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Rwanda conference
Hello Clare,

the conference sounds very interesting, and original reporting from places like Rwanda is exactly what Wikinews needs in order to succeed. There are two ways I can see to make this work:

 * 1) Use the Submit a story interface. This way, all stories can be sorted out by Wikinews editors and put into the proper form before they hit the frontpage. We can try to educate your people about the policies and procedures of Wikinews. For this to work, it would make sense to know in advance that this is going to happen, then I can try to organize a group of volunteers on Wikinews to help.
 * 2) Have an on-location course on using Wikinews before asking people to write for it. Writing an article has most of the basic information, and Workspace has other helpful links. Essentially, I think without an introduction over a few hours, it will be difficult for your team to absorb the policies and procedures quickly enough to write reports.

If you want to choose the second option, I suggest familiarizing yourself with Wikinews to a degree that you feel comfortable writing stories for the site and putting them on the frontpage. If you run into any roadblocks in the process, feel free to leave me a message by going to User talk:Eloquence and clicking the "add comment" link. Using this knowledge, you could then educate your team before the conference on how to use Wikinews.

If you want to go the simple road, and leave the mentoring to the existing Wikinews community, again, please let me know ahead of time, and give me the exact dates when this is going to happen. A special section for this event is certainly doable; it will depend on the quality of the stories that come in, I think.--Eloquence 01:40, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

Update: It looks as if the conference reporting is going to be less of a project, more something we will try and do during the conference. ClareWhite 16:41, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Clare: I think this proposal sounds like a great idea! Do the participants have internet access already? If so you could encourage them to start participating in Wikinews now, on any topic that interests them. There is no better way to learn than by doing, and the Wikinews community is very welcoming and helpful to newcomers. - Borofkin 08:16, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm developing a temporary Rwanda newshut here to help us newbies.ClareWhite 08:09, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Stoke-on-Trent
Um, do you live in Stoke-on-Trent by any chance? - Borofkin 11:21, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Well guessed! Yes, do you? Am I supposed to post this reply on your page? ClareWhite 11:49, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Nope, I'm in Aus, but I have a friend who lives in Stoke, and I visited there a couple of times in 2003. Quite a nice place. Well, I mostly saw the pubs, but it seemed like a nice place. :-)
 * I'm not terribly sure where you are supposed to leave replies. If you leave them on my page I get a little message though, so I'm more likely to see it sooner. - Borofkin 12:10, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You're kind - it's not a nice place :) Oh, maybe it's OK... ClareWhite 12:36, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Country of the Week
Yeah I'd love to see Rwanda as a country of the week. However I want to maintain a democratic voting system, so since i've given it one vote, it needs a second vote to promote it to the week of June 12; so please vote for it yourself. When you do so you can move it up above Belerus. Thanks for your interest in my ailing bid to counter regional bias! → CGorman (Talk)  21:39, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I want the country of the week to collide with your most suitable time, so since there is overwelling support for Rwanda, im going to give it a two week slot - now till the 19th. You submit stories as per usual, althought they should also be listed on Country of the Week to help keep records. To date, Country of the Week has produced 17 stories - check out the Rusults log. Im off to hunt on Google news for a good story. Slán (Irish for goodbye)! → CGorman (Talk)  20:48, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Genoicde
You know, genocide is a hard word to type. It's the c-d-e combination that does it, all typed with the left middle finger. I've missed the "d" about five times so far. - Borofkin
 * Oh, you'll get used to it..! Quite happy to correct your typos with all those stories on the front page! ClareWhite 08:26, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Rwanda
The country of the week is advertised on the front page. Not sure how long it's been there, but it's quite visible at the top on the right.

I'm happy for you to email stuff to me and I can post it, although of course it is preferable that you or your group do the posting directly, as it introuduces sourcing issues, i.e. technically I would have to refer to your email as a source. In practise I would probably just post your material and note on the talk page that it was written by you.

You can email me here: d aZv i d. m aZc d o n a l d @Zunsw. edu. au Remove the spaces and the capital Z's to discover the email address. (I don't care about spam, I just like puzzles. :-)

- Borofkin 00:13, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * That's [mailto:davidmacdonald@unsw.edu.au davidmacdonald@unsw.edu.au]. I like solving puzzles :) NGerda 00:17, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

 * Oh, I got here too late! NGerda, I bet you're the sort of person who reads out the solutions to crosswords loudly on the train... ClareWhite 08:02, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

In a similar spirit, I believe the UK is roughly the same timezone as Rwanda, so if you want any help on the wiki during the day, leave a note on my Talk page. Can't promise I'll pick it up straight away though, but it would most likely be within the hour. Dan100 (Talk) 08:39, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Stats
You'll be wanting to look at Awareness statistics. The RSS feed currently has 1,100 readers. Dan100 (Talk) 15:29, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks - that's the one! ClareWhite 15:35, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

archive
Hello, you created your archive in main article space, please move it to your user space, such as User:Cmwhite/archive or User_talk:Cmwhite/archive Thanks. BTW great work on the Rwanda project --Cspurrier 15:39, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * sorry, think that's changed now, thanks

Refugee crisis
Hi Clare! I've knocked out some stories on the developing refugee crisis in Burundi that you may want to have a quick look at. I'm not sure that many other people are reviewing the Rwandan articles.

I've used french keyboards before and they're terrible... keys all over the place!

Also note that my email address is david.macdonald@unsw.edu.au (note the period between the names) - Borofkin 07:38, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Speed
Things worked great this morning. I had your report published and on the main page within 5min of its submission. It was just lucky that I was here at the right time. Again thanks for all your effort. By the way I welcomed your IP address - I only realised after that it was you. → CGorman (Talk)  21:27, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Happy to help
Hi Clare,

Let me know if I can be of any assistance. I'm on a sporadic connection, but this is exactly the sort of thing that I think Wikinews should be doing. Pingswept 02:49, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Excellent Job!
I would really like to commend you for doing such an excellent job of being a first-hand journalist in Rwanda. I have been acting sort of as your "support group", and I try my very hardest to make sure your stories are developed, published, and seen by as many people as possible. Keep up the great work! NGerda 20:31, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Live report on Wikinews World Report
Hi Clare! We are starting up a 24-hour WikiNews Network that features live and pre-recorded content. To show the Wikinews community that a live Wikinews World Report program is both feasible and NPOV, I have decided to create a demo show to display to the community that this could be feasible and NPOV. To do this, we would need people from around the world to gives us live or prerecorded reports (preferably live), and be available to discuss events more in-depth (staying NPOV). I would greatly appreciate it if you would be willing to do a live report and interview live from Rwanda for us. If you have a microphone and a computer, you can use the free Skype software (available on any platform) to talk live to the show's host at the studio. If that is not feasible, then you can give us a phone number to contact you at and a time period (in UTC, Rwanda is UTC+2) you are available at that number. We will contact you ahead of time to make sure we can reach you, and then you will go live. If you have any questions, just drop a message by at my talk page, and keep up the great reporting! NGerda 08:47, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

Manslaughter
Hi Clare, which list are you talking about? :) Dan100 (Talk) 08:32, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh I see - the developing story DPL. I've rv'd it. Dan100 (Talk) 08:44, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I've put it back. But it's worth nothing that little stubs like that rarely get developed - it's pure laziness on the part of the creator. People don't take ideas and write them - why should they? Dan100 (Talk) 08:55, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Clare, are you on MSN messanger Y! chat or anything? I'd love to talk to in 'real-time' Dan100 (Talk) 09:16, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * If you are, just mail me your address :-) Dan100 (Talk) 09:16, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I've replied on me Talk page Dan100 (Talk) 14:45, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

You might want to use Reporter's tools if you don't already - makes doing sources and dates a bit easier! Dan100 (Talk) 15:24, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

PS I see you found the ITN story about the bulldozing in Zimbabwe. I saw the report on telly but couldn't find anything anywhere on the web about it at the time (last week I think), so couldn't write a story at the time. Great that you've found it since! Dan100 (Talk) 15:26, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Probably worth spinning out into a seperate article, in fact Dan100 (Talk) 15:27, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Clare, do you mind if I hold back until tomorrow with the story about the bulldozing? I'd rather spread the two stories over two days, rather than have them both at once. Is that OK? Dan100 (Talk) 16:35, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Clair, can you get in contact with me?
My name is Brian Boyko - I'd like to talk to you about this story for something we're doing over at happynews.com. Can you give me an email at brian@happynews.com, and hopefully, I'll be able to explain all about it.

