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Haiti relief efforts: in depth

January 15, 2010 Countries and relief organisations around the world are sending aid to Haiti, which was hit by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Tuesday, affecting up to three million people, most of them in the capital,. Relief efforts, however, have been hampered by damaged or destroyed infrastructure, lack of shelter, and communications difficulties.

As of today, at least 300,000 people were estimated to be homeless in the capital, according to the United Nations; the organisation reports that one in ten buildings completely collapsed due to the tremors and resulting aftershocks. The UN said it believes 45,000 to 50,000 people were killed by the quake, while Haitian President said that seven thousand bodies were buried in a mass grave.

Port-au-Prince's main airport remained open as of today, and relief airplanes were arriving faster than they could be unloaded, prompting fears that planes could run out of fuel while waiting their turn to land. As a result, all non-military flights out of the airport were restricted. Air traffic controllers from the US were present to help handle the flow.

The main port, meanwhile, was severely damaged, and unable to handle any cargo.

To see more images related to the disaster, you may wish to look at the companion article Haitian earthquake: in pictures.

'Logistical challenge', looting problems
Even with the amount of aid coming in, it is proving difficult to deliver it where it is needed; many roads have been blocked by rubble. Alejandro Lopez-Chicheri, a senior spokesman for the World Food Programme (WFP), commented: "The roads, many of them are still to be opened, and on the ones that are open there are still people concentrated on the sides of the roads." He described Haiti as being "completely on the ground".

"This is a logistical challenge. Before the earthquake struck we were already assisting one million people here, we are considering it will be at least double that after this earthquake," he told the Al Jazeera news agency.

The WFP has estimated that two million people will need food aid; however, only four thousand have so far been fed.

"The physical destruction is so great that physically getting from point A to B with the supplies is not an easy task," said a WFP spokeswoman in Geneva at a news conference.

Transporting supplies was made even harder due to lack of communications. Telephone lines were down. "There have been a lot of criticism from local authorities about the relief efforts, but in all fairness, if we could catch a break and get some communication up and running, things would go a lot faster," commented Louis Belanger, spokesman with the humanitarian aid group.

Looting has also been an issue. Delfin Antonio Rodriguez, the rescue commander from adjacent Dominican Republic, said to the Agency France-Presse news agency earlier today that "[o]ur biggest problem is insecurity. Yesterday they tried to hijack some of our trucks. Today we were barely able to work in some places because of that."

Elisabeth Byrs, a UN humanitarian spokeswoman in Geneva described the desperation of those in the capital. "People who have not been eating or drinking for almost 50 hours and are already in a very poor situation. If they see a truck with something, or if they see a supermarket which has collapsed, they just rush to get something to eat."

The WFP initially reported that its warehouses in the capital were looted, but this was later retracted. WFP spokeswoman Caroline Hurford told the BBC that "[a]pparently there were unconfirmed reports of looting taking place but once our teams got down to the dockside they were able to see that there was some mistake."

The earthquake also destroyed Port-au-Prince's main prison. According to International Red Cross spokesman Marcal Izard, 4,000 inmates escaped the jail and are now on the city streets. "They obviously took advantage of this disaster," he said.

Haitian police were "not visible at all," according to a UN spokesman, probably because they had to deal with lost family members and homes, further exacerbating the situation. Around 3,000 international UN peacekeeping troops were present to try to maintain law and order in lieu of the local police force.

'Angry and impatient'; increasing frustration over lack of aid
According to a reporter for Al Jazeera, frustration among Port-au-Prince's residents was increasing because they were not receiving enough help, and there was an exodus out of the city to try and find areas with more supplies. "A lot of people have simply grown tired of waiting for those emergency workers to get to them," said Sebastian Walker. "Thousands of people are streaming out of the city towards the provinces to try to find supplies of food and water, supplies that are running out in the city."

A spokesman for the Brazilian-commanded UN peacekeeping force, David Wimhurst, also commented that "unfortunately, they're slowly getting more angry and impatient. I fear, we are all aware that the situation is getting more tense as the poorest people who need so much, are waiting for deliveries. I think tempers might be frayed."

Photographer Shaul Schwarz for the TIME magazine reported seeing at least two roadblocks downtown, made of rocks and corpses. "They are starting to block the roads with bodies. It's getting ugly out there. People are fed up with getting no help," he said.

"We hear on the radio that rescue teams are coming from the outside, but nothing is coming," said one resident, Jean-Baptiste Lafontin Wilfried, as quoted by the BBC.

"We need food. The people are suffering. My neighbors and friends are suffering," said another resident, Sylvain Angerlotte, aged 22, as quoted by the Associated Press. "We don't have money. We don't have nothing to eat. We need pure water."

Due to lack of buildings or shelter, many relief members were facing the same difficulties as were residents. "Even the aid workers themselves are sleeping in cars or in tents on the streets," said Jamieson Davies, the international programmes director of the relief organisation, to Al Jazeera. She described the situation as being "extremely difficult".

