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diff --git a/world/map/news.d/09-winter2012.txt b/world/map/news.d/09-winter2012.txt
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+{title:Illia first appearance}
+{date:December 2012 again}
+
+A new peninsula has magically raised from the depths,
+south of Hurnscald. A witch seems to be the source of
+this strange phenomenon.
+Why is she here, and what does she want?
+
+Further on the west, Lora Tay is willing to accept
+new challenges to prove once more her skills.
+
+{title:Christmas 2012}
+{date:December 2012}
+
+Santa and his helpers have returned to Santa's residence
+near Nivalis to prepare for Christmas.
+Among the helpers, the preparations are moving smoothly
+as they should.
+The reinboos are excited this year since there will be a change
+within their team!
+But not everything is working out as planned.
+
+{title:Halloween 2012}
+{date:November 2012}
+
+Halloween has passed and several cities celebrated this event.
+It seems the farmer Oscar just came back from a long journey
+in one of these cities.
+Probably he will have exciting things to tell.
+
+{title:East Expansion}
+{date:October 2012}
+
+The roadblock to the north east in Argaes was finally lifted
+and parts of the road were reconstructed.
+But there is still some work left until the connection to Port City is done.
+In the Woods you can find a guy who lives alone, seeking seclusion.
+Be careful not to disturb him. He is very vicious.
+
+The smith's apprentice Peter does good progress in mastering his
+handcraft and learned some new techniques.
+
+{title:New Dress}
+{date:September 2012}
+
+Agostine is well known for his magnificent winter clothes,
+but he always dreamed of creating something truly exquisite,
+something noble...
+
+An old veteran has set up camp in the caves below Hurnscald
+after a life full of hardship and battle.
+He may be old now, but he surely didn't lose his interest
+in the art of combat!
diff --git a/world/map/news.d/10-news-news.txt b/world/map/news.d/10-news-news.txt
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+{title:Updating News generation}
+{date:2013-01-23}
+
+News feed is finally generated from the same
+source for both the game and the website.
+
+{author:o11c}
diff --git a/world/map/news.d/11-CR-Jan13.txt b/world/map/news.d/11-CR-Jan13.txt
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+{title:Content Release January 2013}
+{date:2013-01-26}
+
+This release brings a huge amount of small fixes
+and changes, including fixes of several spelling
+and map errors, which were reported by players.
+Thanks for that!
+
+There are a few new things nevertheless:
+New characters won't have to start their
+adventure in underpants anymore,
+and Doug in Dimond's Cove discovered that the
+lamps in his room wear off after a while.
+
+{author:Jenalya}
diff --git a/world/map/news.d/12-manaplus.txt b/world/map/news.d/12-manaplus.txt
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+{title:ManaPlus - new official Client}
+{date:2013-01-31}
+
+ManaPlus Support
+
+We have decided to support ManaPlus as an
+official client alongside Mana. In fact, since
+there will likely be no more releases of the
+Mana client that supports TMWA (this server),
+there will inevitably be a time when ManaPlus
+becomes the only supported client.
+
+Mana 0.6.1 will continue to receive some
+support until October 2013. We have no plans
+to specifically break compatibility with Mana,
+but new features may not be available.
+
+For older clients (whether Mana or ManaPlus),
+there will be different levels of attempted
+support, depending on exactly how old it is:
+
+* Less than 6 months old: will not crash or
+    behave erratically.
+* Less than 2 months old: will behave
+    expectedly, but might not support all features.
+* Last 2 releases: will do everything,
+    correctly, on the main server.
+* Last release, or even git, may be required
+    on the test server.
+
+Of course, if a particular client release is
+buggy, we may not be able to support it at all.
+
+For more details, see {link:http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16867}.
+
+ManaPlus is available at {link:http://manaplus.evolonline.org/}
+
+{author:o11c}
diff --git a/world/map/news.d/13-lpc.txt b/world/map/news.d/13-lpc.txt
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+{title:Source of Tales won the LPC}
+{date:2013-02-18}
+
+This is a really exciting news entry!
+
+Congratulations to our sister project Mana ({link:http://manasource.org})
+on winning the Liberated Pixel Cup ({link:http://lpc.opengameart.org/content/code-judging-is-in}).
+
+The project can be found at {link:http://www.sourceoftales.org/news.html}
+and the irc channel at {link:irc://chat.freenode.net#sourceoftales}.
+
+We will undoubtedly experience an influx of both
+ordinary players and potential developers since we
+were linked as a related project.
+
+As a developer, it is my goal and expectation that
+new players can figure things out on their own.
+After all, I once did - though there wasn't as
+much content back then (I feel old ...).
+
+As for new contributors, they will necessarily need
+to coordinary with us, the developers. We're always
+in need of pixel artists, have great capacity for
+quest writers, and currently have need for a bit of
+web development and people crazy enough to touch
+insides of the server code.
+
+Be aware that people have different time zones and
+busy schedules, so it may be a while before anyone
+responds.
+
+Now, the links:
+
+Server coding: {link:irc://chat.freenode.net#tmwa}
+
+Everything else: {link:irc://chat.freenode.net#themanaworld-dev}
+
+Forums: {link:http://forums.themanaworld.org/}
+
+{author:o11c and Jenalya}
diff --git a/world/map/news.d/14-bugfix-killthegmevent.txt b/world/map/news.d/14-bugfix-killthegmevent.txt
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+{title:Kill the GM}
+{date:2013-02-21}
+
+Today we'll have a small content release.
+
+Among code cleaning and bug fixes, the
+Tulimshar quests can be done in any order now.
+Their completion isn't necessary anymore
+to start the Bandit quest.
+
+Also, GMs may have a surprise for you someday.
+
+{author:V0id}
diff --git a/world/map/news.d/15-servermove.txt b/world/map/news.d/15-servermove.txt
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+{title:Server move}
+{date:2013-03-09}
+
+As of this Saturday, March 9, TMW moved to a new host.
+This means there was some downtime, starting at 16:00 UTC.
+
+Most work was done in 1.5 hours, with a brief shutdown later.
+DNS settings may take a while to propogate.
+
+For more information, see {link:http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17126}
+
+{author:the TMWC}
diff --git a/world/map/news.d/16-servermoveagain.txt b/world/map/news.d/16-servermoveagain.txt
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+{title:Server moved again}
+{date:2013-03-17}
+
+After the initial server move, The Mana World was subjected
+to a three day DoS attack.
+In response, we have moved a final time to a server that has
+better protection against such attacks.
+All game related services have been moved and are back to normal.
+
+{author:the TMWC}