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A wiki

How do I create a new special page in my own wiki?. Chihonglee (talk) 23:53, 30 July 2012 (UTC)

Placeholder Images

I cannot locate the code for placeholder images. I have seen them used before, of course not in articles that I can locate now, to keep the format of infoboxes etc, in tact until a free domain image could be located. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks. Temp07 20:57, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi T07, you are looking for some of the "fair use" templates on the english wikipedia, for instance. You can use them when uploading local files to en:wp as an explanation for why you are using a non-free image. -- sj | help translate |+ 18:16, 14 January 2009 (UTC) You'll often find them in use for actors or other public figures...

Wikitionary Quick Links

How come the wiktionary quick link (:d) example isn't working? Is there new shortcut notation? Theornamentalist 00:41, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Using Extensions for Local Wikis

Hello, I am an admin from Tamil Wikipedia (www.ta.wikipedia.org). To encourage participation, we are considering adding subject quizzes ([1]). There used to [2] file, which we need to modify to enable the extension. But, that file no longe exists. How can we enable this extension? Thanks.--Natkeeran 20:43, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Problem Installing Navigation_popups Gadget

I installed the Gadgets extension, because I wanted to add the Navigation_popups gadget. After installing the correct version of Gadgets extension I added the Navigation_popups following these instructions:

- add Gadget-popups.js script - add Gadget-navpop.css script - add * Navigation_popups|popups.js|navpop.css in the Gadgets-definition page - create Gadget-Navigation_popups page for a description of the gadget

I then selected this gadget under the Preferences/Gadgets section, and I did bypass the browser's cache but the popup gadget still didn't work.

I installed another gadget, wikEd, to make sure that my installation procedure was correct, and this gadget works fine.

Can you tell me what I am missing on the Navigation_popups gadget installation?

Thank you, --Erioni 08:25, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Glitches in table display when using float

In this page I have a table where the left column contains two cells - one float:left, one float:right. The problem is that often in just one row the 'right half' of the left-most column will move into the second column and shift every column in that row across one.

It isn't always the same column, it differs when I add or change information.

Possibly there is another, better, way of getting the effect I want. In any case I would appreciate advice on avoiding this glitch. 86.138.145.42 13:20, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

My uploaded file does not appear. Does it need to be approved before it becomes visible?

Thanks. CanJGA 17:22, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

How to participate if Discussions are being moved 3 Times

I know that it is important to Keep order about where what is discussed, but if a discussion is moved, couldn't a link to the new discussion as well as to the old one be mandatory? In this way if a discussion is moved twice it would be possible to provide a link to the current discussion as well as to the original. Also if the discussion is finally resolved you could find all the old ones and mark them as resolved too. Why this is here? Because my original suggestion was moved 3 times. ~~+~

Hi All Members!!!

Lovely Greetings. Ishaq5243 16:56, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Bowburr's complaint

I GIVE UP!

I have several advanced degrees, am a published author, and am informed I have an above-average IQ, but I can't figure out (1) how to add photos to which I hold copyright to articles which ask for photographs to be uploaded, and (2) how to add correct information to existing articles. My areas of expertise range from Southeast Asian studies to U.S. history, and I have the publications to proved it, but this system seems to determined to exclude people who are not computer programmers.

If some adept geek wants, I will just upload what I have and you can fit it in. Otherwise it would be nice if Wikipedia really were open to knowledgeable people like me who don't know computer language. The only other website that so difficult is Harvard's. Like-- NOW -- where is the send button?

I can be reached at the following email address: Bowburr@aol.com.

WikiStalking in progress?

Could someone please let me know if this user's four edits between August 16-18 constitute WikiStalking or not? Each of the edits happen to have been directed at edits of mine. He is also marking fairly substantial changes as "minor" edits. Perhaps someone neutral might have a word with him? He is Ukrainian, so may not be fully in his comfort zone in an English-language space like Meta. -- Thekohser 12:49, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, my English is quite OK (en-3, if you haven't read my page) and I can understand your statements and pages on Meta rather well. Yes, I mark this changes as minor as I don't think that a revert is creative enough to be concidered a normal edit. You have forgotten to mention one thing: the emails you have sent me writing that I can do nothing here on Meta as your Wikipedia story was covered in some newspaper and mine not and I don't understand what the WMF is doing. These emails were a clear example of stalking as you continued sending me these mails even after I've written that I'm not going to discuss any of these problems with you. Thanks — NickK 18:15, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