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I always been affected when I see or heard news about eathquake especially the natural disasters that is beyond our control.What it makes so difficult is the rehabilitation that the damage has caused and especially the casualties or people that had been hurt or killed and what's it comes to my mind Oh boy Jesus Christ will again give an emergency particulate judgement to these poor people.But a lot of people would comment like its ends of time or its signs of time but it kind of remind of Superman in the movie.Remember that Jesus was forced to give the Olivet Discourse with regards to this and he use the fig tree in knowing the signs.I was kind a hurt when they hurt my only favorite star late Christopher Reeve as Superman .He is my only solution to this kind of disaster.God knows only why ? You may refer to Book of Matthew On Chapter 24.People should not comment its the end of the world or feeling guilty about ,they should not be scared of but what can I say this long time ancient act of love of helping one another brothers and sisters of one Nation the Royal Law that has been revealed (James 2:8 "Love One Another) This has always been my philosophy eversince I am surviving.It must be a "Wake Up Call" for everyone but the message is pretty clear.Whatever you do to the least of your brother you have done it to the Lord.God Bless. This is Jay's comment.

you religous fool its times like these that prove that a benevolent, all powerfull and all knowing god dosent exist.Its time like these that help serve as an eye opener to those that refuse to give aid and see catastrophe as an act of god. There IS no god, even if there was one he is either weak, unable to see the future of his creation or evil.

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So many have responded with their time and money and materials. I would like to see more indepth coverage of the Scale of the releif and reconstruction. I think people will rise to the ocasion if they know what is needed or how much or when. For instance I do not know weather the funds are flowing to materials or labor fast enough. I don't know how much capacity is used at the ports or other access points. And with 300,000 people (homeless and jobless?) there is a great need to begin the cleanup along with basic emergency services. I think it shoudl be the largest effort of it's kind.. This will require some large inductrial equipment and coordination.

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Haitian earthquake: in pictures

January 15, 2010 Haiti was hit by a heavy earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 on Tuesday, killing an unknown number of people, and destroying up to ten percent of buildings in the capital, Port-au-Prince.

No official death toll has been released as of yet, although the United Nations says that up to fifty thousand people may potentially have been killed. An estimated 300,000 more were left without homes.

In a special photo report, Wikinews looks at the extensive damage caused by the disaster.

To find more information about a certain image or to enlarge it, click it. For an in-depth textual report on the same subject, please see Haiti relief efforts: in depth.

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 * I've uploaded about half a dozen US-PD pictures, added the most striking ones to the article. Couldn't find any piles of corpses, though. Will keep looking. Tempodivalse [talk]  00:20, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
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Excellent in pictures. Sad story, but we're doing well on the reporting. Now all we need is to get it to look like this- which would probably be impossible!(bawolff?!!!)     Tris   22:41, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

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NBA star Gilbert Arenas pleads guilty to gun possession, could face six months in prison

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Gilbert Arenas, a star player in the American National Basketball Association's Washington Wizards, now faces up to six months in prison after pleading guilty to felony gun possession charges today in a Washington, D.C. court. This plea was part of a plea bargain that he agreed to which would shorten his jail term if he cooperated with authorities.

Arenas, 28, was charged with the crime after he allegedly pulled an unloaded gun on a teammate in the team's locker room on December 21, which he says was a joke on the teammate. Arenas was later found to have been keeping firearms in his locker after an investigation by police and the NBA.

Meanwhile, Arenas has been suspended for an indefinite time by NBA commissioner David Stern without pay. This action has also gained support among the Washington Wizards and its players, according to the team.

According to Arenas, he stored four guns in the locker room, all of them being unloaded. When asked for his reasoning, he cited that he had young children and did not want the guns in his home around them. He also said that he did not know that keeping the guns in the locker room was a violation of Washington D.C.'s gun laws, which have grown very strict recently.

On December 19, two days before the incident, Arenas and teammate Javaris Crittenton got into a heated argument about gambling debts on the team's private jet. Crittenton, on whom Arenas pulled the gun, is not known whether to be carrying a gun at the time of the incident, or if he pulled the gun on Arenas. A police raid of his home yielded no results, and Crittenton has not been charged in the matter.

Antawn Jamison, another star Wizard player and friend of Arenas, has not spoken with Arenas since he was charged. "Hopefully he's doing better than what I'd be doing in the situation or better than I expect. But one thing about Gilbert, he's a tough-minded individual," Jamison commented on the situation.

"I'm a goof ball and that's what I am," says Arenas about the situation, "So, even doing something like this, I'm going to make fun of it and that's how I am," he added.

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Republican leads race to fill Ted Kennedy's vacated US Senate seat

January 15, 2010 A recent poll for the United States Senate Special election in Massachusetts shows the Republican candidate Scott P. Brown leading the Democrat Martha Coakley by 15 points.

The poll, commissioned by the conservative Pajamas Media, and conducted by CrossTarget Research, shows Brown with 54% of possible voters compared to Coakley with 39% for the Senate opening. The results are based on a telephone survey of less than 1,000 voters, 7% undecided, and with a +/-3% margin of error.

