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U.S. found in violation of Native Americans rights

March 13, 2006 A UN (UNCHR) committee on the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) found the the US government in violation of Native Americans' land rights and the international anti-racism convention. The committee of 18 independent experts said in a press release that it had received credible information alleging that Western Shoshone peoples were being denied their traditional right to land. The decision details US actions against the Western Shoshone and calls upon the United States to immediately:

 * Respect and protect the human rights of the Western Shoshone peoples.
 * Initiate a dialogue with the representatives of the Western Shoshone peoples in order to find a solution acceptable to them, and which complies with their rights.
 * Adopt the following measures until a final decision or settlement is reached on the status, use and occupation of Western Shoshone ancestral lands in accordance with due process of law and US obligations under the Convention.
 * Freeze all efforts to privatize Western Shoshone ancestral lands for transfer to multinational extractive industries and energy developers.
 * Desist from all activities planned and/or conducted on Western Shoshone ancestral lands.
 * Stop imposing grazing fees, livestock impoundments, and hunting, fishing and gathering restrictions; and rescind all notices already given.

Bernice Lalo, Western Shoshone delegate, said, "The mines are polluting our waters, destroying hot springs and exploding sacred mountains—our burials along with them—attempting to erase our signature on the land. We are coerced and threatened by mining and Federal agencies when we seek to continue spiritual prayers for traditional food or medicine on Shoshone land." Mr. Lalo continued, "We feel the decision will be helpful by opening the door. We will continue this struggle to give our children a better chance."

Joe Kennedy, a Western Shoshone, said, "We have rights to protect our homelands and stop the destruction of our land, water, and air by the abuses of the United States government and the multinational corporations. He said, "The situation is outrageous, and we're glad the United Nations Committee agrees with us." Laura Inouye, Oxfam America, said, "This is a tremendous victory for the Shoshone people; the UN decision acknowledges the U.S. government's violations of Shoshone civil, political, economic, and cultural rights." Inouye concluded, "Hopefully, they will now be granted the justice that the US government has denied them for years." Oxfam America is a human rights organizaition which has backed the Western Shoshone.

A UN official said, according to the AP, that the US mission to the UN in Geneva had no immediate response to the decision.

The Western Shoshones' rights to the land, 60 million acres stretching across Nevada, Idaho, Utah and Califonia, were recognized by the US under the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley, which was signed by President Ulysses S. Grant a few years later. It was questioned by the US Supreme Court, 1979; the land was labeled 'government trusteeship' and much was claimed as federal territory. President Bush signed a bill in July 2004 that gave approval to distributing more than $145 million as compensation after the Shoshones voted to accept the distribution in a disputed election.

Jim Manley, a spokesman for Sen. Harry Reid (D. Nevada) and a proponent of the bill, said "The tribe twice has voted decisively in favor of the distribution."


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User:Michael Simpson~enwikinews/Controversy:Should banning on the wikis be legal

March 12, 2006 editorial by Michael Simpson

A controversy is continuing, as some secret wiki orgs are protesting against banning users from Wikipedia. There are hundreds of new users coming in every few months. However, there has been an outbreak of many new users of over thousands a month. Over this thousands of edit are happening a day on Wikipedia. Pretty soon, there will be billions of articles at a frightening rate. If this goes on Wikipedia will have a billion users, portals, and most importantly articles. According to Code Napoleon, creator of Portal:Culture of Indians, this controversy is a big problem in the people helping editing his articles. He's afraid of somebody blanking or vandalising his articles and his portal. Over the next few years this will become a problem none of the administrators will be able to be handle.

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User talk:Michael Simpson~enwikinews/Controversy:Should banning on the wikis be legal

NPOV
This article violates the WN:NPOV policy, in that it asserts opinions without ascribing them, asserts facts without sources, and is a rhetorical argument rather than reporting a news event (an editorial.) The article also is unsourced as to its factual statements, is not a news event at all, and desperately needs editorial cleanup, but I don't think multi-tagging is appropriate. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 18:42, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Lets not start running stories about every dispute in the wikipedia community. We should have had a story about the userbox war, but I'm not sure there is enough here for a real story anyway. So a notnews tag is probably reasonable. Nyarlathotep 19:28, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree that the notnews tag is appropriate; the article doesn't make enough sense to me to qualify for a NPOV tag. Neutralizer 20:44, 12 March 2006 (UTC)


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Talk:NASA spacecraft enters Mars orbit

There's already an article on this. Delete? -MescalineBanana 20:55, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I checked main page and workspace, I can't find a dupe. If you know of one, please list and perhaps consider adding  to it so it shows up on the workspace. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:09, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

--- How can the probe radio data back to Earth 10 times faster than any previous probe?! All radio transmissions travel at the speed of light! Explain what you mean, please. Does it have 10 times the bandwidth? ~Sr.Wombat @ Wikipedia

Since "radio" is the verb, and "data" is the noun, it's the data that's "verbed" ten times faster. Replace "radio" with "broadcast", if you'd prefer. This conclusion was reached without research, but with a simple interpretation of the sentence structure. Given that you offer two possible solutions then express one of them is impossible, perhaps it's the other. My suggested solution is to replace the verb. Karen 21:19, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I think I fixed this sentance to explain that it is not 10 time faster to send data, but that there is a much bigger pipe that is holding all of the data being transmitted back. This probe is using a high power microwave transmitter that simply can send much larger amounts of raw data back to the Earth.  This is critical because it is also going to be sending back much higher resolution images and just larger amounts of data.  Because the optics are so good and the bandwidth is so high, details on the ground are going to be seen that are going to be better than anything which has been sent to Mars previously.

