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Hello!!! --BygoneRedBank (talk) 16:33, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

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Golf: Harrington takes the lead at British Open
Good work at Golf: Harrington takes the lead at British Open Anonymous101 (talk) 17:02, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

I've made the article the fourth lead on the Main Page. Anonymous101 (talk) 17:46, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Sounds great thanks for the support! --BygoneRedBank (talk) 17:47, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

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Golf: Harrington wins British Open

July 20, 2008 With a score that is three over par, defending champion Padraig Harrington has won the British Open, which took place this year in Southport, England. Ian Poulter fell back to second place after experiencing a short period of time in joint first place.

Greg Norman, who finished in third place, would have been the oldest person ever to win British Open if he finished in first place.

Before today, Padraig Harrington had already had 22 wins as a professional and four as an amateur. His wins include last year's British Open. The total prize purse for this year was US$8,600,000, of which the winner got $1,500,000.

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at the British Open? in title? --BygoneRedBank (talk) 16:54, 20 July 2008 (UTC) Anonoymous good job staying updated. --BygoneRedBank (talk) 17:01, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

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Good job Padraig and Greg you will always be the one and only shark. --BygoneRedBank (talk) 17:42, 20 July 2008 (UTC)


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Human cells grow blood vessels in mice

July 20, 2008

Researchers in the United States reported Saturday that cells from human bone marrow, blood and umbilical cords successfully grew into blood vessels after being placed in mice. The group at and  stated that the human cells, referred to as "", connected to the circulatory system of the mice. The team, lead by Harvard associate professor of medicine Joyce Bischoff, reported their findings in the journal Circulation Research, published by the American Heart Association.

Juan M. Melero-Martin, a co-author of the paper in Circulation Research, said that one of the project's goals is to be able to replace some types of heart surgery with an injection of cells grown in a lab that could develop into functioning blood vessels.

"For clinical use, the way we envision it, if a patient has need to vascularize ischemic tissue, we can get cells from the patient ahead of time, grow them and inject them back into the patient," said Melero-Martin.

Ischemic tissue refers to tissue that has been damaged due to a lack of blood flow from blocked arteries or other causes. Researchers hope to be able to speed up the process of repairing damaged tissue and vessels in the heart to a period of one or two days. The procedure could potentially be used to treat organs damaged by heart attacks, or other ailments which impede circulation.

Due to their controversial nature the research team did not use stem cells in their study, but rather relied on progenitor cells taken from or blood. "Our next goal down the line is to use them in humans. We need to do a lot more animal studies to test how these cells behave in different tissues," said Joyce Bischoff.

Dr. Nick Rhodes of the UK Centre for Tissue Engineering at the University of Liverpool described the results of the study as "interesting and promising", and commented: "Although this approach is not yet suitable for clinical use, it is interesting that they have demonstrated you have all the elements you need to create a functional network of capillaries from a small amount of blood."

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Released video: Israeli soldier shoot bound man at short range

July 20, 2008

B'Tselem, an Israeli organization purporting to be seeking the improvement of human rights in the West Bank, released a short video, showing a soldier shooting from close range at the feet of a blindfolded Palestinian protester. The Israel Defense Forces soldier used a rubber coated or plastic bullet. The Palestinian man, Ashraf Abu Rahman 27, says he was lightly wounded at his toe due to the shooting. He also claims to have been beaten up earlier during the protest.

B'Tselem says a lieutenant colonel was at the scene, responsible for tying the man before the shot was taken and demands an investigation. Later, Israel authorities announced that they arrested the Israeli soldier whose picture was on the video for investigation.

The shooting which took place on July 7 in Nilin, West Bank. Was taken slightly after a violent protest against the construction of Israel's separation barrier. Some Palestinian rescue organizations claimed that ten Palestinians were shot by the rubber bullets during this protest.

The separation barrier, which was decided upon following a wave of Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel during the Second Intifada, has been a source for contention due to what the Palestinian claim to be land grabbing by the Israeli government.


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Brazilian actress Dercy Gonçalves dies at age 101

July 21, 2008

Brazilian and actress  has died at the age of 101. Gonçalves died of on Saturday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

She was born Dolores Gonçalves Costa on June 23, 1907 in, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In her 80-year long career, Gonçalves has worked in the theater, revues, film, radio and television, becoming famous by her humorous use of vulgar language.


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Comments:Asteroid slammed into Mars' northern hemisphere

I think the title is misleading. I clicked on the link thinking it was news of an asteroid having slammed into Mars within the last few days. While misleading titles to increase click-through are common among sensationalist journalism, I think we at Wikinews should aspire higher. The title should be amended to be clearer that it is a theory about an ancient collision.


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Bombs rock Spanish tourist resorts

July 20, 2008

Four bombs blasted at popular seaside resorts in northern Spain on Sunday. There were no injuries reported. The blasts were preceded by the warning of the Basque separatist group ETA, which allowed the police to evacuate the nearby area.

Previously, a first homemade bomb blasted in a bank in the Basque town of Getxo. Five hours later, a warning call was received in the Basque fire service telling that four bombs were planted on the beaches of Laredo and Noja, in the northern Spanish province of Cantabria.

The four bombs exploded between 1100 (1000 GMT) and 1400. There were no injuries because the police had evacuated the area. One woman was treated for shock.

ETA has routinely targeted tourist destinations in northern Spain during summer months.

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Needs cats. Adambro (talk) 06:34, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

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Wikinews:Briefs/July 21, 2008

It is Monday July 21st, 2008 and this is a recap of the weekend's news.

Bombs rock Spanish tourist resorts
Four bombs blasted at popular seaside resorts in northern Spain on Sunday. There were no injuries reported. The blasts were preceded by the warning of the Basque separatist group ETA, which gave time for the police to evacuate the nearby area. ETA has routinely targeted tourist destinations in northern Spain during summer months.

Crane collapse in Houston, Texas, kills 4, and injures 7
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA started its investigation on Saturday into a crane collapse on Friday in Houston, Texas which killed 4 workers and injured 7 more. The 30-story crane fell at the LyondellBasell oil refinery. The crane's owner and operator Deep South Crane & Riggen has expressed its condolences.

