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Paid wiki-design contract position

We have a paid wiki-design contract position with the Wikimedia Foundation: We need your help making it easier for Wikimedians to participate in the movement and with each other!

• Travel and Participation Support Grants is looking for someone to help design and build a new portal on meta-wiki to make this grants program easier to navigate and more fun to use. You'd be working with me, to make something suitable for this program that fits with other grants pages on meta-wiki. We’d prefer someone with wiki and template knowledge (this would outweigh other experience). Please see the job description for details, pass it along to anyone you know, and feel free to ask me or Siko if you have any questions. We look forward to speaking with you!

(We’re posting around the community because we’d love to hire a Wikimedian and thought some people here might be interested - if you apply, please include some info about your Wikimedia experience!)

heather walls (talk) 23:47, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Paid articles

Moved to talk page. PiRSquared17 (talk) 23:26, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
In my opinion, no paid articles would be allowed. If a company's representative wants to describe a new product or process, I believe s/he would do best to assign the topic to one of the Wikipedia editors by phone, with a follow-up description by mail, so the editor can decide whether the topic provides useful information or just advertising. Narrabel P.S. I'm new here, and I hope that by clicking Save my comment will be added to the Talk page on the subject.

amending title of our language

Hello. I guess it is a place to discuss all wikipedia projects. I have a question to you.

when you visit wikipedia.org, main page, not wikipedia of any language, all available languages are listed there which wikipedia is available in.

now, I am a native speaker of Turkmen language, I write on tk.wikipedia.org or on Turkmen wikipedia, I looked at main page, our language is not written in our Turkmen alphabet, can you change it? or who can change it? where I need to refer?

now, Turkmen is written: ركمن / Туркмен

but, in our native language, in Turkmen, it needs to be written like this: Türkmençe

please, correct it or tell me where I need to refer to.

btw, ركمن / Туркмен is even not our alphabet, the first part is in persian alphabet and the second one is in russian alphabet.

please, write it in Turkmen alphabet: Türkmençe

Isn't Turkmen still written in Arabic script or Cyrillic sometimes? Should it just be Latin, or be Latin and Arabic? (Also, please request on Talk:Www.wikipedia.org template with {{editprotected}}.) PiRSquared17 (talk) 04:20, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

no, Turkmen is written in our Alphabet. please, if you have permit to change it, correct it.

it can be in latin, cyrillic or arabic, but the primary one should not be its original language? here, we are talking about the title of wikipedia, Turkmen Wikipedia but the name is not in Turkmen alphabet. I talked to the link you gave, if you can correct it, please correct. I can speak 6 languages, I checked, all of them are written in their own language, in their own alphabet. for example: Oʻzbekcha they also were under control of russians but their Title is not in russian, just as we, they also used to use persion but their title is not in persian. I am not asking to write their title to be written in persian/russian like ours, I am asking ours to be corrected. if you have permit, please, correct it. the correct title needs to be: TÜRKMENÇE

Done PiRSquared17 (talk) 04:11, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

questions

Moved to the correct venue. PiRSquared17 (talk) 20:36, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
hi I was just wondering about that paid contrabutions to be pending future policy does that mean I have to financially pay to go to Wikipedia or wikicommons or is it the other way around Postmahomeson (talk) 20:33, 24 February 2014 (UTC) No, not at all. It just proposes that people who are paid by their company to edit Wikimedia projects (e.g., Wikipedia) must now disclose their conflict on interest. Wikipedia will still be free (libre and gratis). PiRSquared17 (talk) 20:35, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

question a delation of page created

Hello, can you please let the primary reason to the delation of latest page I had created titled, "Jean Shafiroff?" Thank you user, Natalie Anise — The preceding unsigned comment was added by NatalieAnise (talk)

The page you created was Jean Shafiroff. The deletion reason is visible there: the page was out of scope for Meta; you may have wanted to put it on Wikipedia. --MF-W 21:40, 25 February 2014 (UTC)