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Crosswords/2005/February/26

February 26, 2005

Quick crossword
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 * 1. Angled, edge cut (7)
 * 4. Edible plant with red stalks (7)
 * 8. Rowing devices (4)
 * 9. Positive thinking (10)
 * 12. Small rocky marine animals (9)
 * 14. Greek letter (3)
 * 16. Furniture for placing things upon (5)
 * 17. Late (7)
 * 18. Ear organ (7)
 * 20. Greek god (5)
 * 22. Thin fish (3)
 * 23. Technical drawing projection (9)
 * 25. Apocalyptic war (10)
 * 27. Long rod (4)
 * 28. Group effort (7)
 * 29. Deviated (7)
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 * 1. Crucifixes (7)
 * 2. Tricks in the air (10)
 * 3. Substitute (7)
 * 5. Make buzzing noise with lips (3)
 * 6. Biblical book (4)
 * 7. Vehicle using human power (7)
 * 10. Eskimo hut (5)
 * 11. Police rank (9)
 * 13. Revolt, protesting (9)
 * 15. Removal of gland (medical) (10)
 * 18. Percussion instruments (7)
 * 19. Audibly (5)
 * 20. Earthquake movements (7)
 * 21. Banged loudly (7)
 * 24. Sign (4)
 * 26. Unit of energy, 107 joules (3)
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Answers next week.

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Yukos loses Chapter 11 bid

February 25, 2005 The Russian oil giant (Юкос) has lost its bid for  protection by a  court. Yukos sought Chapter 11 protection, to prevent the forced sale of the subsidiary by the Russian authorities.

Judge Letitia Clark said that the oil company didn't have a strong enough presence in America to warrant Chapter 11.

The sale was made to pay Yukos' US$27.5 billion tax bill, Yuganskneftegaz was originally sold for US$9.4 billion to a little known company (Байкалфинансгруп) which was later bought by the Russian state-owned oil company  (Роснефть).

Yukos was started by the Russian billionaire, who is in prison for fraud, embezzlement and tax evasion charges that he denies, saying his arrest is politically motivated by the Russian president Vladimir Putin.

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Crosswords/

February 25, 2005

January

 * January 27
 * January 28
 * January 29
 * January 30
 * January 31

February

 * February 01
 * February 02
 * February 03
 * February 04
 * February 05
 * February 06
 * February 07
 * February 08
 * February 09
 * February 10
 * February 11
 * February 12
 * February 13
 * February 14
 * February 15
 * February 16
 * February 17
 * February 18
 * February 19
 * February 20
 * February 21
 * February 22
 * February 23
 * February 24
 * February 25
 * February 26

March

 * March 05
 * March 12
 * March 19
 * March 20
 * March 21
 * March 22
 * March 23
 * March 24
 * March 25
 * March 26
 * March 27
 * March 28
 * March 29
 * March 30
 * March 31

April

 * April 01
 * April 02
 * April 03
 * April 04
 * April 05
 * April 06
 * April 07
 * April 08
 * April 09
 * April 10
 * April 11
 * April 12
 * April 13
 * April 14
 * April 15
 * April 16
 * April 17
 * April 18
 * April 19
 * April 20
 * April 21
 * April 22
 * April 23
 * April 24
 * April 25
 * April 26
 * April 27
 * April 28
 * April 29
 * April 30

May

 * May 01
 * May 02
 * May 03
 * May 04
 * May 05
 * May 06
 * May 07
 * May 08
 * May 09
 * May 10
 * May 11
 * May 12
 * May 13
 * May 14
 * May 15
 * May 16
 * May 17
 * May 18
 * May 19
 * May 20
 * May 21
 * May 22
 * May 23
 * May 24
 * May 25
 * May 26
 * May 27
 * May 28
 * May 29
 * May 30
 * May 31

June

 * June 01
 * June 02
 * June 03
 * June 04
 * June 05
 * June 06
 * June 07
 * June 08
 * June 09
 * June 10
 * June 11
 * June 12
 * June 13
 * June 14
 * June 15
 * June 16
 * June 17
 * June 18
 * June 19
 * June 20
 * June 21
 * June 22
 * June 23
 * June 24
 * June 25
 * June 26
 * June 27
 * June 28
 * June 29
 * June 30

July

 * July 01
 * July 02
 * July 03
 * July 04
 * July 05
 * July 06
 * July 07
 * July 08
 * July 09
 * July 10
 * July 11
 * July 12
 * July 13
 * July 14
 * July 15
 * July 16
 * July 17
 * July 18
 * July 19
 * July 20
 * July 21
 * July 22
 * July 23
 * July 24
 * July 25
 * July 26
 * July 27
 * July 28
 * July 29
 * July 30
 * July 31

August

 * August 01
 * August 02
 * August 03
 * August 04
 * August 05
 * August 06
 * August 07
 * August 08
 * August 09
 * August 10
 * August 11
 * August 12
 * August 13
 * August 14
 * August 15
 * August 16
 * August 17
 * August 18
 * August 19
 * August 20
 * August 21
 * August 22
 * August 23
 * August 24
 * August 25
 * August 26
 * August 27
 * August 28
 * August 29
 * August 30
 * August 31

September

 * September 01
 * September 02
 * September 03
 * September 04
 * September 05
 * September 06
 * September 07
 * September 08
 * September 09
 * September 10
 * September 11
 * September 12
 * September 13
 * September 14
 * September 15
 * September 16
 * September 17
 * September 18
 * September 19
 * September 20
 * September 21
 * September 22
 * September 23
 * September 24
 * September 25
 * September 26
 * September 27
 * September 28
 * September 29
 * September 30

October

 * October 01
 * October 02
 * October 03
 * October 04
 * October 05
 * October 06
 * October 07
 * October 08
 * October 09
 * October 10
 * October 11
 * October 12
 * October 13
 * October 14
 * October 15
 * October 16
 * October 17
 * October 18
 * October 19
 * October 20
 * October 21
 * October 22
 * October 23
 * October 24
 * October 25
 * October 26
 * October 27
 * October 28
 * October 29
 * October 30
 * October 31

November

 * November 01
 * November 02
 * November 03
 * November 04
 * November 05
 * November 06
 * November 07
 * November 08
 * November 09
 * November 10
 * November 11
 * November 12
 * November 13
 * November 14
 * November 15
 * November 16
 * November 17
 * November 18
 * November 19
 * November 20
 * November 21
 * November 22
 * November 23
 * November 24
 * November 25
 * November 26
 * November 27
 * November 28
 * November 29
 * November 30

December

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 * December 02
 * December 03
 * December 04
 * December 05
 * December 06
 * December 07
 * December 08
 * December 09
 * December 10
 * December 11
 * December 12
 * December 13
 * December 14
 * December 15
 * December 16
 * December 17
 * December 18
 * December 19
 * December 20
 * December 21
 * December 22
 * December 23
 * December 24
 * December 25
 * December 26
 * December 27
 * December 28
 * December 29
 * December 30
 * December 31

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Talk:Crosswords/

It would perhaps be better for this page to be a list of years, with links to Crosswords/YYYY, and then each of those to be a list of months, with links to Crosswords/YYYY/MM, and each of those to be a list of dates with links. Not sure if including the future dates is desired, but it would save an updating burden.

