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Digital security researchers publicly reveal vulnerability in WPA2 WiFi protocol
Hello. Your article about WPA2 vulnerability was published. Due to things in real life, I could not get to it earlier. There were some problems, which most of the newbies face:
 * 1) Like for the headline. The headline should be unique, and should convey some crucial information. In this case, "WiFi encryption protocol flawed", mentioning the name of the protocol and/or who claimed it was flawed would have been a better idea.
 * 2) Apart from that, the article content should not be bundled in a paragraph. Related information goes to same paragraphs.
 * 3) The first paragraph of the article contains most of the information, and it is called lede. The lede answers Ws and H questions. I had to rewrite the article, but it was built around your content. Have a look at the edit history, I segregated the content, and added more information to tighten the lede, and the other paragraphs. I remember when my first article had information lying loosely, here and there. It took me some time, to know how it should be done. Yours was way better than mine.
 * 4) The minimal length is three medium-sized paragraphs. Yours was marginally above it, but I added more content.

The article was reviewed by Pi zero. I suggest you to have a look at the editing history. One can learn a lot just by observing how things are done. This would help you for other articles that you write. I hope to see your articles soon. And yes, this story was being discussed on ##deutsche IRC channel on October 16. I thought about writing it, but could not. Thank you for writing this article. Also, if you need some help, ping me, or Pi zero. acagastya PING ME! 08:54, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

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Controversial debates between two main presidential candidates in Iran have been at the very center of attention of the people. Iranians are going to elect the next president in less than 20 days and every part of these debates can impact their final choice. While conservatives fight for taking back the power they have lost four years ago, reformists are doing their best to show people the disastrous consequences of this probable return. According to public view, both parties are nearly the same in some aspects like foreign policy and power relations but at the same time reformists and conservatives have completely different background about economy. Although conservatives almost always put emphasis on a better economical situation, reformists have a relatively acceptable and more defendable history. During the debates conservatives talk about the financial problems and reformists claim they have improved economy since they took the power from former conservative administration. '''

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Several episodes of 'Orange is the New Black' released prematurely by hacker

May 2, 2017 A hacker, or group of hackers, operating under the alias of The Dark Overlord uploaded ten episodes of 's web TV series  on Friday and Saturday on The Pirate Bay after they said the online streaming service failed to meet their demands. Netflix had planned to release the season on June 9.

According to The New York Times, the unreleased content from the upcoming fifth season of Orange is the New Black was likely stolen from a postproduction company Larson Studios, based in Los Angeles. Netflix in a statement said, "A production vendor used by several major TV studios had its security compromised and the appropriate law enforcement authorities are involved." In a tweet on Saturday, the hacker said, "Who is next on the list? FOX, IFC, NAT GEO, and ABC. Oh, what fun we're all going to have. We're not playing any games anymore."

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Wikinews:Accreditation requests/Bubba73

 * Failed. The community did not support this request. BRS  (Talk)   (Contribs) 03:57, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

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 * Name: Jud McCranie
 * Location: Brunswick, Georgia, US
 * Areas of interest: Now mostly photographing historic buildings, especially on the NRHP
 * Reason: I often am approached by people wondering what I'm doing - sometimes police or security people. I'd like to have photographer credentials. An additional reason is that I often have to shoot a house from a long distance away, through trees, because I don't feel comfortable going up to the house to ask for permission.  Credentials would help.
 * Accomplishments: Many edits to the English Wikipedia (76,000 in 12 years) and many photos uploaded, and a very large number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Autopatrolled with rollback permission.
 * Contact information: j.mccranie@comcast
 * User ID: 218586 Bubba73 (across wiki projects)
 * Applied on: 05:20, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

Comments

 * Now that you have mentioned "I often have to shoot a house from a long distance away, through trees, because I don't feel comfortable going up to the house to ask for permission.", Wikinews is not a medium to get away with photographing something or someone who were not permitting you to take photographs before. I don't know how it will help make you feel better taking the photos if you were never comfortable with it. It is possible accreditation might help, but it is more about photography ethics here, I feel. And at least for Wikinews, you must have their permission to interview and photograph, and disclose that you are going to report on Wikinews. I didn't know this when I first did it. acagastya 05:54, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Reply - I have never felt comfortable about walking up to a house and asking if I can take photos. Some people on the Wikipedia NRHP (National Register of Historic Places) project suggest that I do that (they have done it).  I would feel more comfortable about doing that if I had some credientials on me. Bubba73 (talk) 04:01, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
 * That is the question of personal ethics. Besides, it will be good to point out how you are going to contribute to Wikinews if you want accreditation from Wikinews. Anyone can upload files on Commons. Most of the users that I know, or have met, or saw the userpage never hinted about working for this project. I think Commons should hand out accreditation for photographers who are going to contribute photos only. acagastya 05:15, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I wish Commons would do that, but they don't, as far as I know. Bubba73 (talk) 14:24, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

