User talk:Spacebirdy/Archiv2008

2008

|Dies ist ein Archiv. Bitte nur hier Beiträge hinzufügen, danke. || This is an archiv. Please only add messages here, thanks. || Este es un archivo, por favor escribeme solamente allí, gracias. || Celle-ci est une archive, s'il te plaît laisse moi une message seulement là, merci. || Þetta er skjalasafnið, gerðu svo vel sendu mér tölvuskeyti bara þarna, takk.|

Always alert!

And thanks - looks better now! Regards and all good wishes for 2008 --Herby ^{talk thyme} 19:30, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

And thanks for this too! Regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 14:49, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Much better. I found it was already implemented on en wikibooks and I have just started it on Commons. Small victories are to be celebrated! --Herby ^{talk thyme} 15:39, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks/Gracias

Hola!Gracias por la infomacion! Vander 17:32, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Info

Did I give you this link - I forget (you may have picked it up anyway). Some background is here. Regards (& thanks for all the cleaning work you do!) --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:51, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

And I like the snake :) --Herby ^{talk thyme} 17:18, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

cawiki

Hi. I've known today that I've been accused of being a sockpuppet in Catalan Wikipedia (ca:Usuari:Artista). I'm sure that in my one year long list of contributions you'll see that I usually use three diferent connections and only in excepcions others. I only wonder if with your tools you can differenciate public and private connexions to the net. Thanks. Artista 13:14, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

The decisions in cawiki are not mine to take, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 13:34, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, of course, I was not saying it. Artista 14:39, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Re:Status

Regarding your comment about the data-stream it has been removed from the status template which links to my subpages & pages it'll not be shown including the images of my navbox and yes i do respect copyright. →Yun-Yuuzhan→ 19:26, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Just out of curiosity are there any user scripts on meta-wiki, which i could use. Because on wikipedia there's lots of scripts including scripts for reverting vandalism or monitoring vandalism. But are there any scripts which i could use on this site. →Yun-Yuuzhan→ 19:37, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Schnell wie eine Rakete!!!

Hallo Spacebirdy,
bist ein Schatz!! Schnell wie der Blitz... Danke! --- Alles gute für's neue Jahr, Melancholie 15:03, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: /* personal attacks are not accepted */ new section

I don't respond to trolling. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.142.210.5 (talk • contribs) 09:14, 7 Jan 2008 (UTC)

It is not trolling to request that you provide a correct source for images, refrain from attacking others please or you will be blocked --Herby ^{talk thyme} 09:36, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Wellcome note

You don't have a welcome note in Farsi,I can translate it into farsi for you.--BlueDevil 02:56, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

I did translate it but I think I mixed up the page,Can you correct it.--BlueDevil 03:33, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

nevermind,It is correct.--BlueDevil 03:35, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Donate/ml

Guess the translation is done and has gone through a round of peer review.. In case of an issue, please feel free to scrap on my talk page. Thanks ! --Jacob 21:32, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

It's been published by Spacebirdy at wikimedia:Donate/ml. Thanks! :-) Cbrown1023 talk 21:41, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for the translation, --birdy geimfyglið _{(:> )=|} ∇ 21:43, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for publishing fast! By the way, I noticed that the breaks are not correctly inserted for the last line in this page (those which relate to Fundraising FAQ, Planned Spending Distbn. etc..). I find that only two tabs are displayed correctly. --Jacob 21:46, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

I think Cbrown1023 just fixed it, please check if it looks ok now, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _{(:> )=|} ∇ 21:49, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, that works ! --Jacob 21:51, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, 50 USD with paypal and 1000 INR with moneybookers would be the best option. --Jacob 22:22, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

No problem! Please keep 50 USD each at both places. That would be better. Thanks ! --Jacob 22:30, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

ip edition

dear spacebirdy in fawiki we are going to decide to deprive ip's to edit. i want to know is that allowed by wikipedia or earch wiki should decide for itself . also i checked here Mardetanha 18:46, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Fundraising 2007/Video with Jimmy subtitles/Translations/gl

• ¿Cuál es el siguiente paso que debo dar? ¿Dónde tengo que "copyedit" los subtítulos traducidos al gallego? Muchas gracias de nuevo por toda la ayuda que me estás prestando. --Toliño ^{Fala aquí comigo} 17:59, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Le he vuelto a echar un vistazo a la traducción y pienso que es correcta, creo que está lista para ser publicada. Un saludo. --Toliño ^{Fala aquí comigo} 20:51, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Estremeñu

¡Hola! Se agradece la bienvenida ^^ Bueno, decir que ya soy traductor, es más, el interfaz ya está practicamente traducido... estamos esperando a que nos den el aprobado final, ojalá sea pronto :P Lo dicho, muchas gracias por la bienvenida, y si me pudieses ayudar a buscar aquellas frases que convendría que fueran traducidas... ^^

Saludetes! 83.39.158.135 21:28, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Language Barrier

• • [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]. Don't try such things with me here, point me to the personal attack if You please, --birdy geimfyglið _{(:> )=|} ∇ 11:41, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Ich hab grad große Lust, die beiden bisserl zu sperren... --Thogo (talk) 10:54, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Ich bitte darum, lG. --birdy geimfyglið _{(:> )=|} ∇ 11:35, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

(additional comment) As Nekosuki600 stated before on this page, most Japanese do not have so good English writing skills. I can speak, read, and write English largely due to education at Ohio State University, but most Japanese do not have such experience. GcG just directly translated the word for those who told a lie, merely because he did not know other English words, and it is the fact that Aphaia told a lie in her steward election. If you trust Aphaia and want her to keep her adminship it's fine, but please stop this kind of defensiveness and trial to shut out any critical facts, just as Aphaia had been doing in Japanese Wikipedia before she was indefinitely blocked. We are all stating the fact. Please try to know the fact before you try to defend her and yourself. Yassie 11:14, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

I am not defending anyone? - Even less myself? Why should I defend myself, from what? The word "liar" is an insult. End. Therefore an attack, he was asked kindly to remove it, --birdy geimfyglið _{(:> )=|} ∇ 11:35, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

I know the word somewhat strong, but he used the word simply because he did not know other words to describe those who told a lie. In fact, in Japan even those with bachelor's degree have several-thousand word level of English vocabulary, which is a quarter or a half of average 6th-grade school girls/boys in the United States. I know we Japanese have to improve our English communication skills a lot, but please understand the language barriers. Please focus on the content rather than wording. Yassie 11:45, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

I know the language barriers, that is why I did not block him, but ask him kindly and explained it, I would have blocked a native English speaker, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _{(:> )=|} ∇ 11:47, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Okay. Now I got what you meant, so I hereby hide the Template:attack part of this section as commenting lines. Actually, GcG has already changed the wording.

In most cases when Japanese use such words, those are mere direct translations of Japanese words, simply because they do not know other words. Again, please focus on the content and know the fact before tabbing "personal attacks" and/or put that template by wording. Tabbing "personal attacks" without adequate proof itself is a personal attack, you know. For goodness for both you and us. Thanks. Yassie 11:58, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _{(:> )=|} ∇ 12:02, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

(P.S. Please also note, that I am a bit sensitized to this topic ([6]). I will not judge neither sides because I can't judge what I don't know, one word stands against another word now. The only thing I can judge is what I have seen here by myself, what is positive only. I am deeply hoping that this issue in ja.wiki will be solved amicably, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _{(:> )=|} ∇ 12:17, 12 January 2008 (UTC))

That comment might have been made by a vandal in Japanese Wikipedia. At least, I support your revert there, for it was an obvious vandalism. However, such wording by most Japanese, including GcG, come from poor English vocabulary, not malice.

I know Aphaia is working well here, and wonder why she acts so differently between in meta and in Japanese Wikipedia. She even told a lie in the election. Considering what she had done to Japanese Wikipedia, and total difference of her behavior between projects, I cannot trust her at all. To us, it is quite apparent that Aphaia is taking advantages of the language barriers. Yassie 12:32, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

My successful request for adminship

Thank you for supporting my request for adminship with 28 supports unopposed.--Jusjih 00:55, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Congratulations!

Well done indeed! And thank you so much for the recent support on you-know-where :) - Alison ^❤ 04:03, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Nudge

If you use .js maybe you would like to look at the gadgets in "Preferences". The log filter is very useful (CU, block, delete etc logs). Stolen from en wb & I'll "announce" it later on, regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 11:02, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Happy to help - worth looking at the rights log with the filter too - makes it far more interesting. Hopefully when global CU returns that tool would be of great value, regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 13:27, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Would it be worth stealing this - I find myself using it more there? The top tabs then have "welcome" & "warn" on. --Herby ^{talk thyme} 15:35, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Script updated - now filters contribs too - regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 15:40, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

oversight-I subscription

Please confirm that it's really you. ;-)

James F. (talk) 21:01, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Yep, I confirm it is me who sent You that email, thanks a lot, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _{(:> )=|} ∇ 21:10, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Danke!

Hallo, Spacebirdy! Ich wollte noch mal kurz vorbeikommen und danke sagen für Deine Beschäftigung der IP und das Zurücksetzen ihrer Einträge auf de.wikinews. Viele Grüße --Angela H. 08:11, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Hallo, nochmal! Ich hab Dir eine kleine Antwort zu Deiner Antwort auf meine Diskussionsseite geschrieben. :-) Viele Grüße --Angela H. 16:21, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Bureaucrats on small wikis

Hi, please explain why you don't grant bureaucratship to any small community. The Saterfrisian Wikipedia is crowded with interwiki bots like any other, and understandably they pollute the list of recent changes. So if anything, we badly need a bureaucrat for granting bot statuses. Steinbach (formerly Caesarion) 09:04, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi, it is no problem asking for bot status at Requests for bot status, please consider implementing the bot policy, to make the process easier, the bot status will be granted quite quickly then. The reason for not granting permanent right and even less bureaucrat-status on a project with such a small community is that can't be a voting and it already had caused troubles in the past, like people thinking that bureaucratship is some kind of higher status over other users and becoming dictators. I am not saying You would do the latter, but it is a reason we simply don't do this anymore. As soon as a community establishs there You are of course invited to hold a voting. Until then You could think about sysop-status. Thanks for Your understanding, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _{(:> )=|} ∇ 10:34, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Checkuser

Please, can you do some explanation about that?

Thank you,

Vilallonga · (digui digui) 11:08, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

re: Title blacklist

Hi Pathoschild, just informing You, protecting pages with index.php is not necesary because of MediaWiki:Titleblacklist, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _{(:> )=|} ∇ 00:57, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for letting me know. Unfortunately, the TitleBlacklist extension has been disabled for performance reasons, so we'll have to protect them individually after all. —{admin} Pathoschild 11:20:39, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Translating

Hello Drini I'm b:tr:User:Serhat. I'd like to be a sysop in wikibooks turkish because I'd like to edit interface of wikibooks turkish but I can't communicate with User:Dbl2010. b:tr:User:Nosferatü is active sysop in wikibooks tr and he is supporting me. Please help. Srhat 20:04, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi, please note that Translations are made on Betawiki only, please read Requests_for_permissions#Serhat.40tr_wikibooks, thanks, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _{(:> )=|} ∇ 20:32, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

But wikibooks turkish's mediawiki messages are more different than others. I can't translate wikibooks turkish interface on http://translatewiki.net . Please read this message. betawiki:User talk:SPQRobin#wikibooks turkish. Thanks.

Srhat 10:02, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Hello. Can I open an administrator access request, now? I have already written an email to Dbl2010 four days ago (20.01.2008); but he hasn't respond, yet. Thanks Srhat 15:59, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

InterProject

Hallo Spacebirdy,
einfach noch function $(ID) {return document.getElementById(ID);} irgendwo davor hinzufügen! Dient dazu, dass man nicht immer wieder "document.getElementById" schreiben muss (einfacher, und spart global gesehen zudem einige kBs ;-) --- Schöne Grüße, Melancholie 12:23, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Sollen die InterProjekt-Links bei deaktiviertem JavaScript ganz unten erscheinen, wie im Wikt, oder eher so wie in der Wikipedia, wo die Links ja "im" Artikel bzw. unter der Weblinks-Überschrift stehen? Dann könnte man nämlich auf die Rahmen-Vorlage User:Spacebirdy/InterProject verzichten (mit entsprechender Umprogrammierung). Habe das Ganze im Wikt aber mit Absicht etwas strikter programmiert, damit die InterProjekt-Links als Ganzes zusammengehalten werden! Bei der momentanen Gestaltung in der Wikipedia wäre eine Umrahmung (User:Spacebirdy/InterProject) redundant, aber wenn man den Leuten zu viel Freiheit gibt, dann platzieren sie die Links irgendwo (und nur "Non-JS-User" bemerken dann das Problem -> dann *irgendwo* sichtbar, störend). Das Ganze ist halt nur ein "Workaround"! --- Liebe Grüße, Melancholie 12:43, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Naja, so muss man halt eingeben:

{{User:Spacebirdy/InterProject|
*{{User:Spacebirdy/InterProject/Commons|Example}}
}}

und sonst nur:

{{User:Spacebirdy/InterProject/Commons|Example}}

Aber dann geht's wie mit den Kategorien ([[...), die werden von unbedarften mal hier mal da in den Quelltext hineingeschrieben (was ja soweit auch i.O. ist, da die Kategorien-Geschichte per Software geregelt wird, nicht einmal für JS und einmal für Non-JS). Wollte ich eigentlich nur gesagt haben; du weißt bescheid, falls eine solche Forderung nach mehr Flexibilität aufkommen sollte! Aber hätte dann halt Vor- und NACHteile. --- MfG, Melancholie 13:00, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Sehe gerade, dass die im en.Wikt das so machen: wikt:en:MediaWiki:Monobook.js#Interproject_links! Allerdings ist mein Skript schneller (weil kürzer, und weil mit innerHTML, was zwar *noch* nicht im Standard ist, aber sein wird, da besser (performanter) > HTML 5! (Aber weil innerHTML nicht Standard, wurde es dort ebenfalls umgeschrieben > DOM)), und allumfassend getestet. --- MfG, Melancholie 13:48, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

P.S.: Habe im Commons Village Pump was geschrieben (wegen "multi-language")! --- MfG, Melancholie 14:32, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Habe dort geantwortet! --- MfG, Melancholie 18:10, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Erstens hätte eigentlich gehen müssen, tat's aber einfach nicht, dann halt eben so, wenn nicht einfacher möglich. Hab's auch gleich auf Commons geändert! Wegen Zweitens: Ist das Absicht, dass #sisterProjects nicht "hidden" ist? Überschrift doppelt!? Wenn du Überschrift 1 meinst, dann wie beschrieben auf wikt:is:Melding:Monobook.js <h5>Systurverkefni <\/h5> zu <h5><a href="/wiki/Wikiorðabók:Systurverkefni">Systurverkefni<\/a><\/h5> (rück-)umändern! --- Liebe Grüße, Melancholie 19:34, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Habe unter "Einstellungen" > "Sprache der Benutzeroberfläche" gerade "de-formal" Deutsch (Sie-Form) entdeckt! Spassig! Wohl für arrogante Wikipedianer, hä? Gibt ja 'n paar ;-) Wusst' ich's doch ;-) --- MfG, Melancholie 19:43, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Achso, das Skript gehört aber nach MediaWiki:Monobook.js! Common.js ist für alle Skins, aber nicht alle haben eine Toolbox (p-tb)! Gibt dann einen Zugriffsfehler (Skripte danach werden dann z.B. nicht ausgeführt)! Habe das erstmal nur für Monobook gemacht, da doch eh niemand (naja, kaum jemand) einen anderen Skin verwendet als den Standard-Skin (zudem der einzig wahre, bisher)! --- MfG, Melancholie 19:51, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

P.S.: Sehe gerade, dass im Wikt MediaWiki:Monobook.js schlicht zu MediaWiki:Common.js verschoben wurde... Naja, noch scheint es niemandem aufgefallen zu sein ;-) --Melancholie 19:53, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Wie gesagt scheint es wohl noch niemandem aufgefallen zu sein; ich sehe mir die Seite dann mal durch, und werde sie ggf. trennen (evtl. ja nicht nur dieses Skript...), wo nötig (eilt aber nicht; nur sollte es auf Meta und Commons korrekt sein, sonst gibt's Gejammer ;-)
Du, was gibt's eigentlich Neues vom WiktionaryZ/Redundanzminderungsvorhaben? --- MfG, Melancholie 19:58, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Und nun noch bei MediaWiki:Recentchangestext <div class="hiddenStructure">...</div> drumrum, da sonst sichtbar, wenn kein JS (dort dann ja doppelt). --- MfG, Melancholie 20:14, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Welche andere Oberfläche? Manch eine geht vielleicht auch, habe ich noch nicht probiert... WiktionaryZ? --- MfG, Melancholie 20:17, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you for looking into my request. Razorflame 14:42, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

For the revert - not had anytime on line today. While I'm here any thoughts on this - I'm never sure how acceptable such pages are. I usually check for cross wiki repeats via Luxo's tool but that has not worked for me for the last two days? Regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 17:35, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

takk

RE:ca.wikt

Thanks, pajarito/ocellet ;o) Some day I'll enter to that channel for give/receive help. takk!!. -Aleator (talk) 21:50, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

Temporary sysop

If you need a temporary sysop for spam cleanup, I'm free to do so!! Thanks, --Solumeiras 19:06, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

Pagefromfile.py

Hi Spacebirdy:

I want to ask for you a thing: how you're the first contribuitor of that article I request your help; when I was using this command im my bot, a thing like: pagefromfile.py -start:the_name_of_the_page -end:[[category:xxxx]] -file:bla.txt he doesn't do a thing, showing me a thing like "no such file or directory 'bla.txt' "; What I did of wrong? If you could answer me, thanks. (answer me here or in my talk page on Meta)--Brunoy Anastasiya Seryozhenko ^Messengers 00:16, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

The file must be in the same directory as the bot and in utf-8 if that does not help, try to change the file extension to .xml

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 00:19, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Gracias Spacebirdy! Ahora mi bot reconoceu el archivo bla.txt (es uno ejemplo, mas yo voy hacer mejor). Saludos. :-) --Brunoy Anastasiya Seryozhenko ^Messengers 00:30, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

:) Me alegro, saudações, --birdy paxarinho _(:> )=| ∇ 00:40, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thanks for the welcome, I am also a user on wikipedia with the same username, and wanted to get involved in the project that coordinates all other projects. Do you mind if I ask some beginner questions in the future? Thanks. Cheers. Earthbendingmaster 01:29, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. Earthbendingmaster 01:31, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Meta:Administrators/confirm protection

You're faster than I am. --A. B. ^(talk) 00:03, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Your Help

Thank you very much for your help at the Kurdish Wikipedia. Greetings, --Bangin 18:06, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

IRC

Hola, Gracias por la invitación que me hiciste para entrar a #wikimedia-admin, pero dice que necesito invitación para entrar a ese canal :-( Loco085 15:34, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Hola, cualquier persona en este canal puede invitar otra persona, pero para obtener acceso permanente hay que contactar un operador, pero veo que ya has encontrado un camino para entrar :) A ver si podemos encontrar un operador disponible :) Saludos --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 16:03, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Irish Wiktionary: page template

Can I suggest some small changes to your 'template' for entries?

{{vicipéid|{{subst:PAGENAME}}}}
{{-ga-}}
<!--[[Íomhá:|right|thumb|220px|]]-->

{{-fuaim-}}
*IPA: {{IPA|//}} [[Catagóir:Fuaimniú de dhíth]]

{{-ainm-|ga}}
{{pn}} {{fir|1}}
# . [[Catagóir:Bríonna de dhíth]]

{{-aistr-}}
{{(||C}}
{{aistr|cy|}}
{{aistr|br|}}
{{-|C}}
{{aistr|gd|}}
{{--}}
{{aistr|de|}}
{{aistr|en|}}
{{aistr|fr|}}
{{-}}
{{aistr|is|}}
{{aistr|nl|}}
{{)}}

{{-tag-}}

If you know the declension you could also use one of the noun templates ({{ainm 1}} {{ainm 2}} {{ainm 3}} {{ainm 4}} {{ainm 5}}) in place of {{pn}} {{fir|1}}. ☸ Moilleadóir 04:36, 3 February 2008 (UTC)☏

Thanks a lot, I responded You in ga.wikt :) --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 11:05, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

need emregent help

dear Spacebirdy would you please make me sysop for 5 minute thereis high amount of vandalism in fa.wiki mardetanha@fawiki or please quickly ban this ip in fawiki 85.133.199.102 thanks Mardetanha 12:55, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

i think it has been finished for while sorry for disturbing you!

best wishes!Mardetanha 13:05, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi

If/when you are around & have time can you ping my talk page. I have an email I would like an opinion on. Not urgent - thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:35, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Azeri Wikipedia

Okey. Understood you but please help me. Thanks. best regards--Uannis 17:28, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Answered on Your talkpage, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 17:34, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Persönliches Attack

Meine English ist sehr schlecht aber ich weiße waß Sie bedeutet. Ich finde es nicht eine persönliches Attack. Ich habe meine Meinung ändert, ist es gut now? Deutschlehrer 14:41, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Welche Sprache sprichst Du denn, Dein Deutsch ist ebenfalls schlecht, so wie es jetzt dasteht ist es absolut nicht zu verstehen, also weder gut noch schlecht. MfG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 14:42, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Ich spreche Lushnu. Und ich habe fünf Jahre Deutsch studiert. So ich denke nicht daß meine Deutschs ehr slecht ist. Deutschlehrer 14:51, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Thogo

Please say something about Thogo's edits like [7]. Some users don't want [8] so I already subst babel like Ooswestheosbes. [9] Ælsån 18:25, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Your userpage just became ugly: [10] Ælsån 18:54, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank You. Ælsån 18:57, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

How to be an administrator on Co.wiktionary?

Hello Spacebirdy, I hope you are fine, I thank you very much for the message you wrote me in the Sicilian wiktionary and for your other message in this page. Yes I do not want the Corsican be closed, so I want to be an administrator on Co.wiktionary if it is possible and even if it is a "temporary sysop status". I want to develop this little but useful Corsican project! As you know I am not a Corsican but I understand easily and write easily their language (I am used to read the Corsican wikipedia because their language is very similar to Italian language and to Sicilian language). Please can you say me where I must request this status? Thank you in advance. Best regards. (I am sorry that I write you in English but it is because it seems to be the "work language" on this Meta wiki site). Thanks. :-) --Sarvaturi 12:01, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Might wannah make your screen rez less...

i have no problem reading the PNGs. (better perscription?) --- Dsgncr8or 15:04, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I won't change my resolution because of some pngs, sorry, I don't understand why an image for a simple text notice is needed, text can be magnified lossless. But the deletion discussion is not here anyweay, thanks. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:08, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah - Language EDITS for my TALK PAGE?!

wacked... --- Dsgncr8or 15:06, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Please don't spam my talkpage now with strange edits, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:08, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

I knew something wasn't right. I've reset the page now. Thanks.Demmy 12:59, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

For undoing that vandalism at la.wiki. Harris Morgan 14:38, 11 February 2008 (UTC).

how can i replace the symbol?

i want to change the symbol in the site [[11]].

how can i do it?

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.132.205.54 (talk) diff, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 19:56, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi, sorry but to use this image on Your site is a copyright violation because the logo is copyrighted by the Wikimedia-Foundation, I have reported this to the authorities, thanks for contacting me here, can You please just delete the Wikipedia-logo there, thanks for Your understanding, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 22:05, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Interesse?

Nabend Spacebirdy,
ich habe vor kurzem das Übersetzungsteam für Englisch-Deutsch / Deutsch-Englisch Übersetzungen gegründet, und nun wollte ich dich, da du dich hier kategorisiert hast, einladen daran teilzunehmen. Würde mich auf eine Zusammenarbeit freuen! Grüße — Manecke 22:55, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Hallo Manecke, vielen Dank fuer Deine Nachricht, ich möchte mich nicht fix festlegen und ziehe es daher vor einfach auf Anfrage oder bei diversen Gelegenheiten (wenn ich die Zeit aufbringen kann) zu uebersetzen, vielen Dank fuer Deine Muehe und Dein Verstaendnis, wenn es meine Zeit erlaubt stehe ich Dir/Euch wie gesagt fuer direkte Anfragen jedoch gerne zur Verfuegung, lG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 22:58, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Vielen Dank...

...für die Information zu dem IRC-Kanal, die ich hier von Ihnen bekommen habe. Leider kann ich nicht am Chat teilnehmen, ich bin meistens an einem öffentlichen Rechner online. Ich hoffe, ich werde meine Admin-Pflichten innerhalb des siechenden Projekts Wikistiri gut erfüllen. Placet experiri, hier --141.19.230.38 09:06, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

EOBS

I just renamed him and removed the account. I haven't the time yet to go to chatzilla. Meursault2004 17:05, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Requests of Permissions

Hollá, Spacebird. ¿Podría arquivar mi pedido de removal? Estoy con problemas en Tools... ¡Gracías! Alex Pereira ^falaê 16:51, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Olá Alex, no te preocupes, lo archivaremos dentro de poco, saudações, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 17:25, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

help on some technical problems

hi dear birdy are familiar with template? specialy navbox?--Mardetanha 20:59, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

lbe.wikipedia

Hi, Birdy. If you have sysop access in lbe.wikipedia could you please delete the articles in lbe:Категория:Speedy deletion requests? There are no sysops there to take care of that. Thanks, Malafaya 17:41, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Temporary Sysop Acess for Edmundwoods

Edmundwoods request to me that he want to be temp. sysop in Malay Wikibook. I am busy right now and I want he to help me. Why you don't accept his request. I want you to constitute Edmundwoods to be temp. sysop only for 1 and half month before we have regular admin. Thanks. Sorry my Broken EnglishPutera Luqman Tunku Andre 14:35, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Hello, the malay wikibooks is very small, and if You are busy it is no problem. As said, the access was not granted due to concerns that I can discuss with him privately. Thanks for Your understanding. (Please don't worry about Your English, it is fine to understand), best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 14:46, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Yup, Malay Wikibooks is so small. Like ant! Nothing in it but still have important information that usefull to all. Yup, i'm so busy because my exam is near.I want you to constitute him because it's like a test to him to be regular admin in Malay Wikibooks. I don't have any experience to lead Malay Wikibooks because this is first time i was constitute to be sysop. He have many experince. So I think he can be sysop to smoothing the Malay Wikibooks administation. Only for a while. Putera Luqman Tunku Andre 16:51, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

No he can't, sorry. I have asked for other views about the information I have on the stewards-l list but no one disagreed with this approach so far. It is no problem if You are busy, there is nothing urgent to do there, it can wait. The wiki is watched by SWMT so if vandalism occurs they can intervene. All the best for Your exam, this is of course Your priority. Thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 17:10, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

It's okay. Thank you very much because watched Wikibuku Melayu by SWMT. I don't know about it. After my exam finish, we have regular adminship election. Hope you can help us.Thanks also because wish me .Terima kasih.Putera Luqman Tunku Andre 17:17, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Ok, just let us know when You are back, also don't worry if the rights are temporary, they can be prolonged easily, in fact, the temporary adminship is technically the same, You just drop by from time to time and let us know how You do. After Your exam I will also happily invite You to the #wikimedia-admin channel, where You can always ask for help from other admins. All the good luck to You, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 17:22, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Help for Khmer Wikipedia

Hi Spacebirdy! I am a temporary sysop access on Khmer Wikipedia. Now It's still vandalized from bad users. They deleted history pages put the redirect link to onather page. So I can't revert pages. My and your user talk pages are also vandalized. If you have time can you come to check Khmer wikipedia (http://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/) how to revert the pages?