 * Compare this bandwidth to the original Mariner IV spacecraft, which send the data back at the rate of about 50 baud, or roughly 50 pixels per second. It took over an hour to recieve a single image from the surface of Mars and was very painful to sit and wait for the image to be updated one pixel at a time.  The Viking I lander had slight better bandwidth, but it was still a very slow process of sending back one little bit of the image at a time.  --Robert Horning 05:51, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

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Arrests for kite flying in Pakistan spring festival

March 12, 2006

A ban against kite-flying during a traditional festival to welcome the onset of spring in the Punjab region of Pakistan has led to significant numbers of arrests. Conservative figures put the number arrested following the imposition of Thursday's ban at around 500, higher figures of 1,400 are given in Australian reports which describe events following the ban as a crackdown.

At issue is the use of glass coated or metal kite strings, and this leading towards serious injury or even death. In the 2004 celebration of the Basant festival up to nine people were killed including from electrocution when using metal strings.


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User:Cartman02au/Evidence

Non-collaborative edits

 * Bush nominates a new ambassador to Australia - removed content which was of value to the article without discussion
 * USA leaving Abu Ghraib - removed image despite objections from other editors. Did not discuss it on the article's talk page

Interjection of POV

 * Bush nominates a new ambassador to Australia - removed content which was of value to the article wothout discussion
 * Controversy over Bush reasons for Iraq war - claimed said article was an editorial which it was not. MrM seems to take an interest in articles mentioning GWB and either delays through tagging or claims them as editorials if they are not pro-Bush articles

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''All of the 3 items you mention are in the source; please read it. Neutralizer 05:46, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

I was unaware that we were a link service. Did I not get a memo? Because last time I checked, we were a news agency... not a blog. --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 05:48, 4 March 2006 (UTC)''

Bullying
- hiding behind unfounded allegation of personal attacks, allegation of me being a corrupt administrator

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Queen Elizabeth II arrives in Australia for 15th visit

March 13, 2006 Queen Elizabeth II and arrived in Australia yesterday for a five-day tour which includes the opening of the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, the Queen's 15th visit of her reign and her first since 2002.

Their tour began when they landed at Fairburn Air Force Base in Canberra where they received a state welcome, attended by John Howard,  Major General  and several hundred well-wishers. The couple accepted flowers and chatted with the crowd for a few minutes before being driven off in a black Rolls Royce.

The Queen and Prince Philip spent last night at Government House before beginning official duties in Sydney today. In Sydney, they will officially open the new colonnade of Sydney Opera House and receive a 21 gun salute.

Republican campaigners have used the occasion as an opportunity to reopen the republican debate.

"While the queen is held in great affection by the Australian people, many Australians recognize that it is no longer sensible for us to have a citizen of another country, who visits Australia only occasionally, as our head of state," said Allison Henry, national director of the Australian Republican Movement.


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Swedish olympic snowboarder dies during practice run

March 12, 2006

Swedish  died Sunday during a practice run on  in the. Johansson, who competed in the in the, was preparing for an upcoming  competition.

Even though he collided with no obstacles upon his landing, autopsies reported that the rough fall caused several internal injuries. He was 26.


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Talk:U.S. found in violation of Native Americans rights

I be back later to work with the artile, feel free to edit International 23:31, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

image
Can anywikinewsie check if I understand it right that the image I uploaded really is free? International 04:22, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Image good, it's from the United States Geological Survey, so as government work, it is public domain. -68.232.153.54 05:28, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Great Work
Wow; International; what a great article. congratulations on a job well done ! Neutralizer 14:07, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks Neutralizer. Yes, Im quite satisfied with it. And no fighting. ;) International 23:23, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yep, you really slipped some POV work onto Wikinews. --SVTCobra 23:18, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

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Please replace Image:Yucca Mountain.jpg with Image:Yucca Mountain USGS.jpg and delete the local copy as the image is now on Commons. Adambro (talk) 22:29, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ --SVTCobra 23:17, 27 May 2008 (UTC)


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--DragonFire1024 / talk Jason Safoutin 02:03, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanx Jason! It's good to be here. Bob Jonkman 03:11, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

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User talk:Linuxerist~enwikinews

 Please sign all messages with ~, regardless of whether you have an account. Unless you say otherwise, by affixing >DRP< to your message, I will respond on your talk page. Please use a new header for new topics, and make the new topic on the bottom. For indention, use colons! I reserve the right to move a discussion to an archive, or to remove your post. However, the latter is only in extreme cases. The archives are at User talk:Linuxerist/Archives.

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User:DragonFire1024/Opinions

'''The following are my opinions and beliefs. Keep in mind that these are in no way associated with the views held by Wikinews or the Wikimedia Foundation, and I, user DragonFire1024, take full credit and responsibility for what is posted here. Please do NOT edit this page.'''

I just stole this from Cartman02au, who stole it from MrM, and I don't know where he got it :) Opinions should be considered when collaborating. It is important to maintain NPOV (WN:NPOV) on all angles, so that users and readers are not offended.

Religion
I am not religious, in that I have no particular belief. I do believe in some kind of higher power, but I also believe we are not alone in the universe.

Freedom of Religion
It is the right of every human to believe what they want and to practice what they want, even though I may not agree.

Abortion
I am not too sure what my stance is on abortion. I am against it in alot of ways, and for it in some.

War in Iraq
At first, I supported the war, but only under the notion we were going in to find weapons of mass dectruction. Although I agree Saddam needed to be taken out of power, I also believe that it was not the right time to do it and that we did not have the coalition we needed.

Privacy
Everyone should have their right to privacy.

Homosexuality
I am a homosexual. We are human, just like you. We are entitled to every human right, just like you. In America, I believe that we should have the same and equal rights as any other american. I.E.: Adoption marriage etc. We are no different from being black or white, Chinese or Hispanic.

Education
I believe that education is important. I also believe that college costs too much which makes it nearly impossible for some to continue their education beyond high school.

Iran
I believe that Iran is attempting to obtain and or develop nuclear weapons. I also believe that if they have all the parts to build the bomb, then why would they not have the fuel? I do not believe that their nuclear program is for "peaceful purposes."