The seat was vacated following the August 2009 death of Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy, who had held the position since 1962. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick originally filled the vacancy with Paul G. Kirk, a former chairman of the DNC, but he must vacate the seat later this month due to a Massachusetts Law.

The law, which was passed in 2004, specifies that a vacated seat must be filled by a special election. This law was passed in response to the potential vacating of the seat held by Democrat John Kerry following his possible victory in the 2004 presidential election. Under the previous law, then-Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican, would have been allowed to choose a replacement.

Coakley led Brown in the polls for all of 2009. But things changed in January 2010, when Brown began to take a slight lead.

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Seven killed in Kenyan protest for radical Islamic cleric

January 17, 2010At least seven people were killed and more than ten injured in Nairobi, Kenya on Friday when a deadly confrontation ensued between police, demonstrators, and the general public at a protest to petition the arrest of Jamaican-born radical Muslim cleric Abdullah el-Faisal. El-Faisal was recently released from a British prison where he spent the last four years of his life for his role in various terrorist plots, including the July 2005 London Bombings.

After being refused entry to his native Jamaica in addition to several East African nations, el-Faisal entered Kenya on December 24, 2009 after having gone via Nigeria, Angola, Mozambique, Swaziland, Malawi, and Tanzania. Kenyan authorities arrested him after he was red-flagged in an immigration database.

What was at first a peaceful protest by youth members of a local group known as the Muslim Human Rights Forum soon turned violent as the demonstrators started to pelt riot police with stones and other objects. In turn, officers retaliated at first with tear gas and water cannons, but as matters further deteriorated and some protesters attempted to stab them, the officers began to employ live ammunition, firing it into the crowd.

Later in the day as the situation continued to deteriorate, scores of uninvolved civilians—for reasons still unknown by the media—got into the scuffle on the side of the police.

Furthermore, shops adjacent to where the protest was taking place were looted and vehicles that were parked on the streets were totalled in the midst of all that was transpiring.

At a news conference blocks away, government spokesperson Alfred Mutua declined to comment both on the details and the police department's handling of the demonstration. However he did say that "[t]he government of Kenya is aware Mr. Abdullah el-Faisal has been deported from several countries for alleged recruitment, inspiration and advocating of suicide bombers. Mr. el-Faisal is a threat to this country, because of his alleged tendencies to recruit suicide bombers."

More than 300 miles away in Mombasa, Muslims held a similar demonstration on el-Faisal's behalf that ended peacefully.

Mutua reiterated the Immigration Ministry's prior statement that el-Faisal will remain imprisoned in Kenya until they are able to send him back to Jamaica, whose government already made clear that they would not receive him.

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Drivers in the Russian capital, Moscow, were given an unexpected show courtesy of a 30-by-20 foot electronic highway billboard when an explicit pornographic video was played for nearly twenty minutes in place of the paid advertisement clips that are usually shown. The incident happened near the entrance into Serpukovskiy tunnel on Sadovoe Ring Road, about 2 kilometers south of the Kremlin.

"Within three minutes we found it out, and within fifteen minutes the screen was shut off," the deputy head of the Moscow city advertising committee, Alexander Menchuk, said in a statement to Interfax. A passerby told the Associated Press that she was "so shocked that I couldn't even shoot video or take a picture of it."

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my name is Lovette and i am writing this to who ever this may concern. i would love to come over ther and help i dont have any money to send but i would be more than happy to come and help out with any thing.For those who did not make it i wannasay a prayer for them. Father you know we need you but you said lety your will be done. and our havenly father there is a lot of work we need to do but god we can not do it with out you .jesus i pray thet the family will be able to over come this and i know they will only with your help.Lord i im praying to you that you will help these people with there hardship and all there feature trials lord and god i know that there were plenty of people lives will never be the same.but god we really need you right now.for those who did not make it they are in a far better place.and lord last but not least please send your angles down and help the peole that still have there live and help them to retreive what ever they have left of it.our god the most high in jesus name AMEN.

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hi my name is ebony durrah from westside high school. l am so sad what happend

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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent US$108 million on third term bid

January 17, 2010

According to internal campaign documents New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent $108,371,685.01 dollars (€75m, ₤66m) on his recent campaign for reelection. A large percentage of the money spent went to victory bonuses for his staff. In the 2009 election Bloomberg beat his opponent Bill Thompson by 50,597 votes.

This is the most that the billionaire has spent on any of his mayoral bids, US$85 million in 2005 and $74m in 2001. Approximately US$186 (€129, ₤114) was spent per vote during the election, compared to $112 in 2005 and $100 in 2001. In contrast Bill Thompson had only spent approximately $9 million, or $13 per vote.

The campaign was personally financed by Bloomberg himself who has a net-worth of $17.5 billion. The campaign is the second most costly election in history, beaten by the $650 million election of Barack Obama.


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The world's oldest dog, who answered to the name of Otto, has died at the age of 20. Otto, who was a Dachshund, was born and lived in Shrewsbury, in the county of Shropshire in England.

