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Wikinews talk:Fair use

Hiya.

As mentionned on the foundation mailing list, this policy seems very reasonable to me. I am happy you found a solution to be able to upload images necessary to illustrate wikinews articles... all while limiting related risks with competitors. Good luck. Anthere 02:44, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Other fair use categories
Could music album and book cover images be considered as fair use? Another case that could be safely be considered fair use is when a site has it's own statement about fair use, for instance:
 * «Fair use of copyrighted material includes the use of protected Material(s) for limited, purely non-commercial education purposes, such as teaching, scholarship, research, criticism, commentary and news reporting.» (quoted from ).

--Ascánder 14:51, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

 * It depends on the source of the images, I suppose. Publishers usually make available book covers for press and retailers as part of their press kits. In this case they are covered as publicity shots. I am unsure about album covers; I don't know if the recording industries regularly make them available as part of the press kits. - Amgine/talk 14:59, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

I'm not a 100% sure if this is publicity.
I copied image:DonBrash.png from wikipedia, and i think its would fall under publicity, but i'm not 100% sure. Could someone please tell me if it is, so I know for sure. thanks. Bawolff 23:08, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Looks like Publicity to me. -- User:NGerda 23:17, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

currency??
Currency is listed as a dropdown choice. Its not listed here. What gives? Bawolff ☺☻ 20:54, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Currency? that shouldn't be a listed licensure... -  Amgine | talk 22:20, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Rationale
What exactly does "state a fair use rationale" in the image mean? DragonFire1024 08:07, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

Shortcut
I have created a shortcut WN:EDP which is redirected to this page. The terminology brings us inline with foundation terminology and therefore should also be listed in the shortcuts at the top of the page - Cartman02au (Talk)(AU Portal) 06:52, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Flaw in EDP
If the Fair use policy/EDP was left the way it was, it could allow people to delete images and other multimedia content on archived pages, coming march 23, 2008. I understand there have been some complaints about that? :-)

Anyway, I don't think that this was an intended consequence, so I've added some language to mitigate the problem.

Feel free to integrate the alterations in a more wikinews-like manner. Be careful of simply reverting or removing them though, please discuss first!

See also: licensing policy (previously unsigned by User:Kim Bruning)

 * I'm afraid I strongly disagree that we can use archiving as a defence against images being against policy and copyright laws. It's important to note that any policy allowing the use of unfree image is based upon fair use being a defence "against accusations of copyright infringement". In print media can't change what they've published, we can, regardless of whether it has been archived. For this reason, it is technically possible for us to remove images which are against policy and infringe copyright so therefore we cannot legally defend keeping the images on archived articles. Adambro 20:56, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Adam, I have to disagree with you here. We have a publish window and the EDP should be applied within that. Beyond that lie dragons. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:07, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Adambro, does this mean that (according to you) maintaining online archives is an impossibility? --Kim Bruning 21:26, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * RE: Adambro: One, there is nothing on WN, or should not be, that violates copyright infringement. Our policy states that our archive is of a "historical" reference. I believe it is per WN:NOT. This policy was enacted long before my time on WN, or the image resolution. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 21:30, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * A few points, not favoring either position overall: Actual copyright infringement should be removed even if in the archives. However, it isn't clear to me why that concern would apply if we have a decent fair use argument for using an image. In those cases, it might make sense to leave it in the archive. We should keep in mind that what we consider acceptable fair use is in general stricter than what is in fact legally fair use. So as long as we have some fair use claim it isn't clear why we should take it out of the archive as long as no one has complained. The only counterargument is that the Foundation has said to minimize fair use and in any event once a picture is in the archive it isn't doing much. I'm also not terribly concerned that picture removal makes our archives not reflect what the articles looked like because the articles will be essentially identical except for images that were there will be not be. It isn't that uncommon for print when they upload old articles to be kept in archives to not include pictures. As far as I'm aware the New York Times hasn't included most of its images accompanying articles in their online archives. JoshuaZ 21:33, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * We don't strive to be the Times, or BBC, or whoever else. We strive to be different and unique. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 21:36, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I believe that we should have the current stories have this apply to it, but old (archived) stories should have the policies that were in force at their time of publish apply to them (unless there is leagl reasons/ actual copyright infringement) . Unfortunately, or at least last time I read the foundations licensing resolution, that is not allowed acording to the foundation. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:41, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * As far as I'm aware, a lot of leeway is permitted in the EDP (I asked Erik and Kat lots of questions when they wrote the licensing policy :-) ). Obviously true copyright violations are impossible, but otherwise if Wikinews would like to retain archives, and doesn't want to retroactively alter them, then that's a very defensible position. I'm pretty sure we can defend that position towards the board, if they were to want to ask questions about that. --Kim Bruning 22:21, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

 * I think if we, as the Wikinews community, are going to ignore a board resolution then it would be wise of us to a least inform them of this. I personally feel this is unacceptable and I suspect the board will agree, the idea of the resolution is in part to protect the WMF from legal accusations and Wikinews as a WMF has to respect this aim. Ultimately, the question the board will want to answer is would our claim that we can't remove an image with an invalid fair use claim simply because an article has been archived satisfy a potential copyright holder and stop them from accusing the WMF of copyright infringement.

 * "We strive to be different and unique", indeed we do, in that we are trying to create a freely licenced impartial news source. A key element of this is trying to use freely licensed images wherever possible and not using copyrighted materials where there is a poor justification, in this sense the board resolution completely complies with our aims.

 * I'm keen to hear the board's view on this issue and will look into what avenues are available to raise this with them. Adambro 23:02, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

 * I'd highlight the text at the top of the resolution which states, "The content of this page is an official policy approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. This policy may not be circumvented, eroded, or ignored on local Wikimedia projects." Adambro 23:04, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

I am no lawyer. And never will want to be one. My position on the current matter would be very logical and straightforward
 * 1) We should strive to keep archives unaltered as much as possible
 * 2) As a hosting provider, the WMF has to remove any illegal content from its servers in case it is informed of its presence. If we are informed of the presence of an invalid fair use claim, we should remove it. Even if it means altering an archive
 * 3) If the archive is altered, the image (for example) removed should be replaced by a "blank" image indicating that the original image had to be removed for xx reason.

