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Recent noise about Disability swimming

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Hi Laura In view of the discussion about the Disability swimming page, I'd like to fly an idea past you. If [[Disability swimming was to be a brief article (inspired by your post at the aforementioned discussion) instead of a deceptive redirect it would solve the problem. Take a look at a concept text I've quickly scribbled at User:Dodger67/Sandbox#An idea for the Disability swimming page. We could probably do a similar "disambiguation" for other redirects that have the same problem. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 12:39, 28 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

ID swimming is a Paralympic sport, so physical disabilities as a qualifer alone does not work. (And ID can mean Special Olympics or Paralympics. Different purposes and accrediting bodies.) The problem is things get... really confusing. I talked to some one in Spain's Paralympic movement and Spanish Paralympic sport calls all disability sport Paralympic. In Australia though, it is not called that at all. My model would be more para-alpine skiing compared to Alpine Skiing at the Winter Paralympics. Focus on the particular strokes, who governs which disability types, rules for swimming (and for what disability). I had some massive issues with strange renames. Focus on equipment rules. Focus on history. (Not all high level disability swimming was always at the Paralympic games.)
Wheelchair racquetball classification is one where people moved it to wheelchair without bothering to learn about the sport. Once researched and written more comprehensively... (It is one of those articles where if it was renamed, I would happily nominate it for GA if some one would finish taking it over the line.) This is pretty much the same case with this rename. --LauraHale (talk) 12:50, 28 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
My basic idea is just to get some/any suitable content into Disability swimming so that (1) it is no longer a redirect to Paralympic swimming and consequently (2) readers stop thinking the two terms are synonymous. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:46, 28 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The easiest information is probably to include information on the different strokes. That information is pretty basic and not suitable to an article on the Paralympics per say. --LauraHale (talk) 15:23, 28 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
this might be one place to start. I had forgotten about transplant sport, or rather, disability classes for people who have had transplants. It also references deaf sport. --LauraHale (talk) 15:25, 28 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
this might be another good page to focus on in terms of swimming strokes and how it applies to disability swimming. --LauraHale (talk) 15:32, 28 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the pointers, I'll try to knock something together over the weekend. If you have a few free moments please feel free to edit User:Dodger67/Sandbox/Disability swimming. -- Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 15:50, 28 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Might try. My Paralympic books are all being shipped so my available sources are :( :( :( --LauraHale (talk) 15:52, 28 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Your GA nomination of B3 (classification)

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Signpost op-ed invitation on ar.wikinews

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Hi Laura, thank you for your post at ar.wikinews. It is not clear for me as to what I need to write about, where to submit it and the tentative deadline. Would you please reply on my Wikinews talk page. My signature links to it. PICAWN (talk), 10:22, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of B3 (classification)

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The article B3 (classification) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:B3 (classification) for comments about the article. Well done! The Rambling Man (talk) 16:43, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Action needed on DYK nominations of your articles

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Laura, Thine Antique Pen nominated a couple of your articles earlier this month, and issues were identified with them. They are:

Unfortunately, it's been over eleven days since the issues were identified, and nothing has yet been done to address them. If something isn't done soon, the nominations are likely to be closed as unsuccessful. You may wish to address them yourself. Absent some action in the next day or two, I expect them to close. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:25, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Proposal to start a women's basketball task force

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I'm very interested in improving coverage of women's basketball. I thought briefly about forming a Wikiproject, but while researching, realized that a task force would be ideal. There are two major advantages of a task force over a Wikiproject. First is that the task force can leave some of the bureaucracy to the parent Wikiproject. Second, and possibly more important, is that a task force can have more than one parent Wikiproject. While WikiProject Basketball is an obvious parent, so is WikiProject Women's sport, and the task force may be able to draw from both.

According to this process for starting a task force, the first thing to do is gather consensus, so I am sending this to some editors who have been active in editing relevant articles. If there is sufficient interest, I'll take a first stab at filling out the task force template and creating a draft task force page.

At this point, all I need is an answer to two questions:

  1. I would (or would not) be interested in being part of a task force to improve the coverage of women's basketball
  2. I think a different approach would be better (followed by alternative).--SPhilbrick(Talk) 11:55, 26 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia:WikiProject Basketball/Women's basketball has been created. I haven't yet added it to the Wikiproject pages, but will do that, however, I wanted to let you know it exists, and has some suggested tasks.SPhilbrick(Talk) 19:22, 10 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Open call for Individual Engagement Grant proposals

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The Wikimedia Foundation and the Individual Engagement Grants Committee invite you to submit proposals for grants of up to $30,000 to support 6-month projects that improve the Wikimedia community. These grants fund individuals or small teams to organize, build, create, research or facilitate something that enhances the work of Wikimedia’s volunteers.

