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User talk:Pious7~enwikinews

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Hello,

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

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User talk:71.234.233.163

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Wikinews Shorts: April 7, 2007

Holy Week celebrated in Rome
Thousands of Catholic pilgrims are celebrating Holy Week in Italy's capital. Pope Benedict XVI has already led the Holy Thursday and Good Friday ceremonies commemorating Jesus Christ's death. Last night the Pope recited the Stations of the Cross with pilgrims at the Roman Coliseum carrying lit candles. He will lead tonight's Holy Saturday mass as well as Sunday's Easter Sunday mass commemorating Jesus Christ rising from the dead.

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Company's spill turns Saguenay River into Red sea
The Quebec based Canadian company Alcan's aluminum production residue spilled into Saguenay River making several kilometres turn red. Company spokeswoman Renée Larouche said the incident is no danger to local citizens and aquatic life. Saguenay Mayor Jean Tremblay has requested for a meeting with officials about how they will cleanup the river. The Quebec Environment Ministry is currently investigating.

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Wendy's plans to get 'younger customers' by changing menu
The Number 3 fast food chain Wendy's will make some revamps to its menu to attract a younger audience. The changes include more flavours to its frosty's, wider straws, and plastic bubble tops. They also will add a new breakfast menu and plan to have it added to half of their 6,700 stores by 2008. Wendy's last had a breakfast menu in the mid-1980s but was unsuccessful.

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User talk:88.112.4.75

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User talk:69.149.117.137

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Condominiums and apartments at former mental hospital burn to the ground

April 7, 2007

The former State Lunatic Hospital at Danvers better known as Danvers State Hospital in Danvers, Massachusetts suffered a major fire last night that could be seen for miles and led to temporary shut down of US Route 1 and Interstate 95 in the area.

The infamous American former mental hospital has been closed since 1992 is the site of a new condominium and apartment buliding complex being developed by Avalon Bay Communities. Four apartment units and four utilities bulidings went in up in smoke in the four-alarm fire. The units were not occupied, however, two were nearing completion which is a major financial setback for Avalon Bay. The fire did not spread to the famous Kirkbride building though, which is being renovated into apartments, aside from a cupola due to radiant heat.

Calls started coming just before 2:00 am EDT Saturday morning to report a fire on the hospital's grounds which before the development sat unused, decaying and abandoned and became a popular target for ghost-hunters, vandals and urban explorers and also served as the focus of the 2001 thriller/horror film, Session 9 which brought renewed attention to infamous hospital which led to increased security at the site over the years. Reports of explosions before the fire started were noted by neighbors and residents.

About 20 residents on the other side of the 77-acre property were evacuated to Danvers High School as a precaution, they are expected to return later today. Their homes were not harmed by the fire, nor were any injuries reported from them. However, about seven firefighters suffered some minor burns from battling the fire, which took seven hours to bring under control. Firefighters will remain on the scene to make sure no hot spots flare up as the fire is still smoldering.

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MLB: White Sox shut out Twins in below-freezing weather

April 7, 2007

In a chilly Saturday afternoon game at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago, the air temperature hovering around freezing the entire game, the Minnesota bats were ice cold. White Sox pitching staff held the Minnesota Twins to only three hits. White Sox starter Javier Vázquez pitched more than six innings and gave up only a single hit in the second. Twins starter Carlos Silva gave up what would end up being the winning run in the first.

Paul Konerko picked up an RBI in the first inning on a single to the outfield that scored Darin Erstad, putting Chicago ahead by one. Juan Uribe would extend the lead with a solo home run in the eighth before an attempted pickoff throw failed and the ball trickled to the outfield, allowing Scott Podsednik to score from second base.

Friday evening's series opener between the AL-Central Division rivals was postponed due to the inclement cold weather, and has not yet been rescheduled. The White Sox, now 2-2, and Twins, now 3-1, will finish their series with an Easter Sunday matinée game. Highs tomorrow in Chicago are forecasted to be slightly warmer in the upper-30s.

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W: Vasquez (1-0) L: Silva (0-1) S: Jenks (1/1)


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NCAA Football: Three Gopher players arrested following rape allegations

April 8, 2007

Three players for the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers football team have been arrested following a rape allegation. The three players have been identified as defensive end Alex Daniels, cornerback Keith Massey, and running back E.J. Jones, all sophomores. They are in custody at the Hennepin County Jail pending charges. Bail has been set at $100,000 for each player.

The three are accused of raping an 18-year old woman at the University Village Apartments, where the accused players live. "Overnight one of the University Officers was flagged down by a young woman who wanted to make a report that she'd been sexually assaulted," said University Police Chief Greg Hestness. Hestness did not disclose further details of the allegations, though he stated the players "were booked on criminal sexual conduct in the third degree. And that usually does involve penetration, non-consensual penetration." Once an investigation is complete, the case will be presented to the Hennepin County attorney for possible charges.

Following Saturday's spring scrimmage at the Metrodome, new coach Tim Brewster said "Obviously it's a disappointing situation that's been presented to me. There's an investigation that's ongoing that we're going to cooperate fully with." The players have been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation, and did not participate in the annual intrasquad game.

Gophers athletic director Joel Maturi said "We will let the process take its course and then do the appropriate thing. But I'm not ready to abandon these kids. It's our responsibility to stand by them and their families."


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This needs to have the trailing slash removed in order to work. —Zachary talk 01:44, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
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US strikes suspected Iraqi insurgents

April 8, 2007

U.S. warplanes bombed suspected Iraqi insurgents in the Iraqi city of Diwaniya on Saturday. The reports from the United States military stated that the insurgents were armed with rocket propelled grenades and were a danger to their forces in the southern city of Diwaniya, 110 miles (177 kilometres) south of Baghdad.

The United States military said that residents in the predominantly Shi'ite city tipped them off to the arrival of insurgents carrying rocket propelled grenades in the area. "The troops made positive identification of the militiamen and called for the air strike," a military statement said.

A U.S. military spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel Scott Bleichwehl, said:

One person [sic] had been killed when a warplane fired on gunmen carrying rocket-propelled grenade launchers. The engagement was initiated by a tip that was called in by a local citizen. We had visual confirmation that there was a hostile target. There was no collateral damage.

In a statement the Iraqi police informed The Associated Press that one civilian was killed and five seriously injured when a U.S. tank fired upon a house in Diwaniya. The air strike was a part of a military program on insurgents located in the city of Diwaniya, which is widely known to be the home of Shi'ite insurgents. It is spearheaded by the new Iraqi army and is supported by soldiers and paratroopers within the coalition.

U.S. troops and Iraqi soldiers stormed the city before dawn on Friday the 6th of April, killing three insurgents and capturing 27 people, the U.S. military said. Code named Operation Black Eagle, the operation is targeting insurgents loyal to anti-American Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Among the discoveries and captures the assault force in Diwaniya came upon a site where powerful explosives were being assembled.

A spokesman for al-Sadr stated that on Saturday militia fighters in Diwaniya had destroyed three American vehicles and captured a robot used to detonate roadside bombs.

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User talk:Ajindustries

You're welcome!
On Wikinews, we don't use the tags, we just list the sources used at the bottom using the template. Other than that and some minor cleanup, it is a very nice article. Welcome to Wikinews! —Zachary talk 02:46, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Looks good. Go ahead and publish. —Zachary talk 03:22, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * You don't have a boilerplate, it has some useful links - but I did just put your article up as lead. --Brian McNeil / talk 08:59, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

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Captain of sunken cruise ship charged
There were a few issues with this story being too close to the guardian one, can you check out the talk and for future reference try to have read 2 sources before you start - it makes it easier to do the story in your own words. --Brian McNeil / talk 08:34, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Other Quote Templates
, also QuoteRight, same syntax. --Brian McNeil / talk 12:01, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Reply about hints
Here are some links to to flags/tags/templates/infoboxes.

Template messages/Infoboxes

Article flags

Template messages

Cheers - --SVTCobra 02:26, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Anit-American rally . ..
before you spend too much energy, have you seen this Iraqis demonstrate on fourth anniversary of Baghdad's fall? Feel free to update that article, frankly it is is a little short. --SVTCobra 02:37, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Story process
I saw Thunderhead answered you on my talk page, but when you start on a story you'd have the tag on it, when you're done you can change the tag to  and wait for someone to look over it. If that doesn't happen in a reasonable amount of time you change it to and the story will appear on the front page.

For the leads on the front page, go to the Newsroom (see links down left). There you will see the leads repeated with a link to edit and update them. Please when doing that read the instructions carefully and preview before you save.