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Chicago requires blind students to take driver's education

March 13, 2006

Mayra Ramirez, a 16 year old Chicago, USA student is blind. In order to graduate, she and dozens of other visually impaired students in Chicago schools are required to pass a written rules-of-the-road exam. "In other classes, you don't really feel different because you can do the work other people do," Ramirez said. "But in driver's ed, it does give us the feeling we're different. In a way, it brought me down, because it reminds me of something I can't do."

Michael Vaughn, a spokesman for Chicago schools said, "I can't explain why up to this point no one has raised the issue and suggested a better way for visually impaired students to opt out of driver's ed."

Blind students are typically told that they must take the class to graduate; although, by law, any parent can request a change in a disabled student's education plan. This law is rarely, if ever, disclosed to the students, according to the Chicago Tribune.


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Wikinews talk:Requests for arbitration/Brian New Zealand vs. Amgine/Proposed decision

I don't understand all these layers of templates, they cloud the issue. -Edbrown05 06:50, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree, I find it very formal. This may be useful on 'pedia, but I think its overkill here. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 05:08, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * However, there is a very good reason why. All decisions made here (or on WP) are used for guidance in future activities on the site. Making those decisions, and the way they were achieved, in a way which is ready for archiving will also make them more accessible for people in 3 months or 3 years to find the evidence, the arguments, and the decisions. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 05:12, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

I find that the templates clarify the roles of the various parties and provide clean work areas for the various stages of the arbitration process... The /Workshop pages are basically glorified discussion pages where anyone -- involved parties, arbitrators, or just interested folks -- can enter the discussion and provide input to the committe... The /Proposed decision page (this page) will remain relatively clean with only those elements which actually have a chance of succeding are presented (really, an arbitrator can place anything here, but it helps to have the wording worked out before placing proposals on this page). Arbitrators only should edit this page as this is where the actual decisions will be voted on. When our decision is reached, the adopted elements will be placed on the main page of this arbitration -- where it is clear what the arbcom has decided. As I've said, it's important that our decisions be clear and to the point -- with little room for interpretation. Our decisions will be the basis by which policy is interpreted and applied.

Let's give this a chance, please. I think if we proceed slowly and deliberately and let the templates guide us, our final product will be clear and easy to understand. --Chiacomo (talk) 05:19, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

A bit more commentary: the formality is a bit overkill for this. If it were only going to be this case, I'd suggest doing away with them. But I agree with Amgine and Chiacomo that it is a good thing to keep a standard form for these decisions, so that they can be easily archived and referred to. While I hope you won't need to look back at them much, and probably you won't need much in the way of formality for a while, it's probably unrealistic to expect you won't ever. I don't intend to push Wikipedia's way of doing things on you, it's been useful to have a standard structure to refer back to, as well as to make sure all the relevant bases are covered rather than accidentally missing something in a more freeform process.

Of course commentary and explanation aside is good too, and for a committee that doesn't get 15 cases a month, desirable to give more time to each!

I also recommend keeping the final decision page clear until all the proposals have been discussed and voted on as a committee, to make it more clear what the committee decides as a committee and what is proposed and discussed by individual members. On WP it gets cleaner as it goes along -- the workshop is a free-for-all -- everyone's ideas get play, and wording gets changed and debated. The proposed decision is the ones that are ready to be decided on, though minor changes still happen, and the final decision is presented once after everything else has been hashed out and the committee decides it's finished. The Workshop page is a fairly new thing on Wikipedia, but it's helped to make the process more transparent and give more chance for community input -- though some cases where there isn't much dispute go straight to proposals on the proposed decision. It's your call if you want to follow this, of course, but I think it's turned out to be a useful system. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 06:09, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I find the decision-making style runs counter to Wikinewsie desire for immediacy. This is a community that is less deliberate than an encyclopedia. When an issue arises, it is with alacrity that it should be resolved so that the more pressing matters [news] can be the focus of time spent in the news room. -Edbrown05 05:27, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * We're not bogged down because of the templating system -- we're bogged down due to lack of participation. Let's try to push each other more if we feel we're not moving quickly enough. --Chiacomo (talk) 05:46, 19 March 2006 (UTC)


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Generic Tamiflu in India

January 13, 2006

(generic name: Oseltamivir) a common antiviral drug used in the treatment and prophylaxis of both Influenza virus A and Influenza virus B, will be marketed in a generic form in India. It is a prodrug, which is hydrolysed hepatically to the active metabolite, the free carboxylate of oseltamivir. It was developed by Gilead Sciences and is currently marketed by Hoffmann-La Roche (Roche) under the trade name Tamiflu.

Cipla received marketing approval from the drug controller-general of India and will launch a generic version of Oseltamivir, Anti-Flu, in the domestic market this month. The drug will be priced at about Rs 1,000 per strip of 10 75 mg tablets, which is less than half the current Tamiflu market price of $60. The required dosage is two tablets every day during five days.

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Wikinews is not a soapbox. Nor is it a venue for you (or Daleb Princess) to slag off on other users. Please observe basic civility guidelines. Please do not use article talk pages as discussion boards. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 10:44, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

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"Massive" oil spill in Alaska

March 13, 2006 BBC News is reporting "up to 267,000 (one million )" of crude oil has leaked from a pipeline in the  oilfield. Although not as large as the in 1989, this is thought to be the largest spill on record affecting the.

The Alaska Wilderness League reports that there is "no confirmation" of the quantity of oil lost; but it points out that it is not only the oil that causes problems. The cleanup efforts will also have environmental impacts.

The Associated Press first reported this spill on 2 March.

