[Wikinews-l] Around enWikinews - September '09

[bawolff]

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 at 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
> - http://enwn.net/b05f
> 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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