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What script are you using to revert vandalism. WP has had a couple fairly big attacks in the last couple of days with a user replacing pages with an image. Do you have a script that I could use that would revert all pages with the said image / edit summary quickly, we had aprox a 400 edit vandalbot in the span of 5 min and a bout would be very very useful. Thanks Tawker 05:39, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
I have a question about the rules around entries in the ?References? and/or ?External Links? section of an article. In the case of the Natasha Demkina article, there are many references to the same csicop.org website that goes against Natasha, but no links that support her. There are several websites that provide a critique of the CSICOP/CSMMH investigation on the csicop.org site which I would like to have included as references to provide counterpoint to the CSICOP claims.
Confirming my identity on IRC. WikiFanatic 08:40, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my page. --Nlu (talk) 07:21, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, Miss, for informing us about the meetup.See you soon (This user, Tdxiang has left Wikipedia). Tan DX 09:59, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Oops. That must have been an older version of the article. The only change should have been the URL of the CGI chat at Yossman and the channels subsection. At least the new red box for the outdated page warning is more clear. BTW, thanks for clearing up the licence for my WP banner. --LBMixPro<Speak|on|it!> 04:27, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
So you know some Hindi? If yes, its great! In India people are forgetting Hindi as fast as anything. Cygnus_hansa 22:12, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
Good morning, I used to write to the French moderator, I now I write you.
I am NOT really a Rotary Club fan. I introduced since one month some criticism to Rotary International structure and actions. What I notice, which is very strange, is that some similar and parallel reactions on the different languages of the Wikipedia related to Rotary International (negative) changes I added, happened about at the same time. I had the strong attack in EN on the Rotary by a Turkish wikipedian who was announcing on his personal page (some mistake I suppose) that he was a Rotarian. I had wrappings in French, in Spanish, in Swedish, etc. (NL, FR, EN, SV, DA).
For example, I introduced Augusto Pinochet as a Rotarian (honorary) and it was about at the same time either withdrawed, either flooded in a full list of Rotarians(now happening in FR as it happened in EN). Some logos were withdrawed or moved, and more of all, before my arrival for that criticism I introduced, I noted that the text was always the same, presenting Rotary international with same words in about all langages.
It is actually again the same on the Indonesian version, as it was in English in january. I was mailed about "Wikipedia fiddling". I do not translate that expression (French speaking, I am Belgian), but I supposed that it is some use of Wikipedia for propaganda.
I have a question to you : is the use of an RFC on that subject appropriate to ask to the community to expand the facts on the Rotary pages and avoid fiddling ? I am not sure to understand the use of an RFC. Thank you for your answer. For example, I would ask if the use of the Rotary logo (which was in some langages withdrawed or moved from left to right) can be restored. In some langages, it disappeared. Same for Paul Harris pictures. For me the use of Paul Harris pictures, even with criticism, is compliant to the 'fair use'.
My name is Pierre Larcin, my id's on NL, EN and FR are PierreLarcin3 PierreLarcin2 and PierreLarcin1. my mail is pierre.larcin@ifrance.com. Have a good week-end. PierreLarcin2 03:48, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
...but I asked your boy friend Tim a few days ago if he could rename a few namespaces on li: and create one new (see User talk:Tim Starling#By the way...). His contributions, however, have ceased a few days ago. Maybe you can point this out to him :-)? Regards, Caesarion 11:26, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
I posted this on User talk:Jimbo Wales, but if you can comment as a member of the Foundation, that would be good too.
Hi, could you please comment on this RfC? User:Ta bu shi da yu seems to feel that you have somehow given him carte blanche to speedy delete images out of process, without giving any evidence of you having done so. I am highly involved in fair use issues on this wiki, so I'm quite surprised that I hadn't heard anything or, if there was anything, that no-one would let me know. Thanks, JYolkowski // talk 22:06, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
You wrote that issues with my speedy deletions are not an issue for the Board. I must disagree: might I point out that it will be the Board who will have to deal with legal issues if someone sues Wikimedia for copyright violations. Inaction from the Board on this issue could be detrimental to Wikipedia and all related projects. - Ta bu shi da yu 00:19, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello Angela,
I'm Raj Nair, currently a sysop with Malayalam Wikipedia. In past few months Malayalam wikipedia community has witnessed growth in participation level in Wiki and more awareness among malayalam speaking people about wiki. We have been running campaigns to promote Wikipedia through blogs and public forums/groups, through out our programs there were requests for a Wikisource domain in Malayalam. I've made a request for new domain here. Recently votings were concluded and requests are now considered official. There was already a long waiting for Wikisource domain among malayalam speakers, before it kills community enthusiasm we would like to have wikisource domain for malayalam. I tried to contact wikimedia admins in IRC, so that I could request them to speed up the process. Unfortunately that didn't worked. I request you on behalf of Malayalam wikipedia community to take earliest action to allot wikisource domain for malayalam. Thanks in advance! - Peringz 17:11, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
