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Trophy[edit]

I, Heavy Water, hereby award MathXplore the Medal of Persistence for your 24-hour global fight against vandalism, including on Wikinews. You've earned it.

Heavy Water (talk) 05:23, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much, but looks like the medal/trophy is missing. MathXplore (talk) 05:53, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed. You're welcome! --Heavy Water (talk) 21:52, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting??[edit]

You do a lot of clean up work here (Thanks, by the way!) -- Have you ever considered doing a bit of journalism?--Bddpaux (talk) 21:40, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(About journalistic availability) Hello. I understand that the trend at here is mainly the news of the United States. I think there are many editors who have better coverage in this area. I don't think I can do better than them, and I don't know if I have enough resources to pass the reviewing procedure. If there are any requests to translate JAWN news articles, I might be able to help them. MathXplore (talk) 05:57, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
(Availability for other type of assistance) Instead I mainly aim to assist the journalistic objectives of this project. For example, categorization of the news articles. I have already helped the categorization at ENWQ/ENWV/ENWS, simplewiki, etc. and I look forward to helping here in this area. I usually try to add relevant categories to new article submissions, and sometimes I see commonly used categories at other projects are not existing here. Since many news archives are fully protected here, I think the creation of new categories are harder than other places. If we had an edit-protected user group like the Spanish Wikinews (es:Special:ListGroupRights) or any other alternative, my categorization works can be more effective, but that is not what we currently we have. I will continue to work with the tools that I'm allowed to have. MathXplore (talk) 06:12, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Help me: 'JAWN' news articles?? And, just as a prompt: This is English WN......so, if there is a news worthy event that happens in Malaysia, Paraguay, Belize, China, Japan etc. etc. etc., -- we value an article pertaining to it -- I promise! Sometimes (outside the US), people get deeply hung up on being an 'accredited' reporter..... If you were to, say, watch an important sporting event, you could submit a news article here about it! 'Credentials' in that regard are deemed more important in some ways outside the US, but we don't require that necessarily. Anyway: Thanks for what you do here. Let me know if I can help in some way.--Bddpaux (talk) 14:21, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, the help I think that would be needed is the processing of the (speedy) deletion requests, I think many users will agree to this point. I have no other specific requests at this moment. Thank you for the guidances. MathXplore (talk) 02:53, 22 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]