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Please see my user page at User:Codernaut. Thank you.

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Freelance journalist and editor, living in Ireland. Writes on culture, politics, media and technology for a range of publications.

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Zambian government launches a new agricultural policy

December 22, 2004

The government of Zambia has launched a new national agricultural policy, according to a report by the Times of Zambia. The newspaper reports that the policy was announced yesterday by the country's Minister of Agriculture & Co-Operatives, Mr. Mundia Sikatana.

At the event marking the launch of the new program, Mr. Sikatana described the policy as addressing the issues of food security, economic growth and poverty reduction. The policy will cover all sectors of agriculture in the nation, and will be implemented by the ministry of Agriculture.

Mr Sikatana went on to say that the policy contained detailed strategies to cover a variety of sectors within the agricultural industry, including livestock, fisheries, irrigation, and agricultural finance. The new policy also continues Zambia's previous policy of prohibiting the import and use of genetically modified foods within the country. This policy is controversial due to areas of poverty within the country, and the smuggling of genetically modified grains into the country earlier this month.

The Zambian government has previously been criticised by some for its annual ban on fishing during December. It is unclear whether this policy, which was widely applauded by environmentalists and implemented to protect sensitive fish stocks, will be affected by the new agricultural policy.


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I would suggest that this message includes a link and invitation to Wikimedia commons. See a suggestion made by another user earlier at Water cooler Tomos 03:31, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Yushchenko claims victory in re-run

December 27, 2004

With nearly all votes counted, the opposition candidate in the Ukrainian presidential elections has claimed victory. Unofficial results show Viktor Yushchenko leading with 52% to the mainly pro-government candidate and current Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich's 44% — a difference amounting to roughly 2.2 million votes.

This latest round of voting was to replace the results of the second run-off election held on November 21, 2004. After the November vote, many international observers criticized the vote as fradulent, and some regions saw voter turnout listed in excess of 100%, prompting the opposition — including Mr. Yushchenko — to assert that the results were invalid. Supporters of the opposition pursued legal channels, such as appealing to the country's parliament and its Supreme Court, as well as maintained a blocade of key government buildings in an effort to force a new election.

The new results were not, however, accepted by both sides. The government candidate, Mr. Yanukovich, vowed to challenge the outcome in the Supreme Court. "I will never recognize this defeat because the constitution and human rights were violated," he said at a press conference.

Unlike the November results which were nearly universally criticized by Western governments, the outcome of the re-run has been hailed as fair by officials in the United States and the European Union.

In depth

 * Report: Ukraine political crisis

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User talk:Karim~enwikinews

Water cooler
Hi Karim,

Thanks for offering your thoughts on how to improve Wikinews. I think you have some good ideas.

I replied to your comments on the Water cooler page.

Regards,

— DV 04:59, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * If you have additional ideas about how to remove the barriers that are preventing you and others from creating and editing stories, please let me know. Please see my most recent reply to your most recent remarks on the Water cooler. — DV 06:49, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

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

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:33, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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Please feel free to leave comments/feedback here.

Or email me: karim [at] trauma [dot] org

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U.S. and U.K. governments warn citizens against travelling to areas hit by tsunamis

December 27, 2004

The U.S. issued public travel warnings, advising United States citizens to avoid travelling to areas affected by the recent Indian Ocean earthquake and the resulting tsunamis. The announcements cover Indonesia, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and affected areas of Thailand. The warnings are set to expire on January 25, 2005, and urge citizens to postpone all non-essential travel to the regions.

The U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office also carries Travel Advice notices covering many of the countries hit by the tsunamis, and similarly urges citizens not to travel to the areas unless absolutely necessary.


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User:Davodd

I will be on a law school-imposed semi Wikivacation until August 2010

You've reached the user page of one of the original Wikinews Admins. I abdicated that status more than a year ago due to the belief that the wiki way and organized journalism are incompatible. Please leave requests and comments on my Talk page. MY BRAG SHEET | MOST-POPULAR WN STORIES

If you are looking for guides to better writing, I suggest reading Style guide.

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Asian earthquake toll nears 60,000

December 28, 2004

The toll from the recent earthquake and tsunami disaster that affected coasts of a dozen Asian and African nations has risen to nearly 60,000 people reported dead. The nations struck by the catastrophe are struggling to bury the bodies of the dead before disease adds to the already high casaulty figures.

Health experts, such as Dr. David Nabarro, head of crisis operations at the World Health Organization (WHO), are predicting that as many as an additional 60,000 people could perish if disease spreads due to lack of safe drinking water, overcrowding in camps, and potential leaks of deadly toxins from factories affected by the disaster. The WHO is attempting to focus its relief efforts on saving lives and preventing disease in this ongoing crisis.

In Depth

 * Strongest earthquake in 40 years hits Southeast Asia

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User talk:Davodd/archive1

"I noticed you removed sources you labeled as "subscription" from one of the articles. They were not subscription, per se, but allowed free access if a user registers - at no cost - with the site"

yes thanks for pointing that out, they require registration which is an irritating stumbling block for many readers - i would prefer that we use truly open accessible sources, there are many available for this story, if you insist on using one please indicate that registration is required as a courtesy for users. Onymous 81.217.21.244 09:40, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC) (chat later)

dear davodd. Why do you object to Use of Wikinews articles creates deletion chaos? I think it importasnt people read it so they don't start deleting legitimate articles Squeakfox 19:50, 8 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Writing, rather than editing
I agree with you — we need to add new articles rather than edit to death the existing ones. At the same time, as this project is still under development, part of what we are reasonable at doing so far is trying to provide a one-stop page for the current state of the tsunami crisis. Indeed, if you search around you will find quite a few people praising our (and Wikipedia's) coverage of this disaster: note that very few news organizations provide a current snapshot of current events.

That does not excuse our lack of separate followup articles, but the prognosis is not nearly as bad as you make it be. With just over 200 articles written on this site, it's not surprising that we're still far from becoming a viable news source. Yet it's by attacking these issues head-on with optimism that we will get things fixed. -- IlyaHaykinson 03:05, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I also agree that Wikinews could benefit from your writing skills if you are willing to contribute. Why not show us how it's done? In my day job I enjoy learning from more experienced contributors, so I would certainly appreciate being able to learn from a more talented writer here on Wikinews.

If there is anything I can do to help remove the barriers that are preventing you from becoming a contributor in the main article space, please let me know.

Regards,

— DV 03:43, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

"groupthink and journalism are rarely compatible"
What do you think of working in user pages, as a sandbox, for new articles? I previously suggested that this could work for writing opinion columns, but perhaps news stories could be developed this way as well?

Editors tend to leave user pages alone, so perhaps that space could be used to avoid groupthink while an article is being developed? — DV 04:14, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Journalistic standard
Could you recommend an online source or a book that I could use to educate myself about the journalistic standard you think would be acceptable for us to follow here on Wikinews?

Developing a writing style that conforms to this standard won't happen overnight, but I'm at least willing to try if you will provide some specific guidance.

I refer to my copy of the Chicago Manual of Style from time to time, which covers bookmaking, style, production and printing, but perhaps you could point me to other references that are more specific to news writing? — DV 04:25, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

One or two examples?
Before you shoo me away to take night classes at a journalism school, could you please provide some specific examples to help me improve my writing style enough to at least be passable?

Even if you can only provide some very brief comments, I would be grateful if you could provide a comparison of two news articles of your choice, written at different levels of quality, on the same topic, to illustrate the difference between poor and excellent news writing. Since I probably won't recognize all of the differences that make one excellent and the other poor, anything you could point out would be helpful.

Thanks again for your constructive feedback on Wikinews. I'm glad to hear you plan to contribute in the main article space at some point.

— DV 10:22, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the tips
The links to the Guardian and AP stylebooks, and the article comparison, were all helpful. (Too bad the AP wants money for theirs, the Guardian is gracious to supply theirs free of charge.)

Also, your advice to use shorter sentences, active voice, and the occassional one-sentence paragraph, seems obvious, but it is easy to forget and revert to writing in a more ponderous style.

It is difficult to objectively edit one's own writing without taking the time to walk away from it and come back to it with a fresh perspective. Professionals have editors to review and improve their work, while we have random editors who are usually only motivated enough to insert new factual tidbits here and there.

Despite these odds, I still find the challenge of working on Wikinews to be worthwhile, so I hope you will continue to provide constructive feedback to address the issues that are affecting the viability of this project.

