User talk:Gryllida

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bot request

Hi, gry. In future, would you be able to create a bot which archives the sources and external links?
•–• 16:01, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Maybe we could use w:User:InternetArchiveBot which does the same task and runs on more than one wiki. It is written in PHP.
•–• 23:22, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

i will check it out Gryllida (talk) 10:27, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Acagastya would such bot be allowed in wikimedia toolforge? External articles are not freely licensed. Gryllida (talk) 22:13, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

???

Can you clarify a bit about this Welcome a bit?--Bddpaux (talk) 21:47, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi Bddpaux, it sends you email notifications about new article submissions - either to the 'develop' or 'review' or 'published' queues. You can choose a set of categories (eg 'Australia' or 'Politics') to limit the tracking only to these categories and not to all of them. Gryllida (talk) 21:51, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Bddpaux would you like to sign up? I'm trying to implement this more in wiki software here. Please let me know how this works for you? Gryllida (talk) 22:26, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

WelcomeABit

Hi Gryllida

I'd like to sign up for the welcome-a-bit notifications. Here are my preferences:

• Article status ('published' or 'developing' or 'review'):
• Topics (comma separated):
• Delivery type ('email' or 'wiki'):

--2006nishan178713^t@lk 04:03, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Are you still interested? Can you provide more details? Thanks Gryllida (talk) 10:32, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Facebook again

Hi Gryllida, good to see you're back. I sent you an email around mid-November asking if you're still able to post to the Facebook page, and if so if you could post an acknowledgement of the situation with it. Could you look into this when you've time, please? Thanks. Heavy Water (talk) 17:18, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi, do you mean "Hi all, we have spam in our Stories section, we are investigating. Unfortunately we have to go through the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and it may take several weeks. Sorry for the inconvenience" message? Gryllida (talk) 23:20, 13 December 2023 (UTC)

Yep. Heavy Water (talk) 04:08, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Can see only button to 'Create a fundraiser' or reply to DMs. I think I don't have access to create a new post. If there's a volunteer interested happy to do screen sharing and show you what features are available to me, maybe I am not looking in the right place... Gryllida (talk) 00:14, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Was this resolved? Gryllida (talk) 10:36, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello

It's been a while. Could you please move User talk:ICameHereForNews to User talk:CheatCodes4ever? CheatCodes4ever (talk) 10:38, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

They both have a page history, would you like the User talk:CheatCodes4ever page to be deleted together with all of its history to allow for the page move? Gryllida (talk) 00:09, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Yes. CheatCodes4ever (talk) 00:16, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

Hello? CheatCodes4ever (talk) 10:10, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

CheatCodes4ever: I suggest you ask at WN:Admin action alerts to direct your request toward all admins and probably get a faster response. I'm not an admin, but I don't think it would be acceptable to move one account's user page to another even if they're operated by the same person (it seems whether these are operated by the same person ought to be indicated anyway). Heavy Water (talk) 16:39, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Was it discussed at AAA? Gryllida (talk) 03:13, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Bureaucrat??

I actually want to re-assume this role.... Can you make that happen?--Bddpaux (talk) 22:37, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Missed the entire discussion. I will review it at earliest opportunity and get back to you. Gryllida (talk) 03:09, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

My wikinewsie email

Acagastya asked (at their talk page) for you to press some buttons so I can re-connect with my email account over there. I've totally lost my password for that account and imagine I have ten million emails.--Bddpaux (talk) 02:44, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

My VPS died and I don't have access at present. @Acagastya please send me an email and I will reply with my pubkey. Gryllida (talk) 03:07, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

WelcomeABit

Hi Gryllida

I'd like to sign up for the welcome-a-bit notifications. Here are my preferences:

• Article status ('published' or 'developing' or 'review'): developing
• Topics (comma separated): 1. Wars 2. Science/Tech Stories 3. US Politics
• Delivery type ('email' or 'wiki'): TBC

(This is my note for Me Da Wikipedian)

--Gryllida (talk) 02:54, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

sxw files discussion

Lost the link, if someone finds it, please post it here... Gryllida (talk) 11:36, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Email???

Did you read my response? I really need to be able to get into my WN email account to do some work.--Bddpaux (talk) 14:31, 30 August 2024 (UTC)

Mpox article

I would love to review this article, but the notes were sent to Scoop -- I cannot access my WN email account. That is a major problem. This has to be rectified.--Bddpaux (talk) 18:19, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

I have been trying to reach Acagastya for two weeks to get access to the mail server now.