Now, your other question... Boilerplate is an expression to describe a standardised piece of text, for example the manufacturer's label that goes on a boiler. For example, hello is one of the boilerplate messages we use on Wikinews to welcome people. --Brian McNeil / talk 08:27, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

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NHL: Heatley scores 50th goal in Sens win over Bruins

April 8, 2007

Ottawa Senators winger Dany Heatley notched his 50th goal of the season in the Senators 6-3 win over the Boston Bruins Saturday night.

It was the second consecutive 50-goal season for the talented winger. Heatley also picked up two assists in the game at TD Banknorth Garden in Boston. With the win over the Bruins, the Senators (48-25-9) locked-up home ice advantage over the Pittsburg Penguins (47-24-11) when they meet in the first round of the playoffs.

Heatley's goal came at 5:15 of the second period and gave the Senators the go-ahead, breaking a 2-2 tie. Jason Spezza scored twice and Daniel Alfredsson had a three-point night. Ray Emery made 29 saves for the Senators.

Marco Sturm, Petr Kalus and Petr Tenkrat scored for the Bruins, while goalie Tim Thomas made 22 stops. The Bruins ended the season losing 11 of their last 12 games.

Scoring Summary
1st Period

Boston Goal - Marco Sturm (27), from Patrice Bergeron and Stanislav Chistov at 1:28. 18:32 Remaining. Ottawa Goal - Mike Comrie (20), from Peter Schaefer at 3:25. 16:35 Remaining. Boston Goal - Petr Kalus (4), from Shean Donovan and Marc Savard at 5:57. 14:03 Remaining. Ottawa Goal - Jason Spezza (33), from Daniel Alfredsson and Chris Phillips at 6:50. 13:10 Remaining.

2nd Period

Ottawa Goal - Dany Heatley (50), from Daniel Alfredsson and Andrej Meszaros at 5:15. 14:45 Remaining. Ottawa Goal - Jason Spezza (34), from Christoph Schubert and Dany Heatley at 8:52. 11:08 Remaining.

3rd Period

Boston Power-Play Goal - Petr Tenkrat (9), from Patrice Bergeron and Marc Savard at 3:42. 16:18 Remaining. Ottawa Power-Play Goal - Daniel Alfredsson (29), from Wade Redden and Dany Heatley at 6:18. 13:42 Remaining. Ottawa Goal - Patrick Eaves (14), from Chris Neil and Joe Corvo at 9:24. 10:36 Remaining.


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User:Ajindustries

Welcome!
Hey every body!

I joined wikinews around about the April the 8th 2007. I've created two articles so far, why don't you visit them and give me your thoughts or leave them on the discussion page.

My Articles

 * Please visit the below articles, and give me your opinion on how they can be improved. Better yet discuss it on the talk page.

 * US_strikes_suspected_Iraqi_insurgents
 * Captain_of_sunken_cruise_ship_charged
 * UK allows former captives to sell stories

My stuff

 * My Talk page, message me
 * My Contributions
 * My stats

Resources

 * Wikipedia
 * Google, good for all that odd info.
 * An online dictionary, great for hard words
 * Good for learning the basics of stuff
 * How stuff works, pretty much self explanitory
 * News site, sources etc. etc.

See you around. AJ.

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User:Ajindustries/tinkerbox

I test my stuff here, more coming soon!

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Portal:Football/Fixtures/2007/April/8

English Premier League
No Games Today

Scottish Premier League
14:00 - St Mirren v Rangers

La Liga (Spain)
16:00 - Deportivo v Gimnastic 16:00 -	Espanyol v Real Sociedad 16:00 -	Levante v Real Betis 16:00 -	Mallorca v Getafe 16:00 -	Recreativo v Celta Vigo 16:00 -	Sevilla v R Santander 18:00 -	Real Madrid v Osasuna

Serie A (Italy)
No Games Today

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Wikinews:Bots/Archive 1

Orgullobot
Requesting bot status for User:Orgullobot to run a bot to search for images used on Wikinews from Commons, and to upload them locally. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 00:22, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * unfourtanatly support - I'm assuming this is because of commons randomly deleting things. Its a shame its come to this. Will the wikimedia foundation let us do this? (I remember them saying that all images that can go on commons have to ) Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 00:27, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Support Damn Commons ( I still hate the idea of editing our archived articles ) Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 00:47, 21 February 2006 (UTC) de:Wikinews:Bots

 * I'm curious why you want to give me bot status. Do you really want images used from the Commons to be uploaded locally?  If so, why?  And have you considered whether there is any alternative solution, such as a prominent "do not edit this image" tag on the Commons image page?  Orgullobot 09:21, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * This is a case of identity theft....I didn't write that above. So...I'll register a different name.--Orgullomoore 10:03, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, I don't think you should call it identity theft. If you want this account, please just let me know, and I'll email you the password.  One reason I created this account was to prevent anyone evil from taking it.  Orgullobot 13:51, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Object, for the time being. I'd like us to try alternative strategies to resolving the situation on Commons. I'm an admin there, and I'd be happy to promote a policy on these matters that works for us. It seems that the issue is mainly with deletion of "redundant" images, so a policy that states that such images may absolutely not be deleted without exercising due diligence in fixing all links might be sufficient. We should also formulate some technical requirements which could help us, and approach the Wikimedia Foundation or one of the chapters with a development proposal. This could include:
 * image undeletion
 * image redirects (i.e. the "redundant" filename keeps working)
 * cross-wiki image deletion logging

Amgine, one thing that would be helpful is if we could make a list of all images that have been deleted because they are redundant, where this broke links on Wikinews. Do you have access to this information on Commons? If not, I can do it if you provide me with he names of the deleted images.--Eloquence 11:41, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I simply do not have time to comb through all the archives histories which admins have been fixing in the past weeks and months to find all the broken links which have already been removed. Suffice to say more than one hundred have recently been discovered, though not all of those were recently deleted.

 * There are additional issues to consider, Eloquence. Wikinews archives are to show what was known/available at the time the article was published, as an historical record. Altering images, substituting different image names or redirects, may be used to alter that historical record in a way not detectable on Wikinews. This is one of Wikinews's primary missions, to create a publically available permanent archive of news articles, and should be considered very seriously. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 17:40, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I have to agree with Amgine here, much of the damage has already been done. I have had to remove deleted images from a large number of articles I have been archiving and have no easy way to go back and identify these.  As far as my understanding goes, Commons exists to serve the other wikis and they're failing us here. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:50, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, let's not put all the blame on Commons. Many new Wikinews users do not understand copyright and upload whatever they find on the web, either here or on Commons. Historical archive or not, we cannot permanently host copyright infringing content. This will be deleted from Commons, rightly so, and must be removed from our articles as well. Double-uploading does not absolve us from following copyright law.

 * As far as I can see, the most significant purge on Commons of free images has been of "redundant" pictures like flags in PNG format, without consideration for breaking links. This issue is now being handled more carefully, the admins in question have been reprimanded, and there are software improvements we can lobby for in order to prevent it from happening again. I do not see a strong case for any bot access, but again, please do talk to me if there are specific problems on Commons I can help with.--Eloquence 18:31, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * for the copyvio images. shouldn't they be imediatly deletyed, so we notice them as the stories are still developing/1-3 days old. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 23:17, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * The bot is ready, but for software reasons cannot complete its task. When trying to upload an image with the same name as that of a file on commons, it gets this message. Alternatively, it could upload them as FILENAME (local).EXT, and then edit each article so that it link to FILENAME (local).EXT instead of FILENAME.EXT, but it would need admin status for that, seeing that articles are protected.--Orgullomoore 18:41, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Orgullomoore is lying or something, as i was perfectly able to upload Image:Raiva-Ager-Icon.gif locally over commons:Image:Raiva-Ager-Icon.gif. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 23:34, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I think Orgullo's bot is being caught by the "no upload privileges for 4 days" security, which I had not realized was active on Wikinews. I will ask to find out for sure. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 04:30, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Absolutely support. --MrMiscellanious (talk) – 20:30, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

Support 100% Commons has to learn to cooperate and get along with the project SINCE THAT IS ONE THE GOD DAMN GOALS STATED BY THEM!!! Until then, I say we upload free media to Wikinews, and Wikinews only. If people want to use our photos on diffrent projects... well, they'll have to upload becasue I say we don't share with commons. --TUFKAAP 22:43, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

