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Welcome

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Flrn, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these!

Wikinews:Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
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Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews:

Wikinews:Introduction - overview of the site
Wikinews:Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
Wikinews:Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
Wikinews:Style guide - how articles should look before publishing
Wikinews:Contents - the contents page.

There are always things to do on Wikinews:

Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
The front page lead articles often need updating
Developing stories need finishing and publishing
Discussions need your input
Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
And of course, stories need writing!

By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes (~~~~), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --Brian McNeil / ^talk 08:07, 10 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

Wikinews Bulletin

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Here is the latest Wikinews bulletin. Enjoy!

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Issue X - May 17, 2008

Administrators and Accredidations

Since our last edition, Cirt (talk · contribs) has been given the mop and bucket, and Ryan524 (talk · contribs) (now retired) asked for adminship.
No one has became an accredited reporter on Wikinews. There are no requests you can currently vote or comment on, although there are lots of De-adminship Requests.

Featured Articles and News In Pictures

No articles were promoted recently. Several candidates are waiting for your vote, including two exclusive interviews.
Several images were featured on the main pages, which you can check out in the News In Picture archive.
Several images have been featured on the Main Page .The latest of which is available below. -


[edit]	Credit: Jon Davis
Strega crossing the finish line to win the Gold Unlimited class at the Reno Air Races 2009

Original reporting

Since our last edition, many articles have claimed original reporting. Here are the most recent:

4 September 2024: England: Staffordshire town celebrates LGBTQ+ pride despite funding issues
28 June 2024: On the campaign trail in the USA, May 2024
4 June 2024: Severe weather affects portions of Texas
4 June 2024: The Ancient Pyramids of the World, a new photo exhibition by Viktor Pinchuk took place in Crimea
29 May 2024: Exhibition featuring ethnic music from around the world opens in Crimea
27 May 2024: Wikinews interviews Tatton Spiller, founder of political news service Simple Politics
27 May 2024: Russian photographer Viktor Pinchuk presents exhibition The Architectural Art of the Vanished Civilizations of Mesoamerica
20 May 2024: Citizen journalist, Viktor Pinchuk — gives travel presentation in Sevastapol
26 April 2024: Wikinews interviews noted juggler for International Jugglers Day
25 April 2024: Industry leaders see energy supply as the next hurdle for AI

Several others wrote stories based on television sources. The Wikinews Reports blog activity was mostly related to some of these stories. You can ask any of the blog authors if you want to help out on the blog.

Editor's note

In the last few months activity on Wikinews has continued to decrease to an incredibly low level. There are hardly any new contributers joining and one of our best users, DragonFire1024 (talk · contribs) has gone on Wikibreak. However, some excellent articles are continuing to be written. Anonymous101 :) 12:09, 17 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Site activity

Brian proposes a new contest, and challenges everyone to get involved, donate something, or join!
Try testing CSpurrier's new feed thingy. this may become the main wikinews feed at some point.
Zach's new tool: Per category rss feed. Do a hard refresh, goto a category and click on the rss icon in your browser.
New skin - Modern Settable in special:preferences,
Wikimania call for participation
We are now being syndicated by Wikipedia. RichardF convinced Misza13 to make Wikinews Importer Bot, which allows various wikiportals and articles to display headlines from Wikinews. (For example: w:Portal:Television, w:Film#External links)
Recent RfAs: Ryan524 (twice) and Adambro (talk · contribs) (user did not accept nomination)
Accreditation requests: none

IRC activity

Some of the IRC topics include Wikimedia Radio. ... (add more here if you know more...)

Wikimedia News

Candidate submissions for the 2008 Board Elections begin.
Flagged revisions is now running on the German Wikipedia.
There has been a large discusison on WN:RADIO
There is a petition against the recent board restructure announcement.

About the Wikinews Bulletin

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Anonymous101 :) 12:31, 17 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

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