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Hi Angela,
Thanks for making me an admin and bureaucrat at ceb-wp. I promise I will do my best to be a responsible member of the community ;). -- Bentong Isles, Oct. 25, 2005, 20.45 (Philippine Time)
I just closed an AfD as DELETE Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Body_parts_slang_2. However, a similar(some of it is redemable as it is common knowledge and the terms are used in numerous maintream books) article Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of sexual slang had KEEP. The intro to sexual slang article is better, but the rest drifts off into O.R. just like the "article" that I just deleted.
We really need to get a standard for these, are they OK or not? And how should they be done? WP:NOR and the fact that Wikipedia is not a random assortment of info (also policy) present huge problems for such articles. I could say 656 means "sex using X and Y and position Z" and there is nothing to back it up. I just don't think this stuff belongs at Wikipedia. If one wants to search for such things, then use Google.
Hopefully, my decision will be a landmark one, so we can get all this O.R. nonsense off Wikipedia.
Any thoughs from our lovely Stewardess?(no puns impied)...this is a serious matter though. Voice of All(MTG) 15:15, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
I have posted Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#rIPping_.28and_ToSsing.29_vandals, calling on User:David Gerard to publicly reveal the IPs of the vandalbot socks that have been reverting Sealand, which I believe to be in keeping with item 5 of the Wikimedia Foundation privacy policy.
More generally, I believe that revealing IP (rIPping) vandals should be an option in the most disruptive cases of sockpuppet vandalism (especially vandalbots) that prevents Wikipedia from functioning normally (causing articles to be permanently protected, for instance). This would be an alternative to the earlier proposal to give more users Checkuser privilege, with the advantage that the privacy of ordinary users (and even garden-variety vandals) would be as secure as before.
Publicly revealing the IP would allow the grunt work of liaising with ISP's abuse contact person to be delegated to a "ToS committee" (Terms of Service) of ordinary users (without checkuser privilege), so reporting of terms of service violations to ISPs and followup could be done more systematically and effectively than is the case today. -- Curps 20:50, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Angela, there is a contributor that owns a record distributing company. She post her website as an External link. Is it against Wiki policy to post an external link in an article that will lead you to a site where a person may purchase merchandise of the person who is the object of the mentioned article? Thank you Tony the Marine 08:27, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
Note: Here is an example, Raphy Leavitt Tony the Marine 14:27, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
Hi Angela. I don't know who to go with this, so I try you :) I recently made some archives of talk page, for instance Talk:Jazz/Archive1. I added it to my watchlist, and I see changes made to the archive on my watchlist (I tested it). However, in the wathclist itself (after clicking "display and edit the complete list") I see this link. Do you know what's up with that? Karol 09:42, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
I hear a rumour you'll be in Sydney sometime. Is this true? - Ta bu shi da yu 13:58, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I've been discussing this with David Cannon who does the stats pages, and he referred me to you!
You see, all the stats and rankings for all wikis are all skewed by the fact that the "numberofarticles" counter for the Afar wikipedia for reasons I can't explain, reads "6", when the actual number of articles there happens to be more like "0"... There have not been any articles whatsoever there for months, not even the vandals' joke articles that were all deleted... What could be causing this? Codex Sinaiticus 00:40, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Angela - picture now changed and the old one deleted. Keep munching! :) Brookie: A collector of little round things 19:48, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Angela, can you please have a look at bug 3578? This is really important for Wikispecies; it will be much easier to keep links to Wikipedia up-to-date with this feature. Thanks a lot, Ucucha (talk) ( wikispecies:User:Ucucha) 10:41, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
Could you help me and some other users with the page income tax? For the past few days, an anonymous user has been inserting lunatic fringe tax-protester arguments into the article. Despite repeated requests for him to stop—and attempts by one user to reason with him—he insists on continually disrupting the article. (Many of his edits are simply pasted in (very badly) from tax protester sites (e.g., [1], taken from Lucas v. Earle)). These edits have completely disrupted income tax and it does not seem possible to reason with him. Can we block this user for vandalism? His edits are technically "content", but are so far off the mainstream they amount to saying "black is white". Thank you. — Mateo SA | talk 01:19, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
I was blocked because of my edits in the article about Yigal Amir. I think that blocking me was an abuse of adminship. pls unblock me. User:Haham hanuka
Hello, Angela. Since the HTML Tidy extension of MediaWiki was disabled, your signature is not rendering properly. You might want to recheck its HTML. Tito xd( ?!?) 01:34, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