 * *cough* Cooperating takes more than one party. We need to figure out where the specific problems are, and try to work together to solve them. This "I'm going to take my toys and go home" attitude is unhelpful. So, where are the specific problems? The flag deletion disaster is regarded as such on Commons, not just on Wikinews. What else?--Eloquence 00:03, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Just doing stuff that affects us, without informing us, especially when we are only going to find out when its way to late. Before delete, do check ussage, if in wikinews article, tell WN:ALERT and give at least a week before deleting (or upload something over it (like that cross image) so that we can still get the previous version over here)) We arn't magical. When there is an image for a six month old article, that maybe one person looks at every ~3 or so months, we arn't going to see the empty picture untill its too late. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 04:18, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

 * You can't expect a Commons admin to even know what WN:ALERT is. This is not a lack of consideration on the part of Commons admins. A system that assumes that admins are going to know about every wiki's proper place to announce something, across all the languages and all the Wikimedia projects, isn't going to scale. It would be better if we had cross-wiki logging capability so we see here on Wikinews when an image that is linked from somewhere is deleted. Again, instead of sabotaging Commons, we are much better served by specifying exactly what changes should be made -- in policy or software -- and then approaching the Commons community and the Foundation with that request.--Eloquence 11:39, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Don't blame us for that, Eloquence. I've been communicating with them about this for more than a year. I have said, repeatedly, exactly what we need; the ability to upload an image which, if it does not violate copyright or other legal issues, should remain available. I've also asked them to give a justification for their actions and, repeatedly, been told it's their policy and their way of doing things - but no justification.

 * An example: today a commons admin contacted me to remove 600px-Manaus-Amazon-NASA.jpg from an article. It had been "superseded" by Manaus-Amazon-NASA.jpg on January 6, 2006. The original image was 600x600 px, while the dramatic improvement was 640x640 px. Then all sites using the image (en, de, fr, ru, zh, eo, and fa wikipedias, and de.wikinews) were updated. Not one of them gain any benefit from the increase in image size. The original image was deleted after I moved it to wikinews.

 * Cross-wiki logging would still only be telling us what they have already done.

 * We are not sabotaging Commons. Since we cannot get what we need from commons, but we can do so quite easily here, we are doing so here. This doesn't prevent us from uploading to commons, nor does it require us to do so. -  Amgine | talk en.WN 00:09, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure I'm with you on whether or not improved versions of images should be allowed to replace older ones on Wikinews. I can see the "historical record" argument, but something like a 600px-640px transition does not strike me as a big deal. To me, the question is: What new policies would make sense for Commons? Commons is a Wikimedia project, so there's no reason a policy couldn't say "If an image is used on Wikinews, the following rules are not applicable because Wikinews provides a historical archive of news articles".--Eloquence 20:26, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Request for User:MessedRobot
I would like to run pywikipediabot on Wikinews for doing certain repetetive tasks -- the one I have in mind right now is fixing double redirects. — THIS IS M ESSED OCKER  (TALK) 03:36, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Sure. Bawolff ☺☻[[image:smile.png]] 03:44, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Comment: I'd prefer if you listed exactly what you wish to use it for. Placing goatse images in every main namespace article is repetitive task, for example... -  Amgine | talk en.WN 04:02, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Like I said, double redirects. Also, it could be used for date page maintenance (and the like), as well correcting things (like categories) en masse (like when we had to move the articles over from Category:Politics to Category:Politics_and_conflicts). — THIS IS M ESSED [[Image:R with umlaut.png]] OCKER (TALK) 04:05, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
 * This would be great!!! :) I am all for this :) Jason Safoutin 13:14, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Another thing I could make my bot do is handle redundant images; I've noticed red Xs where flags should be on Wikinews. Also, if there are more things my bot could do after this request, I could list them here. — THIS IS M ESSED [[Image:R with umlaut.png]] OCKER (TALK) 20:37, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I have given MessedRobot bot status, if anyone objects, please let me know. --Cspurrier 02:30, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Request for User:AmbraBot
I request bot flag for AmbraBot to create daily pages linked from the main page, such as 2007/February/14. Ambra already works in a similar way on it.wikinews (contribs on it.wn). If requested, the bot can create similar pages (ex: Category:February 14, 2007). This bot will not do anything different (no fixes, replaces, etc, because the owner is not english native-speaker). --Tooby 00:02, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * support. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:11, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * support. Hégésippe | ±Θ± 00:12, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Totally Support — F e  llow  Wiki  News   (W)   (sign here!)  00:13, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * note: for reference, User:Uncle G's 'bot stoped working on Feb 28, 2006. Bawolff ☺☻ 01:24, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Done --Cspurrier 00:52, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Request for User:StandingsBot
I request bot flag per a suggestion by Thunderhead. This bot will update MLB, NHL and NBA, EPL, SPL, LFP, and Serie A standings, tables, and leaders as necessary. It does not run automatically at this time, only whenever I run the script itself (written in perl using the CMS::MediaWiki module). I could run all standings at once, or just one at a time, and it sleeps for thirty seconds before moving on to another table. Can be expanded to include other leagues. It checks with the current version of the standings to see if any change is made before actually making an edit, and also checks the integrity of the data to ensure that it matches the intended result. Also, I usually run it first on my test wiki a few times before running it here, and will probably continue that practice. —Zachary talk 05:10, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support - Support giving this bot bot status. Has had test runs. Please provide a link to your "test wiki".  Thunderhead  ►  07:22, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Support please let us know however, before the bot is given the ability to do new tasks Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 07:28, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment - I don't believe i can oppose or support this bot, as it seems its an admin thing, but i would like to say it works wonderfully, and Zachary has took the time to add my football tables to it, therefore giving me time to take care of other tasks. If i could, i would support. —Dark_Squall 01:47, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * You can indeed support this bot. Every single poll on Wikinews is a "community thing", and nothing is really an "admin thing", except for determining consensus.  Thunderhead  ►  01:58, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
 * And special:Cabal Bawolff ☺☻ 02:19, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Done --Cspurrier 20:02, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Commons Ticker
Note: This does not require/nor should have a bot flag. I'm trying to set up a CommonsTicker. Bawolff ☺☻ 05:04, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Remove Bot Flag
I'd like to ask for the following account's to have bot flags removed to ensure security  Thunderhead  ►  09:11, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Weatherbot
 * MarketDataBot
 * AmbraBot

Request for UserPageBot
This bot will be used to update the userpages of users whp publish articles. Like me, I usually add articles to my userpage that I published and it does get quite annoying to update that page all the time. I know many users like to keep tabs on what they publish and this bot will allow the updates to be made automatically without having to do a mass addition to their pages. Users that do record published articles will be able to subscribe to the bot to have the updates made to their user page. DragonFire1024 20:51, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support — Fellow Wiki  Newsie  20:57, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Run a test, and I'll support.  Thunderhead  ►  20:59, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

 * How do you propose to determine who publishes an article. The first person to hit save page? the person to tag it as ? Bawolff ☺☻ 02:18, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support, as long as it is tested and it supports sub pages of user pages (like me). --Nzgabriel | Talk 01:29, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Request for User:CalendarBot
Calendar bot is currently designed to remove red-links and fix irregular/incorrect categorization on existing dated categories (i.e., Category:April 4, 2006, working from today's date backwards). See Water cooler/technical. Please pay particular attention to the part regarding the editing of protected categories. This would need to be resolved prior to this bot actually running.