-- Brian Boyko -- Happynews.com

[deleted comment: make anonymous swipes somewhere else than my page please]

New Requested articles section
Hope you enjoy! Be sure to bring up any changes you would like to see made here.

They'll have to be done manually. NGerda didn't bother using tildes, so as it was we couldn't tell when anything actually was 24 hours old, but hopefully people will. Dan100 (Talk) 09:51, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Child porn law
Yeah Clare, I was aware that my writing wasn't NPOV. I couldn't really find a positive side, except the only one that seemed to be out there: "it protects children". If you can find someone talking positive things about this law, then go ahead and add onto it. Messedrocker 14:59, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

DPL use
Claire, it's really as simple as using the and  or  in your article. Now you don't have to worry about a thing when it comes to adding or deleting the link to your story from Developing stories or Latest news. Enjoy the easier system! :) --NGerda June 28, 2005 16:07 (UTC)

NGerda beat me to it, but here's my reply before I got a conflict:

Can you get on MSN?

If not, and if you want to do a story upload, just go to Story upload, and list your article there. Just make sure that somewhere in the text of your article is either or  Dan100 (Talk) 28 June 2005 16:08 (UTC)

 * Dan, I don't get your Story upload system. Where do those show up?  See Template:Developing stories/Manual.  That shows up within Template:Developing stories/Temp automatically, thereby being the same system as before for users who want to use the old system.

Claire, also check out Wikinews IRC and for more info on article tags, see Article stage tags. Happy writing! -- NGerda June 28, 2005 16:21 (UTC)

Article tags
Sorry to confuse you Claire, I know I've been talking a lot of techno jargon lately. All you have to do is use the tags as you do now. No other system. Just continue on as you have. The thing you don't have to worry about now is adding and subtracting your articles from the Developing stories list or the Published stories list. That is all done automatically. Happy writing! NGerda June 29, 2005 20:51 (UTC)

Thanks. Ya, go ahead.
Go ahead and vote on/discuss the proposed workspace. DPL features that some users said they were waiting for have just been implemented, so there might be more support for it now. It's just been quiet because there haven't been new developments until the DPL feature enhancement, which i think happened just yesterday. Kevin Baastalk June 29, 2005 23:02 (UTC)

Great to see you!
It's great, as always, to see you here at Wikinews! I just changed the lead article to a story about a conviction in the Rwandan Genocide. Happy writing! NGerda July 1, 2005 09:24 (UTC)

"Tires" not a typo
"Tires" is the correct spelling of the word for stories that are likely to be phrased in American english, just as "Tyres" is for those phrased in British english. Neither words are typos, although they of course will appear to be to some. Linkspro 12:25 UTC, July 6, 2005

Explosions
hi Clare, I'm getting my info from Yahoo News, they seem to have the wires live (what Radio 5 is working from) Dan100 (Talk) 7 July 2005 08:53 (UTC)
 * Can you get on live chat? Click the "Real-time chat" link above if you can Dan100 (Talk) 7 July 2005 08:58 (UTC)

Do you have a camera? Camera phone? Dan100 (Talk) 7 July 2005 09:00 (UTC)

go go mail me Dan100 (Talk) 7 July 2005 09:06 (UTC)

Clare are you ok? I guess you're being evacuated Dan100 (Talk) 7 July 2005 09:23 (UTC)

I'm staying in my office, right opposite Euston. We should be OK here though we seem to be surrounded by it. ClareWhite 7 July 2005 09:26 (UTC)
 * Can you have another shot at mailing me? Dan100 (Talk) 7 July 2005 09:39 (UTC)

Thanks Clare. If you can't get through you can't get through, don't worry about it Dan100 (Talk) 7 July 2005 09:53 (UTC)

London Explosions Original Reporting
According to this difference page you added the tag to the London Explosion article. Would you mind documenting your original reporting at Coordinated_terrorist_attack_in_London/Notes? I know things are really hot right now but there are so many reasons to document this information as you recieve/use it.
 * Establishes Wikinews as a respectable source for original reporting (gains trust)
 * Allows others to see your personal contributions
 * Provides readers with a look at what Wikinews included that other news services didn't
 * Allows for rapid fact checking
 * etc.

Thanks a ton. -- RossKoepke 7 July 2005 23:41 (UTC)

Still there?
I'm still around. I've been on leave for the last week, and will probably be lurking this week. How are things with you? - Borofkin 03:22, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Breaking News events organization
Clare, check out the site news, it's the least I could do :). I'm already hard at work on making an easy-to-use Breaking News template and News Source watchlist.  Cheerio! -- NGerda 09:25, July 11, 2005 (UTC) Reply on Ngerda's page - actually Dan100 deserves the credit for getting this story together so fast. ClareWhite 09:36, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Hello, I replied on my talk page -> Dan100 (Talk) 12:20, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Just saw your "dan100 if your watching" message, I'll take a look when I get the chance Dan100 (Talk) 12:21, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Do- interesting stuff happening in Zimbabwe though much of it happened last week so haven't quite sussed out how to spin it into something current ClareWhite 12:30, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Work experience student
Clair, I've had a work experience student this week too, and made Wikinews part of his duties! An abuse of power indeed, but for the betterment of mankind. - Borofkin 02:08, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Still questions :)
Clare,

I'm trying to place in my mind which meetinghouse that is- I visited one while I was in London last year, but my knowledge of London is too weak to be sure which one. Just wondering- the Friends here always like hearing about activities across the pond. Lyellin 13:08, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Re: how long?
Hi, I noticed one of your edits and would like your advice. How long would you say a story should be before it's published? I published a couple today thinking that they were representative of that day and were unlikely to develop any more, but do you think they should stay in developing? Thanks :) ClareWhite 12:07, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * There is no good answer to this, stories can be moved as soon as they are ready . I like to let my stories wait about 24hrs before publishing. However if you think a story is done, you can publish it as soon as you create it. --Cspurrier 16:00, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Some stories need to be published quicker than 24 hours - take the London bombing story for example. So, yes, it's not a matter of time per se, but a matter of urgency and readiness. -- NGerda 16:03, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * I publish my stories straight away! I type them up in a text editor and then publish them straight away. Its not the way i'd advise newbies to do things, but i'd certainly recommend it to more established writers who feel confident in what they are doing. → CGorman (Talk) 18:20, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism
Hiya.

A comment regarding this morning event. Forgive me if I take a bit of a motherly tone here, but it is important :-) Of course, a sysop is needed to block a vandal and to delete crappy vandalised pages, but there are many other consequences of vandalism which may be cleaned by absolutely everyone. For example, if a page is damaged, such as the leading story template, anyone (even an ip) can go to a previous version and revert to save the last before vandalism version. This is important, because it saves at least the looks of the wiki, before an admin can come and clean up entirely the place. You, and just anyone, can do this.