Human cells grow blood vessels in mice
Researchers in the United States reported Saturday that cells from human bone marrow, blood and umbilical cords successfully grew into blood vessels after being placed in mice. The group at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston used human cells, referred to as "progenitor cells" which are not controversial stem cells. The team has published its findings and will continue to build on the research.

Betancourt calls for release of all FARC hostages
Íngrid Betancourt, a former Senator in Colombia who was being held captive by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) until her rescue as part of Operation Jaque, has called for FARC to release all its hostages. Thousands of people also marched through streets in Colombia after the broadcast of Betancourt's speech on Colombian television.

This newscast is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic License, available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5. Catch the latest news at en.wikinews.org

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Talk:American city officials warned about dirty bomb threat

The redlink to 4chan.org could be pointed to the 4chan aticle. A link to this story is being added on that article. giggy (O) 11:37, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * ✅ --SVTCobra 12:23, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
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Fucking ETA, no worse then Islamic terrorist--66.229.34.63 14:08, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Er, surely you mean "no better"? No? --Brian McNeil / talk 15:01, 21 July 2008 (UTC)


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 * I'm not sure I'm following what style guideline I was crossing. I eventually agreed that the last 3 lines were not very strongly related and could be omitted, but otherwise the article was in very good form. 77.127.253.51 17:43, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Jerusalem Post
Just because the Jerusalem Post does something doesn't mean we should do it. Cheers --SVTCobra 15:37, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

 * I fully understand your publishing concerns but cannot follow your knock at the Jerusalem Post. It is certainly common practice for high-quality journalistic sources to add images to their reports. However, if there is some special policy here at wikinews that I'm unaware of, I'd be most appreciative if you link to it. 77.127.253.51 17:40, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

 * No, it is not a knock on JP in particular. But you were saying that we should use pictures of mice to illustrate rats because JP did it. That makes no sense when we have perfectly good pictures of rats to illustrate the story. --SVTCobra 18:51, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

 * An illustration doesn't necessarily need to gross the reader and the lab-mice image was far better than the rat image you've replaced it with; both quality-wise and in relation to illustrating the story. Anyways, this is an editorial descision that I'm not going to argue, but I don't think you are more correct than I am on this one.
 * On a side note, I appreciate the clarification response and hope we'll see more eye to eye than not in the future. 77.127.253.51 20:47, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Nice is not a criteria. Rats and Mice are not the same species. Showing one when the article talks about the other is misleading. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:52, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

 * Illustrations usually has an illustrative part to it. Such as showing a knife to illustrate a stabbing even though the weapon may have been a different sharp object. Anyways, as long as the knock isn't on the Jerusalem Post but on the issue of shown species, then we are ok, because the argument is much clearer than it was before. 77.127.253.51 20:58, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

 * Showing a mouse in a rat story is like showing a knife in a gun story. It illustrates, but not very well. --SVTCobra 23:43, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

 * Not many people differentiate rats from mice as the number of people who differntiate a gun from a knife. Anyways, I accepeted to compromise on this one without making a big fuss. 77.127.253.51 23:50, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Ynet
I left a question on the collaboration page of the Six year old girl story. Would you mind putting in your two sense since you started the article. The Mind's Eye (talk) 18:47, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the answer, and that part u added to the Obama prayer article, if u have a source that would be great, Thanks, The Mind's Eye (talk) 19:13, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

 * Oh, the wailing wall material is just basic historical background. I think one of the articles referenced (I think it was Reuters) wrote something that it's holy to Judaism while noting the dates in which both previous temples were destroyed. This made me realize that the info is very much missing from the article. Btw, I couldn't find the supposed publishing on the NRG/Maariv website, but seeing Reuters published the letter, I'm assuming the story is correct... and very saddening that someone the people involved were so immoral to do such a deed. 77.127.253.51 19:21, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree completely it is a violation in so many ways. On the 200 prisoners article can we translate that name and the Authors name into english for formatting purposes? It messes up the template format. The Mind's Eye (talk) 19:32, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Re: Heyo
Source for verification of these new numbers? Cirt (talk) 19:16, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Ynet changed the text and title in their article. 77.127.253.51 19:20, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
 * No worries about how u sounded, I responded on the talk page. The Mind's Eye (talk) 20:07, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Done with a addition from both of us. I found a Time source, and thought that that was reference enough. The Mind's Eye (talk) 16:30, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Create an account?
Though of creating an account? There's more stuff you could do (such as moving pages) and If you needed any help you could just let me know or someone else would be willing to help out. Cirt (talk) 19:26, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

 * I'll think about it. Any other advantages other than page moving? What would I need to do in orther to be able to give some input regarding wikinews lead articles? Page moves is not appealing enough at this point in time. 77.127.253.51 19:29, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Well you would also be able to edit pages that are semi-protected. Cirt (talk) 19:35, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

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Comments:2008 Leisure Taiwan: Safety first before sporting

Um. What.--66.75.48.94 15:57, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
 * It's because most people just sport without considering personal security (safety), damages often occur from human factor. Originally I didn't plan to write this. Brock contact... 15:01, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


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Comments:Human cells grow blood vessels in mice

Yay! I've always wanted children with wings and tails! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(mythology) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_of_Dr._Moreau

I'd like to create 5 questions out of this article. Can anyone help me with this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.100.255.150 (talk) 12:39, 2 August 2008 (UTC)


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Comments:Magnitude seven earthquake hits Japan, tsunami warning issued then withdrawn

You know your country is hardcore when a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hits it and it's shrugged off like nothing happened. Fephisto (talk) 17:01, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Comments from feedback form - "get more info LOL <(")"
get more info LOL <(") —216.167.240.96 (talk) 21:01, 13 June 2011 (UTC)


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Cyclone Nargis aid effort to cost one billion US$

July 21, 2008 According to a new report released jointly by the Government of the Myanmar, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the United Nations (UN), the cost of providing aid and funding reconstruction after Cyclone Nargis will be US $1 billion over the next three years.

ASEAN said in a press release that Cyclone Nargis was the "most devastating natural disaster in Myanmar’s history". They also say that the cyclone had a "similar scale of impact to that of the Indian Ocean Tsunami in Indonesia in 2004". 84,530 died in the cyclone and 53,836 remain missing.

The study also reported that a high number of families are in need of shelter due to the destruction of their property by the cyclone. It says that 57% of people had their home completely destroyed by the cyclone, whilst only 2% of people had no damage to their home.

