Around enWikinews - September '09

[Jon Davis-5]

I've been told at one point in time, we had a regularly scheduled newsletter of the important goings on at Wikinews.  I can't find it in the list archives, but no matter.  I figured it was about time to start/resurrect it.  After all, we do important things around here and if you aren't on the Wiki 24/7, you might miss something.  So here are the important highlights from last month:

• September 12th we had a banner day with 20 published articles in one day. [[Category:September 12, 2009]] - http://enwn.net/A029
• The RSS feed has been truncated to a more reasonable number - http://feeds.feedburner.com/WikinewsLatestNews
• We started a page to help Wikipedians better integrated with Wikinews - [[Wikinews:For Wikipedians]] - http://enwn.net/197b
• [[Wikinews:Make Lead]] has been integrated into Easy Peer Review by Bawolff - http://enwn.net/b05f
• Bawolff also gave us not one but two different gadgets that integrate to Wiktionary [[WN:WiktLookup]] - http://enwn.net/F52b
• As of September 16th, we're not being carried on Google News, due to a change in MediaWiki.  Bug #20818 - http://enwn.net/246c
• Some article statistics were made [[User:ShakataGaNai/Statistics Project]] - http://enwn.net/5967
• The [[Main Page]] is getting an overhaul, with the new design to show up in the next 24-48 hours - http://enwn.net/h
• Policy proposed & passed to "Expire" Accredited Reports after 2 years. - http://enwn.net/6972
• All the Water Coolers are now being archived (by month) automatically.
• New Administrators: 1, New Editors: 5

Something important get forgotten? Want to help participate in next months newsletter?  Stop by and leave a note on the respective months entry: [[User:ShakataGaNai/Around_enWikinews]] - http://enwn.net/D132


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[bawolff]

In the interest of fairness, only one of thoose gadgets are mine. The
other one is the original version stolen from the french wikinewsies.
Cheers.
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On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Jon Davis <wiki@...> wrote:

> I've been told at one point in time, we had a regularly scheduled newsletter
> of the important goings on at Wikinews.  I can't find it in the list
> archives, but no matter.  I figured it was about time to start/resurrect
> it.  After all, we do important things around here and if you aren't on the
> Wiki 24/7, you might miss something.  So here are the important highlights
> from last month:
>
> September 12th we had a banner day with 20 published articles in one day.
> [[Category:September 12, 2009]] - http://enwn.net/A029
> The RSS feed has been truncated to a more reasonable number -
> http://feeds.feedburner.com/WikinewsLatestNews
> We started a page to help Wikipedians better integrated with Wikinews -
> [[Wikinews:For Wikipedians]] - http://enwn.net/197b
> [[Wikinews:Make Lead]] has been integrated into Easy Peer Review by Bawolff
> - http://enwn.net/b05f
> Bawolff also gave us not one but two different gadgets that integrate to
> Wiktionary [[WN:WiktLookup]] - http://enwn.net/F52b
> As of September 16th, we're not being carried on Google News, due to a
> change in MediaWiki.  Bug #20818 - http://enwn.net/246c
> Some article statistics were made [[User:ShakataGaNai/Statistics Project]] -
> http://enwn.net/5967
> The [[Main Page]] is getting an overhaul, with the new design to show up in
> the next 24-48 hours - http://enwn.net/h
> Policy proposed & passed to "Expire" Accredited Reports after 2 years. -
> http://enwn.net/6972
> All the Water Coolers are now being archived (by month) automatically.
> New Administrators: 1, New Editors: 5
>
> Something important get forgotten? Want to help participate in next months
> newsletter?  Stop by and leave a note on the respective months entry:
> [[User:ShakataGaNai/Around_enWikinews]] - http://enwn.net/D132
>
>
> --
> Jon
> [[User:ShakataGaNai]]
> http://snowulf.com/ - Blog
> http://snowulf.imagekind.com/ - Pictures
> This has been a test of the emergency sig system.
>
>
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>
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[Brian McNeil-2]

In IRC, shen Shaka mentioned doing a newsletter type update I thought it
would be a good idea to incorporate this into {{Howdy}} - give it an
extra tab for "News" and embed another page or template with stuff like
the below bulleted list.

Adding the extra tab is not a problem, but {{Howdy}} is already
displaying badly in Firefox on Ubuntu. When I looked at it to see about
adding an extra tab it is displayed such that the tabs along the top are
wider than the box containing the currently displayed message. I can't
see an obvious way within the {{Howdy}} template to, say, increase the
template width to 90% of page width.


