User:Harej

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I have been an active Wikinews editor from September 2005 to March 2007 and a rather inactive editor since May 2007. I'll really only be editing here when I don't have work to do during school; I pass the time copyediting articles. Maybe someday I'll write an article again.

Anyways, after writing my first article, I decided to join three months later. I don't regret doing that; I loved the time I've spent at Wikinews. However now I'm just tired of it. Like I said, I'll be working more towards copyediting articles.

• Scratchpad

For the record, I'm a he.

I also like this explanation of Thanksgiving:

"As punishment for the coordinated genocide of indigineous peoples of North America, you are hereby condemned to eat dry tasteless breast meat from ugly helpless fowl once a year, never to know that stuffing onesself, watching football and falling asleep on the couch will lead to adult onset diabetes and bad knees in a country without universal healthcare."

[edit] Wikinews improvement projects

In the past I've engaged in the following Wikinews improvement projects:

• Browsing Wikinews - While we have a very nice portal system and browse-by-date system, they don't connect together. Therefore, the only way to browse is if you have a knowledge of how Wikinews works, which is a horrible idea. In my namespace, I created a draft for a new browsing system that not only newcomers can use without a problem, but it is well organized and connects all the browsing methods. After finishing touches, Wikinews:Browse went live. With the assistance of Jill St. Crux, it continues to improve day by day.
• Main Page layout - The current main page layout is very ugly, with the news-by-date on the left side and every other thing you can think of in the small blue box on the side. It's very confused-looking, so I created one of the many redesigns (and another one) of the main page. Additionally, I created Wikinews:Main Page redesign to coordinate all the efforts.
• MessedRobot - To help me with my Wikinews maintenance, I've enlisted the help of the Python Wikipedia Bot to do some automated tasks for me. See User:MessedRobot
• Water Cooler overhaul - The goal of this project was to introduce a standard archiving format, a standard archive list, and basically have everything standardized, organized, and look very good. The project is now finished.
• Image sorting - Before, all there was was a fair use category and a random smattering of some categories. Now, each type of fair use claim and copyleft license, as well as public domain, has its own category, as well as proper nesting under a new root category, Category:Images. Future plans include integrating it into Wikinews:Browse
• Global Networking - Since the whole way-of-getting-the-news out needed to be re-organized, I created Wikinews:Global Networking, encompassing parts of Wikinews:Reference desk and Wikinews:Wikinewsies (and subpages).
• Wikinews Contest - Encourage the development of Wikinews with a promised cash incentive to the Wikinewsie who can do the most

[edit] Articles I've started

• Oil spill spotted along Mississippi River (September 4, 2005)
• Nintendo unveils controller for Revolution console (September 17, 2005)
• Singer Britney Spears gives birth to a healthy boy (September 18, 2005)
• NASA plans for future moon missions (September 19, 2005)
• AOL to launch VoIP service (September 20, 2005)
• Google sued by thousands of authors over Google Print (September 22, 2005)
• Google launches new blog search engine (September 23, 2005)
• Google creates new desktop software (September 24, 2005)
• Wikinews switches to Creative Commons license ORIGINAL REPORTING (September 25, 2005)
• MTV, Warner Music agree on licensing deal (September 29, 2005)
• Google, Sun Microsystems to collaborate on software development (October 7, 2005)
• Apple introduces new iPod with video capabilities (October 13, 2005)
• Florida Governor Jeb Bush gives speech on Hurricane Wilma ORIGINAL REPORTING (October 23, 2005)
• Google announces new database service on blog (October 26, 2005)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation sues Sony over CD technology (November 22, 2005)
• Internet virus circulates disguised as e-mail from US government (November 26, 2005)
• New Apple software lets Microsoft Windows boot on Macs (April 14, 2006)
• Montenegro secedes from Serbia (May 22, 2006)
• University of California, San Francisco inviting tobacco users to test new nicotine vaccine (June 15, 2006)
• Purpose of mysterious website Eon8 revealed ORIGINAL REPORTING (July 1, 2006)
• Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett dies at age 60 {July 11, 2006)
• Watchdog group StopBadware.org warns against free AOL software (August 29, 2006)
• Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani killed in airstrike (December 24, 2006)
• Analysis reveals that New York City tunnels are susceptible to attacks (December 24, 2006)
• Video clip from YouTube used to track down suspect murderer (December 24, 2006)
• Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to start Wikiasari search engine (December 24, 2006)
• Iran parliament to review compliance with IAEA standards (December 27, 2006)
• Surgeon declares that Fidel Castro does not have cancer (December 27, 2006)

[edit] Articles I've recorded

• Apple may build cameras into Macs
• EU cuts sugar subsidies
• Turkey found buried alive in an Austin, Texas yard

[edit] Trophy case

Over the months, I've earned awards for my good deeds to Wikinews. Here they are, my awards.

		WikiStar
		I, Urameshi2, herby award a WikiStar to MessedRocker. Messedrocker recieved this award on September 23, 2006

		Newbie Helper Award
		I. Thunderhead, award MessedRocker the 'Newbie Helper Award' for his helpfulness to new user, including myself. Especially myself. Messedrocker recieved this award on September 11, 2006.

		April Fool's Barnstar
		I, Anonymous, hereby award MessedRocker, a.k.a. the Grim Reaper, the April Fool's Barnstar for being an amazing yet humorous editor who made hilarous edits in good faith, such as [1]. The Grim Reaper got this award on 00:41, 6 April 2006 (UTC).

		Wikinews Trophy
		I, Brian New Zealand hereby award you this Wikinews Trophy for your work in keeping on top of Wikinews:Deletion requests Messedrocker received this trophy on January 28, 2006

		Squid in a sink
		For your valiant efforts to be a friendly person and a great asset to Wikinews, I, Chiacomo and the imaginary Wikienws cabal, award you this adorable Squid in a Sink. May your tentacles spread deep into Wikinews. Messedrocker received this award on January 10, 2006.

		Wikinews Trophy
		I, Amgine, hereby award Messedrocker the Wikinews Trophy for massive effort in updating all the portals to the portal namespace, and then conscientiously fixing all the categories and other related issues of such a huge undertaking! Messedrocker received this award on December 30, 2005.

		Wikinews Trophy
		I, Bawolff ☺☻, hereby award Messedrocker the Wikinews Trophy for her/his amazing work in keeping up on Wikinews:Deletion requests on the date of 01:12, 27 November 2005 (UTC).

		Exceptional Newcomer Award
		I, MrMiscellanious, hereby award MessedRocker the Exceptional Newcomer Award for their contributions made to Wikinews in an early stage. Messedrocker received this award on October 13, 2005.