On May 9, the United Nations requested $187 million in aid for Myanmar, but this figure has increased as the full extent of the damage has been revealed. The amount of donations were several times bigger than the requested amount. By 15 June, around 12 billion kyat, or two billion dollars in donations had already been received by the government of Myanmar, according to the report.


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Search underway after US B-52 bomber crashes off Guam's coast

July 21, 2008

A search and rescue operation is underway off the coast of Guam after a B-52 Stratofortress belonging to the United States Air Force (USAF) crashed with six crewmembers on board.

At least two people have been pulled from the water but their conditions have not been made available. The area in question has also yielded a field of floating debris and oil. According to Lt. Elizabeth Buendia, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Coast Guard in Guam, the search is likely to continue throughout the night.

Since the bomber's crash at 9:45 a.m. local time, both local and military teams have mobilised six vessels, three helicopters, two F-15 fighter jets and another B-52. 70 square miles of sea have been searched, starting roughly 30 miles northwest of Guam's Apra Harbour.

The aircraft was posted to Guam's Andersen Air Force Base as part of a four-month rotation scheme and was based in Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. It is believed that the bomber was scheduled to be used in a flyover of Liberation Day crowds celebrating the 1944 capture of Guam from Japan by the US, with the island remaining a US territory. However, some confusion exists over whether it was in fact another aircraft that was scheduled for the flyover.

The B-52 is a 160-foot (50-metre) long-range heavy bomber manufactured by Boeing suitable for mid-air refuelling. The first having entered service in 1955, it is one of the oldest types still operated by USAF, who have used the aircraft for both attacks and surveillance.

This is the second aircraft that the USAF has lost at Guam this year. In February a B-2 stealth bomber crashed on takeoff at Andersen Air Force Base, with the loss costing an estimated US$1.4 billion. Both pilots escaped by ejecting, and the accident was determined to have been caused by moisture on a sensor.

The cause of today's accident is unknown. The USAF will assemble a board of officers to investigate.


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One-Two-Go Airlines cease operating over fuel costs as legal action begins over September air disaster

July 21, 2008 Thai low-cost air carrier One-Two-Go Airlines has announced that it will be grounding all 16 of its aircraft immediately until September 15. The news comes as legal action against the airline and associated companies begins over the September crash of Flight 269, which killed 90 people, mostly foreigners.

Udom Tantiprasongchai, founder of the airline, has said conditions were hard for airlines with fuel prices having doubled within a year. He says 70% of operating costs are taken up with fuel, and the airline has already raised fuel surcharges again by 100 baht to 850 baht per leg.

"In this kind of environment, anyone can go (bankrupt) anytime," said Urdom, who declined to comment on the impact the present financial situation has had on his airline, saying only that they "are financially sustainable." He also said that the airline could return to service with ease if prices dropped, noting that, "if the situation improved with fuel prices being lowered and the profitability outlook was better, we could be airborne again."

The airline began operations in 2003; it is a subsidiary of Orient Thai Airlines. Orient Thai, which will continue to operate as normal, recently opened Thailand's first freight-only airline, Orient Thai Cargo, with a pair of Boeing 747-200Fs bought from Japan Airlines.

Urdon said that a major part of the problem is that eight of the company's aircraft are MD-11s, which consume large volumes of fuel. He also said that a collapse of a damage limitation scheme with rivals Nok Airlines and Thai AirAsia had affected his decision. Both rival carriers were also struggling financially. One-Two-Go has already cut many routes.

The news comes as the first families of victims of Flight OG269 launch legal action against the airline, as well as parent airline Orient Thai and lessor Grandmax Group. Already confirmed to be involved in the action are Richard and Margaret Collins as well as Steve and Jean Jones, parents of Alex Collins, 22, and Bethan Jones, also 22, an unmarried Welsh couple who, a few days into a round-the-world trip, were among the 123 passengers on board. Alex was reported missing but quickly confirmed to have died, while Bethan died ten days after the accident with her family at her bedside, bringing the final death toll to 90.

"We believe the air crash was completely avoidable and those responsible should be held to account. While we accept that nothing can bring Alex and Bethan and the other people who lost their lives back, we are keen to make sure we prevent this from happening again," said the families in a joint statement. "We will be forcing One-Two-Go Airlines to prove in court that they are not a low cost, low safety airline," said James Healy-Pratt, head of aviation at Stewarts Law in London. He also said that the action will be brought before courts in the United States.


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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! Cirt (talk) 02:35, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
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 * And of course, stories need writing!

 * Thank ya so much. :) Kylu (talk) 04:57, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

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Kosmos-3M launches final SAR-Lupe satellite

July 22, 2008 A Kosmos-3M carrier rocket has successfully launched the SAR-Lupe 5 satellite, the fifth and final member of the German SAR-Lupe surveillance satellite system. The rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia at 02:20 GMT this morning. The SAR-Lupe system uses Synthetic Aperture radar (SAR) to detect objects on the ground, even when it is too dark or cloudy for optical reconnaissance.

The SAR-Lupe system consists of five satellites, which have been launched over the last two years. The first satellite was launched in mid-December 2006, and was followed by two more in 2007, in early July and November. The fourth satellite was launched in late March 2008. The system will be operated by the German military for at least ten years. Data will also be provided to the French military, in exchange for data from French reconnaissance satellites being provided to Germany.

This is the 36th orbital launch of 2008, the third of which to have been conducted by a Kosmos-3M. Overall, this is the 444th launch of a Kosmos-3M rocket. The next Kosmos launch is expected to occur later this year, with a Parus navigation satellite, although it is currently unclear exactly when this launch will occur.


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Israeli-Arab Hebrew University students charged with operating al-Qaeda cell

July 22, 2008 The Israel security forces have recently arrested six Israeli Arabs, four of them residents of east Jerusalem, on suspicion of planning to operate an al-Qaeda cell in Israel.

The six, which include Hebrew University students, were indicted of trying to build terror infrastructure in Jerusalem and planned to carry out terrorist attacks in Israel, including an attack on a helicopter carrying a senior official during US President Bush's visit to Israel.

Some of the suspects will be tried for aiding the enemy at a time of war and for soliciting and attempting to solicit others to join a terror organization. They were all charged with membership in a terror organization.

