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Articles in development (That are not disputed)

• Israeli forensic institute illegally harvested organs in the 90's
• European continent feels chill as winter weather takes hold
• Bluff erosion in Pacifica, California prompts evacuations
• Ford offers buyouts to US workers

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Articles marked as ready for publishing

• Serbia to apply to join the EU
• Man dies after being found unconscious in garden in Western Isles, Scotland
• US Senate advances health care reform bill
• December Solstice 2009

Articles in dispute

• Man appears in court case involving murder of woman in Glasgow, Scotland
• The Hungarian MJT - ZRT will produce coaches in China
• Climate contrarians in Copenhagen
• Chinese, Turkmen, Kazakh, Uzbek presidents unveil gas pipeline
• PILOT ATTEMPTS ROUND-THE-WORLD RECORD FOR FASTEST FLIGHT
• Major Earthquake Shakes Taiwan
• Brekford Corp. Awarded Fruitland Photo Speed Enforcement Contract
• Snowfalls cause disruption in UK
• Jury convicts Tobin after just 15 minutes
• Car crash on Caledonian Rd and Copenhagen St Junction
• Stephen King pays for troops to come home for Christmas

Wikinews:Story preparation

(Stories prepared ahead of time for events that have not yet occurred.)

• Story preparation/Cricket: Buderim XI vs. Politicians
• Story preparation/Former French President Jacques Chirac dies
• Story preparation/Former UK foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd dies
• Story preparation/Former Archbishop Baron Carey of Clifton dies

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Collaboration requests

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Requests

• Heavy snow falls in UK - requesting assistance from UK based Wikinewsies, to do original reporting on their local situations,

the current article is largely sourced from BBC News :( .. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 11:41, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

• Climate contrarians in Copenhagen This article is quite outdated but scientific, just another alike event could rescue it from deletion. Q/0/k 12:55, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

• In depth: Guantanamo military commissions - I would still welcome help with this —The preceding unsigned comment was added by InfantGorilla (talk • contribs) 15:35, 21 January 2009

• Peru-Chile 2009 Espionage Scandal - I'm surprised Wikinews hasn't covered this yet. This is quite a major current event in South America that has very likely possibilites of resulting in a war (especially considering both nations have been "going at it" for months now). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.192.2.238 (talk • contribs) 18:18, 17 November 2009

• Collab requesting for Congressman speaking out against Bush. http://www.twincities.com/politics/ci_13899712?source=rss also please take a look over at requested proposed articles, needs your help. Turinopal11 (talk) 17:20, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Other

• Wikinews:Story preparation/British soap opera Coronation Street celebrates 50 years on air

• Climate contrarians in Copenhagen
• Major Earthquake Shakes Taiwan
• Snowfalls cause disruption in UK
• Jury convicts Tobin after just 15 minutes
• Car crash on Caledonian Rd and Copenhagen St Junction

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Wikinews news

Check out these selected goings on here at Wikinews!

• Wikinews is holding a writing contest starting on January 25. Sign up! Newbies welcomed and encouraged.
• Wikimedia (the non-profit who runs wikinews and several other websites) is in its annual fundraiser. Please consider donating.
• too lazy to replace {{developing}} with {{review}}. Now we have a button to magically do it for you on {{develop}}.
• Google news now indexes us sort of. Please do a hard refresh before reviewing your next article.
• {{topicon}} should now make icons that go by the title bar (like on FA articles), that work with vector/all skins.
• We're now using vector, and the enhanced edit toolbar!
• Users who come directly to Wikinews from Wikipedia, and edit something immediately (That is not old), get {{Editintro from wikipedia}} while editing. Users who edit an old article get {{Editintro notcurrent}}.
• The number of articles on the main rss feed has been shortened. If you don't like this change, please raise a fuss.
• If you are using {{Latest news}} in a main page re-design, you have to switch to using {{latest news/old}} as {{latest news}} has changed significantly.
• [edit lead] links on main page is now invisible to anons.
• Easy Peer review gadget now bumps {{date}} automatically
• bugs (affecting Wikinews): useful categories, old request to switch to dpl2, RSS feed extension, DEFAULTSORTKET: causes articles to go to top of DPLs, Blanking page causes article to be most recently published
• things needing doing: Accreditation requests: 0 Requests for permissions: 1 Flagged revs requests: 0 Bot requests: 1 Articles needing review: 4 Quiz: Ok ^Edit

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