The deadline to submit proposals in this round is 30 September 2013. You can also get involved by joining the IEG Committee to help select proposals, or by collaborating on ideas for new projects in the IdeaLab. Hope to see you there! Netha (talk) 21:25, 1 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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A barnstar for you!

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The Resilient Barnstar
Hi Laura, I haven't read your analysis in detail yet but if it is as objective and thorough as your first study then thank you. I was going to give you a barnstar of good humour for the Gibraltar-esque articles you wrote. So this barnstar is for a number of reasons and it should maybe be a bunch of barnstars but they are not daffodils.. I'm particularly pleased to see that we have active volunteers and 1000 new articles in a year covering three countries. Its not a bad total. Respect and best wishes. Victuallers (talk) 10:33, 3 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Research

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Are you familiar with the overall pageview cyclicality. There was an article on it in WP:POST, IIRC. It showed which times of day and which days of the week had had higher page veiwerships. It did not analyze time of year.

I am not sure how you divided up the DYKs. I was thinking that a sort based on categories or talk page project tags might be a useful thing to consider.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/WP:FOUR/WP:CHICAGO/WP:WAWARD) 17:09, 3 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikinewsie Group Newsletter - Edition 2, August 5, 2013

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Aff-Comm application status updates
Education and GLAM
Technical updates
  • Pi zero has moved to a new phase in the development of an improved reviewing tool for English Wikinews.
  • Gryllida is working on the development of a tool to make translating material from one project to another easier. The new beta wmtrans translation tool here, which you can use to translate Wikipedia and Wikinews articles from one language to another. Its difference from the Meta translation tools is include the the ability to translate an article as a whole, per-paragraph, and add new paragraphs if desired; a dictionary box for you to look up geographical names without loading entire Wikipedia pages; and whole-page translation philosophy instead of translating by parts. The tool also features a multilingual interface; you can add new sections to data.ini to add your own. You are encouraged to send them, and bug reports, to Gryllida.
  • Discussions have been going on behind the scenes about the potential for The Wikinewsie Group to support the technical aspects for Wikinews project development following suggestions on Wikimedia-l that this would be a place chapters could demonstrate leadership potential and work with the Foundation. There are currently a number of developers active in the Wikinews community.
Research
  • Given feedback by a member of the Wikimedia Foundation Board (Samuel Klien) that the English language project should consider content import from other free news sources as a way of increasing community participation, content output and traffic, research was done inside the community using another language project as a baseline to determine the potential impact in terms of achieving those goals. A copy of this research can be found at Research:Wikinews Content Import Analysis. In a nutshell, the findings are: content import did not result in increased community output or increased community size. Content import also resulted in fewer page views per published article. Content import was not successful at achieving a positive community or traffic related impact.
  • A tiny piece of research done examining relative article popularity by year on English Wikinews can found at Article rank and article date. More in-depth research along these lines may produce interesting results.
Across the languages
  • Over on Italian Wikinews on July 25, they hit 30,000 total pages.
  • English Wikinews completed elections for their Arbitration Committee. Brian McNeil, Pi zero, Mikemoral, LauraHale, RockerballAustralia, and William S. Saturn were elected to the one year position.
Content work
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Other news
  • Two members of the The Wikinewsie Group provisional board attend the IRC meeting on July 26 for the Program Evaluation and Design as the board begins to think about and conducts its own evaluation of efforts to increase content and increase community participation. They observed the August 1 metrics meeting.
Why Wikinews? Editorials on why people support and contribute to Wikinews projects
Wikinews Original Reporting

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Portuguese
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Russian
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French
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Italian
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Chinese
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Esperanto
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Polish
See also: Materiały autorskie. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
English
See also: Original reporting, Published. The wiki uses flagged revisions for the publish process.