Below is the code I have used to generate this. I hereby dual-license it under whatever terms Wikinews has plus the GNU General public license. I presume that this doesn't make much of a difference since the terms of the day appear to be public domain...

I am w:User:Jdavidb.

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use warnings; use strict;

use Time::Piece; use Time::Seconds qw(ONE_DAY);

my $day = Time::Piece->strptime("2005-01-27", "%Y-%m-%d"); my $stop = Time::Piece->strptime("2005-12-31", "%Y-%m-%d");

my $prevmonth = "January"; print "=== $prevmonth ===\n\n"; while ($day <= $stop) { my $month = $day->strftime("%B"); print "\n=== $month ===\n\n" if $month ne $prevmonth; $prevmonth = $month; print $day->strftime("* %B %d\n"); $day += ONE_DAY; }

(Urgh. To get decent formatting, I suppose you'll have to click "edit this page.") 170.35.224.64 15:49, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Several UN troops killed in Congo ambush

February 25, 2005 At least eight UN peacekeepers have been killed in an ambush by militiamen in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The attack happened in the morning and it is believed that the Lendus ethnic militia known as FNI are likely to be behind the attack. The peacekeepers are all believed to be from Bangladesh and are in the Ituri area of the Congo along with 4,800 other peacekeepers from several contries including Pakistan, Morocco and Nepal. A UN spokesperson has said "There are at least eight dead and some still missing" indicating that it is possible that more have been killed or injured. The spokesperson has added that "Lendus are not people that take hostages, they just kill."


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The British minimum wage goes up in October

February 26, 2005 The British Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced that the minimum wage is to go up from GBP 4.85 (EUR 7.03) per hour to GBP 5.05 (EUR 7.32) per hour in October and GBP 5.35 (EUR 7.76) per hour in October 2006. The minimum wage for 18-21 year-olds, the development minimum wage will also go up from GBP 4.10 (EUR 5.94) per hour to GBP 4.25 (EUR 6.16) per hour. The rises was a recommendation by the Low Pay Commission, a government organisation responsible in the minimum wage said that the minimum wage has increased the amount of jobs in the market.

The minimum wage started in the UK in 1998 as one of the election proposal of the Labour government and it started at GBP 3.60 (EUR 5.22) per hour.

The Trade Union Congress said they welcome the rise, however they want the minimum wage to go up to GBP 6.00 (EUR 8.70) per hour. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) called for a "pause year" on the minimum wage to assess the above inflation rises

Political speculators are says the announcement is to coincide with a possible general election in May this year.


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Mutant gene predicts common Parkinson's

A genetic mutation has been linked with typical, late-onset Parkinson's in a step towards new drugs that target particular forms of the disease.

American and European researchers led by neuroscientists at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida discovered the mutation in a recently identified gene called LRRK2 that previous studies have already linked to some forms of Parkinson's.

The mutation, dubbed G2019S, is the first, the researchers say, to be associated with typical, late-onset Parkinson's.

"From a research point of view, this is the first time we could identify what appears to be typical Parkinson's disease cases before people develop symptoms," says Mayo Clinic neuroscientist Matthew Farrer. "We know if someone inherits the mutation they are going to get Parkinson's disease."

The mutation was discovered by sequencing the LRRK2 gene in families with Parkinson's from the US, Norway, Ireland and Poland.

It was found in 22 of 42 family members of people with Parkinson's while it was absent in more than 2,000 healthy controls.

All people with G2019S mutations shared a genetic pattern indicating a common, ancient ancestor.

The finding shows that the most common form of Parkinson's disease, which was thought to be sporadic, has a genetic component.

While it's a small number of cases, says Farrer, the finding should help in the creation of Parkinson's models.

Farrer and colleagues are also starting to examine the cellular role of the LRRK2 protein and why the mutant gene causes disease.

"It's an exciting time in the study of the genetics of Parkinson's disease," says Farrer, who notes that there are already clinical trials of drugs called mixed-lineage kinase inhibitors that may be targeted at the form of the disease linked with the mutation.

The research is reported in the American Journal of Human Genetics.

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I'm a journalist by profession and education who has worked in online media for more than five years. During this time I've paid particular attention to the emergence of open source software, open access research and open content projects such as Wikipedia. I strongly believe that Wikinews is an important evolution for journalism, which is dominated by huge corporations. I also feel very strongly that Wikinews can compete with such syndicated content providers as Reuters.

I joined the Wikinews project in February 2005 because I want to contribute to its growth and development. I aim to spur the creation of science, technology and health articles and have already begun contributing them myself.

Admittedly, my goals aren't entirely altruistic. I'm the founder and editor of Betterhumans.com. As a relatively small operation, we can't afford to pay large content syndication fees to companies such as Reuters. Furthermore, I want us to spend more money on the creation of original editorial addressing issues and developments that others aren't, not on such things as press release rewrites that come through syndication providers.

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Hi, just a note to say that I have reverted your edit because my headline was better. Don't you think so? Nice, isn't it. Dan100 (Talk) 9 July 2005 17:40 (UTC)

About the AOL article
1. It's being reported on CNN which is owned by Time Warner: http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/15/technology/aol_microsoft/ and http://edition.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/09/15/microsoft.aol.ap/index.html That's how we know it's true. 2. Someone else reported and there is a merge flag but no-one's merging it: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Microsoft%2C_Time_Warner_talk_on_partnership 3. Up until now I have personally viewed Wikinews as the leading news site on the Internet. 4. Don't insult my style of writing. 5. AOL is one of the largest ISPs in the world, many viewers of Wikinews probably use them. Wikinews has to report on this if it wants any credibility. 66.111.38.110 21:57, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

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Explosion in central Tel Aviv nightclub

February 26, 2005

Four are dead and fifty injured after a suicide bomber set off an explosion at a nightclub in central Tel Aviv. The blast was in the queue going into the club, Stage, on the main promenade. The bomber had been stopped from entering the club by security guards just before the explosion.

At first the militant groups Hezbollah, al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Islamic Jihad and Hamas all denied involvement, but according to the BBC the Islamic Jihad later claimed responsibility for the blast. A spokesman for the group stated that "Israel has not abided by the pacification period. This is the main reason that led to this operation".

