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Thanks for your help, it's really appreciated :-} axp_de^Hello! 10:49, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

thanks

Thanks for your note the helpful one. I am rather trying to collect more detailed info on chapters projects and capacity -- a little bit more elaborate than what is found on the main chapters page. Thanks again for your note. --Melamrawy (WMF) 16:50, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Thanks again Thehelpfulone --that was helpful indeed ;) --Melamrawy (WMF) 16:56, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

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Is it allowed in Wikipedia?

To keep in the pages of wiki Administrator's personnel thesis? at http://sd.wikipedia.org ? Other problem is We call Computer as same in English, but admin forcibly used his word Ganpukar of Computer. I have proof that thousands of published books called it Computer not Ganpukar. If some one oppose him he started abusive language. That is the reason sd.wikipedia.org never got attraction to Sindhi community. Plz check record there. Other things are he locked CSS due to that on the same site there are lot of font styles appeared there. He is not able to set commonCSS or Monocss. We are in trouble to work in our local Sindhi language. I don't know where to say for this problem. Record history says all the situation there. I appeal plz warn him to follow en.wikipedia.org rules, other wise he will continue use his personnel details and personnel promoted articles there. Dear I am sorry If u r not right person to say all about this, Plz suggest me where I can raise this issue. My sd.wikipedia.org ID is same. His thesis is not a violetion? http://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/ماحولياتي_انتظام_ڪاڻ_اُپُگِرَهِي_عَڪس_ضماءُ_۽_درجه_بنديءَ_جي_طريقن_جو_اَڀياس

Alixafar 00:59, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

help,,

thanks for the criticism.. I want to propose a plan selayar (sly) wikipedia enlightenment please, thank you zQheert 15:09, 31 December 2011 (UTC)

Translations

Hello. This extension is driving me mad. It seems to depend on the Job Queue and thus changes are not inmediate. I've tried to edit the Guideline page because the translation tags are wrongly placed thus breaking ==Sections== as well templates. Ie: it'd be better to: {{template|<translate>Text to translate.</translate>}} rather than wrapping the whole translate tags all over the template. I editconflicted, then received a weird message and now my edit is not even in the history. Weird. Thanks —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 11:05, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

And, by the way, I'm receiving comments on IRC asking not to use the translation extension. I am frankly tempted to; given that the guidelines are the same of 2011 and it's easier to manage. Best regards. —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 11:33, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Links to new translation to recover by adding them to the new pages instead of copying the old ones: [1] [2] [3]. Thanks, Nemo 13:47, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Re: Babel

Done, Thanks for your work.--M.Gedawy ^Talk 01:12, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

• Thanks for your cooperation. --M.Gedawy ^Talk 09:54, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

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As per your nickname, you 'are helpful. Thanks. Wojciech Pędzich Talk 11:42, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Watchers Toolserver

Can you please add me to Toolserver/watcher. Thanks, --Kangaroopowah 05:30, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Oops, didnt see the notice to leave it on the talkpage. My bad. Thanks though. --Kangaroopowah 05:10, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

"agreement"

Ok. I don't want to be that guy, but may I ask where, why and when? - I'm a member of the commitee too, and I was never consulted about it. In fact, the consensus at other places went in the contrary. I'm not going to undo it, assume good faith and think that at least three electcom members agreed to that but I'm rather dissapointed that we're making changes to policy and election rules, within minutes, on IRC chatrooms or other closed ways without informing everybody involved. On the other hand, thanks for your valuable help in this year's elections & in general. Best regards. —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 06:21, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Hello Thehelpfulone. Tanvir has already explained me the details by email after seeing this. Best regards, —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 15:32, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Steward

Please, see here. Willy Weazley 15:26, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Hello Willy, you can see the explanation here. — [ Tanvir | Talk ] 15:46, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Yes, apologies Willy, the eligibility tool does not seem to be working correctly. Best Regards, The Helpful One 15:47, 18 January 2012 (UTC)