Anthere 23:32, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for stating this in a reasonable and sane manner, I find no fault with your reasoning Anthere. Nobody wants to violate copyright or have our archiving policy attempt to trump legal obligations. We just want recognition that because we are a news source a picture may be fair use for the time the story using it appeared on the front page and not have that fair use rescinded 10 years down the line because someone gets a more free picture. I'm sure you appreciate that a picture that is not relatively current for the article could be quite misleading. --Brian McNeil / talk 23:44, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

 * Is anyone opposed to Brian McNeil's position? --Kim Bruning 16:42, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Remembering back to when the board first announced their policy, that was the general opinion among wikinewsie I belive. Bawolff ☺☻ 23:33, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Adambro, are you in accord with Bawolff and Brian McNeil? Can we proceed to work on an exception for archives in the EDP, taking into account the limitations mentioned by all of the above? --Kim Bruning 21:50, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

 * Per the comments from Anthere, I don't believe we should or can legally include any exemption in our EDP that prevents images with invalid fair use claims from being removed from archived articles. The only change that I feel might be worthwhile making to the EDP is to clarify that when use of an image is claimed as fair use it must be expected that the rationale will continue to be valid in the future. If in the rush to illustrate a story this isn't considered then this will only increase the chance that the image will have to be removed later after the article has been archived. Yes, Wikinews is different in that we deal with fast moving current events, but this doesn't mean we can use images under fair use if we can't find a free image. Fair use is on the basis that a freely licensed alternative is not available and cannot be created, practically ever. I don't really consider there should be many examples of "". If this means that we have to go without an image in an article then so be it. We're trying to create a free news source which is quite a unique aim and this brings with it some difficulties in some areas, we can't always illustrate our articles. I think something else we need to consider is what do we do when we have to remove images, simply remove them or replace them with a placeholder of some sort as Anthere suggests? Adambro 18:15, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Well first off, theres a difference between this policy, and the law (note IANAL). We have images that we have specific permission from copyright to only be used on Wikinews. this is an invalid thing under this policy, but perfectly legal for us to have and host. Most of this policy is much more strict then it legally needs to be, the proposed amendment would be— Images in the archive that could be uploaded and used in an article at time of upload, should not be removed or changed, unless we are required to under law. If it is a copyright violation, its gone before you can blink. As for what to do when removing an image, currently we've been replacing the image with another one if there is a similiar image (aka, copyrighted pict of George bush head, gets replaced with a non-copyrighted version) otherwise it is removed (generally). I think replacing them with an Image:This image no longer exists.jpg would be a good idea.
 * As a side note. Our original Image policy (before the foundation meddled in it) said that if a fair use image has a free replacement, regardless of quality of replacement, we must replace it, even if archived. Bawolff ☺☻ 01:16, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

fair use on non-articles
On wikipedia, Fiar use images can only be used on articles. think we should make it so that fair use can only be used on articles, portals, and categories. I belive that unlike wikipedia where portals are more for the contributors, portals here are like extensions of the main page, and should be treated as such. Categories are in the same boat, as they are often used as either mini-portals, or have a copy of the portal on them as the category ↔ portal relationship isn't very well defined (IMO). Bawolff ☺☻ 00:14, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Removed section
Kim Bruning added a section relating to archiving...

Archives

A page may consist of several objects, including images, or other multimedia.The wikinews fair use policy is not intended to deprecate the practice of archiving stories.

If an image or other multi-media file or document has been included on a page that has been archived according to the Archive conventions, the same archiving conventions logically also apply to the included image, file, or document. If we were to change such files past the archive date, then the page as a whole would end up altered, and the wikinews archives would be inaccurate.

I would like to see some version of this re-added to the policy. --Brian McNeil / talk 09:39, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

 * You'll see that this was previously discussed above. As I've said elsewhere recently, the archiving policy is not about making sure articles look the same, it is about making sure they read the same. This is very different and does not justify keeping unfree images in violation of the board's resolution and I'd suggest people read the archiving policy and the section on article stages on Wikinews on Meta. Only changing the text makes the archives inaccurate because we're archiving primarily to ensure that the text reflects what was known at the time, not later updates. Unless we change the archiving policy then no change to this policy is justified nor is wise since this should be in line with our other policies rather than the other way around. Adambro - (talk) 11:17, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

 * The truth is, I think we all agree fundamentally. Unfree images are allowed under our fair-use policy. Until a free alternative is found, those images with proper rationale attached should not be removed from archives. If some were, mistakenly, they should be restored. Others that are found to not have a proper fair-use rationale should be corrected, if possible, or deleted if not possible. Others images that may have had a valid fair-use rationale should be replaced with a free one, if one becomes available. This should all be done with a concern for preserving our archives in the best state possible (text and images). It seems to me our current EDP and archiving policy are consistent with the foundation's resolution. --Jcart1534 - (talk) 12:10, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

My reading of the debate above is that Adambro was the only person objecting to an archiving statement (at the risk of putting words into Adambro's mouth, because he could not be convinced that the addition was consistent with the law or the Board Resolution.) A year on, is it time to restore an archiving statement to the EDP? --InfantGorilla (talk) 20:51, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Okay, what if a non-free image is a subject of the article
Okay, so Wikipedia got blocked in the UK because of that stupid Scorpions album cover. An album cover is technically not a logo, publicity photograph, or work of the British government - but the story is specifically about the cover.

What do we do about that? Under my definition, an album cover is NOT a logo, its an artwork. ViperSnake151 (talk) 15:55, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Why would that make any difference to showing it being a case of fair use? For Wikinews the biggest no-no is pics from competing news sources. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:21, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

 * Because for some stupid reason we have to use one of the templates for FU. That policy really needs looked at. Anyway, what I propose is something like, which would come out with 'this image is directly discussed in the article as part of the subject, and therefore qualifies as Fair Use blah blah". Thoughts?  Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 16:24, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * That sounds reasonable. The original policy was meant to limit fair use to only where it is really necessary. I think that while limiting non-free content is noble, the current form of this policy is not "ideal". Bawolff ☺☻ 02:07, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Added historic fair use
I added this section to cover unique historic images which are allowed under fair-use guidelines. The wording was based in part on Wikipedia's policy. --SVTCobra 21:36, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

 * I'm going to remove this section. First, you shouldn't unilaterally change an accepted policy. Second, almost every historic event image is, in fact, competitive use as they are primarily produced by news agencies as an element of coverage of events. If you think this should be added to the policy, please bring it up on the Water Cooler. -  Amgine | t 21:22, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I think this was in response to my uploading of the INDECT video. Nobody has challenged my assertion of fair use, and there seems to be a consensus the video should be under fair use; the policy just doesn't cover it right now. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:45, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
 * When I have time, I expect to defend "historic" --SVTCobra 01:11, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