I rest my case. The User above is taking an off-Wikimedia discussion via e-mail as license to retaliate here on Meta. -- Thekohser 22:39, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

How to locate a talk page for a photographer

How can I contact a specific photographer? When I log in and then go to a page with a particular photo by a specific photographer, I don't see a "talk page" associated with that image/photographer. How do I find the talk page for a photographer after I have logged in? Once I log in I seem to get automatically get looged off once I go to another page on the site. Thanks. Emag 02:24, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

The image page should say where the photo came from, and who the author is. If not, you can scroll down to see the file's upload log. J.delanoy^gabs_adds 03:11, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

GerardM making attack edits

Just wanted to bring this attack edit to the attention of the community. It would seem that someone is jealous of my speaking and publicity experience, but it is over-the-top to edit my posting without notice. Every content change I made to that page was predicated on a two-week discussion on the Talk page, followed by a personal e-mail to every potentially affected party, followed by another two weeks for them to have ample time to respond. My content changes were to the benefit of list maintenance and accuracy. GerardM's edit was to exercise revenge and did nothing to aid Meta or that public speakers listing. -- Thekohser 11:39, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

Translation of mainpage

I want to translate Main page creating an updated Italian version from it, but Pagina principale can be chenged only from administrators. So, how can I translate it? There is a page where I can send a request to an administrator or it's better I nominate myself for administrator to do periodical updating? --Aushulz 18:43, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

How to merge accounts?

How does one merge accounts from different Wikimedia projects? I did it once before, but I can't remember how. Gott wisst 03:05, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Never mind. Worked it out (kinda). Gott wisst 03:06, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Screen shots of MS Windows Products

i tried to add screen shots of a MS product http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IExpress but the images get deleted even though http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/permissions/default.mspx#ERG says we can use their images as long as they are not altered or have peoples faces ... EXTRACT: Screen Shots You may not use screen shots of Microsoft product boot-up screens, opening screens, "splash screens," or screens from beta release products or other products that have not been commercially released. You may use other screen shots in advertising, in documentation (including educational brochures), in tutorial books, in videotapes, or on Web sites, provided that, in addition to the requirements above, you:

Tgkprog 14:00, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Click Trough Picture

Hi, I dont know a lot about Wiki-Style, but I know how to upload a picture. But I need to link a website to the picture, but I have no idea how to do so. So when I Click a picture, I want to direct it to another website. My 2nd question is how to link a picture to another Wiki-Page, is that possible?

Thanks in advance. Charrel

can't find create page link in my wiki

I was having problem creating new page in my wiki and I installed reinstalled three times to get same error back. According to this tutorail here "http://os.cqu.edu.au/courses/guides/gsmw/" a link to ' create page' should come up when we search a non existent topic, but in my case only 'help' shows up. not only that when i click on some of the links, it takes me no where. I am not sure where I went wrong. This is another way of creating new page "http://www.example.net/index.php/ARTICLE" where article is topic of my new page but when I do this.... it shows blank. SO I am assuming I ve gone wrong in config but I couldn't locate this. ANy help or suggesstions will be appreciated

Thanks Tash

Category not working?

What ever

I had also tried to find out some category but I also discovered that its not working.

Global account

There seems to be an anomaly with my global account. In particular, it seems someone is using my username on the Malayalam Wiktionary, and copied and translated two of my edits from the English Wiktionary to the Malayalam one. [3] It used to tell me that that account was unattached, but now that I've visited the links, it's attached, but I certainly did not make those edits to the Malayalam Wiktionary. Does anyone know what happened? — Internoob (Wikt. | Talk | Cont.) 03:00, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

help

My user page has been blocked --Jmgz51 10:52, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

How can I propose an inter-wiki WikiProject be formed?

As above Kayau (talk) 13:36, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

Can't find my entry, content isn't linked to photograph, "My Talk" history seems to be gone. I need help, please

I have been working on an entry for Dan Dunn (American journalist, b 1968) since May! First my entry existed, then the photograph for the entry, but once the photograph was approved, the content disappeared. Please help, I need to find the content and then post the photograph, and then, hopefully, be done with this. Thank you for your help (I'm desperate!) HomerFish74HomerFish 19:33, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Try en:User talk:HomerFish instead. Somehow you got to the wrong site. (will also post this on your talkpage here) Kylu 19:53, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Eeek! What's going on?