Two other tips. I think you have a page somewhere where you can report vandalism. If so, use it to list the current ongoing vandalism, so that admins can react more quickly. A good idea is to mention (link) the name of the person or ip of the vandal, and even to add a direct link to his contribution. It makes it easier to react quickly. The same could be said for a mail sent to the list.

I now quit my motherly tone :-) and wish you good luck. I heard you did good job with the recent events, so long survive the wiki :-)

Anthere 18:00, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Clare, if you want adminship so you can block stuff like this yourself, just say and I'll nominate you. Sorry I wasn't around this morning. BTW I'll send you my main e-mail address which I check much more frequently - my yahoo one is only a secondary address. Dan100 (Talk) 21:54, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Did I ever...
...explain why I didn't run your info about the bus bomb straight away?

When you told me that all any source (I was watching TV, listening to the radio, and scouring the net all simultaneuosly) was saying was that there had been an explosion, and that the cause was possibly a power surge in control gear. The bus bomb confirmed what all of us must've been thinking - this was a terrorism attack. But at the moment you posted, you were the only source I had for that information, and it represented an escalation in the severity of the situation of an order of magnitude. My thinking at the exact second I read it was this - oh shit. I desperately wanted to believe it wasn't true.

After that, my thoughts returned to WN. If it's true, I reasoned, it's the scoop of the century. But if it's wrong, and we run it, it's the fuck-up of the century. So I sat on it until I had some other confirmation - it took about twenty minutes, I think, for the broadcast media to announce that a bus had been hit (the BBC had been mentioning very unspecific reports of a surface bomb - a litter bin bombing, in fact - for some minutes before that. So they actually got it wrong for a while).

Even if you'd explained to me how you'd heard about it - from other witnesses - I still wouldn't have run it. Remember the Canary Wharf shooting story from that day? We had people on here saying they'd "heard confirmation" from a "friend of a friend". As we all know, it was actually total rubbish. OK, obviously I know you much better, but you must understand my reasoning.

I hope you understand that. I didn't doubt you personally - I didn't want to believe you, but that's different, that was a hope this wasn't the start of the nightmare it turned out to be - but I *couldn't* post it on WN until I were sure. Dan100 (Talk) 22:12, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * BTW, you first told me of the bus bomb just nine minutes after it actually happened. I was probably the first person in the world outside central London to know about it. Scary. Dan100 (Talk) 22:15, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Time and tildes wait for no man...

 * Hi again. I really should set myself up with an account. At the moment though I'm pretty easily identifiable as the guy who always subs Burundi-related stuff! I've read some of what you've said about the potential for the likes of wiki to transform the way that news is done and I think I agree with you. I'm all for the "vision thing"! Great to hear that you're working with media students in Rwanda. I'd be interested to know more about it. I'm totally for anything that gives more of a voice to people in that part of the world. It's been fascinating watching Burundi's independent online media invent itself over literally just the past few years. If it wasn't for the net it would be nigh impossible to know what's really going on there. I will definitely keep subbing to wikinews whenever things come up. I work on the Agathon Rwasa campaign blog and you can always contact me/leave comments there.

Best regards,

Richard 80.43.49.57 14:59, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Quaker Portal
Clare, not a problem on the name ;). I'm an attender at Horsham meeting, north of Philadelphia. Intend on applying for membership next year, when I am at home stabily. I'd love to help out, if I can.... and perhaps get my father involved as well. Lyellin 17:50, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Getting my attention
I've finally figured out how people could get my attention in the event of vandalism etc if they wanted to - just click the Real-time chat link, join the room and type Dan100 - that'll make my computer bleep! You can then leave the room and I'll check recent changes.

Page move
Hi Davodd, can you explain the page move to 'EU judicial review'. it may be that it does indeed make it clearer but equally maybe the story as it has been written isn't clear. The review was brought in the light of the European Human Rights Law, but they have been incorporated into British law and the case was at the UK high court, indeed it will become an EU review if they do take it to the court at Strasbourg. I didn't want to change it before discussing it. Thanks ClareWhite 08:15, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * It was to make it clear before people clicked on it, that is was a European story - not an Australian, Canadian or U.S. story. That's what I was trying to make clear since no other geographic clue was given in the headline. Sorry for any confusion. ;-) -- Davodd | Talk 08:18, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Ah, fair enough! But EU is a political region, not a geographical one (Europe would be better) and it's a bit confusing in the light of the case itself so I might move it to UK if it's all the same to you. Cheers ClareWhite 08:47, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem here. ;-) -- Davodd | Talk 09:12, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

About Wikinews neighborhoods...
I don't know if you saw, but I moved all of our location portals to the new Portal namespace, which was approved by the community... and then Dan100 decided he disagreed and reverted all of my page moves (over 100 of them). Well, when I was doing the makeover, I made a lot of headway in organization of local portal pages- see my local city's portal for a rough idea of what I mean (pay close attention to organization at the bottom of the page). Cheerio! -- NGerda 08:23, July 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ahem, I'm not even going to get into that one but I think the consensus was for portals, not necessarily the namespace bit i'm just sorry you're both having to put lots of work into the argument :) I will definitely take a look at your page, it would be good if you could take a look at the Quaker portal too and see what you think about the policy ideas? ClareWhite 08:46, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Oooh, very pretty Quaker portal! I like the cultural flavor it has, which is what I'd like to see all Wikinews portals eventually having.  I gotta go to sleep.  Gimme a holler if any more breaking news happens in London- heck, if I'm awake (I'll wake up at around 5 p.m. your time), I might be able to patch through a live report to WikiNews Network from Wikinews London corespondent Clare White!  ;)  See you later!  -- NGerda 08:58, July 28, 2005 (UTC)

Community sites
Do you think it's worth me documenting how I made the Quaker site? Or do you think it's a bit of a dead end? Dan100 (Talk) 11:43, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

 * No, I think it's definitely well worth documenting. *perhaps* we could keep the main community aspects on the workspace and have the Portal as it has been outlined in the page. However, for a tiny portal like Quakers, or some of the smaller sub-regions it will have to develop in the sort of way that that page has as you're only ever going to get a small amount of stories, the whole topics/regions thing that works well on a big portal will fall totally flat in a small one. So I think the basic structure Portal, Discussion page (Portal's Watercooler) & Workspace (community collaboration) is probably the way to go. Do you think that works?
 * I'm off to York tomorrow to try and persuade lots of Quakers to wiki their Yearly Meeting (governance residential affair) so we'll see how it all works in practice! ClareWhite 11:59, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Future talk 2
Hello, I would like to invite you to attend our second future talk, it will be held on Monday, August 1 at 21:00 UTC. It will be held on the Wikinews IRC channel #wikinews For more information please see the page on meta The main topics will be audio Wikinews, WNN and portals/neighborhoods It would be great if you will be able to attend. --Cspurrier 15:42, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Clare for looking into my first news article. I will do what I can to work this article out nicely.

--Noisecontrol 10:07, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Burundi etc.
Hi there! Yes - it was me again. I set myself up with an ID in the end. Glad you liked the article, and many thanks for doing the Burundi portal; it definitely helps to have a focal point to draw these things together. Portals rock.

I've started to let my Burundian contacts know about Wikinews. As most of them are more comfortable in French it may take a while, but I'm hoping to get some input from them.

I'm hoping to have some "original reporting" for an article on August 13th, looking at commemorations around the 1st anniversary of Gatumba. I would expect to have some feedback from the UN and various Burundian rights groups by then. Depends of course on who replies to my emails and how much time I have, but it could be quite a good one! Rcameronw 09:27, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

--- Thanks for the complement --- Yes, I wished to hold off, but there were no responses in Wikinews, it was as if the world was asleep far too long. I think I can improve the intro a little now that you mention it. You are always welcome to pitch in and make edits. That's what this is all about anyway right?