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Football in Australia

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In response to you comment, I never regarded you as "being an anti-soccer, pro-AFL partisian". I also never made personal attacks to any contributer, I have only commented on the topic at hand, that is the disambiguation of the article.--2nyte (talk) 09:27, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

You have made this comment about everyone who has oppose your position. Yes, you have engage in personal attacks when you have done this. Yes, when there were two major parties opposing them and one of them was me, it was clear that you were directing them at us. You have been repeatedly asked to retract the statements and you have repeatedly been asked for diffs to support your statements. You have provided neither. Please retract these accusations against other editors and provide diffs to support these allegations. Then, while at it, provide sources that support a position that football is being used to exclusively refer to the roundball game in Australia. --LauraHale (talk) 12:06, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Firstly, I just want to say that I don't really engaged with other Wiki members that often, so you will have to explain what diffs are and how to retract statements. Secondly, understand that I do not want football to be used exclusively to refer to the roundball game in Australia. I prefer association football when referring to more than one code, or simply football (with links to association football where necessary) in articles specific to the round ball game in Australia. In regards to the Talk:Soccer_in_Australia#Requested_move_again I suggested Soccer in Australia be moved to Association football in Australia.--2nyte (talk) 14:22, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
When I request diffs, I mean go through my contributions and find examples of partisan editing. You made this accusation against Hilo repeatedly. When he challenged you, you accused him on his talk page of making personal attacks [1] and provided no diffs like this one. Please go through the edit history of those you have accused of making edits intentionally designed to promote the AFL at the expense of "football" in Australia and provide them. It will assist your case. I can give you a diff of where you promoted "football"/soccer at the expense of other codes in Australia: [2] And association football, it is good to know that you support Australian rules. You've clearly turned a new leaf. May I ask are you barracking for the Collingwood Football Club? What made you switch to the the Sherrin ball game from British football? Was it the speed of the game? Was it the awesome free kicks? Was it the tackles? Was it the strategy? --18:54, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

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Education and Research
  • On English Wikinews, there is work to make some educational videos to assist users in understanding how the review process works, and how to write an article using screencast. Videos created so far include: A review of an English Wikinews article to let people see how that looks. , A walk through of an article being written for English Wikinews to let people see how one person writes an article., A walk through of creating an article on English Wikinews with a Doctor Who related news story as an example.
  • A few of the provisional board members had intense discussions about the preferred research practices to inform key decision making in regards to developing the most effective programming with the goals of 1) working with educators to instill core journalistic values, 2) engage in quality original reporting that can be shared across projects, and 3) improve the diversity and quantity of the current contributor base to Wikinews projects. The ideal research often depends on context, but that in doing on project related work, action research is probably the ideal as it is an outcome improvement driven approach.
  • In further regards to research methodologies, three of the provisional board members read The art, science and mystery of nonprofit news assessment by the Investigative Reporting Workshop. This document discusses some of the challenges non-profit related journalism sites have in assessment as it pertains to their own reporting. A discussion was also held regarding the issue of information anonymization when it comes to any research being conducted by The Wikinewsie Group using on Wikinews publicly accessible information, content and data. Sources looked at and discussed included Researching the public web and Forum Guide to Data Ethics. There is a feeling by some of the provisional board members that the WMF, through the Grants programs and the Program Evaluation and Design group need to provide greater guidance regarding what sort of information collection and analysis is expected, what privacy guidelines will be expected, what will be publicly expected, what will be privately expected, if these match and how to handle any discrepancy between these guidelines. At the same time, documentation for the WMF as it pertains to outcomes needs to be clear as to the audience and objectives in conducting the research. These issues become vitally important as increasing contributor output research differs from research focused on providing an environment to encourage best practices for journalists, with a goal of bringing more educators to the project to assist in accomplishing this goal.
  • Brian Keegan talked about newswork on Wikipedia from a Wikipedia perspective (that ignores definitions of news) and failed to acknowledge the importance of original reporting and citizen driven journalism in his negative critique of Wikinews. At the same time, he failed to acknowledge the lack of investment by the Wikimedia Foundation in supporting Wikinews and other sister projects in strategically growing and supporting the Foundation's mission.
Technology
  • Given the issues with spying on government listening to communications, Scoop will be 'deprecated', and the recipients list trimmed back progressively have the membership list culled to make sure only reviewers and accredited reports have access to reporter notes for story verification. A new mailbox will be set up for incoming material that needs the attention of reviewers. [3]
  • On English Wikinews, a draft has been started at Wikinews:Visual Editor to let the Visual Editor team know some of the issues involved in working on bringing VE live to the project. This is vitally important to be done right and that VE works with the only main entrance point to writing new articles, because if done without considering the gateway, it would create massive technical problems that would like make it impossible for article review for publication to be completed.
  • On English Wikinews, efforts are underway to see about using DPL to sort images by date and to better highlight featured articles that appear in a category by calling them out seperately. This is likely to be a long term, wikignome type activity. [4]
  • A bug was fixed in wmtran, the translation helper tool, to correct URLs of preview wiki-links. Relevant contact information is now also available at the tool page header.
Reporting
  • On English Wikinews, there has been a substantial amount of original reporting done in the past 18 months that involved the uploading both local multimedia and multimedia to Commons. An effort is underway to categorize these images locally better highlight the original reporting of the multimedia including type. It will also provide easier access for reporter to file photos for re-use in other articles. The major category work was done on 2012 Summer Paralympics.
  • Following Jimmy Wales's speech at Wikimania, The Wikinewsie Group reached out to him via e-mail to see how we could work with to accomplish his stated aims in the context of our proposed organization. There are a number of shared goals, including making it possible for Wikinews contributors to do original reporting full time on the project. Susequently, he has been engaging in dialog with several English Wikinews reporter on his Wikinews talk page.
  • A survey has been created to better understand the existing original reporting costs associated with current Wikinews production. Reporters across all languages who have contributed to original reporting on any language Wikinews project reported on in our newsletter have been pinged on their talk pages asking them to complete the survey. Three different language projects have been notified of the survey on Facebook. The survey has also been linked to on Twitter. The goal of the survey is to be able to understand the value of original reporting, where money is currently being spent and by whom, and to have data that will better enable The Wikinewsie Group and project volunteer reporters to apply for grants related to conducting more original reporting. Survey results are currently being processed with a plan of having some research published for reference in the next newsletter.
Opinion pieces