I am at a loss to know what to do! I've been invited to Meetup in London, no. 37. I clicked on it, trying to add my name as an acceptance. It came up red. I created an account. That all went OK, but I don't know how to change my signature. I tried to copy my Wikipedia signature into the Nickname box in Preferences but it came out weird, with the square brackets and all. Nor did I receive a Welcome (sob!) Any help appreciated. Please answer to my Talk page, but I am sorry, I don't know how to link you to it at the moment because I cannot alter my signature to give the link. If all else fails you can contact me on my Talk page at Wikipedia in the UK. Actually probably best for you to answer me here - I will watch this page. Thanks. Dear oh dear. All help appreciated.FClef 00:11, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Your user talk page is User talk:FClef. If you want your user talk page on en.wikipedia, it's en:User talk:FClef. Have a nice day. Kylu 00:46, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Special pages in English

Hello, I'd like to see this page on Korea Wikipedia in English language. (not Google translation). Does Wikimedia support Special pages in English which show sysop right on non-English Wikipedia? --Gogogo1 15:24, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

http://ko.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=special:listadmins&uselang=en - Kylu 15:25, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Loooks like the alias doesn't work with additional parameters, the correct link is e.g. Special:ListUsers/sysop?uselang=en -AlexSm 15:53, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for kind answers! I need that :) And, I have an one more question. Could I know whether someone has a sysop access of non-English Wikipedia on META-WIKI Special pages? Can I know it only on the local wiki's Special page? --Gogogo1 15:26, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

Well, not really that I can think of. VVV's Sultool shows local rights in English, but it's neither a special: page nor is it on Meta. Does that help? Kylu 14:57, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Fatal error

I am installing wiki1.16 on my freehostia webpage. I got everything ok, until the installation guide showed: Fatal error: Class 'StubContLang' not found in /home/www/fdsafdsa.freehostia.com/wiki/includes/Setup.php on line 306"

What should I do?

indexing redirect pages

How to make redirect pages in Tamil wikipedia indexable?. We have two slightly different methods of writing certain characters and currently one of them is recommended for standardisation. The article title written in the other method is used as a redirect. Since redirect pages are not indexed, searchers using the second method to write aren't ending up in wikipedia. Is there a way to turn on indexing for Tamil wikipedia alone?-Sodabottle 08:51, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

problems with index.php

I tried to insert a little code to follow the stats in google analytics into my wiki at http://wiki.turismo-sostenible.net/ so i insert it into the index.php and not only the stats didn't work out but the site doesn't load (it's a blank page)

Later I removed the code hoping everything would go back to normal but still only a black page loads! Please help! i was really enjoying my wiki!

Ne0bi0 13:33, 22 October 2010 (UTC)

13 month ongoing bug with the skin display

I asked for this problem to be resolved in November 2009, when the vector skin was still IN BETA and NOW — 13 months later, the problem still hasn't been fixed. It's annoying and am unable to perform searches because the box is inaccessible. Please have mercy, and fix this bug. Thank you.— Ineuw (talk) 02:22, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Changing

Hello,

I am a Lusofona wikipédia's editor (portuguese-speaking languages), and I would like to change my username from SATURNOII to S@turno, because In other times I had another username called Saturno, but I loose my pssword, so I've halted to use this Nickname in our encyclopedia and, in my opinion, the name "SATURNOII" is a ugly name. So, alow me change my username, please.

I am waiting for yours answers

Thanks

SATURNOII 17:53, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

Here you can request: SR/SUL, SR/UC; nicknames with @ are not available. --Nemo 22:14, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Reference diplay on gu.wiki

Hi all, I am facing a problem in gu.wiki when there is a "ref name" used in text, and the full reference is listed at the bottom of the article, in references section, it doesn't show the references, and instead returns an error message indicating "Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named amnesty" if you see this you will realise what I am talking about. Compare the same article on en.wiki here. article on Gujarati, is the translation of en.wiki article, without changing any order or anything. Can anyone please help me figure out where the issue lies? and solve/provide solution for that? Thank you in advance.--Dhaval^Talk 13:36, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Problem with a function

Looks odd when I try this :

Number of articles = {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}
Number + 4 = {{#expr: {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} + 4 }}

Number of articles = 32,741 (ok this one is working)

Number + 4 = this one isn't !!!

