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[edit] Collated comments

Separate simple... ratings scheme offense, IRC defense... black ants! Angela Uueh, Thanks! Sj Hi. improving interlingual ties : interesting and meaningful. I have some new ideas, too... Press Corps 17-yr cicada req. attracted en:User:Lupo, who added some photos. :-) User:Tomos hello :-) bad browser on meta? adding space between caracters. Anthere UTF-8 codes breaking! Please care about it. please. Suisui ugh! And sometimes it adds an "e" at the end of a block of text. And replaces certain international characters with a literal "?" [ :( ] Sj Multilingualism : Something has to be done on multlingual communication on wiki... one of its main powersouces I think. I contacted Arno Lagrange, Anthere. -- MattisManzel


[edit] Budget stuff

Hey - nice work on organizing this. :) I consider the budget passed today as a second beta budget, the next one will be a full version and I'd like your help beforehand in putting it together (need to start work on this early in March).

Some notes: We did not have enough money for a reserve this time (other than just saying that anything we take in that is over $75K is the reserve), but all the board members present indicated that this is very important and should be a budget item in the next budget. Your idea of 3 months' operations expenses is the standard recommended amount by GAAP for non-profits, so that is what I'm going to push for but it will likely not be that large until the end of the year. My proposed budget had $20K for special projects (such as outreach, WikiReaders, yada yada, Mother Teresa-type stuff, etc), but that was tied to being half of the Lounsbery grant. In the meeting I found out that that money was marked for 'physical expenses during quarter 1 2005', which wiped the special projects item (the $0 item). Once again, great work and I look forward to working with you. --Daniel Mayer 06:22, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

PS - If you are interested, IRC is a good place for us to work together. #wikimedia is the logical choice so long as it stays fairly quite. I'd also like us to eventually form a real finance committee with at least one board member being an active participant (Anthere seems to be obvious choice). A way to logically coordinate what is put on meta and what goes on the foundation wiki also needs to be worked out. We also need to draft a contract for Brion and maybe for Chad. Sensitive stuff like contract development may need to happen on the grants wiki. --Daniel Mayer

[edit] Authorization request to Mr. Padula Perkins

Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:26:14 +0200
Subject: La poesía de Borges en un sello postal y Wikipedia
To: jopa52@yahoo.com.ar

Estimado Sr. Padula Perkins:

Me han solicitado, de la lista info-en@wikimedia, donde Ud. ha generosamente
ofrecido su artículo "Breve historia de la poesía de Borges en un sello
postal" para su publicación en Wikipedia, que le aclarara los términos de la
licencia con que se publicaría éste, ya que allí no hablan bien castellano.

Los artículos de Wikipedia son publicados bajo la Licencia de Documentación
Libre de GNU, conocida como GFDL. Se puede leer la versión original en
inglés en http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html y una traducción no oficial
al castellano en http://www.es.gnu.org/Licencias/fdles.html. Si Ud. quiere
podemos dejar una nota explicativa ("Texto reproducido con la autorización
de autor" y un enlace al original), pero la libertad de copia, utilización
(incluso comercial) y modificación es imprescindible.

Aclarado este punto, esperamos que no quiera Ud. revocar su permiso.

Agradeciéndole su atención, saluda a Ud. atentamente

--es:Usuario:Angus 21:38, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Autorización para reproducir artículo sobre Borges y filatelia.

Estoy de acuerdo con vuestra propuesta. Pueden publicar y disponer del contenido del artículo con mi autorización, siempre que cuando se utilice se cite la fuente. Pueden hacerlo también con la versión en inglés hecha por la traductora pública Paula Camargo,que se encuentra en :

http://www1.tip.nl/~t175549/chessstamps.html

y la versión en español que se halla en:

http://www.letralia.com/119/articulo06.htm

Jorge Eduardo Padula Perkins

Fantastico. Gracias... I will find a way to upload this later in the month. +sj | Translate the Quarto |+

[edit] Nefles, et al

Hi Samuel, I did think to go to Wikimania before I was informed I was appointed to a new position, in Normandy, from Sept. 1st. So that I spent my time packing my stuff and moving to Lisieux, where I'll be living in a few days. I'm fine, I think - normal people never are totally sure they're fine, right ? The best they can do is to hope they're fine. So, I hope I'm fine, even though I could be depressed too :) I'm really curious to know what you've kept aside for me. I still hope I get enough time to visit New-York next fall, but this new position, it could be later again. Take care, villy ♦ ✎ 09:41, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Survey

Hi Samuel, very good to have met you in person. Could we do the survey talk in 3 or 4 weeks from now? I'm not quite well now, and knowing myself I will want to follow-up on a meeting asap. Also I'm changing places in ten days, going to live together with my girlfriend, so busy organising things. Cheers, Erik Zachte 01:09, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikimedia budget/2005/Q4

Any help, esp on the detail pages, would be greatly appreciated. :) --Daniel Mayer 00:04, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Beck Foundation