For our next newsletter, we are encouraging Wikinewsies to define news and how Wikinews provides it.

Original reporting

The following is a list of all original reporting done on Wikinews projects from August 1, 2013 to August 31, 2013. Includes a new language edition, Serbian Wikinews.

Ukrainian
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Spanish
See also: Wikinoticias:Reportajes originales sin notas, Artículos publicados. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
Russian
See also: Оригинальные репортажи, Опубликовано. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
French
See also: Reportage original, Article publié. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
Serbian
See also: Изворни извештај, Објављено. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
Italian
See also: Notizia originale, Pubblicati. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
Esperanto
See also: Originalaj raportaĵoj, Publikigitaj artikoloj. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
Catalan
See also: Reportatges originals, Notícies publicades. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
Polish
See also: Materiały autorskie. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
English
See also: Original reporting, Published. The wiki uses flagged revisions for the publish process.
German
See also: Wikinews:Originalbericht, Veröffentlicht. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.

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Talk:Football in Australia

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Look, I think you might have rushed into that response. Just take a second to read my last post more carefully and I won't object if you want to delete what you just added and try again. You're welcome to delete this post too if you like. Cheers.--Gibson Flying V (talk) 09:17, 10 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Laura, edits such as this and this are a misuse of the rollback tool. The rollback user right should really only to revert blatant vandalism. Although those two edits were controversial, they did not meet the criteria for vandalism. Please take more care in the future or another admin may remove the user right. Thanks, Mark Arsten (talk) 02:12, 12 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize and understand the problem. I was getting frustrated because myself and others had repeatedly tried to discuss edits with the person and they were not willing to discuss their contributions. I kept running into edit conflicts when trying to correct problems discussed at length on the talk page, and acted out of frustration because of the ECs. My apologies. :( --LauraHale (talk) 05:59, 12 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Talkback from Technical 13

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Template:Umbox Notifying all users that were involved in the same discussion a few weeks ago which involved deletion of this category. Technical 13 (talk) 13:51, 19 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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The Wikinewsie Group News : Edition 4, October 1, 2013

