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Media participation survey

Please modify sitenotice in Ukrainian, as it looks too unattractive in English. It should say:

Допоможіть нам зробити завантаження зображень до Meta простішим, витративши 2 хвилини на опитування!

Thanks in advance! — NickK 20:12, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Greetings. I added it; thanks for your translation! guillom 20:17, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Looks like you added link incorrectly. Link does not work properly — NickK 21:23, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

• Допоможіть нам зробити завантаження зображень до Meta простішим, <a href="http://survey.wikimedia.org/index.php?sid=18379">витративши 2 хвилини на опитування</a>!

• or

• Допоможіть нам зробити завантаження зображень до Meta простішим, <a href="http://survey.wikimedia.org/index.php?sid=18379&lang=ru">витративши 2 хвилини на опитування</a>!

• --Prima klasy4na 21:20, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
• And question: what need to edit such short massages?--Prima klasy4na 21:30, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Are you saying that the Ukrainian notice should direct to the survey in Russian? guillom 13:36, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

• Parameter: &lang=uk does not support. I think, that Russian language is more usable for Ukrainians, but this is my own mind.--Prima klasy4na 13:46, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

• Please, make one of 3 variants: 1. Delete 2. Change to lang-en <a href=""></a> 3. Change to lang-ru <a href=""></a>--88.154.13.224 14:26, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks all, I fixed the link and added the "ru" link. guillom 15:46, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

• Thanks!--88.154.13.224 16:25, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Centralnotice-mediasurvey commons-survey-text/bs

Please make and publish (take a look at link if its right or not):

Pomozite nam da olakšamo postavljanje slika na {{{SITENAME}}} time što ćete odgovoriti na pitanja ovog <a href="http://survey.wikimedia.org/index.php?sid=18379&lang=bs">dvominutnog upitnika</a>!

THX. --WizardOfOz 20:25, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, I added the translation of the sitenotice. However, the survey is not available in Bosnian. guillom 13:37, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Not matter, the most can answer on english. It looks better if centralnotice is in the same language like project. --WizardOfOz 23:37, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

New "scientific refs" for Wikipedia

Article view when script SciRefs is running. Demo page - http://ru.great.wikia.com/wiki/Zinc

Greetings,

I wrote a new script for Wikipedia which replaces tags "ref". My script implements in the scientific (Harvard) style, but it is also compatible with tag "ref" and other markup.

Here are some examples of how my script is used:

[name] - is link, e.g. [Smith 2009] or [Smith 2009| p.121]

[*name] - is an anchor, e.g. [*Smith 2009]

For compatibility reasons, an editor should insert the template {{SciRefsOn}} somewhere in the page to turn the script on.

Additional details (description with screenshoots) can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:X-romix/SciRefs

Demo Wiki with working realisation - is here: http://ru.great.wikia.com/wiki/Zinc

I would like to help make Wikipedia more user-friendly. When using this script, backlinks may be accessed via the "Back" button in the browser or the backspace key on the keyboard. This backlink will be highlighted.

This reference style is simpler than the current convention, and it corresponds to the scientific standard (author-date Harvard referencing system).[1]

Jimbo Wales commented on my work the following way: I strongly support making refs easier to read and easier to use. You might want to pass this along to the usability team?--Jimbo Wales (talk) 22:32, 5 November 2009 (UTC) [2]

X-romix 14:12, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

Gestion de l'access list de #wikipedia-fr

Salut guillom,

Nous (une poignée d'utilisateurs) avons discuté sur #wikipedia-fr cet après-midi (heure française) de la gestion de l'ACL du salon du même nom. Le problème soulevé était le système de confier à chaque admin de frwiki les outils d'opérateur du chan (où sur l'access list, probablement la moitié des personnes présentes ignorent comment les utiliser). On voyait plutôt un système de ce genre (en général) :

• +vVtriA par défaut pour les administrateurs (donc l'autovoice entre autres), afin de mieux repérer les administrateurs de WP pour leur faire des requêtes,
• +vVotriA pour les administrateurs qui savent se servir du statut d'opérateur,
• +votriA pour ceux qui ne sont pas admins sur WP mais qui savent se servir du mode +o.

