Russell Crowe (Cinderella Man), Philip Seymour Hoffman Capote, Heath Ledger Brokeback Mountain, Joaquin Phoenix Walk the Line, and David Strathairn Good Night, and Good Luck. This continues last year's trend of highly nominated biopic portrayals. This year's historical figures were boxer James J. Braddock, writer Truman Capote, and singer Johnny Cash, and broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow.

"Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role" nominees are Judi Dench (Mrs. Henderson Presents), Felicity Huffman (Transamerica), Charlize Theron (North Country), Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line), Ziyi Zhang (Memoirs of a Geisha).

NBC newcomer My Name is Earl faces off against longtime award-magnet Everyone Loves Raymond in the "Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series" category. Also nominated are Desperate Housewives, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, and Boston Legal.

The cat's drama equivilent sees nominees like The West Wing, Six Feet Under, LOST, Grey's Anatomy, and TNT's The Closer. Female dramatic actors include movie-turned-television personalities like Sandra Oh (Grey's Anatomy), Geena Davis (Commander in Chief), and Patricia Arquette (Medium).

Other nominees of note include Alan Alda, famous for his role in M*A*S*H, who now plays presidential candidate Arnold Vinnick, Candice Bergen, formerly of Murphy Brown, who now plays Shirley Schmidt on Boston Legal, and Star Trek alumni William Shatner, who acts the role of Denny Crane, also on Boston Legal.

Shirley Temple Black will receive Screen Actors Guild Awards 42st Annual Life Achievement Award. Temple is considered by many to be the most famous child actor in history. She is currently an American diplomat.

Then-Screen Actors Guild President Melissa Gilbert said, "I can think of no one more deserving of this year’s SAG Life Achievement award than Shirley Temple Black. Her contributions to the entertainment industry are without precedent; her contributions to the world are nothing short of inspirational... In everything she has done and accomplished, Shirley Temple Black has demonstrated uncommon grace, talent and determination, not to mention compassion and courage... She has been an indelible influence on my life. She was my idol when I was a girl and remains my idol today."

This will be new president Alan Rosenberg's first time at the helm of the ceremonies.

Final ballots for the SAG Awards are due by 12 Noon PT, Friday, January 27, 2006. The awards will be broadcast Sunday, January 29, 2006, on TNT and TBS.


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Turkish teens died of mutated strain of bird flu

January 13, 2006

Scientists have confirmed that the H5N1 virus found in the DNA taken from one of two Turkish victims, who died from the disease, has mutated and they now believe that Turkey is now a locale for endemic bird flu.

However, the WHO, stressed that it is too early to tell if the mutation is important.

"We assume this could be one small step in the virus' attempt to adapt to humans," said Mike Perdue, a WHO virologist. "But it's only seen in one isolate and it's difficult to make sweeping conclusions. We just have to wait and see what the rest of the viruses from Turkey look like."

Health officials had raised the number of deaths from the H5N1 virus from 15 to 18 after after it turned up in preliminary tests on two people hospitalised in south-eastern Turkey, and in a girl's lungs after she died in the same area. It also has confirmed 147 human cases of the H5N1 virus worldwide and 78 deaths, though this includes only four infections and two deaths in Turkey.

All victims are thought to have had close contact with poultry.

Health officials suggest the virus can now attach itself more easily to human cells than before.

The mutation has been found in a mutated version of a key protein, haemagglutinin, which controls the way it binds to cells. This, scientists theorize, may be the key in making it more dangerous to people. The mutation makes the virus more capable of attaching itself to human cells before infecting them. But experts said the mutation had been seen before without severe consequences.

Maria Cheng, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organisation, says, "It doesn’t look as if it has significance regarding transmissibility or pathogenicity because it is not borne out by epidemiological evidence we have so far."


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Turkish government accused of being too slow to respond to bird flu

January 13, 2006

The Turkish government has come under fire from officials in Dogubayazit, where three siblings died from the strain of Bird Flu, for not sending enough resources and not responding quickly enough in the region.

The mayor of Dogubayazit, Mukkades Kubilay, claims that the Turkish government sent only three doctors and that there were not enough workers to destroy poultry.

The government has been accused of doing too little, too late. H5N1 was discovered in Turkish poultry in December, 2005.

Agriculture Minister Mehdi Eker dismissed the claim, saying that culling of infected poultry began immediately following the discovery of H5N1 on December 15, 2005.

Questions about whether the government acted aggressively enough early in the outbreak emerged as officials tried to contain the disease, which Eker said had been confirmed in 11 of Turkey's 81 provinces and was suspected in 14 others.

The number of confirmed human cases of H5N1 in Turkey is 18. Three of those have died from the virus.

Several others with the virus have shown few symptoms or are in a stable condition. Authorities suggest that the strain may not be as deadly as first thought. Of those who contracted the virus in Asia, half died.

An eight-year-old child who became infected after playing with dying chickens has been released from hospital.

Nationwide, 355,000 birds have been slaughtered in an attempt to slow the outbreak.

The Agricultural ministry is complaining that it has only 24 workers in Dogubayazit, a city of 56,000, and culling could take up to a month to complete.

Experts are still warning of a possible pandemic, prompting the world bank to release US$500 million in aid to assist countries combat H5N1.


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Interview with Brazilian blogger Ricardo Serran Lobo

January 18, 2006

Ricardo Serran Lobo is a Brazilian blogger who writes about his famous neighbor, the politician Roberto Jefferson, head of the Brazilian Labor Party in the Brazilian Congress of Deputies. Jefferson has become a major figure in the ongoing Brazilian mensalão scandal revolving around corruption and bribery.

Vizinho do Jefferson quickly became very popular among Brazilians, describing the routine of Jefferson, while providing information about politics and fresh news about the scandal. Lobo's blog got third place in the Best Of Blogs contest run by Deutsche Welle International.

Lobo gets an intimate look at the center of Brazilian politics by living in Brasilia, near residences of parliamentarians (including Roberto Jefferson), public buildings and the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. Or, as he says in his blog: "near the eye of the hurricane," a reference to the recent political crisis.

At first, Lobo began describing the daily activities of his famous neighbor deputy Roberto Jefferson. As the crisis moved on, he began to describe the political events regarding it. His writings evolved to not only what is going on with Jefferson, but what is going on in Brazilian Congress, and has interviewed politicians, including Roberto Jefferson himself.