Apologies for the delay. He provided me access but I did not setup my access to it from all my devices. One of my devices died and we have this situation now.

Internally we should have a Wikinewsie/wn-reporters wiki. We had one before. It could be good to put cell numbers of key users with privileged access into such an internal wiki one day. Would you agree?

I will keep you updated. Gryllida (talk) 02:15, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Yeah, the internal space was nice. But: We need the 'formal' email space we've had. --Bddpaux (talk) 15:36, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Familiar? mpox article

In written form this may come across as snitty (so please don't take it that way) -- but as a Reviewer (Editor), I don't think one really needs to be familiar with a topic to review/publish an article appertaining... one just needs to know the rules about what does/doesn't work around here. Don't want to scold you for not reviewing something, while I am busily not reviewing it myself -- I am just curious about your thinking.--Bddpaux (talk) 00:30, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

@Bddpaux I find myself more successful in digging sources, for hours at times, for some topics but not for others. Weather and crime events, and local news, are in the former category. I find it unfortunately very difficult to work outside of this small list of topics. I don't, for example, know, nor can remember quickly, that WHO has a chairperson or some structure in it that votes on things; I can easily misuse or misplace their names. Reviewing a story with new vocabulary takes me two or three times as much time (which is my current environment comes in blocks of 5 minutes, rather often not a whole free hour, not to mention two, due the surrounding noise.) I don't know whether that's normal or not. It would be interesting for me to know whether other reviewers have such stronger and weaker topics also, or not. I am happy to clarify as desired. Gryllida (talk) 10:32, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

subscribe

Category:Gryllida/notify/new/develop Gryllida (talk) 09:18, 11 October 2024 (UTC)

We need Three active Wikimedians to join us on Wikimedians of Art Outreach User Group

Please, l need two active Wikimedians to join our Wikimedians of Art Outreach Users group. Very urgent. Please help me to recommend two active editors for our User Group?

Three active Wikimedians. 1. Olusola David, Ayibiowu 2. 3. Visit: https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Art_Outreach_User_Group#Objectives

EduEditorsNG (talk) 12:14, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Review of article

I didn't want to 'not-ready' the Heavy rains hit Southern India article again in hopes that you can quickly fix it for publication. See the talk page for more. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 13:57, 18 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I've replied on article talk page. Gryllida (talk) 11:21, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

Help me to add My profile photo in Wikinews

File:Olusola David Ayibiowu.png

Olusola David, Ayibiowu my profile photo.

this is photo link on Appropedia https://www.appropedia.org/File:Olusola_David_Ayibiowu.png

EduEditorsNG (talk) 15:08, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

If you can

Please proof my recent review: Bruce Lehrmann judge said to have no links to published book of judgement. Thanks. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 21:19, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Michael.C.Wright I've revised for inverted pyramid and didn't sight my edit; please check? Gryllida (talk) 22:08, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Quantas article

Because I know you prefer getting pinged here; I have reviewed Qantas Australian airline employees strike for better wages and posted in the talk page. At 97 words, it was too short to publish but I hoped I could expand it enough without becoming involved. However, there are other, unsourced statements that if removed, would render the article too short for publication. Details at the talk page. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 15:47, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

thanks for ping working on it now Gryllida (talk) 21:14, 23 October 2024 (UTC)

test

1 Gryllida (talk) 21:27, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

New open poll, request to update sitenotice

I have opened a new poll here: Wikinews_talk:2024 Copyright license upgrade#Set date of actual upgrade (a poll).

Can you update the sitenotice (the banner at the top of all pages that currently says "Wikinews is written by people like you..." to point to the open poll and encourage people to discuss and vote on it? It is an urgent vote on a long-standing project.

Thank you in advance. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 18:44, 13 November 2024 (UTC)

ok i will do it soon Gryllida (talk) 04:06, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

done and I asked you a question about the licence. :-) Gryllida (talk) 04:35, 14 November 2024 (UTC)

One more time, please.......

