Just wanted to mention that mediawiki seems to have been updated, so
now dpls play nice with google news!
Which is awesome, since now all articles should be listed on google
news without us doing anything, which has been a goal of wikinews
since long before i joined. (lets have a Yipee! for the devs and all
wikinewsies who helped make this happen)
http://news.google.ca/news?q=source:%22wikinews%22&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d
-bawolff
Hi,
Y'all might be interested, I fed the English Wikinews 'latest news'
feed into an identi.ca account: http://identi.ca/enwikinews
(identi.ca is like an open source Twitter, founded by Evan Prodromou,
the guy behind WikiTravel)
cheers
Brianna (pfctdayelise on wikimedia & identi.ca :))
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Due to the problems with having the weekly quiz updated, I thought it
might get updated more often if the quiz had simpler syntax (lower bar
of entry to make a new quiz). Anyways, I made a template that allows
people to use that lovely template syntax we all know and love and are
used to, and hides away the features of <quiz> we don't use.
Basically, you can make a quiz like this:
{{quiz
|Q1=First question
|Q1A=first choice
|Q1B=second choice
...and so on up to E
|Q1ans=A [letter of correct answer]
|Q1rel=See [[some article]] [the text printed beside question after its marked]
...and so on for Q2, Q3, all the way to a maximun of Q60...
}}
I think people are more used to this syntax due to almost everything
else mediawiki uses it, the paramters give hints to what they do (thus
are clearer), and it reduces features we don't use that could confuse
people. Hope this is useful to someone, and any comments are
appreciated.
-bawolff
To Whom It May Concern:
My name is Brian McNeil, I am a bureaucrat and accredited reporter on
Wikipedia's sister project, Wikinews (http://en.wikinews.org
<http://en.wikinews.org/> ). I am investigating allegations that have been
raised on Wikipedia that material has been copied from Wikipedia in your
publication.
The allegations center around the obituary for author James Crumley, the
online version of this is at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3062745/James-Crumley.html. The
current version of the Wikipedia article is located at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Crumley. This has undergone some revision
since Crumley's death, but some word-for-word identical sections remain.
While I wait on those who have made the allegations providing further
information I would greatly appreciate knowing who was responsible for the
Telegraph obituary, and what the paper's stance on such issues is.
While the term plagiarism has been bandied about in the discussion on
Wikipedia, it is more technically accurate - if true - to describe this as
an infringement of the license under which Wikipedia content is provided.
The license is the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL - linked to from the
foot of every Wikipedia page). The terms of this license are relatively
liberal in what reuse is permitted, but there is a "viral" clause to ensure
that those who profit from the material share their works. The upshot of
this would be that and work substantially derived from a GFDL article must
also be made available under such a license.
I look forward to your response on this matter, as I hope you appreciate
this is relatively urgent to maintain the timeliness of the news.
Regards,
Brian McNeil
Wikinews Bureaucrat & Accredited Reporter
Email: Brian.McNeil(a)wikinewsie.org