Please be advised that I am filing a complaint against Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee member Fred Bauder. The significance of this matter is such that I would ask that you bring it to the attention of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. Thank you. - Ted Wilkes 20:01, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Could it be that User:Ted Wilkes is identical with multiple hardbanned User:DW? He frequently deletes contributions by others and aggressively attacks users and even administrators and members of the arbitration committee if their opinions are not in line with his personal view. For instance, he repeatedly, and falsely, claimed that my edits are fabricated, unfounded, or unwarranted and therefore must be removed. On 7 November 2003 User:NightCrawler, obviously an Elvis Presley fan like Ted Wilkes, deleted a passage relating to a claim by David Bret that Elvis may have been gay. See [2]. The same user added some denigrating remarks on Bret's book to the related discussion page, which were similar to those later written by Ted Wilkes. See [3]. In November 2003, NightCrawler was hardbanned. See [4]. But NightCrawler reappeared as User:JillandJack creating a new, denigrating article on biographer David Bret. See [5]. This biased article was rewritten by me on 4 April 2004. See [6]. In the meantime, JillandJack was hardbanned. On 20 April 2005, some different comment concerning author David Bret and his book was added. See [7]. This was repeatedly deleted by IP 66.61.69.65. See, for instance, [8], [9], [10]. Administrator DropDeadGorgias was forced to restore this comment. See [11]. Since May 2005 there was an edit war between Ted Wilkes and me concerning the article on David Bret and particularly his book, Elvis: The Hollywood Years, presumably because of Bret's claim that Elvis had homosexual leanings - a claim Ted Wilkes didn't like from the beginning. See [12] On 5 May, Ted Wilkes reinstated, without further commentary, the biased version by JillandJack thereby deleting a link to a positive Guardian review of a book written by Bret. See [13]. Significantly, Ted Wilkes repeatedly reverted the article to the version he preferred, i.e., exactly the version JillandJack had created, accusing me of distortions, fabrications, being a vandal, etc. See [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], etc. etc. It should also be noted that Ted Wilkes repeatedly violated the 3RR in the past and was blocked for doing so. See, for instance, [24]. It is also very interesting that users Ted Wilkes and Wyss, who frequently worked together in deleting my contributions to Wikipedia articles, are now working together in denigrating a member of the arbitration committee, simply because his opinion was not in line with their personal view. See Wikipedia:Requests_for_arbitration#Fred_Bauder and Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration#Fred_Bauder. Onefortyone 22:56, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
I had a discussion on IRC today with editor Sasa Stefanovic, who was looking for someone to block 65.9.143.188 over a dispute over which image to use on List of Serbs. He claims to be an admin on srwiki (which I don't doubt) and insists that the image he wants on the article is the one preferred by the admins of srwiki. Now, frankly, enwiki isn't required to follow the vote of a bunch of srwiki admins. I pointed out that this appears to be a content dispute and asked him to follow en's dispute resolution policy, but he refused, saying instead that he would ask you to take care of it on the grounds that "you would understand him". I would ask you to refuse to bypass en's dispute resolution processes simply because he requests it of you. This matter should be resolved according to en's policies; his role, rank, or status on a sister project is not grounds for special treatment in this regard. Thanks, Kelly Martin ( talk) 21:34, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
Angela, FYI there is a "profile" of you in this morning's (Tuesday November 22) IT section of the Sydney Morning Herald -- Wm 23:45, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
Angela, I just heard you on Radio National Breakfast too! -- Wm 21:49, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Nice interview, nice picture: are you standing up? I've passed the reference over to the Signpost if that's OK with you… HTH HAND — Phil | Talk 12:31, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Angela. Is there a way to merge my anonymous contributions into my existing edit contribution history? I've confirmed over two dozen anon edits that were mine by identifying articles I started, beginning with this cluster of edits, followed by these, another cluster, these, this, and this. Cheers! BD2412 T 04:32, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
Dear Angela, please have a look at wikisource:Wikisource:Scriptorium#Licence Ambiguity and What to do About It. This relates to a long discussuion we have been having about the copyright status of some of the texts we have, and how we might handle it. There is more discussion a couple of entries back in the Scriptorium. I know you have been very busy indeed in recent weeks, but any thought you might have on this from the Foundation standpoint will be most useful. Kind regards Apwoolrich 19:23, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi, Jmabel and myself have been discussing the merits of actively recruiting students and faculty from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. We have identified Wiley College as an ideal candidate for several reasons: they are the oldest HBCU west of the Mississippi, they have been a pioneer in the usage of computer technology in college education in Texas, and their location allows the outreach to send a representative in person, me. However, I have been putting it off because I realized that it would be odd to walk into Wiley to recruit on behalf of Wikipedia just because Joe and I think its a good idea. I thought it would be best if I consulted Anthere, Jimbo, and you and see what ya'll think; before running off and making an appointment to discuss an outreach program. Please respond as soon as you can. Thanks. - JCarriker 08:36, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Thank you. Owner of image has given permission to post the image under Fair Use.
