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Articles in development (That are not disputed)

• "Batuta's case became something of a milestone in the development of Wikipedia" - interview with Konrad Godlewski
• Interview with Brijender Nain, independent candidate in Australian by-election for Victorian state electorate of Altona
• Police presence at Tesco pyjama flashmob

High-priority review

There are no articles for this topic.

Articles marked as ready for publishing

• 15 die in South African orphanage inferno

Articles in dispute

• Victory over St. Patrick High School, Illinois keeps Benet Academy undefeated in conference
• World-premiere of the restored extended-cut of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" on arte in HDTV!

Wikinews:Story preparation

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

• Story preparation/Last U.S. WWI veteran dies
• Story preparation/2010 FIFA World Cup final
• Story preparation/Obituaries/Standard Obituary
• Story preparation/US President Obama dies

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Collaboration requests

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Requests

Suicide attack-22 dead BBC, AFP --Adi4094 (talk) 15:05, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Two NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan bombing-AFP,NYT --Adi4094 (talk) 10:09, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Kashmir avalanche | 5 killed | many trapped Reuters,TOI --Adi4094 (talk) 10:43, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

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Wikinews Audio

Problem Images

• Arling MG 005.jpg
• Arling MG 014.jpg
• Arling MG 023.jpg
• Idiotarod2006DC012.JPG

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Articles weirdly flagged

Proposed articles

Proposed articles can now be found on the requested articles page.

Note: Instead of requesting articles, Write a quick brief. It is much easier to write briefs, but if you feel that you have the time, we still encourage full length news articles.

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Wikinews news

Check out these selected goings on here at Wikinews!

• meta:Global sysops. Proposal to have people who are sysops (Admins) on all small wikis to help out if local admins overburdened. (we are not a small wiki, so doesn't overly affect us). Go vote on meta.
• No google redirect? Don't panic, we now use googlehack instead. Easy Peer review will no longer generate redirects, and thats ok.
• Wikinews is holding a writing contest starting on January 25. Sign up! Newbies welcomed and encouraged.
• 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: 0 Flagged revs requests: 0 Bot requests: 1 Articles needing review: 1 Quiz: Ok ^Edit

See also Wikinews:Wikinews Bulletin.

Flagged discussions

• Wikinews:World News Quiz
• Wikinews:Reviews
• Wikinews talk:Writing contest 2010
• Wikinews talk:Flagged revisions/Requests for permissions
• Wikinews talk:Featured article candidates
• Wikinews talk:Writing a Photo essay
• Wikinews talk:Obituary from Wikipedia
• Wikinews:Accredited Reporter ID

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