The blog tries to be informative, with a lot of humour (common with Brazilians), and some protests against the bad habits of Brazilian politics in general.

Jefferson's neighbor, the blog, is an example of citizen journalism and it shows that ordinary people can compete with professional media.

Personal questions

 * Wikinews: Our interviewee is the Brazilian Ricardo Serran Lobo. He is usually known as the Vizinho do Jefferson (Jefferson's neighbor), because of his personal weblog about politics, which became very popular during the  "mensalão" crisis in  Brasil.

 * Ricardo Lobo: Good afternoon! My name is Ricardo, I am a publicity man and teacher of web writing, and speaker of the Information Era and Digital Communication, 44.

 * Wikinews: Are you from Brasília?
 * Ricardo Lobo: No. I am from São Paulo and from Santa Catarina in my heart.

 * Wikinews: How long have you been living in Brasília?
 * Ricardo Lobo: I have been living for five years in Brasília. All these years I have been a neighbor of the ex-deputy Roberto Jefferson.

The blog

 * Wikinews: What was your aim at starting a blog

 * Ricardo Lobo: The blog was born without any aim. In fact it was a joke with a college friend  of mine and my cousin. They knew that I lived next door to the deputy [Roberto Jefferson] and they asked me every day about the journalists staying out in front of his door at his building.

 * Ricardo Lobo: So, I began to write the blog, it was closer to the "making of"  a journalistic coverture, describing the confusion and the changes of routine caused by the journalists who staying under my window, waiting for something happens.

 * Wikinews: Is this your first international interview? What newspapers or magazines have been in contact with you?

 * Ricardo Lobo: Actually this is the second international interview. At the beginning of the blog,  Bloomberg Channel from  New York interviewed me too. In Brazil, I have been interviewed by the main vehicles for communication. Only the Rede Globo didn't interview me because of the denouncements that I have made against it: the 2.8 billions reals loan from BNDES [Brazilian Development Bank] and its daily manipulation of information.

 * Wikinews: Did you expect that your blog would become so famous?

 * Ricardo Lobo: I wasn't expecting fame. Besides, I was expecting anything. I have laughed a lot because of all the repercussion caused by the blog, however the main subject, as I see, it was the changes in the behaviours of the main personages of this crisis which were caused by the blog. In the media and in the parlamentarians.

 * Wikinews: Do you receive a lot of emails?
 * Ricardo Lobo: I've already received many, about 300 emails per day at the peak of the crisis and popularity of the blog. In July, I could sleep only 3 hours by night. I answered everyone. At present time, there are usually 20 emails by day. I love that. (laughs)

Journalism

 * Wikinews: Do you know about citizen journalism in Portuguese?
 * Ricardo Lobo:  No. This practice is not common in my country. The blog Vizinho do Jefferson (Jefferson's neighbor) opened a great discussion about this subject, since journalistic occupation is reserved to the ones who have a diploma of journalism. The first unofficial and "outlaw" vehicle [of communication] which really worked with citizen journalism was my blog. It is called "independent press" here.

 * Wikinews: Is there any threat of working as an "independent press" since you do not have a journalist diploma?
 * Ricardo Lobo: Yes, the journalist union can sue me anytime. However I am not taking any job.

 * Wikinews: You said that your blog caused some repercussions among some people. Can you cite some cases ?
 * Ricardo Lobo: About this subject, I would like to say too that the journalism elite likes my work and finds it of great importance. Only minor journalists are criticizing me and trying to disturb my work.

 * Wikinews: Have you read the Portuguese-language Wikinews coverage about the scandal? What do you think about it?
 * Ricardo Lobo: Unfortunately not. Excuse me, but I have to work on my blog 24 hours by day, getting and checking the information; some other histories are investigative.

 * Wikinews: You are invited to follow the Wikinews coverture about the crisis. A lot of articles have already been written.
 * Wikinews: Do you think that the internet has changed something in the relationship between Brazilian people and the press?
 * Ricardo Lobo: Yes, sure. The blog "Vizinho do Jefferson" brought many readers to online journalism. Everybody wanted to know what the blog was and what the Vizinho's blog was, since the spread about it in traditional media was big. At present time it is usually only the people reading political blogs and anything else. Many blogs have appeared since the "Vizinho do Jefferson" blog, every important journalist from the country has a blog today; however they are just starting.

 * Wikinews: Do you think that Brazilian media has been controlled by Workers Party sympathizers?
 * Ricardo Lobo: Very good question. Yes. Several times the Brazilian media has been controlled by Workers Party sympathizers when the party was not in power. At present time, journalists are a littile lost and they are not able to talk about the insanity in Lula's government.

 * Wikinews: The Brazilian press have covered the scandal with a lot of detail. Did it redeem itself?
 * Ricardo Lobo: But in this case you have the blog influence over the press. How can you not write about it if someone else is talking about the subject?

Brazilian politics in general

 * Wikinews: What, if any, are your political affiliations, and do they influence the material you choose to include in your blog?
 * Ricardo Lobo: Yes, I am from the Green Party. It doesn't influence my work; on the contrary, my work influenced my political life.

 * Wikinews: Have you run for a political post?
 * Ricardo Lobo: The national president of my party asked me to be federal deputy candidate in the next elections. I have been with the national executive of the Green Pary this year—before the blog—asking for a moratorium on the deforestation exploitation. I've always been a very active environmentalist.

 * Wikinews:  Are Brazilian politicians more corrupt now than before?
 * Ricardo Lobo: I think that they are less discreet. Politics and corruption walk together in any country of the world. There are many interests involved in any part of the planet.

The scandal

 * Wikinews: Political scandals like this have happened before in Brazil?

 * Ricardo Lobo: Not at this proportion. The volume of money involved is huge. The problem is that the 3 Brazilian powers: Legislative, Executive and Judicial were exposed to the population. Every Ministry had problems of inefficiency and the ruling party, which always represented the ethics and morals, was caught literally with dollars inside his underwear. (laughs)

 * Wikinews: How far does the corruption go? Does it [the crisis] continue?
 * Ricardo Lobo: The crisis will continue, sure, there are a lot of things that must be explained. The great doubt is if Lula knew or not. Sure, he knew about the existence of the bribery of parliamentarians by the government using the scheme called "mensalão".