I think this should be deleted since it is UE (unencyclopedic) - The image doesn't seem likely to be useful in an encyclopedia as per the policy here ifd. Cafe Nervosa | talk 23:33, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
You may or may not be aware, but there is somewhat of a crisis at George W. Bush in terms of a huge volume of vandalism (see the talk page and Jimbo's for more), and a couple users and myself have come together to request a feature called Semi-protection. If you wouldn't mind reading that page, and weighing in, I'd greatly appreciate that. Thanks, Mys e ku rity 05:49, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
Angela, I came across your " What Wikipedia is not" section. Really great stuff. -- Ezeu 18:22, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
Hi Angela. I was just watching The Office, and I recalled reading from your wikipedia page that you live in Slough, and so I was just wondering if you've ever been to Chasers, the bar that the characters frequent in the show. Or is it even a real bar? - lethe talk 02:56, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
please have a look your talk page on Meta! :)-- Vipuser 08:43, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
I cannot access the Diablo Wikicity, and believe it may be down (it is giving me a lengthy error message). The Wikicities downtime report said that you were the one who needed to know about this. Can you please fix it? 70.243.127.86 15:36, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
It's working now. 70.243.127.86 16:02, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
The navigational links at the top of your user page are colored in white on a white background, thus I cannot read what they are (without going to them, of course)! — Wackymacs 11:15, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello Angela, I saw your explanation on the talk page of user The Engineer in Bulgarian Wiki. Sorry if it is rude but you've used a weasel term in it: "... number of members ...". How big this number is and of which users you've got a complaint. There is the user Emil in a personal conflict with him, and The Engineer is accusing him in being backed by an administrator and a founder of Bulgarian Wiki - Petko (admin ID Потребител:5ko, "pet" means five in Bulgarian). While I cannot accuse user Petko, I can assure you that user Emil is having conflicts not only with The Engineer (even I had to recall my ambassador).
Please make clear statement based on what you went for removal of adminship of The Engineer, and protection of his pages. The Bulgarian Wiki community is too small to waste any editor, and is among those who lost editors instead of getting more onboard. Bulgarian Wiki also is decreasing its pace. Right now I am not asking to reinstate the admin access but protection without clear, verifyable explanation is not good.
Regards, Goldie (tell me) 13:34, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
P.S. I am going to post this also on meta. -- Goldie (tell me) 13:34, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
I've set 10 Dec 2005 as the deadline for the Big Cats book, so that we can hopefully get the thing to press before our "December 2005" deadline is up. As far as you know, the Beck Foundation is still on board? Do we have a cheque from them. -- user:zanimum
Wikipedia:Counter Vandalism Unit/Watched I am considering putting this template on articles suffering from heavy vandalism in an effort to adverise that there are people dedicated to fight vandalism. Given the latest CNN interview I think it is necesary to advertise bodies that are deidicated in combating vandalism. I also hope this will discourage vandalism as people will know we are watching.
I want to have the Boards ok for using the wikipedia and wikimedia logo like this (the CVU images as the apear above), primarily as a precation for incidents regarding copyrights of the Wikipedia/Wikimedia logos. -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 18:49, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
It seems like I've had a little less vandalism after slapping it on the top of my userpage!
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Hi. I'm one of the users who requested that the pages in Welsh from wikisource be moved into a cy.wikisource subdomain. The request has been listed on m:Approved requests for new languages since October 27. Do you have any idea what needs to happen to actually get the subdomain working? Someone said at [26] that you might know the answer. Thanks! 16:40, 8 December 2005 (UTC) (ex User:Marnanel on en:)
Mail received and I have notified Thai wikipedians, I hope they can all come as the ones I met sofar are a really enthousiastic bunch. I put a picture with a new message on my userpage btw. I hope it is not overdoing it ;) Waerth 21:51, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Could you take a look at no:diskusjon:Tor Bach? Seens like a journalist are interested in the case. I don't know enough of the legal implications. John Erling Blad 21:17, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello. I've been a wikipedian for almost a year now, and I've surely and slowly begun to meet new users and make new wiki-relationships. You seem like a person I'd like to get to know (I like nice wikipedians), so I just wanted to say hi and...nice to meet you. - MegamanZero 19:17, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
I've left this message on your Meta page as well (and above), but I wanted to make sure you got this. At Wikipedia:Semi-protection policy, a couple users and myself are attempting to gather consensus about a possible change in editing. So as not to keep the community out of the loop, we've been posting to user talk pages, which seems to have worked. If you can add your thoughts to the talk page, it would be greatly appreciated. We've gone over a few issues, ranging from perception of anti-wiki to time limits, and recycling pagemove code, so you might want to check out #Rehashing to get up to speed. Thanks in advance, Mys e kurity( have you seen this?) 21:23, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
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Hi Angela ... I liked to discuss this issue with u firstly , i have heard that creation of new pages property will be canceled for unregistered users , actually i was thinking in something similar regarding the Arabic Wikipedia , but not with cration of new pages but in the Editing , actually most unregistered users come just for vandalism or for putting their unbalanced opinions , they expereseed their intolerance and fanatism when they r anonymous and destroy the work of many users who tried to give balanced view of the issue , the policy of restricting IP is not so usefull as most of arabic users has dynamic IP not static and blocking a domain caould prevent users of whole country . also the protection of pages isn,t so practical , i think the person must register before allowing him to edit and then we can punish him for vandalism or discuss him about his opinions and other issues .
so is that possible that we try cancelling the Editing for unregistered users in AR wikipedia ... and i,m sure that would be so good for Ar wikipedia ... Discuss that with jimmy wales and if that is ok i can make Voting in AR wikipedia to make this change .
