User talk:Jon Harald Søby/Archive/20

Thank You

I wanted to personally thank you for your help with nb translations and proposed messages during the fundraiser. I appreciate the work you put in, and we couldn't have done it without you. Thanks again - Deniz (WMF) 21:53, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks & help

Hi Jon. Thanks for your recent cleaning up of at Wikipedia Basa Banyumasan (map-bms:). Could I ask you for another help? This page Wikipedia:Dopokan‎ is the counterpart of Village pump at en:, so it should be put on the sidebar menu of our Wikipedia Basa Banyumasan. I would appreciate it if you could help us on this. Thanks in advance, XoXo 10:02, 4 March 2011 (UTC) (from Wikipedia Basa Banyumasan)

No problem. I replaced the link to "current events", as it was not in use for anything, and therefore unnecessary. The current events thing is not really being actively used by many Wikipedias, and would especially require a lot of maintenance on smaller Wikipedias, so I don't see it as useful. If however you want it back, just tell me. :-) Jon Harald Søby 14:04, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks again Jon, I think the link is good as it is. Regards, XoXo 04:47, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Thai Wikisource pages proposed to be deleted

Please see your talk page on the English Wikisource.

--Aristitleism 09:47, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Question at hy.wikiquote

Hi, Jon Harald Søby, please take a look at your talk page at the Armenian Wikiquote whenever you get a chance :) Thanks, Chaojoker 09:24, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

2011 Board Elections translations in lb

Hi Jon Harald Søby,

Thanks for the message on lb:Benotzer_Diskussioun:Robby#2011_Board_Elections. Indeed I've just started a little on the translations as indeed when I saw them first I was frustrated about the fact that all the messages used in 2009 have to be retranslated respectivly copy pasted from the previous translation.

I will try to go on with the translations by now but I'mnot sure about when I might be able to finish them. I will try to convince other users to give me a little bit of help on this.

I really hope that for the next elections the people in charge of the election will find a way tomake the translations of the neede messages easier. I really cannot understand why it is not possible to use translatewiki for this.

Best regards

--Robby 16:47, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for your efforts! We have done everything we can to make sure things can be reused. Translatewiki is not really suitable for long pages of text such as this, and the process would still have been pretty much just the same there, so I don't think there's anything we could have done differently. Anyways, thanks again. :-) Jon Harald Søby 10:08, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

Candidate Presentations Deleted

Hi- I am a candidate for the board and noticed that my candidate presentation (and a number of others) was deleted. Is there a reason for this? Mrmewe 02:23, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Hoax-candidate (?) + translation

Hi Mr. Søby.

Today I stumbled upon our candidate page and I noticed the strange candidate subscription there. This "candidate" doesn't seem so legitimate to me (age:56, born in 1998... and some more). Also I can't seem to find his profile (not on Meta and not on nl.wiki), so I suspect this being a hoax. Also another question: do the candidate subscriptions need to be put on the English page? Or can they also be put on the mother-tongue-page and from there be translated to english?

As for the translation, when do we know if a user is announced elegible? So we can start translating the subscriptions... Greetings!

Kthoelen 11:26, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

I didn't even check the history (stupid); the subscription was made by User talk:Stichting Rokersbelangen - this is a company/institute by the name of it, so I'm pretty sure this is a fake one. Can this just be reverted? - Kthoelen 11:30, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

P.S.: another thing (I keep bothering you :-) ): is it possible to put on the english page a template of some sort to announce that the candidate is elegible? Or is the "This user has been identified to the Wikimedia Foundation." -template also a sign of elegibility? Greetings, Kthoelen 14:42, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

It has already been removed I see. Yes, a way of identifying confirmed eligible candidates would be good. Maybe as an addition to the identified templated, since that is required for all eligible candidates anyways. Jon Harald Søby 16:15, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Oh, and yeah, there's no rule against announcing the candidate in a different language first, but it should be translated to English as well of course (and then to all other languages, ideally). Jon Harald Søby 16:16, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