An idea about it ? Thanks, Meta K Pote

Try {{NUMBEROFARTICLES:R}}, which will output a number instead of a formatted number: 32741 + 4 = 32745 --✓ 14:58, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Private Binds like vent?

can't seem to find a yes or no to this or how to set it up sorry if its in plain site i just don't see it

Ty for your time

Help requested in page code

Hi, I would appreciate if someone could help me fix a page code problem. I want to align the small Outreach icons at the bottom part of this page to suite the RTL direction of the text below them. Haytham^Abulela 17:19, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Added an edit, please review in your browser to ensure it works the way you'd like. Kylu 18:17, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Searching for a Swedish Wikipedia admin

Hi. I'm having trouble negotiating Swedish Wikipedia pages, probably because of the way my machine is rendering the non-standard characters. If someone could help me find an active Swedish Wikipedia admin who speaks a decent level of English (that's probably most of them), I'd be most grateful. Please point them to my en: talkpage, although I'll try to keep an eye on this forum, too. Many thanks. --Dweller 15:41, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Anyone? --Dweller 13:42, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Hello Dweller. I've posted at the administrators' noticeboard of svwiki. Regards, -- Dferg ^{☎ talk} 16:12, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. And thanks to the Swedish admins who came to discuss with me at en: --Dweller 19:44, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Wikitable help

I'm trying to get this table according to these dimensions :

| border="1" cellpadding="2"
! scope="col" width="25" | Aspect
! scope="col" width="50" | Summary of Activities
! scope="col" width="100" | Learnings
! scope="col" width="250" | Implications

Can someone please help? Thanks Srikeit 14:51, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

hello, what's the problem? Mr. Striker. Theo10011 14:57, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

Common.js problem

I've recently downloaded and installed the wikimedia (v1.17) on my server space, and I wanted to edit common.js to add some extra functionality. Unfortunately, when I try to save the common.js page after adding the changes, the connection resets. If I only post a small amount of text (roughly 100 lines) the edit holds despite the connection reset. However, if I try to add any more than that, the edit does not hold.

I can edit common.css just fine, its just common.js that resets the connection every time I try to edit it. 161.31.66.154 20:40, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Using a Sub Wiki - Wikiresearch.org

Have discovered and strongly desire to use Wikiresearch.orgSwgeek54 01:31, 21 November 2011 (UTC)

Hi Folks;

   I have discovered "wikiresearch.org", and have sucessfully logged in.  You can create a topic, put if you then go to that topic page, it is locked for editing.  If you go back and search for the page that you have just created, it does not find it.
   Also, I think that this would be a wonderful tool for a variety of progects, however, when I click on "random page", I get ads for clothing and one pornographic ad.  Now clothing has its place, and unfortunately in our modern world, so does pornography, but not on something called wikiresearch.org.  Is there any way to clean the site up, and make it usable?

Thank You Norm S

Place of work

are we permitted to create pages for where we work? i searched for several companies and cant find them so wanted to check first. 2tschris 14:14, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Odd numeric function problem

I'm writing or rewriting a article in Spanish, but I want to make automatic calculation in FUSION temperature for a periodic table elements, in other words only enter Kelvin temperature, and automatically calculate Celsius temperature. And I can if I was writing English Article, but Spanish use "," (comma) as decimal separator and not "."(period) like English spokers use to.
Thats work if P_fusion=500.5 (English form of numeration)
{{{P_fusión}}} [[kelvin|K]] ({{#expr:{{{P_fusión}}}-273.15}} [[Grado Celsius|ºC]])
But does not work if I use P_fusion=500,5 and the other number is 273,15
{{{P_fusión}}} [[kelvin|K]] ({{#expr:{{{P_fusión}}}-273,15}} [[Grado Celsius|ºC]])

Te problem is that I trying to rewrite a Template, and every article that use the spanish notation for decimal numbers will have problems. And it's common that every number write almost in spanish use "," as decimal separator. And I think that not english languages use "," as decimal separator, because we use SI as Metric System

Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool and Perl

Recently installed the above tool Vista Home ever since my perl is not working. When the update completes I lose Perl immediatly. The tool initiates asking to run but the damage is already done.Scripts give no command line errors and what I find even more puzzling is that some scripts I have turned into "exe" using pp also no longer work. CLI errors reports Can't load 'C:\Users\jeff\AppData\Local\Temp\par-jeff\cache-fbed522a2529316b7207f37ef49ba6bed3bacba1/934c1e9f.dll' for module Win32: load_file:Invalid access to memory location at C:/strawberry/perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 200.

