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This redesign has now replaced the main portal page, due to the overwhelming support on the redesign talk page. -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 02:47, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
This straw polls were copied from Portal talk:Current events/Redesign: -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 02:52, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
This is the method displayed on this purpose whereby only a certain number of days (in this case, seven) are displayed on the main portal page and rest are on their respective monthly pages.
This is the current method on Portal:Current events and the former Current events. All the events for the month are kept on the main portal page until the end of the month when all of the months events are moved to another article (with the chronological order changed from forward to backward). The main portal page is cleared for the next month.
As currently: June 2006, May 2006, etc.
As such: Portal:Current events/July 2006, Portal:Current events/August 2006. etc.
The full archives would be kept in portal space, but a shorter summary of the month should go into the article space.
What should be the date format of the sub-pages: US-format, ISO-format or European format?
ISO: Portal:Current events/2006-07-01 The ISO format has the advantage of automatically chronologic sorting.
{{Special:Prefixindex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}
, which will list out all the relevant subpages. –
Minh Nguyễn (
talk,
contribs)
07:33, 31 July 2006 (UTC)US - Portal:Current events/July 1, 2006
European - Portal:Current Events/1 July 2006
ISO Variant - Portal:Current events/2006 July 1
Use July 8, July 9, etc. Solve ISO vs. Euro vs. U.S. issue by wikifying month and year as in current version, which supports readers' date preferences and conforms to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Dates containing a month and a day.
I put something up about the Vanuatu earthquake. The event happend on August 8th in the region, but it was still August 7th in parts of the world. Should it be an August 7th or August 8th headline?
Thanks, KevinJ
Thanks for the edit Ezeu. My apologies for making this post towards the top.
I will go to the bottom from now on!
KevinJ 13:20, 8 August 2006 (UTC)KevinJ
The sectional [edit]s only turn up blank pages now! Anyone else getting this? 68.39.174.238 02:54, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
When I performed the move, I moved the pages to the ISO Variant format (e.g. /2006 July 12). However, this is still up for grabs. Continue to voice your opinion in the straw poll above. -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 02:55, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Is there anyone from the article space archival camp that would be willing to create a set of instructions on how to do the archivals? -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 03:30, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Before the month ends, an equivalent to Wikipedia:How to archive Current Events needs to be created to reflect the recent changes. The redesign includes the much-needed introduction of template-based daily current event logs (e.g. Portal:Current events/2006 July 1); together with the daily maintenance described at Wikipedia:How the Current events page works#Adding a new date, a monthly log of daily events (e.g. Portal:Current events/July 2006 is gradually assembled throughout the month.
One thing that remains to be decided is how to produce a month's encyclopedia entry (e.g. June 2006) based on the portal's monthly log.
For context and possible further discussion, I've copied relevant discussions from the redesign talk page, renaming subsections Kayaker 04:03, 12 July 2006 (UTC).
Big question: should archivals stay on the article namespace (i.e. June 2006, May 2006, etc.) or should we keep all future monthly archivals in the portal namespace (i.e. Portal:Current events/July 2006, Portal:Current events/August 2006, etc.)? Regarding the issue, I stated (in the Documentation above):
However, Kayaker on the portal talk page stated:
So what does everyone else thing we should do? Archive in the article/main space or archive in the portal space? -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 23:24, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
So now there's a problem. A couple users have suggested that the archives go in the article space. However, as you clearly can see, there are a lot of tables and formatting, etc, etc for each of the dates. That (as far as I know) cannot go into article space. So we can't have the appearance of this page and the archives in article space (without a considerable amount of extra work). I noted this in the Downside Section on this page, but I had a feeling the section wasn't fully read. -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 01:41, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
All we get is the history for the framing portal page, not for the individual days. That's a major design flaw. Any chance of a "hist" button getting added to the "DateHeader2" bar, alongside the "edit" one, linking to the history of the transcluded element in question? Bolivian Unicyclist 22:10, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
With the new regime, if you use the calendar in the info box you can click the current month name and go to that month (ok), you can click "<<" and go to the previous month ok, but in the previous month when you click ">>" to come back, you go to a different page which is not ok. Any fixes should take into condsideration all the other monthly events pages which use the same calendar templates. Also, the "list of events by month" at the bottom of the pages doesn't appear to be the same on all the monthly pages. cleanup needed. -- SGBailey 16:28, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
someone has completely deleted the wikipedia current events!! plz block this person for some x amount of hours, as i am unable to! 70.124.114.165 03:58, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't the pages about Current events for specific countries/areas be in the portal namespace as well? In my opinion, it should be for example, Portal:Current events/United States. What do people think? Should the pages be moved? Newnam (talk) 05:52, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Item number one: LDBot, operated by Lightdarkness, will now be auto-creating the date subpages around 400 UTC. Therefore, I have updated the directions in the comments of the main portal page to reflect that.