OK (I removed the thing myself by the way, because I was 99% sure it was a hoax). The problem with the confirmation is that the mailing list always takes some time to reach everybody, and so that also people who aren't subscribed to the list are willing to translate (for example, I put a additional request in our village pump on nlwiki but I had to say: you can only translate that 4 because...). The addition to the identified template would do very nicely :-) - Greetings, Kthoelen 16:24, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

pathoschild script

done. I wasn't sure where to put the link, so I came here. Any idea? Matanya 00:17, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Not sure either... Hmm. Jon Harald Søby 12:50, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

comment

Yes, we're gonna restrict the banner to logged-in users tomorrow. A lot of non-high-intensity users have a tendancy to log in to make their edits, then log out again. We're running it for everyone for two days to make sure that most of these will be aware of it as well. Jon Harald Søby 07:41, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

This was a lovely idea, btw. –SJ talk | translate   05:46, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

:-) I agree! Admittedly it wasn't my idea, I think it was Philippe's. Jon Harald Søby 12:39, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Please check your part

Hi, I've added you name here. Please check your details there (the babel, IRC nick, and active from section), and include if any of the information is not included yet or added wrongfully. Thanks for your help. — [ Tanvir | Talk ] 08:18, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Withdrawal

Hi- I realized that I do not have the time to commit to the candidacy for the Board of Trustees. Please remove my name from the candidate roster. Thanks. Mrmewe 15:16, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

Done Matanya 20:22, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Board election page

Hi Jon, 'How to submit your candidacy' heading [1]on the board election page links to this template [2]. Possible candidates have been editing the the template itself in order to submit their candidacy, after clicking on 'Write a brief summary'. We have reverted the good faith edits and protected the template to auto-confirmed, it might be worth considering to remove the internal link to the template from the board election page, and clarifying further to only use the template for reference. Thanks Theo10011 18:12, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

CentralNotice banners

Please do not recycle old CentralNotice banners. CentralNotice has been significantly rewritten in the past year or so and old banners that have lots of cruft from the old system will cause problems.[3] Please either follow the CentralNotice documentation or copy a banner that is less than 2 years old. Thanks! Kaldari 17:09, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

The board elections banners and Wikimania ones were actually purposely created and designed so that they could be recycled from year-to-year (translations can be reused, etc.). We should update those banners to match the new system rather than just stop using them. Cbrown1023 talk 13:50, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Election Officials

Hello Jon. As election coordinator I wish to notify you I've removed Ral315's and Abbasjnr's temporary sysop tools as the Board Elections are over. Notwithstanding should the comitee would need the tools for more days, please poke me and I'll restore them for the appropiate period. Regards, -- Dferg ^{☎ talk} 10:19, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Anatomized Ballots

Now that the next election/poll is next month, there's a certain time pressure to learn from the last one. Do you have any word on when that file will be available? All they have to is delete the voter names, scramble the vote order, and post the file. 3500 short strings of data, nothing huge.

But someone at one of the other project has a "draggable interface system" we could probably use in time if we want. This poll may not involve ranking, or it might-- but the sooner we learn about the last election, the better. Indeed, since we re-elected the incumbents, the parttern's in this year's data are going to be pretty simple to verify. :) ---Alecmconroy 15:00, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

Azak på tyrkisk!

Hei!

Jeg er nybegynner!

Jeg har akkurat lest Jakten på Odin og hvordan boka ble motarbeida. Jeg fant en side om Asovhavet på wikipedia. Brukeren heter Mahlum. Der står det: "Navnet Azov kan stamme fra det tyrkiske ordet «azak», som betyr «lav» og refererer til beliggenheten." Jeg tok kontant med noen tyrkere i går. Det kjenner ikke ordet azak, men derimot uzak som betyr lang, evig. Så jeg lurer på om du har noe å bidra med når det gjelder tyrkisk og hvordan jeg skal komme i kontant med Mahlum.

Vennlig hilsen

Odd Øivind Bergstad alias Oddvind

Hva er i veien med mobilen din?