Regards,

— DV 04:06, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Stylebook
Davodd, thanks for working on the stylebook. But to reduce duplication of similar information, you might want to either merge or somehow integrate with Style_guide and Content guide. -- IlyaHaykinson 01:08, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I also appreciate the great work you've done to compile a stylebook. I will keep it nearby when I edit articles in the future. — DV 03:38, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
Please see the history of this article, and revisit. This should not have been placed on Dr. I would like to see it return to the main page, but not with the Dr on it, since it is designed as a project page. - Amgine 20:51, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * I disagree. The additional anon edits are the single paste and then two sentences re-written several times. Using non-main-namespace is not really an option, I think. If it is allowed at all (I don't know if they've set up thos namespaces), it will not be searched by the search function. Rather defeats the purpose. Do you use IRC? - Amgine 22:08, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Speedy Deletion Proposal
Thanks for the heads-up. The DB was being sorta weird earlier this afternoon. I've RV-ed my own edit, it should be ok now. Lankiveil 08:35, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC).

Use of IRC to set Wikinews policy
I replied to your comments on IRC over on the water cooler.

I share your concern about this issue.

Regards,

— DV 03:38, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks -- Davodd | Talk 05:49, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Re:Tsuhami Help in Media
Hi. I'm wondering if the suggestion I made would look like acceptable for you regarding the media coverage page. Would you take a look at Deletion_requests?

Thanks, Tomos 04:18, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

PS The Trio article looks very meaty and very well-written. I'm glad to see someone who can write that being part of Wikinews. :)
 * Reply is on Tomos' talk page. -- Davodd | Talk 05:16, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I didn't forget...
You asked about building a basic local bureau branch page... I'd be happy to talk with you about this.

I'm assuming this will actually be a working space for contributors from a specific local beat. What are the tools you would be interested in having available there? Here's my brief list:

 * Stories under development
 * Story assignments
 * Local resources for contributors
 * Wikinews resources for contributors
 * A box for recognizing story successes
 * A cubie graffiti wall or shoutbox, for letting off steam/goofing off.

Does this sound like what you were looking for or am I way off? - Amgine 06:58, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

More ideas on main page layout
Hi Davodd,

I noticed you had commented on one of the versions of the main page sandbox, where some ideas for improving the main page are being tried out.

If you haven't looked at the most recent versions, please see the small version and the large version. They're a pair that link to each other via the monitor icons at the top of the navigation bar. Shanforest and Ilya have both started discussions on each version's talk page, here and here.

Regards,

— DV 15:10, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Uhm... Community page
You may want to see User:Amgine/Sandbox2 - Amgine 06:32, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Okay, I'm done there. What would you like my help with? - Amgine 07:29, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Dead links bad. The only one which is a worry is the User:Amgine/Sandbox2 one, since I have hopes that this layout will be accepted for the Water cooler. - Amgine 07:34, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Logo ideas
Hi Davodd,

What format did you create your Wikinews logo design in? (I'm referring to the "N" version inspired by Brevity's pipe design.)

Would you mind e-mailing me the source file so I could play around with some alternative ideas?

Regards,

— DV 04:43, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks, that's good enough to trace the outline. — DV 05:33, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Water cooler improvements
Sounds great! Can you direct me to an example of the Backpage so I can learn how to do that? - Amgine 17:40, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * I understand the concept, now how do I use it? ? - Amgine 18:07, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * No insult, just confused, but I think I may have figured it out... What skin are you using? - Amgine 22:33, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, so I didn't figure it out. What do you do which uses the BACK PAGE function? - Amgine 22:47, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * All this time I've been looking in the body, not the header! - Amgine 02:29, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Wikinewsies? ... In the meantime, on other mediawiki installations (such as Tsunami Help's new site) the function is not in the standard distribution. Is this a part of the system message? - ~

Something to be aware of
http://news.com.com/Open-sourcing+the+news/2008-1025_3-5515166.html - Jimbo Wales discussing Wikinews. Expect traffic.

Also, many IP anons do not have stable IP numbers. Everytime they visit it's a new IP. Probably better to wait until they've logged in to welcome them, since their IP might next be assigned to someone who has never been to Wikinews. - Amgine 19:12, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Wish I had your sources. I was just surprised with it.

 * I wasn't aware of the redlink policy on Wikipedia. I suspect on Wikinews we should restrict that a bit, since we're much more likely to attract casual contributors. But then, we're also more likely to attract news junkies... so I don't know where I stand on that policy. - Amgine 19:31, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Which is *exactly* why I wrote the "How is policy made?" section the way I did - Policies and guidelines - Amgine

Hello
As you seem to be one of the major driving forces behind WN right now, I feel I should explain my reasoning behind my numerous edits today. Have a read of my userpage to see my thinking behind the changes. Feel free to leave any criticism on my talk page! Dan100 00:58, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Editor tasks
Thanks for setting me straight on the purpose of Editor tasks, I hadn't quite grasped the difference in purpose. I think the changes to the workspace have clarified things immensely! Dan100 10:37, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Criminal charges filed in Nov. 19 NBA brawl deletion request
As my first contribution to this site, I finished this article. I was not sure if I could delete your deletion request or not, so figured I would ask here. Thanks. Ace 17:32, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Category:Continents query
I replied to your question at User_talk:IlyaHaykinson -- IlyaHaykinson 23:31, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)

It appears I still can.
So I did. - Amgine 07:20, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

"Wells Fargo Barclays logos merger.jpg"
Some do-gooder will probably delete the nice logo you used for the Wells Fargo story, as fair use isn't allowed on the Commons.

Wikinews is artificially constrained by not having its own repository for fair-use images, as this is crucial for us to use corporate logos in our business reporting, as you have done for this story. The press has every right to use such logos in its reporting.

I'm curious why Wikipedia gets its own image repository for fair-use images but Wikinews does not.

Is there a discussion to settle the licensing of Wikinews somewhere? I see in one spot that it is public domain because the license isn't settled, but the footer implies that this site is GFDL.

Regards,

— DV 08:37, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Just looking around
Thanks for the clarification on the Admin list. I was just looking around on the Special pages and noticed the change logs, and then found the actual list of Admins from there.

I also found the sole Wikinews image (it's the Wikinews Beta logo) and determined that trying to bypass the Upload media link in the navigation sidebar by manually typing in the URL for the Wikinews Upload page simply returns a page with a message that uploading is disabled.

(I just wanted to make sure we really have to use the Commons.)

Regards,

— DV 11:02, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Fair use images
Davodd - I'm chatting with the Wikimedia people at the moment. Do you have citations for fair use of images by the press? - Amgine 22:42, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * response on Amgine's talk page. -- Davodd | Talk 23:09, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Davodd! I directed them to those links... I hope things work out. - Amgine 23:46, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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Connecticut Serial Killer Competent- Waives Further Appeals

Serial killer Michael Ross appeared before a Connecticut court today, and told Judge Patrick Clifford that he wanted to die. If executed, Ross will be the first person put to death in Connecticut in over 40 years.

Ross admitted to killing eight women in Connecticut and New York in the 1980s, and to raping several of them.

The hearing considered whether Ross, who holds a degree in economics from Cornell University, was mentally competent to waive his appeals. Dr. Michael Norko, appointed by the court to examine Ross, testified that Ross is a sexual sadist and is prone to depression. Ross had attempted suicide three times in the past, Norko told the court, but he is not suicidal now. Norko further testifed that Ross is taking medication to control his psychiatric problems.

Norko testified that Ross made a rational decision in electing to waive his appeals, and the court agreed, finding Ross clear headed and well educated.

"This decision is his right to make," Judge Clifford said from the bench.

However, Ross' father and the Connecticut Public Defender's Office have filed motions in Rockville Superior Court claiming that Ross suffered from mental delusions at the time of his orignial trial, and that his previous attorneys did a poor job defending him. There is no word when the Rockville court will rule.

Ross is scheduled to die January 26, 2005.


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Former First Lady of Taiwan dies at age 88

December 28, 2004 Faina Chiang (蔣方良; pinyin: Jiǎng Fāngliáng), the Russian-born former First Lady of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and wife of the late President Chiang Ching-kuo died on December 15, 2004 of pulmonary and cardiac failure in the Taipei Vetrans Hospitial. She was 88 years old, although using the Chinese system of counting birthdays she was said to be 90.

Her funeral was held on December 27, 2004 at the Taipei Vetrans Hospital with several prominent Taiwanese politicians in attendance including President Chen Shui-bian, Kuomintang Chairman Lien Chan, and People's First Party Chairman James Soong.

Chiang's casket was draped with a Taiwanese Flag as well as a Kuomintang party flag.