Hello SJ, I noticed you changed the link to "beck foundation" on wikimediafoundation:Benefactors#October_2004. Could you change the text for that link to "John and Frances Beck Foundation" (if that is correct). The URL you give (http://www.thebeckfoundation.org) doesn't seem to work right now; Google last cached it on July 20, 2005. The contact information on that cached page is given as:
The Beck Foundation
C/O Catherine M. Ryan
Bank of America
231 S. LaSalle St.
Chicago, IL 60697
beckfoundation@thebeckfoundation.org

--SV Resolution(Talk) 23:15, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Supporting team for Boston

WHere do these ghosts come from ;-)? notafish }<';> 22:12, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Berkman fans??? What are Berkman fans? a clueless notafish

[edit] <grin>

Not sure RC patroling counts though... - 24.85.85.76 06:19, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Why and why not

Thank you for not interfering in the comments and starting debates within the page. And thank you for signing your comments on the talk page. As I stated plainly, this is not a poll, nor a vote. :P *hugs* notafish }<';> 21:22, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome :P. Clearly it is not a poll or a vote... Hopefully one of the outcomes of that page is that a few more people will be familiar with the arcane details of US immigration policy (and not only its caricature). +sj | Translate the Quarto |+ 22:47, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Hey Sam... Let's try and talk about it. Irc sometime this week-end. notafish }<';> 23:50, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Press kit

By coincidence I stumbled upon the aforementioned page almost a year after you created it. After fixing a link I noticed that the info on that page is not current at all, and I was wondering if you could provide me with how you came up with some of the numbers that are on that page so that I may be consistent with a greatly overdue update. If you prefer to do it yourself... no problem, just trying to be useful. --Robert Harrison 06:35, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Help

These are Custom namespaces that Erik added as part of Wikimedia COTW/Help. Angela 01:39, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ja:statistics

Thank you for your message on my ja:note. Response is very long, thus I send mail to you. Regards, --Diagraph01 04:42, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Usability

Hello sj,

first of all, congratulations for successfull application for Wikimania 2006!

I removed your request to merge the "Usability" page with the "Usability design group". I intend the Usability page to contain pointers to the different efforts to improve the usability of the Wikimedia projects, whereas the Usability design group seems to be a group of people interested in some aspects of it, similar to the WikiProject Usability on the English Wikipedia.

Anyway, you might be interested in this report on finding information in the German Wikipedia: http://www.openusability.org/reports/view.php?group_id=109&repid=69

Best regards from Freiburg ... --zeno 10:39, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

thanks, zeno, I saw you working on it! Thats pretty neat... wonder if there are updates available. +sj | Translate the Quarto |+ 17:46, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Premature archival?

Premature archival Wikimania_2006/London? I mean, 2006 is still in the future? Anyway, we is on for 2007! LoopZilla 13:58, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Heh. Well, the bid for hosting Wikimania 2006 is past. The next possible live bid would be for 2007, yes. Sj

[edit] Re: vi fundraising

I'm that that great with translations; I just get the ball rolling so that the task of translating isn't so daunting for a native speaker. :^) I was working on the translation when you messaged me. But thanks for your work coordinating the translations. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, blog) 05:01, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

If you can, please update the Foundation wiki version of the Translation requests/WMF/Fundraising pages/Quyên góp. It was already synchronized earlier this week, but I just fixed a broken link on that page. Thanks. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, blog) 01:24, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Request for bot status

Could you please take a look and resolve some requests: some are pending more then 2 weeks. Regards, --Klemen Kocjancic 11:25, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Translation

Hi Sj,

I haven't been much on Meta recently but I can be if needed :) I'm available for any bit of translation into French you need, but I'm often too lazy to look at the translation requests. Is it for babel.wikimedia ? le Korrigan bla 22:54, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Please, Mega Troll possibility needs to be looked at here

I am coming to you because there is nowhere else to go with this. I fear a mega troll (administrator) has been able to so firmly entrench himself within wikinews with meatpuppets and sockpuppets that he has obtained virtual control of the site. Now he is attempting to expand his power into Wiktionary. [1]. He simply uses his authority and extreme time availability to wear down and force contributors who are in his way off the site. He has also managed to drive a wedge between Admins and non-admins (basically forming a club-like clique among admins) to the point where a reasonable Rfda. [2] sits with 6 admins on one side and 8 non-admins on the other side of the Rfda. Amgine's dedication toward prioritizing group loyalty is manifest with this edit of his; "Your approach to Wikinews, in my opinion, is focused on articles. This is a common approach, but probably not the most valuable. I suggest you reconsider that Wikinews is not about articles, but about developing and maintaining an online community; the articles are secondary. - Amgine / talk 14:53, 23 October 2005 (UTC)". Amgine also uses multiple signatures leading to different sites and one that leads nowhere.Amgine Amgine[- Amgine  03:14, 9 November 2005 (UTC)]

The administrative abuses are historical fact and are listed below and although the "troll" accusation is based on circumstantial evidence; I am also showing it at the bottom. The section below is from [3]