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas released a statement after a meeting with his security chiefs:

 * The Palestinian Authority will not stand silent in the face of this act of sabotage. We will follow and track down those responsible and they will be punished accordingly.
 * What happened tonight was an act of sabotage toward the peace process and an attempt to ruin the efforts to establish a state of calm.

The swift condemnation and call for action by the Palestinian leader has caused Israeli officials to declare that the attack, the first since an informal truce began early this month, would not derail the peace process. It was also the first suicide bombing in Israel in almost 4 months, during which pullbacks from occupied territories have been announced, and Palestinian prisoners have been released.

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British Iraq abuse case soldiers jailed

February 25, 2005 The three British soldiers in the centre of an Iraqi abuse scandal have been jailed for between 140 days and two years and all three have been dismissed from the army. L/Cpl Mark Cooley, 25, Cpl Daniel Kenyon, 33, and L/Cpl Darren Larkin, 30, assaulted a number of Iraqi prisoners in Camp Bread Basket, near Basra.

Gen Sir Michael Jackson said that he wanted to, "place on record how appalled and disappointed I was when I first saw those photographs at the outset of the trial", and has said he apologised "to those Iraqis who were abused" and to Iraq as whole.

The men said they felt they were scapegoats as they felt they were other soldiers in the abuse and one of the men's lawyers said there was, "a significant number of other soldiers, including many senior to him, some of whom have been promoted, were involved in the mistreatment of Iraqis that day".

In a separate court martial last year, the soldier who took the photos used as evidence in the trial, Gary Bartlam, admitted taking photographs of the Iraqis simulating sex acts. He was sentenced to 18 months in a youth detention centre and disgracefully discharged from the British Army.

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Montserrat refugees to be deported from U.S.

February 27, 2005 A last gasp effort is underway to prevent the of  refugees from New York City, U.S.A., to the disaster-stricken volcanic island they fled ten years ago.

Representative (D, NY), of Brooklyn, is hoping the outpouring of support for victims of the Asian tsunami will save the refugees from returning to an island with an active volcano that is at constant risk of a further catastrophe.

Until last year, the had allowed the families to stay in the United States under a special designation called “Temporary Protected Status”. But in July, secretary of homeland security,, withdrew the status—not because it was safe to return to Montserrat, but because the volcano would remain active for decades to come and therefore was no longer a “temporary” danger. On February 27, the city’s estimated 100 Montserratians and their families will be forced to leave or risk deportation. A further 200 families, many of them living in Boston, are also under threat.

Earlier efforts to win a reprieve for the Montserratians were blocked by anti-immigrant forces in the House of Representatives, led by congressman Tom Tancredo, of Colorado, Rep. Owens said. But he added that a new bill, which he introduced at the end of last month, might be more popular in the wake of the Asian disaster.

"We hope that the approaching emergency situation plus the drama of the tsunami will help change some of the attitudes about this," Rep. Owens said. "And some of the people who opposed this legislation on the basis that they opposed immigration, will see that it is not about immigration but about coming to the relief of people who have been victims of a natural disaster."

Meanwhile, New York’s tiny Montserratian community must wait and hope. For those not fortunate enough to have married a US citizen or to have found an employer willing to sponsor them, the coming weeks are crucial.

Pearl Ryner, 40, a refugee who works as a medical technician at the King’s County Hospital in Brooklyn, said she refused to get married just so that she can stay in the United States. But she is a single mother with four children and she does not want to uproot her family and start over again.

“I worry. I cry. I am still hoping,” Ms. Ryner said. “What do I do? Where do I begin? How do I pick four kids up and take them away? If I buy a plane ticket, where do I go? These are questions that I do not have an answer for.”

The Department of Homeland Security has suggested that because Montserrat is a, Montserratians should go to the UK. But the refugees say they have no relatives or friends they can stay with in the UK, and that they have made homes and started careers and lives in the United States.

If the refugees are deported to Montserrat it will be to a 35 square-mile island, two-thirds of which is buried beneath volcanic rubble and ash. The capital, Plymouth, in the south east of the island has been abandoned, and there is a housing and employment shortage.

The erupted in 1995, but the British Foreign Office website warns that the volcano remains active. Heavy rain can cause mud-flows, and people suffering from breathing problems risk airborne dust and volcanic ash. The collapse of a lava dome in 2001 spewed clouds of ash that affected Puerto Rico, a self-governing territory of the United States, 200 miles away.

Moreover continued volcanic activity is triggering landslides that have caused two tsunamis in Montserrat during the past ten years. The first, on December 26, 1997, created a wave three meters tall, which rolled northwards along the coast. The second, in July 2003, measured about four meters and traveled to Guadeloupe 30 miles away.

Sherry Coriette, 28, who works for a major retail company in New York, said that she still has not decided what to do. "I have a good job, I pay my bills," Ms. Coriette said. "Eight years ago I left with nothing and now I am having to face starting all over again."

Matthew Dunn, chairman of the New York Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said that as long as there was a potential for danger, the United Sates should offer the people of Montserrat a safe haven.

"I would argue that is what our country is all about: helping and protecting people," Mr. Dunn said. "But the biggest shame in all of this is that because there is so few of them, they do not have a big enough voice."


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I've managed to find support/citations for everything except the quotes. If the original author, or anyone else, can find supporting citations for the quotes, great! otherwise I'm going to have to call the subjects to find out if those are accurate quotes. - Amgine 04:11, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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 * Discussions need your input
 * Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
 * And of course, stories need writing!

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Welcome
212.24.36.66, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! -- IlyaHaykinson 08:37, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Style guide - how articles should look before publishing
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
 * And of course, stories need writing!

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User:Eloquence/State of the Wiki: February 26, 2005

A lot has happened since my last State of the Wiki summary. First and foremost, there are now 10 Wikinews editions: English, German, Dutch, Swedish, French, Spanish, Bulgarian, Portuguese, Polish, and Romanian (launched in this order). This report is, by necessity, somewhat focused on the English edition. I encourage editors to submit interesting developments in their local Wikinews community to the international Wikinews mailing list.

Multilingual progress
Let's start with some statistics. Here is the number of pages in the article namespace, as of today, on the different editions (any page without a namespace prefix containing at least one link):

[*] includes many index pages which are not articles

English and German are the leaders in terms of Wikipedia article count, and they were launched first, so their high position is to be expected. Swedish is surprisingly large, which is owed to a very dedicated core team of editors. Polish, only launched very recently, is off to a very promising start and has already taken the fifth position. The biggest surprise in the list, however, is French, which was launched together with Swedish and Spanish. The French Wikinews is still very disorganized, and there is no regular output of stories yet.