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18 Motorcyclists killed during Bike Week

March 13, 2006

2006 was the deadliest Datona Beach Bike Week ever, with a total of 18 bikers being killed on Florida roads, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. This year's festivities brought in about 500,000 bikers to the Daytona area, and 14 of those killed were from Florida. Walter Fliss, 51, had recently bought his motorcycle before being killed when he drove into a construction site. Another biker rode into a guardrail, and others were killed on their way home.


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Talk:12000 Commonwealth Games tickets remain unsold

-these are just a bastardized version of the goodwill games. long live wcw. Woorllld championship wrestling! Wrestling Champions!


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Google launches Google Mars

March 13, 2006 If you thought Google Maps, Google Earth and Google Moon was enough, then meet Google Mars.

Google officially launched the new Google Mars yesterday as another add-on to Google Maps. The service offers three different ways to view Mars: elevation, visible landscape, and infrared view. The images come from two different NASA missions, Mars Global Surveyor and 2001 Mars Odyssey, and the data was prepared in collaboration with NASA researchers at Arizona State University.

The color-coded elevation data is a shaded-relief map taken by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The visible data is made from black and white images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC), which is also located onboard the Mars Global Surveyor, and the infrared images were produced by the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The THEMIS data is the sharpest map of Mars made so far, as it shows colder areas in darker colors and warmer regions in brighter colors, and as they are infrared images dust and clouds are transparent.

Google has added various bookmarks showing points of interest such as landings of spacecraft, locations of mountains, and craters.

The data is not currently available through Google's Google Earth client.

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Thousands of Thai protesters prepare to march on Government House

March 13, 2006 With Thailand's The Nation reporting over 100,000 in attendance at the latest rally against PM Thaksin Shinawatra, the People's Alliance for Democracy plans to spend the night at Sanam Luang before marching on Government House in the morning.

Reports indicate that over 6,000 officers are involved in policing the event, but no trouble is anticipated. Police do not intend to prevent the protesters from marching to Government House.

This latest large-scale protest against the caretaker Prime Minister is likely the most significant since the February 26 protest, and with pro-Thaksin groups making their way to Bangkok, the bloody confrontation of 1992 has been brought up as a reminder. Free to air TV stations have broadcast coverage of the King's intercession in the '92 dispute, where a popular uprising had been met with a military crackdown. Panthep Puapongpant, a PAD representative, indicated that the protest for Tuesday morning would take heed of the advice and proceed peacefully. Concerns over a potential clash with pro-Thaksin groups have been averted as a result of the PM's supporters planning their rally for March 16.

With voters' choices in the upcoming April 2 election already severely restricted due to the three main opposition parties' boycott, the disqualification of candidates from minor parties further reduces the options open to those who don't boycott the election. Up to 200 may be disqualified for reasons such as holding party membership for less than 90 days or having membership in more than one party.


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U.S. Senate debates raising national debt ceiling

March 13, 2006

The U.S. Senate is debating the 2007 budget this week, dealing with, among many things, controversial issues such as the oil drilling in Alaska, raising the national debt ceiling, and an amendment that would fund $1.5 million dollars to veterans' health-care. The Senate is also considering budget measures over an amendment that would increase funding for local and state law enforcement to combat methamphetamine.

The national debt ceiling is supposed to prevent the U.S. public debt from growing to excessive amounts. If the national debt grows to reach beyond a previously budgeted ceiling level, branches of government are shut down and provide only limited services. The shut down force a reduction in spending. The measure is meant to prevent excessive amounts of national debt from occurring. Rather than letting the level of national debt approach that ceiling, it is typical practice within the U.S. Congress to raise the national debt ceiling annually.

The $781 billion increase asked for this year is the fourth hike request in the last five years. Bush administration budgets have pushed debt ceiling increase request to a level of 46% higher over five years, a $3 trillion increase.

Senator Judd Gregg, Budget Committee Chairman, argued in favor of increasing the ceiling, citing growths in the economy under the Bush administration. Kent Conrad, ranking Democrat member of the Budget Committee, rebutted that the economy has not been recovering as well as it has been after World War II and six other similar recovery periods, and that the economic period after World War II averaged 3.2% in growth.

A "PAYGO" amendment by Conrad Burns would have required offsetts for any new spending beyond the original resolution. It failed, needing 51 votes, but receiving 50. Lincoln Chafee's amendment would increase funding by $2 billion for the Americans with Disabilities Act.


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Chinese government approved Nanjing purchase of MG Rover

March 13, 2006 The Chinese National Development and Reform Commission approved today the plans by Nanjing Automobile Group to revive the MG Rover brand.

Nanjing Automobile are planning to annually produce 200,000 cars, 250,000 engines and 100,000 gearboxes on the assembly lines purchased from MG Rover.

The first MG produced in Pukou in Nanjing in the east of China will be the sedan version of MG-75, in the first half of 2007.


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Wikipedia class action site vanishes, backers revealed

March 14, 2006

The Internet group that once solicited complaints for a class action suit against Wikipedia has shut up shop and revealed its roots. Claiming to have been prompted by the John Seigenthaler Wikipedia biography controversy, the site http://www.wikipediaclassaction.org once sought parties to build a defamation suit against the wiki-based encyclopedia. Today, that site points to the Officialwire news service, known to be associated with Greg Lloyd Smith. The long-standing Wikipedia-alleged association between Officialwire and the QuakeAID "charity" has also been confirmed due to that site being replaced with a similar redirection.

The class action website was initially registered to one Jennifer Monroe who is affiliated with QuakeAID, an organisation which Wikipedia editors have accused of being a scam following QuakeAID personnel having created their own article on Wikipedia last year. This came at the time of the Indian Ocean earthquake, when Wikipedia user Baoutrust added QuakeAID to Wikipedia's victim donations page and sparked a dispute about the legitimacy of the organisation. Wikipedia editors did not acknowledge the tax-exempt status of the organisation which QuakeAID displayed on its home page; however, this can now only be seen via Google's cache. The 501(c) registration QuakeAID used to list is generally accepted as what defines an organisation as a charity with the United States. However, a number of groups removed QuakeAID from their public lists of charities following the Wikipedia dispute.