Ceci est donc un système qui imite presque en tout point la gestion de #wikipedia-en (si on retire l'autovoice). Qu'en penses-tu ? Est-ce que d'après toi une « consultation » des utilisateurs d'IRC devrait être faite, et comment, le cas échéant ? Merci. − Elfix × talk (fr) 16:10, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Salut Elfix. Je suis entièrement d'accord, d'ailleurs j'y avais pensé mais je n'ai juste jamais pris le temps de le faire. guillom 16:51, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Unblock

See here please, thank you! --79.118.29.196 16:57, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Email sent to OTRS volunteers

I have resent the email to the OTRS list. Just checking to see if you received it. JodyB 23:29, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

turkish wikipedia

Hi; For years user kibele and noumenon and their crew (also they have puppets) are trying to own the turkish wikipedia. if ever someone has not the same idea with them they call them troll and push away. they have certain political views and they do not let the opposing or neutral people to be admin on the turksih wikipedia. they push the long time admins away with lies. turkish wikipedia is dying each day. i let you know. 78.162.0.169 17:43, 11 April 2010 (UTC)

Question

Hello! Could you explain, please, how I can translate Main Page in Tatar language. There is special page, but I can't edit it. Thanks!--Рашат Якупов 16:27, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

I think guillom's on holiday, so I went ahead and unprotected the page for you — you should be able to edit it now. Cbrown1023 talk 21:03, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Thank you))--Рашат Якупов 18:50, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

About WMDOC

Hi! I continue to support the Russian versions of WMDOC relation texts and ready to help when and if the project will revive. --Kaganer 11:33, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Proofread

Please see my brief reply here. I haven't used French regulary in ages... Thanks, --dferg ^{☎ talk} 13:20, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

It's perfectly understandable :) guillom 16:10, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Inappropriate use of tools

You are not permitted to hide revision in such a manner. I have not revealed -any- personal information so you have outright abused your ops. Ottava Rima (talk) 02:29, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

2011 start date?

Not really sure what this edit was intended to be. Or at least I don't feel like guessing. Can you fix? :-) --MZMcBride 19:48, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Fixed, thanks! guillom 21:17, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

user page

Bonjour. Je vous écris parce que j'ai parlé avec un utilisateur ici a meta que a utilisé sa page pour ataquer les états espangol et français. Je l'ai recomandé que disai que c'est son opinion et non un fait, mais ça reste. Je ne veux pas modifier sa page mais evidentment elle ne accomplit pas user page. L'utilisateur est user:Galazan et la phrase "Indepentist because the Spanish and French states attack our cultur, our identity, our economy etc." Merci et pardon pour mon mauvaise français. --Millars 10:57, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Where is there

The page Talk:Licensing tutorial says: "Questions and comments about the translation and localization go there".

Where is "there"? Did you mean ""Questions and comments about the translation and localization go here"? --Amir E. Aharoni 20:08, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Talk:Licensing tutorial

Hi, Guillom.

I wrote a question for translation for Licensing tutorial at Talk:Licensing tutorial. Could you check it and respond? Or tell me other places to suited to ask such question.

Thanks.--aokomoriuta 13:48, 3 December 2010 (UTC)

video usability (for media usability)

Wikipedia seems about 10 years behind the times in terms of use of video. Any crappy blogger can put video on his site, but it's basically impossible for me to put easily viewed video in an article. I'm not sure why our FORMAT for the files (as opposed to be the content) has to be in some variation that is hard for IE (and often Safari and Chrome) to display.

See here for an example in an article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Painted_turtle#Oregon_video

And I don't care about ME watching videos. I care about MY READERS. Want to use video as a normal device in articles for civilians who are often using IE as their browser (look at the usage stats). And I've even tried downloading the javascript and it did not help.

Why does our format have to be some clunky OGG, when even if in a proprietary format, the vidoes are still convertable (or we could host in both OGG and something normal). After all, when we convert videos to OGG, we take them out of a proprietary format, so it must be possible.

I just don't get the lack of concern for the READERS, to want this better display of video. Saying it's the readers faults or Microsoft's and expecting people to all use Firefox is just so wrong. We should present an experience that people can easily use with the most popular browsers.

(I would have added this in the feedback for multimedeia improvment but no place for me to do so. Feel free to transfer, though.)

TCO 17:38, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

CentralNotice changes

Hey Guillom, please note that CentralNotice has changed significantly in the past year and copying old banner code into new banners may cause problems, as was the case with nearly all of the last half dozen or so banners created in CentralNotice. Specifically, if you want to show banners only to anonymous or logged in users, you should now use the "Display to: [ ]Anonymous [ ]Logged in users" checkboxes. You no longer need to create separate "Anon" and "User" divs in the same banner. More info can be found at Help:CentralNotice. Let me know if you have any questions. Kaldari 00:09, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

BTW, I fixed the current banners, so don't worry about them :) Kaldari 01:26, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Kaldari. I used the checkbox for the last two banners I created. I copied a recent banner to create them (precisely for the reason you gave: CentralNotice has changed a lot), but I guess it included old code anyway. Thanks for fixing. guillom 07:58, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Tutorial upload wizard

Translated tutorial upload wizard is ready for Nepali here. - Bhawani 13:53, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Je ne comprends pas

Je ne comprends toujours pas (et pourtant j'ai vraiment fait des efforts pour comprendre) ce que tu me reproches.