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Oddvind (talk) 09:23, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Rosetta Barnstar

Jon, thanks a lot for the Barnstar, it was as appreciated as unexpected :-) I liked very much to collaborate, it was fun! Thanks a lot again.--212.239.80.134 15:06, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

You're very welcome. :-) Jon Harald Søby 17:04, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar

Oh, thank you very much! I promise that I will continue helping with translations as much as possible. --Toliño ^{Fala aquí comigo} 15:13, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Good to hear! And you're welcome. Jon Harald Søby 17:03, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Re: Barnstar

Thank you. It was much appreciated. :) --FollowTheMedia 15:40, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

:-) Jon Harald Søby 17:03, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

RE:Thank you for your help with board election translations

You're welcome :). And thanks for the barnstar! --Isha 15:41, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Also, thank you very much :) --minhhuy*= 04:17, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

You gave me one for this here, and then again? Mhm.. I think you wanted to say, come on for fundraiser? :P LOL, Mhm. okay you know I am here for this! :P Obrigado! — [ Tanvir | Talk ] 04:29, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank You! very much...Pasindu Kavinda  ^Talk 04:52, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome all, it is deserved. @Tanvir, take it as a double thank-you and a call for action. ;-P Jon Harald Søby 17:03, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you! It's the first time that I receive a barnstar outside the Chinese Wikipedia. --DS-fax 08:10, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

RE: Barnstar

Thank you... JB82 19:30, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome. :-) Jon Harald Søby 17:03, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Observer

"Observers are Wikimedians who receive copies of e-mails sent to the internal language committee mailing list, but who cannot browse the archives or reply to the e-mails directly. If you want to become an observer, you should ask one of the committee members. If there are no objections within the committee after seven days, you will be subscribed as an observer." (Language committee)

I'd be interested. Should I write some sort of introduction, or just say "please" here? /Julle 14:34, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Jon Harald Søby

Can you help me in translating of this in albanian, because I don't have permission to edit, here and text:

Please help translate - Ju lutemi ndihmoni në përkëthimin

the 2011 fundraiser - në shqip të fondeve 2011

Help translate - Ndihmoni përkëthimin

Thanks in advance. :) .--Liridon 17:32, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Done. :-) Jon Harald Søby 02:38, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Albanian logo

I don't know what is happening with albanian wikipedia's logo, how to restore the original logo. Who have permission to change this. Please help us.--Liridon 11:08, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Whoa, that was weird. Someone set the logo for Sängö Wikipedia (sg.wikipedia) as the logo for the Albanian Wikipedia. I have uploaded the Albanian logo above that one for the time being, and will file a bug so someone can fix it for real. Jon Harald Søby 12:31, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

bugzilla:31668. Jon Harald Søby 12:36, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, now is OK.--Liridon 15:09, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

No problem. :-) Jon Harald Søby 15:13, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Update WMFChap on foundation-wiki

Hello, do you have an account on the foundation-wiki? If you can, please help me update Translation requests/WMF/Local chapters/vi at that. I translated this page has long. Similarly, update the Italian page. Thank you very much :) --minhhuy*= 12:49, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

All done! :-) Jon Harald Søby 14:00, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

And, please update Translation requests/WMF/Local chapters/vi again, Translation requests/WMF/Home/vi & Translation requests/WMF/OurProjects2006/vi, also Uk page :) --minhhuy*= (talk) 02:11, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

From Vietnamese Wikisource

Hello, sorry for disturbing you. Could you merge the history of s:vi:Tác gia:Phan Kế Bính and s:vi:Tác giả:Phan Kế Bính? A user moved this page from "Tác gia" (Author) namespace to "Tác giả", but "Tác gia" is right namespace and "Tác giả" namespace does not exist, then this user corrected by cutting anh pasting, so the history of this page has been lost. I am not a sysop in Vietnamese Wikisource, while sysop Vinhtantran not available. Thanks in advance (sorry for bad English). Tranminh360 (talk) 12:51, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Done! :-) Jon Harald Søby 22:08, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Translator