Can you tell me more about this edit? The file "Image:Without staccato.ogg" had, in fact, not yet been deleted ... but I just requested it be speedied because it was a MS windows executable and not a media file. I have not yet determined if it is malicious. I'll go ahead and record audio to replace the two files, but I'm curious as to what got your attention on the page and why you believed the files were incorrectly deleted? --Gmaxwell 04:30, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
You have confused me as well with this edit. Please explain. --69.232.218.27 05:07, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
How do I kick off the vote on Wikipedia:Fair use criteria/Amendment? - Ta bu shi da yu 14:24, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angela, I saw you said "you can't block a deletion bot" [2]. I'm not sure I understand what you mean - why can't people block bots? Talrias (t | e | c) 17:11, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
I just noticed you have an article. That's me being slow for you... Now I can add someone else to my list of people met, stalked or stood in same room as! -- Francs2000 22:53, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
The inclusion of the Q&A from Allsupinc.com is by permission. How do I note this in the material?? Thanks MarkSutherland. 08:40, 8 March 2006
how do I become an admin? Only so I can do some real work on the Sesotho Wikiped. It'll need lots of work to fix all the psuedo Setswana content. I know I probably don't qualify for adminship but the st wikipedia is heading in a dangerous direction and I feel that the fact that I'm probably the only competent Sesotho speaking person on wikiped means I should have the power to turn it around. Please help me out. Reply on my talk page. User:ZyXoas 19:45, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Angela, the possibility has been raised that Ted_Wilkes (talk • contribs • page moves • block user • block log) is a sockpuppet of User:DW. I find this plausible, and have (along with others) posted some evidence at AN/I. Given your long-term involvement with this case, you are invited to comment. Thanks. Chick Bowen 22:19, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angela,
Can you please speak some words for me here[3]. I don't find anyone else to stand up and support growing wikipedias like ours. Thank you. :-Manjithkaini 05:19, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
I know that you have already been bothered several times with this question and that the general answer to the question is that the other Wikipedias should design and introduce themselves the rules. I understand that this is motivated by the differences in cultures and by the fact that different stages of social development of Wikipedia projects require different arrangements. However, there are certain rules that are not questioned at all (GFDL licence for the Wikipedia text content for instance). My question concerns something that in my opinion is a general set of rules applicable to all the pedia projects, but has not been stated explicitely on the Polish Wikipedia. Namely, there are three content introduction rules on the English Wikipedia: WP:NPOV, WP:V and WP:NOR. Do the general principles behind the three rules hold on other Wikipedia projects? alx-pl D 16:12, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
I am renewing my request to have the InuYasha wikicity taken down. Contribution is spotty at best, there are already other websites dedicated to this purpose, and there is no way to regulate copyright infringement. It's been just about a year now. I am viewing this as a mistake, and I am trying to rectify it. -Litefantastic 01:01, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
Hello Angie. Something truly weird has happened to the Sesotho (st) Wikipedia. Have you any idea whom (or what) is using IP 88.106.224.231? Entire articles, User pages, and even the Main Page were seemingly blanked on the 10 of March. Weren't these users watching their user pages, or was the st Wikiped even more dead than I had initially thought?
Although I would love it if you would, I won't explicitly ask you to respond on my talk page because I'm afraid user EssJay might again construe this as "repeated personal attacks" and block my IP for another 24 hours. However, if I don't see a message from you on my talk page within the next few hours I'll unilaterally revert the changes on the Wikiped. User:ZyXoas 20:46, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
Angela,
I had recently done a great deal of contributing and editing to the topic of breast implants here on wikipedia. This is an area I'm familiar with as a Physician and FDA investigator for silicone-gel implants. Someone named "JGLAW" is high-jacking the content which was pretty reflective of both the US & world literature on the topic (which I know and have to inform patients on almost daily) into a fringe political area which has largely been dismissed by the medical community. There are some concerns which should be highlighted, but it's turned into a personal cause for her (apparently she had gel implants prior and is now a crusader against them) ensure that a distorted and sensational overview is preserved.
I noticed you had reverted one of her edits today which is why I've approached you like this. She's staked out a position that seems will not compromise for what is the mainstream view. Do you have advice?
Droliver Droliver 05:50, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks with the Sesotho wikiped. To tell you the truth, I now realise that I've actually forgotten how to make reverts (I doubt it's because I'm not logged in). I don't know where I got that IP from - maybe it was a wiki bug (I've seen worse), or perhaps it's simply proof that I need to stop going to sleep at 2 in the morning! Again, thanks for responding on my talk page; I hope they don't block you for violating wiki policy, or something... User:ZyXoas 07:57, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if you could catch me on IRC. I know you are very busy but I want to sort the vandal channel mess as soon as possible. --Cool CatTalk|@ 23:09, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
You reverted right before me! (Just felt like pointing out).Voice-of-AllT|@|ESP 08:24, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
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Hello, I'm an active member and an admin on a maturing Wikipedia. I came to ask for advice with a problem that started to occur in this phase of our growth. I'm not very active on en:, so I don't know how you solve it here. I need rather a personal advice than a wiki-scope advice with this.
