Wikinews:Water cooler/assistance/archives/2011/January

Wikinews feeds are broken
Feeds for many news categories rely on feeds from "Zach" - e.g. http://toolserver.org/~zach/cgi-bin/rss.cgi?cat=Climate_change on Climate change

Zach's account on toolserver has expired ("403: User account expired") and the feeds are broken.

I've emailed Zach - no response so far. --Chriswaterguy (talk) 18:46, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I think something similar can also be done with my RSS script, for example http://toolserver.org/~cspurrier/rss/rss.php?lang=en&family=wikinews&categories=Climate_change --Cspurrier (talk) 02:39, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia turns 10
I have just created a new article called Wikipedia turns 10, for when Wikipedia reaches exactly ten years since going online on Saturday. Can I please have some assistance with creating this article? -- Rayboy8 ( my talk ) ( my contributions ) 00:50, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Working on it.--Ashershow1talk 03:41, 11 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Take it to the signpost; Wikinews is not a cheerleader for Wikipedia or its in-house newsletter. --Brian McNeil / talk 11:15, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Mayor declares weather emergency in New York City
Can someone quickly review Mayor declares weather emergency in New York City before it gets stale?--Ashershow1talk 01:54, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

about a subject?
do people have to have an account; with wikinew's in order to have a discussion with a particular subject or the person discussing the particular subject.
 * I'm sorry if I misunderstood your question, but you do not need to register an account in order to contribute to Wikinews, but we do recommend it for a variety of reasons.
 * By the way, in future, please remember to sign your posts with four tildes so we know who said what and when - it can get confusing if people forget to sign their posts in lengthy discussions. Anyway, welcome to Wikinews! Δεν δοδγε  t\c 22:19, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

How do I merge my accounts?
I have changed my user name in Wikipedia. Now except for Wikipedia, I have 2 user names. How do I merge them?--AshwiniKalantri (talk) 08:36, 30 January 2011 (UTC)


 * A common solution is to post a redirect on the User page and User talk page of the old user name, linking them to similar pages with the new one. A user would do this while logged in under the old username, so we can easily see it isn't vandalism.


 * If you haven't edited yet with the new username, then you could instead use Changing username


 * --InfantGorilla (talk) 10:08, 30 January 2011 (UTC)