One of the detainees, who lived in the Hebrew University dorms which overlook the university's landing ground, has recorded helicopter landings in the area using his cell phone and also, allegedly, looked for instructions for shooting down a landing helicopter on the internet.

The six suspects were identified as:
 * Ibrahim Nashef, 22, of Tayibe, a physics and computer sciences student at the Hebrew University;
 * Muhammas Najem, 24, of Nazareth, a chemistry student at the Hebrew University;
 * Yusef Sumarin, 21, of the Jerusalem village of Beit Hanina;
 * Anas Shawiki, 21, of the Jerusalem town of Jabel Mukaber;
 * Kamal Abu Kwaider, 22, of Jerusalem's Old City; and
 * Ahmed Shawiki, 21, of the Jerusalem town of Shuafat.


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Alleged war criminal Radovan Karadžić caught in Serbia

July 22, 2008 Alleged war criminal Radovan Karadžić was caught yesterday in Serbia by Serbian security forces after almost 13 years on the run from authorities.

Last night he was questioned by an inquisitor of the War Crimes Court in Belgrade.

Karadžić has been accused by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995. The Srebrenica massacre, in which about 8,000 Muslims were killed, is among the most serious of his alleged crimes. The massacre was categorised as genocide by both the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Internationally, the arrest was unanimously welcomed. Along with former military chief Ratko Mladić, Karadžić has been one of the most sought-after war criminals of the Balkan conflict.

Described by the BBC's Kate Adie as a "smart, rather vain man", his capture found him with a long white beard working in a clinic and practicing alternative medicine under the name Dragan Dabic.


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User:Brian McNeil/Request for Foundation assistance

= Preamble =

One of the most valuable aspects of attending Wikimania is the opportunity to meet people who you may only have interacted with by email. Craig Spurrier and I had a two-hour meeting with Jay Walsh, Sue Gardner, and Michael Snow - the new chair of the board of trustees. This was a very productive meeting, and the closing comments were that Sue is very interested in seeing efforts to improve Wikinews. A trialled budget amount is to be set up for sister projects (i.e. everything but Wikipedia) to allow these other projects to raise their profiles, recruit new contributors, and improve the experience of site visitors.

Criticisms
As a former journalist, Sue was able to offer some insight into the workings of a traditional newsroom. They have a far more rigid structure, and a clearly defined workflow from reporter to publication; from there the article goes to someone who takes the decision which articles occupy lead positions. Such a strict method of working is fine when people are working on a full-time basis and paid to do so. Fact-checking is a thankless task, and Sue highlighted that there have been failures of this on Wikinews; articles have been published and gone into the archive with inaccuracies, such sloppy journalism will not help improve our credibility and gain us wider access to embargoed material and things like government press releases.

Next up is the fact that our coverage is very patchy, but development of most articles has to run at a rapid pace to maintain relevancy. It is fine for a Wikipedia article to remain inaccurate for a few weeks, but on Wikinews it should be no more than a few hours.

Inability to work with Journalism Schools
The lack of a well-defined workflow means we are highly unlikely to get any professor of journalism to involve himself and his students in the creation of content for Wikinews. This topic has been raised in the past, and it is really only about now that such institutions are taking an interest in Web 2.0/new media. That said, without a clear structure to work within, such people will dismiss us as no more reliable than a blog. Their students will continue to be assigned to work on the school/college newspaper where the rigid structure is in place.

In the aforementioned traditional newsroom, the journalist will submit their story, it will be fact-checked, copyedited - possibly more than once, and finally moved to a ready state prior to publication. Once published, it enters a pool of stories that can be used to draw the lead items from. Each of these steps in the process will be the responsibility of one or more individuals with little overlap to preceding or following stages.

Embargoed Wiki
We've nearly discussed this to death, and personally I have come to the conclusion that certain contributors are to be ignored for their ideological and zealous opposition to this. Sue is fully in favour of us having such a wiki, although "embargoed" may not be the correct name. Where we disagreed was on the content; Sue would move prepared obituaries into such a wiki which is somewhat problematic if we want many people able to contribute to such preparatory work. The general consensus from the Wikinews perspective is that it should only be for particularly sensitive material, generally where there is a requirement to respect a source's wishes and defer reporting publicly until a specific date. There was complete agreement that respect of a source's wishes is key to forging good relationships and getting information from people. Yes, even if we may be aiding them in publicising an issue or topic by doing so.

Wikinewsie.org
There is a little under a year left to run on the Wikinewsie domain. Some of the ways in which Godaddy services operate are problematic. For example, the webmail does not work in Opera. I floated the idea of transferring the domain to the Foundation and getting a little shared space somewhere for our specific needs - blogging, email, online credential verification, and anything else we can come up with (brainstorm on talk page).

Clearly, in such a situation the Foundation must maintain its hands-off 'we are the ISP' stance. This means Wikinews contributors will have to manage the whole thing. This is a drawback in getting people to do these jobs, but there is a big upside. We will be able to run mailing lists instead of the poor man's equivalent currently in use for scoop@wikinewsie.org. This is unprofessional in that those who never check their mail and now have full mailboxes generate bounce messages that go back to the person contacting us.

Recruitment and retention
This is a perennial problem. The suggestion to have Wikinews brochures and training material was welcomed, this was where Sue explained a volunteer-managed budget is likely to be made available. Requests for access to funds from this will be ad-hoc, but the material to be printed has to be written. Later on I discussed our meeting with Cormac Lawler of Wikiversity. This was also of great interest to him, and there is a potential to have each of the sister projects have leaflets/brochures which are distributed to attendees of Chapter meetings and other events.

Retention is slightly more complex, we need to identify people who abandon the project fairly soon after they do so and find out what causes them to do so. From there we may can formulate measures to make the project more welcoming and accessible.

Recruitment needs to be expanded outside the Wikimedia community, this may involve the design of large posters and smaller fliers. The obvious low-hanging fruit here is college and university noticeboards. Sue commented that within North America, and many other countries, local newspapers are dying off and being closed. The community loses a voice that covers local events and there is nothing to replace it. If we can find some way to break into that area and promote Wikinews as a platform for local citizens to cover local events we will greatly increase contributions. If more locally oriented versions of the print edition become possible then such contributors can work with local businesses to provide a hardcopy version that is supported by limited advertising this will snowball. Obviously, there will be an issue with ultra-local news not going on the main page and more people required to sift through this and promote stories. From my perspective, when you get right down to it this is turning Wikinews into a one-stop-shop for publishing or reading all your local news. The fact that every single print edition I ran off vanished is an indication that - even among Wikimedians - there is still a desire to have news in the printed form.