The dispute between QuakeAID and Wikipedia editors sparked a negative publicity campaign waged via Baou Trust's news service, OfficialWire. A number of articles which portray Wikipedia, or Wikipedians in a bad light have been published on the service. The site for the proposed class-action suit provides a link displaying results of a search of OfficialWire for stories about Wikipedia. This is not the first instance of the directors of Baou Trust using their newswire to run a smear campaign: a long-running campaign against former directors of the equity company IEQ was mounted following Greg Lloyd Smith's hostile takeover of the firm.

Smith is no stranger to controversy, having been the target of legal action by Amazon.com when he registered the Amazon.gr and Amazon.com.gr sites and set up an Amazon.com look-alike selling Greek-language books. Amazon initially filed suit in Greece, and later in the US where their complaint described initial communication from Smith as a "thinly-veiled shakedown" when he offered to sell a controlling interest in CITI to the company for $1.6 million. The Amazon suit sought triple damages under RICO statutes stating, "Fraudulent acts of mail and wire fraud, extortion and criminal copyright infringement constitute a pattern of racketeering, and pose a threat to society."


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Hello, Im Abögarp, wikipedian since 2004.

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Mad Cow disease confirmed in U.S.

March 13, 2006

John Clifford, Chief Veterinarian of the United States Department of Agriculture, confirms that tests done on a sample from a cow on a farm in Alabama indicate bovine spongiform encephalopathy or mad cow disease. The original results were confirmed by a Western Blot Test.

"We received a positive result on a Western blot confirmatory test conducted at the USDA laboratories in Ames, Iowa, on samples from an animal that had tested 'inconclusive' on a rapid screening test performed on Friday, March 10, 2006. In this instance, the inconclusive result from the contract lab in Georgia was confirmed through a second rapid test at the National Veterinary Services Laboratory. Now, the Western blot test has returned a positive result, and that is sufficient for us to confirm this animal to be positive for BSE, which is why we are making this announcement today," said Clifford.

"The samples were taken from a non-ambulatory animal on a farm in Alabama. A local private veterinarian euthanized and sampled the animal and sent the samples for further testing, which was conducted at one of our contract diagnostic laboratories at the University of Georgia. The animal was buried on the farm, and it did not enter the animal or human food chains," he added.

Clifford also says the cow was at least ten years old, explaining, "While epidemiological work to determine the animal’s precise age is just getting under way and is ongoing, the attending veterinarian has indicated that, based on dentition, it was an older animal, quite possibly upwards of 10 years of age. This would indicate that this animal would have been born prior to the implementation of the Food and Drug Administration’s 1997 feed ban," and that they are still looking into where the cow could have been born and raised. The cow had only been on the Alabama farm for about a year. Clifford also confirmed that the cow was meant for producing beef.

"We will be working to locate animals from this cow’s birth cohort and any offspring," said Clifford. A birth cohort identifies animals born in the same herd within one year of the affected animal.

Clifford also adds that no part of the cow made it into the human food chain, saying, "I want to emphasize that human and animal health in the United States are protected by a system of interlocking safeguards, and that we remain very confident in the safety of U.S. beef. Again, this animal did not enter the human food or animal feed chains."

This is the third case of Mad Cow disease in the U.S. The first case turned up in December of 2003, when a cow from a Washington State farm, born in Canada, tested positive for the disease.

The second cow to test positive for the disease, found last June, was born on a farm in Texas.

On March 1, 2006, Sweden announced its first possible case of Mad Cow disease, and on January 23, Canada announced its fourth case of the disease.

Worldwide, at least 150 people have died from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which is linked to Mad Cow disease.

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User talk:Gunshippolitico~enwikinews

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Talk:Mad Cow disease confirmed in U.S.

Related article states results would take 4-7 days, how come that is 2 days ago and we have confirmation now? --Brian McNeil / talk 20:46, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * So they were off 2 days. I would rather have it sooner than later. But I don't know why it was so quick. Jason Safoutin 01:55, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Great Work Jason
Wow; you really got it done quick and well..thanks for this one; I really did hear about this first on Wikinews:) Neutralizer 22:05, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

question
I could not find anything in the sources supporting
 * "Worldwide, at least 150 people have died from the disease, by consuming infected beef."

This sentence sounds quite suspicious to me, as far as I know it has not even been clearly established yet what the relation between mad cow and some human deseases are. Moreover, the sentense implies that humans have died of mad cow desease, which is certainly not correct. --vonbergm 23:20, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Check sources in related Wikinews. Jason Safoutin 01:50, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Also here Jason Safoutin 01:53, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks Jason. The source makes it a lot clearer saying that they did not die of BSE but "variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob". Also they make clear that the relation between BSE and vCJ has not been conclusively established by only saying that it is "linked" to BSE. I will make the appropriate changes in the article to reflect this. --vonbergm 03:43, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem :) I simply read the sentence wrong...thanks for catching that :) Jason Safoutin 17:05, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

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800 British troops being pulled out of Iraq

March 13, 2006 Britain announced Monday it will reduce its troop level in Iraq by 10 percent (about 800 troops) within the next two months. Defense Secretary John Reid said that Iraqi security forces are more capable of handling security in the country.

Reid told the House of Commons; "Our commitment to the coalition remains certain. This is a significant reduction which is based largely on the ability of the Iraqis themselves to participate and defend themselves against terrorism, but there is a long, long way to go."

During combat operations in the spring of 2003, Britain had 46,000 military personnel in Iraq. By May of 2004 the level had dropped to 18,000, and then to 8,500 by the end of 2005.

Mr Reid said that the reduction had not been prompted by escalating violence against British troops in Iraq.

