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As anyone who’s spent significant time on Wikinews knows, the number of articles published in one day can be small, and sometime none. On September 12, 2009, Wikinews set a new record with 20 articles published. The range of articles varied widely: from Australian sports, to Afghani politics and conflicts to an American’s health with everything in between included.
For a list of articles published, please visit the September 12, 2009 category on Wikinews.
This week, Flagged Revisions was installed onto Wikinews. What this means, is that a select group of chosen “editors” can flag the revisions or changes of an article, which meet the publishing criteria of Wikinews. It also means that a formal editorial process has begun to take shape on Wikinews, for the first time since 2005.
Since Wikinews debuted in late 2004, we have made several attempts to include our site in the collective of Google News. Their main reason for excluding us in their News collective, was due to the lack of an editorial process, and that our way of writing articles was considered “too open” to include us. Since only select contributers have the ‘editor’ status, this enables those individuals to formally check over an article for typos, copy editing, and etc. Once those changes have been made to the article, that revision can be flagged as “stable”, meaning it has gone through a formal editorial process at that point.
With Flagged Revisions, that is likely to change, or at least it will up our chances of being included in the biggest news search engine on the internet. This is something I have been looking forward to for a long time. Now that it is here, I believe it will usher in a new and brighter era for Wikinews.
I just published Associated Press goes after bloggers for copyright violation. The process of creating this was most frustrating, and I almost think it is, “a day late and a dollar short”.
Quick synopsis is that AP issued seven DMCA takedown notices against the Drudge blog, The Drudge Retort. Some apparently none-too-pleasant emails were exchanged with AP’s lawyers too.
I don’t want to see Wikinews always play the little guy’s side and be just like the blogs, I want to give the right to reply, and to get both sides of the story. If you look on the article’s talk page you will see this. I tried to contact AP, Reuters, and the BBC. Nada. I even went as far as phoning AP and got bounced around until I was “persuaded” to leave a voicemail. I can say that at least the EFF got back to me, but ye-gods! they were slow off the mark.
Before the main topic, please read three key schedules that I just received from TCA and TAITRA:
- 2008 COMPUTEX Full Schedule (Archived Here)
- 2008 WiMAX Expo Schedule (including other Press Conferences in Archived version)
- Intel @ 2008 COMPUTEX & WiMAX Expo
I believe that everyone knows the COMPUTEX week is the next week (June 2 to June 7), but may not know theirs importances. This year, after the TAITRA expanded the exhibition into TWTC Nangang, and the WiMAX Expo will be held at Taipei Show Hall 2, the COMPUTEX and WiMAX Expo will chain each other for vast ICT products and industries.
TAITRA wanted to challenge the World’s No.1 by holding 2008 COMPUTEX, but still, it’s difficult due to lack of exhibition spaces even though the TWTC Nangang was launched after the Opening of 2008 Taipei Cycle. Although the COMPUTEX will be the biggest one since 1982, but there will be a unlimited road and future for TAITRA because the growth of ICT industry world-wide including Taiwan, I think.
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Just forgot one thing, I would like to see three different awards (Taiwan Excellence, Best Choice, Design and Innovation) because those threes has a critical target: To promote the best into the global ICT industry! Hope the COMPUTEX can get smooth in my COMPUTEX trip.
(Chinese Version can be read via this link)
Since I got a mail about the race schedule on June to December 2008 from Chinese Taipei Road Running Association, I got some questions troubled for my news wire….
- Will the Nike Taiwan hold the road running race again?
- Why is the “Taipei 101 Run Up” held earlier than I think?
- Will several International races in Taiwan be held properly?
Q1 & Q3 might be easy to understand because our mayor Lung-pin Hau encouraged several sports activities held in Taipei City for a long time. But the Q2, “Taipei 101 Run Up”, is hardly to understand why the organizer advance the race day from bottom-half to the last of top-half year………
As of the current schedule by CTRRA, its current form is……
- June 15 - 2008 The 4th Taipei 101 Run Up
- (Past three years’ holding date: 10/22 in 2006, 11/25 in 2005 & 2007)
- (Past three years’ holding date: 10/22 in 2006, 11/25 in 2005 & 2007)
- ING Taipei Marathon series race:
- September 13 - Eastern Taiwan Warm-up (@ Meilun Stadium of Hualien)
- September 21 - Southern Taiwan Warm-up (@ Kaohsiung Arts Museum)
- September 28 - Central Taiwan Warm-up (@ Taichung Metropolitan Park)
- Kids’ Warm-up - Unconfirmed, but held in Taipei City.
- December 21 - Main Race (@ Taipei City Hall Plaza)
- October 12 - Taipei Samsung Running Festival
- November 1 - Taroko International Marathon (I’m confirmed that I won’t be there… ^^)
Explain first for Q2, “Taipei 101 Run Up”, an annual skyscraper running up race since 2005 by Taipei 101, was often held in the bottom of the year before 2007. Because of a confused question for this race, I called their PR earlier to confirm this information, as of their explanation, they not only told me differences between skyscraper run-up and several marathon races, but also want to examine CTRRA’s “ChampionChip“, mostly used at international marathon races in Taiwan since 2005 ING Taipei Marathon.
Besides of those answers, I sincerely requested our editors (including unaccredited editors) can give some questions for me about the “Taipei 101 Run Up” before 23:00 May 14, 2008 UTC because their pre-race press conference will be held on 05:30 May 15, 2008 UTC (in Taipei Time: 13:30 May 15, 2008). You can reply here or leave a message via my user talk page. Don’t be afraid, just to ask what you want to know!
Kindly Regards.
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I will find an opportunity to translate the introduction from Chinese Wikipedia into English.