Best Regards -- Unfinishedchaos 21:11, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Angela ... Thanks for ur reply ... i understand totally ur viewpoint , and i agree with you that barrier for editing shouldn,t be high , but i was just angry from some unresponsible anons behaviour , recently the proposal for semi-protection seems so practical and very important for me to ban such unresponsible users especially that their vandalism happens in particular issues like religious and political issues so such semi-protection policy would be so important to increase the quality of Wikipedia articles in all languages as i guess .
At last , i have restored again my request for getting access in Ar_Wiktionary to organize this projects as the only sysop there is absent for long time . please take care about this Request . thanks alot again -- Unfinishedchaos 18:37, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
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...and no other admins seem to be around, and I can't keep up. 24.17.48.241 01:57, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
Nice job, Angela! -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 01:01, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
I need help because in wikiquote has posted spam in several times. I send this problem in Meta . But they don´t answer back anything. That problem are in others wikis (example).I don't know how I should proced.... And sorry by my english.e. Usuario:unnio,-- 204.116.85.50 09:11, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi, sorry if I'm going about this the wrong way, but I see that you had a hand in deleted an article I started earlier this year, James Sherriffs. I'm fine with its deletion, but I'm wondering if you could possibly give me the text of that article some way? Bbsrock
Hi Angela , sorry for bothering u again , but could u please answer me above in Ar_wikipedia paragraph . and another question : actually when i make ip restriction in ar_wikipedia , they told me that this ip is restricted but actually it is going on in editing and vandalizing . so i think the Restricion doesn,t work , do u have any advice or i have present a bugzilla report -- Unfinishedchaos 17:25, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
I,m talking about about IP blockin , there is spam in ar.wikipedia from specific IP , and everytime i block it , it returns with ability to edit , I tried all blocking duration 1 day , 2 weeks , 1 month , permanent ... but the Blocking doesn,t work in all cases .
Merry Christmas and happy new Year . --
Unfinishedchaos 11:21, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
I think it works now after ur help ..thanks alot ..u r the best ..happy new year -- Unfinishedchaos 15:44, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Verifying here. Fredrik | t c 23:53, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
What do you think of the movement? Reply here. Thanks. -- Kin Khan 03:14, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm not expecting to be online as much over the next few days so...
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Hello Angela, I am Moe Epsilon. I was just wondering if you could answer a couple of questions for me about a Wikicity I stumbled upon. Is this you in the edit history of the WikiCity rolling vandalism? Another question I have for you is that this project is pretty much deserted. Deserted based on there hasn't been an edit on there since August, I think.
I was wondering if I could do something to save the project. It would be a shame to loose a whole Wikicity over being abandoned. I have invited the Pro Wrestling Wikiproject over there to see if they would like to take a stab at fixing it.
Since every Main space edit I have on Wikipedia is under the genre of pro wrestling, I want to save the Wikicity the best I can. I know I can't save it alone, especially since there are no users. That brings me to this question, are there any Developers, Bureaucrats, or even admins on that Wikicity? How do I become an admin on an abandoned WikiCity? I know, stupid question, but I really don't want to see this die out. — Moe ε 01:39, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
I find the speed, efficiency and accuracy of your editing worrying. Don't you have somewhere else to be?
Have a Proper and Merry Crimbo. File:Pressie.gif, in fact here is a pressie from the Doctor to you. Ho. Ho. Ho! File:Unclecrimbo.gif Dr. McCrimbo 22:48, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Sorry to bother you again Angela but I responded on your talk page on Meta-Wiki to no response. So I'll respond here. I am currently awaiting your decision about whether or not I can be admin on the Pro Wrestling Wikicity or not. I know you said if I needed the powers you could give me access, so can I? I haven't been able to really start today because I don't know where to start. Although I got a couple of people to join in, it might be easier with admin powers.