Flagged Revisions
For a long, long time the contributors on Wikinews have sought to have the site listed in Google's news aggregator. Time and time again we have been turned down because it is a wiki where anyone can edit. This is particularly frustrating where bottom-of-the-barrel blogs such as ValleyWag get listed. We do try to be professional and respectable, but the argument from Google is we have no editorial control process.

When FlaggedRevs was first talked about, we were desperate to get it implemented to try and get round this. Now that it is being successfully piloted on de.WP, any project can hold a vote and where there is consensus submit a bugzilla request to have it put in place. We could do that today, and the devs would likely implement it.

However, having attended the Wikimania session on FlaggedRevs and looked at some of the issues surrounding how Wikinews operates, Craig was quick to point out that the extension is not ready for Wikinews. Or, possibly more accurate, existing extensions we use are not set up to work with it. Wikinews works with DPL (Dynamic Page Lists), and we want a MediaWiki extension for RSS feeds. As it stands, neither of these extensions knows anything about FlaggedRevs. So, while it might be the case that clicking on a link to an article would give you the latest flagged version, a DPL list of all articles for today in use on the front page would not know that, despite being published, the story "Man bites dog" did not have a single flagged revision and thus should not be shown.

So, Wikinews needs to clarify how such extensions should work with FlaggedRevs. There are other issues with the beta RSS extension - primarily having code quality that Brion will accept on a MediaWiki server, so the whole thing - the three extensions - need looked at with a critical eye on how they can be made to interact and serve our needs. With Sue on our side this may be a matter of getting Brion to update DPL to suit our purposes. From my perspective, RSS is lower priority - the extension can be tightened up to meet his high standards, and if the WMF developers do the work to make DPL work with FlaggedRevs there will be sample code for use with an RSS extension. Let's be realistic, the less demands we place on the WMF dev. staff the more likely we are to get what we want.

I've done my fair share of software development (just not php) so I think I am semi-qualified to comment on this. If we ignore RSS and focus on DPL then this is how I see it working. (a) FlaggedRevs allows you to have a variety of flags applied to an article. (b) DPL allows you to build a list of articles based on including one list of categories and excluding others. (c) If DPL can (c.1) exclude articles which do not have a specific flag and (c.2) only link to the most recently flagged version of an article, then we have what we need. This is likely a vast oversimplification, but I believe everyone on Wikinews can understand that and the developers can see where we want to go. RSS is effectively the same. The thing to note here is that there is no requirement to change FlaggedRevs, just to make DPL and RSS aware of it. Realistically, there may be a requirement to modify FlaggedRevs to expose this data to the other extensions, but we have a clear goal that I do not think Brion, Tim, et-al will have any trouble understanding.

Code of ethics

 * (Currently at Code of Ethics)

Our existing code of ethics is still in draft form, and focuses primarily on the obligations of contributors to the site. Many aspects of it have been drawn from similar documents which public service broadcasters such as BBC, CBC, and VOA operate within. A key aspect of this is an ethical responsibility to our readers. Something which is very much in the back seat as far as our current draft goes.

The issue with adopting virtually all of a code such as that from CBC is that a key aspect is the responsibility to readers can often conflict with the volunteer nature of contributions. With nobody being paid it is impossible to make someone cover something. This was our problem with User:Moulton who obviously lacks an understanding of the problems a small community faces in ensuring further developments on stories are covered appropriately, and in a timely manner.

Sue suggested that the foundation may consider funding a think-tank or external body to draft a code of ethics for us, drawing on the publicly available documents that other broadcasters use. To do this we really need to be extensively briefing them on the peculiarities of the project and the issues that arise from the completely volunteer nature of contributions. For a project such as Wikipedia a code of ethics is fairly straightforward, for Wikinews it is much more complex and nuanced.

A consideration for any code of ethics is that it must be readily accessible. As such, any such document would likely require included in the Wikinews section of the left-hand sidebar. We should be up-front and in-your-face about saying we work to certain standards and anyone can review them.

= Things Wikinews must do =

Draft promotional material
Dozens of Wikimedia events occur every year, not just Wikimania. From chapter-organised conferences to Wikipedia academies, there is an opportunity - if we have the material - to have a short document advertising our project included with the other material given to attendees.

Design A2/A3 posters
Wikimania 2008 had a poster session. There were no Wikinews posters.

Offer a framework for those studying journalism
Those aspiring to a career as a professional journalist and studying towards such will work for free. They will not work for free in our current chaotic and disorganised structure. We need to define a workflow that would be familiar to them, and that would allow them course credit.

Recruitment and retention

 * Documents and essays to help recruit both from WMF projects and the wider public.
 * Information on why we have lost contributors after they have worked on the project for several months.

Constraints of a code of ethics
= Things we want the Foundation to do =

'Embargoed' wiki
This is effectively approved, but the current proposal doesn't work.

Developer time

 * FlaggedRevs
 * DPL
 * RSS

Code of Ethics
Provided Wikinews documents the issues surrounding our volunteer nature a professional draft of a code of ethics may be funded.

Mobile Wikinews
Stage one may be read only, but the long-term goal should be to allow contributions from mobile devices. In particular, photos by MMS and brief on the scene reports.
 * I have - post Wikimania - feedback from Kul on his interaction with cellular companies. First off, their interest is in capitalising on Wikipedia to encourage subscribers to use chargeable services. Unless Wikinews gains real prominence they're not going to invest in getting their subscribers involved here. However, I now have "an ear" to make suggestions that are useful to Commons and Wikipedia, but also useful to us.

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Paramedics protest outside New South Wales parliament

July 22, 2008

Paramedics employed by the Ambulance Service of New South Wales in Australia marched on the New South Wales parliament today. They called for the Government to sack Ambulance Service of New South Wales CEO Greg Rochford, hire 300 additional ambulance officers and 60 patient transport officers. Paramedics gave the Government 48 hours to agree to the proposed staffing levels or face industrial action.