We don't get much vandalism so far and it's been easy to cope with so far. Recently, another kind of vandalism started to take place - it's a registered editor including POV and non-encyclopedic info. Most of us, active members including me are not interested in the topic (history) and don't interfere with the content added. The others are not bold enough just to delete it. We have repeatedly pointed out "What Wikipedia is not" guidelines, but he seems to ignore them stating Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia (and he can add whatever he wants). This person has not been rude, but he's been repeatedly ignorant of the guidelines. This may an oversimplification of our situation. Should we just block him? Or lose our time again discussing where he won't take consensus or guidelines into consideration? He's likely to return as a sockpuppet or anonymous editor (he's thought to have done that before). There seem to more instances of a case similiar to this one. Thanks for any advice. ~~helix84 23:28, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
I just came to say hello, and thanks for helping me sometime back by giving advice about copyright problems of Mahuri. I had seen User:Angela/What Wikipedia is not earlier, and today I recorded my formal thanks there. Thanks again - let us continue to build the best encyclopedia of human history. --Bhadani 17:47, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi - Can I interest you in responding to Wikipedia:Help_desk#Will It continue to be free ?? Seems like something you could authoritatively clarify. Thanks. -- Rick Block (talk) 02:43, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
I am on wikibreak at the moment, because wikipedia stress should not be higher than real life stress. I will return soon and when I do, I no longer wish to have bureaucrat abilities on English Wikipedia. Could you please pass the message on to an appropriate developer that I wish to have these abilities revoked. I'm coming to you because I trust you, and because my previous experience of trying to contact developers has met with little success. Thank you. -- Francs2000 12:41, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
Angela, Could you quickly tell me the process to get agreement to use the Wikipedia logo (on a CD containing content from Wikipedia) Thanks --BozMotalk 17:57, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angela,
I may not be submitting this request correctly; indeed, you may not be the right person to contact, but I'm a little frustrated and lost within the wikiworld.
When I began contributing to wikipedia my username was [something else], essentially a contraction of my real name. I eventually decided that this was undesireable for several reasons, and I requested to have my user name changed to "jayintheusa". This was done recently, but despite my requests, the old user page still exists and I don't know how to kill it off. Worse, that unloved page is the top hit on Google for [this name], followed closely by my request to change user names.
And now, I suppose this page will Googled too; building more and more [old name] content on Google, which is precisely what i'm trying to get rid off!
What can I do? Jayintheusa 18:22, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your help abot name change. Feel free to delete this when you read it, just didn't know where else to say thanks. Avraham 16:35, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angela, I'm finally convinced that Francs2000 had the right idea. I'm sick of the carping, sniping and lack of appreciation for trying to maintain some kind of dependable standard at RfA. Please remove my bureaucrat flag but leave my admin flag, since the tools are useful to me. I always liked editing better anyway. Best regards, Cecropia 08:54, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I edited an article on clubfoot in January and I have just noticed that you have reverted the changes I made. I felt the changes I made made the article more objective and less "promotional". Why were the changes I made edited out? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jayanthdoc (talk • contribs)
Hi Angela, there has been a suggestion raised in the user group of SHARP - the Society for the History of Authorship, Readership,and Publishing, about the possibility of having a Wiki for scholars to post complete articles and books for criticisn, so by-passing the usual print route. Nothing we do now permits this, of course, but I am wondering if this this has been raised before. Maybe its something the Foundation could do. I recall reading a while back that we need to get more academics involved. See [5] for a blog from the guy who asked the question. Kind regards. Apwoolrich 19:34, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angela! Good to hear from you!
Do you know approximately what time of day you would be likely to be interested in the meetup? I'll add this as an open question on the meetup page. FYI, UCSB is about 15 km west of Santa Barbara proper, along the coast; if we are lucky enough to be able to get together during the day, there are lots of nice outdoor locations here. Looking forward to meeting you and the others (I'm yet to meet another Wikipedian "live" even though I've been with the project two years now ... ) Antandrus (talk) 15:22, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for the notice! I can't make it but will be thinking of y'all. Happy trails... Her Pegship 16:20, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
Pashto Wikipedia
Hi Angela!
would you mind helping me in changing the template of Pashto Wikipedia From English into Pashto.
I am have already translated the Language file, but i dont know how i can get it installed?
Please help me or guide me to the right person, whome i can contact.
Thank You
Ahmad Najib Biabani
Respected Madam,
This is with reference to the current Wikipedia Logo. The leftmost jigsaw piece along the equator of the globe in the image has text written in Hindi. However the way it appears in the logo, it seems that it was created on a software that did not have Indic Language Support. Hence, what should be appears as File:InCorrect hindi vi.png. It is our request to change it as soon as possible to so that is consistant with the Hindi language and thus free of defects. Please refer Wikipedia:Enabling complex text support for Indic scripts for reference.
Signed,
The original petition can be found at User:Ambuj.Saxena/Wikipedia-logo. Feel free to contact me or any of the signatories for clarifications.
Regards,
-Ambuj Saxena (talk) 14:26, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Copy to:Anthere
No reply to the email so have put our Wikipedia CD selection up at http://fixedreference.org/2006-Wikipedia-CD-Selection without the logo. This is available for free on CD and is aimed at UK schools as mentioned. --BozMo[[user_talk:BozMo|talk]] 23:26, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angela!
I know your a developer. Thats why i am contacting you again.
Now i have ready the language file of Pashto Template ready. I can send it to you if you could provide me with an email address.
I am not the Admin of Pashto Wiki. thats why i cant follow the instructions you mentioned.
But if you provide me with an email i will send it right away and then you can upload and install it the way you do it.
I hope that you come up with a sort of solution.
Ahmad Najib Biabani
Hi Angela
OR if you could make me admin on Pashto Wikipedia, then as you have explained, it is quite easy.
well find a proper solution to this.
One thing else i wanna tell you is that The text that says (Wikipedia, the Free encyclopedia) is not translated right in Pashto wikipedia.