Thanks for the notice but I will encourage to do the translation for the Wikimedia fundraiser. I will try to work as hard as I can with it. I need meta-wiki auto-patrolled right because, I am working heavily a lot of translation articles and its difficult to patrol. Kindly grant me this right because, im a trustful and experienced user. I'm a trustful user on en.wiki and I can be also there. See this for further understanding how im trustful on en.wiki. Regards. --Mohamed Aden Ighe 21:03, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Kindly thanks again and respond to me. --Mohamed Aden Ighe 21:49, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I forgot to reply to this. Don't log in to Meta with my volunteer account that often these days. :P You have autopatrol rights now. Jon Harald Søby 01:05, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, but thanks --Mohamed Aden Ighe 10:50, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

From Vietnamese Wikisource (2)

Please do some tasks below to fix several bugs in the interface of Vietnamese Wikisource:

1. In s:vi:MediaWiki:Common.js, in the function BilingualLink(), delete "http:" from the line beginning with "var bilang".

2. In s:vi:MediaWiki:Common.js, add this script to translate "optlist" in the sidebar:

self.ws_messages = { 
 "optlist": "Tùy chọn hiển thị",
 "hide_page_numbers": "Ẩn liên kết trang",
 "show_page_numbers": "Hiện liên kết trang",
}

3. In s:vi:MediaWiki:Proofreadpage index attributes, add "Nơi xuất bản" between "Nhà xuất bản" and "Lần|Lần xuất bản".

You can see these requests at s:vi:User talk:Vinhtantran#Fwd: Vấn đề giao diện ở vi wikisource and s:vi:Thảo luận MediaWiki:Common.js. Because sysop Vinhtantran is not available now, could you help us to do these tasks? Thank you. Tranminh360 (talk) 15:34, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Done! :-) Jon Harald Søby 05:35, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Bot on Wikispecies

Just like to remind you that your bot has been approved for trial. Thanks. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 07:02, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder! One thing I didn't check when I requested bot status is that pywikipedia doesn't actually work with Wikispecies without some adjustment – it checks the interwikis and makes changes where it needs to, but only in the links it follows – it doesn't make any changes on Wikispecies even when things need to be changed. I'll try and look into it to see if I can make the necessary changes, but it may take some time. Jon Harald Søby 06:04, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Apology

I apologize I have not helped more with translations wrt. message of yours at my talk page but currently I'm undergoing such strange process at WP [4] that my good faith in WP is utterly shaken, and in general I think the trend is not good. I must say I had much higher expectations about internal situation in WP but still I hope it is not entirely lost. Naturally, if things happen with you as currently happened with me, you do not feel that super enthusiastic about the project and your inner man is rebelling against idea to participate in such environment. Thanks for your understanding.--Stephfo 04:36, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

?

Hello. I'd like to ask when you are finished checking the lezgin wikipedia on the reliability of the language. And how to speed up the process, already four years of it in the incubator.Lezgistxa 14:56, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

EdwardsBot

I don't think EdwardsBot is intentionally unflagged here at Meta-Wiki. I think nobody has gotten around to it or something. It's flagged at the English Wikipedia and on other wikis. --MZMcBride 14:25, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Help

Can you suggest me some of the extenshan that we can propose at the start of Marathi wiki source.

Thanks Rahul Deshmukh

mr:user:rahuldeshmukh101

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)

LibraryThing-o en Esperanto

Kara amiko! La tradukado de LibraryThing-o al Esperanto bone progresis. Dankegon al "Annix"! Vidu http://epo.librarything.com/zeitgeist/language/epo paĝon pri la ĝis nun plej ofte aldonitaj verkoj kaj aŭtoroj. Tamen necesas pligrandigi la bazon de la esperantlingvaj kunlaborantoj, de la esperantlingvaj libroemuloj. Bv. sekvi (provizorajn) klarigojn haveblajn ĉe http://epo.librarything.com/topic/134789 . Antaŭdankon! ‫·‏לערי ריינהארט‏·‏Th‏·‏T‏·‏email me‏·‏‬ 21:35, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Please help us

My name is Rexford. I live in Ghana. For time now, a group of Ghanaian Akan native speakers have tried editing the landing page of the ak.wikipedia site. However, since we do not have the administrative rights, we never are able to edit.

Can you please help us constantly update the landing page and give it a nice look?