"We are currently at the same levels of staffing that we had in 2002 and these not withstanding, also there's been an increase in workload of 5 per cent per year every year since then," said Health Services Union general secretary Michael Williamson.

The union also called for chief executive Greg Roachford and other senior management to be sacked over what has been described as a culture of bullying.


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Talk:Alleged war criminal Radovan Karadžić caught in Serbia

needs multiple independent sources --SVTCobra 14:42, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * yes, hence me initially removing the ready tag and adding single source. Unfortunately it was assumed that was all I was going to do while I was actually looking for appropriate additional sources and reading them. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:57, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Sources for sources sake
I note that the version of the article I overwrote by Anonymous101 added the BBC source I could not quickly locate. However nothing from it was used to contribute content to the article. --Brian McNeil / talk 17:59, 22 July 2008 (UTC)


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Tropical Storm Dolly kills seventeen in Guatemala

July 22, 2008 Seventeen people in Guatemala have been killed by Tropical Storm Dolly, the fourth storm of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. This included twelve people from a family from Zacapa, who died when a hill collapsed on their home.

The home collapse in Zapaca killed all but three of the people who were in the home at the time of the collapse. Nine children were among those who died.

In Huehuetenango, a landslide killed all four people inside a house.

Angel Antonio Diaz, another person who died, drowned while attempting to cross the river Punilá.

The Guatemalan National Institute of Seismology, Volcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology (INSIVUMEH) said that the storms will continue throughout the rest of today and tomorrow. According to INSIVUMEH, most of Guatemala will continue to experience winds and rain, and the Pacific coast will experience thunderstorms.


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Comments:Suicide bomber attacks Indian Embassy in Kabul, killing at least 41

One thing I could never understand. What these people will get by killing innocent people. First of all they should know against whom they are fighting.What do they get ultimately? they are trying to create fear in the minds of people. so We should be brave enough to fight terrorism.


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CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILIES OF GUATEMALA WHO'VE LOST THEIR LOVED ONES!!!

Link titledolly is the most horrible hurricane —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.11.230.168 (talk) 00:03, 27 August 2008 (UTC)


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American actress Estelle Getty dead at age 84

July 22, 2008 Emmy Award winning American actress Estelle Getty has died at the age of 84. Getty had been previously diagnosed with dementia which had been in its advanced stages. She died while at her home in Hollywood, California early Tuesday morning.

"She was loved throughout the world in six continents, and if they loved sitcoms in Antarctica she would have been loved on seven continents. She was one of the most talented comedic actresses who ever lived," said her son Carl Gettleman.

Getty was probably most famous for her starring role as Sophia Petrillo in the American television show The Golden Girls where she co-starred with actresses Bea Arthur, Betty White and Rue McClanahan. It ran from 1985 until 1992 having aired 180 episodes, and was an immediate success. In 1986, Getty was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, winning one, for her role in the show for "Actress In A Supporting Role - Series, Mini-Series Or Television Movie" and "Actress In A Leading Role - Musical Or Comedy Series". Ironically, though she played the oldest of the four roommates, and the mother of Arthur's character, Dorothy Zbornak, she was actually younger than Arthur or White.

"Our mother-daughter relationship was one of the greatest comic duos ever, and I will miss her," stated Arthur in a statement to the press.

"The only comfort at this moment is that although Estelle has moved on, Sophia will always be with us," said White to the ''Associated Press.

Getty also starred in several movies after the show including Mask where she played the mother of singer and song writer Cher and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot where she also played the mother of actor Sylvester Stallone. She also starred in the television show spin off of The Golden Girls titled The Golden Palace and made a two episode appearance on another spin off called Empty Nest.

Getty was born in New York City on July 25, 1923, passing away just three days before her 85th birthday.


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Comments:Alleged war criminal Radovan Karadžić caught in Serbia

It's Santa again!
I thought they had already captured him back in December of 2003. --+Deprifry+ 20:06, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * You're thinking of Milosovek (sp?), who died in custody just as a verdict was to be handed down. --Brian McNeil / talk 20:48, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Well no, actually this guy --+Deprifry+ 21:54, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
 * There is very little tolerance for that kind of satire. QUINTIX (talk) 01:33, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * So, are they going to examine his teeth? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.241.148.156 (talk) 12:53, 23 July 2008 (UTC)


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User talk:Dragon695

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Garuda Indonesia Flight 200's pilot's trial to begin this week

July 22, 2008

The trial of Captain Marwoto Komar is set to begin this week. The first pilot to be prosecuted over an aircraft accident in Indonesia, he is being charged over the March 7, 2007 crash of Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 at Yogyakarta International Airport, a disaster which killed 21 people.

The final report by the National Transport Safety Commission found that Komar had attempted to land the aircraft, a Boeing 737, at an unsafely high speed and steep angle, resulting in the plane overshooting the runway and bursting into flames. It further said that he ignored fifteen activations of the Ground Proximity Warning System telling him he was approaching too fast, as well as a request by the co-pilot to abort the landing.

According to Muhammad Assegaf, a member of Captain Komar's defense team, the trial begins on Thursday in Yogyakarta's Slemen District Court. When asked about the nature of the charges, deputy attorney general for general offenses Abdul Hakim Ritonga told reporters "It is complicated...but both aviation and criminal codes can be used," and that the charges would be of fatal negligence.

Most of those killed in the disaster were Indonesians, but five Australians were also killed. They were part of a group sent ahead of Australia's then foreign minister Alexander Downer to accompany him on a visit.

There is much controversy surrounding the prosecution. A group of pilots protested his initial arrest, saying he should appear before an aviation tribunal. Instead, he is set to be tried before five judges.


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US military confirms three deaths after B-52 crash off Guam

July 22, 2008

The United States military has confirmed that three of the six crew on board a B-52 Stratofortress that crashed near Guam's Apra Harbour yesterday are dead. The strategic bomber belonged to the US Air Force (USAF).

The aircraft had been headed for a Liberation Day celebration to perform a flyover when it crashed thirty miles off the coast. Since the Monday morning accident 3,000 square miles of ocean have been searched, with aircraft drafted in from as far afield as Japan to help.

