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@wikinewsie.org
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@gmail.com bawolff%2Bwn@gmail.com> Date: Fri, October 02, 2009 11:26 pm To: Wikinews mailing list wikinews-l@lists.wikimedia.org
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@konsoletek.com 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
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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