Chiang's body was cremated and placed in her husband's temporary mausoleum in Taoyuan County. Current plans are to have Chiang Ching-kuo, and his father, Chiang Kai-shek's, remains moved from their temporary mausoleums to the Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery. Originally, plans were to keep the two former presidents in the mausoleums until they could be buried on the Chinese mainland after reunification. However, last year a request made by Chiang Fang-liang was granted to have the remains moved to the Taipei Cemetery, Chiang Fang-liang would also be buried there.


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User talk:Mydotnet

"How the News Makes Us Dumb"
If you only watch mainstream television news, or read mainstream newspapers or websites, I agree that one may end up being misinformed about what is really going on in the world.

But the notion that mainstream "news makes us dumb" is rather antiquated now that there are a multitude of other sources from which one can obtain a wider perspective of what is going on in the world.

The answer to corporate control of the mainstream news is not to bury your head in the sand and become even more ignorant, but to seek out additional sources of news.

If we can get past the mental blocks that are preventing Wikinews editors from performing any firsthand reporting, Wikinews can become one of those sources.

As for shelf life, and the desire to work on history on Wikipedia, I can only say that a lot of history is written using archived news sources as references. However, a lot of fish gets wrapped with old newspapers, so I sort of see your point. :)

Thanks for your article contributions, I hope you'll check back on our progress from time to time.

Regards,

— DV 06:20, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Security firm identifies United States as world's top spamming country

December 28, 2004

According to research done by an anti-spam research company Sophos, the United States is the point of origin of over 42% of all spam. Trailing are South Korea with 13% and China with 8% of the world's spam. The security firm performed an audit of its honeypots to come up with the figures — a honeypot is a special system set up to attract spam or spammers in order to gauge spammer activity.

Such activity is not entirely unexpected. The United States accounts for slightly over 25% of all Internet usage, whereas South Korea and China have about 4% and 11% of the world's Internet users, respectively. Yet these percentages still point to the U.S. as being a disproportionate source for spam.

The Sophos team noted the inefficacy of the CAN-SPAM act in its report — the act has been frequently criticized in the technology media as not doing enough to stem the flow of unsolicited commercial and fradulent email, and the new numbers from the research company only serve to further that claim. Indeed, the security company MX Logic reported that while compliance with the CAN-SPAM act continues to grow, the growth is not enough to stem the increasing flow of spam. Analysts blame the increase in spam on spammers' increased use of networks of zombies — computers that have been hacked into in order to send the bulk email.


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Wikinews talk:Tsunami Help/Health & Safety

For safer water maybe use solar cooking.

Online Emergency First Aid & Survival Procedures Available
Information for immediate survival and disaster aid is available online via the FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) within the USA. Within this site there is information and training aids to assist in general and specific tasks for individuals to assist themselves and their communities in mass disaster and casuality incidents. Look under CERT training and other training guides. This will provide advanced first aid techniques, water purification procedures, structural inspection and civil communications and identifications. For those planning to volunteer to aid, I suggest you spend the few hours of online training available here to help you be more productive on the ground ready to assist. Thank you for all of you who can go and are able to spend your holiday helping. It will take the entire planet to save these communities and villages. We who have so much can give so much. If you are unable to assist then take the time to be better prepared for your own community when disasters come. It is not a matter of "if" you will ever need the training and information, but of "when" you need it most. I guarantee that you will need it at least once in your lifetime that matters the most to someone close to you. Everyone has something to give; time, money, health, hope, a hand. May Peace Be Our Pledge Terry tctrout55@yahoo.com

Warranty disclaimer
Hi.. Would you guys mind if I add Template:Tsunami Warranty Disclaimer to this page? This page is making a lot of recommendations, and does not look like very well-sourced. Tomos 21:58, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Mental health
Hi. A posting - http://tsunamihelpsrilanka.blogspot.com/2004/12/guidelines-for-working-with-separated.html - on the blog, and another similar article I've come across (not on blog) - leads me to ask if it would be a good idea to create a Mental Health section - may have 2 sections of content develops - trauma effects suffered by Tsunami surviviors and the second - trauma effects suffered by carers and helpers. Won't put it up until I hear more from you guys. Susan Locke 1 Jan 2005 10:33 Hey Susan, Can or is there anything else we can do as far as spreading this message abroad? If so, feel at ease to add it on humanserviceinfo.blogspot.com Best wishes Mike6417.


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Wikinews:Categories and topic pages

 * For a list of categories, see Special:Categories or CGorman's Categories page.

Categories
Every page covering a news event — that is, every news article — should be dated, and have a topic and a location. These should already be present in an article: their lack could be a sign that the article does not describe a news event. The article should, then, be placed into at least three categories:
 * a category for the date (if you used the 'date' template this will be done for you)
 * a category for the location
 * a category for the topic

Date categories
The date should be the single date (or in some rare cases a set of dates) when the article is written or the event occurs. The date of reporting will automatically be added as a category by the dateline template. If the event specifically occurred on some prior date, or will occur on some date in the near future, then that date may be added as an additional category using the appropriate Category tag.

The date category should be formatted as Month Day, Year — for example, .

When exact dates are not available, use a month and a year. When a news story spans a range of dates, use two categories: one for the start and one for the end.

Location categories
The location's category should be relevant to the events the article describes, and as specific as the category hierarchy is made. Thus imagine an event that happened in Brooklyn which is part of New York City which is part of the state of New York which is part of the United States which is part of North America which is a Continent in the World. At the moment, only the category for United States might exist, so you might want to place your article in, or create and place your article there. As the hierarchy of categories develops, someone might create a category for New York City, and then another one for Brooklyn. Future stories will go into the Brooklyn category for location.

Topic categories
Much like the location categories, the topic category for a news article should be the most specific one in the hierarchy. Thus if only exists, use that — or create and use that.

Purpose of categories
Each category's description should briefly mention and identify the subject the category covers. The category should include in its description a snippet of the latest news from the location or topic it covers. For an example, see Category:Mozambique.

Topic Pages
There are several types of topic pages (in the normal article namespace):

 * 1) recent news for a location (such as Africa)
 * 2) recent news for a topic (such as Politics and conflicts)
 * 3) in-depth summary coverage of a news event (such as Strongest earthquake in 40 years hits Southeast Asia)

The first two should contain summary information about the location, or topic. The topic page for the country Iraq should, for example, talk briefly about the country, link to a Wikipedia article about it, mention current large events in the country, and show the latest news for the country. See Mozambique for an example of this in action. The pages should be named identically with the categories.

The latter — in-depth summary coverage — should be created when a news item is either obviously going to require continuous coverage, or has already generated enough continuous coverage to warrant a summary page. The page should either be named a generic name according to article naming guidelines (such as Strongest earthquake in 40 years hits Southeast Asia) or be created as a subpage from a different topic page (such as Mozambique/Elections).

Need for a policy
Every policy should exist for a reason. Thus here is an attempt at a justification.

The Wikinews project needs to balance categories with topic pages given the variety of subjects. A growing number of stories will quickly overwhelm any single category's ability to be browseable, and a deep hierarchy will both get overwhelmed eventually and be very tough to browse for stories.

To solve the problem of overwhelmable categories, we have created topic pages for both issues (i.e. Politics and conflicts) and regions (i.e. Africa). However as the site grows we will experience a problem of navigation: where should links be listed? Where do you update the latest news for a region? How do you link the category to the latest news for the region the category describes? Which categories should a story belong to?

A policy (or a set of guidelines) needs to be established to standardize our approach to categories, topic pages, and related questions. This policy aims to show a way that this can be done while minimizing confusion and increasing usability.

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User talk:Monet~enwikinews

I replied to your request on my user talk page. — DV 10:32, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Problems with image cache affecting weather report
We are having problems using the current and previous names for the weather image links.

Please see this post on Ilya's talk page for the details.

Regards,

— DV 03:52, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

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

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

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

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:22, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:34, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

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Time Warner, Sprint close to mobile pact

Time Warner Cable is close to a deal with Sprint Corp. to offer mobile telephone service under the TimeWarner brand to the cabler's 11 million subscribers, according to a report in Wednesday's The Wall Street Journal.

If such a deal is struck, Time Warner will be the first cable company to offer the so-called "quadruple threat" in telecommunications, by offering voice, video, internet and mobile services in a single package.

The Journal reported that Time Warner would test market the new mobile service in Kansas City before the end of March.

Any such deal could strengthen Time Warner's plans to expand its entry into the telephony market. The company said it expects to have 200 thousand voice customers when it closes its 2004 books Friday. As of mid-December, the company said it was adding about 10 thousand new wired voice customers per week.

For voice customers Time Warner is competing with regional telephone monopolies Verizon, SBC and BellSouth, which among them control the two largest mobile networks in the United States: Verizon and Cingular.