--Nkansahrexford (talk) 23:16, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Two questions regarding Translation Notification Bot

Dear Jon Harald Søby, I have two questions regarding Translation Notification Bot on nl.wikipedia. I hope you can help me.

Firstly, the bot places messages with incorrect links, pointing to nl.wikipedia instead of meta. See this edit for example. Could you please fix this?

Secondly, the account currently doesn't have a bot flag. Would you please consider requesting one here?

Kind regards, Mathonius (talk) 02:03, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi,

The first issue is already fixed and will be deployed soon.

I'll poke the right people about the second issue. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:38, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Dear Amire80, thank you very much! Mathonius (talk) 20:54, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

There still seems to be a problem with the links, see for example [5] and Talk:Translation reques. Mathonius (talk) 00:21, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship

Hello Jon Harald Søby. In accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged administrator actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/October 2012. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before October 08, 2012. Kind regards, -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 09:41, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice! Haven't been that active here with this account (was quite active with Jsoby when I was working as a fellow), but will be again. :-) Jon Harald Søby (talk) 14:23, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Simple French Wikipedia?

Hi! I started a discussion about starting a Simple French Wikipedia. Please see Meta:Babel#Simple_French_Wikipedia_proposal_based_on_fran.C3.A7ais_fondamental WhisperToMe (talk) 06:52, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

• I have now formally submitted my proposal: Requests for new languages/Wikipedia French Simple (2) WhisperToMe (talk) 19:37, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Translation Notification Bot @ ar.wiki

Hello. I'm so sorry to tell you that I blocked the bot, since it made a lot of edits without permission. Please, request bot flag for the bot here, and it will unblocked as soon as it has the flag. Regards.--Avocato 15:30, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

I have unblocked it and put a request to grant bot flag myself. Regards.--Avocato 20:00, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

:)

I whished that this ought not be forever. Now I see you'll be returning. I'm happy to see you stand again, Jon. Best of luck! Regards, -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:30, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Crossing my fingers. :-) Jon Harald Søby (talk) 15:56, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Questions

Please answer steward candidate questions here --Ansei (talk) 14:45, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification! I had missed them for some reason. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 21:12, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Congratulations

Hello Jhs,

on behalf of the stewards' election committee, congratulations on your appointment as a steward! Your permissions have now been set and you are able to start working.

You have been added to the list of stewards and the stewards' chart. Please take a moment to check that your details are accurate and update them if necessary. In addition, please contact Trijnstel to obtain access to the various mailing lists and wikis. Alternatively or in addition to, you can drop by IRC #wikimedia-stewards^connect and we can see who's around and sort out what we can.

These include: checkuser-l, the private mailing list for Wikimedia checkusers, stewards-l, the private list for stewards. In addition, you will be given access to the related private wikis, one for checkusers and the other solely for stewards, details of which will be provided.

If you use IRC, you will be given access to several channels, including #wikimedia-checkuser^connect and #wikimedia-privacy^connect.

Best of luck with your new tools; I am sure you will do a fantastic job. Please remember that your fellow stewards are always available if you need a second opinion, either via the mailing list or on IRC.

On behalf of the election committee,

Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 02:48, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! :D Jon Harald Søby (talk) 09:54, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Gratulerer!

Salam Jon Harald Søby. Sizi stüard seçkisində müvəffəqiyyət qazanmağınız münasibətilə səmimi qəlbdən təbrik edirəm. İnanıram ki, vikidəyərlərə sadiq qalacaq və vikicəmiyyətin daha da operativ və daha da ədalətli fəaliyyətində Sizin xüsusi əməyiniz olacaq. Dərin hörmətlə, --►Cekli829 06:25, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Qardaş, çox sağ olun! Jon Harald Søby (talk) 09:55, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Edits to WM NO's FDC Proposal