 * No, happened back in June, Brianmc. As far as I can tell your video was produced for marketing purposes, and would likely fall under the publicity photos rubric as it was released publicly by the copyright holders and there has been no assertion of marketing copyrights afaict. -  Amgine | t 13:47, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

What happens if an image in an archived article is deleted on the Commons because it violated Fair use policies
Can a file with the same name be uploaded to wikinews to replace it when it has been deleted from the Commons and is no longer there? See File:Fariba-iran-evin1.jpg which was uploaded today? The explanation is that it is restoring an archived article in which the image has been deleted and was a red link until today. Just wondering what the policies are at wikinews since Fair use indicates that wikinews Fair use polices are stricter than those of Wikipedia. Thanks, Mattisse (talk) 23:44, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Also see File talk:Fariba-iran-evin1.jpg and Talk:French teacher returns home after being held in Iran for ten months where a discussion has been taking place regarding this issue. I, as a newbie, am interested to see how this issue is treated. (It might explain why newbies don't feel like sticking around if this is the way a newbie's input is treated. μ says, as I understand it, that it is not permissible to upload an image today to wikinews that violates Fair use policies to replace an image deleted on the Commons a while ago for violating Fair use. Yet that is what has happened and I am being blamed for not adding a Fair use rational to the image that editor uploaded. All I did was draw attention onthe article talk page that the image was a red link.   Mattisse (talk) 01:27, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I hate our fair use policy. No one seems to (or at least I certainly don't) understand what it actually permits and what it does not. I am also of the opinion we are generally violating the relevant wmf-wide policies on fair use images (with old archived GOL images and what not). Bawolff ☺☻ 01:39, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Cf. WN:Water cooler/policy/archives/2011/February. --Pi zero (talk) 01:49, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Heh, I love the way Matisse blatantly ignores my comments (at least, parts of it). Diego Grez return fire 01:58, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

 * Images which have been deleted from Commons should be uploaded to en.WN, with the file page. Fair Use media should not be uploaded to Commons ever; that site does not allow Fair Use content.
 * Wikinews Fair Use policy is more strict than Wikipedia's. Only images which are relevent to a news story and fall into at least one of the three Board-approved categories (trademarks, publicity images, and screen captures) are allowed. There have been several policy "extensions" over the years, but only those three have received Board approval.
 * Any image which meets this policy may be uploaded to en.Wikinews. Until the board specifically rescinds its previous allowance for Wikinews projects there is no justification for applying the policy of other projects here. -  Amgine | t 01:58, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't the Fair use template be filled out? Shouldn't the source, the credit and the fair use rationale be provided? Or are you saying "no", that any image that has been deleted from the Commons for Fair use violations can be uploaded here without sourcing, crediting, or a rationale for use? The image in question File:Fariba-iran-evin1.jpg does not fall within any of the categories in Image use policy. Wikinews own policy is not being followed. Is that ok? In the case of the image under discussion, the prison is only mentioned once in the article as the location where the article subject was incarcerated, and none of its characteristics are described. In fact, her incarceration is not described, just a mention that it happened.   The article could do quite well without mentioning the name of the prison. The image of the prison (which doesn't even look like a prison but rather a hotel or something) is not fundamental to the understanding of the article. Archiving and "preserving history" should not provide for a way to violate the Fair use policy. I don't understand this. Professional organizations would retract, delete, or render inaccessible copy right violations. Wikinews is hosted on servers in the US and must follow US copy right laws.   Mattisse (talk) 02:18, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * One of the primary missions of Wikinews is to create an archive of news as it was known, whether it is accurate or not. I would expect a reviewer to be examining whether an image is relevant to an article before publishing the article. But once that article has been published and archived, it is as important to Wikinews to freeze the article as it was as it is to ensure our articles are good before publication.

 * No, I would not personally have accepted this image for FU when the article was published. But I assume the article authors were acting in good faith in using what they believed was a free image. Now the article has been archived, it should be preserved intact as an historic document. So in this case I would agree the image should be on en.WN. Depending on the original copyright, it would likely be defensible as a transformative Fair Use, but avoiding copyright paranoia I would see this image as remaining here until asked by the copyright holder to remove it. You may have a different opinion of course. -  Amgine | t 02:32, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * The copy right holder is unknown in the case of this image. There is zero information on that issue. Further, one of the goals of WMF is that content can be freely used by others. When you preserve in "history" an image, unnecessary to the article, that is not PD and has no Fair use rationale, how is that providing any kind of useful service to the few people who access wikinews? What is the point of preserving illegal content and making it available for public use? I don't understand the value system here. It just seems unprofessional to me, and for no particular gain.  Preserve evidence of  the wrongheadedness of wikinews editors? Is this something to be proud of? Archived copy right violations of an image irrelevant to the article content  "preserved intact as an historic document"? How can this be justified? And what is the point? Mattisse (talk) 02:47, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * If the copyright holder is unknown, unknowable, then under US law it is not a copyright violation and the basis of the argument fails. -  Amgine | t 02:57, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

 * I question the validity of this discussion on the basis that Commons never allowed Fair Use, thus the question as-worded isn't correct. Fair Use is permitted here. What requires resolving is are there valid grounds to claim fair use? I have details below criteria that need looked at. What is most concerning is that this seems to be used as a "test case" to put the Wikinews community on trial. --Brian McNeil / talk 13:14, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Fair use rationale: a brief explanation for Wikinews
Fair use is a legal defense for justifiable violation of another citizen's copyright; it is not a right.

The primary defense is "transformative usage". For example, a photo taken by professional portrait photographer is copyrighted, and normally would not be able to be used on Wikinews. However, if the photo has been used for publicity - such as a politician's official headshot - the image may be used to illustrate a story about that politician. The photo in this use has been "transformed" from its marketing purpose to a news purpose.

Writing a fair use rationale for such an image might be written as:
 * Publicity image released by [Organization or person], retrieved from [url] on [date]. Used to illustrate [news article title].