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For Fact-checkers
For those without WSJ access, there is a Reuters article summarizing the WSJ report. -- IlyaHaykinson 11:03, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Well written. I will do some fact checking. Thanks for the link. Tomos 22:55, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

List of facts I could/ could not verify:
 * Time Warner has 11 mil. customers.
 * (yes) (New York Times)
 * Time Warner is the first among major cable systems to offer the quadruple package.
 * (yes) Cable Digital News
 * The quadruple package is called "quadruple threat"
 * (no) I found quadruple play in Financial Times and Kansas City Star.
 * The package is first offered in Kansas City, MO
 * (yes) (Kansas City Star)
 * The package is offered by the end of March.
 * (yes) Reuters
 * Time Warner has 200K voice customers.
 * (yes) (Cable Digital News; Light Reading)
 * Time Warner was adding 10K customers per week in mid-December.
 * (yes) (Cable Digital News; Light Reading)
 * Time Warner is competing against the largest telcos such as Verison, SBC, BellSouth.
 * (yes) (Forbes)

List of relevant facts I came across:
 * Verizon is considering to offer the quadruple package. (Forbes)
 * AT&T, ESPN, Qwest and Virgin are also partnering with Sprint. (Financial Times, Kansas City Star)
 * These partnership makes up what Sprint named "Mobile Virtual Network Operator" and there are more than 3 million subscribers served at the end of 3Q 2004. (Kansas City Star)
 * Whether Time Warner will also become a part of the MVNO is unclear. (Financial Times)
 * AT&T's mobile offer is scheduled for the first half of 2005. (Forbes; but New York Times' report says the schedule is unclear/undecided.)
 * Other cable companies, including Cox and Cablevision, is in search of mobile deal. They formed a coalition for the search. (New York Times)

List of sources used:
 * 1) Forbes http://www.forbes.com/markets/bonds/2004/12/29/1229automarketscan01.html
 * 2) Financial Times http://news.ft.com/cms/s/ea00b028-5a07-11d9-ba09-00000e2511c8.html
 * 3) Information Week http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=56800146
 * 4) Cable Digital News http://www.cabledatacomnews.com/jan05/jan05-9.html
 * 5) Kansas City Star http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/10525099.htm?1c
 * 6) New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/30/technology/30phone.html
 * 7) Light Reading http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&doc_id=64433
 * 8) Reuters http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=7198045

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Talk:Missing

It would be a great idea to do automatic self-updating mirroring of information from various common source sites. This one is just one example:  it goes up and down a lot, so perhaps a back-door connection might help here...i KNOW this is possible. RSS, what? This is to consolidate the information into the most consistently largest and best formatted (for easy eye-scanning) pile of contact info for missing persons (and I guess their kin if this is indeed the M.O. of the "Missing" entry...). I don't know how to do the formatting, I'm just the idea guy...anyway, here's what I got so far

Also, there has got to be a way to properly get past the registration pages of "news" papers that have lists of missing persons. case in point, that stupid smh.com.au site below, but i'm sure this will spread to nyt and washpost etc. help!)

Copyright
Please don't copy and paste from news websites without permission. It against the site policy and can get wikinew in trouble.

In trouble? In trouble? You mean, like, heads will roll and stuff, right? Like, sixty+ thousand of them?

Anyway, fine. I already envision someone taking some wiki engine as a vehicle renegade-style (thereby redirecting the LawyerWrath(tm)), discarding copyright concerns in the face of human tragedy, getting down all the pertinent information from all sources (no matter how hesitant), leaving only the engine makers to sue the renegade after the dust settles, 'cause the renegade is long gone by the time the newspaper lawyers get to them. Hopefully everyone at that time would see a certain necessity in sidestepping idiotically rigid cultural norms for the greater good.

Missing (in general)
In my opinion Missing should not redirect to Tsunami Help. At least not any longer. --SVTCobra 01:41, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Now it goes to Category:Missing persons. --Pi zero (talk) 15:10, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

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More on his blog Chetan's monologue

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living

 * city: Kiel
 * country: Germany

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Constantin Basturea

 * e-mail: cbasturea at gmail dot com
 * Y!M: cbasturea
 * AIM: cbasturea1

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Tsunami toll passes 80,000 people as relief effort continues

December 29, 2004

The death toll from the earthquake and tsunamis that has hit countries in Asia and Eastern Africa continues to rise, passing 80,000 people according to reports from several news agencies. A spokesman for the Red Cross speculated that the toll could increase to over 100,000 as some of the smaller islands in the Indian Ocean are checked, and a U.N. official said that the death toll might eventually approach 80,000 in Indonesia alone.

The immediate fatalities from the earthquake and resulting tsunamis are but a fraction of the total effect from the disaster. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 5 million people lack food, water or basic sanitation necessary for survival. Officials continue to struggle with burying the dead and delivering basic suvival provisions to the population in the coastal and island areas most hit by the disaster.

In depth

 * Strongest earthquake in 40 years hits Southeast Asia


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Wikinews talk:Tsunami Help/Translations

If anyone wants some help, please contact me at venu_smile@yahoo.co.in, or just message me at venu_smile at yahoo messenger. Thanks Venu.

Remember: en.wikinews.org is for articles written in the English language
This version of Wikinews is an English-language site. If you want to publish news in other languages, please consider starting a Wikinews project in that different language. Articles written in non-English languages may be nominated for deletion. -- Davodd | Talk 14:15, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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Wikinews talk:Tsunami Help/Aid Agencies, Donations & Volunteers

Could someone review and integrate contents from Aid Agencies & Donations?

I am not sure how it happened, but the two pages are kind of dupulicate.. Tomos 01:04, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Guys, we at TsunamiHelp.blogspot.com, are organising the editing efforts so that things don't get lost.

Please see TsunamiHelp.blogspot.com if you would like to contribute to this effort.


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Wikinews talk:Tsunami Help/Confirmed Deaths

The article linked from the Main Page, Strongest earthquake in 40 years hits Southeast Asia, includes a table on casualty figures. I think this page and that table should somehow be connected, so that people can use this page as a kind of primary information-gathering place, and a summary can go to that table. Tomos 01:23, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)


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Wikinews talk:Tsunami Help

General Comments

 * [TSunami help and feelings sharing]

Rest in peace to all the souls who lost their lives in the Tsunami. Prayers to the families with lost loves. -D.

NPOV, format problems
Please read Writing an article for ways to write appropriate content for this site. Davodd | Talk 22:45, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Via IRC chat late Saturday, most of the issues have been solved for now... and resulted in the new design and overhaul. -- Davodd | Talk 09:29, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * All problems have been sorted out, discussion removed. Be sure to follow  Writing an article when writing content.  Make sure all articles have a NPOV.  --Randy Johnston 00:17, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Is everyone happy?
I have read relevant discussions at Water cooler, Deletion requests, and SEA-EAT bloggers' project mailing list discussions. I am not sure if the current revision of this page is what people can agree on.

Here are suggestions that I think is acceptable to most of us.

 * 1) Remove emphasis on latest news coverage. We already have 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami for that. Link and explanation is enough.
 * 2) Emphasize Tsunami Help contents, those listed in the menu, and give brief overview on each item.
 * 3) Make a clear notice that this is "a special project" as accepted by the Wikinews community.
 * 4) *This way, we do not worry about giving readers false assumptions that these are well within the range of contents that's accepted at Wikinews.
 * 5) Create several project pages such as About Tsunami Help, and Tsunami Help contributors, Tsunami Help contacts, Tsunami Help in media for the information that existed before, if desirable.
 * 6) * (I change the pagenames to Tsunami Help/About and the like based on Davodd's suggestion. Tomos 08:18, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC))

Tomos 12:45, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Sensible. :-) TaranRampersad 14:43, 2 Jan 2005
 * I am happy with what we have now, with a few changes. I wouldn't be bothered if we have to keep it the way it is, but I agree we need to focus a bit more on Help topics, not news and statistics.  --Randy Johnston 19:49, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

This is not a bad idea, but not the Wikinews namespace. We should have a Project: namespace, or similar, for in-depth and more permanent wikinews structures. Justification: Tsunami Help is not an exclusive Wikinews project, but a Wikinews supported project; Wikinews namespace should be reserved for policy, guidelines, and management of the Wikinews site. - Amgine 02:33, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I agree that something like TshunamiHelp: namespace would be nice. But the system does not currently support it, if I understand correct. Or are you saying we should use namespace-like prefix to page names, and place those contents in article namespace? I am not totally against it, but I am not sure if others will agree with it.