 * Wikinews: Does the "mensalão" continue?
 * Ricardo Lobo: Not in the exact manner it was managed before, however I believe that it still exists. The election of Aldo [Aldo Rebelo (PCdoB)] for the Presidency of Congress is an example.

 * Wikinews: Do you believe Lula did know about the mensalão?
 * Ricardo Lobo: Certainly he knew and he is part of the ruling and creation of the scheme. Otherwise he will enter to History as the most ignorant among all of the Brazilian presidents.

 * Wikinews: What was the role of the ex-minister and deputy José Dirceu, in you opinion?
 * Ricardo Lobo: Operator, chief of government and chief of its strategies. He and Lula created the scheme of "mensalão". He, Lula, Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro created a scheme to turn out South America as a huge continent for the world-wide left. The first step was Lula in Brazil, next Evo Morales in Bolivia, and so on. Jose Dirceu was a part of that.

 * Wikinews: Do you think that the corruption scandal will end "much ado about nothing" or "pizza" as it is said in Brazil?
 * Ricardo Lobo: Actually there are a lot of "pizzas". One has already being served: the Vote Buying CPI. They are still trying to serve the others. But I think that it will end in nothing; they, the politicians, are very cooperative with each other.

 * Ricardo Lobo: They [the deputies] know that their days are numbered, mainly the ones from big cities. As for the ones from provincial and small cities;  they don't even know what a computer is and they didn't realize the severity of the problem. They think that if their name didn't appear in the newspaper, their names are not in any place. Perhaps I'll create a site closer to the elections, when I will put the names of all incompetent ones from the National Congress.

 * Wikinews: What will end in nothing? The investigations or the scandal?
 * Ricardo Lobo: The investigations will continue until an acceptable limit is reached by the major parties: the Workers Party and the Social Democracy Party. Then they must stop when it is "enough" for the population.

Popular reaction

 * Wikinews: In the streets, how do ordinary Brazilian people see this issue?
 * Ricardo Lobo: Everybody is disappointed because people thought that everything (corruption, politicians etc) would change. And it really changed, but for the worse. The amateur behaviour of the communications team of President Lula contributed very much to this also; it lacked professionalism.

 * Wikinews: Are the people who live in Brasilia too upset?
 * Ricardo Lobo: Nobody gets very upset about the government in Brasilia. Most of the town population works for the federal government, so this is a unique city, really. And it is beautiful.

 * Wikinewss: But some Brazilians still trust in President Lula, right?
 * Ricardo Lobo: This number gets smaller each day. But there are people who still believe in Santa Claus. (laugh) You excuse me but I dont know how to speak about Lula without joking. (laugh)

Roberto Jefferson

 * Wikinews: Why did Roberto Jefferson expose the scandal, in your opinion?
 * Ricardo Lobo: Good question. He had a rope around his neck. Actually he detonated an atomic bomb, without knowing who was attacking him. Actually the people who attacked him were his party mates and not José Dirceu. This is related to those 4 millions reals and the sharing amongst them. There were a lot of more money, but only 4 [million] were shared. This is the root of the crisis detonated by him.

 * Wikinews: It seems that you got close to the ex-deputy Roberto Jefferson. Could you tell us something about it? What does he think about your blog?
 * Ricardo Lobo: We became friends and he was thankful for my correction, with him and with his family. He said that I am very competent and that I am one of the best products of the whole crisis.

 * Wikinews: There is some deputy from the Workers Party (PT) who is a neighbor of Roberto Jefferson?
 * Ricardo Lobo: Yes, all of them live over there. By example: deputy Greenhalg [Luiz Eduardo Greenhalg] from PT lives there, next door too. Rebelo [Aldo Rebelo], the President of the Congress, too. Almost all of them live at 302 North.

 * Wikinews: Is that a pretty wealthy neighborhood?
 * Ricardo Lobo: Brasília is different from other cities in the world; it is formed by blocks and not streets. I am a neighbor of a block where there are only federal deputies, among them, Roberto Jefferson. Deputies are very rich, sure. Politics in Brazil makes people rich. (laugh)

 * Wikinews: Is Roberto Jefferson still having instructions about singing? What does he like to sing?
 * Ricardo Lobo: He continues. Now he is having instructions with a baritone from the Municipial Theatre of Rio de Janeiro. He is instructed in the afternoon, when he is in the city. He likes romantic singers and lyrical songs. He sings: My Way, Io che amo solo te, Dio come ti amo  and other Italian songs like the one of Andrea Bocelli.

 * Wikinews: Would Roberto Jefferson accept to take part in a interview in Wikinews?
 * Ricardo Lobo: I believe so, he is very open-minded person, to everything. The trouble is that he has litle experience with the keyboard. Another day he wrote a post in my blog and he had a hard time to find himself with the keyboard. However someone could type for him, that is a solution.

 * Wikinews: Obviously we need to work on our tech for interviews, we'd like to interview people who aren't familiar with technology and may have telephone interview facilities in the future.

Final remarks

 * Wikinews: Well we would like to thanks your presence here. Feel free to make your final remarks.
 * Ricardo Lobo: The Brazilian crisis is showing that the young Brazilian democracy is at the right course. Besides all the problems brought by this scandal to us Brazilians, one thing has been demonstrated: the political maturity of the population. What we need now is maturity for the politicians, who are still living past two centuries. The blog Vizinho do Jefferson (Jefferson's neighbor) brought a new approach to the politics coverture and the Brazilian press grew up too. We all were influenciated, each other.
 * Ricardo Lobo: I would like thank everyone for their patience. It was a honour and a great satisfaction to be the first interviewee for the year for Wikinews.

 * Wikinews: Thank you very much, Mr Lobo.

 * Ricardo Lobo: An embrace to all of you and thank you for your interest in my country. Brazil is expecting your visit. This country is delicious. Thank you.

See our interview research and questions.