Hello, Jon! Hope you're well. We saw your edits to WM NO's FDC proposal. Unfortunately, no changes to the proposal are allowed after the submission deadline (even minor copyedits) unless they are necessary changes requested in writing by a representative of the chapter and approved by FDC Staff. Thanks very much for reading the proposal and contributing, however, and I hope we can look forward to your comments on the discussion page. Best regards, Winifred Olliff (Grants Administrator) talk 16:37, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice, Winifred. I didn't realise the deadline had passed already, I just skimmed through the introduction to get to the good parts. Won't happen again. :-) Jon Harald Søby (talk) 14:15, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Fundraising translation feedback

Hey Jon Harald Søby,

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 for norwegian bokmal 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) 11:40, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Interwiki links from SWWP to another sites

Hi Jon, mambo vipi? I was about to add some interwiki to American Pie (mfululizo) but I didn't because I thought the bot will take care the interwiki matter (since the interwiki are added through wikidata). But so far nothing happened and I don't know how to make the interwiki of the mentioned article appear in our Wikipedia. I went there and I've added the link but still I can't find no link to the other sites. So please tell me what to do or should I follow the previous style instead? I mean, adding an interwiki manually?--_Wikipedian ^(Activist) 10:17, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Poa sana, kaka. Habari yako?

I think you have done everything correctly, seeing as the interwikis show up for me. There is a problem with caching, but if you just append ?action=purge to the article in swwiki after you have added its link on Wikidata, the interwikis will show up. Jhsoby (talk) 18:19, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Oh, man.. You are adorable! Thanks for the purge info. Next time I'll make sure to do the same. Thank you again, Bonge a.k.a--_Wikipedian ^(Activist) 06:45, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship (April 2013)

Hello Jon Harald Søby. In accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged administrator actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/April 2013. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before April 08, 2013. Kind regards. -- MarcoAurelio 14:45, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

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Hi

You can read Norwegian and said you're active - so I would like to suggest you read the discussion I started about it. Gryllida 23:47, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Translation of Norwegian Church hymn title for article in English

I was hoping you could provide me with an idiomatic translation of the Norwegian Church hymn title "Høgt frå den himmelske klåra". As far as I can tell it does not appear in Lutheran Hymnals in English (or if it does, it's under an unrecognizable). I've made a couple of attempts, such as "High from the Heavenly Heights" and "From the clear heavens" but I'm not really satisfied. This is for an article about the author of the hymn in English Wikipeida, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodora_Cormontan . Someday I would like to see it translated into bokmal, but I want to get it to a good status first. Any help you can provide would be appreciated. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dictioneer ) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dictioneer ) 22:05, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Email translation

Will the raw text be used for the email? Will HTML/wikitext formatting like this work? BTW, please add categories when you create pages. PiRSquared17 (talk) 03:30, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

P.S. same with gender-specific stuff [6] PiRSquared17 (talk) 03:31, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

We won't use the raw wikitext per se, though essential HTML formatting should remain. I'll fix the GENDER issue in a bit (have to go to work now). Jon Harald Søby (talk) 04:19, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Query about translation template litter

Jon, I believe you had an important role in designing this template. I'm new to it.

I'm struggling to see why the template should be applied at such fine-grained level that individual numbered or bulleted points are marked up. I'm finding it disruptive at that level. Why is a section not the most fine-grained level? Tony (talk) 06:14, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata - terms in Norwegian

Ref your comments on Wikidata diskusjon. The current translation of English: item to Norwegian: datasett, contradicts what is provided by dictionaries in the IT/IS field, is inconsistent with Norwegian language practices, it undermines the semantics of the data model behind Wikidata terminology, and it has no support in the community of Norwegian Wikipedia contributors, except from one single person.

In role of Wikipedia contributors and users of Wikidata, we need an explanation or a rationale for 'datasett' still being used in the Norwegian user interface.(Example: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39645?uselang=nb#sitelinks ) And insight into the decision-making process leading to this choice. Thank you! --Roarjo (talk) 11:36, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

doubts on translations

Hi Jon, I'm working with an IEG in the wikiArS initiative. I'm trying to understand how to ask for translations and in general how to manage the translation issues. I've some doubts and Siko told me to ask you.

I put the <translate> tag inside the main wikiArS pages (outreach:wikiArS, outreach:WikiArS/Get_started,outreach:wikiArS/Schools, outreach:wikiArS/Get_involved) expecting to found this page listed in Special:PageTranslation, but not :-) Why? What is wrong?