  • Regarding Amgine's activities as an administrator for en.wikinews, I have checked and double checked the information/links below and find the statements accompanying them to be true. Amgine abuses administrative authority consistently and has done so for at least 6 months. His user page comments even show he has a troll-like connection as an administrator with the project[4] as he openly announces that he has "left the project" while being the most active in terms of conflicts and blockings[5]; acting as a foreman or "boss" rather than in a collaborative fashion.
    • Here are the examples of administrative abuse. Amgine has had multiple long lasting disputes with many editors with Neutralizer being the most recent and intense. Amgine has not hesitated to abuse his admin powers by blocking/punishing editors like Neutralizer who disagree with him; even though wikinews guidelines clearly state that an admin should NOT block an editor with whom they are having a dispute (they should,instead, allow a different admin. to apply any necessary blocks to that editor). It now seems that the wikinews contributors can not get rid of Amgine no matter how hard they try; Amgine is able to deflect and explain away his misdeeds in a fashion that puts Shakespeare's "Artful Dodger" to shame. You may expect that he will become increasingly accusatory and employ vicious attack methods to get what he wants. Re Amgine; its a lot easier to get him in power than to get him out of power. Fair Warning !
    1. Amgine displayed his arrogance by summarily rejecting the resolution,suggestions of a mediator, Ilya (a wikinews Bureaucrat) after a mediation. "I do not accept your suggestion that I limit my administrative privilege use either to "vandalism or very clear violations of objective policies only, and to explicitly let some other admin deal with Neutralizer" or "submit a self-de-admin request." [6]
    2. Dan100's list.[7] of Amgine's "bullying and poor behaviour" (Dan100 is an admin.[8] in good standing at wikinews).
    3. Apparent vendetta blocks:
      A shows 4 of the spurious blocks Amgine levied against Neutralizer which were all later rescinded when other admins got involved [9].
      B shows the last block against Neutralizer done after Amgine and he clearly were in conflict
      02:13, 6 November 2005 Amgine blocked "User:Neutralizer" with an expiry time of 6 months
    4. Admin abuse; blocking Ed Brown for 1 month [10] 04:27, 11 December 2005 Amgine blocked "User:Edbrown05" with an expiry time of 1 month ; Amgine soon withdrew that block as he claimed a "software problem" had been the cause of the unjustified block. This time selection of 1 month for a long standing good contributor like Edbrown shows an abusive use of blocking
    5. talk page blanked and frozen by Amgine ( in the middle of ongoing disputes with this same person) [11] This is especially interesting as he did it just one hour after the talk page was made to prioritize the question of whether Amgine and another admin. are the same person.[12] As you can see below (6); Amgine has no problem accusing others of being sockpuppets but when he stands accused? Hell; just delete the evidence.
    6. More Disruption by Amgine; not assuming good faith:
      Amgine accused vonbergm of being a sockpuppet; "I do not have reason to believe you are not a sockpuppet."[13]
      Just a few days ago he accused Edbrown of being a sockpuppet[14]
    Additional "Troll" indicators
    1. Enigma = Amgine backwards
    http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/enigma •nig•ma (-ngm) KEY NOUN: One that is puzzling, ambiguous, or inexplicable. A perplexing speech or text; a riddle. Anything that arouses curiosity or perplexes because it is unexplained, inexplicable, or secret: conundrum, mystery, perplexity, puzzle, puzzler, riddle. Definition sounds a lot like a definition for "troll" to me; "puzzler,perplexing,conundrum"
    2. http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Amgine says “left the project”
    http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Special:Log/block shows the opposite
    Neutralizer 19:23, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

    [edit] Hi Sj

    <grin> Now I see the reason for that msg. I should be available off and on over the holiday; I'll be available via IRC when I can, or e-mail, or try this talk page.

    Neutralizer has chosen me as his personal project on Wikinews, one of several admins he has selected to ... oppose, among other things. He's been under the tutelage of a previous problem user (who had no account, just open proxies and the signature "cowicide".) Feel free to contact me for further information, and see my nomination on en.wiktionary and an RfdA (or two!) against me on Wikinews for further information. - Amgine 04:33, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

    [edit] Good deed

    Hello Samuel,
    I just wanted to let you know how much pain I've had to draft a decent letter/email in English announcing the creation of Wikipen. I don't know if I succeeded but at least, it is there : http://en.wikipen.org/wiki/User:Aurevilly/Presentation_letter Since I dont want to be ridiculous as to sent such letter announcing a literary project, full of spelling mistakes and such, could you be as nice as making some necessary copy/edits ? FYI, when that letter is done, it is expected to be sent (email or snail mail I don't know yet, to entities that I've began to list at http://en.wikipen.org/wiki/Wikipen:Let_them_know Anyhow, thanks for any help you can provide. Cheers, villy ♦✎ 09:13, 6 January 2006 (UTC) (PS: I've made the same request to Mindspillage and Amgine).

    [edit] IRC

    FYI Wikimedia stewards on IRC. villy ♦✎ 22:01, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

    No information anywhere for this channel, about its scope or purpose. I just launched it when Yann and romihaitza were having like a hot debate about one of yann's decision on #wikimedia. I thought it could be useful to have our place in order to discuss and yell out, without boring everyone with it ... villy ♦✎ 19:11, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Suspected sock puppet at es:

    Hi. I'm Dodo, a bibliotecario ("librarian" aka administrator) at es:. I (and other users) am afraid that an user has been using a sock puppet there, and now he has gone too far, voting twice in the same poll. You can see the poll at es:Wikipedia:Consulta de borrado/Visitante and the exact diffs at [15] (User:Talibanillo) and [16] (User:Netzahualcoyotl).

