I am volunteering my services as a Photographer to the WikiNews outlet. If
anyone needs photographs of any event in Atlanta for an article they are
writing, please contact me at kelvin(a)williamschadwell.com. I'm available
virtually 24/7 with notice.
I would ideally like to find a WikiNews contributor in Atlanta to work with,
as I can take pictures but lack the journalistic ability to write an
article.
Thanks,
Kw
After a few weeks of bug fixes, we've caught up with MediaWiki
development code review and I'm pushing out an update to the live sites.
This fixes a lot of little bugs, and hopefully doesn't cause introduce
too many new ones. :)
* Change logs: http://ur1.ca/2rah (r47458 to r48811)
As usual in addition to lots of offline and individual testing among our
staff and volunteer developers, we've done a shakedown on
http://test.wikipedia.org/ -- and as usual we can fully expect a few
more issues to have cropped up that weren't already found.
Don't be alarmed if you do find a problem; just let us know at
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ or on the tech IRC channels
(#wikimedia-tech on Freenode).
We should be resuming our weekly update schedule soon -- I won't be
doing a mega-crosspost like this every week! -- and will continue to
improve our pre-update staging and shakedown testing to keep disruption
to a minimum and awesome improvements to a maximum.
I'd also like to announce that we've started a blog for Wikimedia tech
activity & MediaWiki development, in part because I want to make sure
community members can easily follow what we're working on and give
feedback before we push things out:
* http://techblog.wikimedia.org/
I'd very much like to make sure that we've got regular contacts among
the various project communities who can help coordinate with us on
features, bugs, and general thoughts which might affect some projects
distinctly from others.
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
CTO, Wikimedia Foundation
San Francisco
Just wanted to spread the message that [[user:Tempodivalse]] is
holding a writing contest. The idea is that you write one article a
day, and the person who lasts the longest without missing a day, wins.
(you are allowed to write two in one day, and then miss one day
though) There is also a contest for reviewers, where you review
articles (requires you to already have permission to review articles
though). For more details see
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Tempodivalse/Writing_contest
Competition starts on march 31, but entry after that is permitted.
---
-bawolff
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We are regularly doing interviews, and I know from some who have done them
the biggest headache is turning an audio recording into a text article.
Please refer to my post on this on the Water Cooler.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler/miscellaneous#CallGraph_fo
r_Skype.2C_and_interview_transcribing
Brian.