The right translation would be پښتو ويکيپېډيا، يو وړيا پوهنغونډ، if the word free means not have to pay money for the use of its contents. But if the word free means independent here then the right translation would be پښتو ويکيپېډيا، يو خپلواک پوهنغونډ.
well i had to mention this cause the existing moto under the logo is not translated in correct Pashto.
Regards.
Good day, your wonderfulness! </suckup> :-p
Ilyanep mentioned on the talk page of RfA the idea of a bureaucrat-only mailing list, for discussion of controversial promotions and other internal-bureaucrat issues; I strongly support such an idea, and thought I'd bring it up to you and see if you had any advice on how to go about getting such a list approved. Advice?
<backs away bowing> Essjay Talk • Contact 10:13, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angela!
here is my username and other information that you requested for.
I request sysop access on Pashto Wikipedia:
Thank you. 83.243.129.72 14:00, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello Angela,
I've seen that the system-messages on the Ko Wiktionary works very loose. The sidebar shows not the modified version, but the old and unsuitable version. I don't know why such odd problem happens often. --아흔(A-heun) 15:38, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
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Thank you Angela for some help.
Hi Angela. The Wikia page, to which Wikiasari currently redirects, says "Wikiasari was a project run by Wales which attempted to create a copyleft search engine. The Wikiasari project used to be called Wikia." This strongly insinuates that Wikiasari is dead. However, the Search Wikia still exists. As a matter of fact, I have recently been updating some redirects there to fix broken links to a Wikia: namespace which is now the Search: namespace. Sadly, the Wikiasari software seems to have disappeared from SourceForge. I like the idea of a search engine whose database can be freely created/updated. Please tell me this project hasn't been abandoned? Is the Wikiasari source code available somewhere? Thanks. Charm ©† 08:02, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Thank you for the response. Perhaps all traces of it are lost; however, at some point in time actual software did exist. Jimmy Wales wrote it himself, originally (July 2001) calling it 3apes, added a lot of URLs to it, started a Yahoo! Groups list for it, then migrated it into the original "Wikia" effective March 2, 2004. Wikia:Search indicates that (as of December 27, 2004) there were 300,367 sites in the database. The software, or a front end to it anyway, was written in PHP based on the links on the Wikia that apparently used to interface with the database. There are also pages at Wikia:Search:Search:Working and Wikia:Search:User:Angela/Pre-launch thoughts indicating that work on the software (a Beta version) was under way.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I'm not completely ready to give up on this project yet. I wish I knew what ever happened to the beta software and the database, if there is any other information you could possibly share. Also, I would appreciate if you would consider sharing the admin password to the mailing list with me. If so, please let me know so we can work out a secure channel. Sannse has made me a sysop on the Wikia.
Thank you. Charm ©† 08:12, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Thank you again for responding, although I must say I find your responses rather discouraging; especially your calling it "old junk" and stating that the Wikia "is going to be removed" as a matter of pre-determined fact, which has not been announced anywhere on the Search Wikia to give others who may be watching it (although obviously not contributing) an opportunity to say "Wait, I don't want this to be removed."
My intention was to clean up the existing Wikia, then try to generate discussion about its future. My inquiries about the software and database are to ensure they are available in case the consensus decision is to put it to some sort of use. I don't presume to know ahead-of-time what any consensus would be -- I'm just trying to "keep the options open", and arrange for the software and database to be preserved while they still exist, if it's not already too late, until a community decision is reached regarding what to do with them.
I'm not aware what Wikia's policies are regarding removal of an individual Wikia (such as minimum number of active users, minimum edits/month, notice-of-pending-removal requirements, and so on); I would have to go to Wikia's Help and look around, which I am not going to do tonight because I require sleep. I guess my next step will be to try to make copies of whatever I can very soon, before it's archived by Jason and no longer available. Then I will try to clean it up the best I can so it's at least internally coherent, then see if I can generate some interest. I'll do as much as I can until either I get tired of it, or Wikia takes it away, whichever comes first.
I guess as one final task before I go to bed, I will create some sort of announcement on the Search Wikia of a possible pending removal.
Thanks again for your time, I hope you aren't 100% angry at me for "wasting" some of it -- maybe at least only 95% angry? ;)
By the way, the interest in the admin password for the mailing list was the same as my interest in cleaning up the Wikia -- setting things up to possibly start being used again. If you prefer not to share it with me, that is okay; I will just either use the mailing list with it's current settings, or go on using whatever other resources there are without it.