    Would you mind to confirm if these two editions have been made from the same IP? Please write the answer here or in my talk page at es: (I have no account at meta: yet). Thanks in advance. --Dodo 00:28, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Re: Wikimania chat

    Thanks Samuel, though I'm afraid this weekend is out for me as I think I've a face to face meeting in London for Wikimedia UK, and then a day of work in the north of England the next morning. I'd say between that, a meeting is out, but I'll try to stay on top of developments (assuming my ISP won't cut out on me again like last week, grr..) All the best with it all :-) Cormaggio @ 22:19, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Interwiki bot in nah:

    I am asking at your talk page in nah: a bot status for nah:Usuario:Chlewbot.

    I will soon ask also here in meta.

    Thank you.

    — Chlewey 00:21, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Language files

    I agree about deleting that pages. Thats why I putted those warnings. So we can make sure people will come and see new method and delete those obsolote pages from their bookmarks. After a while (you mentioned month or so) those pages can be deleted I guess. Thats what I was aimed for. --Dbl2010 16:24, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

    About Turkish translation team: Of course I would love to help. I am currently the only one who submitted the translations to the wikimedia project. I am doing it time by time. I also did most of the translations. As I also mentioned on "request for translation" page, the submitted translations will be with new release. But of course there are lots to do.--Dbl2010 17:41, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
    • Remember this?
    Re: cleaning up the old lang.php pages.  They should really be deleted... 
after these warnings have been up for a month or two. 
Sj 10:30, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

    I think its time. What do you think? Please check this. Thx. --Dbl2010 20:47, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Re: Small-project notes

    Hi Samuel, I included the somewhat lengthy address to help people find me more easily. After all, don't we all know a few people who live outside the Universe? :^P

    The small-project notes (I've gotta think of a good name for it) sounds like an interesting idea, but what would it take to publish such a review? Would it just be a summary of Wikimedia News and similar pages, or would I be in charge of nagging ambassadors for information on a regular basis? :^) Right now I'm quite busy with schoolwork, but maybe this weekend or next week, I'll be able to look into your proposal. I know English, Spanish, and Vietnamese to varying degrees... I'm not sure how many of the smaller languages use one of those languages as a lingua franca, but hopefully that'd be enough.

    If I decide to take on this project, I'd probably only be good for covering the smaller Wikipedias, because I'm really not that involved with the other Wikimedia projects. (Perhaps GerardM would be a good candidate for smaller Wiktionary coverage?) If I end up covering just Wikipedia, maybe we should talk to the nice folks over at the Signpost and see if maybe we could have it syndicated there, too.

     – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 19:21, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] WMF update

    Hello sj, Wikimedia press releases/PR-1M-AR is more accurate now, would you plz update it as you did first? Thanks.. --Mido 19:41, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

    Sure.

    [edit] New template

    for completed translation work:

    This translation is complete and has been proofread.

    [edit] WP frontpage with automatic stats

    Hi, i recently tried to fix [17], and i think the glitches should be gone. You might check if there is more to fix. Greets, Mutante 11:46, 5 March 2006 (UTC)


    [edit] Re:Deletions

    Okay; I'll stop with the speedy deletions for now. Linuxbeak 04:11, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

    Just to let you know... a *lot* of the images that I've deleted have been on RFD for over a year o_O Linuxbeak 04:29, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Wikipedia commentary deletions

    Hi Sj - some pages with essays from here have been speedily deleted in the meta cleanup project - should these essays be restored? WhiteNight T | @ | C 19:40, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] 'mania 2006

    Do you know who can assure Main page is ready to translate or not? If it is you or someone who you know and can talk on irc, can you please have this person update Wikimania:Translations? In my opinion, it is an oddity an "int'l conference" has its main page in only one language and will have.

    Yes! Ditto for Visas. See the related translation page.

    I have a same question on Visas, too. Grobal community needs information about Visas and if we ask them to participate, Visas information should be available as well as CfP itself.

    I'll go to supper, perhaps it is a breakfast time or tea time for you. Anyway, have a good day. --Aphaia 10:25, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

    Thanks :) Sj

    [edit] Rename

    Please rename my login (The Joker) to Slade, because it's my account in all projects where i have accounts (see list). Please consider. -- Slade pt.wp 17:23, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

    Hi. Why rename is hard? It's no way to rename to Slade? Sorry for my poor english. Regards, -- Slade pt.wp 13:01, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
    Oh it's true... Sorry, but i can't understand after. It's possible usurp that account? What's the prevision for single login (universal account)? Tx, -- Slade pt.wp 12:23, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] confirm

    Hi, this is FYI; on the page Meta:Administrators/confirm the confirmation procedure for you is currently active. Please also note the recent created page Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat. You can find it on the RC. Please put this page on your watch list. Greetings, Walter 10:46, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Promotion, etc.