Best Regards! --តឹក ប៊ុនលី 09:17, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Tlh wiki

Hi. Thank you for information. I was wondered from there new interwiki code appeared. Maybe it's possible that links to this wikipedia could be automaticaly removed as Moldavian or Siberian wiki? Hugo.arg 18:06, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for Your answer, I don't know how to solve this, the -neverlink:tlh option seem not to work, Volkov tried it for Wiktionary, there is also an old bugreport bugzilla:9164, I hope there can something done soon, the links are showing up in the entry and breaking it thus :( Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 18:09, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Bureaucrat

Hi, Spacebirdy. Do you think there is any chance of this getting approved in Requests for permissions? Thanks for your comment, Malafaya 18:38, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi Malafaya, sorry, but I don't think so, I understand both sides, it is sometimes really arduous to request bot flags etc. at meta, but on the other hand granting permanent rights on such small projects might cause great trouble, however, I hope that the waiting time right now is not so long, so it does not bother people too much. All the best wishes, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 18:52, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

re:Klingon (tlh) wiktionary in pywikipediabot interwiki.py script

Die Diskussion hierzu findet sich auf Purodhas Diskussionsseite, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 22:07, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Hidden buttons

Hi Spacebirdy. Maybe you can help me? After new namespaces has been set in wikipedia guarani edit buttons (these above editing screen) disapeared. I tryed to modify mediawiki files but nothing changed. The same problem seems in navajo wikipedia. Hugo.arg 13:56, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Something seems wrong in the Monobook.js, I get the error: addCustomButton is not defined, where did You request the namespace change, which namespaces were changed? Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 14:22, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

P.S. where did You copy that code from? :) --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 14:26, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Hm, ok, I guess You have it from fr.wiki, You need the function

function addCustomButton(imageFile, speedTip, tagOpen, tagClose, sampleText, imageId) {
  mwCustomEditButtons[mwCustomEditButtons.length] =
    {"imageId": imageId,
     "imageFile": imageFile,
     "speedTip": speedTip,
     "tagOpen": tagOpen,
     "tagClose": tagClose,
     "sampleText": sampleText};
}

to get "addCustomButton" to work. But it is strange that there are no buttons at all. Please let me know where the request for this change was made, the namespace "Wikipedia" is not linked correctly, maybe others too, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 14:37, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

I have combained these mediawiki texts mainly from spanish wikipedia. But they worked well until namespaces were changed. I asked at bugzilla to change namespaces from spanish to guarani and after this change buttons disappeared. I tryed to add this text which you wrote but nothing happens. Hugo.arg 14:52, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

There is still an error in the JavaScript, a } is missing. Meanwhile I write something in the bugreport, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:01, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Hm, I can't find anything with "addCustomButton" in the Spanish Wikipedia though :( You could try to empty both .js to see if they are the problem, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 16:35, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi again. I tryed various configurations, finaly I deleted both .js files but anyway buttons are not showing. I looked at various wikipedias and it seems that only guarani and navajo wikipedias have this kind of problem. I have no idea that to do to restore the buttons. Maybe it is the problem that guarani and navajo have ' mark in the name "image" (E'elyaaígíí in navajo and Ta'ãnga in guarani). Best regards, Hugo.arg 21:46, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Award

		Barnstar
		For your extremely hard work as an admin and steward, I, Majorly give Spacebirdy a barnstar! Congratulations! Majorly (talk) 15:42, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I like stars, the real ones mostly, also I see them sometimes when I crash on earth, that enlightens my day while it hurts.

File:Animalibrí.gif

But what does a bird do with a barnstar
Thanks anyway
--birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 20:40, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Username blacklist

Hi, Spacebirdy. Is there any way to blacklist usernames with regexs? We are having this person who is creating accounts all the time insulting DE.WP users and I would like to blacklist some keywords. Is it possible? If so, how? Thank you very much, Malafaya 16:51, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. I found that message but it was not working to some reasons and I discovered why: as I was doing something new, I changed my language preference to English in order to understand better what I was doing. When editing the system messages, following the link to Usernameblacklist I ended up not in MediaWiki:Usernameblacklist but in MediaWiki:Usernameblacklist/en, which has no effect. After realizing this, I changed by language back to Volapük (the site's language) and I finally ended up in MediaWiki:Usernameblacklist and it worked. Thanks again. Malafaya 17:21, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Please help

Hello, I come from Lao Wikipedia (lo). I've some problems that only the administrators can do and my language administrator has been offline for more than 15 days and is unable to solve the problem. So, I just come to Meta because some admins here would be able to edit the page and fix problem.

As I said, I've a problem which is unable to create "hide" and "show" button on Navbox templates. Please see Navbox and Common.js on Lao Wikipedia. If you can help me sort this out or manage to make the hide and show button, then I would be very grateful. (We've put the script there and it doesn't work.) I must apologize if I bothered you in any ways. Best Regards, Passawuth 08:13, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi Passawuth, are You lo:User:ກາຍ in lo.wiki? (I was not sure where to answer). There seems to be something missing in Common.js but I don't have the time to take a closer look this weekend, also I have not much knowledge in JavaScript. However, with lo:ຜູ້ໃຊ້:Spacebirdy/monobook.js it worked, but note, that in lo:Template:Navbox I could not find the necessary classes to create a hide/unhidable box, NavFrame/NavContent are not there, if You copied them from another Wikipedia and they have the show/hide option there, there is something missing still.

P.S. I somehow hope You are not active in km.wiki, don't ask me why.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:17, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I cannot find it to. I suppose it is CSS. I'm User:ກາຍ. I don't understand the P.S. , could you tell me more about that ? And do you know anyone who knows JavaScript and CSS very well to fix that ? --Passawuth 12:25, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

I know that User:Pathoschild has a good knowledge of JavaScript, but I think he is quite busy, so please be patient if You decide to ask him. You could also think about asking the one who made that template originally, I guess You have it from en.wiki.

@p.s. nevermind, or email me if You want to chat, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:41, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't have IRC installed on my computer nor Yahoo! Messenger nor Windows Live Messenger. --Passawuth 12:45, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

P.S. I don't understand why other wikis use the same scripts, but the results are different. Moreover, when I try to use any scripts being able to use on 1,000- articles wikipedia, it doesn't work. (such as adding tabs...) Is this mean that this wikipedia has sth wrong ? Regards --Passawuth 12:47, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Email not messengers :)

I think there is something messed up in the JavaScripts, but I am really very busy the next days, so I can't take a closer look, I would suggest to ask Pathoschild, he helped me out a couple of times, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:56, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi ! You come at last. I just been waiting for you for so long - and just check MetaWiki few minutes ago. I've 3 things to telll:

• Firstly, I answered your comment on Requests for permissions already which will inform you sure enough to understand what happened.
• Secondly, could you please granted the bots requests on lo:Wikipedia:Village pump ? We have no bureaucrats there so we can't granted them so they appear on Recentchanges page all the time instead of hiding and are optional to see their changes or not.
• Thirdly, I'm preparing to add Thai Wikiversity to proposals. Is that good enough anyway ? I saw many were opposed in the final discussion. If it's not good enough, then please tell me, so I don't waste the time ! (Also I'm preparing to add Laos Wikibooks to the list as well - but I don't have very much time , I'm doing Cambridge test next week !)

Your faithfully, Passawuth 15:19, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

P.S. I've to go now. Leave anything on my talk page please. --Passawuth 15:20, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Just a note to whomever it may concern. I have great disrespect for people destroying free learning resources because I know how much good education costs and how difficult it is for poor people to get good education and how much it can change their lives and the lives for their families. Educational resources, as books, dictionaries, encyclopedias are not a place for political fights or to express aggressions in whatever way. Destroying such resources means destroying peoples opportunities and thus destroying possibly also their future and their life.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:44, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

I just passed by - saying that I just finish reading my stuffs and now free though tomorrow is very busy day. What it's about then ? Is there anything wrong on my Laos or Thai Wikipedia ? I didn't see it and what happen anyway ? Best Regards, --Passawuth 16:33, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

Need some idea (from Kiensvay)

Hi, Spacebirdy! I need some guide about wikipedia namespace. I want to change namespaces from english to my language but I don't know how to do and where to start. Currently namespaces are not yet translated into my language look like http://km.wikipedia.org/w/query.php?what=namespaces

Namespace variable	Result (namespace name)
{{ns:-2}}	Media
{{ns:-1}}	Special
{{ns:2}}	User
{{ns:3}}	User talk
{{ns:6}}	File
{{ns:7}}	File talk
{{ns:8}}	MediaWiki
{{ns:9}}	MediaWiki talk
{{ns:10}}	Template
{{ns:11}}	Template talk
{{ns:12}}	Help
{{ns:13}}	Help talk
{{ns:14}}	Category
{{ns:15}}	Category talk

Can you guide me about these? Thank you very much for the best help. Best Reguards --Kiensvay 18:48, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you ...

... for sorting out the sysop/crat bit on testwiki. I kinda wasn't expecting that but it could be useful seeing as JtV has visited. Thanks again :) - Alison ^❤ 05:49, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

IP-talk

i am sorry but i don't know what u r talking about, i did not do anything --213.178.224.165 23:54, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Halló, the message on Your IP-user-talkpage is from 20. february 2008, very old. The user who had that IP before You made a testpage in the main namespace and therefore I left a kind hint not to do so. Don't worry about it. If You want to avoid sharing the talkpage with other users that might have the same IP as You sometimes please create an account.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 00:48, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Stewards / local community

Hello, as a steward I would appreciate your opinion here based on the available info on the page. Thank you. Санта Клаус 14:11, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

Thank you very much for granting me 3 months' access this time... much appreciated and even should thank you for inviting me for the cross-wiki coordination channel. Sorry for posting request at incorrect place, will remember it after 3 months, but can you tell me what would be the procedure to get a permanent access? or will I need to always come back at the expiry of existing access rights?--Dsvyas 11:25, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Np, I answer on Your talkpage, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 11:28, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

yes, I had recieved answer from thogo and even have replied to him. I even comveyed the same thing as for me it is important to have Admin access whether it is temporary or permanent, adn as in this case, extension was really evry quick. Must appreciate that. My only intenstion was to avoid this reminder if there is any way, but it seems that in our Gujarati community, people don't seem to be much interested in visiting talk page, and hence probably they don't know about any voting for Admin. Anyways, I am happy continuing as ongoing Temp Admin. Is there any way to list me on the page where other admins are listed? it would let users (if by any chance they do) know that I am an admin and they can contact me as well, as currently Users appraoch [gu:User:Spundan] for admin issues, who seems to be busy in real life.--Dsvyas 12:29, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Logo en Wiktionary euskaraz

Hola birdy! Siy un admin Aqui (mira sino) y como ese wiki tiene un logo ingles y no en vasco, queria pedir que pusierais esta imagen como logo, pues es este el que deveria estar:

Este es el logo

Como se que hay que pedir el permiso aqui peroi no se donde, e pensado que lo podrias pedir tu por mi. Gracias! Saludos de Bengoa (My user talk) 12:56, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Bale, pero como le cambio las dimensiones?--Bengoa (My user talk) 13:43, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Si porfavor, azlo por mi, pues no se como hacerlo, a, ya e bloqueado la imagen, pero solo para usuarios registrados o solo para administradores?--Bengoa (My user talk) 13:53, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

¿Pero tengo que borrar la imagen, o solo semipotegerla? Ahora la he semiprotegido, entonces los usuarios registrados pueden cambiarlo, entonces ¿ahora puedes? ¿o tengo que borrar la imagen?--Bengoa (My user talk) 12:49, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Por favor protegelo ahora de nuevo, ya he subido la versión correcta, saludos, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:56, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

bugzilla:13360, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 16:12, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Ya he protegido la imagen, ahora que hago, ¿espero?--Bengoa (My user talk) 16:32, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Sí, tenemos que esperar, ya he abierto el bugzilla:13360, saludos, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 16:49, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Translations

Hi Birdy, I got your message on my talk page regarding the correct link to translate system messages, I have been translating there already. And, please don't be under any impression that I had been translating for Jose777 to get Admin access, it was the other way round, in fact I translated an article for him and then without my knowledge he had created admin voting page, which definitely was my wish that he wasn't aware of. You can see that since I have been granted ADmin access, I have done a few more thaings than just translating and there was no agreement between me and jose for anything.--Dsvyas 13:11, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

I completely agree with you and happy to know that you are not under any impression. And must thank you for warning me for the nature of person. Thanks once again.I do agree that our project needs help in many facets, but I would never like to get that help in any such agreeements.--Dsvyas 13:31, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Semi-protect

Please semi-protect the following main pages :

• Thai Wikisource
• Thai Wiktionary
• Thai Wikibooks

These pages are not protected or semi-protected at all. Vandalism would occur easily. But please don't protect these main pages. Best Regards, Passawuth 13:28, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi Passawuth, I am confused, the links You gave here are leading to the projects itselves. Do You think the mainpages there should be semiprotected? Or did You mean a page on Meta? Thanks for the translations here btw. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 13:45, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Main pages on each project. (Just link to each main pages) :) Best Regards, Passawuth 13:47, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Hm, to be honnest I would not protect them unless something happens, because we try to remain as open as we can and to protect as few pages as we can, lots of good people also edit only as IPs, therefore on projects with smaller communities I would it only if vandalism occurs and maybe with a time limit. We do watch these projects, so vandalism will be noticed, or if there is anything urgent You come across, You can always come to #wikimedia-stewards^connect where help is provided usually very fast. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 14:03, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Alright. But, I don't have IRC and... is it compatible with Vista anyway ? --Passawuth 14:14, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

No problem, You could use the wikizine chat which works from the browser. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 14:17, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Image Background

Hi Birdy, Once again I am back, this time with two queries:

1. I just replicated some of the user templates on gu.wikipedia yesterday and realsied that the transperant background in .svg files become white. The same image in template in en.wikipedia has transparant background and not in gu.wikipedia. you can check them both at en:Template:User Hindu and gu:Template:User Hindu.
2. On en.wikipedia, template names are not case sensitive, while they are on gu.wikipedia. eg. in the above case, Template:User Hindu or Template:User hindu doesn't make any difference in search on english but in gujarati, it does.

I hope you can do something for this, or if I can do, let me know how. Thanks in advance for your help.--Dsvyas 12:01, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dsvyas,

ad.1.: The templates look exactly the same for me (except for the script :) ) no white background, both orange. Please try to clear Your cache.

ad.2.: You could move the name from upper to lower case: gu:Special:MovePage/Template:User_Hindu. Please note, that in en.wikipedia the link to en:Template:User Hindu does not work, only if You enter "Template:User Hindu" in the search. This works also in gu.wikipedia the other way round: if You enter "Template:User hindu" it leads You to "Template:User Hindu". If You just move the page You will have both links working.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:33, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for your quick response as always.. will come back with few more qestions soon...Dsvyas 12:52, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Sister project + Misc.

Hi Spacebirdy ,I'm just busying translating all day ! I have found a problem that cannot be resolved quickly and there are many things to ask you.

1. There's no Thai Wikiversity, which means that we don't yet have a Thai name for Wikiversity. In "Our projects" page, should I leave it as Wikiversity or spell in my native language ?
2. How can we create projects' names in my language ? Example : Wikibooks - I want it to have a proper in Laos (Please don't be confuse, I'm active on both Thai and Laos projects). The name will show on the tab bar (Title - "ວິກິພີເດຍ",description - like that). But I don't know how to do it. It's not just calling it, but have a proper Laos name. (The Laos Wikibooks haven't been created yet, but I just want to know how to do it.
3. On the sidebar, when I set my prefences to Thai, it became Thai only some parts. But other - are not. I translate on BetaWiki but I don't see how can I translate Wikimedia Meta sidebar. How can we translate ?
4. I am very worry about Navbox in Laos Wikipedia. There's no one to help me ! Mr.Pathoschild seems didn't see it and I don't know what to do anymore. I'm not an administrator and... I don't even know what to do apart from pasting scripts and CSS and create and use the template.
5. Do you know any Thai here at Meta ? The babel page was created not much long ago and seems that no one except me can speak Thai according to the category !

Best regards, Passawuth 13:20, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi Passawuth:

ad.1: If You want to create new projects You need to suggest this at Requests for new languages (see this page for instructions)

ad.2: If the project already exists and You want to change the project namespace name such as Wikibooks, You can ask for it at betawiki: (please note that these requests should be accepted by the community because it affects everyone). Other namespace names can directly be translated at betawiki:Special:Magic (also only in accordance with the local community)

ad.3: yes, this is because we have sidebar links here, which are not default and thus not included in the translation at betawiki; they can only be translated locally here on Meta. Should be no problem if You can make a list.

ad.4: who created the Monobook.js or Common.js on lo.wiki in the first place, it is a mess imho, I would ask them to fix it.

ad.5: No, to be honnest I do not visit userpages much, so I mostly don't know who is from where :)

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 13:53, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

RE: The one that create Common.js just copy straightly from English and translate "hide" and "show" into Laos.

Translation of sidebar

• ป้ายบอกทาง
  • หน้าหลัก
  • ศาลาประชาคม
  • เหตุการณ์ปัจจุบัน
  • การแปล
  • ปรับปรุงล่าสุด
  • สุ่มเนื้อหา
  • ช่วยเหลือ

• เว็บไซต์
  • พบปะชาววิกิพีเดีย
  • เหตุการณ์
  • สาขาทั่วโลก
  • ดีวีดี
  • วิกิมาเนีย
  • บริจาค

• ชุมชน
  • เมต้าผับ
  • บาเบล
  • บาบิลอน
  • แพลเน็ตวิกิมีเดีย
  • กลุ่มโครงการการสื่อสาร

That's that. Best regards, --Passawuth 14:44, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Sidebar should be all in th now, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:25, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

@navbox: I left lo:ສົນທະນາຂອງຜູ້ໃຊ້:Tuinui a message, it should work with the version I made on fo.ws. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 18:07, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so much ! It works at last ! (Note: I'm using internet cafe - cannot login) User:Passawuth --124.157.214.126 14:26, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Enabling Gujarati script in Search Box

Hi Birdy, This time, on gu.wiki on main page there is no tick box for selecting Gujarati lenguage, which makes it difficult to search the content. In [hi:wikipedia.org hindi page] it is by default hindi, I mean if you type any word in search box, it appears in hindi, and on [bn.wikipedia.org Bengali] main page there is a virtual key board allowing users to type key words. Can we have a combination of both of these? as default gujarati will definiately help, but sometimes new users are not aware of certian sopecial charecter's use, in this case virtual keyboard could help. Will really appreciate your help in this. gu:User:Dsvyas--Dsvyas 15:11, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Hello, please give me some time for this, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:26, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a Lot Birdy. Hope once done, this will really help users there. It seems I am in right hands now....gu:User talk:Dsvyas--Dsvyas 15:41, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

hm, do You remember a Wikipedia where there is a checkbox for the search field, in bn.wiki there is not, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:45, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

I am sorry, I think I had made a wrong start of my query. Please disregard that part where I have mentioned about checkbox. My only purpose is to have gujarati typing enabled on the main page, and especially in search box as its on hi.wiki, and the virtual keyboard that I had mentioned about on bn.wiki was my mistake, its not a virtual keyboard, but it seems to be index. But can we by any chance have virtual keyboard or anything of that kind (though I am not aware of seeing it anywhere). Hope this time I could make it a bit more clear....gu:User talk:Dsvyas--Dhaval 18:07, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot once again, and sorry for the delay in getting back to you. I must appreciate your efforts, I will try modifying the nepalitranslit.js and creating translit.js on gu.wiki. Will revert back to you in case there is any difficulty.--Dhaval 09:45, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi Birdy, I have started modification into the gu:MediaWiki:Translit.js and updated the link of it in the gu:MediaWiki:Monobook.js, but to my surprise, the search is still not enabled in Gujarati script. Can you please have a look at both of them and advise if I have done any mistake?...gu:User:Dsvyas --Dhaval 15:10, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dsvyas, there were some errors in Your script, please see this page for a corrected version. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:54, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Treid this as well, but no luck. Can you pelase check whether the script in gu:MediaWiki:Monobook.js also contains any errors in it?--Dhaval 16:13, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Should work now :) Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 16:52, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a Million! It is working indeed. Can you tell me what did you do? as I think I hadn't even completed modifying the gu:MediaWiki:Translit.js and still all the alphabets in gu scripts are working in search box. (I just checked your comment in the script, will check that version adn if needed update/localise it).--Dhaval 18:12, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

By searching the Monobook.js for errors I found out that there was already a translit.js script ready (but it is on another wikipedia, namely new.wiki: new:MediaWiki:translitguj.js) so I chose to use that, this edit explains what I did, I set the variable "realtime" from false to true, which lets You insert the script without using the checkbox first. I also found a function that was doubled and removed it and left some text for You there which explains what You can do if You want translit.js localized. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 18:18, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

what do I do?

do I just upload 'my' logo, do I just upload it on Commons? LB22 20:27, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Misspelling

I found the word in Thai misspelled in Wikisource Multilingual Page. It misspelled only one letter ! So from "ห้องสมุดเสร", do you have an access to change to "ห้องสมุดเสรี" instead ? Best regards, Passawuth 11:58, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Well, I can't change the site name in Betawiki according to this reply. If you are have SVN Access, maybe I can get what I wish for. Best regards, Passawuth 12:01, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

@wikisource, I let them know.

@sitenames: well if this is so, this has to be requested at bugzilla:

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:08, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm not quite sure and er... I'm not good at reporting bugs. I think that is not namespace and something more complicate than that. Best regards, Passawuth 12:25, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

see pls oldwikisource:Talk:Main Page#error:th, -jkb- 12:28, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

@-jkb-, thanks

@Passawuth: could You explain what exactly has to be change to what, maybe we can work it out,

best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:29, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

What is your e-mail ? Can I send you screenshot there ? It's hard to explain --Passawuth 13:05, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I think it would be no problem to upload a screenshot here, just leave out the logos, then it is no problem, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 13:29, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Rename

Hello, could you rename my account to Texcarson here, on the english wikipedia, and simple wikipedia as well? I have been renamed on the spanish wikipedia and commons so far, and am waiting to be renamed on it.wikipedia as well. Thanks Raffaello9 19:31, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Hello, You already found the appropriate place for it here on Meta. Meta:Changing username. Please be patient, until a local bureaucrat gets to it.

En.wikipedia and Simple.wikipedia have also enough local bureaucrats to do that on their own, You have to make the requests there locally, thanks for Your understanding, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 19:33, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

hun Wikinews

When will start the hungarian wikinews?--Numero 20:14, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Possibly of interest

& hope all is ok with you. Came across this. Looks a bit like a vandal bot of some sort? May be of interest to you (or other who happen to be watching :)). Regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 08:19, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

And related to the above this bears a strong resemblance? Still think it is some sort of bot type editing. If I can help do let me know - regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:49, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Reported & thanks, enjoy the weekend --Herby ^{talk thyme} 14:44, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

How to Rename/Redirect a Category?

Hi Birdy, i am not going to leave you alone..:) here I am again, Can you please tell me how to rename or redirect a category? There is one category on gu.wiki which has got an incorrect spelling, I want to correct it, but can't find 'Change Name' option there. is there any special tool for this? or I'll have to request you to do so with both, incorrect and correct, spellings?--Dhaval 18:18, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

You can't rename a category, You have to make a new one and correcting the names in the pages which are sorted in the category, this can be done fast and easy with the pywikipediabot: category.py. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 18:20, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank You Very Much.--Dhaval 18:37, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Need help

Hi, Spacebirdy. Today I don't have much time to get a snapshot for you because of homework. I need 3 helps :

• User:WhiteCat request his bot to be granted at this page. You're steward so there should be no problem granting this bot.
• Bot waited to be granted are increasing in Laos Wikipedia. Please granted them as well.
• Please see recentchanges on Thai Wikisource. There are few spambot's operating on there. Please delete the article that they created while I'm reporting this to Drini. Best regards, Passawuth 13:40, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

@bots: Please post the requests, if they are accepted by the local projects, on Requests for bot status.

@spambots: there is much spambot-activity cross-wiki recently, thanks for reporting, it seems the local sysop is not available and I have not seen Drini for some days, so I will delete those pages, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 14:06, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Hello.

Hello there. No offence, but why are you following me all over wikipedia?

Dancinfool610 03:40, 21 March 2008 (UTC)dancinfool610

Answered on Your talk. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 03:49, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry. I didn't know I was causing trouble. I wanted to expand the article, that's all. And, I do not know most of the languages. That is why I leave them blank.

Dancinfool610 03:50, 21 March 2008 (UTC)dancinfool610

To tell you the truth, I'm no longer welcome on the commons page. That is why I can't upload pictures there.

Dancinfool610 04:02, 21 March 2008 (UTC)dancinfool610

Here it is !

On the tab, in French Wiktionary it appears "Wiktionnaire" but on Thai Wiktionary it just appears "Wiktionary" --Passawuth 15:31, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes, that seems to be the namespaces, if the project namespace is changed it shows that also in the tab, but please note, that changing the project namespace from "Wiktionary" would not only affect the tab names but also the namespace itself and the links to it such as [[Wiktionary:...]] but the latter can be set as fallback. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:56, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Sie bitte use more simpler Englisch words. So, can I change it or not ? :) --Passawuth 10:13, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, simple answer: yes.

I just saw on th.wiki the project namespace ("Wikipedia") has been changed to Thai (example: [12] here You see the tab in th).

Please compare: th:แม่แบบ:Wikivar and wikt:th:แม่แบบ:wikivar, here You can see the namespace names. {{ns:Project}} is not translated in th.wiktionary. If You want it translated please make sure, the community agrees. As soon as You found a good translation this has to be requested at bugzilla. I can help You with that.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 11:46, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Pas de probleme ! The name is agree in all Thai Wikimedia projects, "วิกิพจนานุกรม" , and the proof is this page, was created by Thai administrator. Also, you can find the word "วิกิพจนานุกรม" everywhere in Thai Wiktionary - it was agreed before I know Wikipedia ! And sorry sir, you're misunderstanding, I don't want to change the project namespaces, but want to change the {{SITENAME}}. Best regards, --Passawuth 15:55, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

But {{SITENAME}} is taken from the project namespace name.

If the project namespace is "Wiktionary" {{SITENAME}} gives "Wiktionary", if the project namespace is "วิกิพจนานุกรม" {{SITENAME}} gives "วิกิพจนานุกรม" ;(

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 22:34, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

I was just talking to Siebrand and Nikerabbit, they told me about mw:Manual:$wgMetaNamespace, but still I think it sounds quite confusing to have {{SITENAME}} being different from the actual working project namespace.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 22:55, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

it:Immagine:LisaGerrardParis07.jpg

Hi! ;) Could you please explain a bit better the deleting reasons? Thanks! --Lucas 16:09, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I answered on Your talk, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 16:18, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Ok, deleted! Thanks a lot ;). --Lucas 16:46, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Danke…

Blumen für Spacebirdy – für den Einsatz in de.wikinews

… wollte ich mal kurz sagen – für's Aufpassen bei de.wikinews. :-) Viele Grüße --Angela H. 19:43, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Du hast Post… ;-) Nun kann ich schon wieder „Danke“ sagen. Da habe ich Dir heute mal wenigstens ein paar Blumen mitgebracht. Vielleicht freust Du Dich ja… Viele Grüße --Angela H. 11:16, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

vkvora2001 का सच ढोल

हीन्दी वीकीपीडीया के उपरसे http://hi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B7:Contributions&limit=500&target=124.124.36.4

अंग्रेजी वीकीपीडीया के उपरसे http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/124.124.36.4

उपरकी दो लीन्क देखें ।

आपका कर्तव्य होता है की राजीव मास ने रवी जैन नामका डमी खाता खोलकर वीकीपीडीया तथा व्हीकेव्होरा को कीतना नुकशान किया है इसका हीसाब करें । 59.184.178.162 21:28, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't have a clue what You are talking about, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 21:29, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Rajiv Mass Administrator and hi dummy account Ravi Jain

The above account has damaged hi.wikipedia.org.

Regards vkvora. 59.184.178.162 21:52, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Please can You be more specific, I see, that You with this IP range are inserting the same text on lots of pages, which looks like vandalism to me. I will investigate further, but I ask You to not copy and paste the same text on every page, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 22:00, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

The frist link is on hindi wikipedia where Rajiv mass is editing on Ravi Jain.

The Second Link is on English wikipeda where Rajiv Mass is editing on his web sight of MASS.