More tasks will be added later, mostly being those discussed in the section Water cooler/technical, but I will let everyone know before adding additional functions. —Zachary talk 15:00, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Support  Thunderhead  ►  21:34, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I have already done this: User:Zachary/CalendarBot test-case —Zachary talk 21:36, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Kay, full support, then.
 * I would suggest instead of changing the template (date category), just make one category work for both situations. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:38, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay, I updated to work in both situations. It now makes having categories on the page themselves redundant, as well as eliminating the need to pass the dates as parameters (see Category:April 15, 2007). I guess now I'll update the bot to remove the [[Category: lines, and the Datecategory parameters (it's actually a lot easier that way). —[[User:Zachary|Zachary]] talk 07:38, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Support, please note that the bot cannot be granted admin unless the owner also has it. --Brian McNeil / talk 07:58, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Says who. Obviously if the owner doesn't have admin rights, than I think the bot should at least go through an RfA, but I don't think Zachary is evil, so personally I wouldn't mind goving his bots admin rights (Even though I object to Zachary getting admin rights at this point in time [sorry]). p.s that's a support Bawolff ☺☻ 02:17, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Can calendarbot be enhanced to add interwiki links? German wikinews is probably the easiest, I think they use all numbers for their dating.  --Brian McNeil / talk 08:01, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Interwiki should be working for de:, es:, fr:, it:, ja:, pl:, pt:, ro:, ru:, sv:, and zh:. I'll add the others later, but I think I got the most active languages covered. —Zachary talk 12:05, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Bot flag granted --Cspurrier 19:14, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Does this bot still need sysop? Or does bot suffice? An additional task would be to make sure all these calendar pages are protected. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:56, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, that would increase its functionality with protection, I just haven't written an RfA yet. —Zachary talk 22:14, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Request for ArchiveBot
ArchiveBot will take the pain out of article archiving, using AWB's latest Protect feature and already established cleanup functions, and will be human-assisted (by me, User:Skenmy) to check for large edits after 36 hours. I am requesting the bot flag, and will be requesting admin status so as to hide these mass edits from users. It will also require adding to the AWB Bot checkpage. --Skenmy(t•c•w•i) 21:26, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Please run a test to see which AWB-setting you would use. Also, will this be semi-automated or will you check every edit?--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:37, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Response: Semi-automated. I check to see if the article has undergone major changes after 36 hours, act accordingly if so, then hit the button in AWB that will clean up and protect the article. --Skenmy(t•c•w•i) 21:50, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I support once since it's tested and runs well. —Zachary talk 19:19, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Response: I am awaiting the finalisation of the Protect function in AWB, as you wel know, before testing can begin. --Skenmy(t•c•w•i) 21:50, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Note: I just performed a test using the exact methods that ArchiveBot will use (look at RC for today, 13:52 til 13:58). It appears to work perfectly! I purposely worked a bit slower so as to not trigger any rate-limiters, but the bot flag would permit it work work a bit faster. I can archive a day's news in a couple of minutes, it's the manual checking that takes a while longer (about 10 minutes a day). I can see this being a REAL timesaver. --Skenmy(t•c•w•i) 14:09, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Support. --Brian McNeil / talk 19:16, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose This is not the venue to request Admin status. Once you get the Bot flag (which I do support) then on WN:A request a Admin status, which, going by past experience, would be opposed. Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 19:22, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Support now Skenmy has made clear that this is only a request for bot flag page :) Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 19:29, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Support  Thunderhead  ►  21:07, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Support - one less thing to do!!!--Mark Talk 21:09, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Support.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 09:15, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Important Note
Since the introduction of WN:APL functions, I beleive that ArchiveBot would be better suited to use these methods. Please note below if you still support the bot running - this is no longer the same techniques in use as the original nomination and so I wish to ensure that all the supports are still there. --Skenmy(t•c•w•i) 11:49, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Still Support Thunderhead 18:04, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Adambro 19:10, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
 * SupportMark Talk 16:36, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Support --Brian McNeil / talk 09:18, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Support in strong support Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 07:18, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Bot flag granted --Cspurrier 22:39, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

AdambroBot
AdambroBot is part of the recent initiative to provide a reliable and straightforward means of providing Wikinews with weather service. This is a joint venture involving work by Skenmy, IlyaHaykinson, and myself. This has also been discussed with others on IRC.

The bot runs from the toolserver using a Python script based upon the pywikipedia framework, and edits on wiki once every hour currently. The number of edits is likely to increase as further developments are made so I am requesting a bot flag so as to remove the frequent edits from recent changes.

The output from this process can be seen at Template:Weather World C. The bot has run now for a number of days without a flag and it can be seen from its contributions that it is reliable and stable. Adambro 18:01, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support I have been waiting for this request :) Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 19:10, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Brian, you beat me to it! Thunderhead - (talk) 19:29, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * ✅ Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 06:11, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

SineBot
Approved. Have Flag'ed Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 07:16, 13 November 2007 (UTC) Operator: slakr  \ talk / / @en.wp

A clone of SineBot @ en.wp. Check out its user page there for the full rundown. -- slakr \ talk / 03:16, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify, this will run on the Talk namespaces and the comments namespace (at least thats what I requested). Matt/TheFearow | userpage|contribs 04:50, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, I didn't know that you needed the Comments: namespace as well, but that's an easy add. :P -- slakr  \ talk / 04:09, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

 * support. Not really needed for talk, but would be useful for comments: as many people don't sign there posts there (as they are often just people who read and don't edit). Bawolff ☺☻ 00:37, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Oppose, uses up resources for something that doesn't really improve Wikinews. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:14, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I find it incredibly annoying trying to reply to comments or questions etc on pages, especially when others have replied since, and I have to search through diffs to find their userpage. Also, we have so much resources, I believe the old w:WP:PERF applies here. Either way, its not much extra resources, and not much more than us adding unsigned templates ourselves. Matt/TheFearow | userpage|contribs 00:52, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay, WP:PERF convinced me, . --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 18:30, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

MiszaBot
Operator: Misza13
 * Approved. Flaged

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic - unsupervised

Programming Language(s): Python, pywikipedia

Function Summary: archive discussion pages

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): daily

Edit rate requested: several per minute

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N

Function Details: "World-famous" archiving bot. Details available on w:en:User:MiszaBot/Archive HowTo

Discussion
Yes, it's the bot. Someone (Pilotguy perhaps?) asked me a while ago to set it up here. Finally found some time to do it. Please flag the account as bot - this utilizes the mechanism that minor edits by bots do not trigger the "New messages" orange-bar-o'-death. Thanks! Misza13 13:44, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Support (In a non-voting kind of way), as long as someone here wants it. Bawolff ☺☻ 19:46, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * !Support I need an archiving bot here :) It'd also help on various other pages that need regular archiving. Will this archive any namespace/page that has a certain category (or a similair system), or only user talk/talk/etc? Matt | userpage|contribs 01:06, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Support I'm not sure about archiving talk pages, but this bot will be useful in archiving the Water Cooler and deletion requests, as well as other related pages.  —Fellow Wiki  Newsie 20:14, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

HermesBot
Operator: Wikihermit

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic - unsupervised

Programming Language(s): C#

Function Summary: deliver the signpost on en.wikinews

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): one time runs

Edit rate requested: 10 per minute

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N

Function Details: Deliver the signpost to users who sign up at user:HermesBot/signpost

Discussion

 * I love the idea, and I want the signpost. Support TheFearow 00:14, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Thunderhead - (talk) 00:43, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Given that this is not a vote, I'm not voting. However, I like the idea of the delivery of the signpost. Very cool. Is it possible that we could see the source code somewhere? irid:t 00:49, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Being debugged. I'll publish it once it's working. ~  Wi ki her mit  01:09, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Source done, ready for a trial. Just need some users to sign up at user:HermesBot/signpost. I'll publish the source after the trial to make sure everything is okay. ~  Wi ki her mit  02:27, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Everything runs fine. The only problem was that I forgot to add a == to the text file, but that was user error (me), not bot. No problems, source is here. ~  Wi ki her mit  02:45, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Is a Flag Requested? Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 19:13, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't believe bot status is needed per se, since the delivery rate and volume would be so low. But correct me if I'm wrong. irid:t 19:15, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

StatusBot
I would like to run a clone of StatusBot (enwiki approval) as several people have asked me to run a clone here. All information should be on the enwiki approval page. TheFearow 06:16, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Thunderhead - (talk) 06:19, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Support - combined with DPLs we could show who's currently online this way, too. IlyaHaykinson 06:25, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * By DPL's would that require categorising the status pages? That wouldn't be possible under the current system, it could be done by accessing it using a template, which I will do. TheFearow 22:05, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * See also template:Online for previously used category. Bawolff ☺☻ 19:48, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Support Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 06:46, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * ✅ and Bot Approved Thunderhead - (talk) 08:33, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Of course, we have to ping Craig for a bot flag, doing that now. Thunderhead - (talk) 14:29, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think it's possible to give a bot flag to an account that isn't even registered yet. :P —Zachary talk 15:46, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I need to put this tempoararily on hold, there have been some annoying issues with StatusBot. TheFearow | userpage|contribs 06:00, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

IdeaBot

 * Format copied from enwiki as I like the format, and it provides the information easy.

Operator: TheFearow

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): Java

Function Summary: Manages a list of "top stories" to give new contributors and others ideas for new stories to write.

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): Approx every 10 minutes

Edit rate requested: 12 edits per hour (assuming a new story pops up every 10 minutes, which is not likely)

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N

Function Details: Using the topstories RSS feed of Yahoo! news, this bot updates two lists. One is a list of titles, linking to the news story, and the other is a list of titles with the accompanying blurb from the feed. 12 edits per hour is a max, and will only be reached if a new story is placed every 10 minutes. Multiple stories added will be condensed into one edit. It will re-add stories that users remove, so it will also place instructions at the top of the page stating to mark written stories with ✅. Stories will be automatically removed once they are off the top stories feed.