U.S. military spokesman, Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, said it was "each nation's prerogative and decision on how to best support the coalition effort."


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Category talk:Ayyavazhi

why this category was suggested for delition - Vaikunda Raja
 * The category is not being used for news. It is being used to advertise the religion. Wikinews is not a webhost, but a news site. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 23:02, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Too my knowladge it shouldn't have been deleted as of yet. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 23:11, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

I've started again with adding news article, as suggested earlier. -Vaikunda Raja 21:18, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Wikipedia class action site vanishes, backers revealed

Wikinews investigation
This story is the result of a Wikinews Investigation. Please refer to Wikinews talk:Story preparation/Wikipedia class action lawsuit linked to possible earthquake charity fraud for further information.

"The Internet group that once solicited complaints purportedly for a class action suit against Wikipedia has shut up shop and revealed its roots." This does not sound professional at all. 24.94.246.41 06:07, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Biased
This article is too biased and emotionally charged. It would be better to get another news outlet to report it first as you can't write without biased against your enemy. 205.177.72.66 19:47, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * There must be specific actionable objections regarding the article's content in order for the editors to fix whatever bias being claimed. Please itemize the areas of the article that are of concern before placing a tag; the claim of bias appears to be predicated on an assumption that someone is an enemy of Wikinews and that assumption has no validity,imo. Neutralizer 21:03, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I've restored the tag, as you cannot remove a tag because you don't agree with a user's objections. The user in question has been blocked for a little less than two hours now, and is unable to respond to your message right now.  Please give them time to respond.  --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 21:05, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

 * As one of the main contributors to this, the first thing I'm going to say is I don't object to the tag. At the time I applied the  tag I felt it was a bit of a hatchet job.  However, please give me specific, reasonable items that can be worked on to meet concerns regarding the article.  I haven't checked the sourcing of material for a while so please bear in mind it'll take me as long to check aspects such as that as it will you. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:13, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

 * List of problems that I immediately see:

1.Using phrases like 'defamation website' when 'website' suffice. 2.There are no reliable sources to prove the story is true. 85.195.119.22 21:39, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 I have changed it to class action website.
 * 2 This is original reporting, there is a link at the top to various research pages.
 * --Brian McNeil / talk 22:06, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Do any actionable objections remain on this? --Brian McNeil / talk 23:07, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Bias remains
There are still no reliable sources cited. It is mostly about Wikipedia participants behavior, with some harsh phrases from the dismissed portion of an unrelated lawsuit thrown in for good measure. I can cite several examples of overt attack journalism that remained in the article:

1. "is no stranger to controversy" One lawsuit on an unrelated matter hardly justifies this ad hominum. Wikipedia is no stranger to controversy. Wouldn't it be just as relevant to mention that Wikipedia has been sued for invasion of privacy in Germany, and so far has lost, and that the office frequently receives calls advising of potential legal action against the Foundation?

2. "the Amazon suit sought triple damages" Did they get it? It seems all they got was use of a DNS registration. So why are their allegations in an unsucessful plea for damages relevant? Again, why not some information about the Foundation's legal woes, which are more relevant to an article about proposed legal action against the Foundation.

3. "a negative publicity campaign waged via..." It takes one to know one? How about simply refering to these as articles critical of Wikimedia Foundation? Is there something wrong with a media organization portraying "Wikipedia or Wikipedians in a bad light"?

4. "Originally filed suit in Greece" -- what happened? Did the Greek legal system refuse their pleading? Did they loose? Did they go shopping for a friendly court? The reaction of the Greek legal system would seem just as relevant as that of the US system.

5. "A thinly veiled shakedown" -- again, more scurious language from a lawsuit where we are told nothing about hte other side's filings. From this article, we would come away with the belief that mining of DNS registrations is something new and always illegal. For all it's vast "free knowledge" we are not offered any links to any articles that woudl provide factual information about the extent to which people lawfully register and then sell lucrative DNS registrations.

6. "An organization which Wikipedia editors have accused of being a scam" -- isn't the issue here Wikipedia editors conducting original research? If nobody outside Wikimedia Foundation has made the accusations, they are not even permitted in Wikipedia. So why are original allegations contrary to Wikipedia policy relevant to the Signpost article?

7. "has shut up shop and revealed its roots" How do you know they have "shut up shop"? Did you interview them? How do you know the "group" is not working on the same project from a different approach? And "revealed its roots"? Does the Signposts eventual realizaton of who they are comprise a revelation? Did the Signpost make any prior effort to interview those behind the class action site? Did the Signpost have some way of knowing the parties involved didn't widely reveal their identities elsewhere?

8. "long-standing Wikipedia-alleged association between" -- the term "long-standing" defeats the qualifying effect of "wikipedia-alleged" and instead supports the assumpton that it is a "long-standing association". How about "long-standing allegations"? We don't have any information the history of the alleged association, nor for that matter any information about the character of the association. Did signposts volunteers ask QuakeAID or Officialwire?

9. "Wikipedia editors did not acknowledge the tax-exempt status of the organisation" do they now acknowledge it? It is easy enough to find out from an official source who is 501c3.

10. "A number of groups removed QuakeAID form their public list..." What number is that? Two? Two-thousand? One? The linked QuakeAID article mentions only one group that removed them from their list. If you don't know the number, why not stick to facts that you do know? What groups were they? Did others retain them on lists? "A number of" is a classic weasel phrase. Is there any actual evidence that QuakeAID was not involved in some way in delivering actual aid?

11. "using their newswire to run a smear campaign:" again, takes one to know one. The language is inefficient "using .. to run" when the same word space could be used to tell us something about the content of the articles they publish on their newswire. Does someone not want us to know what they write about Wikimedia Foundation?

12. "who is affiliated with..." what is that affiliation? Does she work for them? Is she a volunteer? The only evidence Wikipedia cites is that somebody used that same user name.