    I added some content to Communications_subcommittees/PT. We should really start a college-campus / college-wide wiki / related-events campaign this spring, and give it some kick at Wikimania. But we need posters and flyers... Sj 05:34, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

    What poster idea should I try and execute as a sample? -- Zanimum 13:03, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] New language standards

    Eh, I might be, but don't count on much. I've been very pressed for time lately. If you keep me informed, I'm sure I'll participate. Tuf-Kat 06:26, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Comcom scope

    It seems we're the only two discussing this, but even we are not responding rapidly enough to get this done. So I'm bringing to user talk pages, to hopefully speed things up.

    1. Coordinating communications with the press, including press releases, interviews, and inquiries.
    2. Supporting communication between the WMF and project communities.
    3. Organizing and coordinating publicity and outreach.
    4. Supporting and overseeing communication with the general public.
    5. Maintaining a Wikimedia style guide
    6. Reporting on core Wikimedia statistics
    Re: #5 -- I do not believe it is possible to maintain a Wikimedia style guide, or to enforce adherence. We *might* be able to avoid problems such as are currently on the en.Wikipedia and en.Wikisource main pages, and which are currently causing friction between projects, if we address them on a case by case basis. I see this as instruction creep, and utterly unenforceable at that, no offense intended. I just don't think it would work.
    Perhaps you are thinking of a more restrictive 'guide' than I am. Wikimedia needs a style guide, as does every organization. en:wp has one for encyclopedic content; we need one for foundation content. This is not instruction creep, and will not regulate most communication at all; but is needed for clarity and consistency.
    The style guide on wp, and elsewhere, is restrictive.
    Re: #6 -- This sounds like it already is covered by #2 above. Who would we report this to? It's a good idea; I've brought up Erik Zachte's stats to several people, but no one seems to take responsibility for that. It would be useful if we had the authority to request it. --Amgine
    That may support such communication, but is used internally within the WMF, when calculating all manner of things, when communicating with the media, &c. Sj 15:32, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
    • Ex: of #4 -- "...from refdesk and vp posts to info-en requests and complaints"
      I do not see what benefit there is to the last half of this sentence in a scope statement. Perhaps you could explain what I'm missing?
      This is a clarification. All points here could use clarification; we can separate them out to distinguish their relative importance; I added this in particular to note that someone should be monitoring those "communications portals" and at least reporting on how visitors and guests who perceive that as the foundation's communication team are received and dealt with.
      But a scope statement is not to be "clarified", but rather to limit what the responsibilities are. This doesn't seem to limit the responsibility.
    • Exs: of #6 -- ...such as estimations of project stats, membership, usage; gaps in requested information (statistics requested by researchers, policies requested by community members)
      This sounds like it already is covered by #2 above.
      perhaps we can clarify somewhere that this is an example of #2.
      <nod> Again, however, it's an example while a scope statement is about setting limits. Perhaps we could avoid giving specific examples in the scope statement, and instead focus on just the limitations? It will always be easy outside the scope statement to explain and expand.

    I'm hoping we can have something settled in advance of the next meeting, since we've been stymied by last second changes, incompleteness. - Amgine / talk meta 23:26, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

    I'll watch for an update :-) Sj 20:24, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
    Sorry I'm late on updating. Other issues eating my time (like the interview) - Amgine / talk meta 22:15, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
    Just got of the phone with you, and I see what you've done here. I think this is a good compromise, and I'll move this over to the comcom talk page. - Amgine / talk meta 22:20, 5 May 2006 (UTC)`


    [edit] Image Release for Wikimania

    Hi Sj,

    Great to hear from you today! Here is what I had in mind for the image release for Wikimania speakers. I suggest having each presenter sign the form during check--in and to keep the collected information private; also make note of people that choose not to sign for later reference. The form is general enough for use across all projects, although it needs the official WMF letterhead pending approval by the legal department. Hope this helps, GChriss 04:47, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

    To follow up on Brad's email, I created stickers for individuals who don't care to give consent. I don't have ready access to a printer that can handle stickers. GChriss 00:58, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Press contact for Taiwan

    Hi, Sj, thanks for considering me as a press contact candidate. At this point, though, I'd very much like to maintain some illusion (delusion?) of anonymity, and would feel uncomfortable in taking on such a public role. Hopefully Theodoranian would be less shy than I. He's certainly a fine person for the task. A-giâu 08:22, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

    Thanks, we contacted him as well. +sj | Translate the Quarto |+ 16:51, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

    Hi. I got your message, and I replied "yes," and I thought you would tell me what you want me to do. But there's not. I don't know what is going-on meta, so I'd like to ask you what can I help. Or, you gave me message for only saying hello, did you ? ;-) Kzhr 15:42, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

    We need more going-on around here, at any rate. replied on your talk.