PS. I want to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Years. — Moe ε 23:32, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi Angela, I noticed in passing that you have the old Wikispecies logo on your user page. A local copy is at Image:Wikispecies-logo.jpg. (Not sure why the old version is .png.) Best wishes, Banyan Tree 06:08, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
You are awesome! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.23.214.138 ( talk • contribs)
I feel this template below is an important and integral part of the development of Wikipedia. As an important part of WP, would you please comment on the matter? The ongoing addition of information that may cause serious security risks to the safety of not only Wikipedians, but citizens of the non-digital world as well is an issue that needs to be addressed. PeterZed 22:48, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
{{ Security Risk }}
I need a favor, and User:Cecropia suggested that I should come to you. I would like to change my username, and to move my "admin" flag to it (Cecropia can add a flag, but not subtract one). I'm going to stop using the old name and retire it. Due to the excessive number of edits that I've made I can't move my them to the new name (nor would I want to), and will start off with a clean slate instead. The new year seems like a good time to make the switch. The new name is user:Will Beback, and you can make the change anytime that is convenient. Thanks for your help, and for all you do. Cheers, - Willmcw 09:50, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
Regarding Wikicities, how do you change the logo for a Wikicity? Having the normal logo for a dedicated Wikicity makes it a bit basic, and I want to make the logo better. Can you tell me how please. Thankyou. P.S I have added here also so I can get an answer quickly.-- M Johnson 02:52, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello Angela, i´m contacting you from Georgia (Europe), i´m presenting myself as member of Georgian Internet Alliance. We have some plans around one project about Open Source Software, Community Portal, support and open documentation & etc. Maybe we can help wikipedia/wikimedia to make it´s mirror on our future server in Georgia to help local visitors view wikipedia much faster, effective. We need to know, how is possible to make only ka.wikipedia.org-s mirror for first step and then whole your database.
We are officialy working under translation of KDE, mozilla, opera, & other free software. Currently we are now little busy to work under translations, while we are organizing several projects and portals but i think it will be done with mediawiki translation in a week. Main programming-specific part is already done, but i have not uploaded it on sourceforge yet.
Also we want to help wikpedia editors to communicate - we will create special section and we also plan to add mediawiki engine for tests.
Sorry for my broken english.
Please contact us in the forum: http://www.gia.ge/forum/index.php?board=5.0 (it may be under construction/alpha stage).
or within online chat:
ICQ: 278791298
MSN: [email protected]
Yahoo: george_machitidze
e-mail: [email protected]
Thank You.
George Machitidze, Georgian Internet Alliance,
http://www.gia.ge
01:08, 5 December 2005 (GET)
For last year's words belong to last year's language
Hi Angela,
Do you happen to know if there's been any discussion relatively recently about using second-hand hardware (for the squid or apache computers)? The only thing I've found about the possibility of that is in Meta:What we use the money for which is over a year old. I also tried asking at Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Second-hand_hardware, and there were some people in favour and against, and one person saying that rack space is a limiting factor, but no links to discussions of the proposal.
Thanks, Andjam 00:33, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
PS: Happy new year, and I hope you escape from Mexico soon!
Hello :-) You were listed as one of the Wikipedians who have volunteered to help members with their image copyright questions. If I am the original author/creator of an image, such as a photograph, what would be the appropriate copyright tag to select when uploading, if I wanted to grant a non-commercial license exclusively to Wikipedia, reserving the right to be attributed as the source and the copyright holder, and prohibiting the image form being altered? All I can find are "for any purpose" licenses that allow "altering," which I don't think I fancy. Thank you. -- AladdinSE 10:11, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Thank you. I always expected my prose to be altered by others on Wikipedia, but I was rather unsure of things like photographs. I was worried about a vague notion of "malicious changes" to my photographs which might reflect badly on me as the creator or on the subjects of the photos. I thought that as long as Wikipedia didn't have to pay for the content uploaded by its editors, and Internet readers didn't have to pay to use it as a reference, that this satisfied the free content principle. It bothered me that commercial interests would be able to take my photographs off of Wikipedia and utilize them for profit. But if it must be so, it must. I expect I'll be using GFDL-self on Wikipedia. Thank you for your help. -- AladdinSE 23:29, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi I have been asked/informed about a short term consulting position at the International Rice Research Institute in the Phillipines, they are looking for people with wiki experience and an understanding of molecular biology and international agriculture to help them with their wikis. I'm not sure I'd quite fit the bill, and have asked for more information, I was wondering if you knew of anyone that might be "qualified" that I could also foward the information to. -- nixie 15:26, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
I hereby award you these wings for your tireless contribution to the wiki-comunity to the point of traveling over seas for wiki-community as well as spending time on inteviews etc (too many things to simply list). Generally people forget to say when a job is well done. Obviously I don't. ^-^' -- Cool Cat Talk| @ 17:32, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
P.S. - I still think it is nice to meet you. - MegamanZero| Talk 09:36, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Regards, Arno 09:32, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
For intervening on my behalf. That anon user whose sockpuppets include User:Vesa and User:Projects, and who knows what else, keeps adding his point-of-view (and poorly written) stuff to the George Reeves page, and who knows what else. He shows signs of being a lunatic, to put it technically. :) Wahkeenah 18:58, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Hey Angie whats up long time no talk!
Anyways I just wanted to let you know, Im inviolved in the elections here as a candidate.
Well I hope to hear a line from you soon. Thanks! , and God bless you!