External page

 * Jefferson's neighbor, the blog

Interview mit dem brasilianischen Blogger Ricardo Serran Lobo Entrevista exclusiva con Ricardo Serran Lobo Entrevista com Vizinho do Jefferson


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This article was written by J.Stevens, from sources as identified.
 * Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that a very bad thing? Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 04:09, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Removed J.Stevens byline, since they aren't used at Wikinews. -Edbrown05 04:37, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Not breaking
This story has a couple of issues, but foremost is it is not a breaking news story. The news event is announcement of findings regarding a death in Turkey. No further details are likely to come forth about this event, therefore it is not breaking.

One issue with the article is the use of "weasel words", and internally contradictory statements, to be sensational.

 * The mutation has been found in a mutated version of a key protein, haemagglutinin, which controls the way it binds to cells. This, scientists theoroize, may be the key in making it more dangerous to people. The mutation makes the virus more capable of attaching itself to human cells before infecting them. But experts said the mutation had been seen before without severe consequences.

Which scientists theorized it is more capable of attaching to human cells? Which experts said the mutation had been seen before? Without identifying who the article spreads Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. The final quote: "It doesn’t look as if it has significance regarding transmissibility or pathogenicity because it is not borne out by epidemiological evidence we have so far." This should be given prominence, probably in the lede, because it is the primary information in this story. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 07:50, 13 January 2006 (UTC)


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Iran nuclear talks have stalled

January 13, 2006

Senior Iranian diplomats still hope for a diplomatic solution to the current stand off between the United Nations and the resumption of its nuclear development program to enrich uranium. The National Security Council spokesman for Iran, Hossein Entezami, said Thursday on a national broadcast that "Iran still believes diplomacy could be productive."

The UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan said after a Thursday telephone conversation with Ali Larijani, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, that they "are interested in serious and constructive negotiation but within a time frame."

On the one hand, the United States and Europe have grown increasingly concerned over Iran and its decision to resume full nuclear research.

On the other hand, the concerns about the failure of the nuclear weapons states such as France, USA and UK to progress in nuclear weapons disarmament as is required by Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which were summarised at the Non-Proliferation Treaty conference, June 2005 by the Malaysian representative, Rastam Mohd Isa, have not been addressed.

Talks between Europe and Iran stalled late yesterday to a near standstill and the E.U. joined with the U.S. in its decision to refer Iran to the UN for possible sanctions.

"Our talks with Iran have reached a dead end," the German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said at a news conference in Berlin Germany. "From our point of view, the time has come for the UN Security Council to become involved." Germany is a state alleged by the Non-Aligned Movement to be in violation of Articles I and II of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty due to nuclear sharing.

Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. Secretary of State, said that "Iran's actions have shattered the basis for negotiation."

When asked if military force was an option (in Iran) Rice said "The president of the United States never takes any of his options off the table and nobody would want the president to do that... We are on a diplomatic track and it's not on the agenda at this point to move from that diplomatic track."

Rice's comments have added to speculation that if all diplomatic negotions with Iran fail, that attacks on facilities in Iran using mini-nukes might be a possibility.

Despite the criticism from America, Europe, and quite possibly Russia and China, to get Iran to reverse its current course, some diplomats and experts say that the process of getting Iran near that step may take a long time, and may never even work. During the Non-Proliferation Treaty conference, June 2005, it was said that getting USA, France and the UK to disarm according to their obligations under the NPT may also take a long time, and may never even work.

Iran's government continues to insist that its nuclear path is for "peaceful purposes." In a noted turn from Iran's use of aggressive language in defining their position on politically sensitive issue, Entezami said, "Iran pursues its nuclear research activities in the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency regulations and under the supervision of the agency. So there is no reason for challenging Iran's rights in the field of nuclear fuel."

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User talk:Derek Ross

Hi, Welcome to wikinews. I hope you like it here. I'm assuming your familiar with all the stuff in the standard welcome, since you're an imigrant of wikipedia, but if you're unsure, take a look. Happy editing. Bawolff ☺☻ 04:31, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

"It is possible to edit nearly every day for four years on Wikipedia and still be an unknown to other contributors."

 * Thats whats fun about a smaller wiki, you know most of the cintributers. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 04:31, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

 * , true enough. Sorry for the long wait before I replied. Maybe I should log in more frequently! -- Derek Ross (talk) 06:08, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

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Australia accused of bullying East Timor over oil field treaty

January 13, 2006 The Australian Federal Government has been accused of bullying and short-changing the tiny nation of East Timor (Timor-Leste). Australia and East Timor have signed a treaty to share revenue from the Greater Sunrise energy field located in the Timor Sea. The treaty means each country gets half the revenue from the area - but any further negotiations on maritime boundaries will be postponed for up to 50 years.

The treaty, signed in Sydney on January 12th was attended by Australian Prime Minister John Howard and his East Timorese counterpart Mari Alkatiri. The treaty is the culmination of long-running negotiations and bitter disputes between the two countries on how to split the $40 billion resource.

East Timorese Prime Minister Dr Mari Alkatiri said the landmark agreement would provide a major boost to the nation's revenues - while protecting its territorial sovereignty. "I am confident this is for the benefit of the people," he said. Dr Alkatiri anticipated production may be up to 10 years away.

However, an Australian lobby group has vehemently attacked the failure to address, what they say, the bigger and more important issue of permanent maritime boundaries. Timor Sea Justice Campaign (TSJC) spokesman Tom Clarke says the Australia government did not respect conventional maritime boundaries. He says the postponed decision on maritime boundaries means East Timor will not be able to gain control of their territory.

"The Australian Government has basically bullied the poorest country in Asia into postponing its claim to sovereignty," said Mr Clarke. "So a permanent maritime boundary will not be established under this deal - they're basically leaving that issue for future generations to negotiate."

Other non-government organisations (NGO's) have protested about Australia's exploitation in the disputed area. A communiqué signed by 12 East Timor NGO's stated that the maritime frontier with Australia should have been established first, before the exploration of resources began.

Australian energy giant Woodside Petroleum, operator of the Greater Sunrise project, has given no indication as to when the development might go ahead. Company spokesman Roger Martin said there were still a few steps to go before the Greater Sunrise joint venture partners would be making any decisions on how to proceed.

Prime Minister John Howard believes the deal is a fair and just outcome and will strengthen relations between the two countries. "It means that the very close relationship between our two countries can not only continue but become even closer," he said.