The dog had to be put down by a vet on Thursday after it was discovered that the animal had developed stomach cancer. The dog's date of birth was February 14, 1989, which means that Otto would have been 21 years old 31 days after his death occurred. Lynn Jones and her husband Peter had both owned the dog since he was six weeks old. Otto was officially declared the oldest dog in the world by the Guinness Book of Records in October 2009. He was cremated on Friday.

Now Lynn Jones has payed tribute to her pet. "I have cried all morning, I am devastated," she said. "He died at 10:10AM and I feel like I've lost my right arm. I know I sound like a wuss, but he was like the son I never had, my baby boy. I am glad he is not suffering any longer but I wanted him with me forever. We found out yesterday that he had a very large tumour in his stomach and last night I felt that he was trying to tell us something. He couldn't sit or lie down comfortably and he was trying to tell us that he'd had enough, so we made the decision to end his suffering and took him to the vet [Thursday] morning."

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How many articles/day is the Romanian Wikinews publishing? Does it use Flagged Revisions?

I'm curious because I'd be interested in helping get the project listed in Google News. --Brian McNeil / talk 18:27, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for responding on my talk page. It does not matter if the Romanian Wikinews only produces a small number of articles. A listing in Google News should still be possible. With it there will be more encouragement for people to write, see their articles appear in Google, and attract new contributors. I would guess that Google News itself has very few Hungarian news sources indexed; this means that your language version of Wikinews can have a much bigger impact – even with a small number of articles. --Brian McNeil / talk 15:06, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

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I noticed you added the dynamic menus css to User:Mr. man/monobook.css. It should be noted that this css only works on the modern skin, so you should put it in special:mypage/modern.css with modern set as your skin in special:preferences. Additionally you do not put the DynamicMenus Add  part into the css file, only the @import part. Cheers. Bawolff ☺☻ 20:44, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

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Boundary Sentinel
I notified Boundary Sentinel about how to reuse a Wikinews article used at this link. The Web site's owner replied and she will have it fixed. Just letting you all know. -- The New  Mikemoral  ♪♫ 21:21, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I couldn't access the link you gave, is it a log-in-to-view site? Tempodivalse [talk]  21:33, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I think they took it down temporarily. I'm not sure though, -- The New  Mikemoral  ♪♫ 21:43, 1 January 2010 (UTC)

Category:Image issues backlog
There are a lot of backlogged "fair use violation" images in the category Image issues, most of them are not in violation of the Fair Use Policy, and others need to be speedy deleted. Cocoaguy talkcontribs‽ 04:12, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I know. It needs someone who is prepared to do the work; rationales where appropriate and nominate the rest for deletion so others have an opportunity to draft a FUR. It would not be a pleasant job; Wikinews has had bad experiences with overzealous commons and enwp admins in the past trying to delete without understanding the cultural differences. It is a job that needs done by someone who cares about what's right for this project. But, when you care about that, looking at the here-and-now takes precedence. --Brian McNeil / talk 04:23, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
 * That, and most of them should be deleted according to policy, but I certainly don't want to be the one to delete them. (image issues tend to spiral into scary flame wars) Bawolff ☺☻ 04:41, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Joournalist copying our articles
Just so you know, Joournalist has been copying our articles without proper attribution. Is there anything WMF can do about it?Benny the mascot (talk) 02:21, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

 * Hm, that doesn't look too good. I think the first thing we should do is send them a polite email informing them the proper way to attribute our work. If that doesn't work or they ignore us, then we could take it up with the WMF. Tempodivalse [talk]  02:24, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Furthermore, their re-encoding our beautiful png's into ugly jpeg's with crappy alpha. The horrors. On a serious note, wmf does not own the copyright to wikinews (you own the copyright to wikinews, or at least the parts you edit.) Generally the first step in such a case is, as tempo said, send a nice email (there's a template email somewhere) politely asking they give proper attributation. Bawolff ☺☻ 02:28, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

For future reference, the articles in question are: Do all affected Wikinewsies have to email Joournalist? I'm concerned about my privacy, and I want to avoid emailing people I don't have to email. Benny the mascot (talk) 03:16, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Students raise record amounts of money during Christmas fundraiser at Benet Academy, Illinois
 * Yegor Gaidar, Russian economist and politician, dies at 53
 * Boeing 787 "Dreamliner" makes maiden flight
 * Alleged tax-haven scheme linked to Canada's largest brokerage firm
 * Chinese, Turkmen, Kazakh, Uzbek presidents unveil gas pipeline
 * Dubai receives bailout from Abu Dhabi
 * Government of Canada okays WIND Mobile launch, overturning CRTC decision
 * New York City Mass Transit facing service cuts
 * Obama delays arrival to Copenhagen summit by one week
 * US unemployment rate down to ten percent
 * No, that's probably not necessary, I think one email should do the trick - all that's needed is a reminder that we need to be attributed. Also, I've taken a look at their "Regional directory", and it appears that they've been copying more articles than just the ones Benny mentions above. Tempodivalse [talk]  03:21, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Wow...I didn't even look at the Regional directory! If you take a look at this article, you see the Wikipedia logo and the text of the "archived" template. :( Benny the mascot (talk) 03:27, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * lol. Well anyways, we can use a standard letter based on the wikipedia standard letter:

Dear :

I have noticed that you are making use of English Wikinews articles as part of your website, . One example is , which is a direct copy of the Wikinews article , which is located at http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/. Wikinews encourages the redistribution of its content. However, it is necessary to comply with the terms of our primary license, the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License (CC-BY). Failure to do so is a copyright violation. The text of the CC-BY can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/. That is the relevant legally binding document. However, It is very easy to comply with the license. All you have to do is add a credit line at the end of each page that is based on a Wikinews page. For example, add the following to the footer of such pages: "This article is based upon the article  by Wikinews. It is copyright and used under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license ."

Thank you for your cooperation.

 (Preferably the specific article used as an example is one written by the sender of the letter. make sure the specific example is not a VoA article, etc). I could send it if you want, but the letter is much better if it comes from someone who wrote the article that is used as an example in the letter. Bawolff ☺☻ 04:55, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * P.s. They have an online contact form we could use, but might be better to send to the admin contact for the domain ( mailto:info@maxipoint.info ). Bawolff ☺☻ 05:01, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Hmm, that appears to be their domain registers email. which is weird. Probably best to use the form http://www.joournalist.com/contact.php or try the generic webmaster@joournalist.com and then try the one in the whois database if that doesn't work. Bawolff ☺☻ 05:05, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

 * The copyvios are still up there after several days. Has anyone sent an email yet? This needs to be resolved. Tempodivalse [talk]  18:08, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
 * And after two weeks, still no attribution. Someone please send an email. Tempodivalse [talk]  16:53, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I filled out their contact form politely requesting they follow the terms laid out on WN:COPY. Slightly concerned I didn't get an acknowledgement despite filling in an email address. There's a need to give them until mid-next week to comply with this (you can't expect action over a weekend). If they don't comply, well, major contributors to anything they've copied are the only people who can act against them, or appoint an agent to do so. If it comes to that we'd need to collect a full list of all articles they've copied, confirm with several of those article's major contributors they're happy to raise a stink, and we see what Creative Commons has to say about helping. They might find it amusing if we delegated the right to issue a DMCA takedown on this to them. --Brian McNeil / talk 18:15, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Picture of the year '09?
Just a note, if we're going to hold another Picture of the Year, it's probably about time to start setting it up now that we're into the new year. Cheers, Tempodivalse [talk]  03:56, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

 * Yes, I don't want to see this die. Trouble is, News in Pictures died halfway through. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 22:49, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

 * Yeah. We might have some trouble coming up with enough interesting images this time around. (What are we going to do next year, since it seems as though NIP will not be back?) Tempodivalse [talk]  01:13, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Template:Crime and law
On the crime and law infobox, the image used kinda seems to be a USA skewed POV, File:US Army CID agents at crime scene.jpg. Not only that, the image only implies crime and kinda disregards law. Maybe we should use an image like File:Scale of justice 2.svg or something. Cocoaguytalkcontribs‽ 20:49, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

 * Good choice. I'm just gonna go right ahead and do it. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 20:50, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

 * Wow that was fast, thanks Cocoaguytalkcontribs‽ 20:53, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

 * Looks good, thanks, better than the other image. Tempodivalse [talk]  20:53, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Agree with change. :) Cirt (talk) 21:40, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Category:Rape
I am concerned about how we're going to deal with this category. Currently, it includes the controversial view of the US judiciary that sex with the underage is rape. That can get you in serious trouble. If you were in the UK and somebody was convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old girl with no suggestion of force, then if you published that he was a rapist you would deserve the delightful letter from Carter-Ruck.

I propose that the category not be used for such cases. It is, effectively, a PoV to call it such, one that many teens (and others) find offensive.

The following articles right now are questionable:

 * Court rejects Polanski bid to have child sex charges dismissed <--- although he was charged with 'proper' rape but never convicted
 * Nebraska teacher sentenced to 6 years for sex with student
 * Nine who admitted raping 10-year-old released by Australian judge
 * Two Michigan children, aged 9 and 11, charged with sex crimes
 * US Army sergeant sentenced for sodomy of a minor and child porn

Then we move on to another issue. Is forced anal sex rape? Can you rape a man? In some jurisdictions that is sexual assault, or the special crime of sodomy, rather than rape. Do we limit the category from containing those as well? Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 22:27, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

 * How about we rename it "Sex crimes"? Generic and fairly freakin obvious. -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 22:29, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

 * I like. Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 22:39, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Would category:Sexual crimes be better from a grammatical point of view? (I don't know. my grammar is horrible). Bawolff ☺☻ 01:55, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Nah, the suggestion is fine - as it is called w:Category:Sex crimes at en.wikipedia. Cirt (talk) 07:14, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ Category:Sex crimes -- Shakata Ga Nai ^_^ 07:51, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