It's very easy to write a brief fair use rationale as long as you stick to the basic facts. -  Amgine | t 02:21, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Easy if you have no clue as to the source or who to credit?
 * Image released by [nobody], retrieved from [unknown] uploaded on [1999-05-13]. Used to illustrate French teacher returns home after being held in Iran for ten months It's not a publicity image. How would you write up this brief fair use rationale? The editor of the article would appreciate it if you did so; otherwise the image is up for deletion per the advice of μ on File talk:Fariba-iran-evin1.jpg.  Mattisse (talk) 03:04, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * In the specific case, under US law the image is not copyrighted. We should possibly consider a category "Free images deleted for copyright paranoia on Commons." Until we do so, consider:
 * Image with unknown source or credit, deleted from Commons.
 * Of course the data from the Commons page would be desirable. -  Amgine | t 03:14, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Incidentally, that date is not possible. Wikipedia had not then been created.
 * That is the date provided by the uploader today. So the whole thing is fishy? So the upload today contains incorrect information? [Removed general questions about image use that don't apply to the specific image in question.] Mattisse (talk) 03:25, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

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I think this section stands on it's own. It's not involved in your campaign regarding that specific image; it was requested that I write an exemplar for this policy as I worked with the Board to get our original policy created. -  Amgine | t 03:38, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

 * Amgine | t, since you have the experience and said,  "It's very easy to write a brief fair use rationale as long as you stick to the basic facts",  why don't you set an example and complete one for File:Fariba-iran-evin1.jpg so it is correct? It is almost always more instructive for me to be given an example instead of abstract rules. I have already indicated that I don't know how to apply your abstract rules to this specific image.  I am asking you to be helpful here, correct the fair use rationale on the image, and thereby I will learn what I should have done when I was told to create one. Please try to help me out.
 * I don't think the fact that I came across a deleted image and tried to find out information on how to handle that image problem is considered a "campaign" Please AGF and don't assume that my inquiries are not  made with good intentions. Mattisse (talk) 18:21, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Such has been done already; "Image with unknown source or credit, deleted from Commons." All that might need added is "key illustration for specific news article." --Brian McNeil / talk 18:42, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

 * Done, Mattisse. -  Amgine | t 18:43, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Copyedit
editprotected

I've been exploring the policies of this site. Most interesting. After reading the front section of the project page I attempted to edit it but learned it was not accessible. The need for this is obvious but since I already had identified a few changes, my suggestions are set forth below:
 * 1) "On Wikinews fair use is almost exclusively a discussion about images." The intended meaning of this sentence can be gleaned but this is not English. "Fair use" is not a "discussion about images" (which is how this sentence actually parses). The sentences should be changed to:"On Wikinews application of fair use is almost exclusively the subject of discussions about images, rather than text."
 * 2) "...tags have a fair use rationale built in them (logo)." The use of "in" here should be "into" instead and (logo) should be changed to "(e.g. logo)" or "(for example logo)".
 * Thank you.--108.46.98.134 (talk) 02:46, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
 * ✅ — I used ie instead of eg. i.e. more or less means "to clarify, the previous statement means pretty much this ===>", where e.g. means "the following is one of several/many examples of what I just mentioned, but in the interest of brevity I'm not going to list all of them". Both could work, but I think i.e. is more applicable to this situation. — Gopher65talk 05:05, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

 * The protection level on this is just against "new and unregistered", not full protection. --Brian McNeil / talk 08:56, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

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 * Ethiopians vote amid opposition charges of fraud
 * MPAA sues six BitTorrent sites linking to TV shows
 * Kahne takes Checkered Flag at Richmond
 * Uzbeks fleeing across border to seek refuge
 * Local elections held in Croatia
 * Pilot gets six months for smuggling Chinese immigrants
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Kahne takes Checkered Flag at Richmond

May 15, 2005

Kasey Kahne rode into victory early Sunday morning at Richmond International Raceway in the state of Virginia, USA, in his first Nascar Nextel Cup victory. Kahne, who drives a Dodge, and is sponsored by the same company, won automaker competitor Chevrolet's sponsored race, the Chevy American Revolution 400.

The 25-year old from Huntersville, North Carolina had previously gained the pole position for Saturday's night race on Friday. Early in the race, second-place finisher Tony Stewart took lead from Kahne, continuing on to lead over 100 cumulative laps in the race. At lap 234 of 400, Stewart spun out coming out of the fourth turn, which resulted in Kahne regaining the lead. After two more lead changes between the two, Kahne led the last 7 laps to take the checkered flag.

Points leader Jimmie Johnson crashed his car early into the race, taking a last-place finish. He continues to lead the cup series in points.

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Jansa reelected President of Slovenian Democratic Party

May 15, 2005

Janez Janša, the Prime Minister of Slovenia, will again serve as the President of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) after he was reelected in a party congress held in Portorož Saturday. Janša has been the leader of SDS since 1993.

The 8th Congress was held under a slogan: "Slovenian Democratic Party - Slovenia on a new road." Out of 450 delegates, 368 voted for Janša and 3 ballots were void. There were no votes against.

The delegates also voted on proposed changes to SDS statute, with overwhelming consensus. New members will no longer be obliged to present proof that they had not cooperated with the secret service of the "totalitarian regime" prior to 1990, when Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia.

Delegates reached an agreement that the new political program of the party should reflect current economic conditions, as well as aim at increased growth of the country's economy.

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Uzbeks fleeing across border to seek refuge

May 15, 2005

Thousands of Uzbeks are fleeing across Uzbekistan's borders to seek refuge in neighboring Kyrgyzstan despite the border crossings being closed. Their flight is in response to the violence in Andijan.

Thousands are said to have taken to the streets of the city to protest the unfair trial of Muslim activists and draw attention to human rights abuses. A trial of 23 local businessmen on charges of religious extremism triggered the protests. Soldiers opened fire on the demonstrators, killing many. Eyewitnesses have said that they were unarmed civilians.

It is still unknown how many died as a result. Some reports have given the death count as high as 500, with other estimates as low as a dozen. UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw called it "a clear abuse of human rights". Many have expressed doubts that the true figure may ever emerge.

Even with Uzbekistan's borders closed, hundreds are reported to have already crossed into Kyrgyzstan. In Korasuv, an Uzbek border town, government buildings were reported to be on fire in addition to frequent clashes between government police and civilians seeking to cross the border.

Government troops have sealed Andijan, and they are hunting the leaders of protests against the Uzbek government.

Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov blamed Islamic militants for the violence in the eastern city of Andijan. The turbulence led to government troops firing on civilian protesters and rebels, killing at least fifty according to local hospital sources. Independent sources count the number of dead over 100.

Sunday, President Karimov denied directing his troops to open fire, blaming the outlawed Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir for the deaths following their insurrection.

"I know you want to know who gave the order to fire at them ... No one ordered (troops) to fire at them," Karimov told the news conference in Tashkent on Sunday.

Eyewitnesses reported seeing crowds of unarmed protesters being fired upon by soldiers. Human rights groups have lamented Uzbekistan's poor human rights record of arbitrary arrest and torture. The White House has called for restraint to avoid further bloodshed. The Russian Foreign Ministry has expressed support for Kamirov in the face of what it terms extremism.