Dummy Account of Rajiv Mass as Ravin Jain has posted on Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi and English wikipedia with personal damage and on hindi wikipedia. Vkvora2001 16:08, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

User language box translation

Hello Spacebirdy. Thank you very much for translating {{user language}}. The template has recently been changed to add two new levels, 0 and 4 (see detailed descriptions). Please update Template:User language/de:

• 0: this user cannot read or write Deutsch.
• 4: this user can contribute at a near-native level in Deutsch. —{admin} Pathoschild 22:42:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the info, I updated also the is-version, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 22:54, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. :) —{admin} Pathoschild 23:20:10, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

ik.wiktionary

Can you please recreate ik:wiktionary:Main Page and protect it? The spambots have been doing their thing there, and I think there was a proper main page before they started vandalizing it in late November 2007. --Jorunn 09:18, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

done, thank You, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:55, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

roa-rup.wiktionary

roa-rup:wikt:Prota frãndzã (the main page) is also on the list of the spambots, and it would be good if it was protected. --Jorunn 09:26, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

asked DerHexer to do it, because he is already sysop there, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:55, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

mh.wiktionary

The mh:wikitioary:Main Page main page hasn't been vandalised by the spambots since early December 2007, but it will probably still be good if it was protected against edits from IPs. The spambots have created mh:wikt:Talk:Main Page and mh:wikti:Wiktionary:Administrators recently. --Jorunn 09:34, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

asked DerHexer to do it, because he is already sysop there, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:55, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

my.wikibooks

my.wikibooks ဗဟုိစာမ္ယက္‌န္ဟာ (the main page) gets vandalised by the spambots, and should probably be protected against edits from IPs. --Jorunn 09:38, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

asked DerHexer to do it, because he is already sysop there, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:55, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

ha.wiktionary

ha.wikt Main Page is also a target for the spambots. Please protect it against edits from IPs. --Jorunn 09:43, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

done, thank You, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:55, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

request

Merhaba, Metal Militia, please could You rename the vandal Özel:Contributions/Herbythyme, he is an impostor of an existing and well respected sysop on Commons, Meta and en.wiki. Please click here for renaming. Please feel free to contact me if You have any questions, many thanks in advance, best regards, --uzaykuşu _{(:> )=|} 12:12, 25 Mart 2008 (UTC)

Merhaba Spacebirdy, thank you very much for the info. Upon your request, I did a quick check on user's history of contributions, and no surprise (!), nothing but vandalism here as well. I will rename the user as you suggested in your message, and ban his account infinitely. Cheers, --Metal Militia 12:44, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Spambot

We are facing the problem : There are four times on Laos Wiktionary that spambot keeps adding nonsense texts to this page which was originally create by a spambot. If you can delete the article, protect the title, and block them, I shall be very grateful. I wonder if there is any bot to find spambot and automatically report to Drini, and the bot that automatically check the suspect list and then report the bot who will block them ! :) If it has then all wikis would be secure from the spambot :D

Another thing, do you know what administrator Level 3 is ? Mit freundlichen Grüßen (Lassen Sie uns versuchen auf Deutsch!), --Passawuth 12:56, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

@spambots, I handed the page to DerHexer, who already is sysop there.

@another thing: I don't know, in which context?

(nice German) Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 13:01, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Es.wikiquote.org

Thanks! (garber)--85.57.210.147 13:13, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Es.wikiquote.org

please other IP 69.79.44.129 in [13] I am sorry , but i dont speak englis. My name is garber --85.57.210.147 14:01, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Gracias.

Yo tampoco XD Un saludo, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 14:03, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

System Messages

Hi Birdy, I was translating some of the system messages here today and after completing them I noticed that the messages that I had translated or changed the translations still appear in Gujarati unchanged. There is one more local file for system messages here, which I think is being used at the moment for messages on gu.wiki, can you advise whether I can change the path of this so that will ahve to translate the messages at only one place.--Dhaval 16:20, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dsvyas, thanks for all the translations! :)

Don't worry You don't see them yet, it takes a bit until You can see them in the wiki... To speed it up You could ask for committing them in betawiki:Translating:Tasks. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 16:50, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your as usual quick response, I have requested for committing them at betawiki:Translating:Tasks, lets see whether it's as you mentioned just a matter of time or somethign else. Because I could see the changed texts immidiately on Betawiki:, but not on gu.wiki. Anyways, thanks once again.--Dhaval 17:02, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes, it is normal to see the text immediately on betawiki but not on the project because the developers there, like Siebrand or Nikerabbit have to include the translations made there to work globally. They should work soon, :) Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 18:03, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Gracias

Por tu ayuda en Wikiquote en español, creo que hablo por toda la comundad de dicho proyecto --Aldo Cazzulino 555 18:19, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

No hay de que, es un placer ayudaros, saludos --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 21:44, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Herbythyme

Hallo ! ich verstehe nicht ganz, wofür nützlich ist, die Name solches Benutzers wie Herbythyme ändern. Wird das ihm vandalisieren verhindern ? Erkläre mir bitte, dann mache ich das, wenn ich verstehe. Antworte, bitte nach deinem Gesuch. Arno Lagrange ✉ 18:40, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Alles klar : ich habe den Benutzer anders genannt eo:Vikipediisto:Blokita konta Arno Lagrange ✉ 19:41, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

My pictures.

No, they were not "made on my computer screen" as you mentioned on the Russian Wikipedia. They were taken with my camera. Yes, the pictures was not good quality, but that does not mean they were "copyvios".

Please stop accusing me of uploading "copyvio" photos. Thanks.

Glitter1959 21:26, 25 March 2008 (UTC)Glitter1959

Please stop uploading them cross-wiki, some of them have been confirmed derived work and this is not allowed, sort out Your problems with commons and only upload there. The images everywhere else will be deleted and You blocked if You continue with this, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 21:27, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

I do upload them there, but they always end up deleted. This user User: Bryan has been stalking me all over on the commons, and find stupid reasons to delete them because of some "vendetta" he has over me for some reason.

Glitter1959 21:33, 25 March 2008 (UTC)Glitter1959

I really doubt anyone is ever stalking You, no one is interested in You specifically. Going around the deletions on commons by uploading the images cross-wiki instead of sorting out the problems at commons, sorry to say, is vandalism, also creating multiple accounts for uploading deleted images.

There is a irc channel #wikimedia-commons^connect where You can try to talk to admins there.

Please don't delete text from my talkpage, thanks for Your understanding, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 21:37, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Also what I tried to say to You many times, creating empty pages or pages in English in non-English wikis is also vandalism, it does not help us to have a empty page in an encyclopedia, thanks for Your understanding, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 21:38, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

So, I can't upload my photos anymore?

I'm sorry for deleting stuff. I'm just really frustrated over the fact that some of the admin hates me for some reason, and they make up bogus excuses just to have me blocked. And, if it's not stalking, then what is it?

Thanks for your help with this.

Glitter1959 21:45, 25 March 2008 (UTC)Glitter1959

No, please don't upload them, I ask You to sort it out with commons and upload only there.

It is not stalking, people are watching the projects and trying to keep them running smoothly. You came into my sight because You did some cross-wiki things and I am monitoring smaller projects cross-wiki. It has nothing to do with You personally I can assure You there are other people I am dealing with daily.

However it is nice that You contacted me, I hope You will now stop the uploads on the local wikis and I hope this can be sorted out with the commons guys.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 21:50, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

I didn't mean to disrupt the cross-wiki. I did make some of the pages blank, but not all of them. I guess that was wrong as well.

Ohh, I know it was nothing personal against me. I just wanted to know what was going on.

PS: I'm female.

Glitter1959 03:30, 26 March 2008 (UTC)Glitter1959

Merge Accounts

Thanks for the lightning-fast response to my request ! Best. -- Bokken 13:14, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

De rien, mes amitiés, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 13:19, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Alphabet Source

Hi Birdy, can you tell me where the source of alphabets for main wiki is located? Let me be more clear, in gu.wiki we face a piccular problem, the letters 'v' and 'w' sounds the same, and V is more common to use for pronounciations of a specific letter in Gujarati. But when we use 'v' somehow the gujarati alphabet typed on screen is the one that as bh, this seems to be some problem somewhere. Can you tell me where can i correct this? is it gu:MediaWiki:Translit.js or new:MediaWiki:translitguj.js by anychance where I can correct the associated gujarati letter?--Dhaval 16:30, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dsvyas, I don't quite understand the question, do You mean the sortorder in the categories? Or which character is taken for that realtime input in the searchfield? For the latter I think it is defined in that javascript, example given: some code from there:

,"i":"इ","I":"ई",

defines i as इ, I as ई

If You wanted v as something else than search for v in that js, actually "V":"व्" and "v":"व्" and change it to something else, but the replaced characters should then be assigned to another key.

If I missunderstood You totally, please just explain to me again :)

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 23:20, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi Birdy, Thanks for your reply. Let me make it more clear, this time I am not talking about the search field, this happens everywhere in gu.wiki, say for an example, If I am creating a new article and have to write વરખ I should be typing varakha, but if I use 'v' there, it does type it as ભરખ

"v":"ભ્","V":"વ્","w":"વ્","W":"વ્" 

which should be

"v":"વ્","V":"વ્","w":"વ્","W":"વ્" 

as you have mentioned that the replaced characters should then be assigned to another key, ભ્ is already assigned to key strokes 'bh', so it shouldn't create any problem.

but my whole point here is that, whether the above menitoned files are the ones which even bring charecters while editing or creating a apge? if not, where would I need to change it? Regards--Dhaval 09:25, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes, of course, this is because the Translit.js is used for the edit window and also for the search, right now v is assigned to that character. So if You change something in the javascript it affects everything.

So either You ask in new:मिडियाविकि:Translitguj.js for changing it or You modify it in gu:MediaWiki:Translit.js completing it and changing the address from new to gu in gu:MediaWiki:Monobook.js.

Maybe better the last suggestion, because then You can correct things directly and assign every character to wich key You think it should go. Maybe letting new.wiki know that v should be another character would be nice though.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 10:34, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Birdy, you area jewel, I wish to give you a barnstar, bnut has seens a message of yours in response to someone's giving you a bardnstar, and You are right as well, that whats the use of Barnstar for a birdy, you deserve a Real Star, in fact you are a star yourself. I even feel the later suggestion is better, I have almost modified 70% of gu:MediaWiki:Translit.js will finsih the tast ASAP and then change gu:MediaWiki:Monobook.js accordingly, by doing so, I will have a full control for any descripencies that happen in future as well. Thanks once again for your quicker than quickest reply :)--Dhaval 10:41, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Thank You for Your kind words :) --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 11:01, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Probelmas en es.wikiquote.org

Hola soy garber, y seguiimos teniendo problemas con 190.159.10.141. [14]--85.57.210.147 15:00, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Muchas gracias ;-)--85.57.210.147 15:03, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

De nada, gracias por tus reversiones, veo que no queda nada que revertir XD. Dejo las páginas que borrar para los administradores regulares, porque no es urgente. Saludos, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:05, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Final Help

Hi Birdy, I am a useless person, please pardon me. I did modify gu:MediaWiki:Translit.js and even committed changes in gu:MediaWiki:Monobook.js but after removing the link for new:MediaWiki:Translitguj.js from monobok.js when i try to edit or type anything in gu.wiki it brings up script error message and asks to debug. While debugging, I noticed that the first message appears is

An exception of type 'Microsoft JScript Compilation error:Expected '}" was not handled.

and then when I go and see the debugged file, it highlights the below:

function getConversionHash() {
	if (conversionHash == undefined) {
		conversionHash = eval("("+amhaHash+")");
		 maxcyrlength=6;

In which third line is highlighted. I checked compared the translit.js with translitguj.js thoroughly, but couldn't Identify any missing }. I don't have any programming background, so need your help. Hope you would be readily able to pick the mistake and help me correct it. Regards.--Dhaval 11:12, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dsvyas, You just forgot one " see [15], s:fo:Brúkari:Spacebirdy/translit.js works fine now, it is a 1:1 Copy from gu:MediaWiki:Translit.js but only with a " more for "h":"હ્"

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 13:31, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Hey Birdy, YOU ARE GENIUS, YOU ARE GEM. I did miss that " and not only missed to type, missed to search as well. Now, after correcting it, now all my problems are solved. I will always remain indebted for your helps and support. There are many more to come, please let me knwo if you feel I am unnecessarily bothering you for small small things. And do not hasitate in asking me for any help you need (stupid offer isn;t it, how can the one help who always himself is in need of help...)..--Dhaval 13:58, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dsvyas, welcome, and don't worry :) --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 20:25, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Spambot again

I found mostly spambot which write the same kind of messages "Nice site dude" "Nice site thx" "it's nice site" all the time. I'm getting boring of it : ([16]) The title was locked so they chose the talk page. Can you please also make sure you protect the talk page, too and delete that article when I'm reporting in User:Drini/daylog ? Danke ! --Passawuth 11:19, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for reporting. I protected it, I fear they will find another target ;( Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 13:40, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Is our site "too nice" so our site is the target ? :D --Passawuth 13:55, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

import right

Hallo Spacebirdy,
kannst du als Stewardess eigentlich auch Import-Rechte setzen (temporär)? Wir werden nämlich im Alemannischen das Wiktionary & Co. mit der Wikipedia verschmelzen, muss aber GFDL-konform geschehen, drum... Wenn ich das bei Bugzilla beantrage können wir eventuell 3 Jahre darauf warten ;-) Dort geht's entweder recht schnell oder man wird schier wahnsinnig vom Warten; sehr hinderlich. Über Meta ginge es auf jedenfall schnell, darum meine Frage. --- MfG, Melancholie 14:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Jup, klar, bitte kannst Du eine kurze Nachricht in Requests_for_permissions#Miscellaneous_requests hinterlassen :) Das geht dann ganz flott :) LG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 14:17, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

ga.wiki

Yep, Keilana-en is me, would you mind just doing a rename on the wikt. vandal; it'll be sorted when I do the merge. Thanks. :) Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 20:11, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Done, thanks for the notice, please, if You need other renames on wikis without bureaucrats see Steward requests/Username changes, thanks, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 20:19, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks very much. ga.wikipedia is the last one, I think. :) No more impostors, yay! Keilana|^{Parlez ici} 20:35, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

:) \o/ --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 20:37, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Blackwatch21

I understand deleting the subpage ones because i copied them from my Wikipedia page. --Blackwatch21 22:08, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

It does not matter if my userboxes are off-topic. As long as they are not breaking rules. What did before was perfectly fine with me but getting rid of something just because it is off topic is vandalism.--Blackwatch21 22:17, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

This is a subpage:{{User:Blackwatch21|User american}}.
This is not: {{user american}}. Just because it says user doesn't mean it is a subpage.--Blackwatch21 22:22, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Clearing my name.

Hi. I've been notified that I was a suspect of "vandalism". Please explain all of this, because I don't remember "vandalizing" anything. Thanks for your time.

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sonya the photographer (talk) diff (UTC)

Hi Sonya, I do not call You a vandal or anything like it. I am a bit dissapointed though, I thouhgt You understand, that it is really not acceptable to have English or empty pages in non-English Wikipedias. Imagine You bought a book in English and every second page is either empty or in a language You don't understand...

I like Enya too, a lot actually, she is a positive person. I don't like seeing superstubs in English about her in lots of other language-Wikipediae.

I was hopeing You would understand and am sorry to find out You do not.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 07:55, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Hi again. I don't have the slightest clue what you are talking about. I was implying about my photos being under "suspicion". And, I just wanted to clear my name on that one. There is nothing "suspicious" about my photos. I'm not a "spammer" or anything like that. Again, kindly explain about the "Enya" page? Thanks again.

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sonya the photographer (talk) diff (UTC)

Hi, don't play games with me here,

I know You have made the Enya articles cross-wiki, just like the Lisa Gerrard ones. You get now one last chance from me: Chose one accountname here, the other 2 I will close & stop the cross-wiki creation of English articles, thanks.

--birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 17:52, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Closed the other two. I have no idea why You are doing this, You are doing Your idols no favor, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:41, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello once again. I'm not playing games with anyone. I still do not know what you are talking about. O_o I was reffering to your report here But, whatever gets my name off your suspicion list, I'll follow your advice (even though, I do not know what you are saying). Thanks again for your time.

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sonya the photographer (talk) diff (UTC)

Hoi, please sign discussions with --~~~~

I don't like people not being honest. As You can see in the vandalism report the IP address added lots of empty or English pages in non-English Wikipediae, so did the other accounts, some are not yet listed there.

You should know that we can see which users are behind accounts if there is vandalism, which there was. It is senseless to deny that, because we know.

As stated above I did close the other two of You here already, namely Glitter1959 and Dancinfool610.

Also I would like to add, that there can be no clearing of Your name since You did not stop with adding those English/or empty articles cross-wiki.

I was hoping that You would understand after I did really try to explain to You several times why that can't be accepted, and I am seriously disappointed in Your behaviour.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 00:51, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

(Oh right. I keep on forgetting to sign my name. Heh.) But anyways, I did some reserching about the "cross-wiki vandals", and I think it's a big misunderstanding. You think I am on the same IP address as the vandal, right? It's not me on the same IP address. This is my own IP on my computer. I am being honest, and hoping you believe I am not the vandal you are investigating. Hope this clears up this whole investigation. Have a good night, Sonya the photographer 01:28, 6 April 2008 (UTC)Sonya_the_photographer

There is no missunderstanding. As I said, I do not think I do know and I will not give You details about the how.

But I do not even mind if You don't admit that here, that is not my point. The point is the cross-wiki adding of these articles, which has not stopped even after our last conversation, where I thought You had understood that it is not acceptable to do that.

Additionally I do not believe You that all photos (if any) are Yours because I have found some of Your uploads on copyrighted internet-sites.

I doubt that I have any further to add to this matter.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 01:40, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

You may think I'm the vandals "Glitter1959" and "dancinfool610", I'm only saying that I am not the people you are mentioning. I do not vandal pages. I do not do that. As for the photos, I only have 1 account on flickr, and that is the "Sonya_the_photographer" of the same name. That is all. Now, you beleive me? Sonya the photographer 01:54, 6 April 2008 (UTC)Sonya_the_photographer

No, she doesn't believe you now. You're toast. -- Thekohser 14:43, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

This is not a matter of believe. Please be so kind and try to not disrupt, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:05, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Name in Commons

Hola, mi nombre es Astur(verify) y soy usuariu de la Wikipedia en Asturiano Asturian Uiquipedia. Mi nombre en Commons es Astur1 (verify) porque no puedo registrame como Astur. Hubo un error al registrar y ahora no puedo usar ese nombre. El usuario Astur de Commons no tiene ninguna contribución. Puedes arreglar esto para que pueda registrarme como Astur?. O sea Astur1---->Astur Un saludo --Astur 21:22, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Hola, no puedo renombrar cuentas en commons, no soy burocrata allí. Además, porque ya activaste SUL, no se puede renombrarte a este nombre por el bug 13507.

Tienes que esperar hasta que resolverán este problema. Luego por favor pregunta un burocrata en commons a renombrarte.

Un saludo, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 21:31, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

For explaining. I found it very puzzling why I would be reverted with a static message. If you had just said, "please let Sr13 edit his own user page" I wouldn't have responded back like I did. Cassandra

Blackwatch21

All the images I have uploaded are free licensed so they can be used for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law. If you don't believe me look for yourself: Soccer Ball [17]
WikiProject Halo logo [18]
I am going to contact another admin because of this dispute. --Blackwatch21 18:39, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Yes, please do, Special:Listusers/sysop. The images are on Commons now where they belonged in the first place...

For the record: Special:DeletedContributions/Blackwatch21

--birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 18:42, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

I agree with Spacebirdy. Meta is not just for any old images. Please upload free images to Commons. Thanks, Majorly (talk) 19:17, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Auto numbering in Gujarati script

Hi Birdy, Here I am back.. I wanted to know whether is there anyway to enable Gujarati numbering system for Autonumbering? I mean, when we use hash (#) sign for autonumbering, wiki inserts numbers in english scripts, while we already haev Gujarati numbers corresponding the roman scripts. Will I need to translate the numbers on translate.wiki somewhere or its a modification of script somewhere like monobook.js?--Dhaval 12:04, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dsvyas, I understand what You mean, but I am really sorry, I asked the betawiki developers and they told me, that, these numbers are not generated by the wikimedia-software but by the browsers, therefore can only be fixed by the browser developers.

I can't think of a workaround but to insert the numbers by hand :( :૧. and so on :(

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:34, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for your as usual quicker then quickest reply, I am really disapointed to knwo this, but if its not in our hands, what else we can do. I would prefer to see english numbers rather than inserting them by hands. Thanks once again and will be back soon with another one.:)--Dhaval 12:52, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Upload File Link

Hi, as I promised, I am back. :), I noticed that for last sometime the link to 'Upload File' on Navigation Bar (left) is leading to this article instead of the form to upload file. I checked in monobook.js but couldn't find any link there for either of these. Can you reckon where this have been gone missing?--Dhaval 15:36, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dsvyas, that was fast XD

Please have a look at gu:MediaWiki:Common.js, this line

cument.getElementById("t-upload").getElementsByTagName("a")[0].href = wgArticlePath.replace("$1", "Wikipedia:Upload")

there should be modified to, perhaps:

cument.getElementById("t-upload").getElementsByTagName("a")[0].href = wgArticlePath.replace("$1", "Special:Upload")

But I encourage You and the community there to use that seldom but instead to upload images to commons: because then the images can be used everywhere also the admins there have a much better experience in licences etc.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 16:39, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Birdy, I agree with you for uploading images on Commons, I even tried doing so, but the problem arrises with 'limited use' images, In fact, I had to copy some of the images from commons to gu.wiki, as I couldn't embed images by just typing the file name. Only those images work wchich are marked in public domain. If there is any other way to add images apart from Image:Filename.jpg do let me know.--Dhaval 16:44, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh, which images did not work, they should all.

Commons takes images not only with the public domain licence but also other free licences such as GFDL, cc-by-sa, etc.

As for the unfree images I would like to point You to this message by Timichal, which is affecting 1:1 gu.wiki too.

I do not quite understand the question: If there is any other way to add images apart from Image:Filename.jpg do let me know

(I normally just copy the image name from commons and putt [[]] around it, example: [[Image:Rauðbeyki-Fagus sylvatica-1a 02.jpg]])

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 16:52, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh Birdy, there are many Images that didn't work, I uploaded a few last week in commons, and tried to link them for our local POTD, but only one that I had assigned to public domain worked adn others I had to import in gu.wiki as well. to give you a fresh example, I uploaded this and have a link for the image with exactly the same name and exactly as what you have been doing and what I have been doing for other pages on this article on Saputara in gu.wiki. You can see yourself how the image is shown there. Sorry, it worked in this instance, will let you know a specific example where I fail.--Dhaval 22:00, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Ah, now I see the problem, the images that did not work might have been deleted, please always give the licence and source for that image, there is a template when You upload which You can simply fill out.

This is one of the reasons why images should go to commons: they check if they are licenced correctly, if they aren't they are problematic because could be a copyright violation and thuss harming the Wikimedia-Foundation.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 22:23, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Birdy, No I am sure the problem with those images not being displayed in gu.wiki was not at all with their being deleted from commons, they are still there. Now I think that the problem I was facing was especially when I was creating the Potd templates. Is it possible that the images from commons will play around if you make templates using them (depending upon their licencing)? I must get back to you with a specific example next time I face it.

I agree with you fully that the images should be uploaded on commons, and the most imporatant reason for that is in gu.wiki there is no licensing options while uploading the images. In this case, would you agree with me to Link commons: with 'Upload file' on gu?--Dhaval 11:58, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, sorry, I somehow missed this answer. Please can You give an example of such an image. I have never heard of something like it. I could only think about an svg-file whith an error in the xml, then the image is sometimes not shown.

Yes, I personally would link to commons with the upload link. Please see also the alternatives in my answer below, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 01:46, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

April 2008

Thanks for leaving me that message it wasnt at all helpful; it wasnt a test edit i was trying to change my user name. While im here can you please request my user name to be changed to anything other than this IP address. You must'nt be that busy in real life seeing as saw my "test edit" Thank you --81.104.241.139 17:19, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry but this can't be taken serious, it is not possible to "rename" You from an IP address. You have to create an account. Also the English-language-Wikipedia has enough bureaucrats to rename users... Since You pasted that strange thing even in an redirect, i saw that as "test edit".

So what do You exactly want, being renamed? Where, from which username to which username. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 17:22, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, in response to Your question, it is not possible to move edits of an IP to an account. Please create an account Special:Userlogin if You don't want that Your IP is seen by others. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:23, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Enable Laos in the text box

I have found the problem, that many Laos are using Windows XP, which does not have Laos Keyboard support even they have Laos Unicode Support - they can't type Laos. Actually, not many people in Laos are using computer. Most of them that have chance to use computer use XP. In Gujarati Wikipedia, we can type Gujarati in the text box. What will I have to do to enable it as well ? (in details) Best regards --Passawuth 10:58, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Passawuth, You will need a JavaScript like gu:MediaWiki:Translit.js (You can start creating one in lo:User:Passawuth/translit.js) and then need to ask the admin to add the script in lo:ຜູ້ໃຊ້:Spacebirdy/monobook.js in the lo:MediaWiki:Monobook.js (You can try first in lo:User:Passawuth/monobook.js until it works)

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:28, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for late reply, I was busy. I now cancel doing it because it is harder than I think and it is quite complicated. But can you tell me why the Indian Wikipedias need to have these ? --Passawuth 09:39, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Apologies

I meant to get back to it & fix it so that you still had the message but something came up, regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:29, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Dear Herby, please do not worry, I know how it is, as soon as You come to wiki there are like 100.000 things to do :)

Best regards, and thanks for being watchful, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:37, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry. I just figured it would be ok if I help with the requests, but I will not sysop/bureaucrat anymore unless requested by a Steward. Does that sound ok? Maximillion Pegasus 02:41, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for Your message. I understood in the request You needed the cratship for testing the interface, which is why it was granted by the local crat, as You are giving out rights I removed it precautionary. I would like You to talk to Kylu in testwiki as she is bureaucrat there and please sort this out with her. I ask You to be careful with giving out rights or better dont give them out at all until sul is available for all or if the user is confirmed a sysop in another wmf-wiki. Thanks for Your understanding, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 02:47, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Ok, thanks for your help in this situation. Cheers. Maximillion Pegasus 02:59, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Special:Allpages

Hi Birdy, This time a new kind of question. While performing search on gu:Special:Allpages like gu:Special:Allpages/અ it should as such only list pages that start with alphabet અ, but it lists all the pages starting with this letter and all the letters in the alphabet thereafter. Now this is the first alphabet of our Gujarati script, so ultimately it lists all the pages there are on gu.wiki. Similarly if I perform search for gu:Special:Allpages/ક, it will ommit pages between અ and ક, ann list remaining pages, i.e. all the one that start with letter ક and remaining. where અ is a firlst vowel and hence first letter of the alphabet, while ક is the first consonant, which follows the vowels in alphabets. Can you please advise whether these is any problem with gu:Special:Allpages because I haev introduced gu:Template:Index on gu:. Thanks in advance.--Dhaval 13:13, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dsvyas,

While performing search on gu:Special:Allpages like gu:Special:Allpages/અ it should as such only list pages that start with alphabet અ, but it lists all the pages starting with this letter and all the letters in the alphabet thereafter

Yes, in fact, this is what it is supposed to do. If You search beginning with અ it finds everything after અ that includes also the words coming afterwards. The letter indicates only the starting point, it does not restrict the displaying to this one letter. I don't know of any workaround for this, sorry

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 13:27, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Birdy. You have always been my best guide. Regarding the above (Uploading Images), as I have asked that will it be all right in that case to redirect the link straight to the upload image page on commons instead of local upload image page? please advise.--Dhaval 15:30, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

You have lots of possibilities for this. You could consider deactivating special:upload for normal users and activate it for sysops only. We use this on es.wiktionary. This has to be requested at bugzilla:

You could set

document.getElementById("t-upload").getElementsByTagName("a")[0].href = wgArticlePath.replace("$1", "Special:Upload")

to (commons: in front of Special:)

document.getElementById("t-upload").getElementsByTagName("a")[0].href = wgArticlePath.replace("$1", "commons:Special:Upload")

which sends users to commons if they click on the upload link, if You enter Special:Upload directly You can still upload locally.

You could add an extra link that links to commons and leave the default one linking to the special:upload locally, see gu:User:Spacebirdy/monobook.js

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 17:49, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

P.S. Please note, that these javascript workarounds are only seen by users who have javascript enabled, if You want to change the link to something else for all users this has to be requested at bugzilla:, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 17:52, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

wo logo

merçi du travail, j'ai vu le changement. seulement j'ai pas bien comprit ce texte, si tu pourrai me l'ecrire en français se serai mieux. oubien ecrire tout simplement comme dans le wikitionnaire= le dictionnaire libre = baatukaay bu ubbeeku bi. ciao et merçi ibou

a multilingual free encyclopedia
...
Wiktionary (wikbaatukaay)
[API[1] du mot "wikbaatukaay" ici]
a wiki-based open
content dictionary
...