Responding to your ping on IRC

Hi Thehelpfulone! Yes, please, I would love for you to help with the staff and contractors page. You're right that Jay has been the primary keeper of the page, but the official keeper is probably Gayle Karen Young, the Wikimedia Foundation's Chief Talent and Culture Officer. I don't think she has a meta page yet, but you can find her on enWP here. But you don't need to check in with her unless you want to -- I know she'd be thrilled to have your help. There are probably additional JDs that we are behind in posting, so if you don't mind, she may ask you for help in future too :-) Thanks Sue Gardner 21:27, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi Sue, thanks for your reply. Yes, I believe that whilst she joined meta in November last year, she hasn't made any edits as of yet. I'll be happy to get in touch with her if I have any questions. I notice that she doesn't have an account on the Foundation Wiki itself, I imagine this will need to be created if she needs to be the official keeper of it? The Helpful One 21:38, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Hi Thehelpfulone! I'm delighted to meet you! I would LOVE help on the staff and contractors page. It's sort of terrible. I do have a Foundation Wiki account - name change now that I'm officially an employee of the Foundation. What do you envision? Would you like to have this conversation via email? (It's still easier for me to track conversations and open projects that way as I ramp up to being accustomed to all the moving organizational pieces.) My email address is gyoung@wikimedia.org. Gyoung 01:07, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

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Así mismo, te pediría que no vuelvas a editar en mi página de usuario, gracias.--HombreDHojalata 20:43, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. Regards. --HombreDHojalata 20:55, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Thank you

[4] :-) —Marco Aurelio (Nihil Prius Fide) 16:18, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

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Thanks :)

Thanks for reminding me :) --Millosh (talk) 21:09, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Duplicated text on Wikidata/pt

Hey, Helpful. There is duplicated text here. You may have a ready translation to that part, so I didn't touch it (I notice it is being done by translation interface. Another reason for not touching it). Tell me if you need help with translations. Cheers.‴ T_ele^s (T _{@ L C S}) 06:57, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Great! In case that I want to change a little bit of that part, can I just edit or should I use another interface?‴ T_ele^s (T _{@ L C S}) 22:10, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Oh... I thought that error would only appear when trying to delete it. In case I want to fix that text a little, what should I do?‴ T_ele^s (T _{@ L C S}) 04:50, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Category:Wikimedia Foundation staff

This seems like something you'd be interested in: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=3622891#Category:Wikimedia_Foundation_staff>. --MZMcBride (talk) 03:55, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikidata translate tags

Hello, your tagging of this page is wrong: specifically, the headers are broken. See the tutorial; mw:Help:Extension:Translate/Page translation administration, in development, explains in more detail the reasons. Thanks, Nemo 20:56, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Thehelpfulbot on es.wikipedia

Hello, Thehelpfulone.

If you want to use your bot on Wikipedia in Spanish, you have to request an authorization here.

Regards, and thanks for the interest in helping this project by running a bot. --invadinado _{(Tell me)} 09:17, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your helpful edits and categorization around Meta lately! I appreciate it! :) Asaf Bartov (WMF Grants) talk 22:42, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Crat flag

...has been granted (as you already know :) ). Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 15:59, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you, and thank you to everyone who voted in my RFB. The Helpful One 16:01, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Thehelpfulbot on frwiki

Hello,

Your bot is running on frwiki, but you didn't create the bot user page, so I initialized it with the standard template. Feel free to edit it, as long as you give a link to contact you :) You can request the bot status on fr:Wikipédia:Bot/Statut if you plan to use it regularly.

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autopatroller

I just saw it on my watchlist. Thanks : ) - Jc37 (talk) 19:55, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

No problem

And welcome to Meta! Although you removed yourself from the SPCom members list, I believe we're splitting it up into "Members" and "People who want to help out", so please do stay if you're not eligible to be a member.  :-) The Helpful One 19:57, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Thank you.

You may not have seen my comments which I removed before removing myself from the members' list.

What rubbed me the wrong way was: I was trying to ascertain things (to try to give better/more helpful suggestions), only to have someone try what looked an awful lot like an end run to me. "If you don't like the questions someone is asking, try to isolate (or better excise) the questioner(s)."

I'm not saying that's what happened (and in the past I've had great respect for snowolf and others there), but the whole thing left a rather bad taste in my mouth after that.

We're all volunteers here, and I think perhaps, it might behoove a few to recall that. And holding prejudice against readers versus "number of edits"... meh.

