HenkvD

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Category pages

We basically try to hide our category lists on Wikinews as they're useless - news does not list itself A-Z! So instead we use our topic/region pages, which use m:DynamicPageLists to list articles by time. Dan100 (Talk) 09:49, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

Just remember - this is a news service, not an encyclopedia :-). We do many things differently to Wikipedia here. Dan100 (Talk) 09:59, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

Portals

Hi there, you will see there has been a lot of discussion about categories/portals on the Watercooler Technical section. It would be really good if you could contribute to that so it can move forward! 194.74.169.134 10:06, 22 August 2005 (UTC) Sorry, that was me ClareWhite 10:19, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

On the front page when you click all reigons countries and topics, and the regoins/countries come up, I want to make Iran a portal....How do I do that? DragonFire1024 is Jason Safoutin 17:18, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Halloooo

Dag Henk,

welkom op WikiNews. Moest je vragen hebben kan je altijd bij mij terecht, in je eigen taal :-D

groetjes uit België,

--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 00:10, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Interview to be translated

You can translate any interview you wish, but the one I need translators for most urgently is the one we will be publishing on Monday. Since it's such a large interview, I'm moving pieces over right now so people can start now and go at their own pace instead of having to do a HUGE block on Monday. The link is Wikinews:Story preparation/Past Eurovision contestants give advice to this year's performers, speculate on who will win. So anyone who is interested can start a draft now. I'll leave a notice to that effect on the water cooler. Mike Halterman (talk) 13:46, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

Interwikis to pages like Wikinews:2009/May/2

Hi, your bot added interwikis to pages like Wikinews:2009/May/2. These interwikis for all days are shown on Wikinews:2009/May. See on Wikinews:2009/May/1 where you inserted interwikis noinclude tag correctly. HenkvD (talk) 09:45, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, fixed now with onlyinclude tag. I apologize.--Bertrand GRONDIN (talk) 23:16, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

I did some edit with my bot that I oversighted myself. I fixed the bot, with including <onlyinclude> tag. This made some edits that are immediately corrected by myself. Don't worry, these one are sighted and all mistakes are now corrected. Sorry for all desagrements. --Bertrand GRONDIN (talk) 23:47, 6 June 2009 (UTC)