The White House's muted response may reflect the political sensitivity of its air base in southern Uzbekistan which supports its operations in neighbouring Afghanistan. It's widely feared that, should the unrest spread, Uzbekistan may see the popular overthrow of the government as occurred in neighbouring Kyrgystan.


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MPAA sues six BitTorrent sites linking to TV shows

May 15, 2005

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is suing six websites for hosting BitTorrent links to TV programs.

The MPAA is a movie industry trade group representing most U.S. studios. The MPAA claims that these sites allow users of BitTorrent software to find and download illegal copies of various TV programmes.

Five of the sites sued are registered in the U.S., and the sixth site is registered in Spain. The sites sued are Shuntv.net, Zonatracker.com, Btefnet.net, Scifi-classics.net, Cddvdheaven.co.uk, and Bragginrights.biz.

According to research by Envisional, recent surveys report downloads of TV programmes are up by 150% in a year. Most of the downloads, 70%, used BitTorrent sites. With the increasing ubiquity of broadband Internet access, popular television shows, which are smaller downloads than movies, often appear within hours of airing on TV.

The MPAA has filed over 100 lawsuits since December against operators of BitTorrent sites. The MPAA has also sued individuals, but has not reported how many.

MPAA CEO Dan Glickman told the BBC, "Since we began shutting these sites down, the time that it takes to download a file on BitTorrent has increased exponentially, which means the experience of downloading copyrighted films and TV shows is not what it used to be. We intend to make it even worse. Protecting the television industry is essential."


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Police find owner of Wendy's chili finger

May 16, 2005

On May 13, San Jose police announced they identified the person whose finger tip Anna Ayala claimed she found in a bowl of Wendy's chili. Police say that Ayala's husband, James Plascencia, was a work associate of the man who five months ago lost the finger tip in work related accident.

The owner of the finger, Brian Paul Rossiter, lost his finger tip while working at an asphalt company back in December 2004. Police were able to trace it after receiving information from Pat Hogue, who called a Wendy's hot-line. Hogue worked as a cost estimator at an asphalt company at the same time as the co-workers Pascencia and the man who lost the portion of his little finger.

The tipster was unaware, until after Ayala's arrest, of the connection between the Wendy's "finger-pointer" and her husband Plascencia. The finger was given to Ayala's husband as payment for a $50 debt. They do not know how it was transported or preserved during the five months until it turned up in the bowl of chili. More arrests are possible, according to police.

Anna Ayala was arrested on April 21. She has been charged with one count of attempted grand theft in connection with the Wendy’s incident, and one count of grand theft in an unrelated mobile home sale.


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Local elections held in Croatia

May 15, 2005

Elections for local governments were held in Croatia Sunday. The polls were closed at 19:00 local time (UTC+2). The results are not in yet, but exit polls and preliminary results were published by GONG and State Election Committee.

According to GONG, an NGO observing the elections, Milan Bandić can form a government in the city of Zagreb, since his list has won around 46%. This would give the coalition 27 of 51 seats in the capital city. Bandić is a head of the coalition list formed by Social Democrat Party of Croatia (SDP), Croatian Peasant Party (HSS), and Croatian Pensioner Party (HUS). The preliminary results from the State Election Committee show 40.90% for Bandić at 23:30 local time.

Branimir Glavaš's, who was recently expelled from Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), list seems to be in lead in Osijek according to the exit polls, with 27.24% (which would equal 9 seats in the local parliament). Liberal Party has 18.47% (6 seats), and Croatian Party of Justice is third with 14.5% (4 seats).

According to GONG, Social Democrat Party has a lead in Split with 29.02% of votes (10 seats), while Croatian Democratic Union is following with 18.54% (6 seats).

In Sisačko-Moslovačka county parliament, preliminary results show the lead of a list led by SDP with 34.71%, while HDZ, once led by Franjo Tuđman, is second with 30.64%.

Zagreb county parliament is led by coalition of HSS and SDP with 34.35%. HDZ is second with 27.10%, according to preliminary results.

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Ethiopians vote amid opposition charges of fraud

May 15, 2005

Millions of voters in Ethiopia are choosing between a powerful government which has close ties to the West but is considered by some to be totalitarian, and a coalition of little-known opposition parties that has promised greater political freedom and economic development. The democratic ballot is only the third in the country's history.

A small crowd of supporters enthusiastically greeted Prime Minister Meles Zenawi as he arrived at the polling station in. The town of Adwa, located about 25 kilometers east of the ancient city of, is also the prime minister's birthplace.

Meles did not address the crowd. But he told reporters he believes the national elections represent an important milestone in Ethiopia's quest to become a full-fledged democratic state.

"I fought to make sure the Ethiopian people have the right to make their decisions," Meles said. "I am now exercising it as an Ethiopian and I am very proud of our achievement."

Meles is seeking his third five-year term in office. His ruling party, the (EPRDF), has been in power for 14 years. During that time, the party has not been challenged in this mostly poor, subsistence farming region.

The party was the only one listed on the ballot paper in Adwa.

The ruling party says none of the major opposition parties bothered to register and campaign for votes in this remote area. But opposition leaders say electoral officials, whom the opposition accuses of being pro-government, would not allow their parties to register or campaign in the area.

The accusation is just one of numerous complaints of irregularity the opposition has lodged.

Hailu Shawel, the head of Ethiopia's opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy, cast his vote in an opposition stronghold south of the capital. Shawl says that in his opinion the balloting has not been the model of democracy that people had hoped for.

"I think disaster is looming. Everywhere there is fraud being perpetrated," said Mr. Shawel. "The marker that they [the voters] were given, it washes off even without water. In other areas, they mark ballot papers with EPDRF signs and giving to people to put in the ballot boxes. And the people are fighting back, saying, 'No, we are not going to do that. Give us the clean paper.' So, the whole process is really jeopardized at the moment."

The government denies that it has been trying to prevent a fair vote, noting that the opposition received unprecedented access to state-owned media and were given permission to stage mass demonstrations ahead of the ballot.

For the first time, more than 300 international observers, including 150 from the and 50 from the U.S.-based, are in Ethiopia to monitor the elections. They fanned out before dawn to visit some of the 31,000 polling stations set up throughout the country.

The observers say they plan to investigate reports of any irregularities, but most say they have not seen any serious problems, largely calling the polls honest and fair. Final results are not expected until early June.