T'ai répondu dans la wo.wikipedia, wo:Discussion_Utilisateur:Ibou#Image:Wiki.png, mes amitiés, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:31, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

comme ça

wikbaatukaay

baatukaay bu ubbeeku bi = le dictionnaire libre ibou

c'est bien ainsi c jolie, merçi et bon weekend ibou

salut pardon pour le dérangement, j'ai l'impression que le logo de wo wiktionary n'a pas changer. tu as juste importe le fichier, ou je me trompe? quand je l'ouvre je voix ancore l'ancien logo en anglais. peace ibou

salut, c'est la premiere fois que j'entend ce bugzilla, c'etait Guaka qui l'avait changé la premiere fois, je sais pas comment ça marche. Donc j'aurai besoin de ton aide pour le faire (: , peace ibou

eu wikt

Hola birdy! Siento hablarte en español, y no en ingles. Aquí puse que el wiktionary vasco se pusiera entre 100+ y lo hicieron, pero pusieron tan solo Basque y me gustaría que pusiese Euskara/Basque . He pensado que tu puedes hacerlo. Gracias!--Bengoa (My user talk) 11:50, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Hola, está bien, prefiero el español de todos modos :o)

Pues lo he actualizado allí, pero como esta página ya no está utilizada por el portal http://wiktionary.org lo he añadido también a www.wiktionary.org template, espero que esté bien así, un saludo, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:47, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Gracias!--Bengoa (My user talk) 14:14, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

el.wikt

Hi Spacebirdy! I'm here to tell you that the vote has just expired at the greek wiktionary. So your account has now the bot status. I wish you a great job among us :) - Regards, Lou 13:41, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

heya

Your bot is now flagged on it.wikt! Cheers and good job :) --Nick1915 - ^{all you want} 14:57, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Laos Wiktionary logo

Birdy, I don't understand why Laos Wiktionary already have a picture of its logo, but the logo of the site doesn't change. --Passawuth 15:41, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

The logo has to be switched by a server admin which has to be requested at bugzilla, instructions see Requests for logos. If You need assistance I can help You filling out a report but I have no time until the end of the week. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:44, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

P.S. The logo is a bit small and should be protected, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:44, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

kniffelig

Liebe Voëltjie, ich habe 'ne kniffelige frage. Wie ich dir früher mal zu erklären versuchte, gibt es bei den "bantu"sprachen keine flektierenden endsilben, sondern vorsilben (primitiv ausgedrückt). Also statt wie im spanischen: sombrero (sg), sombreros (pl.), wo die endung sich jeweils ändert (hier "-o", "os"), heißt es im Zulu iviki (sg), amaviki (pl) (iviki = woche). Die "endungen" sind immer vorne. Iviki kommt aus dem afrikaansen "week". Im zuluwörterbuch steht es unter "v", da das anfangs-"i" nur der klassenpräfix ist. Der vokativ von "iviki" lautet zum beispiel "viki".

Wenn ich also ein zb das xhosa word "iavokado" (avokado) hinzufüge, muss ich es als avokado aufnehmen, damit es unter "a" landet, und nicht unter "i". Das wort utata (vater) als tata, da es unter "t" kommen muss,…

Wenn ich nun http://af.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kategorie:Woorde_in_Xhosa betrachte, so sieht es sau blöde aus, die jeweiligen wörter ohne präfixe zu sehen, dass heißt statt "utata", nur "tata", statt "iavokado", nur "avokado",.... Ich glaube aber, dass es möglich ist, "utata" unter "t" einzugliedern. Denn hier in http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:All_languages wird zum beispiel "Ancient Greek language" und "Mycenaean Greek language" unter "G" eingeordnet.

But it’s not as simple as that ((: Manchmal erhält ein “wortstamm” verschiedene klassenpräfixe, zum beispiel: "isiSuthu" (die sotho sprache), "umSuthu" (der sotho) [daher beide formen in http://af.wiktionary.org/wiki/Suthu], oder "indoda" (mann), "ubudoda" (männlichkeit). [beide in http://af.wiktionary.org/wiki/doda]

Ist es also möglich, wörter so einzugeben, dass

1) zum beispiel in http://af.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kategorie:Woorde_in_Venda das wort "musadzi" unter "s" steht (http://af.wiktionary.org/wiki/sadzi) ?

2) zum beispiel in http://af.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kategorie:Woorde_in_Zoeloe "isiSuthu" und "umSuthu", beide getrennt unter "s" aufscheinen, obwohl sie beide zusammen auf der page http://af.wiktionary.org/wiki/Suthu stehen, weil ja "isi-" und "um-" nur verschiedene klassenpräfixe zum selben wortstamm sind. ?

3) in http://af.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kategorie:Woorde_in_Suid-Sotho muss das wort "metsi" unter "i" steht (http://af.wiktionary.org/wiki/itsi), da es eigentlich "ma-itsi" ist ("ma-" ist pluralpräfix, "itsi" das grundwort, wobei aber das "a" von "ma-" und das "i" von "itsi" zu "e" verschmolzen ist, d.h "ma-itsi" > "metsi") ?

Liebe grüße und gute nacht, liebe Birdy! Lg --Manie 21:44, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Hæ, lieber Manie, komme nicht vor dem Ende der Woche dazu, bitte ein bisschen Geduld mit mir. P.S. der Hinweis mir nur auf Meta zu schreiben ist selbstverstaendlich nicht fuer Dich :) Du darfst mir schreiben, wo Du magst :) (natuerlich auch hier) lG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 21:49, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

OK, werde bei den nächsten fragen wieder an gewohnter stelle fragen. Natürlich, wann immer du zeit hast. Was ich mir jedoch dachte: es wäre vielleicht besser, die lemmata mit ihren präfixen zusammen zu erfassen, aber dass sie dann in der alphabetischen liste dann unter dem anfangsbuchstaben des grundwortes eingereiht werden. Damit bliebe nur frage 1) übrig. D.h. dass ich zum beispiel "metsi" und "umSuthu" als isiSotho und umSotho erfasse (getrennt, als zwei pages), sie aber beide in der alphabetischen liste unter "s" stehen. Lg --Manie 05:45, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Uff, ich glaube ich verstehe, was Du meinst, aber das geht meines Wissens nach nicht:

ad.1) Du kannst ein Wort unter einem anderen Buchstaben einsortieren, aber das Wort selbst wird immer dem Lemma gleichen unter welchem es eingetragen ist.

Eine andere Sortierung erreichst Du entweder, indem Du nach [[Kategorie:...|dieseReihenfolge]] eintraegst oder {{DEFAULTSORT:dieseReihenfolge}}, dann traegt er egal wie das Lemma es unter "dieseReihenfolge" ein, doch angezeigt wird der Link zum Lemma nur mit seinem exakten Namen.

gleiches gilt fuer 2 und 3 ;(

LG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 02:01, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Und wie füge ich nun zum beispiel in http://af.wiktionary.org/wiki/ukumkani tun, damit "Xhosa (xh)" in {{DEFAULTSORT:dieseReihenfolge}} steht ( wie in http://af.wiktionary.org/wiki/kumkani)? Lg --Manie 18:15, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Ich verstehe nicht was Du meinst :'(

In dem Eintrag wikt:af:ukumkani fuegst Du die Kategorie manuell hinzu, Du hast es dort gleich durch die Angabe nach dem | unter kumkani einsortiert. LG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:23, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Danke dir, liebe Birdy!!! *hugs* --Manie 20:28, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Liebe Birdy, bin wieder lästig: ich habe jetzt begonen, die wörter umzuordnen, nach obiger schamblone. Aber habe trotzdem noch probleme. Zum beispiel in http://af.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kategorie:Woorde_in_Xhosa: wenn du zu "X" gehst, siehst du:

• isiXhosa
  
• umXhosa
  
• -esiXhosa
  
• -amaXhosa
  

Ich würde jedoch gerne haben:

• -amaXhosa
  
• -esiXhosa
  
• isiXhosa
  
• umXhosa
  

Any idea, ob dies machbar ist? Lg, dein läst'ger :) --Manie 20:58, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Mir fiele schon etwas ein, aber das wuerde ich als "dirty hack" bezeichnen. Scheinbar werden - nach Buchstaben gereiht, dh. wenn Du sie unter dem gleichen Namen einsortierst, in diesem Fall Xhosa, dann kommen zuerst die Buchstaben alphabetisch, dann die Bindestriche, wenn man jedoch gemeinerweise das letzte a bei [Kategorie:...|Xhosa] wegnimmt, dann wird "Xhos" vor "Xhosa" sortiert, dh. wenn Du das bei den Eintraegen mit Bindestrich so machst, werden sie vorher eingereiht. :( Irgendwie ist das nicht so toll. Kategorien finde ich extrem muehsam, unhandlich und eckig, ich aergere mich schon gar nicht mehr darueber, dass man immer noch die alphabetische Reihenfolge nicht aendern kann (waere fuer so viele Projekte wichtig)...

Siehe [19] kannst Du ja zuruecksetzen, falls Dir diese schmutzige Lösung nicht gefaellt, LG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 21:06, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Jetzt habe ich -esiXhosa auch unter "Xhos" eingeordnet, aber nun ist die reihenfolge:

• -esiXhosa
  
• -amaXhosa
  
• isiXhosa
  
• umXhosa
  

anstatt:

• -amaXhosa
  
• -esiXhosa
  
• isiXhosa
  
• umXhosa
  

(( Bin wohl zu blöde irgendwie. --Manie 20:33, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh mann, das glaube ich einfach nicht, wie bescheuert werden denn Kategorien sortiert. Aber es scheint wahr -e kommt vor -a ?!

Bei der vorherigen Sortierung war es jedenfalls genauso - gnarf.

Ich grueble mal, was man da machen könnte (auszer es noch schlimmer) LG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 21:20, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Also ich habe es jetzt so gemacht, um die Bindestriche vorne zu haben und um das danach alphabetisch zu sortieren: [[Kategorie:Woorde in Xhosa|Xhos-ama], [[Kategorie:Woorde in Xhosa|Xhos-esi]

Es ist wirklich ziemlich katastrophal, ich hoffe ok fuer Dich, lG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 21:57, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Du hast einen fast glücklichen Manie :))) Nur noch eines (hoffe es tauchen nicht noch andere auf): jetzt habe ich

• -amaBhulu
• -esiBhulu
• isiBhulu
• iBhulu

Was muss ich machen, dass "iBhulu" vor "isiBhulu" kommt? also:

• -amaBhulu
• -esiBhulu
• iBhulu
• isiBhulu

Liebe grüße, meine liebe Birdy --Manie 08:08, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Hintendran das von vorne, dann gehts [20]. Frag mich bitte nicht, warum Kategorien so extrem muehsam sind :(

LG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 10:22, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Super!!! Danke dir!! Hätte dich eh nicht gefragt, wie es funktioniert. :))) *hugs* --Manie 12:15, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Dzongkha Wikipedia (dz)

Thank you for reverting User:Donuttowanoon's edits. He is annoying and semi-vandalising. He adds spam links in Thai Wikipedia and was blocked several times. Moreover, he did not put Dzongkha texts on the main page ([21]), but he put Thai texts on the main page - which directly copy from Thai Wikipedia's main page without editing anything at all. He is a Thai, which unable to speak Dzongkha, but he went there as if he is a native user. Please block him on that Wikipedia. (Here is some proof) Best Regards, --Passawuth 12:34, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Also, it is unacceptable that he claims new Wikipedias that do not exist. He add the link to not exist Wikipedia in several articles and also making things confusing. What are we going to do now ? --Passawuth 12:37, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

He is blocked indefinit on dz.wiki already, if he needs to be blocked on th.wiki that should be done by the local sysops there.

I am sorry to hear that he is such a problem, thanks for keeping the eyes open. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:43, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Sie bitte, make sure the Main page of the Dzongkha Wikipedia is reverted ? It is still Thai language - terrible. --Passawuth 12:46, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Maybe this is a problem with Your browsercache, I reverted all his edits and replaced the Thai on the mainpage with a redirect to dz:Main Page (mainpages can't be deleted). Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:50, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh, yes yes yes. It's my browsercache. :P --Passawuth 12:57, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Nino Barbieri

Hello, I was simply tallying votes -- sometimes in that nomination sequence the images get discussed and voted on and they need to be manually moved off the page and processed. I did not know anything about the photographer nor the passing away of the photographer until I was processing stuff there. It might be better to inform the person who nominated the image commons:User:Arria Belli. I almost attempted to pass the information along -- but I know so little about everything; starting with the nomination of the image.

It is very nice that you are looking after things there; the internet can seem mighty cold sometimes. To be honest, the nomination of that image seemed mighty cold when I was putting the template on the users talk page. -- CarolSpears 15:26, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

fawikt

Hi dear birdy as your comment wikt:fa:ویکی‌واژه:ربات‌ها it would be great if your bots.thanks indeed --Mardetanha ^talk 05:35, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, I have asked for botflag which it got fast and set it to run there also already, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 05:20, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Warnung

Hinweis: Diese Nachricht ist auf Deutsch geschrieben um zu verhindern, dass der Vandale aus noticinhg. Bitte akzeptieren mein Deutsch.

Der Vandalismus von Dzongkha Wikipedia nicht überall, sondern hier! Er macht vielleicht starten Dzongkha Hauptseite hier, oder starten Sie die Dzongkha Projekt als auch in Thai suchen. Bitte seien Sie vorsichtig und beobachten ihn die ganze Zeit. Er ging nun zu Unencyclopedia und die Wikimedia Commons werden ([22]). Er kopiert Thai Wikipedia Hauptseite, und es ist meiner Meinung nach, dass er es überall Pasten-Konto erstellt er jedoch, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikibooks und andere sicher sind. Beste Grüße, --Passawuth 08:55, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Danke, wir halten die Augen offen, beste Grüße, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:56, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Scots Wikipedia

Hi there. Thanks for your help reverting the vandalism on the Scots Wikipedia. 194.247.82.75 08:57, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Seien Sie sehr vorsichtig

Donuttowanoon nicht irgendwo anders. Er blockiert wurde 1 Tag auf unserer Thai Wikipedia, aber er hat anscheinend keine Problem, aber ärgerlich mich über neue Wikipedia. Er benutzt eine automatische Übersetzer, weshalb schrieb er ein sehr schlechtes Englisch. Ich glaube, er ist geplant, um neue zu Wikipedia, und verwenden Sie einen Übersetzer zu übersetzen. Dies ist unverständlich. Wenn Sie sehen, was hier ihn ersucht, beachten Sie bitte, dass es sich bei allen Unsinn, und ich warnte ihn schon, aber er ist nicht der Meinung, scheint mir und ungezogen. Seien Sie bitte sehr vorsichtig. Beste Grüße, --Passawuth 05:03, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Auch, wenn er gesperrt wurde, er scheint zu gehen, um Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikinews und andere! Bitte sperren ihn, wenn Sie ihn sehen. Er schuf anderen Menschen' userpages, die aber nicht vorhanden ist. Er Anfrage auch für die Blockierung überall. Bitte seien Sie extrem vorsichtig. Wir haben keine native Administratoren gibt (in einigen Projekt) oder meist inaktiv. Beste Grüße, --Passawuth 05:10, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Now he was blocked 3 months on Thai Wikipedia. But, he still will vandalize in Thai Wikipedian Sister Projects. Can you monitor those ? Thanks ! (Seem that it's now safe to talk in English). --Passawuth 05:16, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

BL backlog

If you have the time can you take a look at this - thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 07:11, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

No problem - I was just informing folk who have helped in the past. I think it is now much better anyway. Take care please --Herby ^{talk thyme} 06:53, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

@assistance on is.wikt

Hello, I wrote him to stop adding the template and deleting the nuber of the word meaning. I also informed him he could be blocked if he do not stop and asked him to answer on his discuss page and inform about his language skills. --Reaperman 11:13, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

thanks

Hello, I'm assuming that you are the same Spacebirdy that helped me earlier (not saying too much because of WP:BEANS)... and if you're not, you will doubtless be very confused. Thanks for your help, and there's more in your e-mail. --Kyoko 16:37, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Following up to this, you have another e-mail, and I hope you get to read it soon. I've been busy. Thanks again! --Kyoko 20:09, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Merci

Salut Birdy, merci d'avoir temporairement stoppé 218.104.68..., et d'avoir proposé l'ajout des liens dans la liste noire. Cordialement, Korg 17:00, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

evangelical vandals on simple:wikt

Sorry, didn't notice the rather obvious notice. I can see that you probably want to attend to only a few talk pages. Cheers, User:Jack Merridew a.k.a. David 10:11, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Donuttowanoon

We have come to the final conclusion that Donuttowanoon should be blocked on all of Wikimedian Projects. This is the extract from the e-mail Thai administrator has contacted with him :

ยอมรับว่าก่อกวน แต่พี่รินเขาบล๊อกผมย้ายเวลาตลอดในเวลาแก้ไข เช่นแก้ไข12:00 วันนี้ ก็หมดอายุพรุ่งนี้ ก่อนหมดอายุก็ย้ายอยู่เรื่อย แค่ก่อกวนนิดๆ เปลี่ยนหน้าผู้ใช้ตัวเองเนี่ย คุณทำไมไม่บล๊อกคุณรินเลยล่ะ เหรือนตีให้เข็ด บล๊อกเลย บล๊อก แค่นิดก็บล๊อกเลย ถ้าไม่บล๊อกรินจะเสร็จใคร แน่:p

I accept that I did vandalize, but User Serin blocked me and change my blocked time such as edit at 12.00 today expired tomorrow (He was blocked) - she changed the time. Just a little vandalism, changing the name of my user page. Why don't you blocked Serin ? Or hit here ? Blocked ! Blocked ! If you don't blocked....

And an extract from an administrator talk page :

อย่าเพิ่งลบ และบล๊อกผม ไม่งั้นผมจะเปลี่ยนไอพีและจะก่อกวน ถ้าผมหยุดก่อกวนจะช่วยสร้างสาธรณะประโยชน์นะ ที่ผมทำคือทดลองนะ

Don't delete. Don't block me yet, otherwise, I will log out to anynomous user and vandalise. If I stop vandalise I will do some good to community. What I do is experiment !

It seems that he uses Wikipedia as a sandbox, and don't respect any warning at all. When he was blocked, he came into anynomous users and created account like Donuttowanoon2 and it is predicted that 3 and 4 will come soon. We have blocked him, but it is enough for Wikimedian Projects ? Can you please monitor very closely. Vielen Dank ! --Passawuth 14:57, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Hello Passawuth, sad to hear that, it always sadens me when people don't get along. We will have an eye on this, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:48, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

On the other day, in Thailand, the IP from Thailand vandalize Wikipedia again, 124.121.48.242, and it is highly suspected that it is this user. He was now blocked, but the articles that he vandalized were the article about royal family, templates, etc. Can you check that User:Donuttowanoon's IP is the same as this IP or familiar ? So, we can make sure that we can block him immediately when he start to vandalize without anywarning in the future. Danke. --Passawuth 02:32, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

I've collected his cross-wiki contribs

• Donuttowanoon xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date ^(alt) • ST • IP info • WHOIS • robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • bullseye
• Donuttowanoon2 xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date ^(alt) • ST • IP info • WHOIS • robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • bullseye
• Towanoon xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date ^(alt) • ST • IP info • WHOIS • robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • bullseye
• 118.172.202.166 xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date ^(alt) • ST • IP info • WHOIS • robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • bullseye (Using TOT - an internet service in Thailand)
• 118.172.200.143 xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date ^(alt) • ST • IP info • WHOIS • robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • bullseye
• Donuttowanoon3 xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date ^(alt) • ST • IP info • WHOIS • robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • bullseye
• 118.172.201.168 xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date ^(alt) • ST • IP info • WHOIS • robtex • gblock • glist • abuselog • bullseye

Best Regards, --Passawuth 14:00, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Hi, please can I ask You to put that on Steward requests/Checkuser, I did not have the time yet to look at it or to look if a check is justified. Maybe others have the time to do that before me, if not I can look at it later, many thanks, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 14:06, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Grateful for your feedback...

... at Help_talk:Unified_login#Finding_foreign_language_bureaucrats. Cheers! --Dweller 13:00, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr

!!!!!!!! --Herby ^{talk thyme} 11:54, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

The pills are starting to work :) Gone for some fresh air for now! Thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:45, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Navigation template@th.wiktionary

You can see the same template at en.wiktionary and th.wiktionary. Thai Wiktionary cannot be able to provide a proper template, because we don't have JavaScript in MediaWiki:Common.js page. Can you include that into our Wiktionary, please (show = แสดง; hide = ซ่อน) ? The sysops are definitely inactive since last 2 years. Best regards, --Passawuth 07:59, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Ok, I will do that today, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 08:34, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, I can't translate the custom.js page there because I don't have right to do that, but I'm able to translate the Wiktionary:Prefences page. Best regards, --Passawuth 06:42, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

However, I will put another translated text on Mypage/custom.js Will finish soon ! --Passawuth 06:44, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Also, herr, our edittools is not the same in the monobook.js page, which still do not allow us to have drop down menu. I would prefer not to change the edittools like the English version, because the more it is, the more time it takes for loading. --Passawuth 06:49, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

I have added the translations You made now. To see them You will need to clear the cache. The Editools and the drop down menu do not take more loading time than before (before it was in the copyrightwarning ans was loaded too) only now it is working. You will need to clear the cache to see it working, if You still don't want them let me know. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 08:54, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

bot request

please give me a link on a page, where could I request for a bot status on de and es. Thank you --uk:User:A1

Logo of Tibetan Wikipedia

Hello, Dear Spacebirdy, I am the same Viskonsas from the Tibetan Wikipedia. I agree that the wikilogo there is pretty bad. And thank You very much for your decision to help me. Here is the translation of "Wikipedia The free Encyclopedia":

Wikipedia: ལྦེ་ཁེ་རིག་མཛོད།

The Free Encyclopedia: རང་དབང་གི་རིག་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ།

Big thanks in advance :) --Wisconsus 10:05, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank You very much! But can You help me again, dear Spacebirdy? Do You know how to change a font in whole wikipedia? I heard it was a mediawiki file in which the font in all wikipedia could be changed. Please help me if You can. Thank You very much. --Wisconsus 12:46, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Sorry for disturbing You again. What about making font bigger. I only need to make the font bigger there :) --Wisconsus 13:58, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

$1 change

Hello Saltinbas, there is an error in MedyaViki:Undo-summary please add $1 to it (see [23] and betawiki:MediaWiki:Undo-summary/tr) $1 is a Variable that is now missing in the message causing error messages. Many thanks in advance, best regards, --uzaykuşu _{(:> )=|} 21:30, 3 Mayıs 2008 (UTC)

Hi, I added $1 into the page.--Saltinbas 06:32, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Want to translate & add Hindi

I am a new member of wikinews, but having a lot experience at hindi wikipedia. I recd the welcome message:

Hello Ashishbhatnagar72, 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 Meta:Metapub (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!

This message was in a large number of languages, lacking Hindi. I want to translate it in hindi & get it added to that list. How can I do the same. please tell me the way.--आशीष भटनागर^{संदेश} 15:19, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Edit {{welcome}} — VasilievVV 15:16, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for prompt reply, which I have used & translated the text & saved the page. But the problem here is that the second word there is the PAGENAME, which is in english. SO can we change the name, rather can I make a parellel page in hindi named स्वागतम meaning welcome, in hindi.--आशीष भटनागर^{संदेश} 15:41, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

{{PAGENAME}} here will be replaced with username on usage. Thanks for translation — VasilievVV 15:44, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi, thank You both. @आशीष भटनागर it is a magic word, see Help:Magic words, (why do You link to a non existant user in the signature, do You wish to be renamed to this name?), best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:49, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

vandal

Hi, Spacebirdy. Can you kindly tell me about spambot or vandal open proxy cross-wiki? I saw the stewards do the block cross-wiki, how to get information with anonymous users can be vandals or spambot.

I saw the vandal on km.wikibook on km:b:វិគីសៀវភៅ portal again, Thank, --Kiensvay 00:20, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

We monitor cross-wiki, no magic about it, if You would like further info please come to an irc-channel, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 00:22, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you, --Kiensvay 00:24, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Policy Issue

Hi Birdy, I don't know whether this is a right place to ask, but as you might be aware I am a temporary sysop for gu: and trying to build as well as maintain the growing community there. Recently we have a user contributing in a great extent, but what I have realised is that, he is copying the content form other websites and pasting it to create new pages in gu.wiki. In some cases, he acknowledges the source but not in all.

I tried to browse through guide to admin (administrator school, etc.), but think it doesn't state about such things. I think it shouldn't be allowed as this might be a copyright violation, and even if it's not, why to copy the exact text which is already existing somewhere else and put it in wiki. Shall I warn the User to stop doing it or shall I allow him to do so as he is acknowledging the source? Please advise...--Dhaval^talk 12:50, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

That sounds bad, please check the site he copies from, maybe it is free content, although I very much doubt that. Also if it is a free licence e.g. GFDL You have to give the source and the authors, if You copy such.

I fear You will have to delete his contributinos and if he continues even after You warned and explained him, You will have to block him.

We had a similar case on de.wikt, someone contributing a lot for years and then we found out he copied another site 1:1, we had to delete hundereds of entries.

Always sad when people do that, copying is forbidden it is said so underneath every edit window.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:55, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Hi Birdy, Excellent, lightning speed reply.... wonderful... The site where he is copying the content is a newspaper site, let me investigate about the copyright policy of the site... let me get back to you (won't be as quicker as you were.(: ...--Dhaval^talk 13:04, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, as obvious the site is copyrighted and hence as the person has been copying whole of the articles (sometimes a few paragraphs to few pages) and pasteing them on gu:. I must ask him to stop doing so and start deleting the articles. Can there be any other course of action?--Dhaval^Talk 13:21, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Dear Dsvyas, I fear not, how many sites are affected? You could consider asking the site owner if they would explicitely allow that to gu.wikipedia, but I have the feeling they would not accept that, also don't make them aware of the not yet deleted contents.

I hope the user did that not to do harm, if he stops and does not do it again You don't have to block him. If he continues, even after You adviced him and explained him that his actions are doing harm to wikipedia You should block him. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 13:38, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Terima kasih

Spacebirdy, terima kasih untuk bantuannya! Thanks for your help! :D ~REX^{••talk••} 06:07, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

My Info

I was trying to put MY info there :

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MJKubba

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by 41.234.192.225 (talk) diff, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 11:56, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

The username does not exist, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 11:56, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

it is now --MJKubba 12:03, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:14, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Reply: email

Dear birdy,

Thanks for the offer, but User:O on Commons has helped me with my request. — User:G.A.S — 41.240.174.33 18:36, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

I have seen, happy editing, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 18:38, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

why

Why are all good articles always deleted and called tests, on any Wikimedia project, I mean really, especially when you spend 9 hours translating the article you made from English to Portuguese or some other damn language, I mean really, a test? Lets be honest now the word test means your trying something out to see if it works, test does not mean: "THIS IS A GREAT ARTICLE!". Thank you.--xgmx (T | C | D | R | DR)

I have answered on Your talkpage, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 11:45, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Personal attacks on Ban coordination

I would like to ask you to remove personal attacks and blatant lies about me on Ban coordination. Thanks. —Zacheus ^{Talk • Contributions • Edit counter} 20:29, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I have removed the user listings there, as I see no reason for this, but I would like to remind You that editwars are not welcomed anywhere, so if that continues there the participants of the editwar will be blocked, I think You all know that very well.

If anyone needs help of a sysop here, there is Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 20:46, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. You solved a big trouble imported from cs:. —Zacheus ^{Talk • Contributions • Edit counter} 12:44, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

juhu ich bin unsichtbar

juhu, ich bin unsichtbar. So muss es wohl sein, werden doch meine Requests auf sv.wikiqoute, ja.wp, ko.wp und Steward_requests/Username_changes#User:I_.40_3_more_projects ignoriert. Für einen Außenstehenden mag diese Hauptmann-von-Köpenik-Situation ja durchaus lustig sein. Für mich ist sie es als Betroffener nicht. Was kann ich noch tun? --I 09:50, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Hallo, bist Du nicht, ich habe herumgefragt, das ist natuerlich auch unsichtbar. In ja.wiki konnte ich Unterstuetzung finden. Ich fuerchte in dem Fall von sv.wq kann Dir niemand wirklich helfen. ;( Aber ich wuerde mir da an Deiner Stelle keinen Kopf machen, es wird (weil muss) eine automatische Problemlösung fuer das geben. LG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 09:55, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Es kann doch nicht sein, dass jemand auf sv.wq meine Identität klaut und niemand kann etwas dagegen unternehmen. Ich habe Thuresson jetzt nochmal angesprochen. In ja.wp warte ich mal ab, vielleicht passiert ja noch etwas. Wie ich mit ko.wp weiter vorgehe, weiss ich noch nicht. Eine automatische Problemlösung mag ja irgendwann in ein paar Jahren kommen, aber wie die aussehen wird, weiss letztendlich noch niemand. Darauf möchte ich mich einfach nicht verlassen. --I 13:58, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Es ist leider wirklich so, dass wir in einem solchen Fall nichts machen können, haette er mit dem Account vandaliert, waere es kein Problem gewesen. Solltes Du einmal SUL aktivieren können (sobald es eben fuer alle freigeschaltet ist), wird der globale Account vermutlich Dir zugeordnet, auszer jemand hat irgendwo mehr Beitraege mit dem Konto I. Tatsaechlich gibt es viele, die genau das selbe Problem haben und bereits SUL haben. Wir können nicht Zwangsverschieben, das muss durch die Software gelöst werden. Wenn der globale Account aktiv ist und noch ein paar Wikis mit solchen Accounts existieren, funktioniert er trotzdem, das ist m.E. das Wichtiste, lG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 14:06, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Aber es ist eine offene Frage, ob er mit dem Account vandaliert hat. Der Account hat drei Edits getätigt:

• Der erste Edit war das Einsetzen eines {delete}-Templates in den Artikel [Wikipedia]. Dieser Artikel besteht bereits seit 2 Jahren und es gibt ihn auch in vielen anderen wq-Sprachprojekten. Eine Begründung für den Löschantrag wurde (obwohl gefordert) nicht gegeben. Auch wurde der Löschantrag, obwohl inzwischen einen Monat alt, nicht bearbeitet. Einen unsinnigen, unvollständigen Löschantrag gegen einen zentralen Artikel eines Projekts zu stellen, scheint mir durchaus ein Akt des Vandalismus zu sein.
• Der zweite Edit war auf meiner Benutzer-Diskussions-Seite, also für das Projekt schon mal nicht weiter relevant, und diente dazu sich über mich lustig zu machen.
• Der dritte Edit war eine Ergänzung des Artikels [Jan Björklund] um ein Zitat einschließlich einer korrekten Quellenangabe. Oberflächlich ein absolut korrekter Edit, der zwar meiner Meinung nach nur zur Absicherung eines Vandalen-Accounts dient, aber das ist erst mal nur meine interpretation. sv.wq ist ein kleines Projekt und scheint, so weit ich sehe, keine Seite [wikiquote:Was Wikiquote nicht ist] zu haben und auch viele andere Meta-Seiten scheint es nicht zu geben. Behelfsweise ziehe ich daher für eine Beurteilung die entsprechenden Meta-Seiten von de.wq heran. So heisst es in de.wq beispielsweise, dass ein Zitat nicht länger als 4 Sätze sein soll. Das Björklund-Zitat umfasst aber 7 lange Sätze. Auch handelt es sich um eine sehr kürzliche Aussage von ihm, so dass es eher zweifelhaft ist, dass das schon ein "Klassiker" ist. Vielmehr handelt es sich um einen Redeausschnitt aus einer Rede im Parlament, die auf Vorreden reagiert und von Nachreden beantwortet wird. Ich spreche kein Schwedisch, aber es gibt ja Online-Übersetzer, für Schwedisch ist das http://www.systran.de Die Übersetzung dieses Zitats ergibt übliches Politsprech - in diesem Fall über Schulfragen. Ich erkenne hier keine herausragende zitierwürdige Äusserung.