Discussion
I am a botop and member of the Bot Approvals Group on enwiki. I used this template as it is used on enwiki, I couldnt find one for here, and shows the relevant information easily. TheFearow 23:11, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Make some test edits with the bot, seems good. Thunderhead - (talk) 07:24, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Permission granted to run test edits under TheFearow's own username (IRC request) Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 05:29, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
 * It's working good, see User:IdeaBot/Ideas1 and User:IdeaBot/Ideas2. TheFearow 05:53, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Ok, so what does the community think? TheFearow 02:28, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Useful, no flag needed though. ~  Wi ki her mit  01:13, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Flag is ideal. Also, may need it for CAPTCHA's etc. TheFearow 02:57, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * You don't need a flag for CAPTCHA I thought. ~  Wi ki her mit  03:03, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
 * The CAPTCHA concern is that the wiki may stop the bot occasionally and ask it to verify that it is a human. See CAPTCHA. The bot flag would prevent that. irid:t 03:05, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

 * I see one big problem with the pages the bot generates. They encourage people to create articles with titles the same as those on Yahoo. --Brian McNeil / talk 07:40, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Ahh yes - it's meant to just be ideas. Should I remove the create link? TheFearow 01:36, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Flag granted for two weeks, if no complaints we can make it permanent. --Cspurrier 01:42, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

ZacharyBot
Submitting my new bot for approval. This will do stuff that won't fall into the category of calendar pages or sports pages, like double redirects, broken redirects, and other stuff too. I ran a test of the broken redirect flagging function and worked fine. The double redirect test was done on the test wikipedia, and it worked fine there and I expect it to be no different if run on Wikinews (there are no double redirects to fix here though). —Zachary talk 07:33, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Discussion
I assume you will be running redirect.py. You know that you can only fix broken redirects by deleting them, which means you would have to run the script on a sysop account. ~  Wi ki her mit  16:34, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Actually, he flags them for speedy, so a sysop can fix it. Bots generally can't run as sysops. irid:t 19:21, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

 * I am not using the pywikipedia framework, I write my own stuff in perl, as I don't know anything about python. —Zachary talk 12:33, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Bot flag granted --Cspurrier 01:41, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

User:Iridibot
Operator: ironiridis
 * Approved to run. No flag granted yet. Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 20:26, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic - unsupervised

Programming Language(s): PHP5

Function Summary: For now: facilitate the Current template in leading users to the most recent update to a story

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): hourly, but easily adjustable

Edit rate requested: one edit (typically) per run, if needed, depending on usage

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): No

Function Details: This bot is designed to do the second half of the job half done by Current. Essentially, the role of the bot is to recognize when that template has been placed on an article. The bot updates a flag located as a subpage of Template:Current, which Current looks at to determine the most recent development in a story. The articles themselves auto-magically update, so there is no need to edit old articles when something new happens.

Because the bot only needs to make an edit when the template is added to an article, the edit frequency will only be as often as that template is added. The bot could reasonably run as often as every 5 minutes (since, it's only two commands: login, and check the revision IDs of the articles using current) and could probably suffice with running as infrequently as once a day.

If you take a look at the contribs of the bot, you can see the type of editing it does. It only edits in a restricted space (currently User:Ironiridis/test/Current/, would move to Template:Current/ after approval) and is hardwired as such so it cannot "go haywire".

Discussion
  ORLY? Ok, you have me. Seems fine with me. Support. --TUFKAAP 22:49, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thupport™ Thunderhead - (talk - email - contributions) 21:59, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Supporty™  —Fellow Wiki  Newsie 22:03, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Plain ol' Support —Zachary talk 22:04, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Millbot
This should be a general purpose bot with bot flag. Presently, it generates statistics at Template:Statistics. If I would have some ideas for dealing with content, I will make an account "Millbot- " which shouldn't have bot flag. --millosh (talk (sr:)) 05:27, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Millbot now has bot status Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 00:05, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
 * [[Image:Pictogram voting keep.svg|15px]] Conditional Approval - Keep the bot online for 7 days, get community comments here, and change the edit summary to something more approval. Also, provide more information about how exactly your bot works. Approved for 7 days, no more than 500 edits. Thunderhead - (talk - email - contributions) 06:10, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Huh... May it be "without edits except on Template:Statistics"? Usually, bot should make one change per day, but when I am testing it, I may spend all edits for half of a day. --millosh (talk (sr:)) 10:01, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Changed, see above, sorry :) Thunderhead - (talk - email - contributions) 11:23, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry but I object to such a large edit count restriction. Millosh shouldn't really be doing a lot of testing here, the idea of a trial period is to demonstrate the community that it operates correctly. More extensive testing should be carried out elsewhere, on a private wiki so as to not disrupt Wikinews. Adambro 11:27, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Can't the bot be tested on the test wiki? --Brian McNeil / talk 11:43, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * No, the test wiki is for testing changes to the MediaWiki software before they go live across the WMF projects, not for testing bots. Adambro 12:01, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I just objected for 14 edits for one week because I may make 10 edits for testing, which would mean that I would have only 4 edits for seven days of daily statistics. While I didn't want to put it "in production" until the present stage (fully multilingual bot), from this point, it is perfectly safe to use it (actually, it is already used, thanks to Bawolff). This means that it needs exactly 7 edits for this week. --millosh (talk (sr:)) 12:23, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Also, bot is operating with only one page (per wiki) and it is not able to make any damage to the project. Yes, I know that bots should be tested before usage in production and I am doing so. However, before full implementation into the particular wiki, I need some number of tests on that wiki and it may be 10-20-30 edits, which depends of a lot of factors. --millosh (talk (sr:)) 12:23, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

 * I am packing bot to be publicly available (this bot doesn't deal with sensitive things). When I finish with packing it and writing documentation today, I'll make description here, too. --millosh (talk (sr:)) 12:34, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I . This is useful. I used to manually update these statistics, but I'm lazy and i usually forget so the statistics used to be way out of date. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:49, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Description
It seems that I'll have to wait next week for finishing documentation and packing the software, so here is the short description: --millosh (talk (sr:)) 21:58, 25 November 2007 (UTC) If you have some other questions, I would be glad to give explanations. --millosh (talk (sr:)) 21:58, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Program takes raw statistics (like this one) and sorts data in the reverse numeric order (biggest first). --millosh (talk (sr:)) 21:58, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Program is localized and if you want to change some of its parameters (including the template page; if you want some other template page, change value for the key "Statistics"), you may do that at the page meta:User:Millbot/translations.py. Of course, I wouldn't implement changes from the page on Meta by default. --millosh (talk (sr:)) 21:58, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) Program is working every day at 00:10 UTC from Toolserver. --millosh (talk (sr:)) 21:58, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 4) It is possibly that this program would become Wikimedia-wide. --millosh (talk (sr:)) 21:59, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Note about localization
If you want to see different text inside of table and Template:Statistics generally, make a decision here and update file meta:User:Millbot/translations.py. Presently, I added "noinclude" part at the beginning of the template with a few informations about the bot and possibility to change translation. However, if you want to add something more (and inside of the other parts of the template), tell me that and I'll change it. --millosh (talk) 13:07, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

user:Bawolff bot

 * approved to run. 500 edits. If no problems I'll flag Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 03:24, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Bawolff bot now has bot status. Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 09:00, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Bawolff ☺☻ 20:25, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * this is now randomly run no more than once every 2 hours. (for the overall pop, I still want to test one more thing on the recent pop one that i found when trying the overall pop one just now). Bawolff ☺☻ 03:07, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Alrighty it should be going by itself now. If any problems, please tell me. Bawolff ☺☻ 21:51, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Question: As of current it will touch the recent articles template even if the article list has not changed, to update the timestmp at bottom. Should it do that, or should it only edit the page if there are actual edits to the list to make? only updates if it needs to Bawolff ☺☻ 06:32, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Note: This is based on a suggestion by Steven Fruitsmaak on WN:WC Bawolff ☺☻ 05:14, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Operator: Bawolff, or possibly someone else (My computer doesn't run All day or even every day more like one out of every 3-4 days, so I'd rather someone else who has a constantly available computer run it, so that the bot would edit consistantly
 * Programming languages
 * Shell script grabs http://tools.wikimedia.de/~leon/stats/wikicharts/index.php?lang=en&wiki=enwikinews&ns=articles&limit=7&month=11%2F2007&mode=csv using wget
 * 2 awk scripts format it (Could probably be done in one, well actually this could probably be all done in python, but I don't really know how to program, and this is what I know how to make work without spending 25 hours trying to figure everything out in python)
 * modified verson of pywikipediabot's clean_sandbox.py to update the page
 * This would be an automatic bot
 * bot flag: probably doesn't need one
 * function:Update most popular pages list
 * Example: Popular articles