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Aff-Comm
  • The Bylaws review by aff-comm started in early September.[5][6]
Wikimedia Foundation
Research
  • Wikinews original reporting value as a measure of news events was published. This is the first in a series of research pieces looking at the cost of original reporting done by Wikinews journalists.
  • The second piece of research about Wikinews reporting was published, Itemizing the cost of Wikinews reporting. It was not published on the research namespace on meta because it has little application for chapters and thematic organizations as a whole, except possibly in trying to determine how to evaluate budgets submitted by Wikinews reporters for the purposes of grant making.
Education
  • On English Wikinews, supporters of The Wikinewsie Group requested the installation of the Education Program extension. This will facilitate having university courses participate on the project and make it easier for TWG to work with other groups like the Wiki Education Foundation.[8][9] The extension was installed and as an example and way to engage new contributors,a course for new reporters was created. Feedback on the course or anyone interested in running a high school or university course on Wikinews is encouraged to get in touch with The Wikinewsie Group.
Original reporting
  • Media accreditation has been attained for the 2014 Winter Paralympics. Planning is underway to insure the success of the original reporting event[10] and build on the success of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[11] Success at the 2014 Winter Paralympics will go a long way towards helping The Wikinewsie Group secure accreditation for the 2016 Summer Olympics. If any individuals, chapters or thematic organizations are interested in assisting us with this and integrating it into existing outreach efforts to people with disabilities, please get in touch Laura Hale.
Outreach
  • A discussion took place on IRC about how Wikinews's definitions of journalism are very much tied into the workflow for Wikinews. [12] Thus, for many Wikinewsies, it is difficult to discuss the concept of what journalism is in a project context without it being seen as a fundamental discussion on project workflow. When people come in from the outside and offer advice, they are often seen as fundamentally criticizing the project's workflow without having any conceptualization they are doing that while fundamentally acting in good faith. In working with outsiders who are offering assistance, there needs to be a better method of articulating that the two, definition or journalism and Wikinews workflow, are one and the same. This could theoretically assist in less hostility, and enabling greater shared understanding that will allow participants to talk with each other instead of past each other.
  • Wikimetrics may be useful for assisting people in measuring education program impact, GLAM related programming and other outreach endeavors. For projects with flagged revisions or where articles are deleted/userified if they do not get published, the only really useable current available metric is pages created. Any analysis using this tool should wait until all content has been delete/userified because of too many false positives that suggest content was published when it was not. Additional information can be found at Programs:Resources.
  • Several language Wikinews projects which tweet out links other than to their news archives have started tagging their articles with the local language word for Wikinews. This makes it easier to find their reporting content, and for others to retweet their content. The Wikinewsie Group Twitter account made this request to better promote the work being done by local projects.


Technical
  • Wikinewsie.org e-mail is being cleaned up. All e-mail boxes which are 100% full have been deleted. Users who have set their accounts to forward to "untrustworthy" sites have been cautioned against doing so or those rules have been modified and reset with random values by the server administrator for them. People are reminded they should not be forwarding their e-mails to Google or Yahoo accounts. A strong possibility exists that this implementation may have been overly zealous so if a user is experiencing difficulties, please get in touch.[13]
  • Three potential technical projects for Wikinews were listed on the possible projects for mentorship programs on Mediawiki. They include a request for a mobile reporting tool, a mobile Wikinews application, and a machine assisted translation tool. [14]
  • Server upgrades and fixes continue for the Wikinewsie server. Details available here.
  • The wmtran tool has a new interface translation, to German, thanks to Huon.
For reporters
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  • The Wikinewsie Group is looking for New York City based Wikimedia contributors who would be interested in getting published on Wikinews with the goal of getting media accreditation to the United Nations.[15] Please get in touch with Laura Hale or pi zero if you would like more information.


Original report

All original reporting done across Wikinews between September 1 and October 1, 2013. If this list is incomplete, please report that to Gryllida. Thank you to all Wikinews reporters and translators who have done original reporting. Please continue your good work.

Ukrainian
See also: Авторський репортаж. The wiki uses nothing for the publish process.
Spanish
See also: Wikinoticias:Reportajes originales sin notas, Artículos publicados. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
Russian
See also: Оригинальные репортажи, Опубликовано. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
French
See also: Reportage original, Article publié. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
Serbian
See also: Изворни извештај, Објављено. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
Chinese
See also: 原创报导, 已发布. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
Polish
See also: Materiały autorskie. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
English
See also: Original reporting, Published. The wiki uses flagged revisions for the publish process.

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Hi, I was looking for some Isco pictures in Commons while I found yours. I want to update the one it's wikipedia article has, so it would have an updated one, Do you have a closer picture from him using Real Madrid's uniform? Thanks. --Maverick7 (talk) 16:19, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