It is notable that, in the global Wikinews vote on whether to launch the project, there was actually a majority against the project on the French voting page. However, since the vote was global, the same standards are applied to all Wikinews editions (with the possible exception of Chinese). When the required number of pledges by potential participants was reached, the project was launched in accordance with the agreed upon policy for new languages. This led to some protests from the French language community, who felt that they should have had the opportunity to decide (by vote or otherwise) whether they want a Wikinews project in their language.

I don't think that is the right approach, but I do agree with those who have argued that simply pledging to participate in a future language edition is not enough. The amended policy now requires a certain minimum number of edits on existing Wikimedia projects for at least some of the pledges. In addition to or instead of that, I believe that the requirement to translate or create some key Wikinews documents (mission statement, neutrality in news articles, article tags, etc.) before a new language is launched would make sense. This way, the actual desire to work on that language edition could be put to the test before we create the wiki. More on what to do when a project has become temporarily inactive below.

Logo, portal and design contest
After a long voting process, we finally have a Wikinews logo. Some people have expressed concern that the logo looks remarkably similar to that of a certain global organization, and that the light blue color does not go well with the gray background. David Vasquez, who created the logo, has made a few logo variants and is open to suggestions to refine his work. I think he has done an excellent job so far. Critics should be silenced by the history of the Wikipedia logo. The first logo used by Wikipedia was an American flag.

Like Wikipedia, Wikinews now has a central portal page at www.wikinews.org. The components of the page can be edited on Meta-Wiki: Www.wikinews.org portal (the main body) and Www.wikinews.org template (the surrounding HTML, only editable by sysops).

Unfortunately, Wikinews currently looks exactly like Wikipedia except for the logo. I believe we should attempt to create a unique visual identity for the project. To this end, I have launched a Wikinews design contest for the portal and stylesheets (MediaWiki:Monobook.css). Please promote this contest in your local Wikinews edition and elsewhere on the net.

Content license and fair use
Wikinews content is currently still in the public domain. Please make sure that your local MediaWiki:Copyright and MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning are clear about this. The main reason for this is that the public domain allow us to switch to any other license, or combination of licenses, in the future, so we can gather data about the licensing requirements for Wikinews before making a final decision.

The key underlying question is: Is it more important to us to maximize the copyleft effect -- that is, derivative works of Wikinews articles have to be under a free license -- or is our primary focus to achieve maximum distribution? Right now, under the public domain, the New York Times could take any Wikinews story and make it the basis of their own reporting without giving us any credit (unless one of the contributors holds moral rights to the work, which includes the right to attribution, though this may be difficult to enforce across national boundaries). A license like Creative Commons Attribution-Only (CC-BY) would require attribution, but nothing else. The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) on the other hand, has a number of very onerous requirements, which has led some prominent open source and open content projects to reject it,. If we choose another license than the GFDL, this also complicates combination of Wikinews and Wikipedia article content.

My personal opinion is that copyright doesn't make sense, and that if we want to build a society without coercion and restrictions on information use, we should set a good example by using the public domain. Richard Stallman's copyleft approach is essentially a "trick" to use copyright against itself; this sounds like a good idea in theory, but in practice creates the false and dangerous perception that open source software and open content require copyright law to exist. On the other hand, I also think the issue is vastly overrated in importance, and should not be used to drive a wedge into the free content community. I am happy to accept any decision we can come up with.

When is this decision going to happen? Unless someone else steps up to the plate, I will probably organize a vote in early or mid-March. This is not entirely trivial as we have to properly distinguish between different dual licensing options (primarily CC-BY/GNU FDL and CC-BY-SA/FDL).

A related issue is the question of fair use on Wikinews. Most Wikinews articles are summaries of stories from various outside sources. This is, or should be, perfectly legal and does not fall under "fair use". It is not possible to copyright information, only a specific expression thereof. Or at least that's what intellectual property lawyers keep telling people.

In practice, the distinction between copyrights and patents is continually being eroded through the idea of "derivative works". An example of this was the attempt to halt the publication of The Wind Done Gone, a parody of the book Gone With the Wind. The copyright industry has very actively tried to make it possible to protect information itself. So, at some point, news publishers may accuse us of creating derivative works of their stories.

Our goal is to become a player in the global multi-billion-dollar industry of newsmaking, and as such, we have to expect that these companies will try to kill us when we become relevant. Besides a tremendous power to manufacture consent, Murdoch, Bertelsmann & Co. have an army of lawyers at their disposal, and they will not hesitate a split second to use it. This is why I believe we must be extra careful when resorting to copyright exemptions like "fair use", especially for photos.

We directly compete with news organizations whose photos we could potentially use. Regardless of whether or not that makes our fair use claims less legally plausible, I believe it increases our risk of being targeted. For this reason, fair use of photos from other publications is currently not allowed on any Wikinews edition. Local uploads have been disabled on all Wikinews editions, and uploads are only possible to the Wikimedia Commons, which does not allow non-free content.

That does not mean that we will not allow any fair use whatsoever -- screenshots and logos are fair game, for example. However, every Wikinews edition needs to formulate a clear policy on the matter before local uploads can be re-enabled.

Wikinews and blogs
On February 5, the first open Wikinews Chat took place on IRC. The topic was potential present and future interaction between Wikinews and the blogosphere. Thanks to a lot of publicity in various blogs, the chat attracted plenty of high profile people, including Joi Ito, Rebecca MacKinnon, Kevin Marks of Technorati, Pete Carr of Chatmag.com, Susan Crawford, Nelson Pavlosky of freeculture.org, Adina Levin, Jonathan Dube of CyberJournalist.net and MSNBC, and many others. Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and elected trustee Angela Beesley were also present. At peak times, we were chatting at a speed of about 20 lines per minute!

My primary goal with this event was to get bloggers excited about Wikinews. One idea which has been discussed was the creation of a global real-time forum for citizen journalists from various different projects (individual blogs, Indymedia, OhMyNews, etc.). This would be quite a challenge, but something I would like to pursue further. In order to get an RSS feed in spite of our wiki software not yet having the necessary functionality, Dan100 started a Wikinews blog which links to the latest English stories (though it does not include their actual content). We're still quite a long way from real RSS feeds (see below), but I think the connections we have established with this chat will help us when we can integrate Wikinews better with the blogosphere. I also encourage all Wikinewsies to participate in building an index of relevant blogs to observe, and to directly invite bloggers to participate.

Thanks to everyone who made the chat possible, especially Amgine, who did most of the grunt work of collecting email addresses and writing invitiation emails.

Submit a story
In order to ease participation for people unfamiliar with wikis, I came up with the idea of a simplified story submission screen, which is now at Submit a story and has been translated into various languages. The idea is simple: To submit a story, you append it to the page using the "post a comment" feature. The community of existing Wikinews editors will look over these stories and decide which ones to turn into real articles and which ones to reject. Rejected stories are collected in the Submission log.

