User talk:McDutchie

Welcome to Meta!

Hello McDutchie, and welcome to the Wikimedia Meta-Wiki! This website is for coordinating and discussing all Wikimedia projects. You may find it useful to read our policy page. If you are interested in doing translations, visit Meta:Babylon. You can also leave a note on Meta:Babel or Wikimedia Forum (please read the instructions at the top of the page before posting there). If you would like, feel free to ask me questions on my talk page. Happy editing! --Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 07:34, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Translation of Template:Snippets/lang ia

Nicely done on your translation of {{snippets/lang ia}}, thanks. :) —Pathoschild 11:10:29, 06 April 2009 (UTC)

You're welcome. :-) Mind you, I didn't have time or inclination to look up all of the less common languages (from my European perspective), so some of them might be blatant anglicisms... but most of them should be OK. – McDutchie 18:05, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

"Help us with translations!"

Heya Martijn, we seem to be missing a translation for "Help us with translations!" (used on the CentralNotices). Would you be able to translate this into Interlingua? Thanks! Cbrown1023 talk 20:28, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

 Done – McDutchie 23:46, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Paragraph

Hey, since you said "lassa un message" if someone can succeed to read the paragraph, I thought I'd just post here. I know French, some Italian, and a tiny bit of Latin, and the whole thing (100% of the words) was readable to me. Cheers, πr² (t • c) 15:18, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

Fundraising translation feedback

Hey McDutchie,

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 Dutch 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) 18:48, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Please consider not translating fundraising pages in protest

Hi McDutchie, I have just noticed that you've been working on the translation of a fundraising page today.

I wanted to ask you to consider refraining from translating such pages to avoid supporting the recent actions of the Wikimedia Foundation. On Sunday, they have implemented a change that gives them an unprecedented, unilateral and unlimited power to protect certain pages on Wikimedia wikis in a manner that makes it impossible for all volunteers — including locally elected administrators — to edit them.

The change was secretly forced through without any community consultation, and the Foundation have used this new feature to actively fight the volunteer community of the German Wikipedia.

Your volunteer translations directly sustain such actions of the Foundation. Your work helps them save time and effort that they would otherwise have to invest in recruiting, training and managing new employees, and saves them money they would otherwise have to spend on professional translations.

The recent actions of the Wikimedia Foundation make it very clear that they no longer respect the wishes of the volunteer community, and that they no longer consider us an equal partner. The least we can do to voice our dismay at those actions, and to support our colleagues on the German Wikipedia, is to stop investing our precious time as volunteers on directly helping the Wikimedia Foundation. We can instead translate pages which help all wiki users.

Please take a minute to consider withdrawing your help for the Foundation in protest against their disrespectful treatment of the volunteer community of the German Wikipedia.

Thank you for your time and your consideration! odder (talk) 15:34, 15 August 2014 (UTC)

Superprotect status

Dear McDutchie, since you are an administrator on a wiki from which no user participated in this discussion, I'd like to make sure you are aware of some recent events which may alter what the Wikimedia Foundation lets you do on your wiki: Superprotect.

• Request for comment: Requests for comment/Superprotect rights
• An open letter about its implementation: Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer

Peteforsyth 09:32, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

Should FuzzyBot remove all potentially outdated translations?

Hello, thanks for adding multiple new translations in your language here at Meta-Wiki in recent years. Please join the discussion with your opinion: Should FuzzyBot automatically remove all potentially outdated translations?. Nemo (talk) 12:01, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Interlingua Wikipedia - actions by returning admin

Salute Martijn,

vide User talk:FritzVonHomburg#Interlingua_Wikipedia - regula_micropeciettas e User talk:Julian Mendez#Interlingua Wikipedia - 2016 major help request.

Tu es admin. Tu pote disblocar le IP e disfacer le nove filtros introducite per Almafeta. Etiam disfacer le vandalismo in le pagina Taverna facite per le admin.