Also, I'd like to use this account to move comment pages from old style to new style (using the pywikipediabot move page, and possibly a very short shell script which doesn't exist yet to fetch the pagenames from a DPL). All edits would be monitored, and I would have to type enter for each move to proceed. Bawolff ☺☻ 01:52, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

 * So, will this bot list the most popular stories from yesterday? I mean we really only want it to list the stories from the day before, and then list them in order of popularity... --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 20:52, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
 * It will list them in order based on what the toolserver list. I don't really know how they count it on that list, but I get the impression its the pages popularity over a time period of more then yesterday, however I still think such a list, although not ideal, would be useful. Bawolff ☺☻ 20:18, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Thinking about that, it could take the list from the toolserver, and only display the pages in its list that were from the last day. That would essentially give the yesterdays most popular list (Although if we got something really good, that keeps getting hits all month it wouldn't display it). Bawolff ☺☻ 20:18, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, but than the list should have to be a hell of a lot longer to list more stories. I wanted something to suggest to readers some interesting stories from a day before. This might still be useful and I will support, but I am wondering where we could put this info: on the main page? --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:16, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Length is not really an issue. I can make it as long or as short as needed. (It could even be wrapped around a template on wikinews, and then be called like Popular articles). Bawolff ☺☻ 21:35, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * That's not what I meant: the toolserver page should be longer to include even the very unpopular stories if we want to compile a list of, let's say, the 5 most popular stories of the previous day, because 4 of those would probably not be in the top 100.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:19, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The toolserver can go up to about 1000. That seems big enough to me (especially if you set it to main ns only). Bawolff ☺☻ 22:22, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * That's great! So, could you set up a page which only lists yesterday's stories, to show that it works? We could have 2 versions, one with the overall top stories and one with the most read stories from yesterday. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 22:11, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Popular articles/recent Bawolff ☺☻ 00:02, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

I'm spliting this off into different sections to explain better (+ the section below votes). these are the bots I wish to run:

Pop articles
A shell script and a modified version of the pywikipediabot sandbox celaner

It gets a list of the top 7 (could be modified to any number up to 5000) articles from leon's wikichats tool from the toolserver. Formats them in wikicode, then uploads them to Popular articles
 * Pitfall: calculates hits over month. For example, say there was extremly popular article A got 300 000 hits on Nov 2, 100 000 hits on nov 2, and after that recieved no more hits (we interviewed the president or something), then on November 26, the most popular article is gets arround 13 000 hits for about 2 days (thats about what a really popular article will get right now). The first article will still be beating the second article,as it takes the total number of hits over the month to calculate which is most popular. (article 1 has 400 000 hits at end of month, article 2 has 26 000). (At least I think that is how the stat thing works, I could be wrong. What I think it does is calculate the number of hits so far this month, then divide by the number of days in the month that has happened so far, which would make sense for an encyclopedia, not so much for a news source...). Bawolff ☺☻ 00:02, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Pop recent articles
Very similiar to pop articles

Gets list from toolsrver of top 200 articles (can be increased upto 5000), then filter that list to only show the article if it is one of the last 42 (~3-5 days) published articles (from the DPL on user:Bawolff bot/recentPub. Can also be increased). Note that usually only about 6 of the last 42 published articles are on both the last 42 pubed and 200 most popular list. Bawolff ☺☻ 00:02, 12 November 2007 (UTC) Since no one opposed, this will run randomly no more than once every 2 hours. (for the overall pop, I still want to test one more thing on the recent pop one). Bawolff ☺☻ 03:07, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Pitfall: say there is a really popular article that got /.'ed blogged digged etc excessivly, and 2 weeks after published it is still our most popular article getting a thousand hits per day. It would not be on this list.

Discussion/votes

 * Support  —Fellow Wiki  Newsie 21:06, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Support: And its very rare that I turn off my computer. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 21:24, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Support, I think lists like these would be very useful to suggest to our readers. Thanks for your hard work, Bawolff.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 00:22, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

movepage.py
Uses the movepage.py bot from wikipediapybot (+ a shell script to feed it the page names and new page name) to move comment pages from talk:article/comments form to commentS:article form. All edits would be monitored, and I'd have to hit enter between each move. Would not move if both forms exist. This would be a one time run. (at bottom as it is quite a bit different from other two)Bawolff ☺☻ 00:02, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Request for K.J.Bot
It is python wikipediabot to add interwikis on all Wikinewses project. I ask for permission to work on English Wikinews too. On Polish Wikinews (where i am a sysop) bot also replace category, template etc. Krzysiu Jarzyna 18:05, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Approved. K.J.Bot now has bot status Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 02:00, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, this is the same. The most often I work on last 20/50 new articles. Krzysiu Jarzyna 09:19, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

 * but i'd like a bit more detailed description on how it works. Is it the same bot that does 'pedias interwiki? Bawolff ☺☻ 07:24, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
 * If pwb is used (which Krzysiu said), then there it is not possible to say anything sensible without citing documentation from the code. Interwiki is done by simply saying "do interwiki" (like: "python interwiki.py -new") :) --millosh (talk) 00:47, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * --millosh (talk) 00:47, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * this is an excellent idea. This bot will help a lot.  —Fellow Wiki  Newsie 01:11, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Greeves (talk • contribs) 20:32, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Greeves (talk • contribs) 20:32, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Millbot's new task
You may see at Template:Exchange rates a list of exchange rates subpages (templates). Program generates exchange rates from one or more (presently, from two) official places. It uses data from European Central Bank and from National Bank of Serbia (only for RSD). --millosh (talk) 01:27, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for notifying about its new tasks Brian | (Talk) | New Zealand Portal 03:53, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

So, there are two questions: --millosh (talk) 01:27, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Does community wants that program to run and to periodically update all templates (let's say once per 6 hours)? --millosh (talk) 01:27, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) If yes, as I know only very basics of economy, please tell me how do you want to look those pages, do you want some more data (if you want, tell me where to find) etc. --millosh (talk) 01:27, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I'd support having current currency data on the site. Do we have anyone could write a Javascript currency converter that would work from the uploaded data? --Brian McNeil / talk 09:42, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I could probably do that (in javascript, or just in fancy templates — USD $1000 (hover over) ). One thing about this though, is currency's change over time. An article from 2005 might say they spent $1000 CDN which was equivelent to $900 USD then, but now is $1010 USD (I just pulled numbers out of my head there, but you get the point). therfore conversions might be misleading. Bawolff ☺☻ 23:29, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Perhaps this could be a MW extension, or included in the release version, with "Currency" being a Preference option? Thunderhead - (talk - email - contributions) 03:56, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
 * What I'd meant with my comment was having a page linked off the main page that listed the exchange rates and had a calculator to work out a conversion at the current rates. I was not talking about something to do the calculation in articles, more something on the site that you could use when calculating these details for in current stories. Of course, for those who stay in the IRC channel #wikinews you can always type "!calc 10000 USD in GBP". --Brian McNeil / talk 14:02, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

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Captain of sunken cruise ship charged

April 8, 2007 The captain and five of his crew on Sea Diamond have been charged following the cruise ship's collision with a known and well-charted reef. The charges laid against the captain were "causing a shipwreck through negligence". Additional charges of breaching shipping safety regulations and pollution were laid against the captain. All six accused were released shortly after questioning and their full testimony will be taken in the following weeks.

At the time of the crash the ship had been a few kilometers away from the dock under the spectacular cliffs that make Santorini one of Greece's top tourist destinations. At the time of the collision the Sea Diamond was carrying more than 1,500 people, 1,154 passengers and 391 crew members. The damaged vessel was quickly evacuated in a 3 hour operation, but it failed to find Jean-Christophe Allain, 45, and his 16 year old daughter, Maud, both from the Doué-la-Fontaine state in western France.

A 3 day search and rescue has failed to find them with officials stating that a robot submarine would investigate the wreck, which is lying under 330 feet (100 meters) of water, within the following weeks. The panicked evacuation soon brought to the fore memories of the September 2000 Express Samina ferry shipwreck of the island of Paros, killing 80 people.

The spokesman for the Cyprus based operator, Louis Cruise lines, read out a statement saying that the company was working closely with Greek investigators. We would like to express our deep sorrow over the accident, and our thoughts are with the two missing people and their family. The Sea Diamond was fully up to date with its inspections. Whoever is responsible for this will be held accountable in the strictest way. Greece is a major tourism destination, and incidents like this must not be allowed to occur. ... Authorities handled the rescue very well.