What was the browser/email client you'd recommended I download/use to start receiving my wikinews emails?--Bddpaux (talk) 15:32, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

w:Thunderbird, please test for both receiving and sending emails

once working please let me know and send screenshot of your settings to @Michael.C.Wright as he got email access ages ago but is not able to send emails

thanks @Bddpaux

have a good day Gryllida (talk) 04:06, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

OK. Thank you. And: I don't use Mozilla Firefox -- will that cause problems?--Bddpaux (talk) 20:50, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Firefox does not have an email client in it. We currently do not have webmail installed. Gryllida (talk) 22:14, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Regarding the request at AAA

Recently you said this at WN:AAA[1]: Thank you for your help AramilFeraxa. For Michael.C.Wright's reference, I am a local sysop and I may be able to assist quickly, I only need clearer instructions what needs to be done and up to two days to respond. Seems like a non urgent issue and I had no idea what steps are needed. If anything is needed in future a request can be made here with specific instructions.

Are you suggesting that I did not give local admins an opportunity to take action on the request? I initially made the request at AAA six days ago, explicitly so that any admin, whether global or local (yourself included), could respond. However, no local admin addressed it until after a global sysop stepped in to assist.

It is counter-productive to ask global sysops to step back when local admins are not addressing the workload. We have been requesting assistance from local admins since July[2]] to make necessary edits to edit-protected pages for the upgrade project, and those tasks still remain unfinished.

If your schedule does not permit making the edits yourself, could you consider temporarily removing or downgrading the edit protection on the listed[3] pages? That would allow me to complete the changes and move the project forward.

Thank you for your attention to this matter, and I appreciate any steps you can take to help resolve this. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 14:56, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Hi Michael.C.Wright

Thank you for asking me.

• It isn't Wikipedia, if it is not vandalism then waiting more than six days is fine. I would have seen the message eventually. Possibly on a weekend.
• I am not sure how I am supposed to follow the page. I managed to subscribe to receive notifications about recent changes by joining 'en.wikinews' live chat on Wikimedia IRC network. There is a bot that outputs each recent change. However, this is too much for me to read on my busier days. It would be nice if there was a way to receive notifications of new edits on-wiki, with each notification being given a priority (for example, messages which ping me or are on my personal talk page or are on AAA are 'very high'; messages or edits to articles I watch are 'high'; everything else is 'average'). I haven't seen any way how this can be achieved. So my responses are spotty for now and I welcome any assistance in the setup.
• For the above reason, highlighting me or leaving me a message could help. (I'm two weeks behind on my echo notifications, but yet this is going to likely be something that I read among first items on my list when I am less busy.)
• I don't know what you want me to do. One option is to downgrade protection. What is the other option? What edits can I possibly make myself? The link in "downgrading the edit protection on the listed[3] page" contains a long discussion and does not include a list of pages I can immediately act on.

Thank you again. Gryllida (talk) 17:56, 28 November 2024 (UTC)

Request for the license upgrade project

I have made a request here: Wikinews_talk:2024_Copyright_license_upgrade#Pages_to_update. I am posting here as you have previously preferred. I will also notify you via IRC. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 17:04, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Why...

Are you publishing articles without updating the ledes? It's a necessary step, I'm just wondering if there's something preventing you from doing it. Heavy Water (talk) 20:33, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

Tried to do it a few times this year and got bored after updating the first two ledes. I did complete it that time, but did not want to do the procedure again.

It would be much better if the software updated all five ledes in one go, not on separate actions. Gryllida (talk) 21:17, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

I did it twice yesterday, and honestly such a royal boring pain to bear with. :-( Gryllida (talk) 21:58, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Wow, I accidentally clicked one of the entries listed in MakeLead and it actually filled it in as news title for making the lead. I was previously typing its first two-three words manually into the box each time and waiting for autocomplete of the title. The clicking is so much easier. I'm happier about the process now. Gryllida (talk) 02:10, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi

Hi, thank you for taking the time to review and publish my work! I really appreciate it.

I've started putting inline citations on everything to maybe help the reviewing process go quicker and easier for you.

Let me know if there's anything else I can do to reduce workload in the review process, or if there are any recurring learner's mistakes in my work that I am not seeing. Have a good day!! Lofi Gurl (talk) 21:07, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Lofi Gurl :-)

About inline citations via {{Verify}}:

• Wikinews never did. They appeared when Michael.C.Wright started reviewing as far as I know.
• They are not an official policy.
• Published articles do not have them.
• I don't use inline citations. I delete them. I am going to fact check a sentence against all sources, so having an inline citation next to it does not help me.
• If it is essential that a particular piece comes from a particular source, it is best to spell it out in text.
• (This also leaves an option to do audio Wikinews, which is kind of like radio. I don't know where that went, I'm going to work on it on the holidays. Citations are not audible while 'BBC reported that...' is.)

