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[edit] Facebook
This is mainly just a note that will be of use to people on the list of admins for Wikinews' Facebook page.
I've, frequently, wondered "how do I post on the page as me, not as 'Wikinews'?" Well, here's how:
- Log into Facebook
- Go to the Wikinews Facebook page
- Click "See all" in the Admins section (where the avatars are shown)
- Select "'Your settings" in the left-hand menu
- Uncheck "Posting preferences"
Now, whenever you go to the Wikinews Facebook page you will, by default, post as yourself.
- If you need to post something as Wikinews first select "Use Facebook as Wikinews", which appears just under the admin avatars on the right of the Wikinews Facebook wall. Then, you can post stuff like a newly-published article, notification of a just-promoted FA and so on.
One more Facebook tip for page admins, and I know I've not been the only one to encounter this… Sometimes, when you paste a link into where it says "What's on your mind?", or go to post a link, you're offered a summary that is out of date, or even not offered the full set of thumbnails from the article — Facebook have stale data cached goodness-knows-where.
- To force the absolute-latest version of the page be posted, you need to resort to the "raw" page link. For example, our Main page:
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- https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Page
- When anyone clicks on the link, the URL will be rewritten to the more normal /wiki/ form.
And, do remember to edit titles on posted articles (strip the " - Wikinews, the free news source"), and you can tweak the posted text description if it cuts off at a bad point. --Brian McNeil / talk 00:49, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
[edit] 14 pound baby!!!!!?????
It's a little stale now........I heard on a local radio station (tonight) that mom is a graduate of LeTorneau University in Longview, Texas.........not too far from my town (although I'm pretty sure she lives in another state now).......man, we missed that one!! Yowza!Bddpaux (talk) 03:50, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Wikinewsie.org moving hosting
After one last irksome problem with Godaddy, I'm moving the wikinewsie.org domain's hosting to another provider — based in Amsterdam.
New hosting will mean new email accounts, so please make sure you clean out what's on Godaddy. The good news is the new host, ITEC, offers mailing list support. So, there will be a wikinewsie.org list (at long last). Plus, the email accounts use SpamAssassin.
Initially, you'll probably see a couple of hours outage as DNS is re-pointed; you may lose some emails during this changeover! Once switched, I will start setting up accounts for people on the new host. You will still be able to download email from Godaddy, but new emails will come in to the new accounts.
I'll post another update once the site has transitioned. At that point, I can start switching over emails. Something is bound to break, so when it does contact me on brian dot mcneil at o2 dot co dot uk. --Brian McNeil / talk 16:20, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
- <grumbles about finally having to do something about all the emails xe stores online> Blood Red Sandman (Talk) (Contribs) 16:23, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
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- The Godaddy email store won't go away immediately (read, you've about a month to sort shit), but new emails will come in and need retrieved from a new server. --Brian McNeil / talk
[edit] Facebook: only comments, not new posts
Hi all: In "Posting Ability", I've unchecked "People can write or post content on the wall". That way, people can still comment on our (the admins) posts, but not start their own. I feel this is the only easy way for us to keep the spam to a minimum. -- Zanimum (talk) 00:11, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