 * Reply Here is an example of where I could have gotten a better photo of a house if I had felt comfortable walking up and asking. Bubba73 (talk) 04:26, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

 * OK, tell you what: point us to some of your images at Commons.....how about that as a starting point? I think I get what you're going for here and that's no crime. We just have A LOT OF PEOPLE who breeze in here (with no efforts to establish their credibility -- as a person/journalist/or whatever -- and ask us to accredit them just-like-that. So, you can respect that we're a wee bit gun shy about that sometimes? --Bddpaux (talk) 17:29, 2 May 2017 (UTC)

 * Reply This is a link to my uploads to Wikimedia Commons. A few of them are from recent events but the bulk of them are photos of historic buildings, almost all on the NRHP.  I have 3,773 pages on my watchlist on Commons - almost all of them are photos.  Some are ones that I improved with photoshop or from NASA, but the great majority are ones I've taken (must be well over 3,000 of them). Before 2010 I uploaded to en.wikipedia and a number of them have been transferred to commons.  Bubba73 (talk) 04:04, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

 * When we photograph, we have a reason to. There is something we want to tell others, depict something which would be impossible to put up in the words, or provide some information (...and all of the photography philosophy). As far as that house is concerned, it can be useful for a news article if something happens in that house. But if you had a good reason to take that photo, you should go and take the photo, and if somebody questions, tell them, "Madam/Sir, I was taking pictures of the house because whatever your reason may be, tell them honestly . I hope you do not mind. But if you do, I will delete the photos." And you must delete it because this is the question of ethics. acagastya 05:37, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

 * That house is noteworthy because it is on th NRHP, but not in the news. Some people like to see architectural details, which I can't get from that distance. And yes, I'm too shy to just walk up and known on the door.  And, for instance, a month or two ago I was walking down the street photographing the NRHP Twin Cities Historic District and someone came up to me and asked was I was doing.  I said that I was taking pictures.  They asked "what for?"
 * Sometimes historical buildings get destroyed and that makes the news. For instance, I had before and after photos here of a historical building being destroyed (it was in the local news). (Some of the other "places in peril" photos on that page are mine, too.)  Bubba73 (talk) 14:31, 7 May 2017 (UTC)

 * I did a search on Wikinews for Brunswick, Georgia and Glynn County, Georgia and there isn't much news here that makes it to Wikinews. But if someone wanted a photo of a news event here, or pretty close to here, I could go get it.  Bubba73 (talk) 14:45, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
 * A couple of things: First; when I was taking photos of ATMs when I was writing this story India discontinues ₹500, ₹1000 denominations; releases ₹2000 and new ₹500 bills, security guard asked me why I was taking photos in Kannada. I tried to explain him that it was for news and he said I am not supposed to. It is possible that they said no for security reason, but I was a) not in a position to explain them what is Freedom of Panorama because of the language barrier and b) not accredited. You are in a better position than this. And Second; even if you have accreditation, people reserve the right to question you, say no to you or even tell a police official. You can tell about Freedom of Panorama and the police might help you there, but the accreditation would not stop others from questioning you.
 * As far a historically significant buildings are concerned, I don't think it should be a problem since you can always say: "I want a photo of this historical architecture." acagastya 09:29, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

 * Well, you've certainly contribute A LOT OF IMAGES at Commons, that's for sure. (A little aside here: I've gotten a lot of mileage simply saying, 'I'm a reporter working on a news story.') Non-Americans bring an interesting angle, because 'accredited' means a lot outside of the old US of A.......us, with our Freedom of the Press thing, and all.....but I digress. Well, at least we know you've cranked out a lot of output! Do you imagine yourself writing here much? --Bddpaux (talk) 21:14, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Ummmmmm, an answer to my question might be nice. --Bddpaux (talk) 22:16, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay, but I didn't know that I had a message. No, I don't expect to write for WikiNews - there usually isn't much news other than local news here in Brunswick, Georgia.  The Savannah and Jacksonville (exp Jax) newspapers cover some local news, and sometimes the Savannah and Jacksonville TV stations have something.  The last big news here was the hurricane last fall, and it didn't hit us hard.  Bubba73 (talk) 22:32, 2 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I encourage you to consider online original reporting or over the phone: email people and give phone calls to find information which is not currently available online. This is one quite useful form of original reporting. I myself did this to retrieve weather data to support claims with plots, and to query researchers about their research background and methodology. It works and with accreditation with the wikinewsie.org email address people seem more responsive! Original reporting does not have to be in person.
 * I am hoping that for your current activity the comment by SVTCobra above is useful. Cheers, --Gryllida (chat) 04:27, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