The Sea Diamond, a 21 year old vessel sank at the end of a four day cruise, which included visits to Rhodes, Patios, Crete and Mykonos islands. Officials at the Greek Tourism board went into damage control to lessen the impact on its industry which accounts for 18 percent of its GDP (Gross Domestic Product).

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User talk:KTo288

Archive

Welcome
, 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! DragonFire1024 06:50, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
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 * And of course, stories need writing!

Autosight
I gather you logged off to avoid autosight when editing a published article. The thought is appreciated, but —unless you're aware of a wiki software anomaly I hadn't heard about?— unnecessary: en.wn shut off autosight about two years ago. --Pi zero (talk) 13:50, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, check my history, haven't been active here for ages.--KTo288 (talk) 18:32, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay; thought I'd better check, as there was one brief incident this past summer (I think it was) where our configuration got mis-set, so that admins had autosight turned on. (We talked to Bawolff and that got fixed quickly.)

 * I should probably mention, since you haven't been around lately, two related policy changes:
 * If you make any edit to a published article that is "substantive", i.e., something that wouldn't be allowed on an archived article, you don't sight it yourself; you leave it to be reviewed for publication by an independent reviewer (independent of the edit, that is).
 * Substantive changes are allowed only during the first 24 hours after publication. (There used to be inconsistent statements about how long; I think one place said 48 hours and another said 36.)
 * --Pi zero (talk) 19:32, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, again.--14:55, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

U.S. presidential candidate Newt Gingrich wins South Carolina primary
I've submitted for review the changes I was going to make before publication; they're now pending (last I looked).

Alas that I'd failed to use under review. When I realized it had been published out from under me, I'd already spent about an hour and a half poring over the sources, and had a short list worked up of changes I'd reckoned were probably needed. I couldn't stand to let so much work go to waste, so I just kept going and finished the process, rechecking each item on my short list and submitting the edits as changes for review. --Pi zero (talk) 15:21, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry looked okay to me. Sighted by someone else, but would have been happy to do so if not.--KTo288 (talk) 19:33, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Report indicates Texas state parks still suffering following worst drought on record
The review comment was, of course, addressed to you. (I think some of the edit-history during review may be relevant to you as well, though I'm uncertain off hand.) --Pi zero (talk) 17:04, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
 * You,ve hit the nail right on the head, the article as it is an eye opener of what can be done with an article I thought was on the way to deletion. Thanks.--KTo288 (talk) 18:30, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Buddpaux has a knack for adding a zesty splash of OR to xyr articles. You many note, all those Related news items I added are Buddpaux originals. :-)  --Pi zero (talk) 19:57, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Rather shows my lack of recent understanding of the community.--KTo288 (talk) 20:17, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Wikinews Shorts: January 28, 2012
Published. Review comments,. --Pi zero (talk) 23:31, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Workshop
Timing for tomorrow's workshop is set for 2pm (1300 UTC).

Sorry time announced so late, but our Australian visitors for the Paralympics have been incommunicado, and airborne. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:44, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks, should see everbody at the wikimedia UK offices later.--KTo288 (talk) 08:58, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Not everbody than, our Australian visitors were on a tour of the paralympic villge, nice to meet all who did attend even if it was just your disembodied voice that was present.--KTo288 (talk) 17:57, 26 August 2012 (UTC)

Vanuatu sends lone Paralympian to London
Hi. Seems  could be construed as a substantive change of the meaning of the sentence (depending on how one reads it, which is kind of the point), so would have been better left for someone else to review. --Pi zero (talk) 12:55, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I wanted to get this out before it became totally overtaken by events, but couldn't help but tinker with it, the opening sentence seemed overly pedantic, however I've just remembered an aussie I met who was part of the Cook Island's Olympics team, so competitors need not compete for their birth nations, so maybe I really should have let the sentence stand.--KTo288 (talk)

Review request
Hi. Can you place a priority on reviewing 15 medals awarded on fourth night of track and field at London Paralympics? This is the Oscar Pitrious article, and that is hugely, hugely, hugely popular Paralympic news wise. --LauraHale (talk) 23:08, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry, didn't get the chance to oblige ,busy doing other things.--KTo288 (talk) 08:55, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Request for reviewing and other assistance
Hi. Next week is the start of the and two Wikinewies will be attending to cover the para-alpine skiing ahead of the 2014 Winter Paralympics. This is part of an effort outlined at IPC Alpine Ski World Championships. Immediately following this event, there will be a Meetup in Barcelona where Wikinews, the Paralympics and efforts to similar sport coverage will be discussed. At the moment, there are only two active reviewers on a daily basis. Demonstrating an ability to get reviews for these types of events done quickly is important for Wikinews credibility and gaining access to these types of events. I would really appreciate it if you could sign up on the IPC World Championship page to review, promote articles published during this period, assist in translating these articles into another language or attend the meetup in Barcelona. Thanks. --LauraHale (talk) 09:30, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Sorry I only just noticed your message, stale now I guess. You can leave messages at Commons:User talk:KTo288 its where I am most active.--KTo288 (talk) 21:11, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Wikinews Writing contest 2013 is here. :) Please sign up to participate?
We've created the Writing contest 2013, which will start on April 1 and end on June 1. It is modeled on the successful 2010 contest. Unlike the previous version, points are available for people who conduct reviews. (With a University of Wollongong class currently contributing articles, extra assistance is appreciated at this time.) It presents a great incentive for you to renew your reviewing chops, contribute some original reporting not being done by the main stream media, and write some synthesis articles on topics that could use more attention. People should be around to review to prevent a backlog if you just want to write, and several reviewers have access to scoop to make it easier to review any original reporting you do. If you are interested in signing up, please do so on Writing contest 2013/entrants. There is at least one prize on offer for the winner along with the opportunity to earn some barn stars as a way of thanking you for your participation. :D --LauraHale (talk) 10:36, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

Five hundred migrants alleged killed in deliberate sinking in Mediterranean
Published. See . --Pi zero (talk) 21:32, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up, maybe too late now its published, but I was dithering over switching allegedly for alleged in the title.--KTo288 (talk) 22:03, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Heh. Well, of course we don't like to rename after publication without great need, because it produces duplicate entries in some feeds.  But fwiw, I'd considered that choice myself.  It works either way; adding the ly makes it active, leaving it off is shorter, neither difference is very strong.  I thought leaving it off might tend subtly more toward all of the rest being alleged (that is, both the number dead and the deliberate sinking are alleged), but if that difference is real it's probably also small.  --Pi zero (talk) 22:12, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * As you say no problem either way, if it was an obvious choice I wouldn't have dithered.--KTo288 (talk) 22:15, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Tomorrow's referendum
You'll note I've piled a bunch of related articles on for possible use in sourcing. I hope to have some photos, possibly video, from the vote here in Edinburgh tomorrow.

What I do want to say is, using the Union flag (not Jack, that's solely for in a naval context) without the Saltire trivialises things beyond what I consider 'reasonable'. Oh, and here's a nice little bit of fiction from the Labour camp: photoshop ruelz. Tweeted from Glasgow, not Edinburgh - where the photo appears to be taken. Zero evidence on the live cameras along Princes Street.

I should be at a polling station before 7am, I'm hoping once I've voted it'll be a good-deal easier to be more-impartial about covering this. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:31, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * It's was meant to be a placeholder image, looked around on Commons Commons:Category:Scottish independence referendum, 2014, and nothing really useful apart from File:Yes Sticker Campaign.jpg. I've removed the image now, as I acknowledge it is a bit tacky, and we should have plenty of time tomorrow to get this right, looking forward to whatever photos you take.--KTo288 (talk) 22:40, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

 * If you want to avoid someone else starting an article about the result, you might move those articles to mainspace now, so that they'll be listed in the newsroom. --Pi zero (talk) 22:55, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Sure, if you don't think its jumping the gun too much.--KTo288 (talk) 22:56, 17 September 2014 (UTC)

Chinese President begins three day visit to India
Alas — review comments. I knew I couldn't do a full review this late in the evening (though I used to find it easy to review all night at whim), but I figured I'd check for any obvious problems; and indeed, found one. --Pi zero (talk) 01:22, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Substituted the NYT source for a Bloomberg one from earlier this month, of anything it covers the geo-political aspects of the story better, if this one is no good as a source, will remove the Modi quote, as the remaining sources cover the other aspects of the story.--KTo288 (talk) 01:36, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The Bloomberg source looks accessible with no problem. Cool.  I know it's hard to find a substitute for a source when something like this goes wrong.  NYT is (iirc) no longer listed on our research page, since it's gotten so paywall-happy.  One more reason synthesis has gotten harder to write over the past few years.  --Pi zero (talk) 01:50, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Don't forget to resubmit when you feel it's ready. (Granted, I won't be able to review tonight.)  --Pi zero (talk) 02:04, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