Your friend always, Antonio Fashion Do Mertin
Is it O.K. for the Helping Hand Group to use their current logo? I beleive permission is required, so I am asking you.
Is it alright for the HHG to use the logo?
The Neokid 13:56, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
I hope you are doing well. I would fix them if I could, but there are some errors on the statistics page that have been there for some time - [27]. Under "Wikipedia Statistics All languages", the December 10th line appears to be incorrect. It states that we have 727 million words and 6.1 GB, etc. Two lines below it, however, we see that we had 856 million words and 7.1 GB in November. I've never seen this kind of reversal - if this is correct, we somehow managed to lose about 129 million words in the course of a month or so. Model Citizen 19:21, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
I saw that you were active in the first vote for naming conventions of television program(mes). Well it has raised it's ugly head again and I would appreciate any comments you have to make about my new proposal for naming television shows. Please leave comments here. Thanks! -- Reflex Reaction ( talk)• 21:42, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Would you consider demoting some of the long-inactive bureaucrats, like user:Optim back to sysop. I would be more likely to support new BCrats if they replaced inactive ones. 1/2 of BCrats are not even active anymore. This is an important wikipedia task, if you can no longer do it or are no longer willing, then someone else should get the job. I don't want a bunch of inactive BCrat accounts floating around waiting to be comprimised. I think that demoting seems like a reasonable think to do in this case. Only Stewards like you can do this though. Thank.
BTW. Your page has a really pretty picture now! Much better than the old one. Voice of All T| @| ESP 04:24, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angela, how's things?
I've been approached by an administrator who is leaving the project, asking how he can get de-sysoped. What is the process of getting oneself de-sysoped? I shan't give his details here in case others don't know of his intention to leave. Cheers. --
Francs
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I seem to recall you once told me you didn't like to use interlanguage links on your user pages (some of them, anyway). You should know, therefore, that there's a bot (on a few different wikis) that's adding interlanguage links to user pages. For example, here's its edit of your Romanian user page. I've asked the owner of this bot to stop changing user pages. - dcljr ( talk) 01:18, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello Angela,
I got your username from the Bureaucrats page. Anyway, I need my username changed, for privacy reasons, from User:Anthonyiamurri to User:un sogno modesto, if you wouldn't mind. Thank you, and sorry for the inconvenience!
Anthonyiamurri 05:43, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Just so you know ;) However, editcount returns no edits for my new user. So it's like I had started anew :( Can you do something about it? I had more than 600 edits, so...
-- Doppelgangland 15:20, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angela! I've always been in awe of you here and this is just a message to enquire as to why you decided to leave Esperanza. You're a very influential person here on-wiki (as you know ;)) and I wondered how we could improve as to get your support for us back. Thanks a bunch! -- Cel e stianpower háblame 20:13, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for your help on my wiki, but how do i get more people interested in the pets wikicity? No one seems to want to help expand.-- CHIMES 20:44, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Someone keeps changing Gould's year of birth from 1916 to 1926. It is ridiculous. Can you protect the page??
Thanks!! 67.101.192.188 22:24, 17 January 2006 (UTC) (email address: [email protected])
Hello Angela,
Let me introduce myself. I am Manjithkaini a bureaucrat with Malayalam Wikipedia and a well-wisher of Wikimedia Foundation. My message comes here with a request.
Though the Malayalam edition of Wikipedia runs behind other wikis in number of articles, the participation and user creation is in its boom. The main reason for the lack of articles is the Malayalam language didn’t have much Unicode Fonts. We, a group of Malayalis residing in various countries like USA, Japan etc have made this possible. Now we have fonts and Unicode supported transliteration softwares - important tools for wiki editing in Malayalam.
With these tools we are planning a competition in Kerala, the homeland of Malayalam language, to promote Wikipedia participation. We would like to represent ourselves as Malayalam Wikimedia Community and conduct the competition to popularize Wikis among school, college students and among elders in our homeland.
As you know we will need a number of posters and other publicity materials for this. Hence the need of a Banner and Emblem to get identified. We will be grateful if the Wikimedia Foundation grant us permission to use the banner Malayalam Wikimedia Community and also to use the Wikipedia emblem through out our campaigns.
-- Manjithkaini 15:55, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
My old usernames were User:Lehla and User:Special Editor, can you merge those accounts into this one? --User:Carie 20:42, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
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Hello Angela, I stumbled upon the articvle in the english wikipedia about spiders en:Spider, and I have tried to get that to simple:Spider, before simplifying the good article. Now I was told that the prover way of moving pages was using export/import (which I cannot do, since I lack the privileges). Could you therefore please move en:Spider and en:Spider web to simple (I don't believe we need all those sinlge spider entries). Please replace thwe current content of Spider: in simple, as all it is is an attempt of mine to move the en: page.