Anyway, thanks again. And to be clear, my experience with you has always been positive as I recall, and that continues today : )

I wish you well : ) - Jc37 (talk) 20:13, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

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I think you might need to narrow the scope of the redirects your bot is "fixing". [5] Not all of these are necessary. Killiondude (talk) 23:00, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

I've narrowed it as much as possible, the script cannot differentiate between which ones on a page to fix and which ones not to (as far as I know) - each page that it is now running on is on that has a link to one of the namespaces that is going to be deleted - if there are other links that it fixes there's nothing I can do about that unfortunately - but it will be in the same edit so I'm limiting any excess unnecessary edits. I know that this is usually a task that we say don't fix but as we're deleting the namespaces, all these links must be fixed first (if we get a few changes that aren't essential, then I think we need to just let them happen.) :) The Helpful One 23:03, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

Links to other help pages

Replacing {{H:f}} with {{languages}} you remove the links to other help pages. Please restore these links. One way (at least on the English language help pages) is to simply revert your replacement of {{H:f}} by {{languages}}. I modified Template:H:f Help to use {{languages}} [6].--Patrick (talk) 09:23, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Slovenian help pages

Hello THO, the work is almost finished, apart from the slightly difficult ones, although there seems to be more. However, there is a problem with the Slovenian pages. Transcluding {{H:f}} on those pages doesn't add {{Languages}}, see for example this page. Do you know how to fix that? Kind regards, Mathonius (talk) 02:26, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Closed - why?

I'd like you to explain on what basis you closed those requests e.g. http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3ATranslation%2FTranslation_requests%2FWMF%2FHome&diff=3622612&oldid=3555709? I don't see any presedant discussion at Transcom nor translators-l. Rather volunteers wonders what are going on the list. --Aphaia (talk) 19:23, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

OK, Resolved, but you guys would have better to leave a note or include a link to the explanation what you were doing. --Aphaia (talk) 19:34, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Barnstar

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For the help preparing for the Terms of Use deployment. Couldn't have done it without you! Philippe (WMF) (talk) 21:19, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Awww... thanks! :) The Helpful One 22:05, 26 April 2012 (UTC)

Publishing help

Hello! Could you please publish the Finnish versions of the ToU/Introduction and ToU/Banner on WMF wiki? They are ready since I don't think anyone bothers to proofread them. Links: [7] and [8]. Thanks in advance! --Pxos (talk) 19:34, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Here [9] after line 132, there are two instances of the word "sitoudut". The second should be removed altogether. --Pxos (talk) 20:29, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Hmm, so is the version at Terms of use/fi correct? If so I'll just sync from that to fix any other errors there may be. :) The Helpful One 20:32, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Well, since you asked, it isn't. Parts of it are not so well translated, and it would be nice if someone (other than me) could go through the bloody thing and fix the minor errors in a consistent way. A good point, thanks for mentioning it. Let's put this on hold, so that it can be synced once and for good at a later date. --Pxos (talk) 20:44, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Great, thanks, once you've done it or someone else has done it, please just drop me a note and I'll sync it. The Helpful One 20:45, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

RfCU closure

Hi THO, thanks for closing the latest RfCU. While I'm probably nitpicking, for future reference, it should probably be made explicitly clear that CheckUser/oversight requests are an automatic fail if the candidate fails to gain 25 support votes and 70% approval. It's no big deal, but I read your closure as almost discretionary, so I thought I'd bring it up. :-) Cheers, PeterSymonds (talk) 06:50, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi Peter. I did read Oversight policy#Access before closing the RfCU but I went for the it is clear the community... as opposed to the numbers game so that the user wasn't totally discouraged from applying in the future providing he returns to normal levels of activity. I'll be sure to use a mixture of the numbers and advice from now on to make sure there are no misunderstandings as to how I closed it! :-D The Helpful One 11:08, 28 April 2012 (UTC)

TYVM!

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		Just echoing the "tireless contributor" bit from above. Thank you! ☠MarkAHershberger☢(talk)☣ 14:24, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

What a lovely new barnstar! You're welcome. :) The Helpful One 15:00, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Asturian translation

Hi! I am translating the Terms of Use, but it is a big amount of data, so it will take me a bit more time. I have got fully translated Terms of Use/Introduction and Terms of Use-Summary, so they are ready to publish. Meanwhile, I am translating other minor text strings, but I cannot translate this: Translate-workflow-states. ¿How could I do it? ¿Should I submit you the translations? or ¿Is there a place where I can do it? Thanks in advance! --Esbardu (talk) 23:17, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi there, thank you so much for translating! I'll publish the two that are ready for publishing and I completely understand that it will take some time for the larger Terms of Use. Yes, if you could leave a copy of the translations of the Translate-workflow-states here on my talk page then I'll also publish those, unfortunately you need to be an admin at the moment to be able to translate that, we're looking into getting that fixed (a bug has been filed). The Helpful One 23:44, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Here are the sentences:

• In progress --> En progresu
• Needs updating --> Necesita anovase
• Updating --> Anovando
• Proofreading --> Corrixendo
• Ready --> Llistu
• Published --> Publicáu

--Esbardu (talk) 23:52, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you again, I've published both of the translations that you've already done and I've published those Translate-workflow-states too. Please let me know when you've completed the Terms of Use and I'll publish that too. The Helpful One 00:02, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Ok! --Esbardu (talk) 00:06, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Of course, go with it! I'm about to finish with the translation of the Terms of Use, I'll warn you when I finish. Regards! --Esbardu (talk) 12:01, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi again! I've got this issues ready for publishing: Terms of Use, Wikimedia maintenance notice and Fundraising 2012/Translation/Isaac appeal. Please sync them when you have time. The next question is: It it possible to translate the new Terms of Use? Where should I do it? Big thanks in advance! Regards --Esbardu (talk) 18:01, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Wikimania2014

Completely didn't realise about that. Shows how long its been since I logged into meta. Is there a nice non controversial way of blocking that account? I'm not a staff member anymore but I just kinda assumed that it would have been locked out like everything else. Seddon (talk) 00:41, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

No problem at all, I'll request that your account is globally locked - essentially it means that you can't log in across all of the wikis (and you're logged out if you're already logged in). It's non-controversial because it's used for a lot of staff and if you do return back to the Foundation, then it's a simple job to unlock it again. The Helpful One 00:44, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

I can lock that account if you don't mind. MBisanz ^talk 00:46, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

That would be grand. I don't want to run the risk of further accidental edits. Seddon (talk) 00:53, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Done MBisanz ^talk 01:06, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Deletion

Please delete these two pages: [10] and [11]. I believe that there is no need to have all variants of Serbian. The default variant is enough. micki 08:16, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Wikimania 2013 wiki

Thanks for offering to help with the meta side of Wikimania 2013 stuff. How should I go about asking for the new conference wiki to be set up? Deryck C. 16:13, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi Deryck - already ahead of you! I submitted a bug this morning, <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36477>, once it's set up I'll request some rights (crat/admin) to be able to hand them out to whoever needs them. The Helpful One 16:15, 3 May 2012 (UTC)

Synchbot request

Hello Thehelpfulone. Your request for user pages and global JavaScript on every wiki has been fulfilled (see the archived request & bot log). —Pathoschild 19:26, 06 May 2012 (UTC)

Protection of Wikimedia News

I don't think this is necessary. Not only has there not been a lot of anon vandalism, several users from other projects have made legitimate edits to the page in the past without logging in (example), and I see no reason to prevent this. I suggest you undo the page protection. - dcljr (talk) 20:04, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi! I didn't go back as far as that so didn't see the constructive IPs edits (I saw some unconstructive ones from a non-autoconfirmed account too). Reverted. The Helpful One 20:09, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. As for wm2011:, you're right: it wasn't locked yet. I was going by the change that was made to the sitematrix, but that was reverted today for some reason (it's no longer marked as "closed"). Oddly, though, the wiki now does appear to be locked. Not sure what's going on... - dcljr (talk) 02:13, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

No problem. I don't think the wiki's been locked, it's just that you might have been logged out (I certainly was for some reason), http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attendees/en&action=edit can still be edited if you are logged in - IP editing is disabled on there by default. When https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36571 is marked as RESOLVED FIXED, then we can be sure the wiki is locked. :) The Helpful One 13:48, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Sigh... You're right again. - dcljr (talk) 00:07, 9 May 2012 (UTC)

Done. - dcljr (talk) 05:41, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

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Galician translations

Some Galician translations are ready to be moved to Wikimedia wiki. Can you please do it for me? Thank you so much! --Toliño ^{Fala aquí comigo} 15:49, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Published, thank you for translating the pages! :) The Helpful One 17:32, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

Terms of use/ja

It's now ready, with User:Miya's help off wiki. Could you publish it on wmf wiki? --whym (talk) 15:41, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Pages you deleted

I am a user of Japanese Wikipedia. w:ja:User:Frozen-mikan

Japanese pages you deleted has gone missing. We are very confused.