For reducing load:

• include image credit
• write in past tense
• visit Newsroom and edit others' submissions for NPOV, copyvio, inverted pyramid, etc
• find your peers who are keen to spend a lot of time online and enjoy reading, and invite them here
• you're welcome to join live chat (my nick is 'gry' there)

Let me know if you have any further questions. :-)

Regards, Gryllida (talk) 21:36, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! I noticed that the inline citations got removed from the finished articles, I guess my thought process was that each individual claim would be easier to check and verify if it had the link right next to it. I think it could also make it easier to identify any copyright issues that need fixed in the article. Thanks!! Lofi Gurl (talk) 21:50, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Sounds good. Gryllida (talk) 21:54, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

@Gryllida, Lofi Gurl: {{verify}} is indeed a tool to help both authors and reviewers in ensuring all information is sourced. Some reviewers will recommend hidden, HTML comments, which I have used in the past as an author. Attributing in prose is of-course highly recommended and often necessary, but can't be done for every single statement. While every single statement must be sourced and verifiable, per WN:Source.

I made the template specifically to help alleviate the problems caused by too few active reviewers, namely the time and effort required to review articles, which can often be more difficult than actually writing an article. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 15:14, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

I don't use this tool. I read through each source to verify each sentence. When I see it in articles I review, I delete the 'verify' templates blindly as a first edit. Just a FYI I don't recommend all authors to use it; if it is essential that a claim came from a specific source this needs to be written in text. Gryllida (talk) 23:26, 9 December 2024 (UTC)

This story stale?

https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Male_taken_in_after_a_driving_problem_has_shooting_in_Boston%E2%80%99s_South_End_neighborhood, thank you, i just don't want to continue writing if there is no point. BigKrow (talk) 21:51, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Technically "anything within last 7 days" is considered passable currently which was done as a last resort when the were lack of reviewers. There is a strong preference to fresher events, of course. May be best to write it shorter (just the 5Ws and ensure minimal length is met) if you would like to help the review to be quicker. Gryllida (talk) 21:56, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Gryllida, Lofi Gurl

Gry, Lofi Gurl has helped greatly. BigKrow (talk) 21:59, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Lofi Gurl. Gryllida (talk) 22:01, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

My BBC source in the Syria article

Can you check the way I formatted the authors in that reference and let me know if it can be improved in any way? I have the article submitted for review. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lofi Gurl (talk • contribs)

Feras Kilani missing.

They wrote "M and O, with B and F and L in Damascus" because I guess the last three are on-site. This does not matter for the source template.

"Matt Spivey, Owen Amos, Barbara Plett Usher, Feras Kilani, Lina Sinjab" maybe OK? Gryllida (talk) 22:37, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

I have a question about copyright

Am I required to give photo credit on works that are public domain? Thanks. Lofi Gurl (talk) 22:29, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

not required, but you can anyway if you want :-) Gryllida (talk) 22:32, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

The year 2024

Hi! I think someone on another language version asked me if English Wikinews would make an article about the change of license. But I could not find that message again. I imagine that usually articles are about things that happen outside Wiki, but perhaps some people would be interested in reading about Wiki too. I do not know if you have thought about it or if there is usually an article about the past year. Merry Christmas! MGA73 (talk) 09:59, 26 December 2024 (UTC)

Hi MGA73. (I am mostly away until the end of this week.) This isn't fresh now...; could this be posted into water cooler as it contains some newsletters? I could link to it from the site notice, to say 'Wikinews content licence was updated on day XXX, please see LINK for more info'. Regards, Gryllida (talk) 22:36, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi! Sure, yes that would fine. --MGA73 (talk) 06:23, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Scoop access

I tried to log in to my Scoop email account today and received an error: "Can't connect to server."