at C:\strawberry\perl\vendor\lib/PAR/Heavy.pm line 83

Compilation failed in require at -e line 358. I thought these applications ran independantly of perl. I have restored my system to allow perl and perl app exe's to run but friends use some of my perl app exe's and I am afraid they will soon be knocking at the door. Not sure if this is the correct site to post this but can someone help with this jefff@gmail.com 46.254.249.173 19:37, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

何故古文版ウィキペディアは却下された?（Why used Japanese Wikipedia is was rejected?）

何故古文版ウィキペディアの設立は却下されたのでしょうか。（Why Old Japanese Wikipedia Why did is rejected the establishment of.）
　漢語: 舊日語維基建立什麼被拒絕了，為什麼？

• zh-classical:
• ang:

これらは認められたじゃあないですか。。。（Do these were observed...）
　漢語: 做這些觀察....

方針の変更があったらしいですが、理由を日本語、もしくは韓国語で教えてください。（It seems that there is a change in policy, please tell me in Korean, or Japanese a reason.）
　漢語: 是似乎是在政策上的改變，請告訴我在韓語或日語一個原因。

なお、再度歴史的言語版ウィキペディアの設立を認める議論は、どこで可能でしょうか。（In addition, recognize the establishment of a historical language Wikipedia debate again, I'll be able to finish in anywhere.）
　漢語: 此外，再次討論，允許建立一個歷史語言維基百科，其中可能嗎？

--E.Z.O. (talk) 09:29, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

I assume you're referring to Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Classical Japanese 2. The Language Committee (LangCom) doesn't accept new Wikipedias in extinct languages anymore. The Old English (ang) Wikipedia, which you give as an example, was created before these rules existed. The reasoning behind this is that Wikipedias in dead languages do not help the Wikimedia Foundation achieve its goal of allowing "every single human being [to] freely share in the sum of all knowledge". I do think it would interesting to have more wikis in extinct languages, but you'll have to discuss this on Talk:Language committee. Ask there for more information. Sorry for the late response--I only recently started checking this page. πr² (t • c) 05:04, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Phillis Wheatley link, and problems with password

Techmaven (talk) 03:04, 20 June 2012 (UTC)I'm not sure if I'm doing this right, as this is my first time editing and the instructions are Byzantine. The internal link to the "Phillis Wheatley" page is broken. If the term is typed in at the search prompt, one gets asked if one wants 'Phillip Wheel'. One can access the page from Google or the Wikipedia front page, however. I don't know how to fix this. Also, my password is not being accepted, so I can't edit the page, which should read that she was the 'first known African-American poet". No doubt there were others, since people of African descent had been in the Americas since at least Dutch times, and no doubt some of them spoke poetry even if they didn't write it down. Or their writings may have been lost, or published later (such as the works of Jupiter Hammon, the first African-American writer of any kind to be published; he even wrote a poem praising Wheatley, so there is no reason to suppose that he only started writing poetry after she did). She was certainly the first published African-American poet, and one of the first published female poets in the New World. Also, there is a mention of a biography on her life called 'Revolutionary Poet' but the information is incomplete. It's a children's book by Maryann N. Weidt, illustrated by Mary O'Keefe Young, and published in 1997 by Lerner Publishing. However, there are books that are more representative of her story, including one by the great scholar Henry Louis Gates, and another by Vincent Carretta. Both are mentioned in the references section, but they should be in the books section, too, especially since Wheatley is now viewed not only as one of the mothers of African-american and Women's literature, but one of the founders of American literature and one of the few African-american writers whose work was not directly autobiographical.

Hi Techmaven. I think you are asking about w:Phillis Wheatley. If you want any change ask in that articles talk page w:talk:Phillis Wheatley.

// The internal link to the "Phillis Wheatley" page is broken. If the term is typed in at the search prompt, one gets asked if one wants 'Phillip Wheel'.// It works fine for me (Due to internet connection speed, search box suggestions may vary).

//Also, my password is not being accepted, so I can't edit the page// I think your account is not usurped in English wiki, ask here. One more information that page is not protected, so you can edit it as anonymous user, No need to log in :)--Shanmugamp7 ^(talk) 04:06, 20 June 2012 (UTC)

Philip Greenspun illustration project

I would like to revive the above project on meta wiki. Definitely, the donation given by him would not have run out since a very small number of first round illustrations had been completed. That would mean that there is virtually no hurdle in reviving it(except of course spreading awareness about it). What steps should I take for this? Thanks. Roshan220195 (talk) 14:46, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Pages?