--Noisecontrol 09:30, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

What sort of journalist are you?
When you hear the explosion that is almost certainly a bomb, do you:
 * (a) hare outside to the scene, camera phone aloft, speed-dialling the Wikinews hotline
 * (b) stay firmly planted at your desk, mobile phone texting loved ones, tuned into the radio and tapping on Wikinews.

You answered (a) - you are an Original Reporter. Hooray for you, you will go far, undoubtedly, and I'd be happy to help you in your quest.

You answered (b) - you are a production journalist, a sub-editing butterfly, possibly working for the religious or pacifist press. You produce magazines from safe places and, while you enjoy overseas adventures, you check the foreign office advice before making a booking. Not very brave, you nevertheless have high ambitions in Cyberspace, frequently fabricating schemes on a grand scale, for these pages require only your imagination as their source.

ClareWhite (female) answered (b) and all the above is true. She has written little of note on Wikinews so far, access being of the occasional (ahem) nature at work and the unreliable nature from a souped-up mobile phone on her long commute between London and Stoke-on-Trent in the United Kingdom. She has, however, made an active contribution to such recent events as Rwanda: country of the week, London: being bombed and other stories which have caught her eye.

ClareWhite tries to do good through tinkering, enjoys correcting typing mistakes and is fast becoming an evangelical member of the Wikinews Project, believing it to be The Future and already vastly superior to the bile inflicted on society every day by the commercial mainstream scumbag media, who have never offered her a job.

ClareWhite (almost her real name) has a tendency to write pretentiously in the third person, make sweeping generalisations and clutter up her userpage with unfinished analysis. If you have the patience for that sort of thing you may want to refer to her weblog, White Llama, which hasn't been updated recently because this site is more fun.

Voila violins Dan100 (Talk) 15:11, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

London Meetup
Heya,

We're organising another London meetup (yes, I know, it should be on meta), for Sunday the 11th of September; it will probably be fun, as ever, and involve a few drinks and a nice chat in a pub. One of the things we'll be discussing is the formation of Wikimedia UK, and as I saw you add yourself to the interested participants list, I thought I should invite you. Sorry for the short notice...

James F. (talk) 19:53, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Local news
Hi there! I see you've been writing lots of local news so I wanted to point you to the page I have been working on, Quakers which is similarly specialised. You might want to consider utilising some of the features and potentially keeping some of the stories on the local Brampton page rather than the main page. Otherwise I think you're going to be asked to make lots of effort explaining the international context of Dr Kuldip's bbq :) You'll see on the Quaker page that we have stories that are only on that page as well as some that have been 'promoted' to the international page if they are of sufficient interest. I'm keen to see lots of local community news pages being developed so happy to help if I can! ClareWhite 16:15, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * He is inviting everyone to the BBQ, so a reader might want to jet set from Taiwan to the event. ; ) Anyway, thanks for showing me the Quakers page, Clare. I'm think of working on a Portal:Brampton, Ontario for the content, as a redirect from category:Brampton, Ontario. On another note, I'm a volunteer writer for a new weekly local paper. I essentially write one version of the article for Wikinews, one for the paper. I was thinking of maybe streamlining things by actually seeing if they'll print the Wikinews articles, with the proper credits. Have you personally heard if this has been done before with Wikinews content? --  user:zanimum

New Main Page design proposal
I invite you and others to see Main Page Talk, where I have proposed a new Main Page for Wikinews. Best wishes, NGerda 16:17, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

Community Service
I guess I wouldn't have any problem with being a guinea pig—what did you have in mind? For school, I just need to show that I'm volunterring for a non-profit organization and have someone sign off that I volunteered a certain number of hours. Although when I start applying to colleges, they'd probably also be interested in seeing what skills I had learned from my experiences at Wikinews. So are you saying your project would basically help people put together the sort of information required on a job application? Theshibboleth 13:08, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Hang glider story
Is it okay if I remove the appeal, and re-add link to website?

Skills portfolio
I've had a look and I think it's a great idea. It could be used to provide the "accreditation" system some credibility! Dan100 (Talk) 16:09, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

 * PS I saw you voted on the license poll - did you take a look at the WNL 0.2 license? I think it's rather good :-) Dan100 (Talk) 16:14, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

great! yes, I agree, it should definitely be linked. and no, I will have a more careful look as I wasn't sure how formed the wnl licences were. er, they all look kinda similar to me -CW

are you there still?
hi sturat, if you're still online can you take a look at 'a truer nagin'. it's just been published and is too big for me to work on. I think it needs a little more time in development, to say the least :) ClareWhite (no tildes)

 * Ok, in about an hour I'll take a look, can you provide a link here please ? StuRat 16:03, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I looked at it, and it's unpublishable garbage, IMO. See my comments on it's talk page. StuRat 16:53, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

 * BTW, why don't you like to use tildes to make an active link and include a timestamp ? StuRat 16:56, 9 September 2005 (UTC)

Category:Local only / Category:Local
Hi Clare!

I understand your reasoning for wishing to avoid cluttering the main page with articles written for the Quaker portal. However, you might want to consider a few other elements:

 * There should not be both a Local and a Local only category; they are redundant.
 * If the local category is blocked from developing on the main page, local articles will have an extremely limited pool of editors/contributors.
 * Wikinews does not allow websquatting - the creation of a de facto personal website.

The reason I removed the Local only from the Developing stories was due to a couple of local stories being written about specific neighborhoods in California. These articles should be in a local category, yet be visible on the main page.

Although I'm supportive of the Quakers portal, I would like to point out that articles listed there appear to be non-standard to the Styleguide, specifically by including a top menu which suggests the articles are not a part of the regular wikinews. Wikinews does not have a policy regarding projects, but on Wikipedia projects generally include a small template at the bottom of the article stating it is a part of a project and a single link to that project. I could easily see such a template, focusing on a single portal which includes the links to workspaces and other portal-specific pages, but I'm not so sure I would approve of the top menu. I'd be happy to work with you to create such a template.

- Amgine/talk 06:51, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi Amgine, thanks for the offer. Your pages are not being found so hope you get this reply.

The Quakers page is in no way whatsoever supposed to be or appear to be a stand-alone/squatter site as far as I'm concerned, it is meant to be an integral part of Wikinews, with stories of international interest or particular quality being 'promoted'. However, in discussion on the project page there were opinion expressed that portals like that should have a certain freedom to police their own style and that community writing may not, by its nature, have as many sources as a rewrite story. This especially applies if a story is written about someone's own activities which probably wouldn't have anyone else written about them. In my opinion, and others seem to agree, these micro-local stories should be encouraged.

The main reasoning behind having a local only category is because of what you said, you might have a limited pool of contributors but you might also have a very enthusiastic band of writers at another time. This would have a distorting effect on the front page with hundreds of specialist stories suddenly appearing, say if a small group decided to have a Wikinews workshop day. I think this should be encouraged without irritating the 'main' community.

It looks a bit different from the 'bigger' portals mainly because the sectioning of them wouldn't work with such a tiny category, but if you want to have a crack at improving it, feel free. The only comparable portal is a locality based one (Brampton) and so that looks better with the standard formatting.

The portal was fairly clearly marked as a pilot project but I took that off because it seemed fairly well established and there hadn't been any objections to it. It is still marked as being connected to the local proposal but I can make that more prominent.

Category:local only, as far as I know, came first :) I think it's fairer to have that as a category that specifically takes it off the front page as a story is inherently local to whatever category it is in and therefore doesn't need that extra. It wouldn't bother me if it changed, but I would appreciate discussion of it mainly so that I can prepare the Quaker stories and publish them if necessary, at the moment they live in a SpecialPublish status which was done openly and didn't face any opposition at the time.