A screenshot of the error message I get from webmail[4] can be seen here: https://ibb.co/nD7WzT1

When I try to log in using a desktop app, I see the certificate expired in November. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 16:21, 9 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi Michael.C.Wright :-)

• I've just renewed the certificates for wn-reporters.org and mail.wn-reporters.org (the latter being the mail address for both smtp and imap servers in your email client).
• I tested it by successfully sending mail from wn-reporters to an external email server (Fastmail) and then back.

Does it work for you? Regards, Gryllida (talk) 00:36, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

(webmail now partially works: logging in and viewing messages is possible, but not sending them.) Gryllida (talk) 00:44, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Webmail now works properly, sending emails also works. Gryllida (talk) 01:07, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

I can confirm that for me, webmail is now fully accessible and I have successfully sent an email to an external address as well (yay!). Thank you. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 17:48, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

You're welcome. Can you please review the new years story with the corresponding OR materials, as I can't commit to that amount of detail. Ideally cut what cannot verify, and publish. @Michael.C.Wright Thanks Gryllida (talk) 22:52, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

What OR materials are you referring to? Did something come through to Scoop? If so, I did not receive it. I just checked my inbox.

Also, did you see Heavy Waters message on that talk page regarding Scoop access for him and another? —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Reviewer) 13:58, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Michael.C.Wright

They need to request here. Article talk page may get deleted and I need the request to stay. I am happy to provide access to a reviewer.

If the author did not email scoop, please ask the author to email again, perhaps start with a hello world message with no attachments in case email was too big.

Regards, Gryllida (talk) 18:59, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

What is the maximum attachment size allowed by the mail server for Scoop? —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Reviewer) 23:13, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

Possibly none. Does the sender get an error message? Gryllida (talk) 03:01, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

┌───────────────────────┘
The Scoop email server has a 10MB size limit. The server responded to test emails with this message: message size 12864141 exceeds size limit 10240000 of server. I have already updated our documentation to indicate the limit.[5], [6]

I arranged for the attachments to be sent to my personal email and the article has since been published.

Just thinking out loud here; perhaps one of our project focuses in 2025 could be a complete overhaul of how authors and reviewers effectively communicate and get important information verified for WN:OR. Currently the system is dysfunctional. Not all reviewers have access to scoop, scoop isn't able to handle modern file sizes, it doesn't appear that emails can be forwarded from scoop to personal emails (server side), etc. Our dysfunctional communication process is part of our perennial problem. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Reviewer) 15:14, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

I'm going to download the stuff you'd recommended recently (Thunderbird? etc.?)--Bddpaux (talk) 18:15, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

Is Thunderbird working for you? Gryllida (talk) 22:51, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Michael.C.Wright

Is it useful to write blanket or vague statements like that? I have asked a few clarifying questions below:

1. I will increase this limit and will get back to you.

2. Which reviewers don't have access to scoop? Please provide me with a list. I have typically provided access to anyone who asks.

3. Outgoing emails from scoop to personal emails works for me. Please try this again in the webmail. If there are issues, please email me screenshots 'and leave me a message on-wiki.

Thank you a lot for writing to me about it, I hope to be able to help you shortly.

Regards, -- Gryllida (talk) 03:14, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

I'm one of the reviewers who is not on scoop (nick_johnswn-reporters [dot] org). IIRC, Madeleine is in the same situation of having a wn-reporters address that is not on scoop. Heavy Water (talk) 04:51, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

To clarify — I had an email address, but my old email connected thereto was hacked, and I haven't gotten around to requesting a new one. Sorry I can't be of more help. JJLiu112 (talk) 05:02, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Gryllida, my statement that Scoop is dysfunctional is not directed at any individual. I stand by the general/blanket assessment because it is both useful and necessary to acknowledge. Scoop is currently not fulfilling its intended function—ensuring that sensitive information reaches all reviewers.

Further, addressing these challenges requires both the will and capacity to act. Our platforms^{(another example)} and processes are not operating effectively, and we are spending valuable time debating whether these issues exist rather than resolving them.

The long-term (~18 years) editing trend is in decline, and the short-term (twelve-month) trend shows no improvement. In 2024, we saw the lowest number of pages edited in all available historical data. I believe we have been experiencing a publishing crisis for at least four years and this is a direct result of dysfunctional platforms and processes.