--I 08:40, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Sobald man darueber streiten muss, ob es nun Vandalismus ist oder nicht, geht das einfach nicht. Er hat das natuerlich gemacht um Dich zu aergern, aber auf eine Art und Weise, die keine Handlung zulaesst. Wie gesagt, stehst Du mit genau diesem Problem nicht alleine da, es gibt hunderte solcher Faelle, das ist der Grund, warum es einer softwareseitigen Lösung bedarf.

Einzige derzeitige Möglichkeit einer Umbenennung: die lokale Gemeinschaft stimmt dem zu. (scheint leider nicht so wahrscheinlich, da ja offenbar jemand aus dieser Gemeinschaft Dich aergern wollte)

LG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 10:00, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Global rollback

Didn't know about that & won't req now but when it is available - if you think of it - can you mention it to me? It would be useful for spam which I come across. Hope all is well & thanks :) --Herby ^{talk thyme} 11:45, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Sure :) But since we can't possibly know all requesters, I think we will need a guideline for granting the status, maybe something like: being sysop (not temporary!) for > 3 months on a wmf project. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 11:50, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I'm wondering how this will be doled out too. Count me in once it gets off the ground.  – Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 20:12, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

And ... with thanks

		The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
		For consistent work dealing with issues regarding cross wiki vandalism - many thanks Herby talk thyme 12:01, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank You Herby, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 17:41, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

ca.wiktionary

Hi! Now, your Spacebirdybot has the tag of bot in ca.wiktionary. Thanks for wait.--85.58.216.55 11:55, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

reports

Actually it is current grawp is still active on both wikipedia and other wikis (such as palaeos[24]), the checkuser evidence has confirmed that the grawp vandals sock puppets have still been active on wikipedia since at least May 17.[25]--Fang 23 14:52, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Bedankt

Haha :D In Limburg people say danke, just like in Austria and Germany :) --OosWesThoesBes 04:55, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

I know, but I wanted to use something different ;) I have that from wikt:li:danke :) --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 10:27, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

ok, den is 't good :) --OosWesThoesBes 14:04, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Nad / Nadina - please help

Hello, Birdy (still havent thanked you for your support on my RfA on Commons: thanks!)

I have a very kind request to help my friend bg:User:Nad / here: User:Nadina, who is struggling with the SUL. I am trying to help her, but her case needs expert help and more attention.

Two days ago she reserved SUL Nad for her. But tris seemed to be a mistake since she came into a conflict with a mediawiki developer, who owns this accound "Nad" on en:, mediawiki: and meta: I made a contact between them (she doesnt know English) and the guy said that actually not only that he would not like to give the name to her, but he even wants it for himself. After some considerations she agreed to allow him use this account for himself. Now she wants to have her accounts migrated to Nadina. For this sake, several renames Nad->Nadina have to be made in order to liberate the old account for the other guy, and several usurpations, as well. On User:Nadina there are 2 lists.

The problem which just appeared after she got the global account deleted, is that she cannot enter some projects, for instance pl:User:Nad where she even has a contribution. We feel absolutely helpless in this mess, she even more, because relies on me for the language. Please, help us. It is very difficult to figure out the exact consequence of actions needed to be done in order not to make the situation even more sticky. And her generous decision to withdraw from the name conflict is to be rewarded, aint it :) Please, help... Spiritia 12:15, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Gets even more troublesome... her accounts on en: and commons: are Nad_bg and SUL is also activated for this nickname... Spiritia 12:26, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I have answered to the first problem on Your talkpage. The other global account has to be deleted if she wants it to be renamed to Nadina too. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:33, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, thank you, if you dont mind, can we continue communicating here. (I really think that it would be better if only one steward handles the whole case, it's complex enough :-) ) We'll follow your advise about trying to get new passwords, and completing the list. So far, Nad reports that she can only enter the BG WP and SR WP where she holds the accounts from the times before SUL. The automatically created ones cannot be accessed, we're still waiting for a new pass from PL WP, it's getting quite a bit delay... Bug report? Hm, sounds unpleasant but maybe necessary. Especially in cases of meaningful contributions made after automatic account creation.

Actually, Nad only bothers about the projects where she has such meaningful contribs: BG WP and SR WP as User:Nad, and EN WP and Commons as User:Nad_bg. And of course usurping the Nadina accounts where registered and getting SUL for Nadina. Can you help for this, or it strictly depends on solving the rest of the issues? Spiritia 12:56, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

News: my friend tried to have new passwords emailed from PL WP and MK WP, where she got automatically created accounts as Nad, after the SUL. Both projects returned message that there is no email attached to this account. We'll continue with the rest, but I suppose the result will be the same. It seems that the password/email has disappeared with the deletion of the global account. Anyway, this is going to be a problem of the future owner of the account :-) can we now secure at least the Nadina SUL? Spiritia 13:13, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

I have tested this now, and made a bug report, please see bugzilla:14330. With this testaccount I managed to get the passwords via the recovery, but that really is a bug. After the deletion the password of the global should work.

Look also in the spamfolder for the email, if she has no valid email or the email got lost too, this is a real problem,

She could try unifying the accounts under Nad again and then try to login (I fear it won't work either), but maybe worth a try.

I guess we have to wait for what the devs find ot at bug 14330 ;( .

@Renaming Nad and Nad_bg to Nadina, please make sure (to avoid further problems) the name is not widely taken already.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 13:17, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, depends on how we define "widely taken". :-) For me it is not, but a steward may have more considerations. Please, look at the first table in User:Nadina. The account has been registered on 11 projects, but only 3 minor contributions were made only one of those. Only in one case email was given for contact. Some of the accounts were registered long-long ago and never used. In general, the languages and dates of registrations are very diverse, there is a very tiny probability for coincidence between all ppl who have ever registered them, having in mind they've made no contribs, I think that there will be no opposition again usurpation. With this respect Nadina was the least conflicting account among all which we considered this morning: Nadia, Nadya, Nadin, Nadd, Nada, Надя... Do you find this reasoning convincing? :-) Spiritia 13:33, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

That looks not so bad, 3 edits might not be renamed though (some projects demand 0 edits (unless it is a vandal)). But she might live with that one project. :) --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 13:38, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Sounds like a green light. Well, then, I'd like to ask you for deleting the global account Nad_bg. 3 automatic registrations were made from it - on de:, ru: and bg: but we will forget about them, only commons: and en: matter.

And let's summarise in order not to make a mistake or miss an important step: 1. We have to ask for renaming Nad -> Nadina on BG WP and SR WP, and Nad_bg -> Nadina on EN WP and Commons. 2. Make 11 local requests to have the account Nadina liberated on the 11 projects listed. 3. And after we get all these requests fulfilled (or rejected :-) ) a SUL has to be performed. Is everything right?

In the meanwhile I will give link to our conversation to the other user Nad, will explain him about the problems which he may obtain as legacy :-) Maybe he will also need some of your support or advise, be prepared :-) Thank you so much! Spiritia 13:58, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Yes, only problem are the accounts she can't access anymore, I suggest to wait a few days to see what devs respond before moving these accounts around, :( I added a warning to that SUL request site now, so everyone is aware of that problem. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 14:12, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Dear Spacebirdy, thank you for your help! :) --Nadina 20:32, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

You'r welcome, I have deleted the global account for Nad_bg now, so You can start requesting renames for them, I would suggest You to wait a big for renaming the broken Nad ones, maybe the devs can find a solution to it :S maybe they are lost... Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 23:33, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Just making sure that you've seen my reply. In the meanwhile, one more usurpation is needed for Nadina, but the request will come here on Meta, since there are no bureaucrats on PDC WP. :-) This is going to be the last 12th one. Whoa, that was tough... Warm regards, Spiritia 20:14, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

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Birdy, dear, we have a problem again. Do you have the possibility to check which is the authentic home wiki of Nadina and the compatibility of these accounts, please. Yesterday the final of her usurpations were completed, and this morning she tried to perform a successful SUL. But although the the SUL tool says bgwiki_p is her home wiki, whenevr she initiates SUL, it says it the home wiki is arabic wikipedia and recongises only 4 wikis, matching by password (bs, it, sl and bgwikiquote, created today for test purposes). The common thing about these is the fact that they are her most recently usurped wikis (ar, bs, it, sl) and the last manually created. However, she declares that all the accounts have the same passwords and emails. Here is a screenshot in English for you to check. The problem occurs from any wiki she tries to use as starting point for SUL, the system simply ignores the accounts on Bulgarian WP and the rest wikis that were authentically hers, as well as the rest 7 usurped accounts... She does not dare to proceed after this step. Can you give some advise? Maybe this is a new bug... →Spiritia 11:24, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so much, hopefully, everything now is under (Nadia's) control, all accounts are merged, and although the home wiki is ar, she'll survive it :) Now I will be able to calm down other colleagues of mine, who get this problem... Sorry for the fuss and thanks for your patience! (Maybe you can delete the screenshot now, no more needed...) Warm regards, →Spiritia 13:01, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks :) --Nadina 13:04, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Board translation

Guten Tag. I wonder what is the point of the translation for board vote ? Here, in Meta, I don't see anybody, speaking Thai. Will it be useless if I do a translation or not ? --Passawuth 07:28, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Hello Passawuth, it is of course not only for the people of Meta :) Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 09:56, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I can't vote! It said that I didn't contribute enough for 600 times. I confused. Where do I have to contribute at least 600 times ? As far as I know, I check my contributions at Thai Wikipedia now, and it's over 9,000!. So, in synopsis, where do I have to contribute, and it's too late, yeah? --Passawuth 11:29, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

No one can vote, it is not yet open :) --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 11:31, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I am sorry, missed that totally. Please try it from Your home wiki: th:Special:Boardvote, vote from the wiki where You have the most contributions, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 11:58, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Frage zu SUL/Steward-Anfrage

Hallo,

dass ich dir auf deutsch schreiben kann, macht die Sache schonmal viel leichter - die ganze Geschichte ist komplizierter als gedacht :-)

Also, zur Frage: Um meinen Account auf en:WP umbenennen zu können, wollte ich meinen globalen auf der Seite für Steward-Anfragen löschen lassen. Dann habe ich von diesem Bug gelesen, der, wie ich jetzt glaube zu verstehen, nur mit automatisch erstellten Accounts zu Problemen führen kann. Der einzige Account, der für mich automatisch erstellt wurde, ist hier auf Meta - ich habe ihn aber noch nicht benutzt. Trotzdem steht bei meiner Anfrage nur on hold. Mir liegt eigentlich nicht so viel am Account hier; falls das etwas nützt, könnte ich meine E-Mail-Adresse in den Einstellungen angeben (für ein neues Passwort). Die anderen Accounts (de, en, commons) habe ich von Hand vor SUL erstellt. Was mache ich nun am besten?

Ich habe mich mit der Frage an dich gewendet, weil du bei einigen Anfragen nicht bloß den Bug verlinkt, sondern einen Text geschrieben hast, den auch ich endlich verstanden habe. Bitte verzeih mir, wenn du so schon genug zu tun hast; Ich habe nur das Gefühl, auf der Seite nicht richtig verstanden worden zu sein bzw. selbst auch nicht voll durchblicken zu können.

Gruß und danke schonmal --MdE als 84.178.229.90 12:06, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Hallo MdE, wenn Dir der Account hier egal ist (da er keine Bearbeitungen hat), kann ich Dir natuerlich gerne den globalen löschen, das steht Dir frei, das schlimmste was Dir passieren kann, ist dass Du nachher den MdE@meta umbenennen lassen musst, weil Du nicht mehr reinkommst und ihn daher nicht mehr zum globalen Konto hinzufuegen kannst (es scheint nicht bei allen die Passwortwiederherstellung zu funktionieren, ich konnte das Problem zwar nicht reproduzieren, es gibt jedoch einen Bericht von einer Benutzerin).

Bitte lass mich wissen, wie Deine Entscheidung ist, lG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:42, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

P.S. bitte sei so lieb und hinterlasse mir einen Difflink zur Ueberpruefung Deiner Identitaet (Du kannst auch einfach auf Meta einloggen, dann sehe ich es auc), lG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:44, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Hallo, danke für die schnelle Antwort. Ja, Meta ist mir relativ egal, für diese Anfrage bin ich auch zum ersten mal überhaupt hier. Zur Bestätigung (und für den Archiv-Bot) habe ich auf de geantwortet. Sollte ich doch irgendwann mal Meta brauchen, wird sich das sicher regeln lassen. Mit anderen Worten: Wenn du den globalen löschen könntest, wäre ich dir sehr dankbar :-) Gruß --84.178.229.90 12:56, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Alles klar, ist erledigt, viel Glueck in en.wiki (sieht ja gut aus, der andere hat keine Bearbeitungen usw.) LG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 13:04, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Nochmals vielen Dank! :-D --MdE als 84.178.229.90 13:24, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

SUL

Hallo Birdy,

kannst Du mir eventuell weiterhelfen? Auf Commons wollte ich mein Konto wegen dem SUL in César umbenennen. So lautet auch mein Name in der dt. WP, wo ich Admin bin. Du gabst mir den Hinweis, dass kein Global Account existiert, auf WikiCommons behaupten die Mitarbeiter aber das Gegenteil (guck hier). Kann es sein, dass es wegen dem Accent auf dem e nicht funktioniert? In der englischen WP kann ich mich auch nicht mit Accent anmelden. Oder hat sich nach der Löschung jemand anderes das Konto geschnappt. Viele Grüße und Danke im voraus, 84.190.211.32 17:25, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Hallo, nö, die Sonderzeichen spielen keine Rolle, ich habe jetzt glaube ich das Problem, das sie dort mit der Umbenennung hatten, gefunden. Ich habe gleich direkt auf der Commonsseite eine Lösung hingeschrieben. LG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 18:02, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Wollte mich nochmal bei Dir bedanken. Nach Deiner Intervention hat alles prima geklappt. Mitternächtliche Grüße aus Berlin. --84.190.250.23 22:04, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Freut mich zu hören :) eine geruhsame Nacht, lG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 23:00, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Login problem after SUL

Dear Spacebirdy,

I am Avia from Vi-Wikipedia.

• I started unify my accounts yesterday.
• Some accounts were attached successfully cause of same email address.
• Then I enter passwords of the rest of my accounts (there I had registered with other email address), all successfully.
• But there are some accounts Avia not created by myself, so I got message that the process cannot be completed.
• After that I could not login to Wikis (including Meta) that were attached, neither by old pass nor by pass of my home vi-wiki. I get error messge that my pass is wrong, always!
• I do not try to login to Wikis that I have not registered yet.
• Cookies on my PC turned on. I login to my home wiki by such.
• Now I do not know, which password I can use to login to other Wikis, old pass or my home wiki pass.

Avia 08:57, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

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Does that mean: Although the account unification process has not been completed, I can use one password for all attached Wikis already?

P.S. You should sign in Vietnamese not as "con chim" but chim trời (word-by-word: "bird in the sky", literally it means free bird, free person.)

Regards, Avia 01:04, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Agreed, "con chim" in Vietnamese except the meaning "bird", it is a common slang word for "penis". I thought you were a Vietnamese troll when I first saw your signature :D Vinhtantran 02:41, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

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Oh oh, my problem may be from old cookies. I used another computer to login to my home wiki. Then to Meta, it works! Now I am in Meta (and other projects as Commons etc.) on my comp, everything seems okay! Thanks a lot, Birdy. Avia 09:13, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Good practice

Hello, Birdy. I just wanted to share with you a good practice which was implemented by our BG WP sysops. I advised them to include the link to the SUL username collisions detector and appropriate explanations in the system messages MediaWiki:Signupend and MediaWiki:Centralauth-complete-text, in order to have some innocent souls saved in advance.

• MediaWiki:Signupend is a system message which appears when a new account is created, look for instance en:MediaWiki:Signupend and en:Special:UserLogin/signup. The text included in BG WP forwarns new account creators to first check their desired username for crosswiki conflicts and choose names which do not conflict, in order to have global account from the very beginning and not trouble themselves and other account holders.
• MediaWiki:Centralauth-complete-text is a system message that welcomes users who are about to initiate account unification. The text included in BG WP forwarns these to check for conflicts and, if any, try to solve them before they have merged their accounts (bug 13507).

I even suggested to have this useful link added in the generic system message of CentralAuth, alas my idea was not welcomed and adopted for a reason which continues to be very obscure to me, and remained unexplained.

However, I do believe that as many wikis include this tool in these two messages, the less troubles users, bureaucrats and stewards will have in future. If you appreciate these measures, you may support them in betawiki or forward to some relevant mailing list, discussion page, or alike. Regards, Spiritia 09:50, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Hmmm, I like that idea, the only problem I see is that Meta is multilanguage, so imho it should be integrated from the central base from wich messages are taken, betawiki. It is a pitty they don't want it there. At least there should be a warning or hint that there is now the possibility of creating a sul account in Special:Userlogin and signup. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 13:56, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Jack Merridew @ ml.wiki

This is done ( ref). But why it is moved from SUL requests page??--Praveen:talk 13:51, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello, thanks! It had not been removed but moved to Steward_requests/SUL_requests/Bug_14330#Jack_Merridew, thanks again, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 13:53, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for your help correcting my SUL.--  † ChristianMan16  20:32, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Remove SUL

Can you assist with remuval of my SUL? Deroravi 21:24, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Sure, I have answered You in Steward_requests/SUL_requests#He:User:Deroravi, please let me know if You have any questions, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 21:40, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Answered there. Thank u for your help. Deroravi 21:48, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank you so much - it was driving me insane. 89.1.52.189 21:52, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

SUL questions

Hello, I recently went on the toolserver to look up information on my global account and saw the text:

• Locked: no
• Hidden: no

Since I saw the logs here of you 'hiding' and 'locking' global accounts, I was just wondering if you could explain these functions to me, since Help:Unified login doesn't seem to cover the issue. Thank you! — Moe ε 04:24, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello, locked would disallow the user to login to a wiki, hidden would hide the username from the userlist (only the global one).

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 08:05, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh, thank you for explaning it to me. Regards, — Moe ε 04:51, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Board elections/2008/ko

Hi, I protected Board elections/2008/ko just after you did. I'd have thought I'd get a warning or something, but apparently not. Do you know when it'll expire now? I assume 22 June 2008, because blocks also expired after the shortest block was over. Regards, Erwin(85) 10:06, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes I have seen, it takes the modification. Of course it is always possible to modify a temporary protection, it gets the new entered expirity then :) There are no warnings for this, because it is not a conflict. So, since You entered it shortly after me it expires 22. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 11:01, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Can you please comment

Hi, birdy :) Can you please comment on discrimination against some interwiki bots and Esperanto wiki at Chechen wikipedia? (see Requests for comments/Bots on Chechen wikipedia). I feel like it's against a common policy. Your opinion will be much appreciated. Thanks. --Volkov 18:00, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

Dear Volkov, I have left my opinion, I fear it might not change anything. It is always a pitty to read such, the idea of wiki and openness has not yet reached all minds and it seems - just like in real world - some peoples sight is not longer than their nose. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 13:17, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

OK, thanks anyway. --Volkov 10:16, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Betawiki

In betawiki, all these messages which I have translated on Wikiquote are already translated! But nobody show interest in committing the changes.--Firilacroco 13:57, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Your request was not found because it was not in a place where it would be noticed as a request for an import. :| This is where you make an import request.. On the page where you attempted a request, it says that it will take a couple of days.. your request was done on the 5th.. GerardM 19:06, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

thanks GerardM, also left a note on Firilacrocos talkpage, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 19:31, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Home-wiki bugs

Hm, Birdy, it seems that home wiki appointment fails not only after deletion of global SULs... maybe you already know about this problem, but I couldn't find any info, so I report it.

Here is the case. bg:User:Zara needed about 30 usurpations, all of them with minimal number of edits if any. About 20 of the requests were fulfilled, 2 rejected, 8 are pending. After the problem with Nadina's misattributed home wiki, Zara decided to give it a try and see which wiki will be appointed by the merge system for her home wiki. SUL tool says home wiki should be BG WP, and that's right, most of the contribs are there. So far, so good. Note that Zara has never performed SUL, so never asked for its deletion... however the merge system appointed for home wiki IT WP, which was usurped for her only today. Here is the screenshot.

There you will first see a confirmation request for SR WP. It's irrelevant, this is a new different user, registered after Zara started here usurpations saga, and Serbian crats are already asked to usurp it, too. But again, attached are only very few of the accounts and home wiki is not the real one. So, problems may occur even with users who haven't had their SULs done and deleted... Did you know about this, can anything be done?

(Please, if it's more convenient for you, feel free to answer here, I watch your talk. And yes, keep the screenshots as long as you need them :-)) Cheers, →Spiritia 21:22, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello Spiritia, derHexer told me something like this today (see de:Hilfe Diskussion:Single-User-Login# Was läuft hier falsch? [permalink])

I have the feeling it affects only accounts that have had renames, I will try to reproduce the error with some testaccounts, however, even if I can't it should be reported as bug.

Thanks for letting me know, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 22:35, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello again, I was not able to reproduce the bug, maybe I am missing an important step,

I made three accounts "Foo777", edited with two, so they got some contributions and a homewiki.

The third was the one to usurp, I made an alternative account, then moved the 0 contrib thing away, and had no problems in the Merge process, the home wiki was the correct one. Maybe it does not affect newer accounts or something is missing in that procedure.

But I still think it should be reported, but I have to try to get some sleep for now ~

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 00:04, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

I think I understand why I could not reproduce that error, the accounts are too new.

After some people reported these problems, I think I got an idea how this happens, I wrote that in bugzilla:14481, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 11:57, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Sent you an email with user/pass of a test account created before bugzilla:14330 was fixed, you should be able to reproduce the bug, at least I managed to. :-) →Spiritia 18:27, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi, thanks, I have seen and played around with it, this was (I believe) that had been reported at bugzilla:14403.

I reopened it and used the accounts to show the problem. Thanks :) best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 18:36, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi. Good news here! Zara just pushed her luck and checked once again what's going on with her SUL, and right now the homewiki is already properly attributed, and all accounts are listed. Same I see with Test_User_1. Seems the developers managed to diagnose the problem and fix it. I hope that the rest editors with similar problems will be relieved now as well... :) We may keep this test account unmerged for other test purposes later, but if you need, feel free to dispose of it as you wish. →Spiritia 19:24, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Result of Recent Changes on gu@wiki

Hi Birdy, I am back to give you a trouible once again. For quite a long time I was wondering whether it's only gu.wiki were we see all the edits made by Bots in Special:RecentChanges even though by default it is set to 'Hide Bots'. In Gujarati, selecting 'Hide' Bots or 'Show' Bots makes no difference, as changes made by Bots are always displayed, I checked on en.wiki and hi.wiki, where the case is not so. These days, there are nearly 50-100 of Bot Edits everyday on gu, which makes me unable to view changes made by Users or non-users, which sometimes leaves vandalised pages intact.

Can you pelase have a look at script and suggest what can be done for it?--Dhaval^Talk 13:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello Dhaval, nice to hear from You :)

I don't have that problem You report, there are some bot-accounts without botflag though, You will have to ask gu:User:Spundun to flag them. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 13:34, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Birdy, I got it now, as you said because of not having the Botflag, they are listed in the history. Unfortunately as you know User:Spundun is almost inactive these days, it is most unlikely to assign these bots a bot flag. Anyways, nothing can be done as our project is Orfan without a permanent Admin/Beaurocrat.

Furthurmore, I could somehow have 4 votes for my ADmin Rights, I remember you or someone had told me last time when I was getting temp Admin rights that as the community is small, 5 votes will do for permanenet rights, which seems impossible to me now, as the users who contribute dont care to read anything else than their contribution. My rights are expiring tomorrow, so was wondering whether these 4 votes will do for it?

Sorry to go off track, in this event as I said Spundun is inactive, who else can flag these bot accounts?--Dhaval^Talk 13:50, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Of course this is no problem, You can ask for botstatus at Steward requests/Bot status, all instructions are on that page. You could also try to email Spundun, but it is no problem to request on the Meta page. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 13:53, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Logo in Swahili Wiktionary

Hello, Ndege. Can you give me few information about to ask for a new logo for http://sw.wiktionary.org? What I really wants to know is how to ask for a new logo, cause that one which is current, it looks like http://en.wiktionary.org. Please tell me what to do cause we wants to change it in it's own way!--Muddyb Blast Producer 16:38, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello Muddyb Blast Producer, if You need someone to make a logo for You, You can ask for that in Requests for logos, then if there is one ready, upload it to wikt:sw:Image:Wiki.png, protect it, then go to bugzilla: and request logo switch (keyword:shell), best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 16:40, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

request permissions

please pay attention to this reply, thanks!--Vipuser 09:02, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your suggestion and I replyed here.--Vipuser 14:29, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Gothika

File:Random Acts of Kindness Original Barnstar.png

Thank You for your help here and in enwiki.

Thank You very much, but it still not working for me :(.--85.66.62.70 21:49, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Hey, thanks, and sorry :( I sent You another email, maybe something I wrote works for You :S --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 21:58, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Image rights

Hello, Ndege. Could you please tell me few things about to upload an image? In en:wiki, you can upload an image and some other wiki such as af:wiki, th:wiki, hu:wiki, and so many other Wikipedia languages can upload an image. So, what to do in order Swahili Wikipedia to have all that items which are needed for uploading an image? Kindly I need to know about this....--Muddyb Blast Producer 14:51, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello Muddyb Blast Producer, normally image uploads should go to commons: which accepts all free licences, for Wiktionaries that would be the place to upload files (also audio files for words), so they can be used in all Wiktionaries or sister projects.

For the logo You need to go to wikt:sw:Special:Upload, it should be named 'Wiki.png', if it does not work it might be dissabled, then You can upload it to commons:, there it should be named 'Wiktionary-logo-sw.png' and leave me a note that You wish to use it as logo, I can protect it for You then.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 14:55, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry. You didn't understand me. I was just asking tools for uploading an image for Wikipedia kwa Kiswahili! I'm also an administrator in Swahili Wikipedia. So, this time I'm Wikipedia and I want's all resources which give me right to upload an image as well as English Wikipedia upload! If possible..--Muddyb Blast Producer 15:20, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Hm, I am confused, I normally don't upload with a tool, just sw:special:upload, on commons they have some bots to upload from Flickr but that would be senseless in Wikipedia, because such uploads should go on commons anyway.