I'll copy this discussion to the Local project page where you can see more background. Probably makes sense for us to carry on there! ClareWhite 15:13, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

 * That page and discussion are here ClareWhite 15:16, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

The eyewitness account as source material...
I moved the recreation from the Portal namespace to User:Cmwhite/Disasters and accidents/Eyewitness accounts/Katrina aftermath Bradshaw and Slonsky, which is a very long name but puts it under your user pages so you can keep it as notes. The original article is still up for deletion on the Deletion requests page, and you might make the case for moving the article rather than deleting it? - Amgine/talk 06:05, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

i'm not planning to use it myself so not all that bothered. what's wrong with having it in the portal space? I thought a collection of eyewitness accounts to disasters could be pretty handy to writers, especially the first hand ones. or it is a style guide problem? -cw

Wikimedia UK meeting
Hi Clare, there will probably be a meeting for the purpose of discussing Wikimedia UK this Sunday, which you might like to attend. You could add your name there if so. Cormaggio 23:45, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Wikimedia UK
You have expressed an interest in Wikimedia UK. Just to let you know I've posted a draft Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association of the proposed "Wikimedia UK" charitable company on Wikimedia UK/Memorandum of Association and Wikimedia UK/Articles of Association. It is proposed that these will receive initial approval by interested parties at a meeting on 27 November. I will put together a brief agenda for the more formal aspects of that meeting soon. Memo and Arts of Association are a company's constitution, and need to be agreed before the company is formed (though they can be changed at a later date). Please feel free to comment on the relevant talk pages (I'd rather the proposed drafts are left unedited so that it is easy to see what is going on) - particularly if there is something there that you would disagree with at the meeting, details of which can be found on the Wikimedia UK page on Wikimedia Meta-Wiki. Kind regards, jguk

"Heated"
It's still "heated", is it?!

Hope you are well. Dan100 ([[User talk:Dan100|Talk)]] 17:20, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

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The Finnish Social Democrats elect a new leader

June 10, 2005

The Finnish have elected the party secretary  as their leader at the party's annual Congress in the city of Jyväskylä.

Other contestants for the post were the foreign minister and the education minister. He was elected with 201 of the 350 possible votes, while Tuomioja got 101 and Haatainen got 11 votes.

The election was required as the current leader, former prime minister and parliament speaker has decided to leave after 12 years at the helm.

Lipponen has also voiced his support for the current strike by the Finnish Paperworker's union over pay. He said "You are in a truly difficult position. Moderation is your strength. We support you."

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 * Bombs kill US Marines, civillians in Iraq
 * Storing IP-addresses of Swedish copyright infringers deemed illegal
 * Interpol on the hunt for 'Dr.Death'
 * 600,000 new dollar millionaires created in 2004
 * British man involved in deal to drill for oil in Darfur
 * U.N. condemns lack of due process in American-run Iraq prisons
 * The Finnish Social Democrats elect a new leader
 * Thousands of Rwandan refugees living in overcrowded Burundi transit centre

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British man involved in deal to drill for oil in Darfur

June 10, 2005

The British TV station Channel 4 has discovered that the Sudanese government has signed a deal for a contract to drill for oil in southern Sudan, and that the key man in securing the deal is British.

Friedhelm Eronat, who until two years ago was an American citizen, secured the largest stake made in a consortium that won the drilling contract in 2003. Oil was discovered in April of this year.

Geologists have long suspected the presence of oil in the south of the Sudan. Clivenden Sudan, which Eronat personally owned in 2003, had a high level of expertise in the country's geology.

The twenty five year deal secured by Clivenden Sudan will see it pay the Sudanese government $8m in the event oil is produced. The government will also receive 70% of the profits from the oil.

In a statement to Channel 4 News, Eronat said that he is not a shareholder or officer of Cliveden Sudan, that he does not work for or financially benefit from Cliveden Sudan, and that Cliveden Sudan is not the operator of the concession, only a shareholder.

Cliveden Sudan itself said "there has been no commercial oil find in Block C [the area being explored for oil]."

Villages in Darfur 180km from the Clivenden Sudan wells have been attacked by Sudanese troops and aircraft.

Eronat became involved in the deal through Lebanese businessman Eli Calil, who has been accused of funding a failed coup in Equatorial Guinea last year (allegations denied by Calil). Calil and Eronat live near each other in the London suburb of Chelsea.

At least one rebel group in Darfur is certain the search for oil will inflame the conflict in Darfur. The Justice and Equality Movement wants exploration to stop until peace is established.

A member of the JEM, Ahmad Hussein, told Channel 4 News: "So when they say they discover oil in Darfur, who is going to benefit from that? Are they the people of Darfur? Of course not. Absolutely not, the only beneficiaries is the ruling elite and ruling minority of the regime."

Eronat changed his nationality from American to British in October 2003, shortly before the deal was signed. Under US law, he could have faced up to ten years imprisonment and/or fines of $500,000, due to US sanctions on Sudan.

The UK government has been at the forefront of efforts to try and halt the crisis, with international development minister Hilary Benn making a statement to the house of commons yesterday after a visit to the region. He said: "I visited the Kalma camp in South Darfur and the El Meshtel and Abu Shouk camps in North Darfur where tens of thousands of people are facing a precarious existence. I spoke to men and women whose homes have been destroyed, villages burned, and whose communities have been the victims of killings, looting and rape.

"We are in a race against time in Darfur, and the UK remains committed to doing all that it can to help those affected and to work for a just and lasting peace for its people."


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Mr Straw isn't a press secretary.

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Storing IP-addresses of Swedish copyright infringers deemed illegal

June 10, 2005

The Swedish organization Antipiratbyrån (The Swedish Anti-Piracy Bureau) suffered a massive blow today when the Swedish government's Data Inspection Board stated that the Bureau's storage of Internet user's is illegal.

Antipiratbyrån is an organization representing the movie and software industry in Sweden, working to protect the intellectual property of its beneficiaries. This spring they started collecting IP-addresses of suspected. They used the collected information to press charges and to contact the suspect's, demanding repercussions.

The Data Inspection Board's press release established that the collection of IP-addresses is in fact a violation of the Swedish Personal Data Law, prohibiting electronic storage of information about individuals without their consent.

- If they don't cease with the activities we might follow up with a penalty order, the supervising director Britt Marie Wester at the Data Inspection Board says to TT.

Both the Swedish organization - celebrating the verdict as a great victory - and the CEO of Jens of Sweden - a Swedish manufacturer of MP3-players - have stated that they might file a class action suit against the Anti-Piracy Bureau, together with the individuals registered.


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Eduardo Rodríguez becomes president of Bolivia

June 10, 2005

Some minutes before midnight local time on Thursday, Eduardo Rodriguez Veltzé, then President of the Supreme Court of Justice, took oath as the new president of Bolivia, a country that has found itself plunged in a serious crisis for several months.

Earlier on Thursday, the Legislature had suspended the session that had predicted, in the House of the Liberty of Sucre, to decide the name of the new president of the Bolivians, due to the intensified protests after it become known that a minor was killed by the Army. The demonstrations also brought along a strong resistance of various social sectors to possible appointment of Hormando Vaca Diez, president of the Senate, or Mario Cossío, president of the House of Representatives, who constitutionally would have to succeed departing president Carlos Mesa, who resigned on Monday night.

Nevertheless, at 22:45 local time (02:45 UTC on Friday), Congress resumed the session, accepted unanimously the renunciation of Mesa, and named Rodriguez Veltzé, a 49-year-old lawyer from Cochabamba, as the new temporary president of the country, after Vaca Diez and Cossio declined their rights of succession. In his acceptance speech, Rodriguez Veltzé said he's convinced that his mandate "has to do with a renewal of the system" and promised to call the anticipated elections in a maximum of 150 days, just as the Bolivian Constitution says. Besides, he asked his countrymen to "give him a necessary and prudent time to elect a new constitutional president" and to "stop all the pressures and all the mobilizations".