Item number two: When adding a date to the main portal page, please remove the oldest date from the main page, update the calendar in the sidebar (it's located at Portal:Current events/Calendar), and add the newest date to the current monthly page (currently Portal:Current events/July 2006). Thanks in advance. -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 19:53, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
So what's the verdict on the archiving? Right now, I'm outnumbered 2-1 on the archival process. I'm, of course, okay with that, although I think it would be best if one of those two editors were to take care of the article-space archival plan, at least for July 2006 so I and others can see how it would work. -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 14:45, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
I vote to remove the "Highlights" section. -- user:mnw2000 03:09, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Two advantages to having it is that it is relevant to the portal (see Wikipedia:Portal) and it is actively maintained, something that some portals find challenging. While it wasn't my idea to include it, once proposed I thought it was a good idea Kayaker 01:05, 26 July 2006 (UTC).
I think you are all right. It should either be removed or actually updated on a daily basis. That highlight on the Qana airstrike has been on there forever. And I know this sounds really harsh, while it was big news and probably worthy of being a highlight when people thought it was 50 or 60 civilians being killed, it's old now and not as relevant to things that actually happened today. There is a mechanism to updating the featured article, the featured picture, the did you know and the on this day sections. Why not the In the news section? User:Cdogsimmons 20:17, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Fact is, while Israel dominates the news, far more people are being killed in Baghdad right now and the events there are going to have much longer impact. Who decides what is notable? Lieberman's defeat isn't a highlight? 75.1.5.188 16:59, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Why not make current events in middle east? After all, most of the conflicts, disputes, and wars in the modern world are occurring there. Eshcorp 14:15, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
It seems to me that one cannot access the first line of the news for July 23rd (re. Nationa (US)l gas price), in order to edit it.
Am I right? If so, what can be done about this? Duncan.france 01:09, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
I have been trying for several hours to created 25 July 2006 as a new date. For same reason, it comes up as a red link. We need to have a system to ensure that we can create a new date as soon as a newsworthy event occurs somewhere in the world. There are parts of Asia and Oceania that are well ahead of UTC and we need to have a system that caters to timezones throughout the world. Capitalistroadster 07:24, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
{{subst:Portal:Current events/DateHeader|2006|07|25}}
into the new page). I'll add the next couple of days right now. --
tariqabjotu (joturner)
12:14, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
For the last 6 days or so Floyd Landis' image has been featured as the picture of current events. There are more important things going on in the world than the Tour de France. Therefore I favor a new image - maybe this time not a sports image. -- Abdull 10:31, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
I added a table at the top with a few related pages, including the archives from the old Talk:Current events. I also created some instructions for archiving the portal (it's in the table at the top of this page). Since no one offered to write the instructions, I decided to do it (no, I'm not bitter; I'm just saying that in case someone asked why I didn't let someone else do it). Go ahead and look over the instructions and revise it, etc, etc. Add to it, etc, etc. I didn't really bring this up beforehand because a) I actually did mention the instructions before and b) they should come as no surprise as the redesign from earlier this month included many of the features described in the instructions and it was quite obvious that this was the way things have been working. But nevertheless, feel free to change it, especially those who want to archive in the article space. -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 15:41, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
What should be done about Portal:Current events/Events by month? Right now, I made the links for July 2006 - December 2006 go to current event subpages (many of which don't exist). Is that okay? Or should they go to the mainspace articles ( September 2006, October 2006, etc)? -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 00:00, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