But Tom Clarke (TSJC) has described the deal as a "stop gap, band-aid solution" - because nothing had been settled on the issue of maritime boundaries. "It simply postpones the real issues of sovereignty for half a century," he said. Mr Clarke said East Timor clearly had more claim over the energy field than Australia.

"The Australian Government has continually and blatantly refused to abide by International Law. Instead, it has bullied the poorest country in Asia into a series of dodgy resource sharing deals, to take billions of dollars that simply do not belong to us," he said.

The campaigners claim the deal marks another sad chapter of Australian foreign policy betrayal, saying the Howard Government is determined to increase Australia's reputation as a bully in the region. "This really should have been a very simple matter of just drawing a line half way between two coastlines, but once again the greed and self-interest of our, the Australian Government, has brought shame to all Australians who believe in a fair go," Mr Clarke said.


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Distributed computing to get "interstellar project"

January 13, 2006 NASA is awaiting the arrival of very precious cargo from space.

The Stardust Spacecraft is scheduled to land at around 5:12am (eastern time) on Sunday January 15, 2006. Onboard are dust particles that have been collected from the comet Wild 2.

When the capsule gets to Earth and enters the atmosphere, at about 5am (eastern time), it is expected to put on quite a light show for folks in Northern California, Oregon, Nevada, and Utah. The capsule will look much like a shooting star going across the sky. The capsule will be traveling at about 12.8 km or 8 miles per second, fast enough to go from San Francisco to Los Angeles in one minute. Stardust will set a new all-time record for being the fastest spacecraft to return to Earth, breaking the previous record set in May of 1969 during the return of the Apollo X command module. “It will move over the west coast of northern California and will light the sky from California through central Oregon and on through Nevada and Idaho and into Utah,” Tom Duxbury, Stardust's project manager said.

The capsule will then release a parachute approximately 32 km (105,000 feet) and descend into the Salt Flats of Utah. If weather is permitting, it will be recovered by helicopter teams and taken to a cleanroom at the Michael Army Air Field, Dugway Proving Ground, for initial processing.

The capsule itself, only weighs 45.7 kilograms (101 pounds) and resembles a mini Apollo capsule.

Not only will it break the record for the fastest spacecraft to return to earth, Stardust Principal Investigator Don Brownlee of the University of Washington, Seattle, says “We are nearing the end of quite a fantastic voyage – our spacecraft has traveled further than anything from Earth ever has – and come back. He also added that “We went half-way to Jupiter to meet the comet and collect samples from it. But the comet actually came in from the outer edge of the solar system, out beyond the orbit of Neptune, out by Pluto."

If the capsule makes it safely back to earth, scientists hope to unlock many secrets about the formation of our universe.

"Locked within the cometary particles is unique chemical and physical information that could be the record of the formation of the planets and the materials from which they were made," said Dr. Don Brownlee, Stardust principal investigator at the University of Washington, Seattle.

"Comets are some of the most informative occupants of the solar system. The more we can learn from science exploration missions like Stardust, the more we can prepare for human exploration to the moon, Mars and beyond," said Dr. Mary Cleave, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Stardust is bringing back the first samples of contemporary interstellar dust ever collected, and is also the first mission to return samples from a comet, as well as the first sample return mission from the Galaxy. Not one grain of contemporary interstellar dust grain has ever been examined in a laboratory before.

"We think a significant fraction of comets will be stardust particles actually older than Earth and older than the Sun, and for drama the stars, and the way you identify those is by their isotopic ratios," Stardust Principal Investigator Don Brownlee said. "There are fabulous tools now to analyze these and a very anxious group of scientists waiting for these samples."

Stardust's main mission was to capture dust particles from comet Wild 2, but it is also believed to have captured dust from distant stars, perhaps created in supernova explosions less than 10 million years ago.

The dust can only be found using using a high-magnification microscope with a field of view smaller than a grain of salt.

But now they have the difficult task of trying to find all these millions of particles, which takes more time and man power that NASA has. That's where NASA decided to try Distributed Computing.

Distributed computing has been a huge success. Most of the credit of the success of distributed computing, can be given to the scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. Scientists there have had and continue to have huge success with a program they created called SETI@home, which now uses the distributing platform BOINC.

With the success of BOINC and other distributed computing platforms, NASA hopes to achieve its goal in half the time with the public's help by creating the project Stardust@home

"Like SETI@home, which is the world's largest computer, we hope Stardust@home will also be a large computer, though more of a neural network, using brains together to find these grains," said Bryan Mendez of the Center for Science Education at the Space Sciences Laboratory. But, the project is not for everyone. First, you will go through a web-based training session and then you must pass a test to qualify to register and participate. In the test, the volunteer is asked to find the track in a few test samples. To judge the reliability of the user, they also plan to throw in some ringers with and without tracks.

If at least two of the four volunteers viewing each image report a track, that image will be fed to 100 more volunteers for verification. If at least 20 of these report a track, UC Berkeley undergraduates who are expert at spotting dust grain tracks will confirm the identification.

After passing the test and registering, you will be able to download a virtual microscope (VM). The VM will automatically connect to their server and download so-called "focus movies" -- stacks of images that we will collect from the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector using an automated microscope at the Cosmic Dust Lab at Johnson Space Center. The VM will work on your computer, under your control. You will search each field for interstellar dust impacts by focusing up and down with a focus control.

The other neat thing is that there are no limitations and the more images you examine, the better chance you have at finding an interstellar dust grain.

Any interstellar dust particles that you find, then you will appear as a co-author on any scientific paper by the Stardust@home collaboration announcing the discovery of the particle.

Currently the project is only accepting pre-registration and will be available to the public in mid-March, even before all the scans have been completed in a cleanroom at Houston's Johnson Space Center. In all the project is expected to need at least 30,000 person hours, to go through all the images, at least 4 times by 4 different participants.

Berkeley will host and maintain the project, but it is unlcear as to whether or not the project will use the BOINC platform.

The virtual microscope was developed by computer scientist David Anderson, director of the SETI@home project, along with physics graduate student Joshua Von Korff.

The Stardust spacecraft was launched on February 7, 1999, from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, aboard a Delta II rocket.

