Malfidus

Welcome

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

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Your News Cast

Your first news breif was fantastic! Wonderful! Great articulation, pacing, and tone. Keep up the good work. --Munchkinguy 02:53, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

I agree it sounded great! --Cspurrier 03:04, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

• Another congrats from me as well! Where is that music that you have? It sounds better than the WN jingle we have now. --Mrmiscellanious 16:13, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback - I thought the project needed a British representative :)

For the music, I used Winamp with crossfade and manual playlist advance (so I could loop the background music). I uploaded the music files I made to Commons in case anyone else wants to use them. They may be a bit confusing to use though :\

• I started the broadcast with Media:Malfidus_news_start.ogg - it's quite short and leads into the next audio file...
• which is Media:Malfidus_news_loop.ogg - it can be talked over, and can be looped if you need to talk longer than 20 seconds or so.
• The main theme is Media:Malfidus_news_theme.ogg.

Sorry I didn't use the official WN jingle - I didn't know there was one. Bye --Malfidus 20:11, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

There isn't really an official Wikinews anything :) Anyway, I think your jingle is much, much better. I suggest we all use it. The original one sounds a bit cheesy and not really news-like.

Hello!

Hello!! and thanks for getting involved with WikiNews audio. Did you create those sound samples yourself? --RossKoepke 20:28, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi! Yeah, I used Sibelius to create the sound samples. They were originally intended to be used for a project similar to this, but that project went defunct before they were ever used.
And thanks for the warm welcome everyone :) --Malfidus 20:41, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Future talk 2

Hello, I would like to invite you to attend our second future talk, it will be held on Monday, August 1 at 21:00 UTC. It will be held on the Wikinews IRC channel #wikinews For more information please see the page on meta The main topics will be audio Wikinews, WNN and portals/neighborhoods It would be great if you will be able to attend. --Cspurrier 15:42, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

WN remix jingle

Hello! I saw that you used a remix of the original Wikinews jingle in one of your AW Full Reports. Did you create this yourself, and could you put up a link to it like you did with the other jingle? I'd be interested in having it for my own recordings. Cheers, --Cllewr 17:46, 14 August 2005 (UTC)