I seems the calendar on the other currents events pages is broken. How does it work? Can I fix it? What do I need to do? I'm a frequent contributor on Current events in Southeast Asia. I understand that it should probably be moved to the portal space and redesigned as a portal. I don't fully understand the logistics of doing this or the maintenance and upkeep that will be required in doing so. My experimentations in the sandbox with setting up and editing a portal was a disaster. So help will be needed on that front, and I don't want to do it alone. Anyway, right now I'm hoping to resolve the calender issue. Thanks. -- Wisekwai 18:02, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
<div id="2006 August 1" />
, <div id="2006 August 2" />
, <div id="2006 August 3" />
, etc. above each date section as the date arrives. If you need any more help, feel free to ask me. --
tariqabjotu (joturner)
23:37, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
<div id="2006 August 2" />
===1 August, 2006 (Tuesday)===/></nowiki>
Or
<div id="2006 August 1" />
===1 August, 2006 (Tuesday)===/></nowiki>
<div>
tags should be placed above the corresponding date, like the second option. Also, I have a correction to my instructions. Since some of the sub-pages are different from the main portal page, the date format should be 1 August 2006
instead of 2006 August 1
. So...<div id="1 August 2006" /> ===[[August 1]], [[2006]] (Tuesday)===
An increasing number of entries here are just the first sentence or paragraph copied from the news source. This is not ok and needs stamping on. Whilst I can spot a few, we need to get a culture here which will notice these and get rid of them... any ideas? As an example, the first two Israel entries under Portal:Current_events/2006_August_2 are just copied from the BBC. Morwen - Talk 13:33, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
In particular this edit summary, IP addresses seem to be violating WP:NPOV. Chacor 15:45, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
This should be updated, I've posted a link to a BBC report on the article's talk page, but I know too little about the conflict to adequately integrate the information into the article. Help? — Nightst a llion (?) 09:26, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
This edit is quite obviously uncivil, and there is no point to it. Chacor 13:41, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Also, is there a better title for the section? A heatwave isn't a disaster... Chacor 17:12, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Now, I've only seen what's gone by in past days, but it seems that the parties responsible for the Achilioland conflict and Ituri conflict have signed/agreed to peace terms. Should those two entries then be moved to "Recent" as opposed to "Ongoing" ? Is there a set standard for when to do this? 68.39.174.238 18:17, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
If we are to have "In the news" on the start page of Wikipedia, all the news items must be current. Right now the top item states "Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert orders the army to prepare for an extended ground offensive in Lebanon as the Israel-Lebanon conflict continues." However, this was news on 7 August, five days ago, and since then much has happened in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. The Portal:Current events lists new developments every day since then, but nothing of it seems to end up in the "In the news" box. As the editing of that box is the privilege of a few trusted administrators, the rest of us unfortunately can't touch it. The single most important news item in the conflict for a number of days, the final adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, is now almost 20 hours old, but there is still nothing about it in that box. Perhaps it's time to review how the box is managed? Thomas Blomberg 18:10, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Sources: Arrest made in JonBenet Ramsey case
This appears to merit placing on the "In the news" section on the Main Page. -- 24.255.155.100 22:02, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
I have been maintining the portal and updating it on a constant basis. However, its a hard task and all I'm doing is copying Current Events that concern the middle east from this portal. Is anyone interested in helping? -- Eshcorp 09:45, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
An attempt is being made to move the old Current events in Southeast Asia page to Portal:Southeast Asia/Current events, and assistance is needed to finesse some of the coding on the page. Instruction on the maintenance of a portal is also needed. How are the past months archived? Is is possible for the SE Asia current events portral to have its own "highlight"? I have tried experimenting with portal coding in the past and the results were disastrous. Help is needed, please. - Wisekwai 12:23, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
reading current events on Wikipedia doesn't give me the impression that the sister project WikiNews is highly regarded. On the main page the stories aren't linked to wikinews, and even here there are links to BBC etc. but not to the related stories on WikiNews.