In previous elections held in 1995 and 2000, the ruling EPRDF won by overwhelming margins, giving the party a solid majority in parliament.

About 25 million of Ethiopia's 71 million people are registered to vote. The elections are being closely watched in the West as a key test of Ethiopia's commitment to democracy and being a stabilizing force in the volatile Horn of Africa region.


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Muslim leaders don't accept "pressured" apology

May 17, 2005

magazine apologized to the victims of last week's deadly protests in Afghanistan, which were sparked when a Newsweek report stated that U.S. officials defiled the.

But Islamic parties in Pakistan say the Newsweek apology is a transparent attempt to defuse Muslim anger. , the head of an Islamic party alliance told the BBC on Monday that Newsweek's clarification held no weight. "There have been reports by the prisoners who have been released from Guantanamo Bay of desecration of the holy Koran, and different atrocities perpetrated on them."

On Tuesday Mr.Ahmad said,"Whatever (Newsweek) magazine has done now is under pressure (from the U.S. government)," he said. "It has not denied what it has reported and many people freed from Guantanamo Bay have narrated the same thing."

The Tuesday edition of the Pakistani daily newspaper the News quoted Hafiz Ehsan Saeed, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee, as saying that the Koran was routinely desecrated at Guantanamo.

Reuters reported that Muslims said they suspected that pressure from Washington was behind the magazine's backing off. On Monday, presidential spokesman Scott McClellan had criticized Newsweek's initial response to the incident, saying it was "puzzling." Later in the day, Newsweek retracted the story which the White House said was a "good first step".

Newsweek defended its reporting and said its investigation is continuing into allegations that the Koran had been desecrated by U.S. personnel.

"Unfortunately relations are so bad at this point that the perception will linger;" said Ibrahim Hooper of the. "Many people won't believe it. They'll believe the magazine was pressured into doing a retraction." Hooper said.

"We will not be deceived by this," Sadullah Abu Aman, an Islamic cleric, told Reuters in Afghanistan. The magazine said it had made a mistake in its May 9th report regarding the accusations, which led to violent anti-American protests in Afghanistan. Over 16 were killed, and more than 100 were injured. While many officials supporting the protests vowed for non-violence, some in the streets threatened to start a religious war against the United States.

Newsweek's Editor, Mark Whitaker, said the magazine's error was reporting confirmation by U.S. military investigators that Guantanamo personnel flushed the Koran down a toilet. The source initially said he had read of the event in a military investigative report, but the source later told the magazine he might have seen the account of the Koran incident in other investigative documents or drafts.

Mr Whitaker told Reuters, "As to whether anything like this happened, we just don't know. We're not saying it absolutely happened but we can't say that it absolutely didn't happen either."

The Newsweek report was not the first public allegation alleging Quran desecration at Guantanamo Bay. News stories came out in August and October 2004, reporting that British citizens who had been released from Guantanamo claimed U.S. guards threw their Qurans into the toilet. Also, in January, 2005, Kristine Huskey, a lawyer representing Guantanamo detainees, said a detainee witnessed a guard tossing a Quran into a toilet.


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 * Hundreds of people gather in support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky
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 * Croatian local elections: results pending
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 * Maybe, but we covered it when it hapened so we should finsh the story. --Cspurrier 03:05, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

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Star Wars III premieres at Cannes

May 17, 2005

The final Star Wars film, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith premiered at the Cannes Festival on May 15, 2005, with George Lucas and the stars of the movie in attendance at the Grand Theatre Lumiere.

At the subsequent United Kingdom premiere on May 16, 2005, fans turned out in costume. Outside London's Odeon cinema in Leicester Square, dozens of fans dressed as storm troopers, Jedi knights, and other characters for the film.

The movie is about the temptation of a Jedi knight to the Dark Side of the force, and his fiery transformation into the arch-villain Darth Vader.

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is scheduled for general release in the United States on May 19, 2005, and is rated PG-13.

Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw from The Guardian described the climax of the film as following "what seems like seven hours of CGI action as dramatically weightless as the movement of tropical fish in an aquarium". Bradshaw said the leading characters "gaze out over massive futuristic cityscapes resembling the photorealist artwork once used for 1970s sci-fi paperbacks: pointy buildings with swarms of pointy aircraft criss-crossing overhead, often bathed in crimson sunsets".

He described Ewan McGregor's accent as "a simperingly lifeless Rada-English accent, a muddled and misconceived backdating of the Guinness original", and said of Hayden Christensen that "If Princess Diana had gone to the Dark Side, she would have looked a lot like this".

Describing Jimmy Smits, and Samuel L. Jackson as "acting as if on some kind of medication", Natalie Portman as "incorrigibly clunky", Bradshaw concluded that the film was "a product of George Lucas's overweening production giant Industrial Light and Magic. No magic, little light, but an awful lot of heavy industry."

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Wendy Ide from The Times commented that "any spark of humour or irreverence that might have been present in the earlier films has been all but extinguished", and accused the film of being carpeted by "a bombastic and overbearing" musical score.

Ide concluded that the film was "a textbook example of style over substance and, more importantly, soul".

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Microsoft develops anti-virus product

May 17, 2005

Microsoft Corporation announced plans to launch a new security product later this year, named Windows OneCare.

Product features are to include anti-virus software capabilities, a new firewall and PC tune ups. The PC tune ups include utilities for improved backup and restore capabilities, and easy access to Windows PC maintenance tools for file repair and hard drive clean up.

The major elements of the product are:
 * A firewall that (unlike Windows Firewall but like third party personal firewall products for Windows) prevents unauthorized programs from making outgoing connections
 * Anti-spyware, based upon Microsoft AntiSpyware
 * Virus protection, based upon technology bought by Microsoft from the Romanian company GeCAD
 * Scheduled disc cleanup and defragmentation.
 * Automatic backup to writable CD or DVD.

An early beta version of product, not including the anti-spyware capability, has already been released to Microsoft employees. A public beta is scheduled for later in 2005.

Microsoft plans to make Windows OneCare available to customers for a yearly subscription fee.

Recently, Microsoft bought Giant software, makers of antivirus and spyware prevention software. Windows Anti-Spyware software is already built on this system.

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May 16, 2005. This is Wikinews.

Breaking News
Uzbeks fleeing across border to seek refuge Thousands of Uzbeks are fleeing across Uzbekistan's borders to seek refuge in neighboring Kyrgyzstan despite the border crossings being closed. Their flight is in response to violence in the city of Andijan. Thousands are said to have taken to the streets of the city to protest the unfair trial of Muslim activists and draw attention to human rights abuses. A trial of 23 local businessmen on charges of religious extremism triggered the protests. Soldiers opened fire on the demonstrators, killing many. Eyewitness have said that they were unarmed civilians.