The commander of the 35th wing in Guam told reporters that since the crash at 9:45 am local time "we've had no encouraging indicators that our airmen survived this crash." He also said that amongst the groups searching were the US Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard, and Drug Enforcement Agency in addition to Guam Fire and Rescue and Police Departments.

According to the navy, there were no munitions or weapons on board at the time of the crash.


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User talk:TalonGold~enwikinews

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Your account will be renamed
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.

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

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:34, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
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Portal:Australia/2008/July/21

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Comments:2008 Canadian Champions League: Montreal Impact vs. Toronto FC

BONSOIR

JE SUIS UN GARS TRÈS HEUREUX CE SOIR

L'IMPACT DE MONTRÉAL EST LE CHAMPION DU CANADA

TRÈS BELLE PARTIE

FÉLÉCITATION À TORONTO QUI EST UNE TRÈS BONNE ÉQUIPE

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Second Arab-Israeli bulldozer attack in July 2008

July 23, 2008 Sixteen were wounded, one seriously when a Palestinian rammed a backhoe loader into a bus followed by attacks on several other vehicles Tuesday afternoon in Jerusalem before he was shot dead by the security forces. This is the second such incident in Jerusalem in three weeks. A spokesman for the Israeli police said that a civilian shot the vehicle's driver but the bulldozer was still running. A police patrol continued shooting until the driver died. The bulldozer driver who was, according to witnesses, wearing a large white skullcap common to religious Muslims, first hit the No. 13 bus on its side and then chased it while raising the shovel of his front-end loader, the driver managed to make a right turn and get away from the bulldozer which then went on to zig zag across the street and hit further cars until it came to a stop following the driver being gunned down.

Speaking in Amman, United States presidential candidate Barack Obama said: "Today’s bulldozer attack is a reminder of what Israelis have courageously lived with on a daily basis for far too long. I strongly condemn this attack and will always support Israel in confronting terrorism and pursuing lasting peace and security."

After the attack, which follows a similar attack on July 2, and the indictment of six Israeli-Arabs from Jerusalem accused of belonging to a terrorist cell, Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski, said: "We should reconsider the employment of these people."


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Mahmoud Darwish picture
I think you could just take that Mahmoud Darwish picture from wikipedia and upload it on commons, assuming that it really is public domain. Gopher65talk 22:47, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

I really have problems in uploading photos in general. I am sorry I don't have any backgrounds about the copyrights & some copyrights issue I find very confusing. I uploaded two photos & then I found them deleted because of copyrights. if you can help me with this I will be very thankful. Meanwhile please feel free to do anything with my article that you find useful.--Mustafaahmedhussien (talk) 22:58, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

A bus station bomb claims 18 lives in Lebanon
Hello, thanks for your contributions, but we do not publish single source articles. Cheers, --SVTCobra 15:34, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

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Comments:Second Arab-Israeli bulldozer attack in July 2008

At first i thought someone put up the same news from few weeks ago.--66.229.34.63 04:52, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

I think it is the new fashion in suicidal attacks these days!!!!!--Mustafaahmedhussien (talk) 06:56, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah... Bombs strapped to a belt are no longer fashion. That´s just sooo last year... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.241.111.77 (talk) 07:08, 23 July 2008 (UTC)


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Talk:Second Arab-Israeli bulldozer attack in July 2008

More sources
Hello... I've generated some more sources related to this article if you need them: User:JohnnyBot/bulldozer in jerusalem rampage (July 23, 2008) - Borofkin (talk) 06:10, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Not a bulldozer...
The equipment that is pictured in both of the sources is a backhoe loader not a bulldozer.

I can edit the article to change it, but it is called a bulldozer in both source articles. I didn't want to start an edit war.

--Prices (talk) 00:36, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

I think if we could get a photo of the real incident that would be awesome!!!! right??--Mustafaahmedhussien (talk) 00:41, 24 July 2008 (UTC)


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Wikinews:CommonsTicker/20080723

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User talk:66.176.157.142

Hello and a piece of advice
Hello. Thank you for visiting Wikinews. However, we don't appreciate the kind of edits you've made so far. Continued perpetration of vandalism from your part will result in a block without further warning. We hope that you will decide to contribute for the benefit of the project in which case the following pages will give you an overview of how Wikinews operates.

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User talk:125.237.174.4

Welcome
Thanks for experimenting with Wikinews. Your test worked, and has now been reverted or removed. Please use Sandbox for any other tests you want to do, since testing in articles may disrupt the site's working and will be reverted quickly. , welcome to Wikinews! Please refrain from using content pages for testing. Here are a few good links for newcomers on how to edit Wikinews:

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Rhode Island man arrested with record blood-alcohol reading

July 23, 2008 On Monday, July 21, Rhode Island State Police arrested a man in Providence, Rhode Island who they claim had the highest blood-alcohol level ever recorded in Rhode Island in a person who is still alive.

Stanley Kobierowski, 34, of North Providence was arrested when he drove his automobile into an electronic traffic message board on Interstate 95. According to Maj. Steven O'Donnell of the state police, "The person's lucky they survived."

Kobierowski was found to be apparently intoxicated when police arrived on the scene of the accident where he had trouble exiting his vehicle. On being taken to the state police barracks, he was administered a breathalyzer test which first registered 0.489, then a second test registered 0.491 percent.

The legal limit for driving under the influence in Rhode Island is 0.08, 0.400 is usually enough for the person to be comatose, and 0.500 percent is enough to be fatal, according to the state health department.


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日本と英国の君主制も廃止を！
 * 天皇制廃止論
 * Republicanism in the United Kingdom


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User:Brian McNeil/Wikinews workflow

= Existing workflow =

The existing workflow on a Wikinews article is very simple, and has four main stages - not all of which need to be gone through. There are some issues with this, and it has been reported that the level, or depth, of checking at specific stages has failed to catch factual inaccuracies.

prepared
Prepared is an optional stage for an article, and comes prior to an event happening. The most obvious example of this is a prepared obituary. Other examples might be the publication of a major government report, or the result of a high-profile court case. In all three situations background research can be done and details which flesh out the article put together.

It may be the case that interviews and investigative pieces should sit in this stage while, for interviews, we solicit questions from the community, and for investigative pieces we identify the main actors and attempt to get feedback from them.

develop
The vast majority of articles start in this state. At this point contributors are gathering sources and reading them, and identifying the salient points to highlight in the Wikinews report. In many cases this may involve a single contributor making significant changes and a warning template such as editing has to be added to avoid edit conflicts.