If there is a tool that is used on en.wiki, maybe ask the operator of it there? Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 16:11, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

How should I contact with an operator?--Muddyb Blast Producer 16:26, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't know, I don't know of a tool so, I don't even know if there is any nor an operator, sorry :( --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 16:33, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

It seems as you afraid when I say tools. What I meant is: Uploading tools, is to have license tags as well as English Wikipedia has, Creative Commons Attributions Share Alike 0.3 an so many uploading tags. Did you get me?--Muddyb Blast Producer 16:46, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

I think I understand, what You want is to change the upload screen, where selectable licences are shown? --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:19, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Ooh my God, I don't even know where should I get that selectable licese. And we don't even have that selectable license tags, that's why I ask for that! We really need that selectable license. Please help us to have it...--Muddyb Blast Producer 09:27, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

• Create licence templates (the names of the licence-templates must match the names You add to sw:MediaWiki:Licenses) and add licences to sw:MediaWiki:Licenses

• Syntax:

*licence-type1
**template1-here|description1-here
**template2-here|description2-here
*licence-type2
**template3-here|description3-here
**template4-here|description4-here

etc.

For having a page like en:Wikipedia:Upload when people click on the upload-link on the left hand navigation You would have to:

• Make a page like: en:Wikipedia:Upload
• To make the upload-link link to "Wikipedia:Upload" (or how You will name it), add a javascript in sw:MediaWiki:Common.js (better request a change of the uploadlink in bugzilla:, since not all users have javascript activated/installed) and add

addOnloadHook(function()
{
    if (document.getElementById("t-upload"))
    {
        document.getElementById("t-upload").getElementsByTagName("a")[0].href = wgArticlePath.replace("$1", "Wikipedia:Upload")
    }
})

The preloads of the templates there must match the names of the templates You made on sw.wiki

Hope that helps, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 09:50, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

There's no need to have license tag which wrote in Swahili, no. Even if it's in English we'll accept it. For the time being you can show us in English and then later we'll change it our language. Furthermore: It's good to have all that instruction, but it seems as to be very difficult for me to understand JS. I'm not familiar with that java script. Could you please add all of that things in that place which shown me?--Muddyb Blast Producer 14:39, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello, just copy the en:MediaWiki:Licenses to sw:MediaWiki:Licenses, and the templates are named excatly as the name before the |

Example: en:Template:PD-old

That was what I meant with names. If You want all of them from en.wiki You can just copy them over to sw.wiki and translate them later.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 21:20, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Muchas gracias

Por tu ayuda para hacer la solicitud para crear una Wikiquote en Aragones, espero q la propuesta sea aceptada, saludos--Aldo Cazzulino 555 00:37, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

How to change user page title?

Hi, Birdy. Maybe you know how to change user page title? Some female users of Lithuanian wikipedia are unhappy because of masculine ending of namespace user (lithuanian - Naudotojas). Sure, we can't make double namespace for male and female, but maybe it's possible to change page title, like here: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Alexsh. I asked this user, but he replied that this change is possible only in Chinese wikipedia. So what I need to to what we could change titles in Lithuanian wiki? Regards, Hugo.arg 13:47, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

All I could think of is {{DISPLAYTITLE:xyz}}, but afaik it is only enabled in the Wikipedias to resolve upper and lower case issues of the exact same character order: like Blubb -> blubb.

I think You have to talk to the developers, I guess You have to talk to the developers for two reasons:

• The "female" user-namespace-name F should redirect to the user-namespace-name M, because if someone tries to link to [[F:Someuser]] name they would get an error. (Namespaces can be made as some kind of redirection, compare wikt:de:WT:TS with wikt:de:Wiktionary:TS)
• The variable or magic word to change the namespace-prefix should be restricted to userpages/user-talkpages and should only change M: to F: but nothing else to prevent missuse.

To request such, which I think should be possible (but I am no developer at all), please first find community consensus and then open a request at bugzilla:, or visit #wikimedia-tech^connect to talk to a developer in real time.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:18, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

global

thanks :-) --.snoopy.  18:37, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Hehe, welcome :) --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 18:38, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Diamond Joe Quimby

Diamond Joe Quimby I have logged into my account and signed it I also provided a e-mail code so could you delete my Global Account so I may change my name to PoliticianTexas quickly if you don't mind. Diamond Joe Quimby 19:28, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Kochaś → Kochas on pl wiki

It's unfortunatelly impossible for me, as a local bureaucrat, to change a SUL login in any way, as I suppose. Your suggestion can be technically done, I think, that deletion of a global account for a while is really necesarry. Maikking 08:40, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, I am sorry, but I did not notice that the user also had a sul account for his alternative account, Kochas had been deleted only, Kochaś is now deleted too (I checked the request). Thanks and best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 10:38, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: traducciones

Hola Spacebirdy. Gracias por el aviso, ya tengo cuenta allí desde abril de 2007 aunque ultimamente no paso mucho :-) Un cordial saludo. --Prevert 13:58, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

sq.wiktionary bot

Yes we are interested adding your bot in sq.wiktionary. There where no reaction beause the number of active editors in that area is low. Regards. Puntori 07:10, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Bot on Ar Wikt

Apologies for the delay

You have been granted a Bot-flag. We will need many interwiki bots on AR, especially now as we are importing many articles.

Regards --Lord Anubis 09:26, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

Bot on sw:wikt

Hello, Ndege. I replied your msg here. --Muddyb Blast Producer 05:30, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

bot.hu.wikt

Granted. Good luck! --grin ✎ 07:57, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Bot ku.wikti

Hi, it is fine to run your bot on ku.wikti!

Bot for Latin Wiktionary

Hello, Spacebirdy!

I've now read your message at the Latin Wiktionary taberna about using your bot for our Wiktionary. Sorry no one has answered earlier, but apparently there is not much activity in general - my message about the list of important entries hasn't been answered yet either.

Anyway, I'm not an Administrator (so I don't dare to give you the permission), but I'll try my best to contact one and make them aware of you.

Okay, bye for now. --Abmf

Hi, thanks, but note, You don't have to be an admin to give Your opinion to this too, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 17:47, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Mycēs says that he doesn't know whether there is any process to allow or refuse bot services or the like. As for me, I don't mind at all - on the contrary! So, if you'd like to set up your bot at our Wiktionary, I'd say: Just do it! We're grateful for every help. --Abmf

Great, I set it to run there too, I have asked for botstatus on SRB, but this might take a while, let me know if it does too much disturb You in the recent changes. Btw. yes, there are no processes, just what the communities think, the policies are community made too :) Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 17:03, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Which vandal ?

You name Peedpants vandal. However I didn't find any vandalism in his edits. Why should I block a contributor which only put interwiki links to categories ? Arno Lagrange ✉ 12:11, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Take a look at this edit (and maybe also this one). He seems to go from wiktionary to wiktionary doing the same thing – adding many good interwikis, but in between he is adding bad interwikis or vandalism. --EivindJ 12:16, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

• wikt:eo:Category:JA is about japanese language and wikt:en:Category:Japanese language too
• wikt:eo:Category:CY is about welsh language and wikt:es:Categoría:Galés too

Hi, please see also Vandalism_reports#Language-category-vandal, he is the same vandal from other wikis and if You don't want to check every single edit of his (he adds good links and then weaves vandal links in it), please block him because he will add vandalism links again. Thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:19, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

The two edits you mentionned are not vandalism, only perhaps discutable linking. Why not discuss with the contributor instead of blocking him ? It's a better wiki way, isn'it ? Arno Lagrange ✉ 15:37, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Please look at the second link he added to [26], Bulgarian might not be Japanese. And he definitly is the same user who did this, this, that, and others. But of course it is up to You what to do with him, I just wanted to let You know. I am for sure not active on eo.wiktionary and will not watch that furhter.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:42, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

P.S. We discussed with him in de.wikt, after he added wrong links to categories and "cunted" or something, he said he makes no errors, but continued to make them, after a one day block he came back, added wrong links again and the link to autofellatio... I am sorry, but good faith has an end somewhere, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:44, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Hola de nuevo

Lamento pedirte que gastes tú precioso tiempo en ayudarme, el asunto es que quiero cambiar mi nombre de usuario, y hice el pedido en Wikipedia y me dijeron lo siguiente [27] me ayudas??

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Aldo Cazzulino 555 (talk) diff (UTC)

Sí, te puedo ayudar, por favor deja una petición para borrar tu cuenta unificada en SR/SUL y asegúrate de tener una dirección de correo electrónico confirmada en tus preferencias. Un saludo, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 19:49, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Dzongkha Mainpage

Hi Spacebirdy,

Would you be so kind as to unblock the Mainpage of Dzongkha Wikipedia? Because there is a proposal for Dzongkha Wikipedia to be closed down. I personally think that more Dzongkha users would be more willing to participate there if they are able to edit the Mainpage. Are you able to help? --Jose77 06:41, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Hi Jose77, hm, the page is only semiprotected, so You and other users (registered ones) should be able to edit it. To me it seems to be quite important to keep it semiprotected because of the history of Attacks.

Also, to be honnest, I do not quite understand how the complete unprotection of the main-page would increase the number of contributors.

I would suggest to link to a development mainpage from the talkpage which is unprotected, maybe in userspace, where also IPs can add their changes, which are then added to the real mainpage by a registered user. At the moment I would not prefer to unprotect it, as we are seeing an increase of spambot activity again.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 09:04, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Thankyou for your prompt reply. A semi-protection of the Mainpage is fine to me. --Jose77 03:45, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Dictionary links

Hi Spacebirdy ... I came across this IP, 81.198.230.129, who seems to add dictionary links on different wikis. I haven't tested the dictionary in too many languages yet, but in those who I've tested it in I've reached the conclution that this dictionary is quite crappy (at least in any other language than English) and I reckon every language more or less has a better dictionary on web (i.e. this link doesn't contribute positively to wiki). Anyways, he seems only to put the link on the respective wiki's article about "dictionary" or "English". I've let the ones on "dictionary" stand, while I've removed all links on "English" as cross-wiki spam. What do you think? --EivindJ 11:07, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello, could I ask You to add that to the Talk:Spam blacklist, please, I doubt I will find time to review it in a reasonable timeframe, it looks quite spammy, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 16:19, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Problem mit dem Bot

Hallo Spacebirdy, ich versuche jetzt früher gelöschte Volapük-Seiten mit meinem Bot wiederzuschaffen, aber ohne Erfolg (ich bekomme nur die Fehlermeldung "Someone has deleted the page."). Weisst Du, wie man früher gelöschte Artikel per Bot wiederschaffen kann? Ich vermute, dass es irgendwo ein Parameter gibt, die False ist und True werden muss oder umgekehrt... --Smeira 20:58, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Hallo Smeira, was verwendest Du denn fuer ein Script, wenns eins von pywikipedia ist, nimmst Du die neueste Version?, und v.a. was genau versuchst Du? Erstellst Du die Seiten neu, oder möchtest Du gelöschte wiederherstellen? LG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 21:06, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Hallo! Ich benutze pywikipedia (die Version die vor sechs Monaten auf sourcefourge vorhanden war). Ich würde gern die Seiten einfach wiederherstellen, aber ich habe sie schon vor zwei Monaten gelöscht und fürchte, sie seien nicht mehr wiederherstellbar. Ich hatte versucht, sie neu zu erstellen, aber ohne Erfolg: nur die obengenannte Fehlermeldung... ----Smeira 16:37, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Ich wuerde Dir dringend empfehlen die neueste Version zu verwenden (SVN). Welches Skript verwendest Du? pagefromfile.py? Warst Du schon in #pywikipediabot^connect?

LG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 18:26, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Vándalo en gl.wikt

Hola Spacebirdy. Muchas gracias por el aviso, ya lo he bloqueado. Un cordial saludo. --Prevert 22:14, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

bot on cs.wikt

Hello. I am sorry I wanted to write you but I have had too much work with a new template system. There is no problem with your bot yet. But we have a tradition on cs.wikis that the bot flag is not granted before it make some test contribs. So it can work and if there is no problem with, the flag will be granted. Best regards. --Reaperman 08:12, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Hola!

Hola spacebirdy, tenía bastante tiempo de no saber de tí, ahora mismo sólo ando merodeando en es.wiki; te iba a preguntar algo, con respecto a las usurpaciones; en mi caso tengo el nombre Taichi en todas las wikipedias excepto tres: de.wiki, ja.wiki y ru.wiki. En esas tres wikipedias mi nombre es *Taichi* (con los asteriscos). ¿Me podrías indicar los pasos a seguir para unificar la cuenta? Gracias de antemano! --Taichi - (あ！) 22:40, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Querido Taichi, es un placer verte por aquí, espero que estés bien!

Pues renombrar las cuentas en ru.wiki y ja.wiki no debería ser un problema. Pero veo que en de.wiki el usuario Taichi tiene ediciones además no entiendo muy bien esta respuesta a una vieja petición tuya.

Si quieres tus cuentas alternativas siendo renombradas a "Taichi" tenemos que borrar tu cuenta global. Por favor podrías dejar un mensaje allí si te parece necesario (o sea si tienen contribuciones, que no quieres perder). Por favor asegúrate de tener una dirección de correo electrónico válida en tus preferencias.

Luego tienes que pedir a burócratas locales que las renombren: de, ru, ja.

Un saludo cordial, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 22:58, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Sw:wiki on external search

Hello, Ndege. There's something I find out it out as it's different with other Wikipedia. When you seacrch for an article which available in Swahili Wikipedia you'll see:

• Kitu Gani - Wikipedia

No more words are getting forward. But in English Wikipedia you'll see:

• Hard Target - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If possible we also wants to see Swahili Wikipedia has some text like that one which I shown above. For example:

• Hard Target - Wikipedia, kamusi elezo huru.

I think you got me!! Please just help us on that!!!!--Muddyb Blast Producer 05:10, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

I think You mean sw:MediaWiki:Tagline, if You want that below every site title, You need to put:

 /* display "Wikipedia, ..." */
 #siteSub {
     display: inline;
     font-size: 95%;
     font-weight: normal;
}

in sw:MediaWiki:Monobook.css

best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 10:52, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

I made it. But the tittle are not appear in the site!! So, how long does it take to be appeared??--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 15:16, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

You have to clear the cache, then it appears in no time :) - works for me, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:26, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Yeah. I saw it. Thanks for the effort. And I'm sorry for my poor English!! I really don't know to write proper English, but I try some. See yah arround and thanks again and again!!!!!--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 04:09, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

We finally establish it, but there's some problem of appearence of tittle on top of the template. See this. It's steped to left side, instead of staying centre. Could you please check for it??--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE)

Hello, I don't see a problem in sw:Dknob, which template has a problem? Note, that nothing will overlap with the tagline if that is what You mean, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 08:20, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I checked also. And it seems as there's nothing has been happen, but I'm not in my computer. I'm in somewhere else. And that tagline does not appear in other computer, only in my pc. If want to to believe it, try to open any page of Swahili Wikipedia, while your not in computer which you useful. You'll find out. I don't even know what to do now!--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 10:21, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Really, it works, just the cache has to be cleared, also note, that this will only work with the MonoBook-skin, which is the default one.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 19:26, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Borrado de página de usuario

Estimado Spacebirdy, ruego que borres mi página de usuario y mi página de discusión, ya que me doy de baja. Mi nombre es ÁWá y lo que aparece en mi bloqueo es: {| style="border:1px solid #AAA; background:#f9f9f9; width:100%; margin:0 auto 1em auto; padding:.2em; text-align:justify;" |style="width:50px;"| |style="padding-left:.2em;"| Your

No quiero que estas dos páginas aparezcan en el proyecto ya que hay unas falsedades sobre mí y perjudican mi imagen, y no quiero que sigan ahí.

Gracias. --EEaa 16:25, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Hola, lo siento, pero no borramos páginas de discusión, voy a borrar la página de usuario, pero no la página de discusión, un saludo, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 16:40, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Re: Wiktionary:Robot

Desafortunadamente, no puedo hacer SpaceBirdyBot como un robot, probablemente porque creaste esta cuenta automáticamente por el Login unificado (SUL). Si lo quisieras, puedo cambiar el nombre de SpaceBirdyBot a "SpaceBirdyBot (1)" (por ejemplo) para que crees una nueva cuenta aquí con el nombre original, y luego yo lo haga como un robot. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 05:26, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I can't make SpaceBirdyBot a bot, probably because you created that account automatically through Unified login (SUL). If you'd like, I can rename SpaceBirdyBot to "SpaceBirdyBot (1)" (for example), so that you can create a new account under the original name, which I can then make into a bot. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 05:26, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

No importa, estaba usando Đặc biệt:Makebot en el sitio incorrecto (la Wikipedia en vietnamita). He establecido el flag de bot de SpaceBirdyBot. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 05:38, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Never mind, I was using Đặc biệt:Makebot on the wrong site (the Vietnamese Wikipedia). I've granted SpaceBirdyBot bot status. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 05:38, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

wikt:lt:Vikižodynas:Botai#User:SpaceBirdyBot

Please make till 100 edits on the Lithuanian Wiktionary for demonstration purposes. --Vpovilaitis ^apt. 07:40, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Allright, though it will surprisingly not make other edits than anywhere else [28] unless asked (I do replacements too from time to time, but only if explicitely asked), but please forgive me if I don't count them, I just let it run some time and then stop it. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 08:29, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Bot status granted. --Vpovilaitis ^apt. 08:59, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Bot page at he:wikt

Hello. You have created the page he:wikt:Project:בוט on Hebrew Wiktionary. I have moved it to your user namespace, because the Project namespace should not contain such private content. Your page is at he:wikt:User:Spacebirdy/bot right now, but you may move it to a different name, of course. If you want to get a bot flag, please contact he:User:Mintz l he:wikt:User:Mintz l. Thanks, Nevuer 12:11, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Hello, it is no private content, it is a formal request. The page is linked from wikt:he:Special:ListBots, which is why I added my request there, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:29, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I didn't notice that it was a request. Our project is extremely small, and we still don't have a special place for such requests. I have moved your request to our bureaucrat's talk page. Best regards, Nevuer 13:11, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Thank You Nevuer, that is very kind of You, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 13:40, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Ranges etc

Maybe we should be looking at getting IPBlockExempt on Meta too? Regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 12:47, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Here? - take care --Herby ^{talk thyme} 13:15, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

gl:wikt:User:SpaceBirdyBot

Hola Spacebirdy. Ha sido aprobado otorgar el status de bot a SpaceBirdyBot en el Wiktionary en gallego. Felicitaciones y gracias por la ayuda. Un cordial saludo. --Prevert 14:50, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Hola Prevert, muchas gracias, he eliminado todos los enlaces a tlh. Un cordial saúdo ;) --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 19:51, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

Kevin17 --> Mercenario97

Can you rename me in meta and commons? Because SUL. --201.230.122.49 20:55, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

No, I can't, please visit:

Meta:Changing username for meta,

commons:Commons:Changing username/Current requests‎ for commons, thanks.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 20:57, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

et:wikt:User:SpaceBirdyBot

I have nothing against you running your bot on et.wiktionary. You are welcome to do it. Andres is the one who can grant you a bot status. --Ker 08:33, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Usjes

Hi,

I had been adding audio files for word pronunciations to the Irish Wiktionary and you suggested adding them to the Commons. I had a look at this but unfortunately I have very little time and the Commons upload procedure is much more time consuming. If I follow the, 'It is entirely my own work', link it is a bit quicker but the number of fields to fill in still seems excessive. I am wondering if it is possible to create a special, less general, form for uploading pronunciations. In paritcular it would be good if I just had to enter the word being pronounced <word> and the language code (ga) and then the description field would automatically be generated:

Fogharaíocht an fhocail gaeilge <word> Pronunciation of Irish word <word> Pronucitation du mot Irlandais <word> etc.

Also the date could be automatically entered as the date of upload. So essentially what I am proposing is adding a new link on the http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload page which would be similar to the 'It is entirely my own work' link but that would involve filling out less fields and would have a standardized description field. Is this possible ? How would I go about creating a new form like this ?

Thanks,

Usjes.

Dear Usjes, thanks a lot for contacting me.

For uploading the files quickly I would suggest You do the following:

• go to commons:special:preferences -> Gadgets -> check the first checkbox: "Use the old-style upload form layout."
• clear cache.
• make a upload copy and paste plate for Your personal uploads on Your userpage, with the necessary information: for example, something like:

{{Information
|Description=Irish pronunciation of ...
|Source=my own work
|Date=~~~~~
|Author=~~~
|Permission=fill in Your permission here
}}

{{some permission template You use always}}

[[Category:Irish pronunciation]]

Then the upload process should be quite easy for You, please let me know if You have further questions or doubts, and if this would be fine for You, thanks,

best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 22:22, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Bot flagged on Simple English Wiktionary

Thank you for completing the trial period. I have now flagged this bot.--Brett 11:12, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

problem

Hello, Saltinbas, please block this user, example, and check his contribs (I did not check if his language additions are correct), see this page for more info, best regards, --uzaykuşu _{(:> )=|} 14:09, 1 Temmuz 2008 (UTC)

Hi, most of the additions the user made are correct. But some of the additons are wrong. I will reverse the wrong edits. Thanks for your warning.--Saltinbas 14:44, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Warning on asturian wiktionary

Thaks for warning me about CheapBot. I will be watching its activity. Best regards! --Esbardu 17:12, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks :)

But how come it works differently on Commons (I knew there was something like it but I hadn't got around to doing it)? Thanks anyway :) --Herby ^{talk thyme} 16:06, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Okay

Sorry, i was just trying to create a page with compiled help. I didnt mean to cause any harm. Nice page! The7DeadlySinsλάλει ἐμοί18:21, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Bot request at tr.wiktionary

Hi, your bot request is approved at tr.wiktionary.--Saltinbas 18:39, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi, please have your bot flag set at meta. Until that time you can start using your bot. no problem.--Saltinbas 19:41, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Move function @sw:wiki

Hello, Ndege. There's some problem occured in our local wikipedia. Initially "move button" was any one can use it, but now only admin can use it (it's hidden till you have sysop right). Could you please help us to make it back? We want "move button" to be used for every one!! Hope you'll help us.--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 15:46, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your information. Furthermore: We made some tagline in Mediawiki:Tagline and Mediwiki:Monobook.css, but still some place that name does not appear! See image bellow just check Swahili Wikipedia and English Wikipedia what's different is. In the tittle, Swahili wikipedia shows:

• Wikipedia:Sanduku la mchanga - Wikipedia - Microsoft Internet Explore.

• English Wikipedia:

• User:Spacebirdy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Microsoft Internet Explore.

Just check an image bellow:

[[Image:Tagline for Swahili Wikipedia.JPG|thumb|centre|450px|See what's different.]]

I hope you understand it, won't you??--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 16:22, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks again and again. I find out something else in template. I copied some license template from commons and add it in Swahili Wikipedia, but it doesn't show the rounding border as well as commons shown. Please check it here you'll see it and tell me what to do with it. And I'm sorry for bothering often! Cheers,--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 05:49, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Locator Image in Infobox @ gu.wiki

Hi Birdy, I am back. This time I noticed that on Gujarati Wiki, the locator maps (in Infobox) always appear for the whole of India, while on English, they appear for particular state when the infobox is placed. For example, if you compate Palitana and પાલીતાણા you would know what I mean. Can you please advise what will we need to do? do we need to modify the code, template or need the Image of Gujarat on gu.wiki uploaded somewhere? I have already posted this question on Indian Maps Talk Pageas well, but not sure whether anybody attends that page, as I could see posts unanswered since Sept 2007. In this scenario, I thought you might help me.--Dhaval^Talk 11:27, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi Dhaval, I am sorry, but I fear I can't take a closer look at the moment. There seems to be an error in the JavaScript too, but I don't know if that is the cause. Maybe they respond to You on that page You asked, if not please remind me at the end of next week, I hope to have recovered until then. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 17:23, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Birdy for looking in to it, lets hope to get it answered there in talk page on en.wiki, if not, will defintely bother you again.--Dhaval^Talk 17:36, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi Birdy, I got response on the english talk page for the infobox mentioned above and did as advised, but to no avail. Have requested the person there to check it, but hasn't got any response yet. Will really appreciate if you could look into it. Thank you in advance.--Dhaval^Talk 13:24, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Dear Dsvyas, sorry I did not respond before, I was quite busy this weekend and not at home. I'll try to have a look at it tonight, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 19:08, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Not a rush sir, take your own time. It hasn't got any serious impact.--Dhaval^Talk 14:24, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Birdy as always, you fixed my dumb mistake and lack of attention once again. But as you have already doubted on my talk page, I am really not happy with English word on gujarati page. What can be done as a workaround for this? --Dhaval^Talk 09:00, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

That's excellent. You are a diamond...Dhaval^Talk 12:41, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Mww113@wuuwiki

Not to argue, but wpedzich seemed ready to grant it on irc.

To quote:

        <wpedzich>	Mww113: hmmm, one week?
	<Mww113>	yeah
	<StewardBot>	Filipinayzd edited [[Steward requests/Permissions#Administrator access]] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/?diff=prev&oldid=1074801
	<Mww113>	loads of copyright violations there
	<wpedzich>	K
	<wpedzich>	will grant it for a week

Mind consulting wpedzich? Thanks Mww113 14:00, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

No, he can contact me if he wishes to. His action, his problem, if he does not document it anywhere also his problem. I think I was clear on that, if other people see it different, it is their matter then. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 14:14, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

Actually he didn't do it. I am asking you for your consent to allow him to go ahead and do it. I don't want to start a steward war. Mww113 23:37, 7 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't have to 'allow' him anything, if someone disagrees with my decisions and decides otherwise I don't mind.

As for 'my consent' there can't be one: to grant someone temporary status on a project with 2-3 active admins without the locals consent, is something that obviously should not be done. If someone does it is then their responsability, that was all I was saying.

I am surprised You'r now trying to get temp - status the second time, again telling there are no local admins. Did You ever contact them and informed them about the situation? I think not...

Try to find the locals consent to this or tell them to delete themselves and stop trying to play out stewards until You find one that does believe You there are no locals without looking.

Thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 09:10, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Bcl.wikipedia

I have been given temporary admin access several times. What is the difference between it and sysop? As the proponent of the project and "de facto" admin, would you consider giving me a permanent admin access? Ringer is currently the other active native contributor. --Filipinayzd 09:40, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I already informed him. --Filipinayzd 10:25, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Why can't I edit this? Can you help me? --Filipinayzd 16:03, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

How will I deal with users like this? --Filipinayzd 09:32, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

There are users being nominated for temp access and these users don't have to ask permission themselves. There are projects that are not that active (with less than 100 or even less than 10) but have more than one admin. How come they got permanent access? Voted by the large community which has only created how many articles? --Filipinayzd 11:11, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Talk:Global sysops

I've started a new discussion which is about the use of the power - please feel free to comment there. Thanks, AP aka --Kelsington 18:29, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

Myanmar Wikipedia

Hello, Spacebirdy. The Myanmar Wikipedia is a disaster. Unicode encoding for the script changed (I am one of the people who am responsible for solving the problems which brought about the change in encoding. RIght now you can see that there is a kind of sysop war brewing, with several people who have no experience with the Wikipedia at all asking for adminship because of some turf wars in Burma about font technology. This is most regrettable. But it doesn't get the wiki up and running. It doesn't get the user interface translated. It doesn't get Unicode 4.1-encoded stubs deleted. Etc. Unless the problems with that wiki are solved, it may as well be deleted entirely. I requested permanent adminship on that wiki because it may take an undetermined amount of time to sort out the problems there. I've been in contact with Jimmy Wales about this, in fact. What can we do to get this sorted? Check the requests for Adminship page. You will find the number of people voting to Oppose my adminship have all done so as one-time first-time votes. What can we do? Evertype 08:42, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

If three months is all I can get, that will have to do. Six or twelve would be better. I was previously granted that, and it ran out of time. Can you do it? (By the way I have been discussing the problems on the Myanmar WIkipedia with Jimmy Wales and some of the Wikimedia board members.) Please note that MyMyanmar was given permanent Admin access without much discussion. I'm not sure why I'm being considered differently. Evertype 14:52, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Please can you grant me the six months, then? By the way, I had three supporting votes for my request for permanent Adminship, in addition to the one person who had no other edits. Evertype 15:52, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Frankly I would like you to note that Jimbo Wales has added now his support for my original request. I don't think I fail to meet any criteria for permanent Adminship. I reiterate my request for that. I'll cheerfully resign once I no longer need it. Evertype 23:13, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikiquote en español

Hola

¿Puedes revisar mis últimos cambios en q:es:MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning y q:es:MediaWiki:Edittools? Danke --Javierm 21:15, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Formart problem

Hello, Ndege. There's something I find out in my account. When I'm not login to my account, all template I can see them clear. Once I sign in for my account, all headings of template turn left side. I don't know why, is there any problem in my account? Muddyb.--196.41.37.186 15:45, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Hello, Ndege. I sent you an e-mail. Didi you see it?--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 09:36, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

a username to hide

There was a thread about approving the hiding of some usernames that, I think, was approved about a month ago; I offer this for consideration. Luser should see someone about his equipment insecurities. Cheers, Jack Merridew 09:56, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank You, as far as I can see DerHexer took care of them, best regards, --geimfyglið :^╡ 11:00, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

• another and
• another again and
• another here on meta

The two on id:wp are not blocked and are making quite a mess right now. Cheers, Jack Merridew 11:14, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

nb: this issue has been dealt with now (DerHexer). Cheers, Jack Merridew 11:51, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

An incident

Hello. Could you take a look at this and tell me your professional opinion? Thanks, --NICrneGore 19:31, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

Bots in bo.wiki

Hello, Spacebirdy. I am Viskonsas from bo.wiki. There are 2 active bots waiting for their flags ([29]), so could you please approve them? Thank you. --Wisconsus 11:09, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Handling usurpation

Hi, Birdy. I have a user rename request with usurpation at ka.wp. I'm a bureaucrat there. Can I handle this request? The normal user rename interface doesn't allow me to usurp cause it says the user already exists. Must is be done by a steward? Cheers, Malafaya 12:45, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes, the new username already exists since 2006, but has no edits. The request I'm talking about is at ka:მომხმარებელი_განხილვა:Malafaya#User:Nino0_-.3E_User:Nino. Thanks, Malafaya 19:12, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Nomination for bureaucrat in sw:wikt

Hello, Ndege. Could you please consider to make User:Robert Ullmann to be bureaucrat in Wiktionary kwa Kiswahili? I nominate him to be bureaucrat here. Please have look.--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 15:51, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

Silliness

Thanks for that - should probably have done it myself. But I saw he was complaining about being listed on the main page, so didn't think to do the talk.  — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 22:28, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for deleting the global-account. Dark Mage 12:55, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

IW bot on Swedish Wiktionary

Hi! On the Swedish language Wiktionary we've decided to use a customized sorting order for interwiki links, as described by "Dodde-order" on wikt:sv:User talk:Conrad.Irwin. We've also decided to include interwiki links to redirect pages. Unless you are able to change your interwiki link script settings, we would like you to stop further editing on Swedish language Wiktionary, so that we can avoid a bot flame war. Thanks, //Shell 22:20, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

No, I won't change my settings, I removed sv.wikt from my list, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 06:11, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

(P.S. changing the sort order for sv.wikt only would have been no problem for me, linking redirects sure would, because it then would affect all wiktionaries I run it on, and that I don't want, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 06:13, 20 July 2008 (UTC))

How to move Categories

Hello, I'm a new admin at Punjabi Wikipedia. I have a question, how do we move a category. Some of the categories at [pa.wikipedia.org Punjabi Wikipedia] needs renaming, so do I just delete the old category and create a new one for the newer name, or is there another way. I would like to move the history of the old category to a new one. Thank You. --Gman124 15:50, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I have answered on Your talkpage on pa.wiki [30], best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:56, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply; though, I really don't know how to use a bot. The Punjabi words for bird are ਪਰਿੰਦਾ or ਪੰਛੀ Gman124 16:08, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

I wanted to rename the following:

• 1780 ਜਨਮ ==> ੧੭੮੦ ਜਨਮ
• Punjabi language ==> ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ
• ਗੁਰੂ ਹਿਰ ਗੋਿਬੰਦ ==> ਗੁਰੂ ਹਰਿਗੋਬਿੰਦ
• ਗੁਰੂ ਗੋਿਬੰਦ ਿਸੰਘ ==> ਗੁਰੂ ਗੋਬਿੰਦ ਸਿੰਘ
• ਿਸੱਖੀ ==> ਸਿੱਖੀ
• ਿਸੱਖ ਗੁਰੂ ==> ਸਿੱਖ ਗੁਰੂ
• ਗਜਲ ==> ਗਜ਼ਲ
• Stub ==> ਨਮੂਨਾ
• Sikhism stubs ==> ਸਿੱਖੀ ਨਮੂਨਾ

The above category need to be renamed, Thank You for offering to help. --Gman124 16:55, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

• "ਇਸ ਸ਼੍ਰੇਣੀ ਦਾ ਨਾਮ ਬਦਲਿਆ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ ।।" is the translation for "Moving Category". How you have it set up is alright, although on pages some of the categories are witten as for example on page pa:ਅਸੋਕ a category is linked as "Category:ਇਤਿਹਾਸ" and on another article pa:ਕਿਲਾ ਮੁਲਤਾਨ page its written as "ਸ਼੍ਰੇਣੀ:ਇਤਿਹਾਸ" both go to categoty named "ਇਤਿਹਾਸ"

PS: If I want to create use pywikipediabot would I have to know about Python first? Gman124 20:19, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

• • You can run without bot flag I guess. Most of the editors over here only show up like twice or three times a month so would take very long to get votes, plus there's no bot policy over at Punjabi Wiki Gman124 20:29, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank You very much for your help. : ) Gman124 21:17, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks again. Gman124 22:34, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Error while using value {{#expr:}} in template

Hi Birdy, Hope you are well and back working. I am awaiting your inputs for the question posted above for the locator images, while you get time for that, may I ask you one more favour? I copied the Template for Nutritional Value from en.wiki to gu.wiki. The problem I am facing there is, wherever the value {{#expr:}} appears in template, in the actual page it is replaced by an error message reading "Expression error: Unrecognised punctuation character "�"%". Can you please advise why it would be and how to fix it? Thanks in adviance.--Dhaval^Talk 12:34, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Hello Dhaval, it seems it can't handle the gu-numerals for mathematical operations. It is working now, I am not sure if it's what You expected though :(

As for the other problem, I did not forget it, I just always save some work to do for the night but lately I am always so tired that I can't get everything done :(

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 14:35, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Excellent Birdy, I am so dumb, didn't realise that when there is some calculation involved, it can't recognise the gu numerals. Can we do something for this? I mean any code change or something as gu-numerals are on the same key strokes as english, can't we synchronise them?

Regarding the other issue, as I had mentioned in the reply fo that, there is no hurry for that, I had used that just as an opening line for this message. Please don't feel that I am bugging you.--Dhaval^Talk 14:41, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi Birdy, I was even communicating with the developer of that template, and from the communication, I found that whether there are any parser functions that can convert letin/english into Gujarati?--Dhaval^Talk 12:37, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Hm, I would not know how, sorry :( --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 22:52, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

xal.wp

Vielen Dank fuer die Hilfe.--Yaroslav Blanter 13:42, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Consulta

He estado tratando de usar el pagefromfile en mi bot para wikisource en español, pero no logro hacerlo funcionar. Si pudieras darme una ayudita te lo agradecería.

He creado el archivo dict.txt (guardado como utf8 como dice allí) y lo tengo en la carpeta de pywikipedia. Al correr el bot pongo los parámetros pero me da siempre el mismo error, que dice:

Reading 'dict.txt'
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'dict.txt'

cualquier tipo de ayuda me vendría bien, besos, --LadyInGrey 19:45, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Gracias por la respuesta, hay algún problema técnico en la página de descargas de notepad, asi que intentaré en unos días a ver si me resulta mejor. Besos --LadyInGrey 21:27, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Entonces la página está en mi contra, ya que sigue sin funcionarme.
Mil gracias, besos,--LadyInGrey 02:50, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Hecho :) --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 10:18, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Recibí el archivo y lo instalé, ya tengo el notepad, pero sigue sin funcionar el bot, me da siempre el mismo mensaje, he probado agregando y quitando parámetros, y nada (lo puse como utf8, .txt .xml, y seguiré probando extensiones :)) Ya por hoy lo dejo, esperaré hasta que se me prenda alguna lamparita. No obstante voy a empezar a trabajar con este notepad que me parece muy interesante. Besitos y muchas gracias, --LadyInGrey 18:19, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Your cleanup over at az.wikipedia

First off, thanks a lot for your help over there. I did have one request, can you please apply cascading protection to the main page of az.wiki [31]. The original vandalism was posted on a template that was transcluded onto the main page (it was a shock image). Thank you! – Gonzo fan2007 ^{talk ♦ contribs} 03:18, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Problem whuile Blocking

Hi Birdy,

For last quite sometime, I am facing this probelm while Blocking someone. Everytime, I try to block the user, the message appears saying "Exipry time invalid". I tried all the different options of expiry time, but it won't allow me to block any user. Is there anything wrong with my profile or there is some problem with gu.wiki?--Dhaval^Talk 10:38, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Dear Dsvyas, I have answered on Your talkpage on gu.wiki, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 10:53, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks birdy for quickly resolving the issue. But now, I am unable to see the text in drop down list, I know where comes what, so have blocked the user for the correct time i wanted to. I think not being able to see the GUjarati script in drop down list is due to my computer set up, but still not sure, as I can see all the other text in gujarati script but the drop down list and a few others. Can you suggest what it could be?--Dhaval^Talk 11:07, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi, it seems to be local problem, I am using IE 6, that might be causing it. Tried clearing the cache, but to no avail.--Dhaval^Talk 11:51, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I have tried firefox and opera, the problem doesn't persist in them, but unfortunately in office PC I can't have anythign else than IE6, I think at home I have even got IE6.5 or IE7, and I can read the text in that as well. And, the problem is only with the texts in Drop down lists, or titlebars, etc., main text I can read and write properly in gujarati. So seems to be some problem with IE6, or may be because I am using Windows2000 in office, while at home I have got XP. But so far as I can see the main text in GUjarati and edit it, I really don't bother much.--Dhaval^Talk 12:34, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

fy wikt/wb

Hi, fûgelje :-),

1. About the two concerns you raised here:

• translations only on Beta: I'm on it! But it's always good to remind users (especially me) of such things.

• image uploads preferred on commons:

Is administrative access required to replace one's own uploaded images? I do plan to move the images to commons but only after I get them the way I want them. Plus, I find commons rather intimidating and a little, well..., er, so I prefer to start in a friendlier place. :-)

When I'm ready, do you guys want me to set up a bot flagged account on commons to use imagetransfer.py?

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2. Also thank you so very much for all your help on the fy wikt, inter alia with vandalism and bots. To be honest, I hadn't submitted any bot requests myself because it took so long the last time, and it looked like you guys were holding the requests hostage until sites figured out how to implement a satisfactory bot policy. ;-) But you and Carsrac took care of that latter for us, too. Much obliged!

Snakesteuben 11:57, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Asking for help

Dear. Spacebirdy. I am writing to you because I need help from experienced user. I have created w:bo:Template:རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ཆ་འཕྲིན།ལེ་སུ་ནི་ཡྰ།, but in the country list article the country are not shown properly. The problem is that there is no link to the article (compare en.wiki) and bo.wiki. please help me! Thank you very much.--Wisconsus 12:53, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Sorounding border

Hello, Ndege. Could you please kindly check which made this template why it doesn't have rounding border, while english wiki has it?--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 17:09, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. But where should I add that code, centre, down or up? Cause I found another code it's already there! Could you pls give me hints where to provide it? I meant center, down or up?--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 05:34, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

I succeded to provide code into common.css. But it's conflicted some template such as w:sw:Template:Msanii muziki and others they turn to left side instead of being right side! How to solve this problem? It's possibly I made it wrong. Could you please consider to correct it your self? Just a help only. I permit you to do so, no worry about it! Pls help us.--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 09:17, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! I finally succeded to set it out! Thanks again.--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 10:16, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Small wikis

Drini's list is here.  — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 02:07, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Hum

Many thanks for the rights birdy. However, following a cross wiki spammer "rollback" did not appear on the three wikis I just visited? :( --Herby ^{talk thyme} 09:45, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks birdy. Logged out (cleared cache) and logged in - random sample of three wikis I now have "rollback". My thanks again & regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 10:10, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Renaming on En

I'm not sure about the renames on en. Assuming person A has SUL activated, has account B on en with significant edits, and accidentally logs into en: with his SUL account, what's going to happen? Would renaming B to A (=C) (through usurp), unlink C with SUL? Nichalp 10:29, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

If A has SUL and accidentally logged into a project where he wants B renamed to A, thus creating an account automatically, the no edit account A just can be moved to something else E and then B to A.

Yes, an account renamed to (or from) a sul account is unlinked, the user can then merge it in en:special:mergeaccount,

best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 10:39, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarifications. :) Nichalp 11:06, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Your views about the situation

I wanted to know your views about the situation. Joe and SRL were granted admin/bureacrat status on mt wikipedia without community consensus. How are the other users going to tackle this problem? Should these ppl retain their status?

Thanks for your help.

--Giangian15 13:49, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Access to #wikimedia-admin

Hello Spacebirdy. I'm an admin at en.wiki and would like access to the IRC admins channel. I also tried to request a Wikipedia cloak too, but I couldn't seem to get it to work :/. Sorry for being a nuisance, any help would be appreciated. Seraphim Whipp 18:59, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

sysop status on mt.wiki

Hi, I took care of sysop status discussion on mt.wiki - now it's 1:1 and am thus awaiting further discussion/ votes since a two vote basis is very weak. Any experience or suggestons on how long to extend? Cheers. --Joelemaltais 02:30, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank You, I have answered You here, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 09:36, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Thx.. so no need to protect the page for now --Joelemaltais 15:03, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi Birdy, Giangian15 is questioning Srl’s admin status and mine (cf. two topics further up) and requesting candidature record on Mt.wiki. I think I should give some background here. First off, there was no official candidature process at the beginning. Srl is the person who set up mt.wiki while he was working in Malta implementing Unicode for computerized systems in Maltese. His knowledge was extremely valuable. He was well known in the Wikipedia and MediaWiki community. Back in the US working for the ICU-Project he has much less time. He has not been actively contributing on mt.wiki for some time but generally answers requests for technical advice per mail within a day. His knowledge of MW is invaluable and I’d appreciate him retaining that status. Right after mt.wiki was set up there was an active community for a short time. Thus Roderick Mallia could be elected formally and he contributed enormously to localizing for mt. When I was granted admin status we had a low in contributions and had vandalism issues. I had been forwarding a few technical solutions to some problems, flagging and vandalism. Rod and Srl suggested giving me admin rights – which I declined at first, fearing too much responsibility and preferring to concentrate on writing articles – but accepted after it seemed sensible and actually am happy about that now. As far as I know nobody reproached my work and made it a point to keep as active as possible, balanced and never had any personal issues with anyone.

Do we have to go through a reconfirmation process? As I see it there’s enough on the record in English and Maltese. I think that would be useless activity. What do you think? --Joelemaltais 15:03, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

I can confirm all of this. I had discussed Joelemaltais' promotion long enough with Srl. At that time, there were some vandalism issues and since Srl was not readily available, and neither was I to a certain extent, so we needed someone else to share administrative duties. The problem at that time was that the number of active users could be counted on one hand and thus, a formal election could not be held. He was very active at the time and has worked hard in fighting vandalism and helping with other technical difficulties. Moreover, it has to be said that he never worked with ulterior motives in mind and whatever he has done, he has done in good spirit. Which is why Srl and myself thought he was a perfect candidate for the job. Even though Joe was at first, very hesitant about the idea, but eventually after a serious and open discussion between him, Srl and myself he decided to go for it. And to be honest, I'm happy he did because he contributed enourmously to the wiki. So personally, I don't see why his status should be put into question. I would hate to use such adjectives but it does look a bit childish to me.

Secondly, I also agree with Joelemaltais re: Srl's sysop status. He can be looked at as the founder of the mt.wiki and even though he's not very active within the community nowadays, it would make lots of sense for us to retain his status because he's very knowledgable and he's always available for technical advice when problems arise. --Roderick Mallia 15:28, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

I have responded to Joelemaltais former message here, I don't see any problem here either, best regards to You both, and thanks for Your fast replies, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:31, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Thank you Spacebirdy :) --Roderick Mallia 16:06, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

I'm sry Joe and Roderick, continuously backing up each other won't get you anywhere, the situation is that we can't have admin's "on again, off again". Besides how do you expect the mtwiki to develop if not even the front page is up to standards?

Now, as one might recall one of the main pillars of Wikipedia is consensus. Ok, fine enough you had your status of admin and bureaucrat given to you back then on the basis of the situation arising, however what about presently? what official sources do you have that states clearly that you have the consensus of the community? All i'm asking is that those administrators that were never actually voted in by the community they should open themselves for recall.

I believe that Wikipedia should be a project where decisions are taken entirely by the whole community and not by just a subset of people, and those entrusted to certain tools should be entrusted by the community itself. Afterall that's why the processes of RFA and RFB exist.

re:founder of maltese wikipedia --> Should i laugh or should i cry? SRL is not a founder, the maltese community was. You think a guy who doesn't speak fluently or write it well can ever be a founder of the maltese wikipedia? I'm sry i prefer that his status is given to someone more active, it's useless having an administrator and bureaucrat on the sidelines doing nothing, we want active contributors with fluent maltese to be entrusted to the tools. Besides SRL is now inactive, and it's just you two with the tools, i see no balance whatsoever. You two don't think any differently and are friends, so i dont see you ever going to oppose each other. The need for an independent 4th/3rd proper administrator is based on the concept of "strength through diversity", we want a fresh face in the administration that has nothing to do with you two. Chris for instance was perfect, his contributions so far have been excellent.

Thanks --Giangian15 08:57, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Hi, Gian, All,

We are'nt backing each other, we are trying to reason things. I opposed Chrisportellis becoming admin, put up my arguments and said at the same time that I wish there would more discussion. I asked birdy and he said this would be viable and is done. You too said you wish there would be more discussion when you closed the vote. Roderick also said he wished there would be more discussion. Isn't that consensus? So why are you now against extending the voting period till the 4thof August?

Viz. Srl's contribution and Status : You could have set up mt.wiki back then. Nobody would have stopped you. But nobody else did. He did. I think we should be glad that somebody who was working on implementing Unicode in Malta, recognized for his contributions to ICU, would take interest in the Maltese language, study the language and set up mt.wiki in his free time. Think of all those contributions – and there are good ones – which we’d have missed before you ever came here. Who takes care of technical fixes without you even noticing them? Without work partially done by him your XPsystem wouldn’t have a Maltese locale. What’s wrong having him here he’s the one with in depth knowledge about the tools.

Look I have no problem with another admin. Id be very happy if we found the right one. I opposed Chris because there was enough information showing he had a misconception of the role of admin and ulterior motives: in his case, as I felt, going for the status. Still I was of the opinion that others should speak up too before closing this call. Diversity: nearly everything of importance can be done without admin rights. Even suggestions for the Main Page.

Finally, Gian, if you wish to escalate this further be it so. Just for your Info: I'm in a train to Geneva. My connection via VPN is choppy. In some time I'll enter a WHO building, will have to work, and won't have access to the internet. Thus you might expect slower turnaround. Cheers to all and thanks for your time --Joelemaltais 10:57, 31 July 2008 (UTC) (p.s. an afterthought. It might be a good idea to reopen an admin call in Autumn, when statistically we have more active users online)

Hello all, as I have already explained, we will only remove a status without local decision if there is an emergency (=abuse/vandalism), as there is none, the local community has to decide that, not a sole user. As I feared there seems to be some kind of problem in mt.wiki going on but it is an internal matter and I hope You can solve it peacefully. If You prefer to discuss it outside mt.wiki please be welcomed to open a request for comments, where also people outside Your community could comment. I would like to remind You all that we are basically on the same sides and working towards the same goal. Thank You, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:17, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Problems in guarani wiki

Hi. Could you have a look at this gn:Vikipetã_myangekõi:Tekohapegua#Internalization_problem? I tried to delete gn:Mediawiki:Sidebar but it not helps. Regards, Hugo.arg 21:44, 31 July 2008 (UTC)

Global rollback

Hi Spacebirdy, does not having a fully unified account have any consequences for global rollback? I won't be able to use rollback on my unnattached accounts, of course, but I was wondering what you meant by SUL is not complete, please chose a wiki (e.g. Metawiki) if You add him to global rollback. Regards, Erwin(85) 14:27, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

More fy. (New section because I'm up next for archive)

Hi, Fûgelje,

Thanks for your extremely helpful message. I know you're incredibly busy, so I really appreciate your research and asking around.

1. Re: Uploads on commons. Thanks much for your pointer to commons:COM:TOOLS and Commonshelper. There's other good stuff there I had no idea about. Plugins scare me, but this one, Commonplace, looks valuable enough that I might brave it.

About: I would personally think that it is easier to upload it to commons in the first place. [more great tips snipped] ... let me know. Or anything else how to make commons friendlier for You :)

Well, probably temporarily, I've more or less grown to detest commons. Here's my most recent rant over there. To date, about half of my uploads on commons have gotten deleted. (OK, I'm pretty sure one or two of them were my fault; I probably filled out the license thing in the wrong place.) Still, I'm reluctant to post content I am using in my work to a place where it appears (my perception) to be subject to arbitrary deletion at any time, when all the info necessary to prove fair use is present, but some format technicality is breached. (With one deletion, I have no idea and can't guess now what was wrong. And as a non-admin, I can't see the unsatisfactory text that I wrote. That's why I inferred I probably put the right info into the wrong template or some such.) So that's why I plan to start with the images residing on the local project.

2. Re: Spacebirdybot if You wish I can make fy.wikt a startpoint for one run to catch all its interwiki links.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean there, but it doesn't matter. I have admired you since the first day I ventured out of mere editing and into discussion. If you think it's a good idea, it is. Full stop. Anything you ever want to do is fine by me. :-)

Thanks again, Snakesteuben 19:11, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

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Wow, gosh, Spacebirdy, thank You for all that hard work You did.

1. Restored photos Thank You for having the Amaryllis in the rain photo restored. I think I understand now how to avoid that particular mistake again.

OK. I've got religion. I promise I'll try harder. I'm willing to put in a lot more effort now after You've been so nice and done so much work/patient hand holding with me. I'll start ploughing through all that template documentation and try to figure out myself what each one means.

I'm not sure why I have so much trouble on commons. I'm active on, I think, every type of project, and that's the only place that has me tearing my red hair out.

But just FYI, I don't think I'm the only one. Just today someone wrote to me, using the term "copyright fascists" to describe commons.

I think You can understand why it's tempting to take the easy way out. Find something you want on another wiki, just copy it lock, stock and barrel, and paste it on the target wiki. No templates, no stickler admins, no problem. All the info is there, and that's all that matters. (Perhaps You noticed that everything I've uploaded except the amaryllis has been snagged from some local wiki and ported here, or originally came from here, and I just cropped it or something.)

I keep asking myself, couldn't there be some sort of autoformat bot to take care of some simple stuff. Maybe transferred images that clearly state the project they're taken from? Or perhaps have a repository where people can dump requests for image transfer? After I figure out what I'm doing with the licences, I might be able to help with running bots and whatnot--if I could be of any conceivable use to anybody with gruntwork. But Robert Ullmann can tell you I'm not much of a programmer. :-D

Never mind that bit, it was kind of dumb. Well, I just used Commonshelper to put Commons:Image:Schachbrettblume.jpg back. It was on the de wp. I'll let you know whether it sticks. ;-) Snakesteuben 11:07, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

I also think the nag bots might be too fast. I won't have this problem any more after Your template advice. (Thank You again.) But some of us like to save large, complicated edits, particularly with unfamiliar templates, half way through to reality check and ensure we don't lose our work. Can't do that on this site, or 10 seconds later, BOOM! Nag on your discussion page. Which also means you won't get a nag after you think you've finished and everything is copacetic.

Enough of that. I do want to do the right thing. And I will. (Though I'm still planning to start locally.) Now, to explain those particular images I fouled up.

Yes, Schachbrettblume.jpg, that's it. The one I mentioned that was likely my fault, because I put the license in the wrong place. I figured out where. You can take a look (and have a laugh) at this totally braindead manoeuvre. How embarrassing... (I guess I got really confused. Well, I really have no explanation how I manage to make myself look like the dimmest user on commons.)

I asked for deletion of commons:Image:Œillets (Sweet William).jpg because I just gave up. I decided I didn't need to use it, and I couldn't seem to find the right template. With the text that popped out, I ended up taking credit for something that's not mine. I just plain couldn't then figure out all the gnu-cc-¿cómo?-wie?-saywhat :-D template letter combinations to translate the plain text that accompanied the original image when I snagged it from a random local wiki--wherever and whatever language that was, can't rightly remember. Just my being dim again probably. I'll try harder. Really.

I have another question or two, but I think I'm mercifully going to get off your back and try pestering ShakataGaNai for a while now. :-)

But as a quick parting shot, I'll say that, given the fasci scrupulous attention paid to copyright, I'm disturbed (yeah, a little emotionally) by the short shrift given to publicity rights. I think the commons position on model releases is completely unjustifiable. (Really just a parting shot. I've started a rant on a related topic over there in a more appropriate place.) But perhaps as one of those people who personally experience the strange feeling/phenomenon of not knowing who owns her face from time to time, I'm "over-aware" or too sensitive. *shrug*

2. Bots Re: But on fy.wikt for example there are pages that do not exist on de.wikt, therefore these pages won't get an interwikilink from this bot even if there are the same pages on other wiktionaries.

Oh, wow. Thank You. You just answered another question You didn't know I had. :-D

3. "Radix is the story of a young man's odyssey of self-discovery, from dangerous adolescent to warrior, from outcast to near-godhood, in a far-future Earth dramatically changed from the one we know." That tag line reminded me just a bit of Ender's Game. I'm guessing I probably didn't need to link that last, huh? ;-)

Respectfully Yours, Snakesteuben 10:28, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

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Spacebirdy, thanks for your message, and for cleaning up my mess (again).

But you have read Stranger in a Strange Land, yes? In one language or another--though I'm guessing you are one of those people who prefer to read the author's original language whenever you can. Snakesteuben 15:48, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Image upload

Hello, Ndege. An autoconfirmed user does not have permission to upload an image into sw:wiki. Could you kindly consider about it? I started to create some licenses template in order to let non-admin to upload an image. But once they try to upload an image, the result comes "permission error". We want to be just like other Wikipedia! Pls give us a way to do!!--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 16:10, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Yeah alright. I got it. Thanks. And I use to tell them to upload an image into commons, as well as I use to upload free image to commons. But sometimes we need some non free images for some illustrations!! As well as English Wikipedia use to do!! But anyway, thanks for the hints! Thanks again. Cheers,--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 16:45, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Boas-vindas

Obrigado pela mensagem! --LipeFontoura 15:31, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

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Grácias por tu apoyo en Wikinotícias en portugués. He borrado aquél verbete. Alex Pereira ^falaê 01:16, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Obrigada, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 01:24, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Logo Request

Greetings Spacebirdy,

Could you help create the Wikipedia logo for Teochew?

Thanks in Advance. --Jose77 02:01, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

I have seen it, but I did not have time for it. It is not urgent I believe since that wiki does not exist yet, but I already have it on my imaginary todolist, and might get to it the next few weeks if not someone does it before, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 03:02, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Collapsible table function on Common.js

Hi, I am a admin on the Myanmar Wikipedia and I can't seem to get the show/hide function to work on Common.js for the Navbox template. Could you help me? Thanks. --Hintha 06:30, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks so much. I appreciate the help. :) --69.234.102.29 20:40, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

The Bot query

Hm, I was /am confused about that bot-request in de.wikt and why You decided not to do it, if we have something wrong categorized we need to fix that first probably, but maybe afterwards it would be possible?

I must say I'm very pleased somebody cared enough to ask. Well, the problem is that I think they're categorised wrong, but others (who outrank me) do not. Of course! If the decision were reconsidered and changed, I'd certainly (not just possibly) pick up where I left off.

The proper characterisation

There are three Frisian {I'm pretty sure the de word = Friesisch} languages, not dialects. (Example category: wikt:Category:Frisian languages.)

Those languages are {here I'm confident I have the correct de words}:

• Westfriesisch - the language spoken by 350.000 or so people in the Netherlands. Standard language, with many dialects. wikt:Category:West Frisian language. Extra confusing: In English, one dialect is called North Frisian, and one is called West Frisian. The exact same names as the languages North Frisian and West Frisian.
• Nordfriesich - the German minority language spoken by about 12.000 people. 3 or 4 dialects, depending on how you count. (wikt:Category:North Frisian language)
• Saterfriesisch - the other German minority language in the Frisian family. Very few speakers. Standard language plus 2 dialects. (wikt:Category:Saterland Frisian language)

Earlier this year, the English site had one Frisian language listed. They figured out the problem themselves. They knew they needed to recategorise and list three separate languages.

Then they recruited me to fix the whole mess. (Big job, BTW--resulted in my first ever Bot!)

The DE error is worse than the one I fixed on the English site. Not only is there just one language listed, folks seem committed to the assertion that the German languages are DIALECTS OF THE DUTCH LANGUAGE!!!!! Igitt!!!!