 * Comment - It looks like I'm not going to get the pass, probably mainly because I only want to take photos and not contribute news items. There was a case a few months ago when I could have used it, though.  I had tickets for a concert.  I knew that cameras were not allowed inside, but I wanted to take a photo of the venue before I went in.  I took a photo.  Two security people came over and asked if I had credentials.  Of course I don't.  They said that I could not take photos of security (the security people checking the concert goers).  I didn't want a hassle that would prevent me from seeing the concert, so I brought the photo up on my camera and showed them that I was deleting it.  However, my camera has two cards, with photos going to both, and the delete button only removes it from the first card, so I still had the photo.  I cropped it to take out the security people and uploaded it to commons: File:St. Augustine Amphitheatre, St. Augustine, Florida, U.S.jpg.  Bubba73 (talk) 07:29, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the follow-up Bubba73. I would suggest to write several news stories and re-apply then -- writing "based on existing online sources" is a good exercise to practice the pillars, so that you know what notes are important to take for your original report. After gaining such practice, I personally encourage you to re-apply to accreditation indicating what kind of local events you would like to attend and report on in the future. --Gryllida (talk) 07:58, 17 November 2018 (UTC)

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You, my friend put your WORK where your mouth is! If ever there's been a person worthy of accreditation for photographic submissions to Commons, it'd be you! --Bddpaux (talk) 21:38, 1 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't think handing out accreditation for anyone with a camera is a good idea. They should have a history of contribution, and establish a trust before they can shield themselves with a press pass. acagastya PING ME! 16:07, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, let me offer a few comments here. Yes, accreditation is about trust. Yes, its a serious thing and should be treated as such. We here at English WN are 'vouching' for that person and their credibility as a contributor. I own a camera and I'd bet you do too. LOADS AND LOADS of people come here, hang about for 6 minutes, then ask for accreditation. (You weren't one of them.) When they don't get it, they often tantrum and run away mad! Now, you use the term 'shield themselves'. I know that, in various parts of the world, the term 'Press Credentials' means different things and that's fine. I can walk out on a nearby sidewalk and do 85% of EVERYTHING a reporter with the Dallas Morning News can do right this second. It's not always like that in certain countries and I'm aware of that....okey-dokey....fine. This guy, though.....asked for it....and then HAS CONTINUED TO PHOTOGRAPH many historical homes in his geographic area. To also split some VERY fine hairs, each of us are still (technically) operating as "independent" journalists......even if we are 'accredited' here! The Wikimedia Foundation doesn't buy insurance for us. I'd be willing to bet if we were sued in light of a story, we wouldn't be able to get ANY of their lawyers to call us back! This guy is a WORKER.....go check out his stuff over at Commons. He's pretty much said he's not a writer....and that's fine....it is. But we've had enough TALKERS around here (no, I'm not insulting you, I promise I'm not).....we've had a devoted person come here, tell us he's a DOER and has followed thru on that promise. I'm good with the guy all the way around. We are currently vetting you as a reporter here (noticed I voted support). You've done what you said you'd do. Journalism isn't always 'clean' or 'pretty' or 'easy', but we're all (the few of us, I mean) in this together and I feel like the guy is legit. --Bddpaux (talk) 21:42, 5 September 2017 (UTC)
 * For the part "This guy is a WORKER [...] He's pretty much said he's not a writer" -- it is okay if they don't write articles. However, there is photo essay which they could do. Looking at the bigger picture, accreditation is not a way to get free passes to XYZ. If we use tell someone that we are accredited and wish to cover/report something, that is the real use of accreditation. And then there are journalistic ethics one needs to take care of. There are two school of thoughts when it comes to photography. A) Ask for permission. B) Don't wait for "the perfect moment". Until and unless it is not a sting operation, we must ask permission to photograph. When I attended Comic Con, before every single photo, I asked for the permission -- more than 200 times in the whole day. For the minors, I asked their legal guardians. However, I noticed some people who had media accreditation, did not ask for consent for cosplayers and took the photo. Bangalore ComicCon clearly stated that Cosplay is not consent and one must ask for permission -- those "professional" journalists were careless enough to violate the ethics. If this user gets accreditation, I would expect them to keep up with it (not that I am questioning about how they do -- besides they even spoke about it); and I would expect a photo essay when they get access to something which was possible just because of the accreditation. [FWIW -- I do not have my own camera, and I had not touched a camera for more than twelve months, before I went to Bangalore comic con.] •–• 08:31, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
 * and before we get too deep here: 'We must ask permission to photograph'....um, yeah.....maybe and maybe not. I live in the US of A. When I attend (local) conventions/Maker Faires etc. there is a HUGE DISCLAIMER at the entrance telling people that just by entering, they're consenting to be photographed. We can chatter on adding all manner of bloviate to this topic all day, but the issue is: do we accredit the guy or don't we? --Bddpaux (talk) 17:03, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I really have no desire or motivation to argue anything you're saying here. It's all fundamentally correct...but to what end? Based upon all this...I think we owe the guy a decision in-the-least. --Bddpaux (talk) 22:35, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Regarding consent, per photography ethics, we must ask for consent. Other thing is: consent to be photograph is not same as granting permission to be uploaded on the internet. Besides, we are also allowing anyone to use the photo, modify it, make money -- people did not sign up for it. That is the reason I decided to release my photos of ComicCon under ND license -- next time, I guess I would choose to use NC-ND because people did not sign up for them becoming face of a brand. •–• 18:08, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, once again.....lets bring this long winded discussion back to our world here at Wikinews. Look at the policy on Accreditation. Please point out for me this 'photography ethics' policy. Sure, I'd bet you could find it in a college journalism text book.....fine. But this project (and the Wikimedia Foundation) have policies. Yes, Commons license(s) have some parameters about who can be photographed etc. .....all that is fine and great. I want anyone accredited by us to play by the rules.....super terrific! To loop back around here: I can't find any evidence that the guy has done anything bad/wrong/incorrect or whatever. In the end: just decide which way you want to vote and go that way, OK? It's time to make a decision......heck, the guy has probably vanished by now. --Bddpaux (talk) 23:40, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
 * There is no mention of journalistic ethics on the policy pages. I could have lied and could have told the reviewer almost anything when I interviewed a shopkeeper who answered in Kannada [I bet you did not get a word of it]. Not everything is said, nor it has to be. Let's not get down to discussing what is missing from the project space pages. Accreditation is not only for photographing things or people, you know better than me. Things are pretty straightforward; if one has not contributed on this project, I am not going to say "yes". I know people who are good at photography, but do not follow photography ethics, let alone journalistic ethics. If they start uploading photos on Commons and ask for the rights on Wikinews, I would not be okay with that. We are supposed to tell the person whom we are going to photograph that their photograph would be uploaded on Wikinews, and if possible, we should explain them about the license we wish to use. Let me ask you one thing: do you agree consent of photograph does not mean the photographer can upload the photo anywhere?