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Protests spread in Afghanistan Seven were killed and over 76 injured in the first three days of anti-US protests in Afghanistan. Protests were sparked by reports that US guards in Guatanamo Bay desecrated the Koran. According to the local population, four policemen and soldiers were killed in province Ghazni, south-west of Kabul.

Newsweek admits error in report that sparked Afghan protests Newsweek magazine apologized to the victims of last week's deadly protests in Afghanistan, which were sparked when a Newsweek report stated that U.S. officials defiled the Koran. The magazine said it had made a mistake on reporting the accusations of the May 9 report, which led to violent anti-American protests in Afghanistan. Over 16 were killed, and more than 100 were injured. While many officials that supported the protests vowed for non-violence, some in the streets threatened to start a religious war against the United States. A Newsweek reporter said in a Reuters interview that his information was from a "knowlegeable government source". Thousands of documents obtained under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act by the American Civil Liberties Union support the claims of routine religious humiliation of Muslims at Guantanamo.

Local elections held in Croatia Elections for local governments were held in Croatia Sunday. The polls were closed at 19:00 local time (UTC+2). The results are not in yet, but exit polls and preliminary results were published by GONG and State Election Committee. According to GONG, an NGO observing the elections, Milan Bandić, can form a government in the city of Zagreb, since his list has won around 46%. This would give the coalition 27 of 51 seats in the capital city. Bandić is a head of the coalition list formed by Social Democrat Party of Croatia (SDP), Croatian Peasant Party (HSS), and Croatian Pensioner Party (HUS). The preliminary results from the State Election Committee show 40.90% for Bandić at 23:30 local time. We will be updating you as the results come in.

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Leukemia cases at California elementary school receive no Federal investigation Within the past three years, five boys who have attended Franklin Elementary School in Santa Ana, California have been found to have the same type of leukemia. Two of them have died. "Why so many children, and why only in this area?" said Lazara Bustos, a mother of three schoolchildren who attend Franklin. "I wonder if my child will be next," said Bustos, whose son's close friend was Manuel Hernandez. Manuel died of acute lymphocytic leukemia in October 2004. Another child, Reynaldo "Rey" Almaraz, 9, died in April. To help pay for Rey's funeral, several parents in the dense, working-class community held a fundraiser by selling nachos. Parents are wondering, "Why are our boys dying?" Tammy Sanchez, a teacher at Franklin, has been searching for answers. Recently, she sat in her empty classroom and cried. "Our kids deal with too much death. I'm concerned about them," she said. "As a teacher, this isn't what I'm supposed to see. I'm supposed to see success, students growing up – not attend their funerals." In the basement at 71-year-old Franklin Elementary, exposed gas and water pipes meander their way along the ceiling. The former library is full of old dusty desks and chairs. For years, teachers and students alike have complained that the moldy, stale air in the basement makes them feel queasy. Researchers claim that the leukemia cases are within the acceptable range for that area. When the schoolchildren at Franklin began getting leukemia, many teachers and staff members pondered: "Could there be something toxic in the basement? What about outside the school, in the soil?" Sanchez addressed the Santa Ana Unified school board in April. Her friend, Dr. John Hoefs of University of California, Irvine (UCI) learned about the leukemia patients through his church. Dr. Hoefs in turn sought the help of one of his friends, Costa Mesa business owner Jeff Russell, to conduct soil tests around Franklin. Russell claimed the soil has a concentration of pesticides but he could not elaborate, saying he isn't finished collecting samples. Hoefs and Russell said they "hope health experts thoroughly study the Franklin cases, despite what the statistics say". "You wonder, if this were occurring in the Bel Air area – where more resources are available – if people would just be satisfied with a few statistics," Hoefs said. "It's a very troublesome problem." Franklin is in the impoverished Santa Ana neighborhood of Heniger Park, and over 90% of the students receive free or reduced lunch from the state. Santa Ana includes a large portion of undocumented immigrants, making it difficult to collect census data. For those people which the census was able to count, 19.8% of the population is below the poverty line with 24.1% of children living below the poverty line. The per capita income for the city is $12,152, with an average income of $21,637 for females, as compared to $24,692 for females in Compton, California. Santa Ana was also rated the "Hardship Capital of the United States" by The Rockefeller Institute of Government. Isaac Jiminez, 10, prefers not to talk about his leukemia. "We never really talk about the disease because it makes me ill – because there are no answers," he said. This Special Report contains first-hand journalism by Wikinews Reporter Nicholas Gerda.

Wikipedia Current Events

 * South Korea announces that bilateral talks with North Korea will resume Monday after a one-year pause, with the North's nuclear weapons as a key issue.
 * In Taiwan, parties supporting new amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of China win with 249 of 300 seats in the National Assembly election.
 * Pope Benedict XVI waives the five-year waiting period usually required before beatification, the first step towards sainthood, for the late John Paul II.
 * The U.S. Department of Defense's Base Realignment and Closure program recommends closing 33 and realigning 29 major military bases as well as about 775 smaller bases.

Today in History provided by Wikipedia

 * 1204 - Fourth Crusade: Count Baldwin IX of Flanders was crowned the first Latin Emperor in Constantinople.
 * 1527 - The Medici were driven from Florence and a republic was re-established.
 * 1866 - Root beer was first prepared commercially.
 * 1929 - The first Academy Awards were handed out at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood.
 * 1943 - World War II: SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop put an end to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the first mass uprising in Poland against the Nazi occupation during the Holocaust.

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French Workers stay at home for Whit Monday

May 16, 2005

In France, workers by the millions stayed at home during the Whit Monday holiday despite the government's cancellation of the traditional Pentecost public holiday. Some acted in defiance of the government's decision, while some took leave or were put on forced leave by their employers due to uncertainties of public transportation.

Following the 2003 heat wave, which caused the deaths of an estimated 13,000 elderly people in France, the administration of prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has proposed the suppression of one day of public holiday in order to use the supplemental generated tax for a fund for the caring of the elderly.

Whit Monday was selected because, in normal years, France has several public holidays in May. Furthermore, attendance of religious celebrations is low, so holidays of a religious origin are nowadays generally mere family reunions.

However, the reception of this new working day was mixed. The administration says it promotes solidarity with the elderly. Trade unions and opposition groups argue that the measure is an ill-conceived stunt aimed at hiding the government's bad handling of the problems of the elderly.