Brian.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Around enWikinews - September '09
> From: bawolff <bawolff+wn@...>
> Date: Fri, October 02, 2009 11:26 pm
> To: Wikinews mailing list <wikinews-l@...>
>
>
> In the interest of fairness, only one of thoose gadgets are mine. The
> other one is the original version stolen from the french wikinewsies.
> Cheers.
> --
> - Brian
> Caution: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85
> million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Jon Davis <wiki@...> wrote:
> > I've been told at one point in time, we had a regularly scheduled newsletter
> > of the important goings on at Wikinews.  I can't find it in the list
> > archives, but no matter.  I figured it was about time to start/resurrect
> > it.  After all, we do important things around here and if you aren't on the
> > Wiki 24/7, you might miss something.  So here are the important highlights
> > from last month:
> >
> > September 12th we had a banner day with 20 published articles in one day.
> > [[Category:September 12, 2009]] - http://enwn.net/A029
> > The RSS feed has been truncated to a more reasonable number -
> > http://feeds.feedburner.com/WikinewsLatestNews
> > We started a page to help Wikipedians better integrated with Wikinews -
> > [[Wikinews:For Wikipedians]] - http://enwn.net/197b
> > [[Wikinews:Make Lead]] has been integrated into Easy Peer Review by Bawolff
> > - http://enwn.net/b05f
> > Bawolff also gave us not one but two different gadgets that integrate to
> > Wiktionary [[WN:WiktLookup]] - http://enwn.net/F52b
> > As of September 16th, we're not being carried on Google News, due to a
> > change in MediaWiki.  Bug #20818 - http://enwn.net/246c
> > Some article statistics were made [[User:ShakataGaNai/Statistics Project]] -
> > http://enwn.net/5967
> > The [[Main Page]] is getting an overhaul, with the new design to show up in
> > the next 24-48 hours - http://enwn.net/h
> > Policy proposed & passed to "Expire" Accredited Reports after 2 years. -
> > http://enwn.net/6972
> > All the Water Coolers are now being archived (by month) automatically.
> > New Administrators: 1, New Editors: 5
> >
> > Something important get forgotten? Want to help participate in next months
> > newsletter?  Stop by and leave a note on the respective months entry:
> > [[User:ShakataGaNai/Around_enWikinews]] - http://enwn.net/D132
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jon
> > [[User:ShakataGaNai]]
> > http://snowulf.com/ - Blog
> > http://snowulf.imagekind.com/ - Pictures
> > This has been a test of the emergency sig system.
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Wikinews-l mailing list
> > Wikinews-l@...
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
> >
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
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> Wikinews-l@...
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[Tristan Thomas-4]

This is a good idea, but I was thinking it would be much better if we could have a blog that all accredited users could post to.  I know we used to have one that I saw linked from Wikinewsie, but it would be much better if it was on Wikinews itself, similar to the Wikimedia and WIkimedia UK one.  This could incorporate technical, visual or news updates from anyone who wanted to do one.

Thoughts?

2009/10/3 <brian.mcneil@...>

In IRC, shen Shaka mentioned doing a newsletter type update I thought it
would be a good idea to incorporate this into {{Howdy}} - give it an
extra tab for "News" and embed another page or template with stuff like
the below bulleted list.

Adding the extra tab is not a problem, but {{Howdy}} is already
displaying badly in Firefox on Ubuntu. When I looked at it to see about
adding an extra tab it is displayed such that the tabs along the top are
wider than the box containing the currently displayed message. I can't
see an obvious way within the {{Howdy}} template to, say, increase the
template width to 90% of page width.


Brian.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Around enWikinews - September '09
> From: bawolff <bawolff%2Bwn@...>
> Date: Fri, October 02, 2009 11:26 pm
> To: Wikinews mailing list <wikinews-l@...>
>
>
> In the interest of fairness, only one of thoose gadgets are mine. The
> other one is the original version stolen from the french wikinewsies.
> Cheers.
> --
> - Brian
> Caution: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85
> million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Jon Davis <wiki@...> wrote:
> > I've been told at one point in time, we had a regularly scheduled newsletter
> > of the important goings on at Wikinews.  I can't find it in the list
> > archives, but no matter.  I figured it was about time to start/resurrect
> > it.  After all, we do important things around here and if you aren't on the
> > Wiki 24/7, you might miss something.  So here are the important highlights
> > from last month:
> >
> > September 12th we had a banner day with 20 published articles in one day.
> > [[Category:September 12, 2009]] - http://enwn.net/A029
> > The RSS feed has been truncated to a more reasonable number -
> > http://feeds.feedburner.com/WikinewsLatestNews
> > We started a page to help Wikipedians better integrated with Wikinews -
> > [[Wikinews:For Wikipedians]] - http://enwn.net/197b
> > [[Wikinews:Make Lead]] has been integrated into Easy Peer Review by Bawolff
> > - http://enwn.net/b05f
> > Bawolff also gave us not one but two different gadgets that integrate to
> > Wiktionary [[WN:WiktLookup]] - http://enwn.net/F52b
> > As of September 16th, we're not being carried on Google News, due to a
> > change in MediaWiki.  Bug #20818 - http://enwn.net/246c
> > Some article statistics were made [[User:ShakataGaNai/Statistics Project]] -
> > http://enwn.net/5967
> > The [[Main Page]] is getting an overhaul, with the new design to show up in
> > the next 24-48 hours - http://enwn.net/h
> > Policy proposed & passed to "Expire" Accredited Reports after 2 years. -
> > http://enwn.net/6972
> > All the Water Coolers are now being archived (by month) automatically.
> > New Administrators: 1, New Editors: 5
> >
> > Something important get forgotten? Want to help participate in next months
> > newsletter?  Stop by and leave a note on the respective months entry:
> > [[User:ShakataGaNai/Around_enWikinews]] - http://enwn.net/D132
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jon
> > [[User:ShakataGaNai]]
> > http://snowulf.com/ - Blog
> > http://snowulf.imagekind.com/ - Pictures
> > This has been a test of the emergency sig system.
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Wikinews-l mailing list
> > Wikinews-l@...
> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikinews-l
> >
> >
>
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[Casey Brown-5]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Jon Davis <wiki@...> wrote:
> I've been told at one point in time, we had a regularly scheduled newsletter
> of the important goings on at Wikinews.  I can't find it in the list
> archives, but no matter.

I just saw <http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Wikinews_Bulletin>
mentioned on <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internal_news_media>, is
that what you were talking about?

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