Is there a reason for this? I think WikiNews should be a priviliged partner of Wikipedia, and links to full stories should be preferentially to WikiNews. Maybe that's provided they are good quality, but even then, this will allow more people to edit over there.
-- Steven Fruitsmaak | Talk 15:50, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Is "Highlights" really the right word to describe major events of the day, when those events could be horrendous? For example, today's first 'Highlight' reads: "Comair Flight 191, a Canadair CRJ-100 aircraft, crashes upon take-off from Lexington, Kentucky's Blue Grass Airport killing 49 of 50 passengers and crew on board." -- Mister Six 21:11, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Currently I see:
Regional - World • Africa | China | India | Middle East | Oceania | Southeast Asia | United States
But no "Europe" or similar. Has this been moved/deleted, or can it really be that Europe has no Regional Portal of its own designated??? - 82.153.129.223 05:49, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Isn't this article just an opinion?
A $450 million slush fund for the Republican Bush White House will be created by the prospective deal to resolve the United States-Canada softwood lumber dispute. (The Tyee)
Why is it listed as a fact? user:mnw2000 12:05, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
I recently viwed this article to find this "Steve Irwin, "The Crocodile Hunter", is assassinated by terrorist stingrays, believed to have ties to al Qaeda, near Australia's Great Barrier Reef." which i find very hard to believe.
I see a lot of problems with how Current events are run here. There're countless wars and other armed conflicts going on around the globe, people starving, dying, being torn from their farms, houses, endless state affairs to document. But instead of mentioning any of these, Wikipedia's Current events chooses to highlight the death of Steve Irwin, and the retirement of a sports star. Whenever I've had the motivation to actually try getting something up on the front page, I'm simply shot down by some random admin, because I don't have the same status. Instead of hundreds of folks being illegally evicted from the South Central Farm, or ongoing death in Palestine and Lebanon, we get sports scores. What the hell? File:Icons-flag-scotland.png Canæn File:Icons-flag-scotland.png 02:58, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
- Fsotrain 09 03:16, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Yesterday, twice, someone removed a news story about White House criticism of U.S. Democratic Party policy, merely on the grounds that Drudge is not a good source. Are we really saying that Matt Drudge would invent a letter from Bolten? What if he's the only source? -- Uncle Ed 11:53, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Is there a better way to word this? While I understand what's it's trying to say, currently, it seems to suggest that this heir becoming emperor is a forgone conclusion without a law change. This is of course incorrect, since he could die before then or perhaps Japan could lose their monarchy or whatever (obviously a law change will be necessary and technically the removal of the monarchy means there would be a change in the succession law but I hope people can understand the point I'm making). Various other scenarios such as the heir turning out to be such an idiot and/or prick that the Japanese people don't wat him and come up with some way to ensure he doesn't become emperor (which could be a change in succession law, a removal of the monarchy or something else). Nil Einne 13:01, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
"The Singaporean economy tops a list of 175 economies as the most business-friendly economy in the world in a survey conducted by the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (CNA). "
I checked the source, http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/228876/1/.html, let me just post what the title of the source was and you can come to your own conclusions whether it backs up this news tidbit:
Design teams chosen for two Gardens by the Bay
The source has nothing to do with it as far as I've read. Fephisto 14:45, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
I can understand the worries the nurses have regarding their jobs and yet the Labour Government has allowed a Chief Executive to be employed at an outrageous salary, which could have employed three more nurses. DES from Cheshire. 25/04/2010
I can understand the worries the nurses have regarding their jobs and yet the Labour Government has allowed a Chief Executive to be employed at an outrageous salary, which could have employed three more nurses. DES from Cheshire. 25/04/2010
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This redesign has now replaced the main portal page, due to the overwhelming support on the redesign talk page. -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 02:47, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
This straw polls were copied from Portal talk:Current events/Redesign: -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 02:52, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
This is the method displayed on this purpose whereby only a certain number of days (in this case, seven) are displayed on the main portal page and rest are on their respective monthly pages.