Another question is: it is possible to use the translate system to ask for translations from other languages into English or only from English to other languages. For example I've this page in Catalan. It's possible to put tags and ask for translations or first I should to translate it into English and then ask for other languages?

Thanks in advance. Greetings. --Dvdgmz (talk) 13:22, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

2011 election voter list

Hi, do you have a copy of the 2011 election voter list? It doesnt appear to be online. See Talk:Board_elections/2011#Voter_list. John Vandenberg (talk) 06:04, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Survey on Chapters

Thanks a lot for your contributions! I think I owe you a wikibeer or something. :)

Best, aegis maelstrom δ 21:35, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

No problem! :-) I'll try to find data on the stuff I haven't filled in yet, but it's not as easily available as the stuff I have filled in. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 15:11, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Sure. I knew that there are some low hanging fruits and some trickier ones. :) I have some problems even with my home (Polish) Chapter. :) Hope you find some heart and time to attack the more demanding ones as well.

Best Wishes, aegis maelstrom δ 09:04, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Editor @ ar.wiki

Hello. I would like to inform you that I have granted you editor flag at the Arabic Wikipedia, all your edits there will be automatically marked as patrolled. Best regards.--Avocato 12:22, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Old English Wikibooks closure proposal

This proposal is open since January. More people voted in favor of closing than leaving them open. Inform the Langcom to close the project per voting results. Here is the voting [7]

Translation request, pretty please

Hello Jon Harald, I hope you are well!

I was wondering if you'd have a moment to translate this page into nb and nn? Keegan (WMF) (talk) 18:27, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Wrong blocking

I have been blocked for the wrong reason. The other Swedish speaking steward Tegel is involved in this erroneous blocking. It was MagnusA on Swedish Wikipedia who did the blocking. I was never warned before blocking and I didn't fulfill any Wikipedia rules to be blocked. I want to be unblocked and at least MagnusA should be blocked since he blocks people for made up reasons. You can see the discussion of the blocking here: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndardiskussion:Mikael4u#Blockerad Regards, Mikael4u (talk) 18:01, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

I was unblocked right now. This administrator MagnusA has blocked another person for unclear reasons a couple of years ago. This person is more severely permanently blocked and is not even allowed to defend himself on his own page: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndare:Staffan_Jacobson The stated reason that he was blocked was that they said he made extreme personal attacks but I don't agree that he said worse things than the other and the other is now an administrator on Swedish Wikipedia: http://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diskussion:Karl_XII-firande_i_Lund&diff=prev&oldid=8034733 I think it's time to unblock Staffan_Jacobson. We need his help on the article I tried to save and that I was blocked for trying to save twice, but not three times. Regards, Mikael4u (talk) 22:23, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Disruptive edits

Hi Jon Harald, I wonder if you could help by blocking this editor. There is a bit of a headache with disruptive edits as shown here in this Basque article. Fails to engage in explanation or discussion and comes back repeatedly, broke the rule of the three edits. I have little doubt that it's actually one editor with two sockpuppets (BernardaAlba and the IP address). Please find me for more info in en:User:Iñaki LL. Regards! Iñaki LLM (talk) 12:13, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata Ambassadors

Just notifying you of this... --Ricordisamoa 22:24, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

I made that thing...

...that we were talking about, based on your new method for separating template structure from contents, and thereby keeping the markup and styling of the template clean and editable outside of translation workflows. It's a universal version of the caller template you made that matches text keys in a /Content subpage of a given template. It takes namespace, title, and key (currently "words=") parameters to specify the target. All those params are probably overkill and too sloppy at the moment, but it seems to work as advertised. With a little work, do you think this could be a substitute for Template:TNT for use on templates that have complex markup, or are likely to change? If so, I can work on the doc. Also, FYI I've started to document some challenges and best practices for templates in translation here. Cheers, Jmorgan (WMF) (talk) 00:55, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia genealogy project

Please visit this page if you wish to contribute to a centralized discussion about a Wikimedia genealogy project. Thank you! --Another Believer (talk) 21:49, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Request for feedback on my GSoC'14 proposal

Hi Jon Harald Søby,

I am planning to work on the project titled "Tools for mass migration of legacy translated wiki content" this summer under Google Summer of Code. I have drafted a proposal for the same over the past few weeks. This project is going to help the translation adminstrators like you in a great way, as it would completely automate the tedious manual task of preparing a page for translation and then importing the translations into the Translate extension. You can check the proposal page for detailed information on how I plan to accomplish this.

