<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>If I can get the technical bugs sorted out at my end, I am willing to stand in the wings. Would you also like me to liaise with fr-Wikinews as I know a couple of people there, and of course, French is one of my mother tongues as an added bonus?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov</div><div>User AlexandrDmitri on all Wikimedia Foundation projects</div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: 8pt;">This message and any attachments (the "message") are intended solely for the addressees and is confidential. If you have received this message by mistake, please delete it and immediately inform me by replying to this email address. Any use not in accord with its purpose, any dissemination or disclosure, either whole or partial, is prohibited except after formal approval. The internet can not guarantee the integrity of this message. I can not therefore be held liable for the message if it is modified.<br><br>Ce message et toutes les pièces-jointes (ci-après le « message » ou « courrier email ») sont établis a l'intention exclusive de ses destinataires et sont confidentiels. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci de le détruire et de m'en avertir immédiatement en répondant à cette adresse email. Toute utilisation de ce message non conforme à sa destination, toute diffusion ou toute publication, totale ou partielle, est interdite, sauf autorisation expresse. L'internet ne permettant pas d'assurer l'intégrité de ce message, je décline toute responsabilité au titre de ce message, dans l'hypothèse où il aurait été modifié.</span></div><div><br><br></div>
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Subject: Re: [Wikinews-l] Wikinews on the night before the night before<br>
Christmas<br>
From: Jon Davis <wiki@konsoletek.com><br>
Date: Mon, December 07, 2009 8:57 pm<br>
To: Wikinews mailing list <wikinews-l@lists.wikimedia.org><br>
Cc: scoop <scoop@wikinewsie.org>, "Mike Peel (WMUK)"<br>
<email@mikepeel.net>, Jimmy Wales <jwales@wikia-inc.com><br>
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Hey! I get my 1% off the top no matter what, that was part of the cabal deal when I got 'crat'd. <br><br>That being said, I've not been paying attention, but I presume we're expecting a (hopefully) decently fair usage jump for this? A few thoughts:<br> <br>* Tempo will need to work overtime as greeting bot. Unless someone of importance can harass the devs. We've got a bug filled requesting Extension:NewUserMessage ( <a target="_blank" href="https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20508">https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20508</a> ), but it has been languishing for 3 months now.<br> * We really should be extra nice. This means no banning w/o warning (Yes, I'm talking to myself too)<br>* Most importantly: If anyone rejects a review (or speedy kicks back something in {{review}}) for the next few days after, seek out the article writer and alert them on their talk page that it was done so. Not everyone pays attention to the articles they wrote.<br> * Make sure to include information sources when dealing with people who don't get our "system". That starts with the obvious, like [[WN:SG]] ( <a target="_blank" href="http://enwn.net/9Adc5">http://enwn.net/9Adc5</a> ) and [[Wikinews:Writing an article]] ( <a target="_blank" href="http://enwn.net/78B55">http://enwn.net/78B55</a> ) but also includes pages like [[Wikinews:For Wikipedians]] ( <a target="_blank" href="http://enwn.net/197b">http://enwn.net/197b</a> ). <br> * We really should set a site notice to dedicate a page (or at least a topic on The Cooler), providing an advance warning for everything. There are a few slackers out there who we haven't whipped into shape and got them signed up for Wikinews-l yet.<br> <br>-Jon<br>-- <br>[[User:ShakataGaNai]]<br><a target="_blank" href="http://snowulf.com/">http://snowulf.com/</a> - Blog<br><a target="_blank" href="http://snowulf.imagekind.com/">http://snowulf.imagekind.com/</a> - Pictures<br>This has been a test of the emergency sig system. <br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 12:03, Brian McNeil <span dir="ltr"><<a target="_blank" href="mailto:brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org">brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Wikinews WikiParty!<br> [No! This does not mean I wear my kilt Cary.]<br> <br> This will be the first time ever that Jimmy Wales has done WikiVoices<br> (previously: Not the Wikipedia Weekly), *and* it's on Wikinews.<br> <br> George Watson (Dendodge) has said he should be able to do this too.<br> Just in case not, I'd welcome a standby or two; you *need* Skype, and a<br> headset or other good microphone. Considering French Wikinews is working<br> towards getting listed in GNews, it would be really nice to have someone<br> from there in - even if not for the full session. That's in addition to<br> Dendodge. One of Wikinews' strengths is the international nature; moving<br> to two of the top Western languages being in GNews is good news.<br> <br> An as-yet unconfirmed attendee is Rory Cellan-Jones, one of the<br> semi-geeky, and semi-independent, journalists that works with/for the<br> BBC. So, yes, I have high hopes of this getting Wikinews some publicity.<br> <br> Set diverse alarms for making sure you're in IRC, tracking recent<br> changes, and anything else like that during the recording and few hours<br> after. I'll try and get Durova to give fair warning of the actual<br> Skypecast going up on Wikipedia - there will likely be another spike<br> then.<br> <br> Regrettably, ShakataGaNai will have to earn his 1% when this is<br> happening; I considered a Prozac prescription. But, he'd just smile more<br> while blowing people off the Internet for trolling and POV-pushing.<br> <br> And if you do have Skype, there will be a text chat session too,<br> everyone writing on Wikinews who can be involved in that, should.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> -------- Forwarded Message --------<br> > From: Jimmy Wales<br> > To: Brian McNeil <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org">brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org</a>><br> > Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:34:25 -0800<br> ><br> > On my calendar!<br> <br> > Brian McNeil wrote:<br> > > On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 17:32 -0800, Jimmy Wales wrote:<br> > >> What exact date/time?<br> > >><br> > >> Brian McNeil wrote:<br> > ><br> > >>> I've put up a date/time marked as provisional...<br> > >>><br> > >>> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikivoices#Episode_51" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikivoices#Episode_51</a><br> > >>><br> > >>> Kinda had to do this when I've perhaps landed Rory Cellan-Jones from the<br> > >>> BBC as a participant.<br> > ><br> > > Time (provisional): Wednesday December 23, 2009 (1200 PST 2000 UTC)<br> > ><br> > > That's 3pm in Florida - I think.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> <br> --<br> Brian McNeil <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org">brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org</a>>|<a href="http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil" target="_blank">http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Brian_McNeil</a><br> Content of this message in no way represents the opinions or official position<br> of the Wikimedia Foundation or any of its projects.<br> * Problems replying? 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