Thanks again. Charm ©† 09:39, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
But the Search Wikia is about the old dead project. Maybe you don't want it to be, and maybe it won't be for long, but as of right now that is exactly what that Wikia is about. I have generated a discussion page here. I'm too tired to make any other comments tonight. Thank you. Charm ©† 09:59, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Someone wrote to OTRS asking for permission to use our logos, apparently for a CD-ROM version of Wikipedia. Do we have any sort of policy on that? I'm assuming that the answer is "no," though perhaps, like project Gutenberg, we would find it worthwhile to let people use our identity when distributing unaltered copies of our stuff. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 16:26, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello Angela. I am Sebastian, -- The Rain Man, from Germany. Doing hard work for the German Wikipedia, I see my Ideals and moral attitudes being crashed. Here are things going on, that hurt elementary principles of working together on a growing project. At the moment, I am facing several administrators doing anything to destroy an article I have written as fast as they can, including to break several rules applying for deletion. The thing here is, that we have an organized system of administrators who tend that strongly to deletionism, that It is hard to say if one can still call it just deletionism. Among these German Sysops, I have seen only deletionists so far. They seem to take control over the pages in a way that is incredible. They created a logo called "Adminpedia" that tells "We eliminate the knowledge of mankind - yours to. Relevance is relative". They rule. No Inclusionist can become administrators here. Hardly anybody dares to speak against their actions. In the case of the page I have worked out, it goes so far, that already a non-privilleged user I know, wrote me via email that he likes the page and my work, but he would rather speak against it at the talk about deletion. Because he is afraid to get some kind of difficulties. And yesterday, a new Wikipedia-Member called Brandy123 spoke for the article in the talk. Today she posted, that she was logged for some time. As the opponent part has a lack of reasonable arguments, they claim missing neutrally. But before I begann to work out the article, I knew critics could come out especially with that issue, because of my personal background. So I wrote the article in an absolute neutral version. And I am able to do that, despite they have to say something diffrent to reach their goal. Of course I told that in the talk, but they Ignore nearby all pro-arguments anyway. It is a farce. As the talk started on saturday, I begann to bring up my arguments, and of course, to answer their critics. Some mixed statements and some pro-statments from new members were done. The discussion really got going. I made several offers for a cooperation; for example to join a review lead by some experts on that special subject. I am just for no Information being deleted, because all Information contained is neccessarry to see through that matter. And I am for nothing to be falsified or overweighted. The article contains pictures they don't accept. Though I see them justified to illustrate the meanings, I always agreed to accept alternative ones, if presented by someone. But of course no one did or said he would do.
Meanwhile, that talk lasting for two days now has become very long. Today I clarified that the step to initialize the deletion process was a clear violation of the rules in that form, and that it must be invalid. I showed up the two violations. They just continued to vote down the article repeating the same empty phrases, revealing again that they have't even read the article or not more than the introduction. Some, of course administrators, already say it has to be deleted - now. Ignoring the rule, that every page has to be on that talk for at least seven days. Nobody here can do anything against that game. We need a hero for us, to be on our side. And if you just wrote a short english comment in the deletion talk, just as a user, if you think the topic is interesting enough to be worth an own page. That would help. If you are interestet about the topic of the page to be deleted and in what was going on here, here is a link to Jimbo Wales' User talk. There I presented the case on saturday evening: Topic 115 - Hello from Germany There you find links to several pages to see what's going on.
I guess, these German administrators are clever in positioning themselves as brilliant community-workers and presenting they were doing things very correct. And they hold together. That's what makes them so important here. They do a lot of work. But in my view, they do the wrong thing. If you have any questions to me on that matter, of course I'll answer you as soon as I get the message. And I hope you will not get a too bad impression of Germany. Actually it is a beautiful country. Thank you for reading this, and kindest regards from Munich! Sebastian -- The Rain Man 20:43, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for answering. The situation here has changed, because a professor has offered his help. It is still not clear, if the article will stay, but it seems likely. Probably, it will be shortened to a third. The thing here is, our administrators only listen to certain people. Beyond, they don't respect anything, even not the rules. They respect that professor, and, of course, they would respect you. So you could remember them, that administrators should encourage and advise other members instead of trampling on them. -- The Rain Man 16:59, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angela, As you know it's impossible to control the content of local wikis due to language barrier but I beleive if some blatant malicious moves are found we should react. I would like to inform you about the missuse of one wikipedia - Albanian. Even though my knowledge of Albanian is minimal I have noticed many factual errors on this wikipedia. The article about the city of "Uroševac/Ferizaj" (named Urosevac on English wikipedia) on that Wikipedia is named "Ferizaj" only without mentioning name Urosevac in article. I have edited their article and put Serbian name of town into brackets so it was "Ferizaj (Urosevac)....". And now the problem - I was banned immediately and my edit was reverted. I beleive there is no place for someone's ill natured political complexes on Wikipedia.
Let's see Brussels article in French and Dutch wikipedias:
Why can`t articles on dual named cities on Kosovo have the same level of neutrality and tolerance?
I expect you to react on this case as noone else can control admins who ban users that are trying to make NPOV edits behind the local languages
Thank you Avala 21:26, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
Links:
It seems it was a 24h ban so I will try to add that content once more to see if it will repeat. I don`t speak Albanian so I am not sure where I would discuss this problem and I am not sure with whom if their admin is this untolerant and nationalistic. I will let you know what happened.Avala 18:19, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
How do I kick off the vote? Still confused about this :( - Ta bu shi da yu 04:04, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Thank you.