Can you find the missing pages back? --Frozen-mikan (talk) 15:45, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi there, I'm not quite sure I understand -- all of those pages were simply redirects, the pages have all had their links updates and you can see them at Template:H:f Help/ja. Is there a particular page you were looking for? All the pages have been moved to the /ja subpages within the Help: namespace, so for example for help on searching, you would go to Help:Searching/ja instead of ヘルプ:検索. Hope this helps, The Helpful One 15:49, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. I am very sad. In your way, someone must be to find a broken link in the Japanese Wikipedia. Although I do not want to do, that I will do. So goodbye. --Frozen-mikan (talk) 16:52, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Hi there, please could you provide me with the page where the links have broken? I'll look into fixing them for you on the Japanese Wikipedia. The Helpful One 16:55, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

I noticed the same problem and compiled a list of pages with the broken interwiki links caused by these deletions (or moves without leaving redirects) for jawiki. And then Frozen-mikan started replacing the broken links with the new targets. So for the case of Japanese, it's getting solved.

However, as far as I can see, other language wikis have also (historically?) referred to meta help pages, causing many similar broken interwiki links to the meta help pages. I briefly checked the situation in frwiki and found that there are more than 400 such broken links. (see a link around the top of w:fr:Aide:Préférences, for example).

Do we want to (re-)create all the redirects from the old names (like Aide:Préférences) to the new names (like Help:Preferences/fr) on metawiki, in order to fix this kind of broken interlanguage links for all existing languages? That seems to be a reasonable way to solve it, at least less time-consuming than visiting all relevant wikis, finding broken links, and replacing them with the new links.--whym (talk) 12:14, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you!

I screwed up on some edit reverts on the fundraising agreement page and you fixed it immediately. I greatly appreciate it. Geoffbrigham (talk) 15:10, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

POTY 2011

Would you mind looking into Talk:CentralNotice/Calendar#POTY 2011? Thank you. -- Rillke (talk) 08:08, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Re:Translations

My honor.Will do my best.--香港分子 (talk) 13:54, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Call of Duty Wiki

Please add callofduty: cod: codwiki: and callofdutywiki: for http://callofduty.wikia.com/wiki/$1 . The general Wikia interwiki could take longer to load than the simple, single Wikia wiki interwiki.

Might as well since Furries is also on the Call of Duty Wiki over at Wikia as username "Sactage". --112.210.71.27 12:29, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

I know that Wikia wiki. I've been posted some comments about changes in Black Ops II. Are you sure that the interwikis to be added to interwiki map? --112.210.18.187 00:53, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

Hi there. Apologies for the delay in responding to you, please can you file this request at Talk:Interwiki map#Proposed additions so that anyone else is able to comment on the request before I add it? There will be a delay between adding it to that page and it being updated on the actual database, but I will try to expedite that process. Thanks, The Helpful One 00:52, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Refiled the request. --112.210.99.98 10:52, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

@Thehelfulone: this is the cross-wiki vandal SGF. I blocked his latest dynamic IP for three days now. Trijnstel_talk 12:14, 10 June 2012 (UTC) _{(They're outsiders from Call of Duty Wikia, who they are commenting some BO2-related changes)}

So what? The 3 Shared IPs do nothing with the cross-wiki vandal SGF. Последний IP обезумевшие их по обвинению в крест-Call of Duty Wiki насилия. Я давление на реформы кто-то редактирования Селена Гомес. Кто-то предпочитает Зов Долга: Секретные Операции 2 по долгосрочным вандалов в объектами. Стюарды сделал 3 IP-адреса не связанных между собой напряженные сборы.--Вклад (talk) 02:38, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

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Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, June 2012

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Translation notification: Fundraising 2012/Translation/Donor email response

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You are receiving this notification because you signed up as a translator to Spanish on Meta. A new page, Fundraising 2012/Translation/Donor email response is available for translation. Please translate it here:

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Hello Translators

I just want to thank you for volunteering and to say how appreciative I am of the work translator do, in particular with the fundraiser. It is nothing short of vital.

Our first big test of the year is going to be dedicated to the Spanish language and so over the coming days you'll receive a number of translation requests. For the moment the goal is insuring that all donor communications are fully translated. These quick steps will help get you started:

• Click on the "translate to Spanish" link above
• Double click the message you want to translate
• Type your translation, click save and repeat.