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Regarding your questions:

2. I have requested that all reviewers verify access and notify you of any problems[7].

3. Outgoing emails from scoop to personal emails works for me. I was referring to the ability to forward emails sent to wn-reporters.org to personal email addresses, server side. This way, reviewers don't necessarily have to check a separate email account (wn-reporters) in addition to their personal email, if they so choose. To clarify; I can send and receive emails to wn-reporters using webmail.

Thank you again for all you do around here. You wear many hats; author, reviewer, admin, 'crat, email server admin, and maybe more that I've missed. I do recognize that when we have very few active reviewers and admins, as we currently do, this puts a heavy burden on the few active ones. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Reviewer) 19:34, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

I can accept a statement only with immediate action being taken to fix it, without necessarily waiting for Gryllida to write "Here are the actions required.". Without immediate action (which does not require prompts), blanket statements are useless and disruptive as they require effort of another volunteer to formulate an action plan. Gryllida (talk) 23:14, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

A few more responses.

For point 1:

• I have personal issues. They prevent me from editing.
  • One of them is "Michael being vague in article reviews and in collaboration". Given my other personal issues and overload from them, this issue caused me to walk away for a few months. I did not have energy to translate wise vague statements into wise actionable statements. I have too much of that that needs doing in my environment already. Way too much to my liking. It would be nice to have this solved at earliest possible opportunity.

For point 2:

• I appreciate that.
• I believe it's only a tip of iceberg. If you have spare moments and energy, you may wish to email each of the reviewers individually.
  • In my experience they often don't read.
    • They often don't read the wiki, they don't read personal talk page, they don't read personal emails through EmailUser. They only (in selected lucky cases) read some third party social media or place that needs to be dug up from their user page or Google.

For point 3:

• I was informed that this wasn't implemented because personal email are often not privacy respecting. Like: gmail, hotmail, etc. Perhaps for some other providers it is passable. With the email server working though and with webmail working, is forwarding something that you really need now? I am open to discussion.
• I will check whether this is possible to do in the webmail UI shortly.

Hope it helps. Gryllida (talk) 23:22, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

[B]lanket statements are useless and disruptive as they require effort of another volunteer to formulate an action plan. I see where this is going and will commit to avoiding any unnecessary interaction with you and I request that you return the favor. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Reviewer) 14:38, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

That's not only about me. That applies for any blanket statement. Without immediate action taken to fix it, it distracts someone else. In my view this is acceptable only when you don't know what to do about the issue. Gryllida (talk) 01:46, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

No option to add forwards in the webmail: bug report link and they are not going to work on it anytime soon. So you need to have email client running constantly which forwards, or ask me to do a forward for you. Gryllida (talk) 01:37, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

Increased attachment file size to 200,000,000 bytes (200 MB counting in 1000s not 1024s). Is any further needed? Gryllida (talk) 01:42, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

Wikinews:Requests for permissions

Hi, I think you have consensus to give yourself IA. Can you check out the request at MediaWiki talk:Common.css? Matrix (talk) 20:44, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Matrix I will check this. I am a bit busy this week so may take a few days. I will keep you updated. Gryllida (talk) 03:02, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi, @Gryllida! if you have a moment, could you please take a look at the request? Thanks. Asked42 (talk) 17:38, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Reviewing

I'm going to add notes to self here about what is review queue like and what I reviewed.

Currently no articles to review. Gryllida (talk) 22:12, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Rewrote Parties agree to form triple coalition in Austria 155 days after elections from brief to a full story. Awaiting review.

Published US Navy Secretary nominee Phelan outlines readiness, cost-cutting reforms in Senate hearing.

Refused to publish Friends of US President Trump warn Ukrainian President Zelenskiy to shift directions or leave office and asked a question on talk page, as event location or matter is unclear.

Developing queue has 10+ other articles. Deleted some as stale. More remaining; ignoring for now. Gryllida (talk) 22:53, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

(Asked Koavf whether he/she codes in JS.) Gryllida (talk) 22:53, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

Wrote wnr Thunderbird guide for Bddpaux Gryllida (talk) 22:54, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

Filed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T387801 about Echo not notifying Gryllida (talk) 23:48, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

Would be good to have a script like this for archival Gryllida (talk) 01:38, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Archive source URLs. Maybe automatically for a published article. Asked here. Gryllida (talk) 01:38, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Firefox etc.