 * Wikinews' reputation is at stake when the reporter does something problematic. And without knowing the basic journalism ethics, (which took me time to learn because of the time I spent on Wikinews) it is wrong. Think about this situation -- I tell someone I am from Wikinews, can I have a photo of yours? or I am taking someone's photo without permission, and if they question me, I say, Oh, I am from Wikinews but I never upload those photos for Wikinews' use. I end up selling those photos somewhere else [play all the permutations in your head with on what type of websites]. Think about the situation when that person comes to know their photos were used for a different purpose, and not what they had permitted to. When one contributes to the project, they would generally think good of the project and not indulge in any wrongdoings. I found out I can get free entry for ComicCon events if I ask for media accreditation, and I can just say I am from Wikinews, and avoid paying money for tickets. But I would not do that because I understand the ethics involved. Without actual contribution on the project, I can not trust anyone -- we have dealt with a lot of noobs, some learns from failure, some would go berserk. You never know what kind of editors they are, until they stay on the project of long enough. Speaking of the time, well, I had to wait for longer duration than this user had to (243 days in my case, 241, for this user's case) even though I had written about 250 news articles by then. Until I do not see contribution from this user on the project, let it be a photo essay, if they are not a writer, I am not saying a "yes".
 * Note: I am not accusing this user for the various scenarios I was discussing. •–• 07:47, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Not a terrible argument at all. --Bddpaux (talk) 22:45, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I think I would agree with Acagastya on this. Bubba73 is a major contributor to English Wikipedia and to Commons but their entire contribution to Wikinews is centred on this request page. I could list a bunch of things I do on other WM projects (see my userpage if you really want to find out), but they shouldn't have a bearing on a request like this. I may have misunderstood the initial reasoning but I can't see a difficulty in obtaining photos of historic buildings. As far as I know, in the US, you don't need permission to take photos of things that are viewable from a public place (apart from obvious cases like photographing through an open window or door). Particularly if the building is historic, I am sure that the owners will be aware that other people might be interested in their property. The major objection (at least as far as Wikimedia is concerned) is of course the publication of photos of copyright scultpures and other artworks in public places, but that is a different issue. Green Giant (talk) 15:01, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

for now. I will support once there is a significant corpus of Bubba73's work here. Green Giant (talk) 15:01, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * not to forget FoP in the US. 223.237.228.203 (talk) 15:34, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Cheers. I added a link to the Commons page on this issue. Green Giant (talk) 15:40, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