Is it in June, or July? You said Saturday the 22nd, but that's not stated there in the calendar page of June. I checked, and yes, you might mean July, instead. Do leave a messgae on the page, as I'm a little confused now...:)-- 陈鼎翔 说!贡献 Chat with Tdxiang on IRC! 03:08, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi! I noticed that you deal with renaming the user pages and I would ask you if you can help me (or advise me). Namely, I'm the user that was formerly known as Bitola, but, I decided to change my user name and created a new account MatriX. I didn't know until now that I can make a request for username change, so I'm asking if you can help me (if it is possible at all) to add the contributions that I've done under user:Bitola to the new account. Also, I would like my previous account to be deleted. Please do that if you can or advise me what should I do. MatriX 15:33, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angela, since you're a bureaucrat, would you like to change my name into "Steinbach"? Just a matter of consistency: I have entirely too many user names on different Wikipedias. Just check the interwikis in the margin at my user page. It would be much clearer for people who are unfamiliar with me if I had only one user name. Thanks in advance! Caesarion 20:30, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Sorry to bother you - I know you're always busy. When I try to register on the st WP on my phone I get a form saying that I need to type what I see in a certain picture; however, I can't see a picture. When I try to register on Wikitionary I get a similar form only this time it says that it can't show the image since my cookies are disabled. This is obviously false since I need cookies to log onto this WP. Is this a bug, or simply proof that I should get myself a real internet connection? Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 22:34, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello. Me again. I know that for adminship I need to go to Request for Permissions and go through a bunch of procedures, but I'd rather not (I'm sure that by now you know my predicament). I started a local RfA page at st:Wikipedia:Ba kopang Bolaodi (I basically have to invent new terminology for an entire Wikipedia!)
Is it absolutely impossible for you to unilaterally grant me adminship (bolaodi - the power to direct) immediately?
Do I have to jump through hoops for a no-brainer? Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 13:13, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Right. If I were to try and edit a large page like that no my phone... I would get permanently banned, since it would deleteeverything on the page (have a look @ my edit history - I mostly advise other users...)
How's this:
I request sysop access on the Sesotho Wikipedia:
If you're still not convinced I'll ask someone else to add it to RfP for me Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 07:02, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your help on Simple Wikipedia.
-- Psy guy Talk 07:44, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
We are a group of film students who like to see more information about this film maker who is creating alot of talk with his new screen play "Vicharana" or "Cross Examination". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.229.62.164 (talk • contribs)
== can you unflag user akshay ==
Akshay plays a key role in Malayalam film industry. He is a young and vibrant film maker. Three of his posting done by our team (we are film students) have been taken out... HELP US!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.229.62.164 (talk • contribs) 09:14, 16 April 2006
Maybe we can piece together what it means? -- Psy guy Talk 17:09, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello Angela. I am requesting a username change. For some reason my user name is Kilburnhall when it should be Kilburn Hall. I wish to have it corrected for people trying to locate information about me doing a Google search or search on Wikipedia. Thanks ever for your help in changing my username to Kilburn Hall. By the way, your photo is stunning. 169.133.253.10 20:31, 18 April 2006 (UTC)Kilburn Hall
Thanks a lot!!! Now, to the drawing board! I fear that if I translate everything to Sesotho it would make it even more moribund - but it has to be done, eventually. I realised yesterday that it would be easier to translate the Simplified English Wikipedia system messages since they are less idiomatic and that's the biggest problem in translation. Once again, thank you. Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 07:45, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Angela, could you help me with this image Image:VEP_Sign_Waterloo.jpg please?, I've recieved permission from the creator via e-mail (if you wish I will send you a copy), but I'm not sure of the status, and while you donate your time to this sector of WP, I was wondering could you give me the idea of its status, thanks Danny 11:47, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
did this [6] just happen or does my bot, which just got its flag yesterday, have to get another flag? ILovEPlankton 02:48, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angela,
Do you happen to know if the archive for copyright permission is private or not?
I have successfully asked a fan site for a license to an image. Wikipedia:Successful requests for permission suggests me emailing a certain address, when I get permission, for a permanent archive. Is the permanent archive public or confidential? Are email addresses protected from spamming? I tried the talk page with no reply, and at Wikipedia:Help_desk#Copyright_permission_archive I got a reply from Mailer Diablo saying that I should ask a foundation member. Would you know the answer or someone I should ask? Thanks, Andjam 02:57, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Celestianpower háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
I talk to you in this page because I presume that you will not read your catalan talk page. Some months ago, the .cat domain was approved. It is the first Internet domain given to an specific culture and not to a country. We think that it would be somethingh very good for Catalan Wikipedia to have a catalan domain such as www.viquipedia.cat. Would it be possible that Wikimedia Foundation requested it in representation of Catalan Wikipedia or we have to create a local Wikimedia chapter??--SMP - talk page (en) - talk page (ca) 14:12, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
PS:Sorry about my English.
Hello, Angie! I've been systemically vandalising the st Wikipedia today, a penny for your thoughts? Also, when I put a link to st:User:Zyxoas at the bottom of my English user page it says "Other languages seSotho" instead of "Sesotho", where can I go to change this? Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 16:27, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
I have been stalked by some "editors" and since I asked for the account ot be deleted (and was assured it had been) the account has been used to make edits which are nothing to do with me - in my user history the edits April 20th and 23rd are NOT by me. Yesterday someone, mysetrisouly asked for my user page to be unprotected - why would that be - except, of course, that they had previosuly been involved in vandalsim to my user page user: Deskana but let off by a group of his editing mates. I wish the account permanently deleted and removed please. How do I do it? I don;t want to use it but, more importantly, I don;t want anyone else to be able to use it and that's what has been happening. Robsteadman 19:25, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
Hey! I was making a joke about the vandalising! You did check my edit history, right? I spent a couple of hours translating some system messages, thus the Wikipedia looks a little different... If you (for some arcane reason) still think I shouldn't be an admin then I won't fight you - I don't want to have to be @ your mercy. Have a cup of WP:TEA and think about it; then go "ha ha, I almost thought you were serious, for a second!". Shall I continue translating? Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 16:17, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
Just a little character reference for Zyxoas; I've had good interactions with him, and I checked his contribs at st: and they do all seem to be legit (I don't know Sesotho but it does really look like all he was doing was translating). I understand that joking about vandalizing a little-monitored Wiki is a bit like joking about bombs at airport security, but maybe his sentence of de-sysopping can be reduced to time served? Angr (talk • contribs) 07:26, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi! Please, could you tell me what variable should I use for getting CURRENTTIME in Central European Time ( ... CEST)? Is it possible? Thanx. Gubbubu 19:41, 25 April 2006 (UTC) (2006. április 25., 21:41 (CEST))
To be more concrete, I would like to use it in my sign: Gubb - Talk - 2024. 20 June - 01:08.