The Fundraising team are also looking for local testers and proofreaders in the spanish language to help us throughout the year.

If you would be interested in helping us please email me (jseddon at wikimedia.org), post on my meta talk page [1] or post on the talk page of the fundraiser translation hub [2]. Feel free to post any questions, comments or feedback about the new translation extension on the same talk page as well [2].

You should receive one more notification after this. I will try and keep the notification traffic down as best I can.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jseddon_(WMF)

[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/Translation

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Meta translation administrators‎, 11:25, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Translation notification: Fundraising 2012/Translation/Donor information pages

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Hello Translators

Just sending the second page in preparation for the Spanish fundraising test

As always if you have any questions, comments or feedback please email me (jseddon at wikimedia.org), post on my meta talk page [1] or post on the talk page of the fundraiser translation hub [2].

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jseddon_(WMF)

[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/Translation

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Meta translation administrators‎, 11:28, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

Translations - Fantasic

Dear Spanish Translators,

Whether or not you managed to get a transation in this time. I wanna just give my appreciation. Both translations were completed in under 12 hours which is well within the week target. Just simply fantastic.

I have one last favour to ask. As well as translations, can I really encourage people to proofread translations if it seems that all the translations are done. Proofreading is just as important as the translation itself to ensure we have the highest quality.

To proofread the two translation requests, click here and here.

Also we are still looking for volunteers to help us with local testing. Drop me a message on my talk page.

Thank you all :)
Jseddon (WMF) (talk) 13:57, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

Translation notification: Mobile Projects/WLM App Fact Sheet

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This is a description of the "Wiki Loves Monuments" mobile app. The app is in the final stages of development and its distribution will start mid-August.

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Translation notification: Fundraising 2012/Translation/Ways to give

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Translation notification: Research:Wikipedia Editor Survey August 2012/Questions

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Translation notification: Research:Wikipedia Editor Survey August 2012/Questions

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Translation notification: Research:Wikipedia Editor Survey August 2012/Questions

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Proofreading

Hello. Some users pointed that Meta:Meta–Steward relationship needs some proofreading. Would you be willing to do it? Thanks in advance. Regards. -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 09:41, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Hi Marco, apologies for the delay in responding, I didn't see this message amongst all the translation notifications! I'll have a look at this later for you. Thehelpfulone 22:35, 4 September 2012 (UTC)

Translation notification: Wikimedia Highlights, July 2012

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Note: This time, the "Wikimedia Foundation highlights" section does not include the usual coverage of the most notable work of Foundation staff during that month. Instead, it contains a list of talks given by Foundation staff at Wikimania, summarizing their most important work the year over. It looks like a lot of text, but only the talk titles will need to be translated. The intention is that these titles alone can already give readers a good overview of what the Foundation is working on in general.

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Requesting user rename to "S Page (WMF)"

Hey there! As I explain on en:User:S_Page_(WMF), I would indeed like a rename from "SPage (WMF)" to "S Page (WMF)". It's taken place on en-wiki but I would like it on any and all wikis; you mention in particular metawiki, testwiki, outreachwiki and mediawikiwiki.

It would be great if somehow these could all share a Single User Login. Tantalizingly, you said if I rename you to be User:S Page (WMF) then there's a way that you can link all the accounts to make them a SUL account

I'm sorry for the initial screw-up. Thanks so much! -- SPage (WMF) (talk) 01:27, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Worked great thanks to you and the power of Special:MergeAccount -- S Page (WMF) (talk) 19:42, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

Fellowship News of August 2012

Fellowship News

VOLUME 1

August 2012

ISSUE 3

As you can see from this month's issue, Wikimedia Fellowship projects continued this month with lots of experimentation. Do you have ideas for a great new fellowship project? Submit a project idea, or tell us what you think about existing project ideas today! Continue reading...