I suggest user:Bubba73 read w:Wikipedia:Press pass. Wikinews does not issue press credentials/passes for activities that are not related to news gathering. It is quite frankly unethical to present credentials as a news journalist, if ones activity is not for news purposes. --SVTCobra 18:00, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Apart from some concerns about Bubba's answers to questions, it's simply a fact that he has never contributed anything here (https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Bubba73) and doesn't even promise that. This brazen request for undeserved credentials should have been closed with a negative vote a year ago, imho. Gray62 (talk) 08:41, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

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Contributing
Hi. There's a compact overview of what we do at WN:PILLARS, then a good tutorial on writing a first article at WN:WRITE. Note that required formatting elements are provided automatically by the article-creation form at WN:WRITE (or should be, unless you're using the "mobile" interface). --Pi zero (talk) 11:00, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

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 * I honestly don't see evidence that you are trying to learn to follow local policies. If you continue this way, I will, regretfully, block your account to prevent further project disruption.  --Pi zero (talk) 13:22, 5 June 2017 (UTC)

Um... maybe you should try out more WN:Original reporting instead. That way, you don't have to focus on synthesizing articles from websites. Thoughts? --George Ho (talk) 03:03, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
 * We strongly recommend users learn the ropes, and accumulate a reputation on the project, by writing synthesis before moving up to the more demanding original-reporting form. --Pi zero (talk) 03:39, 8 June 2017 (UTC)

I'm giving you a short block, in which to reconsider how you approach contribution to this project. --Pi zero (talk) 12:48, 12 June 2017 (UTC)

 * You tried to self-publish an article. I undid that, explaining in the edit summary that it's a severe policy violation.  You then, apparently, did it again.  That's not acceptable, and I'm giving you another short block.  Self-publication is one of the most severe transgressions possible on Wikinews; you had already been warned; you removed the other warnings I'd put on the page; and you have never responded here to any of the comments left for you.  --Pi zero (talk) 16:23, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Attack outside the Finsbury Park Mosque
I was about to write about this, but then I saw you had created the article. Well, the article needs a lot of improvement in terms of style. I haven't checked other aspects like neutrality, but of course, it uses one source which is a blog, and unofficial blogs are not trustworthy. Would you mind if I have to rewrite the article? acagastya 10:01, 19 June 2017 (UTC)

Lack of response
You have been posting material here for some time that ignores our review policy. We've left notes here, which you have not responded to, and twice you were given short blocks which still brought no response and the problem behavior continued. This appears to me to be a chronic abuse of the Wikinews project. I am now applying an open-ended block to this account; to lift it, we would need a realistic reason to think your behavior would change. You can still edit this page, under the block, to respond. --Pi zero (talk) 12:29, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

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Christianity and Wikinews
This is not the place you express your frustration against the Indian government. You are welcome to contribute to a news article. You could have written about the demolition back then. But now, I suggest you to file an RTI complain. By the way, you are factually incorrect. Bhagwad Guys is not mandatory in CBSE board. Do not forget that the CBSE students had a passage in the twelfth board exam about the place where Jesus was buried (?). This is pointless to say, but yes, the one to speak against other religion is insulting their religion. All that I can suggest is the RTI. acagastya 13:31, 2 May 2017 (UTC)
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Hidden space for discussion
I was wondering, is there a group (if not, should we create a group) where editors can share, or ask their locations for improvising original reports? For example, if there is a ComicCon on New York, "I can ask if there is any editor in New York or will be visiting New York during ?" Or update others, like, "I will be in Bengaluru during . Ping me if anyone wants me to cover any event." Or, "is there any editor in Glasgow? There is a . Will it be okay to get some first hand photos from the scene?" We can not neglect privacy, and therefore, this group should not be publicly accessible. acagastya 20:55, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
 * http://wikinewsie.org/ has served that function been is offline at the moment. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:49, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
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 * Hm, it didn't load the first time but it slowly loaded the second. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:28, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Hypothetical scenario: If I want to ask the accredited reporters if anyone will be in New York, to cover an event, let's say ComiCon, what should I do? acagastya 17:39, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Existing Water cooler subpages
We have "Policy", "Proposals", "Technical", "Assistance", and "Miscellaneous" as existing subpages; they are becoming less populated nowadays. What to do with them? --George Ho (talk) 00:53, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree with your tacit suggestion that we merge some or all of these. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:58, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * On s:en:Wikisource:Scriptorium, they have separate pages but transclude them into one. It's good for archiving individual threads but it displays everything in one place. Thoughts? —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:59, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Hmm... don't mind the changes, but "Assistance" can be merged into "Miscellaneous". Right? --George Ho (talk) 01:20, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * There's no need to merge them. The current arrangement has worked for many years, and I'd oppose placing institutional barriers in the way of later expansion.  We certainly don't intend to try not to grow larger than we are now.  Quite the contrary --Pi zero (talk) 01:39, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Hmm... Seems two against one. I favor whatever changes are made. However, if that's not a consensus, and consensus is necessary, how else do we attract comments? "Requests for comment" doesn't exist in Wikinews; subpages are less visited. This leaves us with Meta-wiki, whose community grows hostile toward Wikinews. Nevertheless, Meta-wiki is our long shot. Thoughts? --George Ho (talk) 01:52, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * We can wait a moment and see if anyone else responds. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 01:56, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * It's a huge, momentous decision. Not something we're gonna be doing without lots of deliberation and heavyweights weighing in.  It's also pointlessly changing project infrastructure.  Pardon if I'm somewhat abrupt (though honestly I'm mostly holding back, as I have no desire to offend either of you); over the past twelve hours (presumably since sometime in the morning on Monday in Australia) we've averaged about two submissions per hour.  --Pi zero (talk) 11:39, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
 * I agree with that there's no need to merge them.   — Jeff G. ツ 17:12, 2 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Though not a heavyweight, I also agree a merger is not needed. Jusda fax 08:33, 14 April 2017 (UTC)

