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&#39;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]] ( <a href="http://enwn.net/Db3E">http://enwn.net/Db3E</a> ) and leave a note, or update the respective subpage.  <br>
<br>* 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.  <a href="http://enwn.net/h">http://enwn.net/h</a> Discussion: <a href="http://enwn.net/eD5E">http://enwn.net/eD5E</a><br>
* October 14th - {{tl|Popular articles}} fritzed out and hasn&#39;t returned.  It&#39;s place on the main page has been replaced with alternate content.  <a href="http://enwn.net/7695">http://enwn.net/7695</a><br>* 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: <a href="http://enwn.net/F1BC">http://enwn.net/F1BC</a><br>
* October 20th - Vector skin became the default skin for Wikinews - Discussion: <a href="http://enwn.net/06aE">http://enwn.net/06aE</a> Site notice: <a href="http://enwn.net/D2E8">http://enwn.net/D2E8</a><br>* October 30th - The enhanced (edit) toolbar went live.  We got a little press too! <a href="http://enwn.net/8381">http://enwn.net/8381</a><br>
* October 30th - &quot;Around enWikinews&quot; got renamed and found a new (more permanent) home at [[Wikinews:Reports]] <a href="http://enwn.net/Db3E">http://enwn.net/Db3E</a><br>* [[User:Brian McNeil]] is working to give a direly needed overhaul to the Newsroom.  Demo [[User:Brian McNeil/Newsroom]] <a href="http://enwn.net/76aa">http://enwn.net/76aa</a><br>
* [[User:Amgine]] is writing the &quot;Google News Site Map&quot; extension in order to facilitate Wikinews getting back onto Google news.<br>* The mailing list was mostly quiet with the exception of a thread about what do with Wikinewsie.org <a href="http://enwn.net/03fe">http://enwn.net/03fe</a><br>
* By popular complaint, <a href="http://enwn.net">enwn.net</a> now supports a &quot;preview&quot; mode by appending a dash to the end of the URL.  Example: <a href="http://enwn.net/h-">http://enwn.net/h-</a><br>* 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&#39;t worry though, <a href="http://enwn.net">enwn.net</a> will continue to work.  Homepage: <a href="http://wmf4.me/">http://wmf4.me/</a> Identica: <a href="http://identi.ca/wmf4me">http://identi.ca/wmf4me</a> Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/wmf4me">http://twitter.com/wmf4me</a><br>
* Bawolff&#39;s #wiktLookUp is working, and live on at least 6 WMF wikis and an unknown number of blogs. More information on the blog plugin: <a href="http://trunc.me/c943">http://trunc.me/c943</a><br>* New Administrators: 1, New Editors: 3<br>
<br>Also something very, very, very important. &#39;&#39;&#39;On November 8th, Wikinews turns 5 years old!!&#39;&#39;&#39;  To celebrate, there will be cake! But only for those that help contribute to [[Wikinews:Story preparation/Wikinews turns 5]] ( <a href="http://enwn.net/a1a2">http://enwn.net/a1a2</a> ).  It is a work in progress, and there is only 8 days remaining!  Let&#39;s make this one heck of an article!  (The abuse of the exclamation mark will continue until the article is done).<br>
<br>-- <br>Jon<br>[[User:ShakataGaNai]]<br><a href="http://snowulf.com/">http://snowulf.com/</a> - Blog<br><a href="http://snowulf.imagekind.com/">http://snowulf.imagekind.com/</a> - Pictures<br>This has been a test of the emergency sig system.  <br>
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