The coca leader Evo Morales, main opponent of Mesa and Vaca Diez, has previously endorsed the appointment of Rodriguez Veltzé and, although he wants a constitutional assembly, probably desists as the temporary president fulfills his promise to call anticipated polls, possibly next December. By aside, the Congress would have that to call to parliamentary elections, since the Constitution only obliges the temporary president to call assemblies for president and vice president.


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Thank you for your suggestion; you should probably get a username (top right-hand corner). I look forward to working with you on Wikinews. NGerda 16:58, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
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tires
Thanks, that's why i put the question mark! ClareWhite 6 July 2005 12:30 (UTC)

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Talk:The Finnish Social Democrats elect a new leader

World News
This is world news??? Veritos 17:43, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

In Finland, it is!
One thing I have to point out is that this is big news in Finland, plus he is one person to watch out as anyone who is the head of the SDP means business in Finnish circles. Plus on top one thing is the comment by Lipponen over the Paperworker's Union strike.159753 21:49, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Big News?
I still don't see how this has any effect outside of Finland and related businesses, etc.Veritos 23:13, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * What you have to remember that this is not the US edition of Wikinews, this is the English language edition. As such, we have a fully international outlook, and according to our principle of "anything, large or small, as long as it's news", any story from any country is valid and can be reported here. Dan100 (Talk) 08:26, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Typo
editprotected "contesters" => "contestants" Van der Hoorn (talk) 15:18, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

 * ✅ ♪Tempo di Valse ♪ 22:32, 14 March 2009 (UTC)


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600,000 new dollar millionaires created in 2004

June 10, 2005

According to this years edition of the World Wealth Report conducted by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini, the number of millionaires worldwide increased by 600,000 to 8.3m in 2004. The report defines a millionaire as an individual who has assets worth more than $1m excluding their primary residence.

The combined wealth of all these high net worth individuals (HNWI's) exceeds $30 trillion. At a regional level, Australia, India, Singapore, and Hong Kong were the strongest performers - Australia added 47 new millionaires a day throughout 2004, whilst India added almost 25 a day.

The following is a regional breakdown:

 * North America: Number of millionaires grew by 9.7%; total wealth grew 10.2%.
 * Asia-Pacific: Number of millionaires grew by 8.2%; total wealth grew 8.5%.
 * Europe: Number of millionaires grew by 4.1%; total wealth grew 3.7%.
 * Latin America: Number of millionaires grew by 6.3%; total wealth grew 7.9%.
 * Middle East: Number of millionaires grew by 9.5%; total wealth grew 28.9%.


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Talk:British man involved in deal to drill for oil in Darfur

Actually it is not Dafur. Even though also the Channel 4 article talks about Dafur, which lies in the west of Sudan, oil is in south Sudan, as correctly pointed out by Channel4. In the south a year-long civil war was ended a few month ago with the help of the UN, while war continued in Dafur. 128.46.190.179 11:36, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

That is correct. The title must be changed... Why is this already out of the news being reviewed section? Actually, this seems to be two different stories... It talks about the "events" in Dafur and this oil thing in Southern Sudan at the same time... 222.152.97.6 00:16, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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Interpol on the hunt for 'Dr. Death'

June 10, 2005

An Indian-trained doctor that was apparently so inept that he was nicknamed "Dr. Death" by former colleagues is now the focus of an international hunt launched by Australian police.

Dr. Jayant Patel, an Indian-born U.S. citizen, is being linked to at least 87 deaths over the course of two years. A government inquiry has recommended he be charged with murder and negligence causing harm.

Toni Hoffman, the nurse who called Dr. Patel's surgical record to attention in March, said, "We'd taken to hiding patients. We just thought, 'What on earth can we do to stop this man?'"

The Queensland state inquiry has recommended Dr. Patel be charged with the murder of James Edward Phillips, a cancer patient, who died five days after Dr. Patel removed a part of Mr. Phillips' oesophagus, despite the fact that Mr. Phillips had been refused surgery because his chances of survival were slim.

Another of Dr. Patel's patients, Marilyn Daisy, was left unattended after a leg amputation and another doctor found her nearly comatose a few days after the operation.

Compounding the murder and negligence charge are allegations that Dr. Patel falsified his Queensland work application records by neglecting to mention his disciplinary history in the United States.

Dr. Patel was hired by Queensland's Bundaberg Base Hospital in 2003.

While working in New York in 1984, complaints arose over Dr. Patel not adequately examining patients before surgery. And in 2001, Dr. Patel was forced to surrender his medical license.

Currently, Dr. Patel's whereabouts are unknown, though there's been speculation that he's returned to his former home in Portland, Oregon.

He left Australia in April shortly after the allegations against him were made.

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Bombs kill US Marines, civillians in Iraq

June 10, 2005

In a statement issued Friday evening, United States Marine officials said five Marines had been killed in a roadside blast in Western Iraq.

The Marines were killed as a result of an explosion while conducting combat operations with 2nd Marine Division, Expeditionary Force, in Haqlaniyah, Iraq.

The attack itself came hours after reports that up to 17 bodies had been found in the same province. Reports say that the bodies were killed "execution style" and were near Anbar.

In Baghdad, up to three Iraqi civilians were killed and several others were wounded in a car bomb blast, that exploded near a busy marketplace in the mainly Shia district of Shula.

Department of Defense officials identified the Marines to be Lance Cpl. Dustin V. Birch, 22, of Saint Anthony, Idaho; Lance Cpl. Daniel Chavez, 20, of Seattle, Wash; Lance Cpl. Thomas O. Keeling, 23, of Strongsville, Ohio; Lance Cpl. Devon P. Seymour, 21, of St. Louisville, Ohio; and Cpl. Brad D. Squires, 26, of Middleburg Heights, Ohio.


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House subcommittee approves massive cuts for public broadcasting

June 10, 2005 A House subcommittee voted Thursday to sharply reduce the federal government's financial spending, including eliminating taxpayer funds that help produce such shows as Sesame Street and Arthur.

In addition, the subcomittee also acted to eliminate federal money for the Corporation for Public Broadasting, a body designed to pass funds onto public broadcasters; starting with a 25 percent reduction next year, from $400 million to $300 million.

Overall, the cuts would signal the most dramatic cutback of public broadcasting the Congress created the CPB in 1967.


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Wikinews:2005/June/11

 * US millitary says it killed approximately 40 'insurgents' in Iraq
 * BSkyB faces challenge in securing British Premiership football rights
 * Irish inflation creeps upwards to 2.4%
 * Glazer caps Manchester United's player transfer spending at £25m a year
 * US teen missing in Aruba feared dead
 * G8 finance ministers agree on deal to relieve debts of 18 poorest nations
 * Report finds FBI missed multiple chances to stop 9/11
 * Firing of Michael Jackson spokeswoman disputed
 * Fake Jackson suicide email hides virus
 * US Congress House panel OKs big cut in public broadcasting funds

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US Congress House panel OKs big cut in public broadcasting funds

June 11, 2005

A House subcommittee voted Thursday to sharply reduce the federal government's financial spending for Fiscal Year '06, including eliminating taxpayer funds that help produce such shows as Sesame Street and.

The spending cutbacks far exceeded even those requested by the White House. Among initiatives slated for reduction are $39 million for conversion to digital programming and $50 million for upgrading 's aging satellite technology.

The subcommittee also acted to eliminate federal money for the, a body created by Congress to pass funds on to public broadcasters. The CPB would see a 25 percent reduction in next year's budget, down from $400 million to $300 million, funds that currently account for 14.9% of all public broadcasting revenues.