    [edit] Fundraising committee

    Greetings! I have been tasked by the board of the Wikimedia Foundation to select the initial membership of the newly-created Fundraising committee. Your qualifications in this area have convinced me that you would be a perfect candidate for membership. If you accept this nomination, then do nothing. If you would instead prefer to be an advisor, consultant, volunteer or not involved at all, then please move or delete your name accordingly at Fundraising committee. Thank you. --Daniel Mayer 04:14, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] From Geogre

    Yeah, I'm not logged in on meta. I had my chance, way back, to be a more involved meta kind of guy, but the day jobs and lacking of them prevented my devoting any attention. At any rate, about a Georgia, USA meetup or association, I suppose I'm interested. I'm not very "clubbable," as Samuel Johnson would say, as the -ogre part of my name is well earned in my professional life (students flee in terror, and their cries nourish me). However, Georgia is, according to Wikipedia, the largest US state east of the Mississippi (as Yankees driving to "Flarida" can tell you, as as one did tell me: "Your state's too biiiiig" to which I said, "fly"). If there were to be a meetup in this state, a city like Macon would be most logical. It is out of the way for everyone, but it is as close to mid-way as it can be. For Atlantan's, it's about 70 minutes away (once past Atlanta). For folks in Savannah, it's about 2.5 hr away. The city has enough life in it to have places to go but not so much as to be unmappable. I'm living in the middle of nowhere in Georgia, so all places are alike remote, but the interstates love to go to Macon and Atlanta (Atlanta being the most obvious but difficult place). I'll do the tildes, but it's Geogre. 152.163.100.72 12:05, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Static snapshots?

    Hi Sj,

    You left me a note on the 1st asking about my interest in static snapshots... maybe you have me confused with someone else. I don't really have an interest, although I did write a PDF export extension. The purpose of that was for a wiki (actually a set of wikis) we created for Intuit's ICBS group that ported their HTML help documentation to a wiki. They also wanted to be able to dynamically generate PDF files that combined multiple wiki pages... thus the extension I posted.

    Regards, --MHart 16:29, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Jimbo's birthday

    Hey - I noticed that you were the one that made this addition to Quatro back in 2004 - there is some controversy over verification of Jimbo's birthday on w:Talk:Jimmy Wales - and the page is being used as "verification" - do you have any thoughts or any help you could give. Feel free to answer on my meta talk page rather than my wikipedia one as I normal request - thx in adv --Trodel 18:16, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Wikimania 2006

    Hello,

    I am sorry to bother you but you seemed to be informed about grants for the participants sponsored by the Foundation. As personally I haven't got any reply so far I would be really happy to know the decision. Even if it's a refusal it would just help me to make plans for the next weeks. If it were positive I would have to organize everything in a rush.

    Thanks for the understanding and best regards, :]
    aegis maelstrom δ 23:25, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

    Well, there are EU members and EU members if you know what I mean. :] Nevertheless many thanks for your response and many wishes of successful Wikimania! :)
    Best, :) aegis maelstrom δ 08:10, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Communitas

    What do you think of the first draft of Communitas, Sj? • Quinobi 16:45, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

    Def interesting. Likewise Thoughts on Wikipedia interlanguage priorities... +sj | Translate the Quarto |+ 17:02, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] New messages on wfm

    Hi, can you have a look here please? :) jd ৸ 10:12, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Stewards on IRC

    Hi, I am posting this to the talk page of all stewards. I am user:Walter, steward. It came to the attention that it is for users who urgently need the assistance of a steward it is not always easy to find one. I am posting this to ask your help to try to improve our service to the community.

    The best hope I believe for a user to find a steward is IRC I think. There is a channel for the stewards , #wikimedia-stewards but there very few stewards there mostly if any.

    So my first request is that when you are online and have time to also open the channel #wikimedia-stewards That can easy and even automatically depending of your IRC-client. Two suggestions; Gaim, you can add IRC-channels and users between your MSN, Jabber and other contacts. Very easy to use. Or chatZilla, more a real IRC program.

    You can also use a webbased solution. Can also be useful when you are not at home. The IRC gateway I have setup will do its work for this purpose. http://chat.wikizine.org.

    Finaly; You have your real name, your wikimedia user name and some have a totally different IRC name. I have created a new column on Stewards#Active_stewards to fill in your IRC-nick , if you are on IRC offcource. I have already filled it in for some who I know.

    This request is not personally direct to you but to all stewards in general. Not everybody needs to be in that IRC -channel. If you know the channel exists that is already a very good start. Greetings, --Walter 20:48, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Translation combination boxes

    The following text has been copied from Meta:Babel#Translation_combination_boxes. As an active translators, it may be of any interest to you:

    Hi, Sabine worked on new boxes for translators. They aim at giving information about translation combination: say, I can translate from English to French, from Italian to Spanish, and so on. It would help us to know who can translate what, in what, to streamline the translation process. The boxes do not provide information about your level (wether you are a professional translator or not, for example); you may write something about this point in your user page (very useful as well). A few boxes are available, be bold and create those you need :) Be aware we use ISO 639-3 codes for languages (fra and not fr, eng and not en, ...).

    Please see "Translator in the following language combinations" and pick up templates for your user page!
    This message was pasted on several User talk pages of active translators.