After reading the news about Wikitribune at the Miscellaneous subpage, Koavf, I wonder whether you can switch to no on this proposal. If so, I'll switch to "withdrawn". Thoughts? --George Ho (talk) 09:18, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
 * It's not really necessary, since the community is against it. But sure. I'm still for it. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:38, 26 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Proposal withdrawn. --George Ho (talk) 16:40, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

Proposal: Add Central America region to Main Page
I see North and South America, with the colored maps indicating their regions, but Central America is not included as a region on the Main Page. The sidebar does include C.A. as one of 8 regions, but the Main Page proper lists only 7. I propose we include Central America on that list. Thanks. Jusda fax 08:26, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Good catch. I've added Central America at the fold of the main page and, while I'm at it, Antarctica, which is after all a continent.  I also added Antarctica to the sidebar.  --Pi zero (talk) 11:03, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Many thanks, I appreciate the timely response. Good call on Antarctica as well. Jusda fax 21:00, 14 April 2017 (UTC)


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Hello Daimona Eaytoy,

Your user page mentions that you like programming for MediaWiki. What computer languages do you know? PHP, or JavaScript, or ...something else?

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Tech News: 2017-14
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * The  button now says   or   on most Wikipedias. The point is to make it more clear that the edit will change the page immediately.   is when you save a new page and   when you edit an existing page.
 * The tracking category    : is now added when a template loop is found. A template loop is for example when a template tries to use a second template that uses the first template.
 * English Wikipedia now has cookie blocks. It will come to more wikis in the future. This is an extension to the autoblock system so when a user is blocked, the next time they visit the wiki a cookie will be set. This means that even if the user switches accounts and to a new IP address the cookie will block them again.

Problems
 * Wikidata descriptions, aliases and labels that used some characters could not be saved. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 April. It will be on all wikis from 6 April (calendar).

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 * New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Dutch, Russian, Turkish, Czech and Hebrew Wikipedia on 11 April. The new filters include filtering, highlighting and user intent prediction. User intent prediction means the filter tries to help editors determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later.