In any case, It seems there is no strong objection so far, and we can move pages if desirable/necessary later, so I will go ahead and create some.

Further comments are appreciated. Tomos 02:53, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, the system *does* support extra name spaces. They need to be configured manually, but they can be added, up to 100 name spaces (half that many if you include Namespace talk:) - Amgine 06:15, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * May I suggest Wikinews:Special:Tsunami Help/x for the time being? -- Davodd | Talk 06:23, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Davodd idea sounds fine. So I will move some pages to there. Tomos 08:18, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Tomos, if you intend to use a Special page for Tsunami Help, please provide a redirect for the existing pages OR please create the new pages in that space and give a warning on the [SEA-EAT-Volunteers discussion list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/seaeatvolunteers/], so that we have time to change the URLs on the [main blog http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/]. Thank you. - CBasturea 03:44, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, I will pay attention to it. Tomos 04:59, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

So far, here is what I did. In the future,
 * Tsunami Help/Contributors - page was made into a redirect to this talk page (and the visitors would find nothing relevant).
 * Now the content is at Tsunami Help/Contributors. An appropriate redirect is placed.
 * Tsunami Help/How we've helped - page was made into a redirect to this talk page (and the visitors would find nothing relevant).
 * Now the content is at Tsunami Help/How we've helped. An appropriate redirect is placed.
 * Some text from Tsunami Help was also previously moved to this talk page.
 * Now the text is located at Tsunami Help/About using that text.
 * Tsunami Help/Translation moved to Tsunami Help/Translation.
 * If people agree I will move Tsunami Help/Tsunami Blog In The Media to Tsunami Help/In the Media. This page is currently listed at Deletion requests, and I am waiting people's opinions.
 * There will be a separate navigation template for those pages that start with "Wikinews:"

The basic idea, though I think it would sound too obvious to some experienced wikimedians, is that those pages have to do with project management, and meant to be for editors and contributors, not for regular readers.

They are also a place to explain the relation between Wikinews and SEA EAT blog. Tomos 04:59, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * I think moving things to the Wikinews: (or perhaps a Projects: namespace for future use, although personally I'd support policy to make sure that this sort of thing doesn't happen again), is a good solution to the problem, and one that I now support. Lankiveil 05:31, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC).

Navigational template
I went to IRC, and suggested to restore navigational box. User:Randy_Johnston, User:Amgine, and User:BalaPitchandi was there.

I wanted to see navigational box for Tsunami Help pages to be restored,

Nobody objected, and Amgine was working on a new template. We did not discuss the details of the template.

I am reporting this discussion so that others can understand what's discussed, what's not, if there is a room for alternative, etc. Feel free to express your opinions here or on IRC.

(Also, if you were in the discussion and find my reporting not correct, please feel free to make corrections.)

Tomos 23:54, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The navigational box on sub-pages is most required. It is hard to get back to previous page or main menu without it. Please restore it ASAP. Thanks!

Ganesh 00:00, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Amgine was caught up by other Wikimedia project needs, so I am actually doing that. Your help would really be appreciated :-) ! Tomos 00:24, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I have to admit that after looking at the old template that was once removed, I could not find anything particularly problematic. So I ended up simply re-inserting it. I was not there when people discussed on IRC on the use of the navigational template, so I did not understand what should be changed. Let me clarify that I am in no way advocating that the current template is the best, and am interested in seeing some changes that other people thought desirable on IRC, or anyone else who has a better idea.

I asked others on IRC what needs to be changed, but they were all busy, and having that template was at least better than nothing for now, some said. Tomos 02:11, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Is there any problem with the Image Galleries page? It has dissapeared from the main menu, and I was wondering if it's possible to be restored. Thank you. CBasturea

 * I personally see no problem restoring it. If anything, Wikipedia (not Wikinews yet) has the general rule that it is not a link repository. So giving some kind of review on what's available would be better than simple link collection. (And I am suggesting that it is nice if someone does that, not necessarily urging you to do it.) Others may have different opinion. Perhaps we can restore first and wait for others to express their opinions/ alternative solutions? Tomos 04:09, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * That would be great. Meanwhile, I'll talk to my colleagues and see if we could add a short review/description of each link. CBasturea Jan 3, 2005 05:08 (UTC)

 * Agree the gallery section with reviews would be useful, but we could also build a gallery of PD/GFDL/copyright with permission graphics on http://commons.wikimedia.org/ This may be more useful for Wikinews, since those graphics would then also be stock photos for illustrating wikinews articles. Galleries on commons are directly linkable by Wikinews. - Amgine 06:19, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Okay I added the link to that page to the navigational box. Regarding Commons, there is already a page there, and I inserted a short reference to there at the beginning of the page. Hope it works. Tomos 08:46, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Disclaimers
On IRC, along with issue, we discussed if we need disclaimer. Again, just to make discussion public and open to other people to participate, I am reporting it here.

Here are pros and cons about it.

 * Some of contents are not presented from neutral point of view, but it is difficult to solve that issue by trying to neutralize it or placing NPOV warning.
 * A shorter version of discaimer would not hurt.

 * We need to source all the information rather than relying on disclaimer.
 * Tsunami Help pages do not need disclaimers any more than other pages on Wikinews.
 * It is discouraging for readers to face disclaimer.

We all had different opinions how much it's needed. Randy thinks we don't need disclaimers except for aid agency pages. I think we need them on many more pages. Amgine and Bala thinks it is good to have a shorter disclaimer. Randy and I agree with it.

This issue needs more discussion, I sense. Please feel free to suggest your idea. Tomos 00:04, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * For the charity pages we built a template based on Tomos's text: Template:Charity_disclaimer. For other pages with precise information (such as the telephone pages) a single-sentence disclaimer on a case-by-case basis such as "Although this information is believed to be correct at the moment it is published, the ongoing nature of this news item makes it impossible to guarantee the veracity of the information." - Amgine 00:35, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Use of talk pages and IRC
On IRC, along with issue, we discussed the use of talk pages and IRC.

We all agreed that publicizing discussion is good so that people can agree or disagree with the ideas discussed, opinions expressed, etc. regarding the discussion that have took place on IRC. (So I am reporting it here.)

Also, we agreed that talk pages should be used more to address any concerns, suggest alternatives, etc.

So I would say feel free to make suggestions here or on any other pages. I would also encourage people to report/inquire about IRC discussions. IRC is a nifty tool that allow us quick intensive interactions. But it is not our interest to exclude people and make decisions look like they are made in a closed room.

Tomos 00:14, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't think IRC is the correct place to set Wikinews policy since there is no record kept of IRC chats on Wikimedia servers as proof of converations. Also since IRC has limited participation (and varies from minute-to-minute), it is an unreliable indicator of the community attitude. -- Davodd | Talk

 * I think we're all in agreement with this, Davodd. This is why the discussions are being reported here. Not everyone is familiar (yet) with the discussion page conventions. - Amgine 00:31, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you for taking the lead on this in educating the new community members. -- Davodd | Talk 00:35, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Checking In
I am just checking in. Is this the best place for wikinews volunteers to communicate, or on socialtext?

 * Hello. Welcome to Wikinews. Wikinews people can be best reached on Wikinews. This page is good. Other page to bring up a discussion is Water cooler. Tomos 02:12, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Yes, excellent place to communicate. Use to sign your notes. - Amgine 02:14, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

News mentions of SEA EAT's efforts on Wikinews
As I was creating the Making news page, I stumbled across two news stories written specifially about SEA EAT and the Wikines effort:

I thought contributors here who haven't seen the articles may be interested in them. Great job all. -- Davodd | Talk 02:23, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Cool! have those been added to the Template:THsources? nevermind, I didn't add that to the article yet. - Amgine 06:21, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Neutrality issue
Randy Johnston, BalaPitchandi, and I had some talk on neutrality issue. I think Randy and I (along with many experienced wikimedians, I assume) share concerns about how to achieve neutrality better.

What's done:
 * Someone (sorry that I could not remember) posted basics of Wikinews to Tsunami Help bloggers' project mailinglist.
 * On that mailing list, I posted a report on potential/existing problem of Tsunami Help pages with Wikinews policies, conventions, etc. along with possible solutions that I personally saw. Neutrality is at the top of the list.
 * I saw BalaPitchandi making the post and introduced the neutrality policy again.

What could be done:
 * 1) Site-wide campaign using some MediaWiki: name space - like the fund-drive campaign Wikipedia and other projects have done. But this will affect the whole site.
 * 2) Create a page Welcome Tsunami Help contributors and give a brief guidance on how Wikinews works. And greet people editing Tsunami Help pages with a link to that page.
 * 3) Use a talk page to give extra notice.