Key to this is being conscious of the fact that in breaking news there is often a "fog of war" aspect to information being released. For a terrorist bombing you could have AP reporting ten dead and Reuters reporting twelve or more. This may be the result of Reuters having reported later and knowing how many of the critically injured died in hospital. Here there is a judgement call to make. It may be more honest to report, "According to the Associated Press ten died in the attack, Reuters report on the incident cites a figure of twelve", than to assume one is right and the other is wrong. Circumstances like this are where getting a third or more sources is well-advised - it may resolve the confusion.

ready
When a contributor believes an article is ready for publication, the develop tag should be replaced with ready. This is an invitation to review the article and assess if it meets project standards. This is also the stage where we are letting our readers down by not investing enough effort.

The simplest task to carry out when an article is at this stage is to read it, correct spelling and grammar mistakes, and carry out a general copyedit if it has issues such an over-abundance of one sentence paragraphs, excess passive voice, or run-on sentences.

What is frequently missed here is fact-checking. This is obviously due to the pressure to publish, but ideally all sources should be read and assertions made in the article checked to see they agree with what the sources state. This is a great deal more time-consuming than checking the article for readability, but is a duty to our audience to make a best-effort attempt to be accurate.

publish
This is the stage at which an article becomes more visible and - currently - will show up on the front page. The article should be as close to complete as possible, but this is not always practical. In many circumstances additional details will emerge in the following 24 hours that should be included in the article. The breaking template exists for cases where this is particularly obvious. However, common sense should apply to this and the template should never be used on items such as obituaries. Historically there has been over-use of this template which appears to be certain contributors expressing a desire to dramatise the publication of a story which will see no new significant developments.

As suggested in the above paragraph, significant changes to a published article should be restricted to the 24 hours after publication. In some exceptional circumstances this may be extended out to 36 hours, but realistically this should only apply on major world news events such as a huge natural disaster, or something like the terrorist attacks on the London Underground system. With stories appearing in the RSS feed, many readers will not repeatedly go back to an article to check for updates. Developments outwith this 36-hour period should result in new articles being started which update on the current situation - a lifting of the "fog of war", and an opportunity to source comments from analysts who have now had time to review the event(s) being reported on.

In many cases, the fact that an article remains editable beyond the end of this 36 hour period can cause issues. Unregistered users, and those unfamiliar with site policies and rules will not realise that no substantial content changes should be made. With high-profile stories it may be advisable for administrators to semi-protect the article to minimise this problem.

archived
Archived is not so much a stage in an article's development, but a moving of it to its final resting place in the site's news archive. WN:ARCHIVE outlines in some detail what steps should be taken prior to adding the tag/template to the article. Key to this - and often missed - is reviewing all edits that took place more than 24 hours after the article was published. Substantial post-publication changes must be removed, sources dated after the publication of the article must be removed, and a final copyedit is generally required. Minor details in that copyedit include adding appropriate Wikilinks to sister projects, and changing some links to sister projects to local links - for example, many inexperienced contributors will assume that "United States" should link to the article on Wikipedia. Wikinews actually has a page United States which redirects to our portal on the country. That should always be the first usage's wikilink. A second use could link to the Wikipedia article, but it is just as easy to leave readers to go to the portal and from there to the Wikipedia page.

= Changes to improve quality =

As noted in some of the above sections, there are concerns that the quality and accuracy of Wikinews output is not what it could be. The article stage ready is too frequently treated as something relatively minor when there is actually a significant amount of work needs to go into progressing from there to publish. Alternatively, interim stages need to be introduced between develop and ready. The advantages of such extra stages would be to put more emphasis on certain processes being applied, and offering a more well-defined structure that might attract other contributors - either from other Wiki projects, or from professional journalism schools.

The proposal is to have the existing flow altered to develop -> factcheck -> copyedit -> ready. This introduces two extra steps in the workflow which a clear set of tasks and responsibilities can be outlined for.

factcheck
To carry out the project's duties to its readers it is critical that an independent editor has read all supplied sources and verified that the article content matches with them. Currently this does not appear to being done within the ready stage.

Such a new stage would require that whoever carried out this fact-checking task noted this on the talk page. This allows other contributors to see who has performed the task, and is additional transparency for readers.

There are obvious mistakes that a contributor to an article can make during the development stage that their personal review may overlook. For example, it would be trivial when using the numeric keypad to insert an 8 where a 5 was intended, and the way the human brain works you may never notice you have made such a mistake. An independent review greatly increases the chances of catching such accidental errors.

Worst-case is deliberate deception. A contributor with a strong political bias may deliberately misreport due to their personal agenda. Generally this is caught because the article ends up not conforming to the Neutral Point Of View policy, but this is not always the case and it may not be immediately apparent unless you force yourself to read the sources cited.

copyedit
From fact-checking, you move on to copyediting. It is natural that part of this stage in the workflow may be carried out during fact checking (eg poorly worded statement of fact that is readily misinterpreted), but there are wider issues of consistency and compliance with the project's style guide.

Many active contributors really enter in to the spirit of Wikinews and are well aware of the pace at which story development must run. This means they may overlook spelling errors, they may type the same word twice in a row, they may make over-use of passive voice, or - in some cases - they may not be a native English speaker. This latter point can lead to articles that contain run-on sentences and inappropriate punctuation.

The aim of copyediting is to remove these issues and make the article easily read.

ready (new workflow)
With two of the currently neglected points moved out of the existing ready stage, this becomes more an issue of getting a second opinion on the readiness of the article to appear on the front page.

 * Does it answer "Who, what, where, why, and how"?
 * Are the salient points likely to draw in a reader in the opening paragraph?
 * Can images or infoboxes be added? (Where none already present)
 * Are images in use in compliance with the fair use policy?
 * Are images from Commons clearly licensed?

= Considerations for Original Reporting =

The percentage of Wikinews articles which are partially or wholly made up of original reporting has increased significantly over the last two years.

Please discuss on the talk page how you see the outlined workflow operating with this.

=See also=
 * Article flags
 * Article stage tags
 * Wikimania 2008
 * MediaWiki:Gadget-readyAlert

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