So: I (finally!) downloaded Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird....... Now what?--Bddpaux (talk) 15:20, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi, Gryllida (talk) 21:44, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

See User:Gryllida/Wnr in Thunderbird @Bddpaux How does this help? Gryllida (talk) 22:08, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

@Bddpaux ...? Gryllida (talk) 13:53, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

It does help, but: I don't remember my password. Acagastaya kinda managed that, but was difficult to reach and has all but vanished. So, maybe it just won't work. I don't know. Maybe you can do a password re-set? Heck, I don't even remember my 'official' WN email address.--Bddpaux (talk) 17:02, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Message sent. Gryllida (talk) 00:10, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

Fantastic! Thanks!--Bddpaux (talk) 17:29, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

You're welcome :-) Gryllida (talk) 00:45, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Top article in February!

Contributing author for the top article published in February, 2025. The article has at least 1,237 views!

Thank you for contributing to the article titled "Gunman enters Pennsylvania hospital ICU, kills officer before police fatally shoot him." The article has the most number of page-views of all articles published in February of 2025.

Thank you for sticking with articles and quickly working toward consensus for changes!

—Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Reviewer) 15:23, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Gosh this is good thanks. I have been writing a mobile app for news writing recently, got stuck on this. cc @Leaderboard @Koavf -- Gryllida (talk) 19:41, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

Great work as always, G. Keep it up. <3 —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:45, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

Wildfires article

Not that this is keeping me up at night (it isn't) -- but I wonder why this didn't show up on Main page....?--Bddpaux (talk) 16:36, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

I did not put lede. (Check article talk.) It shows fine in the feed of published articles. Gryllida (talk) 17:05, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Trophy

Not sure how this got missed: This belongs on your user page!!

This award is presented to Wikinews reporters upon their 50th published news article.

Keep it up!--Bddpaux (talk) 12:30, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Thank you @Bddpaux. This is so inspirational to write more stories. :-) -- Gryllida (talk) 23:05, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Sighting last change?

I was wondering if you could possibly, last edit from me for the Conway, Arkansas article? Thank you very much! P.S. I wish to stay anonymous, thank you again! @Gryllida 64.39.81.71 (talk) 23:23, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Done Thanks. You're welcome to #wikinews-en ^{live connect} join the live chat (stick around for a couple hours, it's a bit quiet at times~) It is a pretty anonymous platform that does not require registration. Regards, -- Gryllida (talk) 23:24, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Much appreciated. 64.39.81.71 (talk) 23:26, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Review Help Needed - Update 1 (April 15, 2025)

Hello!

This is Gryllida. I am one of the reviewers at Wikinews. I'm contacting you to request assistance with the review queue. Here is my understanding of the articles which are in the review queue now:

Event Date	Link	Did I edit substantially?
April 6 Sunday	Deadly attack on gold miners in Papua leaves multiple casualties and sparks security response
April 9 Wednesday	Prison confession and police interrogation video of Delphi bridge murderer made public for first time
April 9 Wednesday	Helicopter crash in South Africa blamed on 'unsecured' penguin
April 10 Thursday	Authorities identify Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Sydney CBD, Australia	YES
April 10 Thursday	US Health Secretary vows to determine cause of autism by September	YES
April 12 Saturday	Nuclear negotiations between US and Iran commence in Muscat, Oman
April 13 Sunday	Nobel laureate writer from Peru, Vargas Llosa dies
April 14 Monday	President Bukele says he will not return wrongly deported U.S. man, confounding U.S. Supreme Court order
April 14 Monday	Pop singer Katy Perry safely returns to Earth from outer space

Suggested action:

• Start to review from the top of the list.
• As the list may be out of date, please check the WN:Newsroom at your earliest convenience.

I'm planning to send this reminder twice a week. To unsubscribe, please visit User:Gryllida/Notifications/New/Review and inquire at the talk page. If you wish, I can narrow it down to only notify you of new stories in your preferred region or topic. Please let me know if you are interested in this option.

Please let me know if you require assistance or would like to connect with me to do a few reviews together before you proceed to do them fully on your own.

Many thanks for your time.