Pour ce qui est de mon statut sur Wikipédia (probablement il y a un rapport avec la question ci-dessus, mais toi seul sait lequel), en vérité je n'en ai rien à cirer, parce que je n'ai pour but que le développement des projets Wikimedia (voir ici pour comprendre), et cela n'inclus pas actuellement pour moi Wikipédia. --ArséniureDeGallium 20:31, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

SRP

Hello. May you take a look at this? Thank you :-) -- Dferg 12:23, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Devenir volontaire OTRS

Bonjour Guillom,

Afin d'aller un peu plus loin dans ma participation à Wikipédia, j'aimerais devenir volontaire OTRS.

Je connais bien Wikipédia et ses rouages, et je sais expliquer les choses à des néophytes (je réalise des formations auprès d'adultes de tous âges dans ma vie professionnelle).

J'ai vu sur la page de présentation de l'OTRS qu'il fallait contacter un administrateur pour cela, et tu es dans la liste. Faut-il réaliser d'autres formalités ?

Cordialement,

--Hercule 13:01, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Licensing tutorial

Hello Guillom, this translation request is still open, and it makes sense, but there are several ready translations which don't seem to have been used. I suppose they're going to, sooner or later, but when you can it would be nice if you gave a look at it. Thanks, Nemo 10:12, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Hi Nemo, and thanks for the friendly reminder. I already have work planned for most of November, but I added this as something to go through in December. guillom 11:24, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Licensing tutorial/si

Licensing tutorial/si is ready to publish! Pasindu ^{( Talk / @ )} 13:03, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

Translation requests

Just wanted to confirm that you're right, thouse categories mustn't be used with page translation. The page is ok; thank you for importing the old translations as well. Nemo 14:57, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know! And you're welcome :) guillom 15:20, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Which kind of problem might there be with that? I've also seen other pages which use the translate extension and have that template and category. I didn't notice any kind of problem up to now. --Geitost ^diskusjon 15:38, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

• One more other question: Do you perhaps know (or know a person who knows) where I can translate the names of the languages itself, for example here the names of the languages with German preferences are in German, as „Schweizer Hochdeutsch“ for Swiss High German, but only „German (formal address)“ isn't. So there are translations missing, but I don't know where. Don't find the template where this has been defined. --Geitost ^diskusjon 15:42, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

  Hello Geitost. Unfortunately, I don't know, so I'm afraid I can't help you. I suggest you ask User:Nikerabbit or User:Siebrand, who might be able to help you with this. guillom 18:00, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

  For cases like de-formal, we don't really have a solution yet, because those are not recognised as locales by CLDR. See translatewiki:CLDR. It's a bitch for now... Maybe the best thing is to open a bugzilla: report, so it doesn't only end up in the archives of Guillom's talk page. --Siebrand 19:27, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

• I've got another question and I don't know where to ask it or who knows an answer: Do you know if it has been a good idea or not for me to post the text in Swiss High German also (Wikimedia maintenance notice/de-ch)? I don't know of any change between the German and the Swiss High German (or the Austrian German) for this text, so I didn't post the same text for Austrian German again. Austrian German is also in the translation extension in English, but has to be just the same as the German text. So do I have to post the German text again for de-at or is there any other possibility that the same text hasn't to be posted three times, if there just aren't any changes? Normally, in translatewiki, it would be the case for de-formal, de-ch and de-at that they fall back to German and get that text automatically. But here, it isn't to be done that way. So, what shall I do? Post it as de-ch now or not as de-at or anything else? It's quite boring to post the same texts three times for these other forms of German and to do the same with any translation in the translation extension, but if I don't, they still are there in English. Greetings --Geitost ^diskusjon 15:54, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

  There again, I'm not sure. I've just started using the Translate extension, so I don't know how it handles fallback languages. Nikerabbit and Siebrand should be able to answer this question as well. I'm sorry I couldn't be of more help, but I'm not an expert regarding the extension (yet!). Thank you for your comments and your help with translations. guillom 18:00, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

  Thanks and never mind. I'll try to ask Siebrand about it then who perhaps knows what to do with it. --Geitost ^diskusjon 18:31, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

  Hmm, fallback behaviour isn't the easiest thing with this in MediaWiki. As far as I recall, "de-at" will fall back to "en" only for non-file based localisation (please test!). If this is indeed the case, it is because of a long standing open bug, that will most probably not be resolved because of performance issues. As you can see in that report, it's been reported quite a few times in the past years. --Siebrand 19:27, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Broken link

Please see Talk:Wikimedia maintenance notice#Broken link. Thanks. - dcljr 10:49, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Paix

Bon, j'admets que l'essentiel du conflit entre nous est de ma faute. Donc je te te demande si tu veux bien accepter une offre de ma part, sans condition(s), de ranger la hache de guerre. Et je te fais mes excuses.