• Dispute Resolution Project — Steven Zhang monitored a trial implementing changes to the dispute resolution noticeboard on English Wikipedia this month. An update on his findings is in the Wikipedia Signpost this week. Continue reading...
• Gender Gap Project — Sarah Stierch has started developing the first phase of a new WikiWomen's Collaborative project, which seeks to engage and inspire more women to edit using social media and clear calls to action. Continue reading...
• Help Pages Redesign Project — Peter Coombe has created three new introductory tutorials for the English Wikipedia, covering referencing, uploading images, and navigating Wikipedia. He also released the write-up from this summer's in-person usability tests. Continue reading...
• Small Wiki Editor Engagement Project — Tanvir Rahman has been building new step-by-step help pages on Bangla Wikipedia. The help pages will be connected into a portal page and the new help page system will be piloted in September. Continue reading...
• Teahouse Project — We've been working on improvements for hosts, including a simplified new host creation process. HostBot was approved for a trial to send out automated invites to new editors, contributing to a 50% increase in guest participation. Continue reading...

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Chinese Translations

Hi Thehelpfulone,

I noticed that zh-hans translations for fundraising 2012 have been closed. However, due to the difference between simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese, I don't think it is practical to use only zh for all Chinese translations. Could you please close zh and open zh-hant and zh-hans instead?

Thanks!

-Mys_721tx(talk) 05:42, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

FDC portal/Proposals

Hi Thehelpfulone! I know that everyone was eager to try out the FDC portal, but do you think it would be okay to delete the practice proposals? Now that the process is getting underway I would hate to cause the staff and committee extra work by having to figure out what is an official page and what is not. It would be ideal to leave just the real entity proposals and the example. What do you think? heather walls (talk) 18:13, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

Fellowship News of September 2012

Fellowship News

VOLUME 1

September 2012

ISSUE 4

The Fellowships Program believes that supporting editors to lead on community improvements is one way WMF can help boost editor engagement. This month, Wikimedia Fellows worked on 5 projects that aim to do just that. Continue reading...

• Dispute Resolution Project — Steven Zhang compiled results of the August trial at the Dispute Resolution Noticeboard, community discussion favored closing Wikiquette assistance, and a Request for Comment on an easier way to file dispute resolution requests is underway. Continue reading...
• WikiWomen's Collaborative Project — Sarah Stierch and volunteer WikiWomen around the world launched the WikiWomen's Collaborative, a social media initiative connecting women who currently edit or aspire to edit Wikipedia. Continue reading...
• Help Pages Redesign Project — Peter Coombe completed a redesign of English Wikipedia's main help page and usability tests are being run to compare users' experiences with it. Results will be compiled and a redesign proposal will be brought to the community. Continue reading...
• Small Wiki Editor Engagement Project — Tanvir Rahman launched the new help page system on Bangla Wikipedia with pages that teach editors about new article creation and other popular editing activities. Metrics are still being collected but it appears article creation has nearly doubled. Continue reading...
• Teahouse Project — The Teahouse team refined automated invites and finished improvements that surface hosting activity. The Teahouse pages are going through a redesign to simplify usability for new editors, and we're looking at creating a new volunteer "maitre d" role. Continue reading...

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Wikimedia Travel Guide: Naming poll open

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The proposed naming poll is now open and you can vote for as many of the proposed names as you wish, if you are eligible. Please see Travel Guide/Naming Process for full details on voting eligibility and how the final name will be selected. Voting will last for 14 days, and will terminate on 16 October at 06:59:59 UTC.

Thanks, Thehelpfulone 23:06, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

On this topic, do you think it would be worth messaging those who "voted" on the rfc as well? As they clearly have shown interest in the project? --Peter ^Talk 23:02, 3 October 2012 (UTC)

You've got a point there, in total the number of people who commented at the RFC was 719, with 70 of them being IPs. I imagine there's a proportion of those who I've already sent the message to who also participated in the RFC, so I'll look at this tomorrow to compare the two lists. Thehelpfulone 00:03, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks. If anything, a note about this would be a good way to remind people that this project is happening, to keep people interested when we launch! --Peter ^Talk 02:13, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Wikimedia Travel Guide: Naming poll open

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• [16] Commented before you left the message! Not sure how good your scripts are, but isn't a better criterion for message delivery should surely (posted on RFC && (!(posted on naming poll)))? Deryck C. 22:57, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

Re:Wikimedia Travel Guide: Naming poll open

I am blocked on en.wiki, can I posted there? --Dede2008 (talk) 09:45, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

...

Thanks for notice. --Slaven Kosanovic (talk) 19:43, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Fellowship News of October 2012

Fellowship News

VOLUME 1

October 2012

ISSUE 5

As WMF narrows it's focus, the Fellowships Program will be winding down in early 2013. We'll be investigating other avenues for supporting individuals via grant-making, and meanwhile, Sarah, Steven, and Tanvir will be continuing their projects for several more months, so stay tuned to the News! Continue reading...