Regards, -- User:Gryllida 11:44, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Review Help Needed - Update 2 (April 21, 2025) - 17 articles awaiting review

Hello! :-)

This is Gryllida. I am one of the reviewers at Wikinews. I'm contacting you to request your assistance with the review queue. Here is my understanding of the articles which are in the review queue now:

Caption

Event Date	Link	Did I edit substantially?
April 9 Wednesday	Prison confession and police interrogation video of Delphi bridge murderer made public for first time
April 10 Thursday	US Health Secretary vows to determine cause of autism by September	YES
	Suspect taken into custody and charged after Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro is forced to evacuate gubernatorial mansion with family following suspected arson attack
April 12 Saturday	Nuclear negotiations between US and Iran commence in Muscat, Oman
	Weezer performs at Coachella music festival with bassist Scott Shriner four days after his wife was shot by Los Angeles police, charged with attempted murder
April 13 Sunday	Sumy, Ukraine hit with two missiles by Russia
April 14 Monday	President Bukele says he will not return wrongly deported U.S. man, confounding U.S. Supreme Court order
April 14 Monday	Pop singer Katy Perry safely returns to Earth from outer space
	Thousands hospitalised in Iraq due to sandstorm
	Teen's murder of both parents was part of larger plot to assassinate Donald Trump and overthrow US government, newly-released FBI affidavit says (Date TBC)
April 15 Tuesday	New rape and sexual assault charges trial for Harvey Weinstein in Manhattan
	Protester tasered and arrested at town hall hosted by US Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene
	Several suspects dead in South Africa after shootout results in the rescue of abducted US pastor
	16 year old Torquay boy arrested after stealing Lexus in Exeter
April 16 Wednesday	Rwandan government releases Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey
	German prosecutors charge doctor with murder of over a dozen patients via anaesthetic drugs, arson Date TBC
April 17 Thursday	Four dead in cable car crash in area south of Naples
April 18 Friday	Ryan Gosling cast in upcoming Star Wars film
	Cincinnati Reds win against Baltimore Orioles

Suggested action:

• Start to review, perhaps from the top of the list.
• Please, aim to review at least one article a fortnight, if able. We currently have less than 50% activity among reviewers, with many not having made an edit within last two years. If there is something that can help you with coming back, please let me know. I'm happy to chat with you at IRC, wiki, audio, or any preferred platform and do several reviews together. If there is some other motivator, I'm eager to know what it is and get it done as soon as possible.
• As the list may be out of date, please check the WN:Newsroom at your earliest convenience.

I'm planning to send this reminder twice a week. To unsubscribe, please visit User:Gryllida/Notifications/New/Review and inquire at the talk page. If you wish, I can narrow it down to only notify you of new stories in your preferred region or topic. Please let me know if you are interested in this option.

Please let me know if you require assistance or would like to connect with me to do a few reviews together before you proceed to do them fully on your own.

Many thanks for your time.

Regards, -- Gryllida 06:23, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

court date

I have not found a court date set for the Josh Shapiro incident. Lofi Gurl (talk) 19:50, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

issue with WN:Freshness is there an email of the relevant police station, i can ask them for clarification from my wn-reporters email? thanks Gryllida (talk) 21:33, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Please block BigKrow2

Imposter account @Gryllida BigKrow (talk) 21:16, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much I'm getting tired of socks BigKrow (talk) 21:17, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Done thanks for the report Gryllida (talk) 21:32, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Review Help Requested - Update 3 (April 26, 2025) - 2 articles awaiting review

Hello :-) This is Gryllida. I am one of the reviewers at Wikinews. I'm contacting you to request your assistance with the review queue. Here is my understanding of the articles which are in the review queue now:

• Tesla reports 71% profit loss in 25Q1 vs 24Q1, Elon Musk to reduce government work commitment TUESDAY April 22 (Gryllida did a major edit, and cannot review) - 4 days ago
• Lion mauls, kills teenage girl in Kenya SATURDAY April 19 - 7 days ago LAST DAY TO REVIEW IS TODAY

Please review urgently.

As the list may be out of date, please check the WN:Newsroom at your earliest convenience.

You're welcome to join the live chat for real time collaboration.

(I'm planning to send this reminder approximately twice a week. To unsubscribe, please visit User:Gryllida/Notifications/New/Review and inquire at the talk page. If you wish, I can narrow it down to only notify you of new stories in your preferred region or topic. Please let me know if you are interested in this option.)

Please let me know if you require assistance or would like to connect with me to do a few reviews together before you proceed to do them fully on your own.

Many thanks for your time.

Regards, Gryllida 23:29, 25 April 2025 (UTC)