In HuWiki everybody uses CEST, but I don't know, how UTC dates are converted to CEST there (I think with the help of Subst expression, but don't sure). The problem is that if I use CURRENTTIME it doesn't been converted to CEST. (but if I use ~~~~, it is converted). ♥♥♥: Gubb ✍ 2006. April 27 14:39 (CEST).
Hi, I never came to thank you for the message you left for me a month ago when I stepped down from being a bureaucrat. Thank you for the things you said, it's good to know there are still plenty of good people about in this project. I do not see myself standing for bureaucrat again anytime soon though who knows what the future may bring! Thank you once again. -- Francs2000 09:38, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angela! While going through my logs, I came across this: 00:10, October 29, 2005 Nichalp set rights for "User:User:Sfoskett" (+sysop) When I sysopped him with the above string, it didn't give me an error saying that the user did not exist.
What I'm concerned about is if another user creates a username such as "User:Sfoskett", will he get autosysopped? PS. Please de-sysop the account nevertheless. Regards, =Nichalp «Talk»=
Hi, I'm still on my first contributtion to Wikipedia and I need some help with some copyright tag selection, please. The article under construction can be found at "Skaggs Family". There are three categories of image sources there and I think I've only decoded one tag so far; and it doesn't seem appropriate for what I'm trying to do. Taking this case first: I have a physical letter from the publisher of a report granting me permission to put 4 images on Wikipedia. It seems, however, that the {copyright} tag, which appears appropriate for this category, doesn't enable me to implement this permission(???)
The other sources fall into websites and newpapers. The websites are from Safeways, a Skaggs Health Center site that acknowledges the Skaggs couple who set up the Center, and a site that covers the history of grocery stores, called groceteria. I have contacted the latter one to gain permission to use 3 images from there.
The images from newspapers involve one set of two from the early 1900s and one from the LA Times in 1988. Please help me find the the appropriate tags for the websites and newspaper sources and also please help me understand why I can't use the copyrighted material when I hold a letter giving permission to use the 4 images in Wikipedia only. My user name is Don Nielson but I'm new to this world so hope that lets you reach me. Thanks, Angela. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Don Nielson (talk • contribs) .
Just to let you know that a meetup is planned in Auckland for the 25th of June (see Wikipedia:Meetup/Auckland for more details), and that you are cordially invited. GeorgeStepanek\talk 00:13, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
See MediaWiki:Tog-showjumplinks. I would like to ask, what does it mean "accessibility link"? ♥♥♥: Gubb ✍ 2006. April 30 09:23 (CEST) 09:23, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angela.How are you? My name is Aaron
Rap Star 05 16:18, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Angela, This continues an inquiry that you recently kindly answered about my use of images in an account of the Skaggs family. The source of several of the pictures, which had allowed use on Wikipedia, has not allowed them for unrestricted use so I have deleted the links in the text and will removed them altogether if you can please tell me how that is done. Second I have two categories remaining. First, those taken from a single source on the web, groceteria.com. The owner of that site claims he has no authority to grant unrestricted use since he got them from a wide variety of unknown sources. Finally, the old (1915-19)newspaper images should be okay but what is the correct tag? Finally, it seems that, unless otherwise noted, newspaper images should be useable since I can't find any restrictions in the newspaper I have? The date is 1988. Are their any tags appropriate to newspapers? Sorry to be so dense. This is about over. Thanks, <user talk: Don Nielson>
Hi Angela,
I have just come upon this article:
I would like to add the image that appears there to our $100 laptop article, but I have not found it on the OLPC website. Does that mean it was only given to MacWorld.com? If not, can you help me with the license? After a visit to the OLPC site I was quite lost :-/ Thanks a lot, Gennaro Prota 13:35, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
PS: I'm watching your talk page, so you can reply here. I think having conversations in one place always helps.