The Stardust project is expected to cost $170-million-dollars with a journey that will have lasted over 7 years and actually went around the Sun three times, and "back in time to 4.5 billion years in time to gather these primitive samples that just were released from a comet’s nucleus," Duxbury later added.


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Very nice job on the India Portal! I hope you can add some content to the India WikiBureau, and help get a team going there! -  Amgine | talk en.WN 08:15, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

An article you created is up for deletion
Cricket: India beat Pakistan. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:37, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Problem caused by page move
Stop with the India story! You've dragged a page history over from the India portal page and that needs sorted out. Please copy all your content, start a new article and I'll see if I can get someone to help me clean up the mess. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:39, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I've deleted all the history from India that was attached to the article, you can go ahead with it but don't abbreviate nuclear to just N, it may be topical enough or slang for India but it made me go huh? --Brian McNeil / talk 16:52, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi-is this O.K with you?
I took the liberty of adding your name at Wikinewsies India,so that we can keep tracxk of how many Indians are working on this projcet.I hope you don't mind? Once again,welcome here and if you need anything don't hesitate to ask.PVJ 16:30, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi there
Hi there, and welcome to wikinews.Would you please consider include significantly more information in your New censored online Chinese encyclopedia launched so that it can be developed futher? Happy editing. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:39, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

"Engineering" page
did u want to create Portal:Engineering? Doldrums 12:54, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
 * the page u've created is in the mainspace, not in the Portal: namespace, where it shld be. shall i move it to the portal: space, then? Doldrums 13:06, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
 * articles in mainpage must be news reports. anything else will be deleted. from what i can make out, ur intention appears to be to create a Portal:Engineering page and redirect it to Portal:Science..., pls do that, or discuss with someone what it is that you are trying to do. the present engineering page is likely to be deleted soon. Doldrums 13:19, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
 * have renamed as per above. Doldrums 15:55, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

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User:Srinivasasha

I am Srinivasa sha from india. I am an Engineering student.

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Homeland Security helps secure open-source code

January 13, 2006 List of Open source software targeted: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has dedicated $1.24 million in funding in its effort to protect open-source software. Stanford University, Coverity and Symantec have all taken up the challenge to perform daily scans of code, hunting for security bugs. An automated system to achieve this search will be in place by March '06.
 * AbiWord
 * Apache
 * Berkeley DB
 * BIND
 * Ethereal
 * Firebird
 * Mozilla Firefox
 * FreeBSD
 * Gaim
 * GIMP
 * Gtk+
 * Icecast
 * Inetutils
 * KDE
 * Linux
 * MPlayer
 * MySQL
 * OpenBSD
 * OpenLDAP
 * OpenSSH
 * OpenSSL
 * OpenVPN
 * ProFTPd
 * QT toolkit
 * Samba
 * Squid
 * Tcl
 * Tk
 * wxGtk
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Stevie Wonder or The Rolling Stones?


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Talk:Homeland Security helps secure open-source code

Didn't this used to be the NSA's "job"? It would be best to at least provide links to stories about all the worthless junk Homeland Security buys too (usually for local police departments). Nyarlathotep 18:29, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

They're actually not helping secure the code. They're helping find bugs. Actually, they're paying some companies to develop proprietary software to check for potential bugs, but aren't paying the free-software developers to fix them. -- Phyzome is [[User talk:Phyzome|Tim McCormack]] 19:17, 13 January 2006 (UTC)


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German intelligence participated in U.S. bombing of Iraq, media alleges

January 13, 2006 The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) helped the U.S. military during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the daily Süddeutsche Zeitung, ARD's Panorama magazine and the Los Angeles Times concordantly reported on Thursday.

According to their information, two agents of the BND stayed in Baghdad during the war even after the German embassy was evacuated on March 17, 2003. A former "high-ranking official" in the U.S. Department of Defense told Panorama that the agents helped to track down targets throughout the Iraqi capital for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) as they didn't have enough reliable sources in Baghdad. A BND official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Süddeutsche Zeitung that there was "no dumbness between the BND and DIA" during that time and that it was part of the BND's "job" in Iraq to identify "non targets" like hospitals or embassies. He said this was authorized by the chancellor's office.

The Pentagon informant of Panorama however said that the German agents were much more involved. A common saying during the war was supposedly: "Do we have anything from the Germans?" According to him, they drove to a restaurant in Mansur district of Baghdad on April 6th where Saddam Hussein was assumed to be dining. The BND agents reported back to the DIA that many Mercedes cars were parking there. As those cars were presumed to be of Saddam Hussein, the U.S. military conducted an air strike on the location. Hussein escaped, but twelve civilians were killed. The BND confirmed that two of its agents operated in Iraq during the war but denied all other reports. A spokesperson told Panorama that it's agency "did not provide target information or target coordinates to the warfaring parties." The intelligence committee of the Bundestag exculpated the BND. Its chair Norbert Röttgen said that the in secret sitting committee, controlled by government parties, concluded with two-third majority that there are no indications that the agents aided the U.S. in selecting targets.

German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier called the accusations "schizophrenic" while opposition parties are demanding an parliamentary investigation committee. And during a visit of German chancellor Merkel to the White House, U.S. president Bush said in a response to a reporter's question whether he knew anything about the allegations: "The truth of the matter is, the Chancellor brought this up this morning. I had no idea what she was talking about. The first I heard of it was this morning, truthfully".


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Talk:FL professor & wife accused of spying for Cuba

Here is the text from Florida couple spied for Cuba, FBI says which I am redirecting here. Nyarlathotep 18:51, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

The United States government has accused a Florida International University professor and his wife of operating as covert agents of the Cuban government. Carlos and Elsa Alvarez, both employed by the university, allegedly used a variety of methods to transmit information about Miami's exile community to Cuban intelligence commanders.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrea Simonton denied them bond, saying she believed they would try to return to Cuba if released. "As a practical matter, these are people who admitted they were spying," Simonton said. "They would indeed return to Cuba, rather than face the consequences of their actions here."

The Alvarez' were not charged with the more serious offense of espionage, but instead with failing to register with the federal government as agents of a foreign country. If convicted, each could be sentenced to a maximum of 10 years in jail and fined $250,000 USD.