¡Hola Laura! Thanks for your quick answer! I've checked Commons in the Isco category and I have to say you have taken very good pictures, you got a great spot at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium! unfortunately it was a negative result for Real Madrid. I like This Picture for Isco's Article, it could be used in both wikis anyways, I was wondering if you can take the original file and Crop it, that way we can have a very good close up. :D--Maverick7 (talk) 18:04, 3 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Amazing work!!! It looks great and I think it would fit perfect in Isco's articles. I'm sorry to bother you again, but I was thinking this cropped version would have a better look if we keep him full body, like in this case, Is that posible? Also regarding the other Real Madrid players, if you have some pictures of them that looks like Isco's cropped version I think they can be used to update their articles. Thanks a lot!
Thanks again for your help! your final work looks great as the main picture of Isco's profiles here and here, I was checking the other pics you have and I'm interested on how would they look if you crop them as well. For Khedira I liked this one, for Illarramendi: I liked this and this, can you help me to decide about which of them would look better please? for Pepe I liked this one, for Arbeloa I liked this one and for Diego López I liked this one. Thanks for your time. I really appreciate it ;)--Maverick7 (talk) 15:06, 4 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Surely this article should be deleted? There are users/sockpuppet accounts editing it as if it's a legitimate article. - HappyWaldo (talk) 08:37, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's a sensible approach; I noticed the same fanboyism on the culture of Australia article. I don't think I've nominated an article for deletion before, so I guess I'm hoping someone more experienced/with more authority can take care of it, haha. - HappyWaldo (talk) 08:49, 16 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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The Wikinewsie Group News
Edition 5, November 8, 2013
Project news
  • The Wikinewsie Group/Local Wikinews policies is the start of a guide that explains local Wikinews project policies with the goal of making it easier to recognise credentials across project, build on accumulated reputation from one project to another and facilitate translation work.
  • Historical Czech Wikinews experiment is a blog entry by Okino that looks at the community impact of allowing writers to write Wikinews articles from a past perspective, IE writing a story about a historical battle as if you were a journalist writing that article the day after it happened. The purpose was to attempt to make Wikinews more collaborative in nature and avoid the time constraints of the immediacy of news reporting. Okino shows that while the reaction to the idea was positive, the true interest in writing the articles of this type was small as the vast majority of them were written by him.
  • A conversation is taking place on Wikinoticias about allowing CC-BY-NC images to be locally uploaded.[16]
  • A conversation is taking place on English Wikinews with a WMF staff member about the future of search and potential special search features for Wikinews projects.[17]
Training materials
A video for new reporters who lost their first article on English Wikinews
  • A one page guide and a screencast were created that explain how to avoid plagiarism on Wikinews. Available data suggests this is somewhat of an issue for new and student reporters on English Wikinews, with roughly 10 to 20% of all submitted articles having some sort of copyright issue.
  • Training materials were created to better support new reporters wanting to produce photo essays. They can be found at Photo Essays for Wikinews, Photojournalist worksheet, and Wikinews Photo Essay Formatting. Assistance is requested in translating these to other languages and localizing them to local project requirements. This would be very helpful ahead of the Sochi Paralympic Games, where there are expected to be a number of photo essays produced.
  • Given the difficulty of new reporters being unable to get their first article published on Wikinews, a video was created to encourage these writers to stick with it. It can be found at The first time writing for Wikinews good.ogv. It is somewhat tongue in cheek, and tries to address the emotional implications of a not ready review. The problem of getting new reporters who are unsuccessful at getting their article published has been identified as a major area for work. It has a large impact on reporter retention.
Of interest for journalists
Education
EduWiki 2013 presentation
  • Provisional Chairperson LauraHale is made a presentation at the EduWiki Conference 2013 in Cardiff, Wales about educational efforts on English Wikinews. Findings she included that changes in reviewing practices between semester 1 and semester 2 for one university course saw similar improvements for new reporters. What is good for students is good for the whole community.
  • With the Education Extension[18] installed successfully on English Wikinews, a portal was started at WN:EDU[19] to encourage and provide training for educators to use Wikinews in their coursework. This is something The Wikinewsie Group is hoping to expand upon in the future, and plans to try to get translated into other languages. Plans are also underway to create a student portal to provide training for students. Many things to Sage Ross for his assistance in setting up the educator portal.
GLAM
  • The major GLAM work being done by a Wikinewsie at the moment is a Wikimedian in Residency with the Comité Paralímpico Español. A report was created this month for CPE based on interviews done in August. It can be found here.
  • Paralympic work being done with the US Olympic Committee is progressing.
Original reporting - summary

Between May 1 and October 31, when The Wikinewsie Group Newsletter first began tracking original reporting taking place across all projects, 227 stories have been published by 78 reporters 14 different language Wikinews projects. The projects with the greatest number of reporters engaged in original reporting were English with 15, Russian with 14, Polish with 13 and French with 10. Beyond these, original there were one or more journalists engaging in original reporting on Catalan, Chinese, Esperanto, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish and Ukrainian. The peak month for reporting across all projects was May with 52 articles. It was followed by June with 49, August with 44, September with 43 and July with 39.

In the past four months, Spanish, Polish, French, Ukrainian, Russian and English have all produced over 20 total pieces of original reporting, with Russian Wikinews publishing 41 stories and English Wikinews publishing 60 stories.