• Dispute Resolution Project — A Request for Comment closed in favor of a universal DR request wizard and implementation is in development on English Wikipedia. Steven is drafting a second survey to learn what motivates existing DR volunteers, in hopes of increasing the pool of mediators. Continue reading...
• Help Pages Redesign Project — In the final month of Peter's fellowship, the redesign of the English Wikipedia's main help page was usability tested with good results. Community response regarding implementation so far has been supportive. Continue reading...
• Small Wiki Editor Engagement Project — A 6 week pilot of help documentation improvements in Bangla Wikipedia is wrapping up and a midpoint progress report is available. The next Bangla experiment will focus on building a support system for new editors. Continue reading...
• Teahouse Project — Phase 2 of the project is complete. With increasingly stable systems built in, the Teahouse is now a volunteer-sustained space on English Wikipedia. The phase 2 project and metrics reports are now available. Continue reading...
• WikiWomen's Collaborative Project — Results of the first month of activities on Facebook, Twitter and the blog channel demonstrate that the WikiWomen's movement is growing. Sarah and WikiWomen volunteers around the world create content daily - join in at the organizing hub. Continue reading...

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Fellowship News of November 2012

Fellowship News

VOLUME 1

November 2012

ISSUE 6

Three fellowship projects are still in full swing! Continue reading...

• Dispute Resolution Project — A second dispute resolution survey started running this month, in hopes of identifying new ways to retain and recruit more volunteers. An IRC office hours session was also held at the end of the month to solicit feedback and input from the community. Continue reading...
• Small Wiki Editor Engagement Project — Results from the 6-week help page pilot designed specially for new editors suggest that help page improvements have doubled the number of active new editors on Bangla Wikipedia. Continue reading...
• WikiWomen's Collaborative Project — The project has entered its second phase, the focus of which is to build more sustainable systems that can be maintained by the community as this fellowship comes to a close, and to focus on engaging with more women who are not yet editing Wikipedia. Continue reading...

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41.189.229.195 IP

if you can stop this phenomenon that face very complicated And delete all his later writings. 41.189.229.195 so.wik. Thanks --Abshirdheere (talk) 17:05, 7 December 2012 (UTC)

Notificación de traducción: Guidelines on potential conflicts of interest

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Estás recibiendo esta notificación porque te inscribiste como traductor de Meta en Chavacano de Zamboanga.

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La prioridad de esta página es media. La fecha límite para la traducción de esta página es 2013-01-08.

We are asking for community consultation on five proposed guidelines relating to potential conflicts of interest when people ask for resources belonging to the Wikimedia movement. We are hoping to get as much international involvement here as possible. Your assistance in translating this for your communities would be much appreciated! The Legal and Community Advocacy Team

Agradecemos enormemente tu ayuda. Traductores como tú hacen que Meta funcione como una verdadera comunidad multilingüe. ¡Gracias!

Los coordinadores de traducción de Meta‎, 17:20, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Notificación de traducción: Fundraising 2012/Translation/Dumisani Ndubane video (captions)

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Agradecemos enormemente tu ayuda. Traductores como tú hacen que Meta funcione como una verdadera comunidad multilingüe. ¡Gracias!

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Notificación de traducción: Guidelines on potential conflicts of interest

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La página Guidelines on potential conflicts of interest está disponible para su traducción. Puedes traducirla aquí:

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La prioridad de esta página es media. La fecha límite para la traducción de esta página es 2013-01-08.

We are asking for community consultation on five proposed guidelines relating to potential conflicts of interest when people ask for resources belonging to the Wikimedia movement. We are hoping to get as much international involvement here as possible. Your assistance in translating this for your communities would be much appreciated! The Legal and Community Advocacy Team

Agradecemos enormemente tu ayuda. Traductores como tú hacen que Meta funcione como una verdadera comunidad multilingüe. ¡Gracias!

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POTY CentralNotice

And? I didnt revert you or mentioned you at all, I'm just trying to keep a user who created problems to POTY last year for dissapearing to be a problem to this year contest. Béria Lima ^msg 21:10, 26 December 2012 (UTC)

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Now i got it :) Sorry for forgeting you! :) Béria Lima ^msg 22:22, 26 December 2012 (UTC)