Randy and I were kind of in agreement the second option would be the best. Tomos 02:24, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * I have started this at User:Amgine/Sandbox, I think. - Amgine 06:23, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Does existing content need to be 'neutralized'? If so I am willing to start on that immediately. Please point me to a section. Toni
 * Try looking at Tsunami Help pages, but please be very careful not to bite the volunteers! They are quite new to this, and need educating and help. - Amgine 21:04, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * I do feel bitten and told to go away. I understand the initial concern about the presence of Tsunami Help on WikiNews and appreciate the 2 groups coming together to sort this out. But the environment created by one or two Wiki news admins (I think you call them) continues to be patronising and unwelcoming of newbies. The removal of discussion in the midst of discussion is a case in point. A newcomer like me tries to work out what is going on by reading the "meta pages" such as Water Cooler and the discussion/Talk pages related to key pages. Then find that the discussion has been snipped in the middle of such discussion, viz the Water Cooler and the removal of the Wikinews has been highkacked by Tsunami Help posting. Thank goodness for the history function of wiki pages otherwise I might feel that I just imagined it. Even a small note of appreciation I put on about WikiNews generosity on the Tsunami Help discussion page was deleted. I have never experienced anything like this on a wiki before and I've used a lot and developed and currently manage one. Now I'm just tidying up a bit before I head off. It has been a great learning experience. Again I can appreciate that you guys felt overwhelmed by the start up Tsunami Help and did your best to deal with the issue. Thank you for making and continuing to make the space available. And please note this is just my personal response - I'm sure other Tsunami help contributors have different experiences and I in no way speak for the main TSunami help group who I think are working with you to improve this space for all in a way that meets needs on both sides. But my first taste of Wiki News tells me that this wiki is not for me. A suggestion, if it is of any use, is that it would be a good idea to have a side link "for newbies" kind of thing that sets out exactly what your expectations are, as admins/owners of Wiki News, of contributors so that everyone knows what they are in for and what the kind of rules/etiquettes codes are. For example here's some early wiki writings which have always appealed to me, but maybe its's just a personal thing that attracts me to such writings - http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiSocialNorms, http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?BehavioralNorms Susanlocke 4 Jan 2005

 * Hello. I have to admit that there are problems and misunderstandings, etc. Many of active wikinews participants were caught in surprise, I think, and became alert. And as one of active Wikinews participants, I am sorry for what you've experienced. But the particular case of removing the discussion from Wikinews:Watercooler was certainly not meant to stop you from talking, as far as I can see. The archiving was done as a result of request here Water_cooler. And if you wanted to discuss the topic, you could simply restore that section and add your comment. Perhaps this is not enough to change your mind, and problems do exist that Wikinews participants (including me) carring a lot of implicit conventions from Wikipedia and other projects without clear explanations... But it does not mean that you have to follow those conventions or leave the project. You can ask why things are done certain way, can suggest alternatives, and if some user is rather rude, get attention from others.
 * It may be too obvious to you, or maybe not, but our "administrators" do not make policies and rules. It's eveyone's right (and duty) to participate in concensus building, based on which this wiki is run. And active participants are hardly monolithic.
 * Well, but if you have decided to leave the project, thank you for the final feedback. Tomos 12:42, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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Republicans Subpoenaed in Ohio Recount

Voters in Ohio, alleging evidence of voter fraud in the presidential election, subpoenaed several leading Republicans as part of a challenge of the election results. Ohio Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, President George W. Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney and White House Political Advisor Karl Rove were subpoenaed for depositions December 28th and 29th in a challenge supported by the Reverend Jesse Jackson. Blackwell has refused to appear, claiming in a court filing that he is not required to be interviewed since he is a high-ranking public official. The lawyer for the other three officials claims that his clients were not properly served the subpoenas.

The deposition was part of a lawsuit filed at the Ohio Supreme Court challenging the results of the U.S. presidential election in that state. A multi-party recount effort completed on December 28 showed a 300 vote difference between the initial and final tallies, but failed to answer questions about irregularities in the voting process such as shortages of voting machines in minority precincts, problems with electronic voting machines, and statistical improbabilities in reported vote tallies.

In his court filing, Blackwell further called those asking questions about the vote engaging in 'frivolous conduct' and making too many requests of election officials around the state. Republican Blackwell, as Secretary of State, assigns all members, directors and deputy directors of the precinct boards of elections that run the elections in the state. Challengers to the voting process have questioned whether these boards were adequately run as bipartisan operations, suggesting that since the boards owe Blackwell their jobs, this could have established a pattern of problems that favored Bush at Kerry's expense.

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Drug-dealers war in Rio de Janeiro

At least 11 people were killed Dec. 26 and 27 in neighborhood gang turf fights between drug dealers at shantytown "morro da Mineira" (Miner Hill) in the Catumbi neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The fight originated when Gilson Ramos da Silva, 21, a.k.a. "Gilson Aritana," a member of the ADA ("Amigos do Bairro") gang led other members into the "morro da Mineira" (Miner Hill) to sell  drugs, Ricardo Teixeira Dias, a local police official said.

The region is controlled by rival gang Comando Vermelho (Red Command), which does not approve of other gangs selling drugs in the region. Comando Vermelho members started attacking the rival members of ADA to protect their turf.

On Dec. 26, one man was killed and five others hurt in a gang gunfight with police. There was panic and several residents from the neighborhood could not get into their houses and were forced to seek shelter elsewhere. That afternoon, a burned body was found at Presidente Vargas Ave. near "Sambódromo" plaza not far from "morro da Mineira".

Police found seven beheaded and burned bodies at "morro da Mineira", in a dump area. The police arrived there after receiving an anonymous tip presumably from a resident of the neighborhood.

The police believe there are more dead at nearby "morro do Zinco" (Zinc Hill) neighborhood. The morning of Dec. 27, Anderson Santos de Oliveira, 21, was killed by the police in a gunfight. The police said he was carrying a .38 calibre pistol, a 380 pistol and marijuana. By 4:00 P.M. Luciano da Costa Pinto, 22, had also been killed by police in a different incident where police recovered rifles and drugs.

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User talk:Nehavish

Hi. Thank you for joining Wikinews, and helping organizing information about Tsunami disaster relief efforts.

I was just thinking that it might make more sense to place those by-country agency list pages under Tsunami Help, like Tsunami Help/Aid agencies/India. But I was not completely sure of your intents, so I am asking you first rather than doing it myself.

If you are using the default (Monobook) skin, you can rename/move a page by cliking a tab "move" at the top of the page and follow instructions.

Tomos 07:04, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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India issued tsunami warning, nothing happened

This is news coverage of an ongoing event, information may change rapidly, and some information may be outdated

30 December 2004 (Updated 0920 CET)

Indian government issued today a tsunami warning after a new earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richters scale. Indian citizens fled the area warned. Tsunamis are associated with quakes larger than 7.5 on the Richters scales. It should not be a surprise nothing happened today. The catastrophic quake that caused the fatal tsunamis was measured to 9 on the same scale. 7,000 Indian citizens are confirmed dead after the first quake.

In Thailand, rumours about a new Tsunami is causing panic among the several thousand already injured.


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Wikinews talk:WeatherChecker

Please add an entry for the 1.5 changes (I'm not sure how the number in parenthesis to the right of the version number is generated).

I added comments in the commit that describe the changes.

— DV 17:31, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * New version installer is posted on the web site, changes added to the page. The version number comes from the binary itself — right-click on the file and look at the Version tab. It's in a format a.b.c.d where a and b are set in AssemblyInfo.cs, and c and d are automatically generated every time you rebuild. c is the number of days since January 1, 2000, and d is the number of seconds since midnight GMT, divided by two. -- IlyaHaykinson 21:02, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

v1.7 updated on the website, but note that the screenshot is quite sucky until capescience comes back up and I can take a better screenshot. -- IlyaHaykinson 02:43, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Amsterdam
Would it be possible to add Amsterdam and/or Brussels and/or Paramaribo to the map as these are the three capitals of the Dutch speaking countries. Amsterdam and Brussels would be a bit to close to eachother maybe .... But the area aroun Paramaribo is wide open on the map. Waerth 23:11, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * I replied on Waerth's user talk page over on Dutch Wikinews. — DV 02:01, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Moscow
Would it be possible to add Moscow to the map of Europe? "Europe is bounded to the east by the Ural Mountains" (Europe). --195.225.128.43 16:27, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm planning on posting a regional map of Asia in the next day or so, which will have Moscow on its westernmost edge.