How I make a simple page?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Titanic225 (talk • contribs) .

direction changing

how can change direction a wikipedia to be right to left?. AminSanaei (talk) 12:40, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

I suppose you're talking about glk-wiki. It already appears to be RTL. One way is to set CSS "direction:ltr" somehow. I'm not sure exactly how I'd go about doing this, but it seems it is already done--correct me if I'm wrong about that. Otherwise, I recommend you ask on the more active Forum or file a bug on Bugzilla. πr² (t • c) 05:10, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Appealing when your language's administrators are unreasonable

On the English Wikipedia Help Desk, from time to time there are questions about how to appeal an unreasonable action by those in charge on another language's Wikipedia. The person is always told English Wikipedia has no control over what others do, but it seems that there ought to be some kind of appeal system. I was sent here.Vchimpanzee (talk) 22:20, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Were you blocked somewhere? πr² (t • c) 03:15, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Not me, but people who ask questions might have been.Vchimpanzee (talk) 16:31, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

A Mistake of User Language Template (zh-hant)

User language
zh-Hant-N 這位用戶的繁體中文達到母語水平。
Users by language

This template(? probably) is {{#Babel:zh-hant-N}}.

The description of native speaker is strange. It is likely to be a machine translation. The present one is "這位用戶明白以母語為主的傳統中文字。(It means This user understands Traditional Chinese mainly in the mother tongue in English. What is it trying to express?!)". It should be "這位用戶的母語是傳統中文。(The native language of this user is Traditional Chinese.) "

It looks like a template but I even cannot find {{#Babel}}. Actually I don't know what does the # in front of Babel mean. How can I find and edit that template?H2NCH2COOH (talk) 15:15, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

It seems like it was already fixed, but the general way to edit that "template" is to go to the non-Wikimedia site Translatewiki.net, follow their starting instructions and change (or ask an admin there to change) translatewiki:MediaWiki:Babel-N-n/zh-hant. In general, for any language code "xyz" and babel level (n) (0,1,2,3,4,5,N): edit MediaWiki:Babel-(n)-n/xyz on translatewiki. πr² (t • c) 05:14, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

Article count in the Northern Sámi Wikipedia

Hi, I´m active contributor in the North Sámi WP and checking the se:Special:Statistics. There note I that the have created ca. 300 articles after 00.00 (UTC) 11.1.2013. There are 2 edits (without bots) in total they 2 last days (10. and 11. january 2013). And last article-creating edit was 8.1.2013 (se:Special:NewPages). Why is article count now ca. 300 articles more than one day ago? Gálaniitoluodda (talk) 14:48, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Is it possible that a bot (maybe se:Special:Contribs/GálaBot or se:Special:Contribs/HaakonBot) created these pages? Or maybe Gálaniitoluodda himself? I suggest you ask on Northern Sámi Wikipedia. Also, I can't see logs before 7 February 2013, so I can't see what happened in January. If these guesses are not correct, please reply. πr² (t • c) 05:21, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

I created this second account by mistake

Sorry, being confused, I created this Tlhslobus2 Wikimedia account by mistake (I already have an account as Tlhslobus on both Wikipedia and Wikimedia). I am now seeking help or advice on getting Tlhslobus2 deleted or otherwise rendered harmless (I don't want to risk being accused of having created a 'sock puppet', which I understand is some sort of serious violation of Wikipedia rules).Tlhslobus2 (talk) 07:15, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

You should simply stop using it. No need to do anything special. Ruslik (talk) 08:50, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks.Tlhslobus (talk) 05:28, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

I made a new project proposal

I made a proposal at Proposals for new projects. At New project process#Adopting an existing project into Wikimedia it says a template for such a proposal is needed. What template is this and where can I find it? My proposal is this one. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 14:59, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

It's probably referring to {{New sister project proposal}}. Good luck! πr² (t • c) 00:24, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

Note: see New_project_process/Handbook_for_requesters#Making_a_new_request for a guide of using it. πr² (t • c) 00:25, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

I added that template to the proposal page. Thank you. Toshio Yamaguchi (talk) 08:26, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

"Vote! Button" on Steward elections

How does the "Vote! button" on the Steward election works? This would be a nice feature for votings in other wiki-projects! — Allrounder (talk) 20:24, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Sorry for the late response. You should ask User:Hoo man for details, because he's the author of the script. πr² (t • c) 01:03, 5 March 2013 (UTC)