And here is its talk page. Nyarlathotep 18:53, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

It would appear that I posted something that already exists, although I did not see it at the time of posting. --LoganCale 02:06, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Me laughs, and I was fixing to existing story to add it to this one as Related Wikinews. -Edbrown05 02:12, 11 January 2006 (UTC)


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Talk:German intelligence participated in U.S. bombing of Iraq, media alleges

Nice article. Nyarlathotep 19:26, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Love the closing quote. -Edbrown05 03:56, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

The Merkel image needs to be replaced with MerkelBushWashington1.jpg (it's a duplicate of another image at commons and thus deleted, the version used here was found only on 3 pages across projects whereas the replacement is being used in over 20, so that version was preserved. 200.77.148.66 22:52, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * And nobody thought to tell us before deleting the image on Commons and leaving us with a pretty picture box with a redlink?
 * We're left with your word that the two images are identical. The wikinews community should have been given the opportunity to decide if this was the case, and if not retain the original picture locally.
 * We are not Commons. We are not Wikipedia. It is very important to us that things are preserved in the state they were at when first referenced.  If that means we need to muck about transferring media here - so be it.  --Brian McNeil / talk 23:40, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Amen :) DragonFire1024 23:55, 10 April 2007 (UTC)


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Thai civil rights lawyer Somchai Neelapaichit presumed dead

January 13, 2006

Prominent Thai civil rights lawyer, Somchai Neelapaichit, is now presumed dead, according to an admission by the country's Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra.

Somchai rose to prominence as a lawyer defending Muslim people accused of involvement in the troubles in the predominantly Muslim provinces of southern Thailand. According to the information provided by the PM, evidence has been provided to the Department of Special Investigations that leads them to believe the lawyer is now dead. This is not considered news by the journalist's family, according to his wife the country's Prime Minister admitted to her last year that her husband was dead, and gave assurances that action would be taken against those responsible.

Thailand's DSI became involved with the disappearance of Somchai in July 2005 when allegations were made that police were involved with the lawyer vanishing. His involvement in cases related to the southern insurgency was suspected to have been behind his disappearance. Somchai had lodged appeals with the Bangkok Criminal Court on behalf of five suspects accused of being involved in a raid on a Narathiwat armoury where weapons were seized and soldiers killed, alleging that they had not been given fair treatment during their prosecution.

The admission follows on from the conviction of Police Major, Nguen Thongsuk, who was prosecuted for illegally detaining the lawyer in 2004. Following that he was last seen in public in March 2004. In the case against the police four other officers were acquitted.


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Wikinews:Interview of the month

On 5 December 2005 a group of Wikinews reporters interviewed Jimmy Wales live in the International Wikinews IRC channel with an audience of Wikinews contributors, other Wikimedia Foundation participants, and others unrelated to the projects. It was a large success, and spun off articles in 6 languages as well as being sourced by other news articles.

There were, of course, immediate cries to do this sort of thing again, which is what this page is about: organizing a monthly interview with a news maker live in IRC. People who are interested in being notified of upcoming interviews are encouraged to list a link on the contact list.

Who?
Ideally, interview candidates will be people involved with current events, hopefully *very* current! The interview with Jimbo was set up the week before a news event happened which put Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation in the spotlight of mainstream media. That type of luck cannot be relied on, and we should focus on selecting and contacting news makers who will be a valuable interviewee no matter if they become a feature of the mainstream media or not.

Some suggested fields for news makers (by no means exhaustive):

 * Executives of large or pivotal corporations, non-governmental organizations, or governmental branches/departments.
 * Public figures, such as politician or entertainment figures.
 * Researchers/Scientists who have recently published articles with wide ranging implications.

The wikinews edition which is the dominant language for the individual interviewed will be in charge of actually moderating the interview.

When?
The exact when for each interview will, in part, be determined by the news maker's schedule. The goal would be to have the interview in the first half of the month, if possible the first week. The time of day should be convenient to the interviewee, realizing that some wikinews contributors will be available 24 hours a day.

Questions should be compiled prior to the actual interview, but might not all be used. It will be important to schedule interviews in advance so reporters can do the necessary research before the interview.

Each interviewee should be given a short period of time to speak on a subject of their choice, in addition to a one hour question and answer period, up to a half-hour.

Where?
The interviews will take place in the International Wikinews IRC channel. This may be accessed via web-browser with.

The goal is to produce opportunities for all Wikinews language editions to be involved in interviews, and produce articles about those interviews in many languages for a world-wide internet audience.

What?
The interviews will consist of an address by the interviewee, if they'd like, followed by a question and answer session from a moderator. It will be up to each moderator how they would like to set up the questions, but they should work with questions which are prepared before the interview as well as questions submitted to them during the interview by reporters present.

Realizing that a live interview can never be completely scripted, it would probably be best to plan on having only about half of the question time covered by prepared questions and the rest be raised during the interview.

May
Andrew Westphal project director of Stardust@home has accepted a request for an interview with Wikinews for May 2006.

We will be doing research and developing questions at Wikinews/Interview of the month/May 2006 Questions.

This months Interview will be taking place at: 11:00 a.m. Pacific, May 18, 2006 in the International Wikinews IRC channel (irc://irc.freenode.net/wikinews).

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U.S. airstrike targeting Ayman al-Zawahiri leaves 18 dead in Pakistani village

January 14, 2006 A United States military air strike on a Pakistani village on Friday killed at least 18 people, including women and children. U.S. media reports claim that leading al-Qaeda member Ayman al-Zawahiri was a target, and that the strike took place in the village of Damadola in the Bajaur tribal area of northwestern Pakistan.

The Pentagon has denied any involvement, leading to speculations that the CIA was responsible for the strike. Such speculations have been confirmed by an unnamed American intelligence official; although no official statement has been issued.

Pakistani intelligence officials have contradicted U.S. claims that Ayman al-Zawahiri was in the area at the time of the strike and suggested that the U.S. intelligence information placing him there was incorrect. A Pakistani intelligence officer claimed that Zawahiri was invited to a dinner in the village where the strike took place, but he "did not show up." According to Pakistani army representatives, Ayman al-Zawahiri was not among the dead. Al Arabiya satellite television network has reported that "a source with contacts with al Qaeda reiterated to Arabiya that Zawahiri is alive." Egypt, who has Zawahiri's brother in prison, has provided the United States with a DNA sample, which would allow officials to positively identify the fugitive al-Qaeda leader. It is also reported that the DNA has already been used to run tests at the FBI in Washington DC.