 * However, I'll try decreasing the magnification used for the regional map for Europe a bit, and scooting the origin over a touch to the east, to include Moscow. However, if the decrease in magnification causes other cities to begin overlapping, such as London and Amsterdam, a tradeoff would then have to be made to either omit one of the cities that are too close to another, or back off of including Moscow in the regional map for the whole of Europe.

 * Here's another idea - how about two additional maps that subdivide the regional map for Europe into Western Europe and Eastern Europe? Moscow would appear in the Eastern Europe map, plus there would be the added benefit of London and Amsterdam not being so close to overlapping each other. These maps could also contain more cities. I would still continue to post the map for the entire European region as well - the Western and Eastern maps would serve as additional sub-regions to allow more detail.

 * — DV 16:52, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

WeatherChecker name
I'm afraid you have to consider a name change. WeatherChecker is already taken. See and here. Wcheck maybe ? --Leopard 18:33, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I can't speak for Ilya, but my sense is that he doesn't want to change the name unless there is a more serious objection.

 * I'm kinda on the fence about whether it's worth the bother.

 * By the way, the entry for "WeatherChecker", on the page pointed at by the first link, appears to be dead.

 * The second link points to a download for what appears to be a "redirect" app which sends users to a page on the commercial Weather.com web site after they enter a zip code.

 * According to Google, "Wcheck" is an even more common name, so I'm not sure we can use that one either.

 * Do you have any other creative ideas for the name?

 * — DV 07:02, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Legally, unless the name is a registered trademark, nothing is stopping anyone else from calling their application the same thing. I highly doubt that the mac applet in question is or would ever be a registered trademark. As the proper full name of the application we've been working on is "Wikinews WeatherChecker", I would not be too concerned. If someone has a brilliant name, it's a different story though. But renaming our source code and changing URLs for a minor app that hasn't been maintained for three years isn't something that's really important, in my opinion. -- IlyaHaykinson 10:19, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Some little problems
I appreciate your effort so far on this project, it's excellent work. But there are a few issues that are really bugging me about this project:

 * Thanks for the feedback. I replied to your comments inline... — DV 08:28, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * A user-based system is awkward and unwieldy.
 * Why not try a server-based automated system? It will save everyone the hassle of falling over each other to provide weather updates and shouldn't be too much of a processing load.

 * Unfortunately, the Wikimedia servers are overburdened as it is, and the MediaWiki software used on those servers for the Wiki projects is a delicate software environment for which it is quite involved to add any new features, no matter how small.

 * This state of affairs makes it unlikely that we will ever be able to convince the Wikimedia developers to agree to server-side controls to dynamically present the weather maps.

 * As for the hassle of providing updates, if it wasn't evident, no one is manually updating the weather anymore. Hourly weather map images are automatically generated and posted by a bot which runs on my local machine.

 * WeatherChecker resets a countdown timer after each report is posted, and repeats the hourly cycle unattended.

 * On the WeatherChecker client sites for all languages of Wikinews, the RC logs show WeatherChecker updates under the user name "WeatherBot".

 * The weather maps aren't consistently updated every hour of the day, 24 hours a day, because the Wikimedia servers are overburdened and not very reliable, often refusing the connection or timing out during busy periods of the day, so WeatherBot only runs for limited stretches of time without interruption.

 * When the Wikimedia servers refuse a connection or timeout, WeatherChecker must be manually shut down and restarted. Once I add an exception handler to WeatherChecker to allow it to recover and continue from these refused connections and timeouts, it should be able to run indefinitely. — DV 08:28, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Using .NET/C# is fairly questionable for a GPL project.
 * Even discarding the proprietary machinations behind .NET, C# doesn't have much of a following in Linux, or even on Windows systems that haven't downloaded the latest MS updates. Why not try something more accessible?

 * I agree with your point about supporting Linux. I'd also like to support Mac. If it's any consolation, the Mono project is porting .NET to these platforms.

 * I'm an old school C/C++ developer, but I didn't know enough about how to implement the networking aspects of this project, so I decided to learn C# in order to collaborate with Ilya Haykinson, who started the WeatherChecker project in that language.

 * I concentrate on the mapping and graphics rendering, which is my specialty.

 * My experience is in the shrink-wrap software industry, so I only know how to write apps for Windows and Mac. I have no idea how to write software with a graphical user interface for Linux. I'm not sure if Ilya would be interested in porting the networking code over to Linux, but perhaps he will chime in.

 * If you know someone who'd like to port WeatherChecker to Java, or some other cross-platform environment other than Java, I'd be happy to answer any questions they might have about the user interface, mapping, or graphics rendering while pursuing such a project. — DV 08:28, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * The program seems to be built from a US-centric perspective.
 * The program also gives way too much weight to the Fahrenheit scale. -20, 0, 32, 50, 72, 90, 100, 110, 120 may be a reasonable sequence in that scale, but the conversions of -29, -17, 0, 10 22 32 38 43 48 in Celsius are completely unacceptable, especially considering that this is the scale that the world actually uses.  Also, it would apppear there's a bit of a SoCal bias in the temperature range.  -20F is polar?  Spend a winter in Minneapolis or Regina sometime.  The scale should be recalibrated to give Celsius measurements authority (-40, -30, -20, -10, 0, 10, 20, 30, 40 if you want to keep nine different colours).

 * You're the first person to suggest a different set of intervals for the Celsius scale. I didn't realize that Celsius users were used to ten degree intervals. Isn't room temperature 22 degrees in Celsius? (It's 72 degrees in Fahrenheit.) There's no reason why the intervals used for the Celsius and Fahrenheit scales need to match one for one, so I'll be happy to change it if you think ten degree intervals are more commonly used. By the way, the BBC appears not to use ten degree intervals on their Celsius temperature scale - please see BBC Weather — DV 08:28, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * The North America map is proof positive. Fargo is a data point instead of Winnipeg?  Moosonee instead of Montreal?  Why doesn't Toronto have a point?  This leads me into my next point...

 * We can select from a large list of stations (representing cities) which report to NOAA. If you would like to help revise the selection of cities, please feel free to make more suggestions. If your favorite cities are available, and don't overlap other cities which are nearby, I will add them.

 * (Or, if you'd like to create a city selection using WeatherChecker yourself to see which cities are available and whether they overlap or not, please let me know and I will be happy to walk you through any installation and user issues.) — DV 08:28, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Data points appear to be inflexible.
 * The tool's usefulness as a standalone program are greatly diminished if it cannot mix and match different combinations of data points. Then again, people changing the data points from update to update adds another level of awkwardness to the piecemeal updating model.

 * The selection of cities/stations is not static. The selection is stored in an XML document which can be modified by WeatherChecker users on the fly, to incorporate requests as they come in. The code does not need to be modified to select different cities. — DV 08:28, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * The data itself is inflexible.
 * Temperatures are nice, but it might be nice to include current weather conditions at the data points. Maybe a cloud cover mosaic from satellite data?

 * We have much more data than temperature readings available - there is also cloud cover, wind speed, precipitation and other readings available for each station. I plan to enhance the maps to show sunny, cloudy, snowy, and other readings as soon as possible. Later on, I will add barometric pressure and wind speed if there is demand for it.

 * Overlaying cloud cover on the map is an interesting idea, but I'm still working on adding the cartographic projection support that would make it possible to import satellite images and conform them to the projections used to present the weather maps on Wikinews. I recently downloaded an impressive library of source code from USGS that was ported from Fortran to C for this purpose. — DV 08:28, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Please bear in mind this was entirely intended to be constructive-- some ideas for you to consider for future developments. Best Regards, Alexwcovington 14:20, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks again for your feedback. — DV 08:28, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Is there a way to add Guatemala or get a map of Guatemala by itself?

Regards

Regions
Hello! I do not know if there is still someone mantaining this porgram, but I would like to know if "Region Definition" screen works. I have tried to change the map into a new one by clicking and dragging the map but it did not work. Have I done something wrong or this function is not available. --SMP 17:43, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi. I don't believe that anyone maintains this program any longer. Sorry! -- IlyaHaykinson 17:50, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

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MN4 2004 asteroid now considered safe

December 29 United States - According to NASA's Near Earth Object Program, 2004 MN4's assessed risk has been corrected downward to zero on the Torino scale. The Torino scale is the current method by which astronomers classify the likelihood of an impact with a near-Earth object.

A score of zero means that the possibility of a collision between the asteroid and Earth has been ruled out of consideration.

2004 MN4 was once tentatively estimated as having the highest potential of any asteroid to hit the Earth. Its risk was first calculated as 2 out of 10 on the Torino scale.

