User talk:Matt von Furrie~enwikinews

Welcome

Matt von Furrie, welcome to Wikinews! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

Our key policies - if you read anything, read these!

• Wikinews:Neutral point of view - tell every side to a story in a fair and balanced way
• Wikinews:Cite sources - everything in a Wikinews article must be sourced

Here a few pointers to help you get to know Wikinews:

• Wikinews:Introduction - overview of the site
• Wikinews:Writing an article - how to write and publish a complete article
• Wikinews:Content guide - what's suitable for Wikinews
• Wikinews:Style guide - how articles should look before publishing
• Wikinews:Contents - the contents page.

There are always things to do on Wikinews:

• Existing articles need expanding and checking for spelling and mistakes
• The front page lead articles often need updating
• Developing stories need finishing and publishing
• Discussions need your input
• Audio Wikinews could always use more contributors
• And of course, stories need writing!

By the way, you can sign your name on Talk pages using four tildes (~~~~), which produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, you can ask them at the water cooler or to anyone on the Welcommittee, or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! BTW, we normally leave stories on the developing stories page for a few hours before moving it to the days page. --Cspurrier 01:54, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

hello

Thanks for the collision story! It just needed a few more things - a source and a date, and the dateline being removed (as we don't use them unless it's original reporting). Don't be reluctant to follow all the steps in Wikinews:Writing an article and publish stories yourself! Dan100 (Talk) 10:05, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Audio Wikinews Host

Currently, we need a News Briefs host. The process or going about doing this is to write a script based on this template. You would select the "edit" button at the top of that page and copy all of the text into Wikinews:Audio Wikinews/Transcripts/June 10, 2005/News Brief 1800 UTC, replace the 1800 with the current time in UTC, 02:07, and replace where is says "summaries" with two or three paragraphs of the top articles. Next, you would record yourself speaking it with a program like Audacity, encoded in into .OGG format, upload it, and add a link to it here. Good luck! If you have any questions, feel free leave a note at my talk page. NGerda 16:41, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)

Daily newscasts

Your idea tails very nicely with what we have a request for from a webcaster or three. They would like a daily-updated 5 minute "top of the hour" type of news cast. We've started working on this in a couple of different ways, including building a set of "News briefs" type paragraphs for each of our published news articles. You can find these via News briefs or checking each day's category - such as Category:June 28, 2005.

There is a project going at Wikinews:Audio Wikinews which has been getting some things recorded and available online. I'd love for you to join in! Where would you like to start? - Amgine/^talk 29 June 2005 06:56 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Matt von Furrie. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Matt von Furrie~enwikinews that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

23:21, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

06:34, 21 April 2015 (UTC)