    Thank you :)

    jd ৸ 02:04, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Re: Alexandria, Wikimania bids

    Hello Sj, We've done a meeting about 10 days ago and there are alot more people than the listed interested in organizing wikimania. we've contacted the library and waiting for the final reply, we've also contacted local IT companies and they are willing to sponsor the event too. We will all (local team) meet today to prepare other things left. Thanks for your notice.

    cheers, --Mido 09:24, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Talk:Wikimania 2007/Istanbul

    Sorry I just noticed your question and responded. :) -- Cat chi? 09:22, 16 September 2006 (UTC)


    [edit] Cambio de logo de la Huiquipedia

    Sj, quisiera pedirte tu ayuda para su pudieras proteger y en su caso cambiar el logo de la Wikipedia en nahuatl por el nuevo con el nombre ya traducido al Nahuatl, aqui esta el enlace de la imagen [18], te agradezco mucho tu ayuda. --Battroid 21:14 16 sep 2006 (UTC)


    [edit] Russian Copyright Law issues

    What do you think about commons:Commons:Village pump#Russian Copyright Law issues concerning edits in Wikipedia made by Russian citizens? --+sj | help with translation |+ 21:45, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] List of articles every Wikipedia should have

    Hello Sj, this edit is correct? Greetings, +sj | help with translation |+ 21:45, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] PR/* nominated for deletion

    I've nominated several files for deletion, some of which you uploaded. If you'd like to comment, please see the nomination. Thanks. —{admin} Pathoschild 02:33, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] sk.wikibooks

    please look at http://sk.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:%C5%BDiadosti_o_administr%C3%A1torsk%C3%A9_pr%C3%A1va#Liso and if you see it appropriate (it is a few older vote! :) then give me please bureaucrat rights. :) Thanx :) --Liso 10:08, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

    NP, but you should ask AtonX who is now a bureaucrat there. He can make you a bureaucrat, too. Sj
    Oh how could I forgot it! Thanx! :) --Liso 10:56, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Assistance please

    Hi, I had contacted Steward Redux, regarding a dispute on the EN wikipedia. I was subsequently blocked by another admin on EN Wikipedia for contacting Redux, even though he took no issue with my question. Could you look into this for me, I feel as though I am being persecuted for no violation whatsoever. w:User_talk:Alan.ca#Block_reinstated Thank you. Alan.ca 04:40, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Image licensing

    Hello Sj. There is no license information for an image you contributed, Wp 4juillet-board.jpg. I've added a description and categorized it. One of the following license templates may be appropriate (in order of preference):

    License status Template
    Public domain {{PD}}
    GNU Free Documentation License {{GFDL}}
    Copyright by the Foundation {{CopyrightByWikimedia}}

    Thanks. —{admin} Pathoschild 21:20, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

    Please explain it source and license to avoid its deletion. Thanks.--Jusjih 04:18, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
    explained, and undeleted. +sj | help with translation |+

    [edit] Greetings from sw-wiki

    SJ, you are one of the admins who seems to have been lost on sw-wiki. We have to get someone back. Are you still around or out of it? Salamu --62.154.201.129 20:24, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

    Thanks! See my response there last month... +sj | help with translation |+ 17:55, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

    [edit] WikiCite

    This project certainly looks inactive from the Meta page, but don't you think it's still worth doing? Would such a project need WikiData to be implemented? If not, what kind of development effort is necessary? Thanks, Oldak Quill 20:51, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

    I do! Some people are working on a variation on it in another wiki environ... +sj | help with translation |+ 17:55, 5 April 2007 (UTC)


    [edit] NTS

    see also [19].

    [edit] Amgine@iswiki: why sysop?

    Hi Sj,

    I just wanted to ask, why you have given sysop right to this user. The users of that Wikipedia are asking for the reason:

    • 08:38, 21 June 2006 Sj (Talk | contribs | block) changed group membership for User:Amgine@iswiki from (none) to sysop

    And I was not able to find the reason in the archive of the Rfp.

    See the question here: Requests_for_permissions#Notandi:Amgine

    Thanks for helping understand this :-) Fantasy 容 10:06, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

    Any time (-: Let's hope the next fundraiser has a cleaner way to update sitenotices. +sj | help with translation |+

    [edit] My laptop

    Hi Sj, you sent me an email that they found my laptop again at Harvard. You never replied to me when I sent you the address where they can send it back to. I know you're very busy, but I would really like to get my laptop back and it would be nice to know more about its location and what's going to happen. Thanks, Guaka 09:32, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

    update for the page : I'm glad it got there last month :) but did it work?? +sj | help with translation |+ | still hoping...

    [edit] Open-source Ticket Request System

    Hi Sj,

    I saw you listed on the OTRS page. I am an administrator over at Wikibooks and I was wondering if you could answer a question that i need answering. The book b:The Guide for Electronic Theses and Dissertations is not currenly licensed under the GFDL, it is copyrighted. The owners have expressed an interest in allowing the book to be used on wikibooks. However, they are not entirely sure how to do this.

    Upon holding conversations with other user's and contributors to the wikimedia projects, I am under the impression that there are two key ways of making this happen. The first involves the copyright holder altering the copyright notice on their website, the other involves the OTRS system, through the permissions channel. However, i am not familiar with the OTRS system and before i can explain how it works to the copyright owner, I need to know myself.

    I would recommend that they clearly state the new license on their website, preferably with a scan of a signed document that can be uploaded there and on wikibooks itself. They could also email the same image to the permissions mailing list.