As you would be an end user of this tool, it would be great if you could go through the proposal and provide feedback/suggestions. Your feedback would definitely help me improve the proposal as well help in creating an even better tool. You can do the same on the discussion page of the proposal or reply here, whichever is convenient for you. I look forward to hearing from you! Thank you!

P.S: I need to submit the proposal to Google by March 19, 2014.

BPositive (talk) 13:24, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

TCT and Grantmaking Navbar

Hi Jon,

I have an interesting new test case for TCT. I just created this grantmaking navbar template. I wanted to familiarize myself with Lua (translation: don’t judge my code too harshly). Currently, this template selects the title to display on a particular page from the list at Module:GrantmakingNavbar/pages.

What’s the best way to make these titles translatable using TCT? I expect we need to call a Template:GrantmakingNavbar/Content page or something from the template itself, before it invokes the module, but haven’t really worked out the details. Any ideas? Using Lua adds a layer of complexity, though I enjoy the extra functionality and non-sucky syntax. I expect to make a bunch of new IdeaLab templates in Lua over the next few months, so it would useful to get the workflow down. Jmorgan (WMF) (talk) 19:49, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Just to close the loop on this, I managed to replicate the TCT trick in Lua and the GrantmakingNavbar is now translatable. Cheers, Jmorgan (WMF) (talk) 01:12, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Awesome that you were able to do this. I have zero Lua knowledge (speaking of loops, that's one I've fallen out of). Jon Harald Søby (talk) 21:29, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship

Hello Jon Harald Søby. In accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged administrator actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal (inactivity)/April 2014. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before April 08, 2014. Kind regards, Barras talk 09:59, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Notice of removal of adminship

I regret to inform you that your administrator access has been removed, because you did not indicate that you wanted to keep it on the confirmation page within a week. Kind regards, Barras talk 06:02, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Grants:IdeaLab/A place to work together

FYI (as I hear you're being contracted for wiki maintenance work again – nice!). --Nemo 09:04, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Translate some names for hundreds software projects including MediaWiki

Hello, I'm writing you because you subscribed to a Language support team. As you know, Wikimedia projects exist in almost 300 languages; supporting them all is a big effort so we partner with other organisations. One small but visible thing we miss is that many interwiki links in sidebar (among others) don't offer a translation of the language name when hovered. We're now able to translate 100 more language names in your language.

If you're interested, I can create you an account to submit translations on the CLDR web tool (within June 14): please send an email to ask one and I'll follow up with instructions. On CLDR you can translate and tweak many other things, if you desire; your work will impact hundreds of software projects. Thanks, Nemo 17:58, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

luri lrc nominate for verification

Hello
luri lrc wiki incubator was active in ten months past and it has 5 active users with me[8] and this is luri lrc translations[9] statics, please help us could you suggest luri lrc wikitest to language committe for verification? we need who someone that suggest luri lrc to language committe for verification, could you do this request for us? we really need your help It's our honor Mr Jon Harald that you do this request
please help us please help us lrc lori (talk) 15:28, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Please test the new feature Special:PageMigration

As a Google Summer of Code Intern, I have been working on the Mass Migration tools project for Wikimedia. We are now ready with a minimal working product. The tool helps translators and translation administrators import the old translations into the Translate Extension.

An instance of the same has been set up on labs. You can find some useful instructions on the main page.

Please test the tool and report bugs/suggestions using the link provided on the main page itself. You can have a look at the tracking bug to check already reported bugs.

Looking forward to hearing from you! Cheers. BPositive (talk) 14:33, 14 June 2014 (UTC)