This is the current method on Portal:Current events and the former Current events. All the events for the month are kept on the main portal page until the end of the month when all of the months events are moved to another article (with the chronological order changed from forward to backward). The main portal page is cleared for the next month.
As currently: June 2006, May 2006, etc.
As such: Portal:Current events/July 2006, Portal:Current events/August 2006. etc.
The full archives would be kept in portal space, but a shorter summary of the month should go into the article space.
What should be the date format of the sub-pages: US-format, ISO-format or European format?
ISO: Portal:Current events/2006-07-01 The ISO format has the advantage of automatically chronologic sorting.
{{Special:Prefixindex/{{FULLPAGENAME}}/}}
, which will list out all the relevant subpages. –
Minh Nguyễn (
talk,
contribs)
07:33, 31 July 2006 (UTC)US - Portal:Current events/July 1, 2006
European - Portal:Current Events/1 July 2006
ISO Variant - Portal:Current events/2006 July 1
Use July 8, July 9, etc. Solve ISO vs. Euro vs. U.S. issue by wikifying month and year as in current version, which supports readers' date preferences and conforms to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Dates containing a month and a day.
I put something up about the Vanuatu earthquake. The event happend on August 8th in the region, but it was still August 7th in parts of the world. Should it be an August 7th or August 8th headline?
Thanks, KevinJ
Thanks for the edit Ezeu. My apologies for making this post towards the top.
I will go to the bottom from now on!
KevinJ 13:20, 8 August 2006 (UTC)KevinJ
The sectional [edit]s only turn up blank pages now! Anyone else getting this? 68.39.174.238 02:54, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
When I performed the move, I moved the pages to the ISO Variant format (e.g. /2006 July 12). However, this is still up for grabs. Continue to voice your opinion in the straw poll above. -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 02:55, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Is there anyone from the article space archival camp that would be willing to create a set of instructions on how to do the archivals? -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 03:30, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Before the month ends, an equivalent to Wikipedia:How to archive Current Events needs to be created to reflect the recent changes. The redesign includes the much-needed introduction of template-based daily current event logs (e.g. Portal:Current events/2006 July 1); together with the daily maintenance described at Wikipedia:How the Current events page works#Adding a new date, a monthly log of daily events (e.g. Portal:Current events/July 2006 is gradually assembled throughout the month.
One thing that remains to be decided is how to produce a month's encyclopedia entry (e.g. June 2006) based on the portal's monthly log.
For context and possible further discussion, I've copied relevant discussions from the redesign talk page, renaming subsections Kayaker 04:03, 12 July 2006 (UTC).
Big question: should archivals stay on the article namespace (i.e. June 2006, May 2006, etc.) or should we keep all future monthly archivals in the portal namespace (i.e. Portal:Current events/July 2006, Portal:Current events/August 2006, etc.)? Regarding the issue, I stated (in the Documentation above):
However, Kayaker on the portal talk page stated:
So what does everyone else thing we should do? Archive in the article/main space or archive in the portal space? -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 23:24, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
So now there's a problem. A couple users have suggested that the archives go in the article space. However, as you clearly can see, there are a lot of tables and formatting, etc, etc for each of the dates. That (as far as I know) cannot go into article space. So we can't have the appearance of this page and the archives in article space (without a considerable amount of extra work). I noted this in the Downside Section on this page, but I had a feeling the section wasn't fully read. -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 01:41, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
All we get is the history for the framing portal page, not for the individual days. That's a major design flaw. Any chance of a "hist" button getting added to the "DateHeader2" bar, alongside the "edit" one, linking to the history of the transcluded element in question? Bolivian Unicyclist 22:10, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
With the new regime, if you use the calendar in the info box you can click the current month name and go to that month (ok), you can click "<<" and go to the previous month ok, but in the previous month when you click ">>" to come back, you go to a different page which is not ok. Any fixes should take into condsideration all the other monthly events pages which use the same calendar templates. Also, the "list of events by month" at the bottom of the pages doesn't appear to be the same on all the monthly pages. cleanup needed. -- SGBailey 16:28, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
someone has completely deleted the wikipedia current events!! plz block this person for some x amount of hours, as i am unable to! 70.124.114.165 03:58, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
Shouldn't the pages about Current events for specific countries/areas be in the portal namespace as well? In my opinion, it should be for example, Portal:Current events/United States. What do people think? Should the pages be moved? Newnam (talk) 05:52, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Item number one: LDBot, operated by Lightdarkness, will now be auto-creating the date subpages around 400 UTC. Therefore, I have updated the directions in the comments of the main portal page to reflect that.