This rank was upgraded to Level 4 Dec. 24, giving it the highest score ever for a near-Earth asteroid. It was considered to have a 1 in 37 chance of striking the Earth.

Upon discovery of previously recorded sightings of the same asteroid, its estimated flight path was corrected and found to miss the Earth entirely, outside of the margin of error. The asteroid will, however, make one of the closest passes of Earth ever seen.

It will pass close enough to the Earth's for the planet's gravitational field to influence the asteroid's orbital pattern. However, NASA's current risk analysis for the asteroid indicates that "no subsequent Earth encounters in the 21st century are of any concern."

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User:Khaosworks

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Khaosworks

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Democrats ask GAO for election review

House Democrats called for an investigation into possible voting fraud and irregularities during the 2004 U.S. presidential election, according to a Dec. 23 letter from House Representative David Wu (D-OR).

Thousands of Ohio citizens have reported experiencing problems casting their votes due to long lines at polling places, malfunctioning voting machines, inexplicable numbers of votes cast, and disenfranchisement in urban areas.

"The integrity of our democracy is at stake. We need to give the American people confidence that each and every vote will be properly counted and that the democratic electoral process is respected," Wu said. "I also understand concerns about the conflict of interest of having an official in charge of running elections in a key state also heading a presidential campaign. I agree that Ohio Secretary of State Blackwell's dual role calls into question any election decision he made that favored Republicans."

Other Congressmen including John Conyers (D-MI), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), and Robert Wexler (D-FL) voiced similar concerns, and requested an investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), citing specific cases in Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, and California.

In December, Conyers, the Ranking Democrat on the House Committee on the Judiciary, issued a series of letters about voting irregularities to the media, campaign officials, and manufacturers of voting equipment. These letters seek to collect and preserve information regarding the conduct of the election.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office previously reported on voting irregularities in eariler presidential elections.

A September 14, 2004 GAO report on the 2000 presidential elections detailed changes the DOJ implemented to try to ensure voter access to polls, and the importance of monitoring election-day activities. The report warned that allegations in the 2000 election lacked sufficient specifics to enable the DOJ to perform and adequate investigation and recommended that more precise information be collected regarding voting for the 2004 presidential election.

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User talk:209.89.192.93

hi.. who's this??

we retired this page quite a while back..

all the info on aid agencies is now heing moved here.. http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Tsunami_Help/Aid_Agencies

can you please ping me at nehavish@yahoo...

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Talk:Drug-dealers war in Rio de Janeiro

Needs some serious edits to language. A suggested first paragraph: Between Sunday the 26th and Monday the 27th, at least 11 people were killed in a fight between drug dealers at "favela morro da Mineira"(Miner Hill shantytown), a shantytown in the Catumbi neighborhood, the northern region of Rio de Janeiro, a major city in Brazil.

Image: A boy watches a burned victim of the drug-related violence.

Oh, one more thing: I don't think there's a police commissary involved in the story... perhaps you meant commissioner?
 * I am not sure how to say the word in English. In Portuguese we say "delegado", when whe want to mean the chief of the police. It is the guy with a star in the western movies.--Carlosar 01:22, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Another thing: do you know hte meaning of "Sambódromo"? It is the place where there are samba schools parade in Brazilian Carnival. If you think it is necessary you could write what "Sambodromo" means in English, since your writing is better than mine. -- Carlosar 01:22, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Very good
The article is very good. Thank you for everyone! -- Carlosar 13:24, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

(Carlosar 16:23, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC))I have changed the line: ...neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's largest city to: neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I did that because the largest city of Brazil is São Paulo:
 * São Paulo: 10 838 581 inhabitants
 * Rio de Janeiro: 5 857 90 inhabitants

Source: IBGE (statistic data government Brazilian agency)

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Wikinews talk:Tsunami Help/Aid Agencies

How can the reader confirm that the address is correct for "The Prime Minister's Office", or that this is a legitimate relief fund?

I'm trying not to be overly cynical, but I'm wary of someone posting a plea for money from an anonymous IP address.

If the original editors can not provide a verifiable source, in the form of a link to a well known (or at least verifiable) web site, to allow the reader to check out whether this is legitimate or not, I recommend deleting the "Prime Minister request" portion of the article.

— DV 06:36, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I think deleting the page was not good, so I placed a warning and other information that reader can use to make choices. Tomos 09:50, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Outstanding tasks regarding Aid Agencies information.

 * (still ongoing) There are now three pages listing mostly overlapping information. Aid Agencies & Donations, Tsunami Help/Aid Agencies, Donations & Volunteers, & by-country pages under Tsunami Help/Aid Agencies. I suggest that pages for individual countries be the place to gather all information, and the first two be retired.
 * Done : South America, Europe, Canada, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Seychelle (no info), Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Middle East
 * Not done: India, Indonesia, United States, Major International Agencies, Online Donation Links, Other Donation Links, Volunteering and Specific Requests
 * (done) Proper warning should be given to readers regarding the nature of information. I suggest to use Template:Tsunami Warranty Disclaimer, but the design and wording could be improved.
 * (still ongoing) Format should be improved. I tried it at: Tsunami Help/Aid Agencies/Sri Lanka
 * (mostly not done yet) I think it is better to break down agencies by its types like, after looking at Tsunami Help/Aid Agencies/United States and Canada.

Tomos 20:35, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I added progress indication at the top of the items. Tomos 06:11, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Action Against Hunger
Dear Editor of Wikinews:

Please add Action Against Hunger to your list of major international aid agencies.

We have been active reponding to disasters since 1979. You can verify our credibility with Guidestar, Charity Navigator, and the Better Business Bureau as long as through the financial reports available on our website. Please email me at jws@aah-usa.org if you have any questions.

Thank you to immediately address this situation.

Best,

John Sauer Comm. Manager

Info on Action Against Hunger

Action Against Hunger 247 West 37th Street, Suite 1201 New York, NY 10018 877-777-1420 www.actionagainsthunger.org

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Gregoire wins Washington state's closest ever governor's race

After two machine counts and a manual recount, Secretary of State Sam Reed declared Democrat Christine Gregoire the governor-elect of Washington State.

However, this result was contested by Republican Dino Rossi, who is asking for a new election.

This election was the closest in state history. In the first count, Dino Rossi won by 261 votes. Under state law, this is considered "too close to call" and a recount is required. After this first recount, Rossi's lead was shortened to 42 votes. Because this was even closer, Gregoire and other Democrats raised approximately $800,000 to hold a statewide manual recount. She won this by only 129 votes, out of a total of 2.8 million.

To ensure fairness and accuracy in the hand recount, teams of Republican and Democratic counters worked together in the counting. They were watched over by observers, who were free to stop the count if they had a question or concern.

Rossi has threatened on several occasions to file a lawsuit in the state Supreme Court. He also has asked Gregoire to agree to a runoff election.

"This ain't golf," Gregoire's spokesman said. "No mulligans allowed here, folks."

Any runoff election would have to be approved by the Legislature, which is controlled by the Democrats.


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Template talk:Tsunami Relief Effort

I think chaning the navigation box into Chinese is a good idea, since this is English Wikinews, and information is basically for people who can read English...

But incase chinese version is necessary for some reason, I will make a copy at Template:Tsunami Relief Effort ZH as it was once created. Tomos 20:49, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Double car bombing attack in Mosul kills 26

With a Friday dump truck car bombing that left a massive crater and many dead, Iraqi insurgents frontally assaulted U.S. troops in Mosul, Iraq. Initial reports showed 25 Iraqis and one U.S. soldier dead. (As of this writing, additional information on the bombing was expected.)

Sophisticated attack
Attacking a soldier on patrol close to a U.S. outpost, the insurgents had two bomb vehicles. The first bomb attack was designed to draw out U.S. support troops while the second bomb vehicle in conjunction with mortars and rockets was intended to overrun the American outpost.

As reinforcements arrived, U.S. forces came under automatic weapon and rocket-propelled grenade fire, Staff Sgt. Don Dees, a military spokesman, said.

The Americans suffered approximately 15 U.S. casualties in addition to the dead before U.S. air strikes forced the insurgents to retreat, Lieutenant Colonel Paul Hastings, U.S. military spokesman said.

Lack of control in Mosul
Mosul is Iraq's third-largest city and has become a hotbed of insurgent activity in the past several months. The U.S. military has conceded it is not in control of some parts of Mosul and plans to send more troops for the upcoming election scheduled for Jan. 30.

This latest clash comes as the U.S. has begun a new push in the so-called "triangle of death" south of the capital, attempting to secure the region in the lead-up to the elections.