Thank you Eptalon 18:29, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Angela! Something changed in Wikipedia, since I requested for adminship last time. ba:User:Рөстәм Нурыев is requesting for bureaucrate status. I'm, an only admin of Bashkir wiki, but I'd only systop rights. Röstäm understand only Russian and Bashkir languages, so he can't request and he asked me to do it. Thanks, -- Untifler 18:42, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, Angela. I thank for the honour, rendered to me, to be the manager and bureaucrat in the Bashkir section. Now I am engaged in translation of the system messages on the Bashkir language. I write clauses about Bashkortostan. I poorly know the English language. This translation with Russian on English has made the computer. I ask to forgive, if is written with mistakes. ba:User:Рөстәм Нурыев -- 83.174.215.243 18:01, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
Angela - it was hearing you on Radio 4 months ago that first got me involved in Wikipedia and since then I have encouraged many others to become contributors, my grown up children included. I work as User:Velela but several of us , using our own user names, use the same PC for editing and sometimes jointly edit or contribute. We hope that this helps to bring some knowledge and experience from some older minds into Wikipedia - certainly we can remeber facts long forgotten by some. This approach has come up against an admin view that because several of us use the same IP address that we are de facto sock puppets and , over the last couple of days my access has been blocked. I guess I can live with that although the reasoning is flawed and seems to be a degree of angst in one admin User:Snottygobble because I dared to improve one of his articles ( Geoffrey Bolton). The use of blocking against vandalism seems an exemplary policy but to use it to suppress change and improvement is more reminsicent of more totalitarian regimes. I would welcome your views.
I recently read a mailing list post by ~notafish and learned that there is a backlog in the OTRS system. I would be happy to help categorize and respond to the incoming mail. Among those contacts listed on the meta for OTRS, you're the one I know best, so I thought I'd ask here whether you'd like to have my help.
The Uninvited Co., Inc. 21:35, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angela, I've had a go at your script request. [28] Lupin| talk| popups 23:55, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi Angela,
would you please help me to block spam vandalism. I think, there is someone who uses pseudo-IPs, and attacks only on the ko Wiktionary and Books among ko projects. -- 아흔(A-heun) 17:33, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for your reply to my question. Are you an admin? If so, please could you undelete it for me, and I can ensure that I add license info. Many thanks, -- Rebroad 20:34, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Angela,
An abusive admin has blocked my pal on IP address 24.147.103.146. The admin is named Gamaliel. This admin has been reported in the past by 24.147.103.146 for copyright violation and made to revert. He must be holding a grudge. It may also be due to his POV on the Kennedys and his past invlovement in edit wars. The reason given for the block was an old RFC on Ted Kennedy. My pal added appropiate links to other Kennedy pages not mentioned in the RFC. The admin is pro Kennnedy so he blocked my pal. In any case, this is an abuse of his priv and I ask your help in bringing this to light. Thank you 193.120.103.205 06:08, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Have you updated with the 20week scan pic? Thought it would be quicker to ask than to spend hours searching! Reply To Richard's e-mail, since I never really check Wiki page at the mo. Thanks Helen . 11:47, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia's "credibility crisis" is not being helped by failing to recognize when articles are blatantly slanted by politics. This entry on the Swift Boat Vets is egregiously bad. That will not be noticed by anyone of the Democratic persuasion, but the article fairly screams "a Democratic partisan wrote this" to anyone who is not.
I do not wish to debate this, I seek only to warn you that half of the people coming to Wikipedia will begin to dismiss the site as having been ruined by politics (as so many other 'reference' sites have) if this sort of thing continues.
Can you delete this page or at least the History, from the comments made by Chief 100, for he is clearly making a mockery of the 9/11 pilot [29]
As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.