Item number two: When adding a date to the main portal page, please remove the oldest date from the main page, update the calendar in the sidebar (it's located at Portal:Current events/Calendar), and add the newest date to the current monthly page (currently Portal:Current events/July 2006). Thanks in advance. -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 19:53, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
So what's the verdict on the archiving? Right now, I'm outnumbered 2-1 on the archival process. I'm, of course, okay with that, although I think it would be best if one of those two editors were to take care of the article-space archival plan, at least for July 2006 so I and others can see how it would work. -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 14:45, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
I vote to remove the "Highlights" section. -- user:mnw2000 03:09, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Two advantages to having it is that it is relevant to the portal (see Wikipedia:Portal) and it is actively maintained, something that some portals find challenging. While it wasn't my idea to include it, once proposed I thought it was a good idea Kayaker 01:05, 26 July 2006 (UTC).
I think you are all right. It should either be removed or actually updated on a daily basis. That highlight on the Qana airstrike has been on there forever. And I know this sounds really harsh, while it was big news and probably worthy of being a highlight when people thought it was 50 or 60 civilians being killed, it's old now and not as relevant to things that actually happened today. There is a mechanism to updating the featured article, the featured picture, the did you know and the on this day sections. Why not the In the news section? User:Cdogsimmons 20:17, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Fact is, while Israel dominates the news, far more people are being killed in Baghdad right now and the events there are going to have much longer impact. Who decides what is notable? Lieberman's defeat isn't a highlight? 75.1.5.188 16:59, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Why not make current events in middle east? After all, most of the conflicts, disputes, and wars in the modern world are occurring there. Eshcorp 14:15, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
It seems to me that one cannot access the first line of the news for July 23rd (re. Nationa (US)l gas price), in order to edit it.
Am I right? If so, what can be done about this? Duncan.france 01:09, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
I have been trying for several hours to created 25 July 2006 as a new date. For same reason, it comes up as a red link. We need to have a system to ensure that we can create a new date as soon as a newsworthy event occurs somewhere in the world. There are parts of Asia and Oceania that are well ahead of UTC and we need to have a system that caters to timezones throughout the world. Capitalistroadster 07:24, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
{{subst:Portal:Current events/DateHeader|2006|07|25}}
into the new page). I'll add the next couple of days right now. --
tariqabjotu (joturner)
12:14, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
For the last 6 days or so Floyd Landis' image has been featured as the picture of current events. There are more important things going on in the world than the Tour de France. Therefore I favor a new image - maybe this time not a sports image. -- Abdull 10:31, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
I added a table at the top with a few related pages, including the archives from the old Talk:Current events. I also created some instructions for archiving the portal (it's in the table at the top of this page). Since no one offered to write the instructions, I decided to do it (no, I'm not bitter; I'm just saying that in case someone asked why I didn't let someone else do it). Go ahead and look over the instructions and revise it, etc, etc. Add to it, etc, etc. I didn't really bring this up beforehand because a) I actually did mention the instructions before and b) they should come as no surprise as the redesign from earlier this month included many of the features described in the instructions and it was quite obvious that this was the way things have been working. But nevertheless, feel free to change it, especially those who want to archive in the article space. -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 15:41, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
What should be done about Portal:Current events/Events by month? Right now, I made the links for July 2006 - December 2006 go to current event subpages (many of which don't exist). Is that okay? Or should they go to the mainspace articles ( September 2006, October 2006, etc)? -- tariqabjotu (joturner) 00:00, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