    Would the copyright owner need to send an email directly to the OTRS channel, or could correspondance be forwarded from myself? What exactly needs to be sent in the email outlining permission? Where exactly would permission need to be sent? etc...

    If you could please mull over these questions and get back to me as soon as possible, it would be greatly appreciated.

    Regards, Urbane 15:53, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

    No problem. It's great to find authors willing to freely license their works, and we should facilitate it as smoothly as we can. +sj | help with translation |+ 01:50, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

    [edit] לערי ריינהארט

    Hi Sj! You are a « bureaucrat» at « Meta: » . Can you please rename my account clicking here. Thanks in advance! Best regards
    ·‎Gangleri·Th·T·email me·‎ 11:28, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

    Done by the way --Herby talk thyme 15:37, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
    Nice new username! Let's hear it for utf-8.... +sj | help with translation |+ 18:03, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

    [edit] translators-l and gmane

    I see that you, Britty and Sabine are responsible for translators-l. Would it be possible to put the list on gmane? One of our translators always read the other Wikimedia mailing lists there. I am not sure I can make him add another mailing list system to his email, to read translators-l, so it would be greatly appreciated. It looks like this is where you add stuff to gmane. // habj 17:41, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

    Oh hasn't it? I support this proposal. Please do. --Aphaia 10:23, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
    yes, this is a great idea. I just submitted the suggestion, linking to translators as the relevant URL... +sj | help with translation |+ 18:08, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

    [edit] From sw:wiki

    Hi Sj. I'm Muddyb Blast. I'm currently contributor in sw:wiki. I use to see u over but your not seen for quite some now, there any problem or? Ok see you if God wishes!!--Muddyb Blast Producer 07:45, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

    Even my self I don't know how we can those people. But we hope we everything will be ok. Let's wait....--Muddyb Blast Producer 12:08, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

    The overall progress looks good. Perhaps another bureaucrat there is in order. +sj | help with translation |+

    [edit] Brisbane Bid Questions

    Hello Sj. I have provided responses to your questions on Brisbane's Q&A page: Wikimania 2009/Bids/Brisbane/Q&A

    Please feel free to ask if you've any further questions. Craig Franklin 12:58, 21 February 2008 (UTC).

    [edit] Statement

    Hehe, well thanks for that anyway. :) KTC 00:33, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

    [edit] G'day Candidate!

    First I thought I'd offer a thank you for being brave / foolish enough to put your hat in the ring as a candidate for election to the Wikimedia Board of Trustees! - I wonder if you might have any time, interest, and enthusiasm to record a brief 10 / 15 minute audio interview about yourself / the reasons for your candidature / your wiki philosophy etc. etc. ? - I've been promoting a project on the english wikipedia called NotTheWikipediaWeekly - which is a grassroots effort to promote good communications through (semi) regular 'podcasts'.

    If you have a couple of moments free, would you mind taking a look at this page and signing up if you're interested! It'd be great to chat with each and every one of you, and I hope you'll be amenable to this idea! Let me know if you've any questions at all, thought perhaps my english wikipedia talk page is the best spot.

    The best of luck, and kind regards,

    Privatemusings 03:29, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

    [edit] Hopefully you might be available?

    For a brief audio conversation via. Skype (or the regular telephone service, should skype not be suitable) to talk about your candidacy in the Board of Trustees election. Per the above thread - I've now started recording short interviews with cnadidates, and will be publishing a podcast on 6th June in a bid to help inform potential voters about you and your ideas for the Wikimedia Foundation.

    It would be great to have your participation! You can sign up for an interview time here - or uf you have any questions, please don't hesistate to contact me and I'll try and help! cheers, Privatemusings 05:48, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

    G'day sj - I've dropped a note in at en talk.. I'm just wondering if you're around at the mo? - my skype ID is 'privatemusings' - and I look forward to chatting if you're free! cheers, Privatemusings 00:08, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

    [edit] Image question

    Hi. If you would, please answer this question. I'm not involved with WikiNews, but it's very important to me, too. — Omegatron (talk) 00:53, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

    [edit] board election - question regarding Wikiversity

    Hello Samuel, since there are only a few days left until end of election I personally hope I still can see your response about this question regarding Wikiversity. Thank you very much in advance, ----Erkan Yilmaz (Wikiversity:Chat, talk) 15:21, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

    Hello Samuel, thank you very much for your answer. I voted already, also since I thought you will not answer anymore :-( However your answers will surely help us grow. We will think about all answers, e.g. here: Wikiversity:Vision/2009.
    About: "For future elections, how can we help more Wikiversity contributors get involved?": I guess that is a general problem also in the real world, that people are not interested much. For this election actually I also was like this. But I got involved when I got contacted with this virus: being involved by asking a question created in collaboration with User:Darklama + User:Cormaggio. And since then I watched the page and other pages and also spread the virus to other Wikiversity contributors. So, I'd say you must infect as many people as possible and hope for the chain reaction. ----Erkan Yilmaz (Wikiversity:Chat, talk) 16:57, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
    Thx to User:Hillgentleman ([20]) I have revoted and you have now a better place than described here, ----Erkan Yilmaz (Wikiversity:Chat, talk) 17:44, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
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