The feature has been used very actively, as the page history shows. Key to making it work is prominent exposure on the Main Page as well as the www.wikinews.org portal. It's also important that the instructions on the page are kept brief -- it is not intended for people willing to read policy pages. It's perfectly OK if people use it to submit letters, POV essays and similar unacceptable material as long as there is an active team of editors weeding this out. If your edition doesn't already have this page, I encourage you to create it. It is promising to become a key entry point for new stories.

Software needs
I am observing a general problem with the Wikimedia projects, in that the needs of the projects are not met by the open source development process of the underlying software, MediaWiki. The English Wikipedia alone has 200,000 registered users, yet there are only a handful of people actively doing work on the software. MediaWiki now has about 150,000 lines of code (including the language code, but not including many extensions), and is turning into an immensely complex piece of software.

A developer coding a new feature will not only have to make it work in their environment, they will have to make sure that it interacts well with the Squid proxy cache, that it doesn't interfere with future plans such as ESI support, that it works with MySQL replication, that it is absolutely secure against outside attacks (as a single such attack could do a lot of damage), and that it can scale to Wikipedia's size (one of the largest 100 English-language websites in the world). Coding conventions and documentation standards are increasingly enforced, and the feature also needs to be properly tested before it is put into use in order to avoid pissing off a community of hundreds of thousands. This is very different from when Wikipedia was hosted on 2 servers with very limited caching and little concern for system security.

I see this as a main cause for relatively little new feature work happening on MediaWiki at the present time. It's no longer fun and easy to do. See it like this: When you write a Wikipedia article, it doesn't stop working if it still has bugs. Nobody will delete your article just because you didn't follow a convention or made a small mistake. You don't have to test the article with an audience before being allowed to publish it. It's OK to submit something which is incomplete and buggy. And of course the only thing you need to be able to speak is the language of the wiki project you're working on -- no need to be able to grok other people's PHP code with very incomplete documentation.

Yet, projects like Wiktionary, Wikispecies, Wikicommons and Wikinews are in dire need of additional functionality. In the context of Wikinews, RSS support for categories would be one essential feature, automatic building of indexing pages another. The latter is currently stalled because of concerns about the scalability of the current implementation.

While the Wikimedia Foundation has now hired a very talented developer, he will have his hands full just keeping the codebase secure, fixing bugs, coding absolutely critical features and managing incoming patches. I don't see how this problem can be solved without a dedicated effort to research the project needs, to prioritize tasks, and to assign them to full-time or part-time developers. It is hard to exaggerate the relevance of the software issue. Wikinews would already have grown at a much faster rate if it was fully integrated with the blogosphere, for example. The same is true for other projects which are only slowly plodding forward due to missing functionality.

I think even the word "software" shows how much we still underestimate its relevance. "Code" is a much better word. Code is complex. Code is law. Code determines what we can and cannot do. And as long as we don't have all the code we need, Wikinews can and will not be able to fulfill its mission.

What to do when a project is inactive?
One notable difference from Wikinews to other projects is that a quick glance at the frontpage gives you an impression of the level of activity: if you only see old news, obviously the project is not very active. This is good if it is seen as an incentive to work on it, bad if it frustrates people and makes them give up on the project. Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wiktionary in the different languages all have their phases of activity and inactivity, but nowhere are those phases more visible than on Wikinews.

So how do we deal with small language editions that have not yet reached critical mass? One idea would be to put a template on the Wikinews Main Page when an edition has become temporarily inactive:

The French edition of Wikinews is currently not very active. Please participate in building this website into a useful resource! Ideas for increasing activity are collected at Building Wikinews.

This helps people to understand that such phases of inactivity are natural in a small community and no reason to shut down a project. Here are a few specific suggestions to increase activity:

 * 1) Translate. It is much easier to translate a well-written article than to write a new one from scratch. Wikinews articles have to grow to publishable quality very fast, "stubs" aren't helpful, and references are a strict requirement. As such, writing them takes a lot of effort. But the English Wikinews, for example, is now publishing articles at a reasonable rate. As an author of that edition, I also get great satisfaction out of knowing that my work is going to be translated into languages I do not speak.
 * 2) Prominently link the equivalent of Submit a story - this helps to attract people who do not know about the Wikinews process and just want to get their feet wet.
 * 3) Have brief news items on the frontpage which aren't fully developed stories yet. This should only be done until real stories are being published regularly, so as to not conflict with the Current events pages on Wikipedia.
 * 4) Edit MediaWiki:Sitenotice and point people to the IRC channel, mailing list and Village Pump (or Water cooler was we like to say). Building a community helps to create a feeling of identity and the desire to protect that community, which is an incentive to do work on the site.
 * 5) Organize and participate in events like the design contest or the Wikinews chats. Point people on Wikipedia to these events to get them interested in the project.
 * 6) If you are a software developer, help us to implement MediaWiki features like category RSS feeds and dynamic article display (see above).

Simon says ...
Simon Waldman, Director of Digital Publishing for Guardian Newspapers, has written an interesting blog entry about Wikinews titled "Wikinews...dare I say what I think?" Apparently there is an insidious wiki mafia that will violently silence all critics. In all seriousness, in my experience the Wikimedia community is one of the most thoughtful and most critically thinking groups of people I have ever met. Under the banner of neutrality, people from all ideological persuasions are united -- and, of course, constantly bickering about everything. The very idea of Wikinews was (and continues to be) highly controversial and was intensely debated on the mailing lists and the Meta-Wiki before a solid majority voted for the project to be launched.

That being said, Simon makes a few good points, which I would like to briefly respond to.

 * o Most Wikinews articles have already been covered elsewhere. That's certainly true. Most articles in your daily newspaper have already been covered elsewhere. They come from a news organization like the Associated Press, Reuters, AFP, dpa, or ITAR-TAS, which distributes them to many thousands of clients. These stories have to be licensed. If you distribute them illegally, you can be thrown into jail. Copyright is a powerful instrument to control the distribution of news. Want to start a local newspaper? Good luck, if you can't afford to license content from the news agencies.

 * Simon also speaks enthusiastically of a "world of free news sites, blogs, newsreaders and rss feeds". That's great, but how many of these news sites are truly free? How many, on the other hand, require you to fill out a complex registration form before you can even read their stories -- including, for example, the New York Times Story about Wikinews? How many of them move their content into commercial archives after a few weeks? How many blogs actually do real reporting or summarization of news stories instead of just linking to what others have published?