Letterhead/Email Stationary Proposal
In the godaddy email service that hosts the wikinewsie email addresses, you are able to customise the letterhead as well as other graphical elements of your email by uploading images into its interface. So I threw together a couple of rough letterheads, one Wikinews UK one for myself and other UK wikinewsies

And then another minus the UK for all wikinewsies

Of course versions for other localities can easily be created, this was just a rough version for me and a test for anybody else who wants to use it. I don't know if WN have a paper letterhead template? I just designed this for email, but I suppose it could be used for either. Also, the tagline "Global Audience. Local Reporters" (stolen from http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Wikinews_ads) could be changed to anything, there are a few other good ones on that page. Anyway, changes aside what do people think? (Sorry if it's uploaded under the wrong license, see the image description for my logic). --JulesMattsson (talk) 19:04, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * That looks good. I like the tagline as well. It is one that would be vary appropriate for most of the sort of thing we do with OR. --Cspurrier (talk) 20:06, 10 January 2010 (UTC)

 * Any image that's a derivative of a WMF-registered mark has to be assigned to the WMF, so the image should go on Commons. I got permission to use derivatives of the Wikinews logo on Wikinewsie.org, so I think we can 'stretch' that to an email letterhead. Personally, I sent plain-text PGP-signed emails - there's a much better chance of getting through ultra-suspicious spam filters, and nobody can forge an email claiming to be from me. I only use the webmail interface to train its spam filters and check what it files as bulk every now and then. For anyone else who doesn't use the webmail creating an email template will vary per email client. Can you send me a sample using the template? I'm curious to pick apart the HTML email and see if its done properly - so that it gets through mail clients that block auto-loading from a website. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:20, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I know what you mean, many prefer plain text, and for good reasons. This is just something a bit shiny for anyone who wants it. The way it's done on the webmail is a bit clunky; it attaches the image as a jpeg to the message, i don't know if it supports embedding from external hosts. I've sent you a test Brian. As for the licencing, would you please be able to reupload it under the appropriate arrangement? Thanks --JulesMattsson (talk) 18:50, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

Page Hits
With the wubbot starting up so we get most popular again, I was wondering what our stats our. So, does anyone know/can tell me where to find our average page view per day and also where I can find how many total hits a specific article has ever had? Thanks!   Tris   18:09, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Bulk statistics (aka the non-pretty but useful if you want to do statistical analysis) is available http://dammit.lt/wikistats/ (aka http://dammit.lt/wikistats/projectcounts-20100113-180000 lists number of hits for each project on jan 13 2010 over the hour of 18:00 UTC. Specifically the part relevent to wikinews:

en.n - 7751 86100185 7751*24 = 186 024 hits per day (roughly. its a lot quieter at night, so this is optimistic. also a potentially large portion are generated by non-real people. take it with salt).

Over the longer term: http://stats.grok.se/en.n/201001/Main%20Page (Ignore the word wikipedia. the stats are for wikinews. Something is weird though arround the 8th). Bawolff ☺☻ 18:28, 13 January 2010 (UTC) Bawolff ☺☻ 18:28, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

 * Aha, I didn't realise stats.grok.se did Wikinews, that's useful, thanks Bawolff!    Tris   09:23, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
 * yep they do. However their interface doesn't show it. You have to type in the url by hand, with en.n in it. Also be careful of the search box at the bottom. It will go back to the wikipedia page hits. Bawolff ☺☻

Category:Bureau of Labor Statistics
Someone has requested a hell of a lot of articles be added to this category.

What should the criteria for inclusion be? Articles about the bureau? Or every single mention of them as an official source of Govt. stats? --Brian McNeil / talk 11:20, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

 * Articles about the bureau would make more sense, imo. Just because they're mentioned as a source for statistics probably isn't enough to be categorised as such. Tempodivalse [talk]  18:15, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I could go either way, but as they are the major source of economic statistics for the U.S. I think that the category is a useful way to aggregate stories. Evrik (talk) 20:13, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Oh balls, I only found this after doing most of the editprotected requests! Anyways, as should be obvious from my actions, I agree with adding the category broadly where BLS is used as a source. It brings together a lot of related stories and extra categories aren't generally harmful, but can be useful to readers. The articles should remain in higher-level categories such as Economy and business also. the wub "?!"  10:46, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Avaition infobox icon
On the Template:Aviation the image used is alittle restrictive, maybe we should use a more stylized logo, ex. File:AVIA BUTTON big.png, File:Aiga departingflights.gif or File:Aiga departingflights inv.gif. Cocoaguytalkcontribs‽ 20:40, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Personally I prefer an actual photo to a stylised graphic but there's nothing stopping you doing . Well, not, I think, since I fixed the template to actually implement the parameter it claimed to support. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:00, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Like Brian, i think an actual pic is better - plus the A380 is suitable because it's so famous - but i suppose we could replace it with something more topic-neutral, File:AVIA BUTTON big.png seems good. Tempodivalse [talk]  01:37, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