Ideological concerns over publicly-financed content have recently become a point of contention for the Republican-controlled CPB. The day after the new budget was approved, CNN obtained an internal memo by 's executive vice president Ken Stern that blamed the cuts on "recent public turbulence caused by CPB chairman Ken Tomlinson's irresponsible attacks on public broadcasting." Stern's memo also told staffers the cut would not hurt NPR directly because it receives little direct support from the CPB. Instead, he emphasized, smaller local stations that rely upon federal dollars are most likely to be affected, which could in turn take a bite out of regular dues and fees, NPR's largest revenue source.

Under the budget, the Ready to Learn program's $23 million appropriation for children's shows is rescinded in its entirety. John Lawson, president of the Association of Public Television Stations, said the cut was retribution for an episode of "Postcards From Buster" featuring a pair of lesbian parents from Vermont. A spokesman for the, John Scofield, denied the claim.

"Ready to Learn was one of more than 50 programs terminated in the spending bill," he told the New York Times. "It might be a nice program to do, but not in a flat budget with large budget deficits. We felt the same way about 49 other programs."

Overall, the cuts would signal the most dramatic cutback of public broadcasting since Congress created the CPB in 1967. The spending bill is expected to pass the Appropriations Committee and the House, but final legislation will be negotiated with the Senate.


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Fake Jackson suicide email hides virus

June 11, 2005

An e-mail virus affecting Microsoft Windows is currently making the rounds, trying to ensnare victims by claiming that pop-star Michael Jackson has attempted suicide.

The message itself hopes to catch people's attention, because of the huge interest in his on-going child abuse trial. The fake message contains a web link that supposedly links to Mr Jackson's suicide note.

A security consultant from security firm Sophos says "That may not surprise people who think it might contain genuine breaking news about Michael Jackson," and that "The sick minds behind viruses and other malware often exploit celebrity names and news stories in an attempt to infect as many people as possible," said Ms Theriault.

She urged users to be very wary when opening e-mail attachments in unsolicited e-mail messages.

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User:Matt von Furrie~enwikinews

You can catch my page here:

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User talk:Matt von Furrie~enwikinews

Welcome
Matt von Furrie, 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! BTW, we normally leave stories on the developing stories page for a few hours before moving it to the days page. --Cspurrier 01:54, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
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 * Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
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 * Developing stories need finishing and publishing
 * Discussions need your input
 * Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
 * And of course, stories need writing!

hello
Thanks for the collision story! It just needed a few more things - a source and a date, and the dateline being removed (as we don't use them unless it's original reporting). Don't be reluctant to follow all the steps in Writing an article and publish stories yourself! Dan100 (Talk) 10:05, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Audio Wikinews Host
Currently, we need a News Briefs host. The process or going about doing this is to write a script based on this template. You would select the "edit" button at the top of that page and copy all of the text into Audio Wikinews/Transcripts/June 10, 2005/News Brief 1800 UTC, replace the 1800 with the current time in UTC, , and replace where is says "summaries" with two or three paragraphs of the top articles. Next, you would record yourself speaking it with a program like Audacity, encoded in into .OGG format, upload it, and add a link to it here. Good luck! If you have any questions, feel free leave a note at my talk page. NGerda 16:41, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)

Daily newscasts
Your idea tails very nicely with what we have a request for from a webcaster or three. They would like a daily-updated 5 minute "top of the hour" type of news cast. We've started working on this in a couple of different ways, including building a set of "News briefs" type paragraphs for each of our published news articles. You can find these via News briefs or checking each day's category - such as Category:June 28, 2005.

There is a project going at Audio Wikinews which has been getting some things recorded and available online. I'd love for you to join in! Where would you like to start? - Amgine/talk 29 June 2005 06:56 (UTC)

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

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

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Report finds FBI missed multiple chances to stop 9/11

June 11, 2005 The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) missed several opportunities to uncover and to possibly stop the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States, a report has found.

The agency did not respond to leads and failed to follow up a theory that al-Qaeda was sending its members to US-based flight schools, it said. The report by the United States Department of Justice's Inspector General said that mistakes amounted to a "significant failure".

The conclusions indicated in the report are similar to others, drawn up after investigations into US intelligence performance in the months and years leading up to the events that occurred on September 11, 2001.

The report is a year old -- but is only being released after a legal battle involving lawyers for Zacarias Moussaoui, who has been convicted of an al-Qaeda plot against the United States, but is currently fighting a possible death penalty.


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Firing of Michael Jackson spokeswoman disputed

June 11, 2005

Wrangling between musician Michael Jackson's legal and public relation teams may have yielded its first casualty. Jackson's official website, www.mjjsource.com, reports that Jackson's MJJ Productions has terminated spokeswoman Raymone Bain and public relations firm Davis, Bain, and Associates. On Wednesday, Bain held a press conference amidst a court-issued gag order which she implied was sanctioned by the Jackson legal team. The same day, Jackson's attorney Thomas Mesereau, Jr. released a court-approved terse message: "I have not authorized anyone to speak or hold any press conferences on behalf of Michael Jackson or his family."

Despite the www.mjjsource.com announcement, late Friday the Associated Press quotes Bain responding, "I have not been fired by Michael Jackson." Bain says she works directly for Jackson himself, not MJJ Productions.

The controversy occurs as Michael Jackson awaits a verdict on charges that he molested a teenage boy in 2003. On Friday, the jury completed its sixth day of deliberations. The twelve jurors will reconvene on Monday.


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Talk:Firing of Michael Jackson spokeswoman disputed

scoop
This story may should continue to be classified as original reporting. Wikinews had its story online concerning the firing of Michael Jackson's spokeswoman before any other outlet (besides mjjsource itself). Mjjsource.com is the core source for the article (as opposed to a typical external link). The story was modified as the circumstances became unclear (and I decided to change the story from -fired- to -firing disputed-). The story's only outside source was a single telephone interview quote between AP's Linda Deutch and Raymone Bain. Otherwise, the material was gathered by a wikinews reporter in Santa Barbara, California. -Alan 14June2005

Raymone Bain was saying a lot of things that Michael Jackson did not ask her to say. Now, Messereau, who is still a firm friend of Michael, had to make a statement saying that Michael did not ask for his daily life or what appears to be his daily life explained to the International listeners or watchers. We are here for an important trial of a Superstar who had been framed by a group of little masturbators and therefore, the last thing Messereau needed, was an irritation from Bain. When the time is appropriate, and the media notes the sensibility of talking about Michael Jackson and the children, if it is not too late, I would be cetain that arrangements would/have been made. People like their ears tickled and when the truth appears at the right time, people appear not to take any notice until of course, the 'time' becomes a simple irritation.


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Twenty-five children injured in bus-truck collision in Florida

June 12, 2005

A truck collided with a bus on Friday, seriously injuring five children and one adult, authories have said. The bus was taking 25 children of immigrant workers to an amusement arcade.

"The more seriouslly hurt youngsters have suffered broken bones and head injuries", said Fire-Rescue deputy Steve Delai. One young boy and a 30 year old were in intensive care at Delray Medical Center late Friday, officials have reported.

Two other children were in a stable condition, while conditions for the other two seriouslly injured children were not available.

"It appears that the bus was in the center lane and the tractor-trailer was in the right lane. For some reason the bus got into the path of the tractor-trailer," A Florida Highway Patrol officer told a local television station.