13. "threat to society" as the last word in the article. Again, it takes one to know one. But these words are part of an unsuccessful pleading for damages. The courts denial of the damage claim renders the words moot unless they are balanced with counter claims by the party who prevailed in the damages hearing. If Signpost writers think readers are too naive to see beyond this sort of writing, either they are catering to a less intelligent crowd than I run with, or they seriously underestimate the sophistication of the average newsreader.

14. The shrill "investigation ongoing" tags at the top of Wikipedia articles related to the Signpost article. Why not make the banner yellow and black, with "CRIME SCENE" repeated all around the edge? This is straight out of COINTELPRO tactics - indictment by investigation. Signpost's so-called reporters (hacks, propagandists?) can as well conduct their business without spreading evidence of their campaign all around a supposedly neutral website. Refering to the process of rounding up unsubstantiated allegations of sinister wrongdoing as an "investigation" is spurious promotion of the so-called news service but little more. One expects an investigator to contact all relevant sources and to provide the client of the investigation (readers in this case) information relevant to the subject at hand. We aren't even told what allegations the class action suit sought to bring to court. That's no investigation. What is relevant, as far as this article is concerned, is that dominant wikipedia participants involved here don't like the proposed class-action or anyone associated with it.

I am in no way associated with any parties to this matter. I simply responded to this because it is an easy article to pick apart, and because almost every controversial topic I read in Wikipedia and on the Signpost is constructed in the same style of thinly-veiled ridicule masked as neutral reportage. It is offensive to the tradition of news reporting and some people consider it a "threat to society." 172.193.176.59 02:21, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Could do better
Arrived here to do some background reading on websites that focus on criticism of WKP.

This article is not a good advert for collaborative journalism. It is informative, but needed to present more of the other side's arguments, given the non-neutral terms used in presenting what seems to be the WKP view of the site and its organisers.

"Amazon initially filed suit in Greece, and later in the US where their complaint described initial communication from Smith as a "thinly-veiled shakedown" when he offered to sell a controlling interest in CITI to the company for $1.6 million. "

What is the CITI referred to? Poor editing 93.96.142.159 (talk) 05:57, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * This was three years ago. Complain all you like. It ain't Wikipedia, it won't get changed. --Brian McNeil / talk 11:30, 20 November 2009 (UTC)


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If anyone could help me by giving me the locations/dates of all the earthquakes that have happened in the past 5 years from today (2/13/06)

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Geysers of water on one of Saturn's moons

March 14, 2006 NASA has announced that the Cassini spacecraft has found what seem to be geysers spewing water on the moon Enceladus. The find raises the possibility of life on other planets, as liquid water is believed to be a requirement for life. "This marks the first time that scientists have seen evidence of water in liquid form so close to the surface on another body beyond Earth," said Cassini scientist Torrence Johnson. Although life may be found on the moon, most scientists concede that if Enceladus does harbor life, it probably consists of microbes or other robust organisms capable of living in extreme conditions. This latest discovery shows that life in other parts of the universe may be more probable than previously thought.

"We realize that this is a radical conclusion — that we may have evidence for liquid water within a body so small and so cold," said Dr. Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colorado. "However, if we are right, we have significantly broadened the diversity of solar system environments where we might possibly have conditions suitable for living organisms."


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Warmest Canadian winter on record

March 14, 2006

The winter of 2005/2006 has been the warmest winter in Canada since the beginning of the nationwide weather record in 1948, with average nationwide temperatures 3.9°C above the long-term average. Statistically, such a strong deviation from the average is expected to be observed only once in 100 years.

While most of the country was experiencing temperatures of at least 2°C above normal, in most of Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories the temperatures were 6°C above normal, with some regions averaging up to 8°C above normal.

For this statistic the months from December through February were counted as winter.

Lack of ice in eastern Canada will probably affect the annual harp seal hunt, which typically starts around March 15. In February, so little ice had formed that Environment Canada reported that such poor ice conditions had never been seen before in recorded history. The last time conditions approached what we saw in February 2006 was in 1969. The year 1981 was the third lowest ice year in recorded history.

In 1981, a number of harp seal mothers, who normally whelp only on ice, went to the shores of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia and gave birth on land. That year, due to the lack of ice, hundreds of thousands of seal pups drowned. The seals who were born on land faced both natural dangers such as death by exposure, and the danger of death at the hands of thousands of sealers, both licensed and unlicensed. These sealers took this rare "opportunity" to walk right up to a baby seal and kill it. Some of these seals were also attacked by domestic dogs.

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Talk:Warmest Canadian winter on record

I would really like to add this image to the article, but don't know how to do this. It is covered by this copyright, so there should be a way to use it here. Please help!
 * Hmmm. Just read through Wikimedia Commons and found out that this license might not work after all as it disallows commercial use. Guess it will have to go without the picture, I will just add a map of Canada instead. --vonbergm 06:12, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia has this image, is that easy to add. It is a lot better than the current one. --vonbergm 06:21, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

weather vs climate
There does not seem to be a category "climate". As this is news about climate and not about weather it should be filed under climate. The closesed category seemd to be "climate change" which incidentally is filed inappropriately as a subcategory of weather. I guess eventually this should be cleaned up, but I decided to go with this for now. --vonbergm 05:54, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes it is an issue. And a semantic one at that. But I agree."Climate" should certainly have a category to deliniate from "Weather": Climate versus weather: In the most succinct words, weather is the combination of events in the atmosphere and climate is the overall accumulated weather in a certain location. Climate change (an ever-increasing issue of global importance) makes a good subcat. There is now a Category for Climate. --elliot_k 07:42, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that's great. I will put it to use immediately. --vonbergm 16:04, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Picture again
While this image is not "free" of copyright, and not suitable for the commons, can I still upload it in wikinews as it is a (Canadian) government agency picture with copyright explicitely allowing "con-commercial" use? --vonbergm 21:25, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

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More arrests from Cronulla riots

March 14, 2006 New South Wales Police say a 21-year-old woman has been charged in relation to the riots at Sydney's Cronulla Beach last year. She is the first woman to be arrested over reprisals from the December 11 race-fuelled riot. The woman was charged with affray, assaulting police, resisting arrest and disobeying police direction. She was refused bail.

