Gryllida

Accredited reporter Reporter: Svetlana (Gryllida) Location: Australia Email: Email via Wikinews | svetlana_tkachenko@wn-reporters.org Tel/Voicemail: TBC Other contact methods: gry at live chat

Disclaimer: Accredited Wikinews reporters do not represent the Wikimedia Foundation; they are trusted contributors whom the Wikinews community has certified for the purposes of gathering information related to Wikinews articles.

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How you can help me:

• Category:EventGryllidaTest my tracker of event dates among articles submitted for review. tag all drafts with this.

• Wikinews:Education-Gryllida my draft training material for new users. you are welcome to write it. it is about 15% complete.

• add your name to {{pingrr}}

• check Wikinews:Watching pages

• scroll down and join all social media, send me a message and i can add you to an unofficial Wikinews chat there if it exists. if it gets over 6 users i will post a link here.

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my various pages and utilities:

• User:Gryllida/Newsroom

• i MassMessage from time to time to alert of new articles

• awaiting page assessment extension install

• awaiting newsletter notification extension install

• working on integrating draft writer into wiki lie refill

my To-do list:

• create account(s) at wnr (pending at least 1 request in my email inbox) Postponed pending a reply by email.
• maximum attachment size for wnr [increased to 200,000,000 bytes] Feb-12
• possibility to forward emails in wnr Feb-12
• how to forward emails on webmail backend
• reviewing (capacity permitting)
• programming notifications delivery via mass message (capacity permitting)
• request at MediaWiki talk:Common.css
• figure out audio Wikinews via podcast? Weekly?
• add User:Asked42/LeadManager as gadget

my status update May 2025:

• I'm working on clearing several backlogs related to sysop and reviewing.
• As a result of lack of sysops available for a year before I returned, the backlog includes items that I am not fully familiar with. Explanations may be required from you to get me to resolve outstanding issues.
• To get my attention to an urgent matter, please leave me a message at my talk page with a precise description of what needs to be done and by when, and where it was discussed on-wiki previously.
• If the above does not succeed, please check my instant messaging contact information at the bottom of this page.

Thank you.

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Everything else:

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IRC This user uses IRC as gry.

Discord This user uses Discord as grylli.

Telegram This user uses Telegram as SvetaT23.

Matrix This user uses Matrix as Svetlana:matrix.org.

Hello! :-)

Currently I'm focusing on reviewing in the Australia, Oceania, Asia regions and in the topics of science, technology, and weather. If you have a story in one of these areas, get in touch now.

I like proposing new ideas even if they were not previously thoroughly tested, and developing software.

Writing

I have authored over 50 articles (including original reporting), and also I volunteer with copyediting and peer review.

Software development

Here are several software projects that I have developed or helped to test for Wikinews:

• The 'welcome a bit' programme to deliver you notifications of new drafts in your favourite topics
• Interactive news writing experiment (lbot), on live chat.
• My notes about original reporting: here and there. It is mostly about how to write an interview request by e-mail.
• Article writing app User:Gryllida/article-writing-v2-1 copy/paste to an .html file and open it in Firefox.
• In my local area there is a "Take three for the sea" principle referring to picking up three pieces of litter every time visiting a beach to reduce waste that enters the ocean. I try to use a similar approach for articles in Wikinews: leave feedback for at least one article (preferably around three) per day, and delete anandoned pages every day to clean up backlog. I try doing a review whenever possible. This is my goal. I also try to copyedit one story a week in detail to get it published -- by another reviewer -- if possible.

I also have other less documented pieces in my user space, including scripts and news article creation wizards; all sub-pages can be found here: Special:PrefixIndex/User:Gryllida.

Note to self [1]

Note to self, android

• rss feed reader for Android and rss feed for recent changes

Nick origin

The nick 'Gryllida' stands for true cricket, a family of insects, which is related to bush crickets, and, more distantly, to grasshoppers. They make nice chirping sounds after the sunset. I use this name as my nick because of my positive attitude towards these insects and their sound.

Instant messaging and other contacts

I'm also available on online messaging platforms:

• IRC - 'gry' at libera and several other IRC networks
• xmpp - gry@lecturify.net
• tox - TBC
• jami - TBC
• telegram - SvetaT23
• whatsapp (would prefer not to) - can provide on request
• matrix - @Svetlana:matrix.org
• Mastodon - gry@masthead.social (didn't login in ages, also rather useless as it is not in real time)
• twitter - satsixteen (mainly used to get hold of image relicensing permissions for photo essays)
• sip: gryllida23@sip.linphone.org