In other news, Karmafist has set up a discussion about a new personal attack policy, which it can be found here. Other new pages include an introductory page on what to do when you sign up, So you've joined Esperanza... and a welcome template: {{ EA-welcome}} (courtesy of Bratsche). Some of our old hands may like to make sure they do everything on the list as well ;) Additionally, the userpage award program proposal has become official is operational: see Wikipedia:Esperanza/User Page Award to nominate a userpage or volunteer as a judge. Also see the proposed programs page for many new proposals and old ones that need more discussion ;)
Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you an Esperanzially good new WikiYear :D Thank you! --
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Mind clearing down this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Changing_username#Requests_to_usurp_an_existing_account_with_no_edits it has been adding up for a month. Ems2 14:31, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
The way robchurch told me it works is, the account I want gets renamed, then my account gets renamed to I want. So all logs are left inatact. Ems2 05:34, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, may I ask in what other languages is there a user using the nick ems that has also registered it on en.wikipedia? Ems2 16:15, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
The single login proposal must provide a solution if the same nick is used in differernt languages, and all do. It is clear this use isn't using it on en.wikipedia. The user would of only registered it to hold it because there was no single login, but once one of the proposals have been accepted this will be obsolute. Ems2 16:54, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
I was adviced aganist that, as they all are loyal to you. Would it be possible to email the address it was registered aganist? Ems2 13:52, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
You are invited to take part in Wikipedia_talk:Changing username#Dropping inactive user names. Ems2 17:14, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Some people dontlike my name and have asked me to change it
I like it but if it must be change then change it to SuperDeng just tell me in advanced and give me the exact time when the name change will happen
Another thing on the page that list your name as one of the active bureaucrats it also sais promotions
So promote me :D
Anyway please tell me if and before you change my name so that i dont think it is my computer buging when i have problems logging in
Deng 01-02-06 02.05 CET
Hello. If one has an idea for a new wiki project (like Wikibooks, Wikispecies, etc.), where does one go on Meta to propose it? -- Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 03:32, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
I am seeking your guidance and advice on a particular issue. Mahuri page on wikipedia was initiated by me, and I have contributed to the page from time to time. As per policy of the wikipedia anyone can use the contents of wikipedia, but I understand that use of such contents should indicate the source, that is, the wikipedia. The contents of the page Mahuri have been used in the site mahurivaisya without giving any reference to wikipedia - though I am glad that they have used our contents. In this case, a problem may arise at a future date if that website takes a stand that the contents of page Mahuri on wikipedia have been copied from that site and thus violates copyrights. In an alternative scenario, a user here may tag our Mahuri page with copyright violation under the impression that our contents have been copied from that site, reference to which was given by me long back as an external link when that site was not active and having only a welcome page. Although I am not aware of any such issue, which wikipedians may have encountered in the past, I believe that such a situation may have arisen earlier too. I seek your advice and guidance to deal with this issue, which you are requested to kindly post on my talk page please. I also utilize this opportunity to say Hello to you. Thanks. -- Bhadani 13:18, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Ah, how embarrassing. I've forgotten my wikipedia password. Unfortunately, the "e-mail new password" thingy doesn't seem to work. (I don't remember if I ever entered my email address in ... or perhaps I did but mis-typed it).
I suppose I could just make up a new user account ... but that seems so wasteful.
Are you one of the people that Help:Logging_in#What_if_I_forget_the_password? suggests might, possibly, be able to help me?
Or is there someone else that I should ask?
-- DavidCary http://david.carybros.com/
p.s.: I was using the same password for Wikibooks:User:DavidCary -- would you reset that one as well? -- 70.189.75.148 17:47, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
Do you think that this user deserved to be blocked for a week? See edit history [31]. I am not so sure about this block. See this. What do you think? And five admins desysopped in one day...how have you stayed out of this issue so well...I see nothing on your talk page? Voice of All T| @| ESP 16:35, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
Aloha!! Remember me...? I stumbled upon the remarkably bad Sesotho Wikipedia - you unlearn something new everyday!! Are you the Angela involved in "editing" some of the pages? How many Angela's are there?! Oh, I just realised it's the Sesotho version of your page! 8-D. I honestly wish I could do something about it, but it's absolutely braindead. Are the other African Language Wikiped's this bad? Am I honestly the only person to have previously contributed to Wikipedia who's competent in Sesotho? A pessimist like me feels that this "Wikipedia in every language" experiment is bound for failiure...
Sorry for "vandalising" one of the pages (Mmino), but I won't remove the comment. It pretty much sums up what I feel about the grossly malinformed articles about Africans on Wikiped'. -ZyXoas/Tebello Thejane (sorry, I've been away for so long that I forgot my password...) 198.54.202.234 13:13, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
User:Cecropia has suggested me at Wikipedia talk:Bureaucrats to leave a message to you about User:Optim, a dormant bureaucrat, inactive at Wikipedia since 7 Mar 2004. If there is still no answer from him after asking again, how about revoking his bureaucrat's and administrator's privileges? Even though I am not an administrator here, my experience as an administrator at Chinese Wikipedia suggests that allowing dormant bureaucrats and administrators may eventually result in security being breached if someone steals their passwords to ruin Wiki sites. This is why I am concerned. Thank you.-- Jusjih 08:42, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi. I wonder if you could give some advice - there is a pretty deep-seated disagreement over whether the page List of interesting or unusual place names should sit in the article namespace or the Wikipedia namespace. The article has been up for deletion from the article namespace once, and no consensus was reached (in my opinion), but it was moved to the Wikipedia namespace anyway. The article was then listed for Deletion Review, again, the result of the discussion was inconclusive. It was then listed at AfD a second time, but the AfD entry has been closed, even though nothing has changed in terms of the balance of opinion. Basically the current situation is one of instability & confusion, with the article potentially flip-flopping between namespaces. I'm lookng for guidance on what options there are to bring a more harmonious conclusion to the issue. Thanks in advance SP-KP 19:03, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".
The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.
Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,
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Hi. I saw the above request from User:Carie, and I'd like to rename my account to one that does not exist yet. Could you do this? I'd like to be User:Nimocks instead of User:Joshyoua. Thanks. Joshyoua 23:27, 13 February 2006 (UTC)