Tout simplement (j'espère que ça ne va pas te faire dire non), parce qu'il serait plus rentable pour le Wiktionnaire que je sois considéré comme étant qqun qui peut te contacter avec de bonnes chances d'être écouté.

Pour moi, le Wiktionnaire est la seule chose importante : si tu veux bien qu'on se réconcilie, tant mieux. --ArséniureDeGallium 19:33, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Je ne me considère pas « en guerre » contre toi ; il n'y a aucune hache à enterrer. La vie est bien trop courte pour garder des rancunes. Je me contenterai d'interagir avec toi selon ton propre comportement futur. guillom 19:51, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Alors c'est bien. --ArséniureDeGallium (talk) 19:52, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Coordination of review with Barras

Hi. Barras suggested I contact you about this. See, User talk:Barras#Review of RfD closure Thanks. Alanscottwalker (talk) 18:37, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

WM:OM

Hello Guillom. I am not sure if you remember Meta:MetaProject to Overhaul Meta but I've proposed to re-enable it as I feel meta needs some cleanup again. If you want to share your thoughts or past experience, or want to contribute again there, you'll be most welcome. Regards. —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 19:53, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Collaborate with OTRS

Good afternoon, I'm interested in volunteering to work on OTRS on issues related to Commons. What I do for this? Thank you, Shania Twain Portugal (talk) 18:10, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

I just posted this :) User_talk:Phoebe#Collaborate_with_OTRS, in case you want to give her any further info. Thanks! -- phoebe | talk 20:27, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

re. "Improving communication..." at Wikiquote

Hello guillom. I replied to your solicitous post (a couple months ago) at q:en:Wikiquote:Village pump#Improving communication between your wiki and "tech people". If you are interested in pursuing the conversation, I will add another case in point, with different suggestions, in a day or two. ~ Ningauble (talk) 20:36, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

Special maintenance pages

I have started two discussions, one at en.wikt.Beer_parlor and another at en.wikt.Grease_pit about which of the pages we need and how frequently. We have some questions about the resource-intensity of the various pages and whether the content of, say, "Wanted pages" could be limited to principal namespace pages wanted on other principal namespace pages (excluding, eg, wanted appendix pages and principal namespace pages wanted only on user pages.) How can we get answers or more general help? DCDuring (talk) 18:40, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

How and where to ask questions.

Hi Guillom,

We at the English Wiktionary are excited that we're about to receive the Scribunto extension, but we have a lot of uncertainties about it. Especially, we're really unsure about how to decide whether a given template should be ported to Scribunto. Do you know where (or of whom) we can ask these sorts of questions?

Thanks in advance!
—Ruakh_TALK 03:47, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Fundraising translation feedback

Hey Guillom,

I wanted to ask for your help. As you may be aware we have been running banners on many language wikis. We have a lot of new content this year and I really want to conduct a thorough review of our translations. This is a combination of feedback from the community, readers, donors as well as those with professional translator experience. This will help us ensure the highest quality of translations used in our messaging.

To help us out with this I wonder if you would be willing to give us feedback in french using This Link

Simply follow the simple instructions on that page and if you have any questions feel free to contact me on my talk page.

Many Thanks

Jseddon (WMF) (talk) 07:10, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

WikipediaTimeline.svg

Hi. I'm wondering if there's a location that "WikipediaTimeline.svg" can be easily viewed online? The only method I can find, for viewing the image, is to download a local copy, by right-clicking "View raw", at https://github.com/gpaumier/wikipedia-infographic/blob/master/WikipediaTimeline.svg and then opening that file in my browser.

I'd be particularly interested in making a static png file, of the English output, similar to wm2012:File:Ten Years Of Wikipedia preview (fr).png, but I don't know anything about converting animated svg into png. Perhaps you could assist or advise? Thanks.

(Tangentially, I'm going to attempt some updates to the "Sources of information" section at Wikimedia history, and related pages, over the next few days. Hopefully this will help get that project rolling again. :) Quiddity (talk) 22:51, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi, and thanks for the gentle nudge :) My original goal was to have an interactive version on my website, but that's been delayed. I'll generate a static SVG and PNG on github this week and I'll try to get into the habit of doing so whenever I edit the SVG. I'll upload them to Commons as well. Your edits to Wikimedia history and related pages are much welcome and appreciated! Not being alone in this is indeed very motivating :) guillom 09:02, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Tech newsletter

I see you call it "weekly summaries". Are we going to get this summaries (at least almost) every week to the Village Pump on every project? -- Lavallen 06:34, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi. The summary will be available every week (I hope), but the first one is the only one that is going to be posted to the Village Pump of every project. If you wish to continue to get the summaries, you need to subscribe to get it on your talk page or on your village pump. Let me know if you have other questions. guillom 14:16, 21 May 2013 (UTC)