For instance, many remember that in 1956, the government created a tax (the vignette) on motor vehicles, allegedly for funding measures for the elderly. But in 1973, the products of this tax came, as any other tax, into the government's general fund.

With this measure, the French government intends to raise 2 billion € to be donated to a new public establishment, the "national fund for solidarity for autonomy." The new fund would be chartered to deal with losses of self-sufficiency of elderly or handicapped people. 1.2 billion € are earmarked for elderly people, 0.8 for the handicapped.

Trade unions had called for strikes in urban public transportation and paralyzed traffic in 27 cities, including Clermont-Ferrand, Lille, Montpellier ou Strasbourg. However, SNCF (the national railway operator) did not strike and RATP (the Paris transportation authority) suffered only minor disturbances, though both are normally known for their frequent and disturbing strikes.

SNCF considered the day as a holiday for payroll purposes and instead increased the work day by 1'52", a measure that majority leader Nicolas Sarkozy considered shocking and contrary to the objectives of the government.

The protests are also widely considered to be motivated by the unpopularity of the administration of president Jacques Chirac and prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin. Recent statistics show a five year-high for unemployment at 10.2%.

This discontent may result in a majority of "no" in the vote for the ratification of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe.


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Uzbek rebel leader on horseback wants an Islamic state

May 18, 2005

Bakhtiyor Rakhimov, a rebel leader on horseback who claims control of an Uzbek town said the rebels are intent upon building an Islamic state.

"We will be building an Islamic state here in accordance with the Quran; the town is in the hands of people. People are tired of slavery," Rakhimov told The Associated Press on May 18th. "We will turn this land into gardens," he said. "If I turn this land into a good place, if everybody here will have plenty of food on the table, it will spread further."

Zakir Almatov, the Uzbek Interior Minister denied Rakhimov's claims. "It's all sheer nonsense, everything is normal there, if anything had happened there, I already would have been there." he said. But there were no Uzbek government officials to be found in Korasuv.

When asked whether the rebels belonged to an Islamic group Rakhimov said no, that "We are just people, we just follow the Quran."

When asked if he was afraid that government forces would be back to regain control of the town he said, "Soldiers and police are also sons of this people. We don't have weapons, but if they come and attack us we will fight even with knives."

Uzbekistan soldiers sealed off the eastern border town after locals took over government buildings last Saturday. The unrest spread from nearby Andijan, where local sources said several hundred people died when troops opened fire on protesters on Friday.

Some refugees near Korasuv said troops shot at them as they tried to cross the border into Kyrgyzstan - and some died.

U.K. Foreign Minister Jack Straw said his Uzbek counterpart had pledged to allow diplomats access to Andijan on Tuesday.


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Hundreds of people gather in support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky

May 16, 2005

As the court was announcing the final decision on the fate of Russia's petroleum king, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, hundreds of people gathered near the court house to voice their opinion on the matter. A rally was supported by several Russian political parties and groups, including Union of Right Forces, Yabloko, Oborona, Pora!, Smena and others.

Among the people who attended the meeting were Garry Kasparov and Irina Khakamada. The total number of participants, according to officials is estimated at 700 people. The involved parties claim around 1000.

The crowd was standing in front of the court house, waving flags of political groups mentioned above and chanting political slogans aimed at the allegedly unfair trial and at the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. Among the chants were:

 * "Svobodu!" (Freedom [to Khodorkovsky]) - listen
 * "Misha go home" (Misha being the short form of Mikhail)
 * "One, two, three, Putin go away"
 * "Doloi vlast chekistov" (Down with the Chekists' authority, referring to Putin's KGB past) - listen

Some cars passing by expressed their solidarity with the crowds by sound signalling, which crowd appreciated with louder chanting. Some activists rode passing by trams and trolleybuses, waving "Freedom to MBKh" tees and flags from the windows.

The meeting lasted for two hours, until police ordered the crowds to go away when their permit expired. Many refused, and the militia had to resort to force. 20-30 people were arrested, including some organizers.


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I added a Reuters link and some information from the news article that suggested that Khodorkovsky was not a much loved figure and this was deleted. Why is this so? Why is the article trying to peddle sympathy for the oligarch?

 * The article's title indicates the article is reporting on the demonstration of support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. However, your source and text may be relevent. Let me see where the article is, and if it can be restored. - Amgine/talk 23:14, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

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I (User:Grue) was right in the middle of the events, with only Flash MP3 player in my pocket. The idea came to me that recording the chants may be a good idea. I apologize for poor quality of the sound and all the POV in the article. Grue 12:11, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

 * You have written that there were thousands of people. Other sources speak about 200 people (they might be wrong). Can you give us an estimated number ? --SonicR 12:57, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I think there was at least one thousand. It's probably better to rename it to "hundreds" just to be sure... Grue 13:38, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I am Russian and I for one and glad that this monster will be placed behind bars. He made billions at the expense of the Russian people due to his ties with corrupt officials.

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Could someone explain the NPOV dispute please? It would be nice to know where to begin working to bring this toward NPOV so it may be published again. - Amgine/talk 17:21, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't know, Irishpunktom just placed it without explanation. What this article really needs is some reliable sources. It was never published, btw. Grue 17:52, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

I have yet to see another source that verifies this event. It is extremely in favor of the oligarch, a much hated figure in Russia due to his despotic business practices.

 * I can give you a lot of sources in Russian. It's a shame this story wasn't published in time. Khodorkovsky may be hated by some, but he also got a lot of supporters. Grue 05:09, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, well, see here: http://en.rian.ru/society/20050516/40361958.html. Grue 05:11, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

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Who is Mikhail Khodorkovsky, what is he on trial for, and why has this trial gained such public attention?

These are things that any news story like this should include, but this one does not. There should be no assumption that readers have been following the story since the beginning; sufficient context to allow a reader to understand the story's basic significance should always be provided.


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Citizen "podcasting" goes mainstream

May 16, 2005

Infinity broadcasting, one of the largest radio companies in the U.S.A., announced its KYOU Radio, the world's first-ever podcasting radio station, began broadcasting on Monday, May 16 at 9:00 a.m., ET. The podcasts will also be available on San Francisco's KYCY-AM at 1550 AM.

The new format allows any listener to create a podcast and upload it to the station. Infinity said that its "All Podcast" format, "is going to give voice to your vision." Infinity will try to sell advertising on the programs, though they do not plan to pay the podcasters for their work.

Audio Wikinews is among other individually-produced content which will be featured on the station.

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