User talk:Pgallert

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Signpost inquiry

Hi, I've emailed you. Thanks. Tony (talk) 16:34, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Boardwahl

Du brauchst mich nicht versuchen zu überzeugen - ich habe schon gewählt. Und du hast die eine meiner beiden Zustimmungen bekommen ;). Marcus Cyron (talk) 01:06, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Herzlichen Dank fuer den Vertrauensvorschuss. Ich glaube ja nicht, dass ich hier einer der Favoriten bin, aber schauen wir mal, wieviel Unterstuetzung ich zusammenkratzen kann. --Pgallert (talk) 08:53, 22 May 2015 (UTC)

Sagen wir es mal so - bei den Leuten mit denen ich sprach warst du eigentlich immer auf dem Zettel. Was das am Ende heisst, weiß ich nicht. :) Marcus Cyron (talk) 22:52, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

Naja, auf der anderen Seite könnte ich mir vorstellen, dass es viele stimmberechtigte WMF-Benutzerkonten gibt, deren Inhaber nicht allzu scharf darauf sind, dass ihnen zu genau auf die Finger geschaut wird. Anders kann ich mir die gegenwärtige Besetzung der wählbaren Plaetze nicht erklären. Ausserdem bin ich natürlich immer noch relativ unbekannt, im Gegensatz zu einigen meiner Konkurrenten. Abwarten und Tee trinken, schätze ich. --Pgallert (talk) 19:58, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Schade, dass es nichts geworden ist, ich hätt dich gern im Board gesehen. Mehr als wählen kann ich dich halt leider auch nicht :) Man sieht sich hoffentlich in México → «« Man77 »» ^[de] 14:44, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Das Ergebnis war ja einigermassen respektabel, und es war ein starkes Feld. Danke für die Unterstützung, ich scheine ja richtig einen deutschen Fanclub zu haben ;) Bis denne, in Mexico! --Pgallert (talk) 15:42, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

• With only 3 places to fill it is obvious that not everyone can get one. Nevertheless, congratulations Peter, on still getting a very respectable score. Looking forward to seeing you again soon, if not in Mexico (too far, too expensive for me) perhaps in Italy next year. Best regards, --Kudpung (talk)

  Thanks @Kudpung: I do have the hope and the expectation that the elected community representatives will have the impact the community desires. If not I shall be back in 2017 ;) --Pgallert (talk) 13:44, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Gute Performance! Dann bis in Mexiko! :) Marcus Cyron (talk) 18:18, 7 June 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Elections 2015

Dear candidate. My general opinion about administration of Wikimedia is negative. Many texts and images had been removed with pretext of protection of rights of the owners of the copyright owners. The special permissions by the copyright owners were just ignored, and removed together with the files. In particular, this refers to images of the Soviet dissidents and their texts.

Below I suggest only few examples in order to let you know what is happening: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sofiya_Kalistratova&oldid=649939072 https://ru.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Софья_Васильевна_Каллистратова&oldid=93595 https://ru.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Леонард_Борисович_Терновский&type=revision&diff=1312548&oldid=585736

I investigated the case and I revealed that many removals were performed by bureaucrat Lozman, who has absolutely no experience with obtaining permission from the copyright owners and does not even remember, who made him bureaucrat. However, this is only example.

Sorry for being late, but I just received the invitation to vote. You still have two days to change my opinion about at least one of the candidates suggested. One example of complain by the author is available at site TORI, http://mizugadro.mydns.jp/t/index.php/Kouznetsov,_permission I mention it because it has English version, although many Russian authors were offended in the similar way.

Now I formulate the question:

Do you think it is still possible to handle the cases mentioned?

Do you think that you can find time to deal with the cases mentioned?

Sincerely, Domitori (talk) 08:06, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

Dear @Domitori:, image deletions are absolutely no board matter. For donating the copyright by the author, we have the Open-source Ticket Request System (OTRS), but the task of using the system is with the uploader of the image, not with the deleting admin. I'm sorry not to be able to give you a more positive answer. If you need help with OTRS, please let me know. --Pgallert (talk) 22:44, 28 May 2015 (UTC)

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Commons Discussion

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your vote and comments.