ThankYou
Thanks a Lot, due to some necessary engagements I wasn't able to proceed it and had hence delayed it. Thanks a ton. --Abhinav619 (talk) 09:32, 18 September 2014 (UTC)--Abhinav619 (talk) 09:32, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * No need for thanks, all part of being part of a wiki community.--10:57, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * On the other hand, thanks help knit together a community, and spread good will all around. News takes dedication, and you did fix up the article, and despite glitches due to NYT's paywall, it did get published, and I too thank you (both of you, in fact :-).  --Pi zero (talk) 01:09, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Kolkata
I've marked that article as under review, do not edit. I'm in the middle of a massive multi-hour review of it. --Pi zero (talk) 23:44, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I might add, it's not nearly read yet — severe problems with over-closeness to source. --Pi zero (talk) 23:45, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * sure.--KTo288 (talk) 23:47, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Which said, of course some of your copyedits are just plain common sense; I'm going through them now. --Pi zero (talk) 23:57, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry if I came across a bit snippy. I'm afraid I'd just spent about an hour reconstructing my review notes that had been wiped out by a laptop crash caused, evidently, by aggressive javascript in the sources of the article.  --Pi zero (talk) 04:32, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
 * No worries, was trying to stay awake, looking for things to work on, and didn't see the change of templates.--KTo288 (talk) 05:27, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Tropical storm Fung-wong makes landfall in Eastern China
Published. . --Pi zero (talk) 15:10, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

Sighting
Don't sight any unpublished revision of an article. It sometimes happens by accident; if it does happen, unsight all affected revisions of the article; to do that, look at the page history, select the oldest sighted revision, click the 'unaccept' button at the bottom, then follow the 'next revision' link and unaccept that one, and so on. I unaccepted all revisions of the vote-rigging article. --Pi zero (talk) 20:01, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, for fixing my mess.--KTo288 (talk) 20:16, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Allegations of vote rigging prompt petitions over Scottish independence referendum
This review raised neutrality issues that come up relatively infrequently. I concluded it's got a problem with some missing background needed to enable the reader to then make an independent analysis of things; off hand I can only remember one other time I've not-ready'd an article by an experienced Wikinewsie for this flavor of neutrality concern. Review comments. --Pi zero (talk) 14:27, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I've also added another source on the talk, Police Scotland are now involved on that point. A second issue, which is being much bemoaned on social media is blank backs on ballot papers.
 * If you need any media snarfed, and a Fair Use/Fair Dealing rationale drafted, let me know. --Brian McNeil / talk 18:29, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
 * I've tried to make the story the petitions, without going too much into the why? On the one hand I didn't want to go into too much detail, which were at the moment so much gossip, but which gives you the impression of incomplete iinformation, I'm afraid its stale now with the sources given. I try and have a look for more recent sources and see if anything comes up.--KTo288 (talk) 17:40, 27 September 2014 (UTC)

Hong Kong police move to open roads in Mong Kok
Well, published. Broadcast reporting is, I've always thought, a difficult form, tricky both for the reporter and the reviewer. Review comments. --Pi zero (talk) 03:17, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks, helped a bit, I hope, because by the time I'd finished writing it, print reports were coming online.--KTo288 (talk) 09:35, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh yes, the non-broadcast sources were key in making it work smoothly. In this case, the broadcast source is more-or-less a synthesis source with an additional filter (bringing with it an additional opportunity for mistakes); one still needs more than one source, and clearly a source the reviewer can examine is much better than one for which the reporter has to take detailed notes which the reviewer then has to weigh.  I suppose a more classical use of broadcast reporting is to watch a game on TV/video feed and take detailed notes on it as one would do if attending the event physically, which is even more OR-like, though even in the equivalent sort of OR one would try to provide some synthesis sources to corroborate bits of the story as available.  --Pi zero (talk) 12:21, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for making the effort to review the article, and trusting me on those details which weren't corroborated by the visible sources. Sorry, but do you feel like doing this again. The protesters are at this moment trying to retake Nathan, watching TVB rolling news and the protesters and police are facing off against each trying to force the other down the road.--16:42, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Violent scuffles as Hong Kong protesters attempt to retake Mong Kok site
I was a bit puzzled by the article talk page, which describes a broadcast source but doesn't provide any documentation of use of that source — and the article does not, in fact, make any claim to have used a broadcast source. I commented on the article talk page.

No doubt it would all become clear, one way or another, by doing a detailed source-check; alas, I find I don't have a full source-check in me tonight. --Pi zero (talk) 02:37, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

 * Well, I tried. Ended up with a sizable fraction of the article unverified, though :-(.  Sorry I couldn't get to it sooner.  I'd love to see us continue covering this story.  Review comments.  --Pi zero (talk) 20:07, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Sorry had other things to do, thanks for ther help. Thankfully things calmed down, and both sides stepped back from letting this becoming the showdown.--KTo288 (talk) 20:34, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 * It happens. I certainly do appreciate the time difficulties of Wikinews.  --Pi zero (talk) 21:22, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Sir Terry's obit
I really think he deserves more from us.

What do you think of putting it back to develop, and expanding with tributes as they come in over the next day or two?

I found this on Facebook, and it brought a tear to my eye - since I've read almost-every book he wrote: "I would like my pudding now nurse. And then I think I'd like to... write... something... I don't remember what."

Standing in the corner, he waits. The sand slowly flows, but it nears it's end. The old man still glows, as thousands of threads spread away from him.

SQUEAK.

I AGREE. IT IS A SHAME TO SEE HIM THIS WAY.

SQUEAK.

NO. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN.... BUT I CANNOT WAIT TO ASK HIM HOW IT ALL ENDS.

The old man looks up, through them at first... and then he sees them. For once, the smile on the hooded figure's skull is genuine.

"I... I remember you. The anth... ant..."

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PERSONIFICATION.

"Yes, that. We knew each other?"

ONCE. AND WILL AGAIN, SIR.

He so rarely said it, and these feelings... remembering his young aprentice, and beloved daughter. The beautiful child they have.

"There... is a girl, yes?"

SHE IS SPEAKING TO THE AUDITORS, SIR. THEY ARE UNWILLING TO LISTEN.

"Well then. You know what they say, two things you cannot avoid. Taxes and..." He looks into the firey blue eyes, and becomes aware.

SQUEAK.

"Quite right. Is it time already? I have so much left to do."

YOU HAVE GIVEN ALL YOU CAN SIR.

"No, not cancer. Alzheimers."

I AM AWARE.

"So, where is the boy? I remember a boy."

CARRIAGE ACCIDENT.

"Ahh. Never much trusted cars. Or horses."

THEY GET YOU WHERE YOU WANT TO GO.

"Must I?"

SOON. BUT WE MAY SIT HERE AWHILE.

SQUEAK

DO YOU HAVE ANY BISCUITS?

"No. Shame really."

YES.

"Is it truely turtles?"

ALL THE WAY DOWN. I HAVE SEEN THEM.

"Ahh. I would love to see it. Perhaps a small trip before?"

IT WOULD BE MY PLEASURE.

"The light is slower there... and there's a monkey...."

ORANGUTAN. SAME PRINCIPLE.

"Yes... will they remember me?"

SQUEAK.

"What was that? I could not hear you."

HE SAYS WE WILL, SIR.

"I never much liked the trouble people had with you. You seem like a nice fellow."

I HAVE MY DAYS.

"Don't we all?"

SOME LESS THAN OTHERS.

"Is it quick?"

YES. AND I BROUGHT THE SWORD. CEREMONY DICTATES IT.

"Ahh. How about a cup of tea?"

I WOULD ENJOY IT. DO YOU PLAY CHESS?

"No. how about checkers?"

And so they sat, two old friends regaling each other, though the old man could not remember all of the details, the cloaked man and his rat filled him in, when it was needed.

Thoughts? --Brian McNeil / talk 19:46, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

 * No problem on my part.--KTo288 (talk) 20:10, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Articles in WN:Newsroom needing review
Hello. Currently, four articles at WN:Newsroom are awaiting review before publication. You may review at least one of them. Thanks. --George Ho (talk) 20:44, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

 * Thanks for helping out with the Bill Cosby article. Much appreciated.  --Pi zero (talk) 23:00, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

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