User talk:Robert Ullmann/2006–2009

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You mean the language names at Wiktionary? You'll need to talk to Mutante, who maintains the script that generates the code people copy-paste into that page. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 07:41, 2 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Your vote on steward elections[edit]

Hello, Thank you for voting at Stewards/elections 2006-2 however in order to be eligible to vote, users must have a valid account on Meta with a link to at least one account on a project where the user has participated at least three months. Please provide a link to the local wiki that you are active. --Dbl2010 15:29, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Great, now nobody can strike your vote ;) --Dbl2010 17:53, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikt problem[edit]

I looked to his edits. It is not right I guess, because he opens a new page for each tense of a verb. I dont know how it is done in general. If it is OK when you create seperate pages for "go" and "goes", then he is doing right. If this is not the case he is doing wrong. --Dbl2010 20:32, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, we have separate pages for each spelling; someone who doesn't know the language needs that, and they all should be linked together by the lemma form. (If you were looking for watoto in Swahili, would you know that it is a M-WA noun class plural, and you should look at the entry at mtoto?) Thanks! Robert Ullmann 20:50, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
He is linking those different spellings to base word too. So he is doing ok. --Dbl2010 20:54, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing that out. Turns out I also forgot to fix the link to rw:. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 05:37, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

interface-translations[edit]

Hi Robert Ullmann, I saw You are interested in translating the interface, and wanted therefore to invite You to Betawiki, where interface translations are done (so that they affect not only one project but all in the same language and that the language is available on every project in the Special:Preferences for registered users).

Please just register an account, leave a message here and You will get Your translatorstatus immediately, thanks, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 14:53, 27 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Spacebirdy! I think I have time now to work on this again. Robert Ullmann 13:21, 9 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

My steward election[edit]

Thank you for supporting my steward election having passed with 72-1-4-99%.--Jusjih 23:53, 30 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary sysop[edit]

Hi. I'm not sure you really need to be a sysop there. Your request seems a bit vague, IMO. However, I'll review it tomorrow and we'll see what we can do. As they say over here, "morning is smarter than evening". :) --FiLiP ¤ 00:04, 31 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

pnt interwiki[edit]

Thank you. I have currently no time to fix it myself, and I've not understood, why this happened almost always when a new wikipedia was added, the recent few times, and why one at least did not experience the problem. I would really appreciate your help. --Purodha Blissenbach 01:34, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you again. Here we go:

Thu Apr  2 21:35:34 UTC 2009
python ./interwiki.py -v -lang:pnt -start:! -count:4
Checked for running processes. 1 processes currently running, including the current process.
Pywikipediabot  (r6439 (wikipedia.py), Feb 24 2009, 21:48:26)
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan  4 2009, 21:59:32) 
[GCC 4.3.2]
Retrieving mediawiki messages from Special:Allmessages
WARNING: No character set found.
NOTE: Number of pages queued is 0, trying to add 60 more.
<?xml version="1.0"?><api><error code="aplimit" info="aplimit may not be over 500 (set to 5000) for users" /></api>
NOTE: Nothing left to do
$ 

Now, its obvious, why I expreienced this for each new wiki during the last months - bots cannot use the api before they have a bot flag. Great! --Purodha Blissenbach 21:41, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Having set the variable special_page-limit = 500 in user-config.py, the program works. Why the hell is the parameter -count:4 not used? --Purodha Blissenbach 21:56, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

re:abusive users[edit]

Hello Robert Ullmann, this is a problem, because if the local community does not care about that issue there is not much we can do about it. If the local community is for example too scared about possible 'revenge' or the like, they could do a RfC here on Meta, but usually it is better to try to solve that locally first. You can reach me here too.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 19:39, 10 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it is that the community doesn't care, I think that it is overwhelmed by a user that can't be blocked for abuse; which would ordinarily have stopped this long ago. And you do NOT have email enabled! Robert Ullmann 00:08, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It should work now, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið (:> )=| 05:45, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hi[edit]

Hi Robert :) I would really appreciate if you notified me in advance on stuff like this, so that I don't make a wrong impression with a response belated for hours, by the time of which your comrades already manage to propagate a great deal of paranoid FUD to the uninformed observers :) That would be the ethical thing to do...this way it's kind of like back-stabbing, as the only way for me to make appearance is when others notify me. --Ivan Štambuk 06:46, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

I have closed the discussion here since nothing constructive has come of it thus far, and it seems clear that the community at Meta cannot do anything to help. You should discuss this on the wiki(s) involved, not here. If you attempt this and cannot do it because of retribution, then RFC is available, however you must attempt to resolve the issues on the relevant wiki(s) first.  — Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 14:35, 12 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]