I seems the calendar on the other currents events pages is broken. How does it work? Can I fix it? What do I need to do? I'm a frequent contributor on Current events in Southeast Asia. I understand that it should probably be moved to the portal space and redesigned as a portal. I don't fully understand the logistics of doing this or the maintenance and upkeep that will be required in doing so. My experimentations in the sandbox with setting up and editing a portal was a disaster. So help will be needed on that front, and I don't want to do it alone. Anyway, right now I'm hoping to resolve the calender issue. Thanks. -- Wisekwai 18:02, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
<div id="2006 August 1" />
, <div id="2006 August 2" />
, <div id="2006 August 3" />
, etc. above each date section as the date arrives. If you need any more help, feel free to ask me. --
tariqabjotu (joturner)
23:37, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
<div id="2006 August 2" />
===1 August, 2006 (Tuesday)===/></nowiki>
Or
<div id="2006 August 1" />
===1 August, 2006 (Tuesday)===/></nowiki>
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tags should be placed above the corresponding date, like the second option. Also, I have a correction to my instructions. Since some of the sub-pages are different from the main portal page, the date format should be 1 August 2006
instead of 2006 August 1
. So...<div id="1 August 2006" /> ===[[August 1]], [[2006]] (Tuesday)===
An increasing number of entries here are just the first sentence or paragraph copied from the news source. This is not ok and needs stamping on. Whilst I can spot a few, we need to get a culture here which will notice these and get rid of them... any ideas? As an example, the first two Israel entries under Portal:Current_events/2006_August_2 are just copied from the BBC. Morwen - Talk 13:33, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
In particular this edit summary, IP addresses seem to be violating WP:NPOV. Chacor 15:45, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
This should be updated, I've posted a link to a BBC report on the article's talk page, but I know too little about the conflict to adequately integrate the information into the article. Help? — Nightst a llion (?) 09:26, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
This edit is quite obviously uncivil, and there is no point to it. Chacor 13:41, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Also, is there a better title for the section? A heatwave isn't a disaster... Chacor 17:12, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
Now, I've only seen what's gone by in past days, but it seems that the parties responsible for the Achilioland conflict and Ituri conflict have signed/agreed to peace terms. Should those two entries then be moved to "Recent" as opposed to "Ongoing" ? Is there a set standard for when to do this? 68.39.174.238 18:17, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
If we are to have "In the news" on the start page of Wikipedia, all the news items must be current. Right now the top item states "Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert orders the army to prepare for an extended ground offensive in Lebanon as the Israel-Lebanon conflict continues." However, this was news on 7 August, five days ago, and since then much has happened in the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict. The Portal:Current events lists new developments every day since then, but nothing of it seems to end up in the "In the news" box. As the editing of that box is the privilege of a few trusted administrators, the rest of us unfortunately can't touch it. The single most important news item in the conflict for a number of days, the final adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, is now almost 20 hours old, but there is still nothing about it in that box. Perhaps it's time to review how the box is managed? Thomas Blomberg 18:10, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
Sources: Arrest made in JonBenet Ramsey case
This appears to merit placing on the "In the news" section on the Main Page. -- 24.255.155.100 22:02, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
I have been maintining the portal and updating it on a constant basis. However, its a hard task and all I'm doing is copying Current Events that concern the middle east from this portal. Is anyone interested in helping? -- Eshcorp 09:45, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
An attempt is being made to move the old Current events in Southeast Asia page to Portal:Southeast Asia/Current events, and assistance is needed to finesse some of the coding on the page. Instruction on the maintenance of a portal is also needed. How are the past months archived? Is is possible for the SE Asia current events portral to have its own "highlight"? I have tried experimenting with portal coding in the past and the results were disastrous. Help is needed, please. - Wisekwai 12:23, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
reading current events on Wikipedia doesn't give me the impression that the sister project WikiNews is highly regarded. On the main page the stories aren't linked to wikinews, and even here there are links to BBC etc. but not to the related stories on WikiNews.