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User talk:Ryan524/Archive1

Revert
I will revert a story that has the ability to damage our reputation. I apologize for not making a mention of it on the talk page, and I should have and you are correct in that respect, but a story that is as unfinished and developing as that should NEVER be a lead story, it belongs in developing stories. --Golbez 07:36, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

Meet me on IRC
Meet me on IRC. NGerda 05:40, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

why reverted my edit?
the images are too large, and made the page mess. --Mosesofmason 21:21, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
 * User:Amgine has changing them to 120px, it should be much better :p --Mosesofmason 21:27, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Good WOrk
Re;developing stories vandal. Paulrevere2005 19:57, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Here you are, Ryan524, your very own award for vandal-fighting! It's a dubious award, that you earned it is bad... but that you deserve it is great! Thanks for all your help. - Amgine/talk 17:14, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Thankyou!--Ryan524 17:15, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Np, you've earned this one... - Amgine/talk 17:24, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

King Fahd
Hi,

I deleted the King Fahd image, because it doesn't meet the guidelines on Fair use. Most importantly, there was no information on the source of the photo. A photo on the English Wikipedia is not automatically acceptable on the English Wikinews -- our fair use policy is much more restrictive.--Eloquence 07:18, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Reward story clean up
This is something new to me, Ryan524, to leave a story that has been headlined also listed under developing stories. If you feel the story is still developing, then move it back to the "Developing stories" box.

In my judgement, it should only be listed once on the Main Page. Is that wrong? -Edbrown05 19:15, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Stories are moved off of the developing stories area once they are done and moved on to the day page. --Cspurrier 19:22, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I can see the point of leaving a headlined story on the "Developing stories" list, but I don't agree with it and I am sure it is not a policy here. Stories moved to headlines are still edited and contributed to once there, and less confusion exists when the instance of an article only appears once. Edbrown05 19:34, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I am not sure of an offical policy or even if there is one, but I have always seen that stories removed from developing stories, if we did not do this it would quickly fill the devloping story area. --Cspurrier 19:36, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Vandel
You've had an awful morning with vandelism... i've deleted those pictures and banned the user, unfortunately its several hours since the attack. Thanks for trying to keep him at bay. → CGorman (Talk)  09:31, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Admin status granted
Congratulations, you have just been made a sysop! You have volunteered for boring housekeeping activities which normal users sadly cannot participate in. Sysops basically can't do anything: They cannot delete pages arbitarily (only obvious junk like "jklasdfl,öasdf JOSH IS GAY"), they cannot protect pages in an edit war they are involved in, they cannot ban users except in cases of obvious vandalism or excessive edit warring (24-hour "cool down" ban). What they can do is delete junk as it appears, ban vandals, remove pages that have been listed on Deletion requests for more than a week, protect pages when asked to by other members, and help keep the few protected pages there are up to date.

Note that almost everything you can do can be undone, so don't be too worried about making mistakes. Drop me a message if there are any questions or if you want to stop being a sysop (could it be?). Have fun!--Eloquence 18:06, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Three day
Hi, saw your question on Amgine's talk page - if a story is listed on Latest news, you can take it off Developing whenever you feel like it. PS Yes I know my talk page has been vandalised...! Dan100 (Talk) 10:17, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

User Block NGerda?
An edit of "Wikinews:WikiNews Network" by "User:NGerda." resulted in a block of "User:NGerda" which are not the same username. Please use your eyeballs - I won't even ask what the "whatever" talk in the IRC channel was. I don't think anyone cares if you made a mistake but don't be stupid and not revert the ban, unless you can show that User:NGerda was also User:NGerda(dot) Kyelewis 06:40, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I need a vaction, when I see vandalism, I react before I think and didn't even register the "." at the end of the name, sorry about that.--Ryan524 07:09, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * What I don't get is that this all would've been resolved if you had pressed the [block] button next to NGerda. in the Recent Changes list. Maybe you wanted it to be me..... .  Just kidding!  NGerda 07:12, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * i see the recent change in #en.wikinews on irc.wikimedia.org i find a vandal i goto http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Special:Blockip and enter the ip or username from that....--Ryan524 07:14, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Just to quickly point out that it is much quicker to go to Recent Changes (on the left of every page), and select [block]. It's also much more efficient :) NGerda 16:10, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Wow the vandels are getting far more devious... they were so innocent a few months ago when I started as admin... just changeing thinhgs like '... and 100,734 applied to work in Germany...' to '... and 100,735 applied to work in Germany...' - I can just imagine the excitement they got from that sort of messin' → CGorman (Talk)  17:03, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * They are sick. NGerda 17:04, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

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Michael Debenham Currently residing in \Central Coast,\New South Wales,Australia.

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Talk:600,000 new dollar millionaires created in 2004

It's just too bad that the number of poor people also grew. MikeCapone 08:22, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes I could'nt agree more. → CGorman (Talk)  17:09, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Total number of millionaires
It says that the number of millionaires "Grew by xx%"...so then what's the total number of millionaires now (for each region)? -Frazzydee 14:49, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * For example (using ficatious figures): The number of millionaires in Oceania grew by 10% -> in 2003 there were 1m millionaires; now their are 1.1m. Their wealth grew by 20% - in 2003 they had a combined net worth of $100bn; now they are worth $120bn. → CGorman (Talk)  17:09, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, I realize what the data means, but I was just wondering if the article could also include the total number of millionaires either by percent or in total in addition to what's already there (that is, of course, if somebody could find that data from somewhere). I think that would also be useful, in addition to the growth. -Frazzydee 22:54, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh right, I don't personally have the time at the moment - but you are welcome to do it yourself. → CGorman (Talk)  15:51, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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G8 finance ministers agree on deal to relieve debts of 18 poorest nations

June 11, 2005 The finance ministers of the G8, the world's eight richest countries, after years of pressure from wide coalitions of human rights campaigners, such as the Committee for the abolition of third world debt (CADTM), have agreed to a deal to relieve the debts of 18 of the poorest countries in the world, but have not yet published the full details.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB), and the African Development Fund will write off all of the money owed to them by the selected countries. However, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Asian Development Bank (AsDB) will not cancel debts owed to them by heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs) such as Bolivia, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guyana, Vietnam, and Laos.

The countries to receive debt cancellation from the IMF, WB and the African Development Fund are Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guyana, Honduras, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.

The deal, devised by the United Kingdom, could potentially free up government revenue for domestic spending on things such as education and health services. The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the African Development Fund will write off all of the money owed to them by the above listed nations. A total of $40bn will be cleared, which will save debt repayments of $1.5bn a year.

CADTM argues that this is a negligible effort by the rich countries, since $1.5bn a year is extremely small compared to the $350bn the G8 devote to farming subsidies or the $700bn they spend in military expenditure each year. Moreover, these 18 countries only represent about 5% of the population of developing countries.

Another twenty countries may become eligible to have their debts cleared if they meet criteria decided by G8 finance ministries.

According to G8 representatives, the main criteria are the reduction of corruption and better government. According to critics, such as the CADTM, the criteria include the privatisation of natural resources and of strategic economic sectors to the benefit of transnational corporations, higher costs of health care and education through privatisation, a rise in VAT, free flow of capital, which leads to capital leaving the country as shown by several UNCTAD reports, lower tariff protection, which leads to thousands of small and middle producers losing their livelihoods because they cannot compete with imported goods.

The CADTM claims that the G8 agreement can solve neither the issue of the debt nor the issue of poverty since it bears on only 2% of the external debt of developing countries and demand an immediate and complete cancellation of the public external debt of all developing countries, the burden of the debt being a major obstacle to meeting fundamental human needs.

Other groups, including charities, have similarly stated that the debts of 62 countries need to be cleared if the UN wants to meet its target of halving world poverty.

Fourteen of the countries to receive debt relief are in sub-Saharan Africa.

The alleviation of third world debt has been a lifelong ambition of Gordon Brown, the current UK chancellor, and he has used all of his political power and status to push for this agreement in the G8 group.