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Category
One of the journalism students posted an article about Australian Aborigines and I've been digging around for any sort of "indigenous peoples" or "Indigenous rights" category. Do we actually not have one? Darkfrog24 (talk) 11:37, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * If we had, it should be a subcat of Category:Human rights, which it isn't; also Special:Search turns up nothing relevant in category space for  or   (and, really, if it were there I'd likely have run across it at some point).  --Pi zero (talk) 12:07, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Well it's good to know I don't just have category blindness. We might want to think of establishing one of those (the category, not the blindness).  Although Australian and Taiwanese first nations are very different from American Indians in most ways, there are aspects of colonialism that affect them similarly. Darkfrog24 (talk) 12:18, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * How does such a category relate to, say, Ireland or Scotland or Wales, or Basque Country (or for that matter Cornwall, though one doesn't hear about that so much)? Or... Israel and Palestine?  --Pi zero (talk) 12:47, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * For Ireland, I don't think they do. The general understanding of "indigenous peoples" is populations of people who were displaced or similarly affected by migrations/invasions of other populations during the early modern period (colonialism).  Kind of like how "Republican" refers to the American political party and "republican" to anyone who promotes republics and how Catholicism is a specific religion but being catholic just means anything inclusive or open to everyone.  So technically the descendants of people living in Ireland before the Celtic migrations could be called indigenous without violating the dictionary definition, but they don't fit into modern discourse in the same way.
 * It sounds like what you really want to know is "How do we at Wikinews determine who is and isn't an indigenous person?" My take is that we shouldn't. We should look for and then follow established journalistic practices.
 * According to the United Nations, "Indigenous communities, peoples and nations are those which, having a historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories, consider themselves distinct from other sectors of the societies now prevailing on those territories, or parts of them." It seems to come from José R. Martínez Cobo's "Study on the Problem of Discrimination against Indigenous Populations." I could check the AP and Economist style guides at some point to see if they have a take on this. Darkfrog24 (talk) 14:57, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I'd imagined you had in mind a topic category, i.e., a category that published news articles would go into (rather than an internal category for people who are indigenous). A good topic category has some characteristics... I don't think I can name them all (it's more of an "i can't define it but I know if it I see it" kind of thing), but two of them are
 * It should be clear what articles should and shouldn't go in it. The name of the category is part of that, and there may be a   field on the topic cat template to clarify.
 * There should be some key words, that are quite likely to occur on articles that belong in the category and are likely to be wikilinked, so they can be made mainspace redirects to the category and thereby help to assure the category will continue to be populated with appropriate articles as they are published over time.
 * --15:36, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
 * No, I mean it would be a category for articles about indigenous peoples and the issues that affect them, not for individual people. The closest homolog I can see is CAT:LGBT. It might be more accurate to call it "Indigenous issues" but that's not what people say (which makes it hard for the article's first author to remember what to put after CAT:), and "Indigenous rights" would not be appropriate for articles about, say, a show full of indigenous art.
 * Hm, I guess key words would be things like "Native Americans," "American Indians," "Aborigines," maybe the names of specific indigenous peoples like "Cherokee" and "Sami." Darkfrog24 (talk) 22:48, 5 April 2017 (UTC)

The last week of the 1st cycle of Wikimedia strategy conversation
Hi, I'm Szymon, a MetaWiki Strategy Coordinator. 3 weeks ago, we invited you to join a broad discussion about Wikimedia's future role in the world. The discussion is divided into 3 cycles, and the first one ends on April, 15. So far, Wikimedians have been discussing mainly about technological improvements, multilingual support, friendly environment, cooperation with other organizations and networks.
 * If you'd like to get detailed information about the discussed topics, have a look at → that page.
 * If you'd like to join the discussions, please comment → on the talk page of that page or on Meta-Wiki.
 * If you have any questions that weren't answered there, feel free to ask me.

I'm pinging one of 2 recently active admins. I hope you'll help me with passing along the news, maybe even join the discussion. . (Pi zero, I didn't want you to get cross-wiki spammed :)

Looking forward to your input. Thank you in advance! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 00:33, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

 * Truthfully I'm not favorably disposed to the process. The Foundation's institutional objectives (not a reflection on individuals within the Foundation) are fundamentally incompatible with those of the collective volunteer community; in the long run, I see only two alternatives:  either the sisterhood will find a way to get out from under the thumb of the Foundation (though atm I can't imagine how), or the sisterhood will whither and die.  --Pi zero (talk) 00:45, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
 * I understand that. The future of some projects, e.g. Wikinews, seems to be uncertain. By the way, that's actually a strategy-related comment and is perfectly eligible for being copy-pasted to one of the pages I mentioned in the second bullet point :) SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 00:50, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
 * The Foundation is inherently anti-wiki; it can't help being so; and that's just as much of a problem for Wikipedia as for any other sister. I do think Wikinews is something of a bellwether: if Wikinews goes down, the rest of the sisters will fall like dominoes, with Wikipedia at the end of the row.  My point is that the Foundation is singularly unqualified to make long-term plans for the sisterhood.  Any plans the Foundation touches will be twisted by the nature of the Foundation.  --Pi zero (talk) 01:10, 8 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-15
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * Octicons-tools.svg Tidy is going to be replaced with an HTML5 parsing algorithm. Bad HTML in wikitext would cause problems on a number of wikis. There is now a ParserMigration extension on all wikis that you can use to help clean this up. You can read more about how you can use it.

Changes this week
 * Some older web browsers will not be able to use JavaScript on Wikimedia wikis from this week. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version.
 * New filters for Recent changes will come to Wikidata and Persian, Russian, Turkish and French Wikipedia on 11 April. The schedule has been changed to fix the user intent prediction filters for some wikis. User intent prediction means the filter tries to make it easier for editors to determine if the edit was made in good faith or not. Other wikis will get it later.
 * The list of special characters in the wikitext editor and the visual editor will now have a group of Canadian Aboriginal characters.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on all wikis from 13 April (calendar).