Debatos, batallias de parolas es bon. Ma blocar sin politica, remover partes de discussion, e mentir non es. Le IP non ha usate bot. Le accusation que le IP ha scribite in anglese in le pagina de discussion es contra raro - varie altere usatores ha scribite in interlingua, etiam Julian Mendez. Ma illes non es blocate. 91.9.103.111 08:23, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Filtros introducite per le administrator retornate:

• Iste action ha essite automaticamente identificate como damnose, e per consequente es prohibite. Si tu crede que tu action esseva constructive, per favor informa un administrator de lo que tu tentava facer. Un breve description del regula anti-abuso correspondente a tu action es: Long term abuse stopper
• Iste action ha essite automaticamente identificate como damnose, e per consequente es prohibite. Si tu crede que tu action esseva constructive, per favor informa un administrator de lo que tu tentava facer. Un breve description del regula anti-abuso correspondente a tu action es: Micropecietta

91.9.103.111 09:13, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Community Insights Survey

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Sincerely,

RMaung (WMF) 14:31, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Reminder: Community Insights Survey

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Hi McDutchie,

A couple of weeks ago, we invited you to take the Community Insights Survey. It is the Wikimedia Foundation’s annual survey of our global communities. We want to learn how well we support your work on wiki. We are 10% towards our goal for participation. If you have not already taken the survey, you can help us reach our goal! Your voice matters to us.

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Sincerely,

RMaung (WMF) 19:12, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Reminder: Community Insights Survey

Share your experience in this survey

Hi McDutchie,

There are only a few weeks left to take the Community Insights Survey! We are 30% towards our goal for participation. If you have not already taken the survey, you can help us reach our goal! With this poll, the Wikimedia Foundation gathers feedback on how well we support your work on wiki. It only takes 15-25 minutes to complete, and it has a direct impact on the support we provide.

Please take 15 to 25 minutes to give your feedback through this survey. It is available in various languages.

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Sincerely,

RMaung (WMF) 17:02, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

A Community Wishlist Survey update waiting for translation

Hello! Would you be able to translate the newest update about the Community Wishlist Survey 2022? In short: instead of November 2021, the CWS will happen in January 2022. We would also like to make other improvements. We can't do that without having the volunteers' opinions. This is what we ask for in the message.

After the weekend, I'll send this to all Village Pumps, Cafes, Forums, etc. Our team would like as many people as possible not to ignore this message. Let's remove the language barrier.

Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) 01:29, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Updates from Capacity Exchange (CapX)!

Hello McDutchie,

My name is Joris Darlington Quarshie, and I am an Outreach Facilitator for the Capacity Exchange (CapX) — a platform for finding and connecting with peers to exchange knowledge and skills on a global level.

CapX is a community-built tool, designed by and for the Wikimedia Movement, to make it easier for Wikimedians across the world to find and connect, collaborate, and exchange skills and knowledge with peers.

If you don't know it yet, I invite you to access capx.toolforge.org and create your user profile with your Wikimedia account. But, if you already have a profile, I invite you to check out the new features and possibilities we just launched. I am sure you will be delighted.

CapX's new version incorporates valuable community feedback gathered over the past months, including the Organization Profile - a feature for Wikimedia affiliates, initiatives, or community groups to create their own CapX presence (see here how to create yours).

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Please, let me know if you think your community would enjoy a presentation, workshop demonstration, or feedback session. I would be happy to support you on that. Just reach out, and we can schedule the best date and time together.

Best regards,

Joris Darlington Quarshie
Outreach Facilitator,
Capacity Exchange Project – Wikimedia Brasil
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:56, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Join us for “Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages”!

Hello McDutchie,

We’re excited to invite you to an inspiring global virtual gathering: the first Capacity Exchange Translat-a-thon.

Together with Language Diversity Hub, the Capacity Exchange (CapX) team will host its first Translation Marathon dedicated to ensuring linguistic equity in access to this amazing tool aimed to connect Wikimedians.
If you enjoy contributing to Wikimedia projects through translating and adapting content into different languages, this event is for you! Join us in the celebration of the multilingual spirit of the Wikimedia Movement at an event where communities that contribute in diverse languages will be able to share local knowledge and collaborate across borders.
Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages

• Date: December 6, 2025
• Time: 12 PM (UTC) - Check the event page for your local timezone
• Location: Online (Meta-Wiki + live session links)

Register for the Event here

If you can’t join the live event, you can still contribute to the translations! Edits will be counted for two weeks, until December 20th. And everyone who participates will receive a special badge to display on their CapX profiles.

Strengthen your collaboration through CapX

We invite you and your community to join the Capacity Exchange (CapX), a Wikimedia community-built platform for connecting, collaborating, and exchanging skills with peers across the movement.

CapX helps Wikimedians and organizations find each other, share expertise, and build stronger, more connected communities.

Whether you’re an individual contributor, a user group, a community initiative or an affiliate, CapX helps you grow through knowledge exchange.

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With warm regards,
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Capacity Exchange Project – Wikimedia Brasil

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:55, 13 November 2025 (UTC)