 * I actually think we could get away with changing the image from time to time; I'd like to play around with variations being fed into it, and that new parameter means we don't have to edit the template. Perhaps if we msut chage from this we can have a photograph and be generic; how about a clearly recognisable closeup fo some bit or other from an aircraft, such as this full-frontal jet engine? Blood Red Sandman  (Talk)   (Contribs) 18:56, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I have a hacking idea.... Pick up to five 'classic'/'iconic' aviation images and I'll make the default a random selection from one whenever someone looks at an article containing the template. With that overrideable by the optional parameter. --Brian McNeil / talk 19:11, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
 * That sounds fun.    Tris   19:39, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

--Brian McNeil / talk 19:58, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

I was very close to picking something with lots of pretty coloured smoke from Commons:Category:Aerobatics or one of its subcats. Blood Red Sandman (Talk)   (Contribs) 21:54, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

A few from me. <Gallery> File:C17 DF-SD-06-03299.jpg|A few from Tris as possibles. Am I allowed more than one?! File:Zepper-BK 117-C2-(EC145)-SchweizerischeRettungsflugwacht.jpg|My second File:011218-N-9769P-047 F-A-18 With Weapons Ready for Mission.jpg|My third File:Koromiko New Zealand.jpg|My last; a non military one!]] </Gallery>   Tris   18:17, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I like the old airplane myself, it's humourous. Evrik (talk) 20:17, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Changes at wikinewsie
I'm trying to tidy Wikinewsie.org a little bit at a time. For the moment, can I ask all accredited reporters to fill in a section on the wiki? I've dropped the painful-to-maintain list from the site front page. Yes, I know several things such as the blog are on outdated versions; the online updater breaks so I've got backups of the databases and will do a reinstall/rebuild at some point. --Brian McNeil / talk 22:11, 29 January 2010 (UTC)


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Woman killed after train and car crash in Herefordshire, England

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A woman has died after the vehicle she was travelling in plus a second vehicle were both struck by a train at a level crossing in Herefordshire, England. The woman, who was aged 50, was reported to have been involved in a collision involving two cars and a train at a level crossing located near to the village of Moreton-on-Lugg at 1034 GMT on Saturday.

The woman, who has currently not been identified, was airlifted to a hospital where she later died of the injuries that she had sustained. The woman's husband, who was travelling in the same vehicle as her at the time of the crash, suffered from shoulder and pelvic injuries. The occupents of the other vehicle — a 12-year-old girl and her mother — were also given treatment for minor injuries and shock and were subsequently discharged.

The British Transport Police "are currently investigating an incident which took place at Moreton-on-Lugg level crossing in Herefordshire," according to a spokesperson for the police force. He stated: "Two vehicles were struck by a train on the crossing at 10:34AM on Saturday. The occupants of the first vehicle, a husband and wife who live locally, were taken to hospital. The female, aged 50, sustained serious injuries and was airlifted to hospital where she has sadly died. Her husband was taken to hospital by ambulance where he was treated for minor injuries."


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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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New York's JFK airport evacuated, reopened

January 17, 2010

At 3:00pm (2000 UTC) Saturday, Terminal 8 at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport was evacuated due to an apparent breach of security. The terminal was cleared and passengers were rescreened, although at this time the terminal has been reopened. The incident caused delays on many flights, as Terminal 8 is one of its central hubs.

A 57-year-old man, Jules Paul Bouloute, exiting from a flight from Florida had apparently entered through a door which was restricted to Airport employees only. Bouloute was returning from Haiti, after last Tuesday's earthquake.

This incident comes after a graduate student, Haisong Jiang, allegedly entered through an exit gate at a screening area. The incident caused similar delays and shut down the airport.


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US TV host Conan O'Brien leads in late night ratings

January 17, 2010

Television ratings for Conan O'Brien's NBC program The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien have risen dramatically amidst controversy and the possibility that the host might leave the network. Nielsen ratings as of Friday showed that O'Brien's ratings were higher than CBS network's David Letterman. O'Brien also beat out Jay Leno's prime-time program, The Jay Leno Show, in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic.

According to the Nielsen data, O'Brien's ratings saw a 50 percent increase over prior numbers for the season. NBC utilizes data from the 18-to-49-year-old demographic in order to determine what prices to set for advertising.

On Saturday, NBC was continuing to hold settlement discussions in order to allow The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien host to leave the network and replace O'Brien in the 11:35 p.m. EST time slot with former host of The Tonight Show, Jay Leno.

O'Brien's manager, Gavin Polone, spoke positively of the ratings increase, "People who never watched Conan before are saying, 'I'll try it.' Now they're saying, 'this is good, I'll stick with it.'"

Polone emphasized in a statement that O'Brien paid his own writers during the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike and was attempting to have a say with regard to the severance packages of his employees. He noted that many of O'Brien's staff members moved from New York to California when the TV host began working on The Tonight Show.

