Wikinews Reports - Highlights of actions, events, and excitement on
enWikinews for October 2009. I (SGN) managed to put together a fair amount
of news, but I'm always looking for contributions from others. If you want
to throw something in for next month (It can be anything Wikinews related),
please stop by [[Wikinews:Reports]] (
http://enwn.net/Db3E ) and leave a
note, or update the respective subpage.
* October 9th @ 2300UTC - The new [[Main Page]] layout went live. The major
changes include: introduction of a 5th lead, lead #1 becoming larger and
more prominent, a clean 3 column layout.
http://enwn.net/h Discussion:
http://enwn.net/eD5E
* October 14th - {{tl|Popular articles}} fritzed out and hasn't returned.
It's place on the main page has been replaced with alternate content.
http://enwn.net/7695
* October 20th - [[User:Millosh]] brought his [[w:VOA]] bot
([[User:Millbot-VoA]]) over from the Serbian Wikinews. After some testing
and discussion, has gone live importing articles. Discussion:
http://enwn.net/F1BC
* October 20th - Vector skin became the default skin for Wikinews -
Discussion:
http://enwn.net/06aE Site notice:
http://enwn.net/D2E8
* October 30th - The enhanced (edit) toolbar went live. We got a little
press too!
http://enwn.net/8381
* October 30th - "Around enWikinews" got renamed and found a new (more
permanent) home at [[Wikinews:Reports]]
http://enwn.net/Db3E
* [[User:Brian McNeil]] is working to give a direly needed overhaul to the
Newsroom. Demo [[User:Brian McNeil/Newsroom]]
http://enwn.net/76aa
* [[User:Amgine]] is writing the "Google News Site Map" extension in order
to facilitate Wikinews getting back onto Google news.
* The mailing list was mostly quiet with the exception of a thread about
what do with
Wikinewsie.org http://enwn.net/03fe
* By popular complaint,
enwn.net now supports a "preview" mode by appending
a dash to the end of the URL. Example:
http://enwn.net/h-
*
Enwn.net has been renamed to WMF4.me . The new more generic name is
supposed to cater to the entire WMF audience, not just us. Don't worry
though,
enwn.net will continue to work. Homepage:
http://wmf4.me/ Identica:
http://identi.ca/wmf4me Twitter:
http://twitter.com/wmf4me
* Bawolff's #wiktLookUp is working, and live on at least 6 WMF wikis and an
unknown number of blogs. More information on the blog plugin:
http://trunc.me/c943
* New Administrators: 1, New Editors: 3
Also something very, very, very important. '''On November 8th, Wikinews
turns 5 years old!!''' To celebrate, there will be cake! But only for those
that help contribute to [[Wikinews:Story preparation/Wikinews turns 5]] (
http://enwn.net/a1a2 ). It is a work in progress, and there is only 8 days
remaining! Let's make this one heck of an article! (The abuse of the
exclamation mark will continue until the article is done).
--
Jon
[[User:ShakataGaNai]]
http://snowulf.com/ - Blog
http://snowulf.imagekind.com/ - Pictures
This has been a test of the emergency sig system.