Police said the charges related to the violent and anti-social behaviour of a large number of people who gathered at Brighton-le-Sands on the night of the Cronulla riot.

Three men have also been arrested in relation to the Cronulla riot. A 19-year-old man handed himself into police yesterday and is due to face Parramatta Local Court charged with riot and affray.

A 21-year-old man from Cronulla also yesterday handed himself into detectives from Strike Force Enoggera, which was set up to investigate the racial unrest. The man was among the 20 whose photos were released to the media last week.

Another man, whose photo was release to the media, handed himself in to police last night. He was charged with riot and affray and given conditional bail to appear at Sutherland Local Court on April 6.

Police say Strike Force Enoggera has arrested 78 people to date, with 189 charges laid.

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User:Htchien

Hsiang-Tai Chien (aka H.T. Chien) is the 6998th user of English Wikinews.

 * H.T. Chien@Chinese Wikinews
 * H.T. Chien@Chinese Wikipedia
 * H.T. Chien@English Wikipedia
 * H.T. Chien@Wikimeta
 * H.T. Chien@Wikicommons

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 * 1) Bi-directional Censorship from the Great Firewall of China
 * 2) Taipei chosen to host Wikimania 2007

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Israelis storm Palestinian jail

March 14, 2006

AFP and Reuters have reported that Israeli troops have stormed the Palestinian jail in Jericho in a bid to snatch a prisoner Israel claims is responsible for the assassination of an Israeli Minister five years ago. There are reports that one Palestinian has been killed and at least 18 prisoners and security officials have been wounded.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) demanded the handover of six prisoners, including Ahmed Saadat the alleged instigator of the 2001 assassination of Israeli Cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi.

Israeli military officials issued a warning that unless the Jericho prisoners gave themselves up they would be killed.

The leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Ahmed Saadat told Al-Jazeera television in a telephone interview from the jail, "We are not going to surrender. We are going to face our destiny with courage." Mr Saadat told the BBC's Arabic Service, "The occupation are planning a massacre in the Jericho complex. There is shelling from all angles and destroying the prison from all sides."

Saadat also said two of his colleagues had been killed. The troops opened fire with small arms and stun grenades. Israeli soldiers blew up the outer wall of the Jericho prison compound and IDF helicopters fired missiles into the prison. It has been reported that US and British monitors stationed there withdrew before Israeli troops arrived. The Israeli army moved in, bulldozing parts of the prison's outer compound and demanding Saadat's surrender. President Abbas blamed the British and the Americans for the developing crisis. In recent weeks, Abbas signalled he was willing to release Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) leader, Ahmed Saadat.

Reuters reports that protests have surged across Palestinian territories, with most anger directed at Britain and the United States. Militants set fire to the British cultural centre and stormed the EU compound in Gaza. There have been threats to kidnap and kill foreigners.

"This operation was ordered by the Prime Minister in the fight against terrorism. We are committed to the murderers of minister Rehavam Zeevi remaining behind bars," Gideon Ezra, Israel's Public Security Minister, told public radio.

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User talk:Euronews1

Welcome
Euronews1, 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! Jacques Divol 14:10, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
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Chinese Wikimania 2006 to be held in Hong Kong

March 14, 2006

The Chinese community of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, is planning for a 2006 Chinese Wikimedia conference (2006中文維基年會), which is scheduled on the 26th and 27th of August this year. Hong Kong has been selected, from six candidate cities, to hold the event.

During selection of the host city, the Chinese community favored Hong Kong mostly, while Taipei was the second, and Shanghai and Beijing were tied for the third. The leader of the organzing committee, Kaurjmeb from Taipei, Taiwan, said that "Comparing the advantages and disadvantages, Hong Kong is much better than Taipei," when she announced the result late March 14th at midnight. She said that Hong Kong Wikipedia users have been active, and other users agreed with that, so it led to success for Hong Kong in being selected as the host city.

Wikipedia is a multilingual Web-based free-content encyclopedia. It is written collaboratively by volunteers, allowing most articles to be changed by anyone with access to a web browser and an Internet connection. Wikipedia's policies guide most acticles to be acceptable to most people. Begun in 2001, Wikipedia has more than 2,500,000 articles in 212 languages. The Chinese version, which started on October 2002, reached nearly 60,000 acticles recently, and the number is increasing by more than 3,000 acticles every month. Its users are from Mainland China (PRC), Taiwan (ROC) and other places all over the world.

Thirteen percent of the users of the Chinese Wikipedia are from Hong Kong, and more than 6,000 Hongkongers have contributed by editing acticles. Due to the efforts of Hong Kong's active users, there is a lot of information related to Hong Kong. The aim of the Chinese Wikipedia conference is to gather the Chinese Wikipedia's users and other people, in order to discuss issues related to intellectual property, open educational resources and media etc., by means of talks and seminars.

Holding the event in Hong Kong enables people from Mainland China and Taiwan to meet together. Hong Kong users, however, mainly worry about whether the resources for holding such an event are enough. Luckily, the Student Union of the Chinese University of Hong Kong is willing to give a hand. Ben Cheng, previous vice-president, pointed out, "Issues about intellectual property and Wikipedia are ignored in Hong Kong." They hope that helping to organize such events can promote Wikimedia and its meaning to the citzens in Hong Kong. On the other hand, another student organization, the Hong Kong Secondary Sudents Union, also showed its interest in helping with the organizing work. Rock Li, the internal secretary, said that "If the event is held in Hong Kong, people from Hong Kong will be more aware of intellectual property."