Representatives for O'Brien cite poor ratings of Leno's prime-time program The Jay Leno Show, and subsequent poor ratings of NBC late local news, as having an effect on ratings of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien prior to the recent controversy.

The late night hosts have been discussing the recent NBC time slot controversy via jokes on their shows. O'Brien showed a skit where he had to dodge gunfire while attempting to go to work on the NBC lot. Leno made a joke referencing a statement from last year where Letterman admitted he had had affairs with women on his staff. "Even Dave Letterman is taking shots at me, which surprised me. Usually he's just taking shots at the interns," said Leno.

Bill Carter of The New York Times commented that O'Brien, "has turned the attention surrounding his departure into a ratings bonanza." New York Daily News noted, "Well, at least he's going out on top," and commented, "... all eyes are on him now".


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This title should be a bit more specific, I think maybe "US TV host Conan O'Brien leads in late night ratings amidst feud with network" or something like that would be a bit better. ViperSnake151 (talk) 01:19, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I think it is a bit too late at this point for a name change. Cirt (talk) 04:12, 18 January 2010 (UTC)


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Americans are really democratic! Apparently democracy means more money = better government function 77.250.25.84 (talk) 12:22, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Americans have the best democracy money can buy. --Brian McNeil / talk 12:46, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Well... yeah. There's really nothing else to say about it. It's all about the votes you can buy and the people you have to pander to to get the money in the first place. In Bloomberg's case, he already has money, but that ensures that he himself has interests disapparate from the majority. —174.88.171.238 (talk) 22:45, 17 January 2010 (UTC)


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Senegal president offers free land to "repatriate" Haitians

January 18, 2010 Abdoulaye Wade, the president of Senegal, has offered free land in his country to Haitians who were affected by the recent 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

Wade described his offer as "repatriation", as he said Haitians were descendents from Africa since Haiti was founded by slaves, some of which were thought to be from Senegal.

"The president is offering voluntary repatriation to any Haitian that wants to return to their origin," said Mamadou Bemba Ndiaye, the president's spokesman. "If it is just a few people, we will offer them a roof and a patch of land," he added, speaking to the France Info radio station. "If they come in large numbers, we will give them a whole region."

The president, meanwhile, commented: "The repeated calamities that befall Haiti prompt me to propose a radical solution — to take measures to create somewhere in Africa [...] the conditions for Haitians to return. "They did not choose to go to that island. It is our duty to recognise their right to come back to the land of their ancestors."

"It wouldn't be the first time that former slaves or their descendants were brought back to Africa. Now the problem is to know how, and who will bear the cost," Wade concluded.


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US drone strike kills at least fifteen in Pakistan

January 18, 2010

According to local officials, a United States drone attack in Pakistan's province has killed at least fifteen people, although some reports put the death toll as high as twenty. The incident occurred in the Shaktoi region of the province.

"Now the death toll is 15. It could rise further. People are still busy removing rubble," said a senior security official to the news agency. He commented that most of the dead were foreign fighters.

"The drones are apparently tracking and targeting chief, whose presence is frequently reported in the area," said another official.

The United States has increased attacks using drones since a suicide bomber killed seven US intelligence agents in eastern Afghanistan in late December of last year.


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NPOV?
Reads like a propaganda tract.

Is the US allowed to fly missile drones in Pakistan? -  Amgine | t 15:30, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

 * Alternate sources to consider:
 * http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/01/20101178213701265.html
 * http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jwkWKaGc4vbdTPGd0fvFElm2ljKQ
 * http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/20-killed-in-US-drone-attack-in-Waziristan/articleshow/5456491.cms
 * Please take particular note how they describe the targeted people. There is no consistency, but they range from 'militants' to 'opposition forces'. -  Amgine | t 15:39, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

VOA source
The VOA source doesn't seem to work. Fix it and I'll pass the article --RockerballAustralia (talk) 07:01, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ Don't know how i missed that. Tempodivalse [talk]  13:11, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Review of revision 939653 [Passed]
editprotected Category:Federally Administered Tribal Areas
 * ✅ --Brian McNeil / talk 13:58, 29 January 2010 (UTC)


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Istanbul named European Capital of Culture for 2010

January 18, 2010, named for 2010, celebrated with spectacular fireworks displays, light shows, cultural performances, and concerts, which were arranged at seven locations across the city, symbolising the seven hills on which ancient Istanbul was built.

The European Union chose Istanbul, Turkey's and Europe's largest city, as one of the three European Capitals of Culture for 2010 in 2006, along with  in Hungary, and  in Germany. With its rich heritage and urban life, Istanbul is already recognized as one of the world's great cultural capitals.

Istanbul beat, Ukraine's capital, for the title and became the last European Capital of Culture outside the EU; after 2010, non-EU cities can no longer apply.

The celebrations started with a protocol event taking place at the Haliç Congress Centre, where Ministers from Turkey as well as neighbouring countries participated.

"Istanbul is a European city. With its heart, its culture and civilisation, its people, its past and future, it has always looked towards Europe. Istanbul has shaped European culture and has been shaped by it." said, the country's Prime Minister.


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