 * How difficult is it to build a meaningful aggregate of blogs that report interesting stories? What rights do I have, as a reader, to make modifications to the content of blogs and news sites, or to distribute it? How many news organizations (let alone blogs) follow a strict policy of neutrality? How many cover highly regional stories from the entire planet in as much detail as global events? How many allow anyone to fix errors, to question sources, and to contribute material?

 * Free is not free, Simon. Wikinews content is currently in the public domain. You can do with it whatever you wish. You can start up your own newspaper anywhere in the world and use Wikinews stories as a basis to work with. Already, sites like The World Forum are redistributing Wikinews stories and enriching them in different ways. Wikinews should not be seen strictly as a reader-oriented site at this point. It is also useful for anyone who makes use of the content to save money on licensing stories from elsewhere.

 * Wikinews doesn't need to be complete. It doesn't need to be original. It needs to be free, and it is. To criticize Wikinews for being "what others are already doing" is like saying we should get rid of Linux because there are so many good operating systems out there.

 * o Wikinews should do only original reporting. This misses the point above, that free content has intrinsic value. Wikinews allows original reporting (see also below). Sadly, we do not have money to hire full-time investigative journalists, so we have to rely on the kindness of strangers. The original reporting space is also firmly occupied by activist groups like Indymedia at the moment -- obviously, it is easier to motivate people to write propaganda than to give neutral accounts of what happened.

 * I think this will change when Wikinews becomes more useful to readers (through category RSS feeds for different topics, for example) and more comprehensive. At this point, people will want to publish on Wikinews simply to reach its audience, which ideally should be far larger than that of Indymedia and similar propaganda websites.

 * o Wikinews needs to focus. We cannot force our volunteers to write about particular topics. It makes a lot more sense to categorize articles properly. Some categories will then develop naturally into more useful sources than others. Again, with proper software support, people will be able to subscribe to just the topics they are interested in.

 * o Wikinews needs an editor. I will try not to be too dismissive of that suggestion. Many people don't know that Wikipedia has had an editor (or "chief organizer"), Larry Sanger, for some time (until his resignation in March 2002). I think everyone would acknowledge that Larry has played a very important role in the early phase of the project, and that it would have evolved very differently without him.

 * However, in my experience, it is better to let authority develop naturally rather than to assign it. People like Amgine and Ilya on the English Wikinews enjoy a lot of respect because of the work they are doing. As such, other people will seek their guidance in controversies. Yet, they do not have any real power which they could abuse to get what they want even when the community disagrees with them. Their authority fades when their activity goes down. This is how it should be.

 * o Wikinews needs to join forces with the blogosphere. This is happening and we are actively pursuing it -- see above.

 * o Stick to Wikipedia. This was one of the points frequently brought up when the Wikinews project was originally launched. I can thus simply quote from the Wikinews FAQ:

Wikinews articles provide very detailed information about specific events ("Allende toppled: Pinochet new ruler"). Wikipedia articles provide condensed information about a series of events (History of Chile, Augusto Pinochet, etc.). Also, Wikinews allows original research, while Wikipedia does not (Wikinews may eventually become reliable enough to be cited as a source on Wikipedia).

Let's take as a specific example the article Hurricane Charley on the English Wikipedia. In Wikinews, we would not just publish a brief timeline as in Wikipedia, but a detailed article about
 * what the forecast of the hurricane path and strength for the next day is
 * according to different experts
 * what preparations are being made by the local authorities (evacuations etc.)
 * what the situation is like for the people living in the storm area (live wiki-report)

Where Wikipedia would just summarize something like [http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2004/dis/al092004.discus.067.shtml? this report] in one sentence, Wikinews might well reproduce (if in the public domain) the whole thing in order to give people as much useful "live" information as possible.

So the two projects are very different, and in many cases, the work of summarizing the Wikinews article in Wikipedia will not be much different from the work of summarizing other sources like CNN or MSNBC.

 * Of the Wikinews articles which have been written so far, only a very small fraction has been covered on Wikipedia, and if so, usually only in a few sentences on the current events page or a relevant article. Major events like elections or disasters are a special case, as they are deserving of individual Wikipedia articles; yet, in those cases, Wikinews will ideally provide much more detailed coverage over a longer period of time. It does not make sense to compare the two in that department yet, because Wikinews is much, much smaller than Wikipedia.

Though I disagree with almost everything Simon wrote, he has clearly spent some time thinking about the issues, and I'm very happy that people are beginning to analyze Wikinews.

Accreditation and original reporting
Ilya of the English Wikinews has begun work on a page for requesting credentials to do original reporting. The really cool part is that he has set up a voicemail account which organizations can call to verify whether a person is an accredited Wikinews reporter. Incoming voicemails are forwarded as audio file attachments (WAV files) to an internal mailing list, where volunteers can then proceed to answer the verification requests by phone or otherwise.

Accreditation was one of the ideas I collected on the think tank page when I proposed the project. The first Wikinews edition to experiment with it, to my knowledge, was the German Wikinews: de:Wikinews:Akkreditierung. I would be interested in hearing a report from that community on how the process has worked out so far.

Original reporting on the English Wikinews is collected in Category:Original reporting, though so far examples are hard to find. The Unrest in Belize scoop has already been done to death, so I won't spend more time talking about it. Iraqi elections kept low-key, but secure, in Paris is a nice example of a Wikinewsie going out and taking photos to write a report about a local event.

Hopefully, we will move towards a more systematic process of sending volunteer reporters to events in all world regions. One advantage we have is that we're very good at translating -- once it's in English, German or Spanish, chances are pretty good that it will spread into the other editions.

Review
The original multi-stage review process of the English Wikinews has been scrapped in favor of a much simpler tagging model. If there are problems with an article, it will be labeled as such, and not prominently featured on the Main Page until the objections are resolved. This brings up an interesting point.

The exposure on the Main Page is itself a form of community review which does not exist like that on Wikipedia. Every published English Wikinews article will be shown there, and this temporary burst of attention leads to problems with the article being recognized relatively quickly.

Though a single-page model can obviously not scale, it is a process which has, in my opinion, greatly helped the quality of our articles so far. Certainly we will want to move towards a very rigid fact checking process, but right now, we have to get the momentum going and reach critical mass, in certain topic areas at least (on that I agree with Simon). I have also come to the conclusion that any advanced review process will require software changes in order to be maintainable.

Final words
As an example of where we might be headed, let me cite the somewhat silly story "Pfizer and Microsoft team up against Viagra spam". Pingswept and I wrote that article using a tool called MoonEdit, a collaborative real-time editor for multiple platforms. It's a clone of SubEthaEdit. Editing in real-time with someone else is quite a lot of fun, though MoonEdit is a bit painful to use (clumsy GUI, network problems) and proprietary.