LauraHale, RockerballAustralia, Antanana, Agamitsudo, Dmitry Rozhkov, Plogi, Krassotkin, Schekinov Alexey Victorovich, and MadriCR have each produced 5 or more pieces of original reporting in the past four months. Another group of users, Joan301009, Bddpaux, Computron, Laslovarga, Fed4ev and Yakudza, have produced four articles each.

For September, only three pieces of 43 original reports produced were translated from one language to another. They were Wikinews interviews specialists on China, Iran, Russia support for al-Assad, Wikinews interviews Dr Thomas Scotto and Dr Steve Hewitt about potential US military intervention in Syria, Atlético de Madrid defeats Real Madrid 1-0 in 2013 derby and Tokio gana la sede de los Juegos Olímpicos 2020. Original reporting is a major strength of Wikinews. It is one we should be playing to. The Wikinewsie Group would like to encourage everyone to assist translating Wikinews work into another language, or finding a local reporter to assist with translating a work from where it was originally published into that language. This will benefit all languages, promote more cooperation between projects, and expand news reach for our reporting which we can leverage to provide more opportunities for reporters.

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Ukrainian
See also: Авторський репортаж. The wiki uses nothing for the publish process.
Spanish
See also: Wikinoticias:Reportajes originales sin notas, Artículos publicados. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
Russian
See also: Оригинальные репортажи, Опубликовано. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
French
See also: Reportage original, Article publié. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
Serbian
See also: Изворни извештај, Објављено. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
Chinese
See also: 原创报导, 已发布. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
Polish
See also: Materiały autorskie. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
English
See also: Original reporting, Published. The wiki uses flagged revisions for the publish process.
German
See also: Wikinews:Originalbericht, Veröffentlicht. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.

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A few words (about 20), but not enough to do anyting useful. --LauraHale (talk) 13:33, 15 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Have you see the Praguepedia articles Ive been knocking out....Errors happen. They are easy to fix. Oh, and did you take a selfie of yourself at Eduwiki? Those T shirts are v. special! I did put up a picture of you with Harry and Doug. It was great to meet you Victuallers (talk) 19:10, 23 November 2013 (UTC) Praguepedia was done about a year ago but there were few articles in English so I thought Id fix that as so many people have done useful translations of English for QRpedia. It seemed like a good time to correct the balance so I did quite a lot last week about places in Prague. I wasn't as CEE as I was working! Victuallers (talk) 19:27, 23 November 2013 (UTC) Is Menggen Jimisu any use? Care to copy edit or nominate? Victuallers (talk) 01:10, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Good and Bad news - I have done quite a bit of more work on Menggen Jimisu (sic) but I could find very little recent stuff until I realised we had her name reversed and around 2010 her name was written as Genjimisu Meng instead of Jimisu Menggen. I have found a nice pic and got its license changed so we can use it. I like your hook - Is it possible to redo the nomination with the new name? I would like to delete the Menggen Jimisu redirect as its not required. OK? R Victuallers (talk) 19:33, 24 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Yes, I am still active and willing to work on Paralympics Swimmer Articles. Lucky102 (talk) 10:31, 25 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for the kitten! It means a lot as I am a huge admirer of the work you do on here, as well as your thick skin and ultra-persistence. I know it's like banging your head against a brick wall at times but if enough of us hang in there at least the head-in-the-sand-ites won't have it all their own way. Cheers Clavdia chauchat (talk) 20:59, 25 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ps User:Hmlarson has put together a brilliant Portal:Women's association football I don't know if you've seen.

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RRD13 from Kolkata,
Thanks for reminding me about that.Actually after I started reviewing it I became inactive for a long time,forgetting about the article.I am now failing this nomination.RRD13 (talk) 03:45, 26 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Parroting back my own words at me is a bit juvenile isn't it? It's a good way to lose any remaining shred of support. Those sort of methods of argument will only put people's backs against the wall and make it even harder to move the discussion forward. Sionk (talk) 19:31, 26 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Me again. I'm new to Dispute Resolution myself, but my understanding of Wikipedia:Dispute resolution noticeboard#Talk:Australia national association football team is that it allows each of us to explain our understanding of the dispute. I thought your problem was with the lack of the word "mens" rather than the use of the word "association"? Well maybe I've got it all completely wrong. But you may want to expand the explanation of your perspective on the dispute. Or maybe not. Bye for now! Sionk (talk) 12:59, 30 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Adolfo Samuel Acosta Rodríguez

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Hi, I left you a few questions there. Thanks, Matty.007 20:06, 27 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Ricardo de Pedraza Losa

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Feel free to voice your opinion regarding this proposal here. --Philippe Jackson (talk) 16:29, 29 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! There is a DR/N request you may have interest in.