Meetings
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Future changes
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this.
 * RevisionSlider will change how you move between revisions. This will be available on the test wiki from 11 April. It will come to other wikis later if users like the change. You can test it and give feedback.

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Read-only mode for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April and 3 May
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The Wikimedia Foundation will be testing its secondary data center in Dallas. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to conduct a planned test. This test will show whether they can reliably switch from one data center to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

They will switch all traffic to the secondary data center on Wednesday, 19 April 2017. On Wednesday, 3 May 2017, they will switch back to the primary data center.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop during those two switches. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

 * You will not be able to edit for approximately 20 to 30 minutes on Wednesday, 19 April and Wednesday, 3 May. The test will start at 14:00 UTC (15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PDT, 23:00 JST, and in New Zealand at 02:00 NZST on Thursday 20 April and Thursday 4 May).
 * If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it.  If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal.  Then you should be able to save your edit.  But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

 * Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
 * There will be code freezes for the weeks of 17 April 2017 and 1 May 2017. Non-essential code deployments will not happen.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. Please share this information with your community. / User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:33, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

Tech News: 2017-16
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can add  to the end of the URL on Wikimedia wikis to disable your personal CSS and JavaScript. Example:  . This means you can test if a problem is because of your user scripts or gadgets without uninstalling them.
 * You can now see a list of all autoblocks on Special:AutoblockList.
 * Octicons-tools.svg The Wikiversity and Wikinews logos are now shown directly from the configuration and not from . If you want to change logo or have an anniversary logo, see how to request a configuration change. This is how it already works for other projects. They can request logo changes the same way.

Problems
 * Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for 20 to 30 minutes on 19 April. This will start at 14:00 (UTC). You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. You can read more about this. This will also happen on 3 May.

Changes this week
 * There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the data centre test.

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * stats.wikimedia.org will be replaced. You can see the new prototype. You can leave feedback on this change.
 * Page Previews will be turned on for logged-out users on a large number of wikis in May. It could be postponed and happen later. Page Previews shows readers a short part of a linked article when they rest their mouse pointer on the link. This is to help them understand what it is about without leaving the article they are reading. Page Previews used to be called Hovercards. Users who have tested the feature can give feedback.
 * Octicons-tools.svg From next week, user scripts using very old deprecated wikibits functions will show errors. These functions have not worked since 2013. You should fix or disable broken scripts. You can see examples of how to upgrade scripts.

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Tech News: 2017-17
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * New filters for recent changes are now available as a beta feature on most wikis. You can turn it on in your preferences. Remaining wikis will have the new filters on 9 May.
 * When administrators, bureaucrats and stewards make a user a member of a user group they can now set an expiry date. A user group is for example "administrators" or "bots". This means that they can give someone user rights for a limited time. This is similar to how blocks and page protections can be limited in time. Special:UserRights will have new options for this. You can read more about user groups.

Problems
 * Since the data centre test last week the content translation tool has been disabled. This is because of a database problem. It will be back as soon as the problem has been solved.

Changes this week
 * The GuidedTour extension will be enabled on all wikis. This is a tool to explain to new users how to edit.
 * Wiktionary will handle interlanguage links in a new way. The Cognate extension will automatically link pages with the same title between Wiktionaries. For this to work all old interlanguage links have to be removed. You can read more about this.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 April. It will be on all wikis from 27 April (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 25 April at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Two languages of Wikinews proposed for closure
Two following Wikinews are proposed for closure: Norwegian and Albanian. I invite you to those. --George Ho (talk) 21:17, 26 April 2017 (UTC)

The strategy discussion. The Cycle 2 will start on May 5
The first cycle of the Wikimedia movement strategy process recently concluded. During that period, we were discussing the main directions for the Wikimedia movement over the next 15 years. There are more than 1500 summary statements collected from the various communities, but unfortunately, none from your local discussion. The strategy facilitators and many volunteers have summarized the discussions of the previous month. A quantitative analysis of the statements will be posted on Meta for translation this week, alongside the report from the Berlin conference.

The second cycle will begin soon. It's set to begin on May 5 and run until May 31. During that period, you will be invited to dive into the main topics that emerged in the first cycle, discuss what they mean, which ones are the most important and why, and what their practical implications are. This work will be informed and complemented by research involving new voices that haven’t traditionally been included in strategy discussions, like readers, partners, and experts. Together, we will begin to make sense of all this information and organize it into a meaningful guiding document, which we will all collectively refine during the third and last cycle in June−July.

We want to help your community to be more engaged with the discussions in the next cycle. Now, we are looking for volunteers who could We are looking forward to your feedback!
 * tell us where to announce the start of the Cycle 2, and how to do that, so we could be sure the majority of your community is informed and has a chance to feel committed, and
 * facilitate the Cycle 2 discussions here, on Wikinews.

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