Another example of how code determines what we can and cannot do, tools like this can massively increase the productivity of citizen journalists and the quality of their output. Imagine multiple such real-time editing sessions going on at any given time. There's more to it than just the shared workload -- it also makes the process of writing a more social, fun experience. I hope that eventually organizations like Wikimedia will take the lead in funding development of open source tools that can be used for this purpose.

As you can see, a lot has been happening in our little world, and I hope that if you aren't already involved with Wikinews, you will decide to give it a try or submit a story from time to time. If your language doesn't yet have its own edition, you can petition for it to be created on Wikinews/Start a new edition.

I apologize for this summary being a bit English-centric, and I hope that we can read similar reports for the various other editions soon. It is incredibly exciting and rewarding for me to see the project grow in many different languages, and it has always been one of the great strengths of Wikimedia to embrace internationalization, where most online communities don't. May we infect each other with the best ideas.

Erik Möller

Berlin, February 26, 2005


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U.N. reports Afghan opium production is up again

February 11, 2005 Afghanistan is the #1 producer of in the world — responsible for 87% of all illicit opium production — according to reports from the United Nations  (UNODC), and its opium production has accelerated since the coalition invasion in 2001.

The November 2004 annual reports put out by UNODC show that Afghanistan opium production has been increasing each year since the coalition invasion. The UNODC report for 2004 shows a 64% increase over the previous year in the area of opium production, and a 22% increase in export value for the year(2.8 billion).

"It could be brought under control with a good dose of law enforcement, which at the moment is lacking," Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of UNODC, said in an interview in 2003 when reports showed an increase in hectares under production of 8% over the previous year. "I believe that the war against terrorism, leaving aside addiction, will not be won unless we control the opium economy of Afghanistan."

Doug Wankel, Counter Narcotics Coordinator at the U.S. Embassy in, said the opium industry in Afghanistan is financing terrorism in an interview with USA Today. "It's financing subversive activities. It's financing warlordism. ... And if it's a threat to the government of Afghanistan, it's a direct threat to the national security interests of the United States."

Calling the data "disheartening," UNODC reported that Afghanistan now produces three-fourths of the world's opium. The report estimated revenues from growing and trafficking to be half of Afghanistan's gross domestic product.


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User talk:SlimVirgin

Welcome
SlimVirgin, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! CGorman 14:49, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Style guide - how articles should look before publishing
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
 * And of course, stories need writing!

Fair use rationales
Hello, Thanks for kindly transwiki-ing the two PETA images that were deleted from Commons for the lack of free license. I expect that fair use rationales can be written to allow them to be kept at Wikinews for use in Ingrid Newkirk, co-founder of PETA, on animal rights and the film about her life.

 * 1) Could you have a stab at drafting the rationales, please?
 * 2) Do you think the poster should be lower resolution, or is it 'fair' at that resolution?

--InfantGorilla (talk) 13:08, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

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User talk:217.136.8.156

Welcome
217.136.8.156, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! CGorman 14:50, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Style guide - how articles should look before publishing
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
 * And of course, stories need writing!

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User talk:212.186.144.229

Welcome
212.186.144.229, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these! Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews: There are always things to do on Wikinews: By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes ( ~~~~ ), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! CGorman 14:50, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
 * Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced
 * Introduction - overview of the site
 * Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
 * Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
 * Style guide - how articles should look before publishing
 * Contents - the contents page.
 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
 * The front page lead articles often need updating
 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
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 * And of course, stories need writing!

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User talk:Eloquence/State of the Wiki: February 26, 2005

Article Location
Eloquence, wouldn't it be a lot easier to move this page to State of the Wiki, as this page is already used as a community page? I just thought it's current location is a bit odd. -- Redge (Talk) 13:26, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure what you mean with "this page is already used as a community page". I like these to be essentially Erik's reports, with some personal bias here and there, not necessarily a boring NPOV account of what happened. I don't think that would be appropriate in the Wikinews: namespace.--Eloquence 06:01, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I did not get the impression that they are to biased, and besides, as they pertain to wikinews and aren't news items, NPOV may not be necessary. But if you'd like it to keep it a more personal report, I won't argue. -- Redge (Talk) 13:10, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Larry Sanger editor of Wikipedia?
Eloquence, you write that Larry Sanger was the editor of Wikipedia however Wikipedia says that Larry Sanger "resigned as editor-in-chief of Nupedia and as "chief organizer" of Wikipedia (he never claimed an official title) shortly thereafter." —Christiaan 15:14, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Good point. In practice, the distinction was often difficult to see -- he made many editorial calls, though his influence was clearly more subdued than on Nupedia.--Eloquence 23:10, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Simon says...
The editors Weblog has also disected his comments, there a little more positive towards the whole idea - worth a read. CGorman 16:04, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Back to the beta logo?
I noticed that Wikinews went back to the "Beta" logo today. (Perhaps as a side effect of the restore from the power outage?)

You may have to purge and refresh to see it. (I usually purge to make the latest weather map appear, so perhaps that's why I'm noticing this while no one else has pointed it out yet?)

If you are going to update the logo back to the globe, perhaps this would be a good opportunity to use a more polished version:

By the way, I was amused to see that someone named "NoClip" made a "Breaking News" logo out of this - it's on the front page right now. It looks kind of goofy, but I appreciate the sentiment.

Cheers,

— DV 21:50, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * For what it's worth the logo is still new one for me (even after clearing my cache). But I support changing to the "polished" version, nevertheless. -- IlyaHaykinson 21:59, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I've been seeing both logos, unpredictably. Weird. Pingswept 22:05, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Clarifying some points
You wrote that "the New York Times could take any Wikinews story and make it the basis of their own reporting without giving us any credit" but appear not to be considering moral rights, which probably apply to anything they may use from a non-US Wikinews source (including non-US persons writing in the English language version). It's also required by journalist ethics standards and the New York Times, in particular, is unlikely to want another ethics problem in the lght of its recent history of ethics problems.

This doesn't really matter, of course, since getting a neutral source of news distributed is the key goal of the project and whether there is attribution or not, that's still happening.

Wikinews itself seems pretty bad at attributing authors, so it's perhaps unsurprising that those reusing the content don't do so either. How often are the authors of stories on Wikinews attributed in connection with the story they wrote? Perhaps fixing this problem at home is the first part of the solution?