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Football in Australia (disambiguation)

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Hey, I was just wondering if you could perhaps explain your prod rationale for Football in Australia (disambiguation) in a little more detail? As someone who knows nothing about football(s) in Australia it seems like a useful dab page; that is to say, per the lede of Football in Australia someone searching for "football in Australia" might be looking for any of the first five articles listed on the dab page. I've read some of the extensive discussion at Talk:Football in Australia but I'm afraid I still don't really get it. What consensus do you think is being evaded? And am I wrong in thinking the dab is possibly useful regardless of possibly impure motives for its creation? – Arms & Hearts (talk) 12:26, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Wikinewsie Group News : Edition 6, December 2, 2013

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The Wikinewsie Group Newsletter

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Edition 6, December 2, 2013

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The Group
  • Aff-comm recommended to the Wikimedia Foundation Board that The Wikinewsie Group be recognised as a thematic organization in early November.[20]
Education
  • Wikinews Education Program blog post was published on Wikimedia's official blog.
  • Discussions were had on IRC and Skype about the possibility of installing the education extension on Ukrainian, Czech and Korean Wikinews. While these could be used to potentially re-invigorate the local communities and provide a cohort of new contributors, the limited contributor base at the moment makes it difficult to implement. Greater partnerships would need to be done with chapters to provide people to assist local projects in running any education initiative.
  • What is news? handout was created to supplement existing training materials as this is an area where new contributors sometimes have issues on English Wikinews.
  • Documenting your original sport reporting was created to supplement Wikinews Original Sport Reporting. Assistance is requested in translating these documents into Spanish and Ukrainian.
Outreach
  • LauraHale attended Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2013 in Slovakia representing The Wikinewsie Group. She had conversations with people from several chapters about the potential to do things with TWG including the Polish, Estonian, Serbian, Czech and Ukrainian chapters.
Original reporting projects
  • The paperwork was submitted at the end of the month to send five Wikinews reporters to the Sochi Paralympic Games.
  • Attempts were made to secure media accreditation for the Commonwealth Games. The application was unsuccessful.

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Spanish
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Russian
See also: Оригинальные репортажи, Опубликовано. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
French
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Italian
See also: Notizia originale, Pubblicati. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
Esperanto
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Polish
See also: Materiały autorskie. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.
English
See also: Original reporting, Published. The wiki uses flagged revisions for the publish process.

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German
See also: Wikinews:Originalbericht, Veröffentlicht. The wiki uses a category for the publish process.

DYK for Daniel Caverzaschi

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Gatoclass (talk) 08:02, 3 December 2013 (UTC) [reply]

A barnstar for you

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The Running Man Barnstar
Thank you for your continued work on sports articles despite the frustrating challenges of Wikipedia's sometimes hostile environment. Cheers! Hmlarson (talk) 02:08, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK discussion

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I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Laura Hale revisited, in which edits you made are being discussed. Fram (talk) 13:37, 4 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Menggenjimisu

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The DYK project (nominate) 00:03, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

The Signpost: 04 December 2013

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The Wikipedia Library's Books and Bytes newsletter (#2)

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DYK for Irene Cuesta

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DYK for Spain men's national wheelchair basketball team

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Verónica Pamiés etc.

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Thank you, I see lengthy well researched articles in underrepresented areas. Which makes me feel churlish to mention Wikipedia:NCP#Multiple and changed surnames. Rightly or wrongly we don't use the Spanish maternal name in titles on en.wp. I've moved Verónica Pamiés, but you can always put it back if you disagree. There may be others. Best wishes. In ictu oculi (talk) 15:54, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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For greatly expanding coverage of boccia players In ictu oculi (talk) 16:05, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in GLAM: November 2013

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  • France report: Mass uploads; Wiki Loves Monuments; Edit-a-thon; GLAM conference
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About Spain WBC team and 1996 Paralympics

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There is a mistake in all the articles created about the Spanish players team in this Games: Spain did not won the bronze medal, it finished in fourth position after losing the last game against the USA (Link). So, we must remove all the medals in that related articles.

Anyway, thank you for your great work in these articles. Gonzaka (talk) 11:26, 11 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 11 December 2013

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Sport in Australia

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Hi LauraHale, could you please comment on my proposed changes for Sport in Australia here. It looks like you're a regular contributor to the article so I would appreciate your opinion. Thanks. --2nyte (talk) 03:28, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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