There is currently a discussion in Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Birth–death regarding a proposal to use en-dashes (–) in intervals, such as dates and page numbers (e.g.: 1933–1951). You have previously expressed a preference, in Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dashes), for hyphens over dashes, but did not there explain your reasoning for that preference. One of the main objections to the use of en-dashes was that they were less easy to insert and cluttered the text, because at the time it required a – HTML entity. This is no longer the case, as the Unicode character – can be inserted from the bottom symbol "Insert:" box and that character does not clutter the text when editing an article. Another objection was that hyphens were much more common and therefore the standard that should be retained. If you would be so kind as to clarify your preference, to provide your considered opinion on this matter, and possibly contribute more to this discussion, it would be much appreciated. - Centrx 22:34, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
In this edit you left the summary "remove 2 deleted wikis", it looks to me that you deleted a lot more than you meant to, it hasn't been corrected by anyone, maybe you could evaluate it. thanks. Martin 13:40, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angela,
Could you possibly clarify a claim that's come up on User talk:Executor-usa? Specifically, this user claims that documents proving the bona fides of an entity calling itself the Office of International Treasury Control (OITC) "were sent to en-info@wikimedia.org which is the parent of Wikipedia." Could you confirm (a) whether that address exists in the first place - I can't find it anywhere - and (b) whether it's received anything concerning the OITC? -- ChrisO 14:01, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Hey Angela. I just noticed that we have the same sysopping date. I always thought that you had been editing for much much before me. That was kind of surprising :) — Ilyanep (Talk) 15:23, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angela,
I don't know if you remember me from a couple years ago, but I wanted to stop by and say hi. When I first came to wikipedia 3 or 4 years ago, you were the most helpful wikipedian I encountered. I was in High School at the time and was probably one of the more annoying users you've had to deal with (I always bugged you over IRC, asked for adminship, and always switched names and did other similarly irritating things). I apologize for that. I think my effect on Tim was more severe.
However, I left the Wikipedia 2 years ago to pursue my own internet endeavors. During the last 2 years, a lot has happened in my life. As you know, I have Asperger's Syndrome. In June of 2004, I started Wrong Planet, my own website for Asperger's Syndrome, which quickly became the largest online community for individuals with Asperger's and Autism.
Since the start of the site, I've appeared on Good Morning America, Fox News, and was recently featured by the Washington Post in December. This site is constantly growing and has recently started to become a very large community. I feel very happy to be able to touch so many people's lives.
In the late summer of 2004, I also became an official Gentoo Linux Developer, and helped code for that project. This position gave me full CVS read/write access to the Gentoo portage tree. I quickly realized how foolish I had been to want administrator access so vehemently as the power and prestige of a wikipedia administrator pales in comparison to that of a Gentoo Developer. What's ironic is that I never set out to become a developer with the Gentoo foundation. I just started contributing and was selected by another developer to join the team. In addition, once I became a developer I realized that I didn't care about "power" anymore. I just cared about having fun working on a collaborative project.
I'm now a Computer Science major at George Mason University. This summer, I was hired by AOL to work as a QA programmer for Core services at AOL HQ.
Anyway, the success of Wrong Planet has led me to start a wide variety of other web ventures, which includes tvWiki.tv, a site that gets 1500 unique visitors a day despite the fact that it was created only 2 months ago. I noticed that you've also become an internet entrepreneur and I think that's really awesome!
Anyway, I'd like to hear back from you to see how you're doing. I noticed you have moved to Australia with Tim. I'd like to congratulate you both on getting together. I also would like to make sure that everything is OK with Tim and me and you and me.
Thanks for taking the time to read this.
Warm Regards,
AlexPlank 17:22, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
<snip copy of Löschkandidaten>
from "http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:L%C3%B6schkandidaten/7._Mai_2006&diff=16429469&oldid=16429451" (contains Steschke´s first manipulation)
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:L%C3%B6schkandidaten/7._Mai_2006&diff=16429853&oldid=16429831 (de:Benutzer:Steschke´s second manipulation)
now: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:L%C3%B6schkandidaten/7._Mai_2006#Angela_Beesley
Sorry, but some of them are huns, red huns. Ask Jimbo. Greetings 19:24, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
<snip copy of newsletter>
Hi Angela,
I noticed that your Italian user page, though globally comprehensible, has several errors which prevent a full understanding of some sentences. Thus, to make you forgive me for the stupid question I asked a few days ago ;), I offer myself to improve the translation. I can't figure out what some parts, which I have reported here in bold and with a final question mark, were intended to say, though. If you tell me what the intended meaning was, in English, I'll translate it back into Italian. For the rest, I think the page can be reworded as follow (of course some links will not work here, but they will do on the Italian Wikipedia):
<snip copy of user page>
I hope this won't bother you. --Gennaro Prota (talk) 00:49, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
I love my new sig but I am not allowed to have it. Help me? General Eisenhower (talk of my war years) (talk here) (Help ME Improve) (war or Magic) 22:42, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
Hi, your comments are requested. Thanks - Taxman Talk 05:14, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for reverting the recent vandalism on my user page. Much appreciated. Gwernol 13:56, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
(Note that this is a form notification.)
Hello Angela. Since you commented on the Deny recognition proposal, this is to notify you that a formal poll has been opened concerning it. If it is accepted, it will be be used as a launching pad to amend other policies such as the deletion policy; that page itself will be marked as historical, not policy. Feel free to reread the proposal and place your vote. // [admin] Pathoschild (talk/map) 07:21, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello Angela,
I think Ko project Wikibooks needs its own prefix in Korean. The prefix in Korean is 위키책: '위키' is a transcription of 'Wiki', and 'books' is translated into Korean '책'. Would you please arrange for changing?
I've been recently confronted with a upload problem. A lot of screenshots are uploaded on the Ko Wikibooks (see here). It's not clear that they belong to the category free-game-screenshot. I've managed the user should add the tag Ko 'Template:Game-screenshot'. -- 아흔(A-heun) 09:59, 12 May 2006 (UTC)