Pakistan condemned the U.S. air strike, summoned the United States ambassador, and said that the country "does not allow U.S. forces to cross the border in pursuit of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters." Pakistan's information minister Sheik Rashid Ahmed said that Pakistan wants "to assure the people we will not allow such incidents to reoccur." However, Foreign Office spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said that "according to preliminary investigations there was foreign presence in the area and that in all probability was targeted from across the border in Afghanistan."

The Foreign Office issued a statement Saturday saying it lodged a formal complaint with the United States embassy in Islamabad, where it will be hand delivered by Foreign Secretary Riaz Khan.

Pakistani Intelligence officials are looking into reports that suggest at least seven foreign militants had been killed and their bodies removed by local supporters.

This complaint is the second lodged by Pakistan against the U.S. in less than a week. The earlier protest was prompted by U.S. missile attack that killed eight people from a village in the North Waziristan tribal region. According to local officials, none of the victims were terrorist suspects. As a result of the strikes, protests broke out in different parts of the country.


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John Kitzhaber not running for governor of Oregon

January 13, 2006

Former Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber announced today that he will not enter the 2006 Gubernatiorial Race. The Democrat stated that he felt he could do more by pushing for reforms in the United States health care system through a grass roots campaign.

Kitzhaber served two terms as governor of Oregon from 1995 through 2003 and was succeeded by Governor Ted Kulongoski. Kulongoski, who is also a Democrat, has received mixed reviews during his first term as governor. Some had been urging Kitzhaber to enter the race to reenergize Democrats who have become unsatisified with the current administration.

During a speech at a homeless shelter, Kitzhaber said, ""At least at this point in time, I can make the greatest entrance not by entering a campaign for Governor but by launching a campaign to change the American health care system and by offering people an opportunity to engage around an idea, not just a candidate."


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This article was written by myself. If there are any questions please send me a message over at my Wikipedia talk page. Thanks.. Davidpdx 04:24, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

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Huge star cluster discovered in neighbourhood of Milky Way

January 14, 2006

This is a map, by Mario Juric of Princeton University based upon the forthcoming SDSS-II Data Release 5, of the Virgo super star cluster, viewed from far away and from above the galactic plane. It shows the counts of faint blue stars, from a narrow magnitude and color range, that are 10 kiloparsec away from Earth.

The map is shown in the Lambert projection of galactic coordinates: radial rays are lines of constant longitude, circles are lines of constant latitude, the North Galactic Pole is in the center, and the Galactic Centre is towards the left. The counts are shown on a logarithmic stretch, with a dynamic range of 10 increasing from blue to red.

The dotted line through the middle of the map shows the plane of the debris from the Saggitarius dwarf galaxy that is being cannibalized by the Milky Way. This debris is approximately four times further away from Earth than the Virgo super star cluster is. Astronomers have hypothesised that the two may be related.

Astronomers at Sloan Digital Sky Survey have announced the discovery of a huge star cluster, the Virgo super star cluster 10 kiloparsecs (32,600 light years) away from the solar system (roughly the same distance as the galactic centre), in the constellation of Virgo. Many of the stars have been known to astronomers for centuries, but only now have they realized the existence of the cluster.

In a presentation to the American Astronomical Society, Princeton University graduate student Mario Juric, the principal author of the findings, explained: "Some of the stars in this Milky Way companion have been seen with telescopes for centuries, but because the galaxy is so close, its stars are spread over a huge swath of the sky, and they always used to be lost in the sea of more numerous Milky Way stars. This galaxy is so big, we couldn't see it before."

The large overpopulation of stars was discovered by researchers analyzing SDSS-I and SDSS-II data. SDSS has, to date, imaged roughly one-quarter of the northern sky. The method used was the photometric parallax method. "We used the SDSS data to measure distances to 48 million stars and build a 3-d map of the Milky Way." explained Zeljko Ivezic of the University of Washington, a co-author of the study.

This discovery is one in a series of such discoveries made within the last decade by a new generation of sky surveys. The Saggitarius dwarf galaxy was discovered in 1994 using photographic sky images. Since then, analysis of photographs by large digital cameras has identified several streams and clumps of stars, some of which (astronomers believe) are Milky Way companions and others of which are shreds of the Saggitarius dwarf or other dwarf galaxies that are also dissolving into the Milky Way. An earlier SDSS discovery was the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy. "With so much irregular structure in the outer Galaxy, it looks as though the Milky Way is still growing, by cannibalizing smaller galaxies that fall into it," said Juric.

The first indication that the Virgo super star cluster existed was in 2001, when the Quasar Equatorial Survey Team (QUEST) survey, using a 1-metre telescope in Llano del Hato National Astronomical Observatory in Venezuela, found a clump of five RR Lyrae variable stars, which astronomers speculated might belong to a small galaxy being canibalized by the Milky Way. Kathy Vivas of the Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomia in Venezuela, the author of the QUEST paper on the discovery, commented that "In light of the new SDSS results, it appears that the stellar stream we detected is itself part of the larger structure identified by Juric and collaborators."

In a letter to the Astrophysical Journal the QUEST has presented further evidence for Vivas' interpretation, by measuring the motions and chemical compositions of stars in the region.


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Augustine volcano erupts

January 14, 2006

Augustine Volcano in Alaska erupted five times on January 13. Friday's activity follows two eruptions on January 11. The Alaska Volcano Observatory predicts the increased activity at Augustine Volcano will continue for several days, possibly for two to three weeks. The volcano last erupted in 1986 and 1976. The AVO expects the current activity to be similar to those two eruptions.

The eruptions have prompted Alaska Airlines to cancel 28 flights into and out of the Alaskan cities of Anchorage, Juneau, Kodiak, and Fairbanks. Ash from the eruptions is likely to spread throughout the Cook Inlet and surrounding areas.

Augustine Volcano has recently seen an increased rate of seismic activity, beginning in May, 2005. Earthquakes on the island increased from a "normal" rate of 1-2 a day to about 15 a day in mid-December. The volcano also experienced up to two inches of uplift prior to the eruptions.

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