Is there a reason for this? I think WikiNews should be a priviliged partner of Wikipedia, and links to full stories should be preferentially to WikiNews. Maybe that's provided they are good quality, but even then, this will allow more people to edit over there.
-- Steven Fruitsmaak | Talk 15:50, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Is "Highlights" really the right word to describe major events of the day, when those events could be horrendous? For example, today's first 'Highlight' reads: "Comair Flight 191, a Canadair CRJ-100 aircraft, crashes upon take-off from Lexington, Kentucky's Blue Grass Airport killing 49 of 50 passengers and crew on board." -- Mister Six 21:11, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Currently I see:
Regional - World • Africa | China | India | Middle East | Oceania | Southeast Asia | United States
But no "Europe" or similar. Has this been moved/deleted, or can it really be that Europe has no Regional Portal of its own designated??? - 82.153.129.223 05:49, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Isn't this article just an opinion?
A $450 million slush fund for the Republican Bush White House will be created by the prospective deal to resolve the United States-Canada softwood lumber dispute. (The Tyee)
Why is it listed as a fact? user:mnw2000 12:05, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
I recently viwed this article to find this "Steve Irwin, "The Crocodile Hunter", is assassinated by terrorist stingrays, believed to have ties to al Qaeda, near Australia's Great Barrier Reef." which i find very hard to believe.
I see a lot of problems with how Current events are run here. There're countless wars and other armed conflicts going on around the globe, people starving, dying, being torn from their farms, houses, endless state affairs to document. But instead of mentioning any of these, Wikipedia's Current events chooses to highlight the death of Steve Irwin, and the retirement of a sports star. Whenever I've had the motivation to actually try getting something up on the front page, I'm simply shot down by some random admin, because I don't have the same status. Instead of hundreds of folks being illegally evicted from the South Central Farm, or ongoing death in Palestine and Lebanon, we get sports scores. What the hell? File:Icons-flag-scotland.png Canæn File:Icons-flag-scotland.png 02:58, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
- Fsotrain 09 03:16, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
Yesterday, twice, someone removed a news story about White House criticism of U.S. Democratic Party policy, merely on the grounds that Drudge is not a good source. Are we really saying that Matt Drudge would invent a letter from Bolten? What if he's the only source? -- Uncle Ed 11:53, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
Is there a better way to word this? While I understand what's it's trying to say, currently, it seems to suggest that this heir becoming emperor is a forgone conclusion without a law change. This is of course incorrect, since he could die before then or perhaps Japan could lose their monarchy or whatever (obviously a law change will be necessary and technically the removal of the monarchy means there would be a change in the succession law but I hope people can understand the point I'm making). Various other scenarios such as the heir turning out to be such an idiot and/or prick that the Japanese people don't wat him and come up with some way to ensure he doesn't become emperor (which could be a change in succession law, a removal of the monarchy or something else). Nil Einne 13:01, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
"The Singaporean economy tops a list of 175 economies as the most business-friendly economy in the world in a survey conducted by the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (CNA). "
I checked the source, http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/228876/1/.html, let me just post what the title of the source was and you can come to your own conclusions whether it backs up this news tidbit:
Design teams chosen for two Gardens by the Bay
The source has nothing to do with it as far as I've read. Fephisto 14:45, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
I can understand the worries the nurses have regarding their jobs and yet the Labour Government has allowed a Chief Executive to be employed at an outrageous salary, which could have employed three more nurses. DES from Cheshire. 25/04/2010
I can understand the worries the nurses have regarding their jobs and yet the Labour Government has allowed a Chief Executive to be employed at an outrageous salary, which could have employed three more nurses. DES from Cheshire. 25/04/2010