While the event cited by you is a genuine and worth mentioning, I request you to please also mention my humble message on Trijnstel's talk page where I've regretted over the event and Trijnstel has graciously replied:

I can understand people reply the way you did before; I probably would have done the same, I don't know. Anyway, thanks again. I'm sure we'll be able to work together in a nice way. With love, Trijnstel_talk 13:12, 6 September 2012 (UTC)

Please note that the aim of my message is in no way meant to effect your vote - its only a request to state the other side of the story as well as we Indians believe in "burying the satchet" i.e. ending things on a positive note. Best,--Muzammil (talk) 19:15, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Hi Muzammil, I noticed too late that this was a 2012 incident. If it was recent, I would have stayed put because globally and for a Steward, it does not really matter whether a bad comment is a result of weak English or of bad temper. Now, I don't think it was bad temper, and I'm sure your English is much better now. Good luck with the elections! --Pgallert (talk) 19:37, 15 February 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your thoughtful analysis! Hope we meet once again somewhere at some place!! It was good meeting you in Mexico!!!--Muzammil (talk) 18:12, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

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Phabricator task-T120738 List Of Contributors

Hello,

I am interested to work on the project List Of Contributors with phab task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120738 . I see that you endorsed the project in the community wishlist survey. It would be great help if you could share how you wish this tool should be implemented. As I am writing my proposal for the project for GSoC 2016 , I am working to make an outline to the project and a timeline for tasks to be completed. Your valuable suggestions are most welcome.

Thanks!Devikrishnan (talk) 11:40, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Hi Devikrishnan! Where should this dialogue be held? Do point me to a centralised discussion if my talk page is not the right place. Anyway, I see several ways to implement this:

1. Easy but of little use: A table as suggested here, containing number of edits and user. This will list wikignomes first and not give much recognition to isolated 'major' edits
2. A lot better: An overview of how much content particular users contributed. This was already operational at some point in time, at least on en-wiki, but currently does not seem to work anymore.
3. Best but probably very difficult: sourcing the content of the current text, word by word or phrase by phrase, to the author that contributed it. After all, CC-BY does not require or even suggest to credit phrases that are no longer part of the article text. This has been done in academic studies in the past but might be resource intensive.

Hope that helps, all the best, Pgallert (talk) 15:39, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

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Uncontrolled spending increases

(I am asking this question of all board candidates.)

In my essay at User:Guy Macon/Wikipedia has Cancer I make several proposals.

Whether of not you agree with the essay as a whole, would you be willing to propose and/or support any of the following?

• Make spending largely transparent, publish a detailed account of what money is being spent on and answer any reasonable questions asking for more details. There is no need for you to remind us that some things cannot be published because of legal or privacy issues. I am asking whether we should be as open and transparent as possible, not asking the board to do something stupid or illegal.

• Limit spending increases to no more than inflation plus some percentage (adjusted for any increases in page views). Are you willing to support any limit at all on spending growth, and if so roughly how much? 10%? 20%? 30%?

• Build up our endowment and structure the endowment so that the WMF cannot legally dip into the principal when times get bad. There is no need to answer with something to the effect that either you or the WMF have good intentions. I am specifically asking whether you support making the endowment principle legally untouchable, allowing the WMF to only spend the endowment interest.

If we do these things now, in a few short years we could be in a position to do everything we are doing now, while living off of the endowment interest, and would have no need for further fundraising. Or we could keep fundraising, using the donations to do many new and useful things, knowing that whatever we do there is a guaranteed income stream from the endowment that will be large enough to keep the servers running indefinitely. --Guy Macon (talk) 14:40, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Questions of Hindi Wiki Community to WMF elections 2017 Board of Trustees Candidates

Please go through https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8C%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2#Questions_of_Hindi_Wiki_Community_to_WMF_elections_2017_Board_of_Trustees_Candidates

Thanks --Suyash Dwivedi (talk) 07:53, 14 May 2017 (UTC) (Executive Committee Member- Wikimedia India Chapter)

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Jul'hoan Wikipedia

I have a lot of contacts and I may have actually spoken with a native online in the past, but this will take some time. I will try emailing some missionaries, they have regular contact with the Jul'hoansi. ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ (talk) 21:22, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

UPDATE: The missionaries have spoken with me and will allow me to use their tapes, but they have not answered my questions concerning the existance of literate speakers and their availability or interest in this project. ᠬᠠᠭᠠᠨ (talk) 18:53, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

Wikioperations in Namibia

Great, witty and honest article - I have found it via the recent Signpost. Ta.

FYI, I wrote a related mini-essay (about similar campaigns tending to increase systemic THE_TRUTH, in short) but it is in Polish.

Zezen (talk) 15:25, 27 July 2021 (UTC)