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Irunongames•play 10:42, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Re: Your Article

If you haven't found someone else to help you with it by 2:15 EST, I'll help you out. I've got class until then, so I'll be busy. --Thunderhead ^{(t - e - c)} 12:56, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Your edits, and audio Wikinews

Hi. It's great to see an audio Wikinews contribution.

Edits to a published article are reviewed in-depth, and the range of edits accepted is limited beyond 24 hours after publication of the article due to our archive policy. Reviewing your edits to the article, I was inclined to reject some of them, and was in doubt about others, which left me, awkwardly, further uncertain how to handle your audio which uses your edited wording. (I'd be most interested to hear User:Blood Red Sandman's thoughts on this.) --Pi zero (talk) 12:49, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

There's also a couple mistakes on the Nevada one (haven't listened to the others yet). Some audio is better than none, but in this case people are being misquoted as a result. BRS ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 13:17, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Message received and understood, I'll put the mic away :-( Back ache (talk) 13:56, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

:-( --Pi zero (talk) 14:30, 11 February 2019 (UTC)

Under review

Hi. The state-of-emergency lawsuit article is under review. It may be published, soon, but will have changed by then. It'd have a different headline, too. --Pi zero (talk) 22:35, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Now published. --Pi zero (talk) 23:10, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi, how do you read me

Hi, I included you at your request into the "pingrr" list recently. You'd've received a few dozens of "RR" echo notifications in the last two weeks. Did they arrive? Could you please tell me what is preventing you from responding to them?

Revision requests are an essential part of the collaboration process, and your participation is vitally important. Please provide me with the feedback, it would help me a lot with making this process more efficient and easier for you to use.

Thanks. Gryllida (talk) 05:23, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

Live chat software trial

Live chat software trial (August-September 2025)

Hi, i am running a software to make live chat easier to use. It requires installation of QuasselDroid on Android, Quassel Client on Windows or Mac or Linux, and I don't know what on iOS (let me know if this is your main platform). The software would connect you to the official IRC channel for Wikinews and stay connected including all chat history, including when you closed the app. I am achieving this by hosting it on my Quassel Core on my server. If you are interested in trying this option, please install the Quassel Client software, and after this is done (not before), ensure you have a working email in your Special:Preferences so i can email you login credentials, and specify your desired IRC nickname. Please note this is open source software with low bandwidth usage and the communication is only via text, so it is not privacy invasive. This platform is older than the web, irc existed since 1980s. Thanks. Gryllida 22:09, 7 August 2025 (UTC)

Hi, please install the Quassel Client, it is free/open source, low bandwidth, low RAM and CPU usage

and tell me your desired nickname

I would greatly appreciated if you could use it for a few weeks and then leave me some feedback. This chat platform has 3 reviewers on it, and yourself being sitting in chat all 24/7 via this software could make collaboration much easier as then others could send messages to the group while your device is offline, and you could get notifications on mobile. Thanks Gryllida 20:11, 10 August 2025 (UTC)