When it comes to "automatic building of indexing pages another. The latter is currently stalled (http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411) because of concerns about the scalability of the current implementation", you've understated just how bad it is. It's written in a way which makes it a denial of service attack on the database servers. For every view of a page using it, it retrieves every article in each category, sorts them and then displays only the first few. When there are going to be hundreds of thousands or millions of articles in a category, that doesn't work, it kills the database servers instead. To be viable and display a page in less than minutes or hours, it needs to be caching the results somewhere, so each view doesn't generate heavy database load but instead generates a simple cached page view (like the special repots) which can be updated every few minutes. It also needs to use a database query which makes sense (that is, one using an index to select the most recent few articles in the category). Jamesday 19:55, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I checked the stories in the left column as far back as 2 March. None attributed the author(s) of the story. Hardly surprising that reusers don't credit the authors when Wikinews itself doesn't. Jamesday 19:58, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't understand this point. On a wiki, there is no single author. Articles are edited by numerous contributors. The History page shows the names of those authors. Is the suggestion that the contents of the History page should somehow appear on the Article page for each story? This would be impossible to maintain - it would constantly be out of date as additional editors made changes. (Not to mention that some editors might clash over the issue of which name was listed first.)

 * If I am misunderstanding you and you are referring to the Sources section listing the external sites which each article is based upon, very few articles last very long without a list of sources, so I would be surprised if you managed to find a large number of articles which didn't cite their sources.

 * I apologize that I am not understanding the issue you are pointing out concerning attribution. — DV 09:56, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Article namespace figures
Article namespace of German Wikinews is containing many pages listing articles by date in an attempt to replace the rather useless category listings by name. So the article count is very much lower there. Today I counted over 900 pages in the namespace, of which at least 300 are not articles, see the local news directory for an example. Also the 2005 directory has been placed in the article namespace. At Pressestammtisch it was noted recently that such pages might perhaps be replaced by automatically generated lists. -- Thoken 11:34, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)


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User:Jnc

I'm almost never over here. Please see my page on the English Wikipedia. Similarly, please use my talk page on the English Wikipedia. Thanks. - Noel

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User talk:Jnc

I'm almost never over here. Please use my talk page on the English Wikipedia. Thanks. - Noel

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Bacteria thrive deep under sea floor

February 26, 2005 Analysis of sediments taken from hundreds of metres beneath the ocean floor has shown them to contain living microbes. According to a study produced by a team of researchers supported by the International Ocean Drilling Program, this is the first time that microbes have been found in abundance at such depths.

Scientists have long speculated about how much of the bacterial content of the sediments is biologically active. Techniques used to stain the bacteria and identify them could not previously discriminate between live and dead cells. For this study a new technique that could distinguish between alive and dead cells was used.

The results were surprising. The sediments, some of which had been collected from up to 800 metres from beneath the sea floor and are said to be up to 16 million years old, contained between 10-30% living bacteria. Scientists estimate that between 60-70% of all bacteria are living deep beneath the surface, far from any sunlight.

"We didn't have clear evidence that bacteria there were alive until now," said ecologist and team member Lev Neretin of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Biology in Bremen, Germany. According to calculations, the populations of bacteria multiply at the same rate as their surface cousins and contribute significantly to the balance of greenhouse gases, consuming and producing CO2. They also contribute methane via a metabolic process that does not require oxygen.

"Because they play such a major role in the biochemical processes in the subsurface, clearly they are driving lots of reactions that produce the chemical steady state on Earth," said Dr John Parkes, one of the original co-authors of the paper which appeared in Nature magazine, "possibly we might not have oil and gas formations without them."

How could these bacteria get so deep beneath the ocean floor? "The only reasonable way is for them to be buried there," says Bo Thamdrup, a microbiologist from the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. The extremes of temperature and pressures tolerated by these bacteria add weight to the assertion that microbes may flourish in the extreme conditions of other planets.

"It is well known that bacteria living in deep oceans have special adaptations to help them survive," says Thamdrup. "I'm sure these bacteria have special adaptations too." A full genetic analysis may soon reveal them.

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Suspect in BTK killings arrested after 25 years in hiding

Wichita Police today arrested Dennis Rader, who is suspected of being the BTK killer. BTK, an acronym for "Bind, torture, kill," was the name the serial killer gave himself after killing eight people between 1974 and 1986 in that manner. The killer was thought to have disappeared for 25 years before he resurfaced in March of 2004. He was later linked to two unsolved murders, which took place in 1985 and 1991. Police Chief Norman Williams publicly announced the guilt of Mr. Rader prior to any trial preparations when he said to reporters "The bottom line, BTK is arrested."

The commander of the task force investigating the BTK killings, Lt. Ken Landwehr, said Rader had been arrested after being pulled over in a routine traffic stop. Authorities had questioned a "person of interest" Friday, which led them to a Park City home just outside Wichita and eventually to the identity of BTK.

BTK was notorious not only for his brutal way of killing people, but for taunting police and other investigators with letters throughout his 12-year killing spree. Investigators had run out of leads until police received a letter from BTK in March of last year.

Police have said they charge Rader with eight counts of first-degree murder and two other homicide charges. According to CNN, police were able to use Rader's daughter's DNA to find Rader. DNA of close family members has been used in a few previous cases to identify suspects, through a new technique known as familial searching.


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Princeton media class discusses Wikinews

Princeton, New Jersey, USA According to Ryan Walsh, editor of the websites for both the Princeton Journal of Science and American Foreign Policy, internet news service Wikinews was the topic of a report by Federico Baradello in a Princeton University course on mass media and public policy. The course, offered through the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, studies "the impact of policy on the content, presentation, influence, and technology of a rapidly-evolving 21st century news media," according to the school.

Walsh, currently a junior at Princeton, characterized the report in an email to Wikinews user Pingswept as "great" and added that "everyone in the class seemed to enjoy learning about Wikinews, and Federico was a great speaker."

According to an email from Baradello, the report, which took place on Monday, 21 February 2005, provided a "basic overview of its history (evolution), ownership, viewership, and position in the news market." It included a | live demonstration of adding new content to Wikinews. The barebones content provided in the demonstration was developed into this article.

Baradello's report is available on the course's blog. His final course paper on the decentralization of news gathering includes a case study on Wikinews with commentary from Jimmy Wales and will be available in PDF form by late May.


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Founder of Amnesty International dies, aged 83

February 26, 2005 The founder of Amnesty International, Peter Benenson, passed away last night after suffering for some time from a serious illness. At age 83, it is forty four years since he founded Amnesty as a result of reading an article about the imprisonment of two students in Portugal who had drunk a toast to liberty.

Amnesty International said they will be holding a public memorial service and there will be private ceremony for family members however there will be no funeral service. Amnesty International's current Secretary-General, Irene Khan, said after his death: "Peter Benenson's life was a courageous testament to his visionary commitment to fight injustice around the world."

The organisation was initially formed in 1960 for "a one-year campaign for the release of six prisoners of conscience." Today Amnesty has over 1.8m members and campaigns for human rights on a global basis. Mr. Benenson was originally trained as a lawyer before he dedicated his life to the promotion of human rights.