DE site history: My side of the debate

In case it's helpful, here are the relevant excerpts from the original discussion/debate. (The original, long and turgid, may be found here. wikt:de:Benutzer_Diskussion:acf#Nordfriesisch)

If You find the detail bothersome, please feel free to skip this section.

28. Mai 2008

Me: Hallo, acf. Ja, {Nordfriesisch} ist eine Sprache, kein Dialekt.

... Was immer Ihr Euch entscheiden. {Birdy: At this time I had made only one entry}. (Aber ich weiß, das ich Rechts habe. Heehee! {Had to switch to English after that, unfortunately, my German just couldn't keep up}

... I've seen bald weasel-language assertions that "some people" consider all Frisian languages one language. But I have yet to see a credible citation.

... It's confusing {and there's a lot of misinformation one can't rely on}. Two years ago on the online encyclopaedia Britannica, the {Frisian article} teaser paragraph asserted that "Frisian" was a German dialect! HA! {Birdy: I wrote a nasty note. Britannica (sort of) fixed it a bit later.}

... {T}he whole reason Westerlauwers Frysk evolved separately was that the historical land of Frisia was split up. So it was split off, as a separate branch from Middle Frisian (which, until that time, was the common language of all Frisian peoples) without contact with either of the other two languages.

20 Mai:

wikt:de:Benutzer:Pyt : Eine Probe ob man mit verschiedene Sprachen zu tun hat, ist die gegenseitige Verständlichkeit. Um zu erkennen, dass diese für den drei Varianten des Friesischen besser sein könnte, dazu gelingen die Textproben. Ausserdem sind die drei Frieslände während längerer Zeit verschiedene Welte gewesen. (29 May)

3. Aug 2008 (when I finally remembered all this, and withdrew the bot request)

Me: Ja, Pyt, was du gesagt hast, ist gut rübergebracht. Friesisch sieht aus wie Niederländisch. Nordfriesisch sieht aus wie Norwegisch, das psychotrope Drogen eingenommen hat! :-D

And, Re: Stranger

Somehow, I got the idea You enjoyed allegorical science fiction. I may be totally wrong; I obviously don't know You well. But if that work sounds like something You might read in the next 10 years, I'd be truly, truly honoured to have Amazon ship it to You, gnädige Frau. (In care of the Foundation or any other address, of course.)

Fond regards, Snakesteuben 19:30, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

---

Spacebirdy, I'm sorry You thought my quip offensive. When I've shared that tongue-in-cheek "advice" on telling the Frisian languages apart: "Seeltersk looks like German, Frysk looks like Dutch, and Nordfriisk looks like Norwegian on drugs," it's always gotten a laugh in Frysktaalige media of every persuasion. That said, don't worry, I wouldn't drop it into the place you just created. That was on a talk page, and meant for Pyt after I dragged him over into the discussion, which, up to then had been basically soliloquy rather than discussion. But, yes, it was being watched by the panel on chat who were deciding, and I didn't know who they all were, so... Anyway, You see, I've started to feel fairly welcome and comfortable on the DE wikt, like on EN. :-) But that's perhaps not always an entirely good thing in my case.

Thanks for the tip; I'll put a sock in it.

I already weeded the language entries (meaning the actual words) on the German site a couple months ago. No, there aren't many. I'll double check that, also see if there are any new ones, and let You know the status. When a decision is made, I'll be happy to do the same for the translation entries in all the other language words, just as I did for the English site. Even if there are a lot (but I'll bet you won't have 1200-1400 like they did), that will be a lot easier this second time, for I've already made and debugged the bot's regular expressions. Cheers, Snakesteuben 23:49, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

hey

could you please refer to my request at Steward requests/Permissions#Drork@he wikipedia? Broccoli • talk page 22:04, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia main page

I wonder the 10 Wikipedias most visited that are arranged on this page. Why don't the search box arrange 10 Wikipedias most visited as well? If that is so, I should have see Thai language as well as evidenced from this page. (Thai Wikipedia is No 19.) Where and how could I possibly report this? --Passawuth 15:07, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Views on account locking?

Appreciated here if you have a minute. I do realise that there is some controversy with this but the JackPotte case which is referred to above that is ample evidence of the abuse that can occur. Cheers --Herby ^{talk thyme} 16:08, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes I understand that. However the section I pointed to does not refer to JackPotte but to people placing commercial user page spam on wikis. Thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 18:29, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you

for your intervention tonight at ln: --Eruedin 21:39, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

mediawiki (ln)

Hello Moyogo, please may I ask You to translate the interface in betawiki: only. The reason is, if it is translated there, the interface for all ln-projects and all wikimedia-foundation-projects can be seletected in Lingala. If You are interested in helping there, please create an account, and leave a message at betawiki:Betawiki:Translator then go to betawiki:special:preferences and set Your interface to Lingala, as soon as You had been granted translator-status (usually immediately or within some hours), You can start translating at betawiki:Special:Translate.

Many thanks, best regards, --Spacebirdy 10 augústo 2008 à 22:01 (UTC)

P.S. It would be kind if You at least left a short answer here, that You deny my offer. I have seen, You registered an account there long ago [32], if there is anything I can do to introduce You to the interface there and to make You feel comfortable or solve any problems which keep You from translating there, let me know. If it is for the messages You already translated here, they can be imported to betawiki, that would be no problem, best regards, --Spacebirdy 10 augústo 2008 à 22:15 (UTC)

Hi Spacebirdy,
Should I just copy the translations from ln.wikipedia and keep translating on betawiki? --moyogo 22:18, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

SUL Question

I have created a SUL account. I want to delete the SUL account, but I don't want to delete my localized accounts. I only want to separate them. Can you delete my SUL account? By the way when you delete my unified account, will my local account will be deleted too? joseph (--88.231.252.11 14:32, 11 August 2008 (UTC))

Hello Joseph, if Your SUL is deleted Your local accounts will stay of course, they are just not linked together anymore. For Your own safety, please make sure to have a valid email in Your b:tr:special:preferences and let me know then. You can then ask for renaming the localized accounts to some username not yet taken (You can check with vvv's sul-util) and then remerge them again with b:tr:special:mergeaccount,

best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 14:39, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

My problem is about SUL. There's a huge conflict with SUL. So please delete my unified account. I can't add an e-mail (i believe that i won't forget my password). Thanx. [:wikibooks:tr:joseph|joseph]] (--88.231.252.11 14:46, 11 August 2008 (UTC))

Thanx a lot. joseph (--88.231.252.11 14:56, 11 August 2008 (UTC))

Can I expedite my request here by sending you this message?.--Alnokta 15:18, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

User's ArttuS block on Finnish Wikiquote

Hello! I removed user's ArttuS block from Finnish Wikiquote, because he says on my talk page on Finnish Wikipedia that he does not have any sock puppet. --Johney 17:12, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I have answered there, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 17:33, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

One more question for you

2008 Summer Olympics bidding results
City	Country	Round 1	Round 2
Beijing	China	44	56
Toronto	Canada	20	22
Paris	France	15	18
Istanbul	Turkey	17	9
Osaka	Japan	6	—

I have one more question for you, I recently copied a table from Eglish wikipedia onto my sadbox at Punjabi Wikipeadia see pa:ਮੈਂਬਰ:Gman124/Sandbox, but there just one problem. The borders for the table don't show up, it's not just this, it's for all the tables we create at punjabi wiki, I have put the same table here on left. It shows up right here, but on the Punjabi Wiki it doesn't. So is the Punjabi Wiki missing some files that make borders or something? Gman124 20:39, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

• I would like to know where would I report this prolem? Gman124 20:41, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

• Thank you very much for your help. Now it looks good. Gman124 20:50, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
  • Welcome :) --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 20:54, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

Steward requests archived without action?

Hi, Spacebirdy,

I can't find where user Sonne requested extension of sysop privileges. Did I simply miss that request (grant would be fine of course), or was this this expiry scheduled for 29 July archived without being acted on?

Thank you again,

Snakesteuben 18:02, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Marvellous, Thank You for taking care of that.

I also appreciate Your taking the time to explain. I see the fault is partially mine for dinking with the bureaucracy's standard forms back in April. Lesson learned. :-) Snakesteuben 18:32, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Hallo

Hallo Vogel, danke für deine Einladung auf Betawiki. Ich bin bereits da registriert und habe ein bisschen übersetzt. Wenn Sie eine bestimmtess Aufgabe für mich haben, bitte hinterlasse Nachricht auf meine heim-wiki Seite. Viele Gruesse--CERminator 06:10, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Falls es zu einer Arbeitsteilung kommen sollte, würde ich mich auch beteiligen :-). Jetzt spass bei seite, wenn Du, hoffe ich darf du sagen, in irgendeiner Weise hilfe bei deutschen Überestzungen brauchst, kannst Dich gerne nebst Cerminator auch an mich wenden. Mein Spektrum reicht über die "Altjugoslavischen" Sprachen über Englisch bis Deutsch. Habe mich zwar bei betawiki registriert, aber die redirects scheinen nicht zu funktionieren. Ist es eventuell ein ausgegliedertes Projekt von Wikimendia? Vielleicht kannst Du mir verlinkung zu einer Infoseite posten? Liebe Grüße und bis dann. PS: Bitte die bs.wiki talk Seite benutzen. Danke im Voraus --Seha 18:03, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Cup of tea

<Prodego> ☕ eh?

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cbrown1023 (talk) diff, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 20:02, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Reverts

Thanks :) --Herby ^{talk thyme} 07:24, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

About Akan Wikipedia

Dear Spacebirdy,

First, I'm sorry for creating pages and templates in English. Next time I will creating pages in Akan.

Secondly, In the Akan Wikipedia, There are 10 articles (or more) needs to delete. Please help to delete it, thanks you.--Johnson40213 14:58, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank You Johnson, I have seen them, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:02, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

__NOINDEX__

Ich hab das gemacht, aber solche Wünsche sind im Pressestammtisch oder bei den Meldungen an Administratoren besser aufgehoben, weil sie dort eher jemand sieht. -- Kju 12:12, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Dankeschön, lG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 12:24, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Template:Kanzler

Hello, Ndege. Could you kindly check what the problem of this template to look different with this? I want to make it look complete like simple!!!--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 16:20, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

How wonderful it is. Thanks for your help!!--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 06:52, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

You got message!

Hello there, you've got a message in the Malay Wikipedia (mswiki), it's not urgent but of course it would be great that you go and have a look :-) Thanks! --אדמוןד ואודס_{自分の投稿記録} 19:34, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for notifying me here, I answered there, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 19:52, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

lmo-wiki spam

Thank you --Draco "Brambilla Piras" Roboter 07:55, 19 ago 2008 (UTC)

Gracias

Thank you Spacebirdy,

I have just made a request for Judaeo-Spanish Wiktionary.

No conozco mucho las reglas de Wikimedia y como soy nuevo puedo hacer errores. Por eso;

I would be very glad if you could check whether there is anything wrong in the request. And would you suggest anything?

Thanks again in advance,

Sincerely,

--Universal Life 20:10, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

zea Wikipedia

You removed a page on this small Wikipedia and I'm curious on what grounds. Has a request been made to do so on Meta, I can't find it? ♠ Troefkaart 02:25, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Answered there, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 02:47, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Could you tell me who made the request? Since the request has been made on IRC #wikimedia-stewards it's not possible for me to check myself. I respect your desicion to delete the page, but I think the person who made the request didn't give you all the facts, or only his or hers POV of them. ♠ Troefkaart 03:21, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Hi Vogerl :-)

Ich wollte dich bitten dir das hier anzusehen: Mein Usurp request auf WikiCommons. Es kann doch nicht sein, dass ein User der schon länger nicht aktiv ist mehr Rechte hat als jemand der sich bemüht. Nur weil er ca 20 Beiträge hat werde ich abgelehnt?!? Auf der en.wiki wo er mehr Beiträge hatte, hat es doch auch funktioniert. Gibt es irgendwelche Richtlinien und warum machen es manche Bürokraten so und andere so?!? Vielleicht kannst was tricksen? Wäre dir sehr dankbar. LG --Seha 17:54, 20 August 2008 (UTC) PS: bitte auf der bosnischen seite antworten, danke.

Danke werde ich mal direkt bei ihm versuchen. --Seha 18:46, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Global Account

I replied that I do have an email (confirmed). Cheers, Isabelle08 20:13, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Bitte

Hallo! Bitte guck da: [33], sehr wichtig. Danke!!!!

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Szajci (talk) diff, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 18:12, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Auf Deiner Diskussionsseite beantwortet, lG. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 18:12, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Block

This user must be block Azmi1995 05:05, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

See recent changes Azmi1995 05:06, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank You Azmi, I have answered You in id.wikt, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 09:25, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Auto Collapse

Hello, Ndege. Could you kindly help us to make our w:sw:Template:Kanzler to be auto collapse? I saw it in en:wiki they shown how to do, but I tried my best and I finally defeated to make it work. So, please, help us.--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 06:25, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Oooh, ume hit point kabisaa. It's true. I didn't find out why they came to be like that, but now I can see clearly and there's no need to change anything from Commons.js!!! Ahsante sana.--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 10:19, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Help for template age

Hello, Ndege. Could you kindly help us to change the date format of Template:Age to local fomart? What I meant is to change date circulation. It has to start from: March 27, 1982, as per inforbox msanii muziki 2. And now I want to change it to 27 Machi which is good for local date. I'll be happy if you'll help us to sort it out! Please help us to chage it into local date. You can see I use that template for the test inw:sw:Template:Msanii muziki 2.--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 16:09, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

And I sent an e-mail to your mailbox!!--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 16:34, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the hints. And did you replied my mail?--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 16:52, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Yes ;) --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 16:58, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

I sent mail once again!!!--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 17:17, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

i requested a logo for ancient greek wikipedia

i requested a logo for ancient greek wikipedia. please help me creating it

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by 190.40.205.185 (talk) diff, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 05:50, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I have seen it, iirc there are two other people who asked me for modifying a logo, I am not at home this week, maybe I can get to it next week as soon as I am on my pc again.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 05:50, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Invites

Does it make sense to invite people to the admin channel if they're only temp-admins? Angela 14:41, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Interwiki to SW w:sw:Special:RecentChanges

Hello, Ndege. Can you show us how to provide an InterWiki links to Swahili w:Sw:Special:RecentChanges? When I went to visit to other Wikipedia, I found most of them are having an InterWiki links to their Special:RecentChanges! So, please help us to have it!!! Cheers,--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 15:22, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Message

I don't want to use sandbox. I'm sending a message to a flamer. A person who jokes with a proposal of a closing wikipedia writing flames and harrassing people with offence. --87.17.2.164 15:36, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Answered on Your talkpage. Please stop recreating that page, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:37, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Now who is vandalizing, I have explained to You why it is not needed, You seem not to understand, and continue with Your insults and attacks, thus You got blocked, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 15:52, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Tu opinión

Hola Spacebirdy, espero que estás bien, yo estoy bien. ¿Qué tal los wiccionarios en islandés y en alemán? Para mí todo bien en los wiccionarios en siciliano, en córso y en maltés. Quiero contarte algo: unos italianos extremistas quieren cerrar todos los pequeños proyectos "itálicos". Hace tiempo querían cerrar el wiccionario córso (co.wiktionary), te acuerdas, y hoy quieren cerrar otro proyecto itálico: la wikipedia tarantina (roa-tara.wikipedia) como ves aquí Proposals for closing projects/Closure of Tarantino Wikipedia. Obviamente estoy en contra esta propuesta de cerrar este proyecto débil (débil claro, pero válido!). ¿Por favor tú también puedes decir lo que opinas? Muchas gracias por anticipado. Buena noche. --Sarvaturi 19:26, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

• Estimada Spacebirdy, no sé cómo agradecerte, pero comienzo: te digo muchas gracias por tu ayuda para el proyecto de la wikipedia tarantina. Si necesitas mi ayuda para sea lo que sea en los wiccionarios, dímelo ya y te ayudo enseguida. Si me buscas puedes contactar conmigo en scn.wiktio, en scn.wiki, en co.wiktio, en mt.wiktio y ahora en roa-tara.wiki. Te saludo. Cuídate. ¡Que tengas una buena noche con sueños bonitos! :-) --Sarvaturi 20:38, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Muchas gracias por tus mensajes, te he contestado en tu página de discusión, sueños dulces para tí también, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 21:32, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Tarantino Wikipedia

Thank you very much for your decision! I'll continue to work on this project, with more enthusiasm! Today Tarantino Wiki reborn again! --Joetaras 20:29, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Your decision

You closed this discussion about closure on the grounds that I didn't have an account. I could easily have one, but that doesn't make one less anonymous.
I didn't mean to provoke anyone, but I suppose you do not know how Italians can get touchy when someone dares to put under scrutiny their own town or what's related to it. I do know, being one, of course.
And however, I have read discussions that are far more inflamed than this one, and no-one dared to close them so hastily.
I brought sound arguments to support my proposal, though some may not agree and answer back; but that's what we call a discussion.
I would be very grateful if you would like to revise your decision about closing the discussion for vandalism; I can assure you that I am not a "vandal", as you would say.
And, believe me, I am not really keen on long polemics: I would simply like a decision (whether "keep" "close" "merge" or whatever) to be taken on rational grounds by those who are in charge, as soon as possible, rather than this discussion being silenced this way.
Þakka þér fyrir.
01:01, 28 August 2008 (UTC) Comment left by someone passing by

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.94.130.113 (talk) diff - please sign Your discussions with ~~~~ just as anyone else does, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 01:09, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Hello, my decision is final, You can ask someone else to revise it, I doubt You will get another decision. I don't think You don't have an account, but that does not not matter. For what I can see there, there are no arguments, only insults (on both sides btw.) and polemics. If it is a language or not You can discuss but not on these grounds.

I have nothing more to say about this, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 01:09, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Right..

I'm always the same ;-). Look at your talk at German Wiktionary :-).--HouseGhost^Discussion 21:14, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Additional functions

Hello, Ndge. I want to add or to increase some function buttons which use to be shown bellow of writting box. Because we sometimes need to add some functions such as {{DEFAULTSORT}}, <noinclude>,<includeonly>, and so many others which are usefull in other Wikipedia. But in Wikipedia kwa Kiswahili, we don't have such functions, so could you kindly consider to give us a good way? Please help us!!--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 11:57, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Hello, Ndege. You didn't understand what I prefered to add!! See this image bellow:

File:Additional Functional.JPG

As shown through this image: *{{DEFAULTSORT:}} *[[Category:]] And others, as well as shown above!

I hope you understood what I'm tryieng to tell you! Cheers,--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 06:46, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Yes. But that is less! You have to give us many tools!!!--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 07:53, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

I did as you said!! Thanks for your help!!--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 12:03, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

One more Question

I recently went to beta.wikiversity.org and signed in and clicked on my contributions and found that I had two edits on 12 July 2008 see here, when I clicked on logs it says my account was created automatically on 31 August 2008 see here, how could there be adits when I hadn't even created my account on that yet, I just wanted to know if the wikipedia software isn't broken or something because I had never edited beta.wikiversity and yet I have two edits on it. Gman124 17:42, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Oh ok, thanks, Gman124 17:50, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Personal attack

Hi,

I am sorry for my reaction. But Guido den Broeder posted a personal attack in via metapub and is taking legal action's against me. I was very mad when i posted it. It won't happen again.

Greatzz, Sterkebaktalk 12:59, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Spacebirdy, I have removed your warning from my talk. Reporting an incident is not a personal attack. Guido den Broeder 13:05, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

I have seen attacks/harassment on both sides, You both have been warned (I do not care if You removed it or not, I know You read it), if You continue, You will be blocked from editing, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 13:08, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Reporting an incident is not harassment either, thanks. Guido den Broeder 13:20, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

How You call it, I do not care, this is the wrong site for this, neither is my user-talk. People explained kindly why and users have been warned. Patience sometimes has a limit, please don't cross it. I have nothing more to say about that. Thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 13:25, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Well, point me to the right site, then. I was directed here from en:Wikipedia. Meanwhile, assume good faith and stay polite if someone reports their community to be a victim of hacking. Think for a moment of our patience, rather than yours. Guido den Broeder 14:00, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Gracias ...

Por tu invitación y los botones, un besito, --LadyInGrey 15:22, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Hilf mir bitte

Hallo! Ich habe diese Problem: [34] Ich wisse nicht was mach ich, da mein Bot diese nicht mache! Ich habe pywikipedia. Bitte, hilf mir! wikt:hu:Szerkesztő:Szajci

i requested a logo for ancient greek wikipedia

i requested a logo for ancient greek wikipedia. please help me creating it

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by 190.40.205.185 (talk) diff, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 05:50, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I have seen it, iirc there are two other people who asked me for modifying a logo, I am not at home this week, maybe I can get to it next week as soon as I am on my pc again.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 05:50, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

I am sorry, i copied this from your archive, please don't forget this request. Thanks for your attention, and excuse me.

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by 190.40.196.242 (talk) diff, please sign Your discussions with --~~~~ --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 16:40, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

As said, I have no time for this right now, I don't forget it, it is in the requests for logos. Thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 16:40, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

2 de.wikipedia spam issues: suite101.de and Benutzer:Prinz Rupi

Hi.

21 months ago, we found a massive spam problem with the suite101.com domain on en.wikipedia and we had it blacklisted on meta. There was also some cross-wiki spam. There's little or no editorial oversight of their 140,000 articles and the writers are not experts in most cases, so these links were not encyclopaedic. Suite101.com pays its writers based on page views of their articles and was coaching them as to how to build traffic through linking. There have been extensive discussions about this blacklisting; the owners and their writers have repeatedly protested this action, but they've found little support from the Wikipedia community for blacklist removal once our editors learned how unreliable their stuff was.

For a list of previous discussions to skim, you can see the long list I posted at User talk:Drini#Blacklist in connection with a proposed removal from the blacklist; we've since resolved that's not going happen. (All those old discussions are a lot of stuff to read, so you may just want to skim the stuff from late 2006.)

In the process of looking at this once again, Dirk found they also have a German site, suite101.de and there are a number of links to it. See the discussion on my talk page at User talk:A. B.#More about suite101.de and related spam. I have listed a number of IPs that added these links. Note that there were some suite101.com that were innocently added by regular de.wikipedia editors.

There was also a de.wikipedia editor, Benutzer:Gorillamoon (also known as Benutzer:Prinz Rupi) who added a number of links to domains he owns in addition to his Suite101.de pages. I have researched this and left a number of relevant links for you or someone else to check out.

I'm not comfortable pursuing suite101.de further since I am not a member of the de.wikipedia community. I suggest you or someone else on de.wikipedia take a look at both the desirability of your suite101.de links as well as the Gorillamoon/Prinz Rupi issue.

Regards, --A. B. ^(talk) 19:10, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Summaries

First of all, thank you for running your bot on the Esperanto Wiktionary. All help with maintaining interlanguage links is highly appreciated.

One minor thing: the edit summary is grammatically incorrect. Please make it read, for example: aldoni en, fi, fr, hu, it, ja, ko, ku, pl, ru

« D. Trebbien (talk) 02:26, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks birdyyyyyyyy! :DD Sir Lestaty ^discuţie 03:08, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

om.wiktionary addition to pywikipediabot

Hi, Pássaro espacial :). Regarding the bug you submitted at Sourceforge for Pywikipediabot, you can tweak your version to process the Oromoo Wiktionary meanwhile:

1. Open file families/wiktionary_family.py
2. Add 'om' to the end of the comma-separated list (on line 29, as of today)
3. Comment out om from the obsolete list (on line 375, add a # to the beginning of the line)
4. It should work now

As for the Closure Proposal, maybe someone should close it for good and revert the result? (result is CLOSE >>>> result is KEEP?) I think no one will dare to re-add om.wikt to Pywikipedia until that is done... I hope this helps. Cheers, Malafaya 13:30, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Template:Not an encyclopedia

Can you not tell the difference between good faith edits and vandalism? You used Rollback to revert my edit,and Rollback is for only for true vandalism. How was my edit "true vandalism"? XxJoshuaxX 01:14, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

You have already been reverted, explained, and asked kindly to discuss Your edition. Rollback is used to revert. That is what I did. Please leave me alone with Your invention of problems that do not exist, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 01:20, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

It's not my fault that image removals must be discussed and that you abused your admin powers by protecting the template. XxJoshuaxX 01:22, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Why should we discuss it, the people who use that template here (mainly admins who patrol the recent changes) seem all to be fine with the template as it is, or they would have changed it. We don't need to discuss every single edit, You get that wrong. Then I protected a template that had been editwared by You, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 01:24, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

It says in the rules that image changes must be discussed. This includes image removals. XxJoshuaxX 01:25, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Which rules say that. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 01:28, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

I thought I saw it before,but I don't remember where.

Also,I have a question for you: Why do you mark all of your edits as minor edits? XxJoshuaxX 01:30, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

SUL

Hi Spacebirdy, the problem with merging is solved, thanks for making time. Cheers Mion 17:31, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

I want to change my name into Azmi1995 for SUL Azmi1995 14:47, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

re: wikt:en:User:タチコマ robot

Well, I would disagree that editing user pages without permission of either the community or the users themselves is "uncontroversial". It is also not possible to run a bot here without getting a warning that the bot may be blocked; that message comes through any time a bot flag is not present on the account. Further, the user had been sent to the Bot Policy page several times since as early as March, when the last appeal for bot use here was made.

In any case, the block was only on the bot, not the user, and was made in accordance with our Bot policy: WT:BOT. The user has violated that policy knowingly in that he has set up NO bot explanation here (I quote from policy: "The bot account's name should contain your own username, and an indication of the kind of tasks the bot will be performing") and has NOT provided any of the bot's code. Despite all this, the bot was run. The user in question has been directed more than once to our Bot use policy, which clearly outlines the steps that must be taken to run a bot. The overall tone of the conversation in the BeerParlour (in March) was negative about running the bot here, and the consensus then was thus against the bot. The User proceded to run the bot months later without any further explanation of what it was intended to do.

However, if the user will satisfy the policy problems, I would be more than happy to lift the block so that he may proceed: (1) posting the code through the Bot's page for approval and (2) stating the specific tasks the bot will perform ("making repetitive edits" is not specific enough). --EncycloPetey 22:16, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I just let You know my personal protest [35], I know I am not part of the community, but nor am I the owner and operator of the bot, so I would suggest You should talk to the botowner instead of me, normally it is done like that, to give the botowner the info on his talkpage, maybe even before the block, since it was not doing wrong edits and even encuraged by an admin to start editing without flag on Your Wiktionary.

I have nothing more to say about this, thanks for Your time, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 01:46, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Checkuser

I hope you remember I was talking you on the IRC related to User:Barteik on es-wiki. Well, the user has been blocked for sockpupettering (so diffcult word XD) due to investigate all his contributions. Thanks for your help. Regards: --Dferg (talk) 21:57, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Blockwar-editwar on Zazaki Wikipedia

I (Mirzali) and Asmen are the proposer, two of the three sysops from diq.wikipedia, and we work for Zaza Language Institute.

Our problem had not been "diq" or "kiu" yet, until our colleague Xosere brought the matter to roll. We together had fought generally from the outset for a place for Zazaki in Wikipedia. (Please see Requests_for_new_languages/diq!) It was initially open for all dialects. He has been influenced and guided from discussions in other Zaza forums. None of us sent him really appreciated something malicious. But he sent the worst insults in his private emails to me. But again he felt personally attacked and insulted. Ultimately he reacted emotionally, where he even contacted the people from the Kurdish side to interfere with. Finally when he was abandoned also of those people, he was suddenly olone. If he really would be from the southern Zaza region, it would have been no further problem. But he is now times from the central Zaza area. Apart from this, the fact is that he is not powerful of any Zazaki dialect. This is not an insult to him, but it is an established truth. That is why he would be unable in his position to manage this page scientifically. I also don’t think he would find any support by speakers of the southern dialect.

Our work (from the Zazaki-Institute) on the standard language of the Zazaki is a result of year-long scientific research. It isn’t an artificially constructed language, as some assume it. Only those, who have little or no knowledge of Zazaki think so. We're very hurt, that now our trouble and work will be questioned and destroyed at once.

Unlike us, the work of the Vate (a Pro-Kurdish group) is not scientific. Apart from the Kurdish spelling, try these people to equal Zazaki at Kurdish, in which they use numerous Kurdish words in their books and magazines, although exist there original Zazaki words.

Now if you look at the matter from the outside, there should be actually five Wikipedias in Zazaki.

- one for Zazaki institute

- one for Vate group

- one for northern dialect of Zazaki

- one for central dialect of Zazaki

- one for southern dialect of Zazaki

And as it seems, this is not technically feasible. Unless you get all this with a general code zza, in which each of the above-mentioned sections would have a separate part.

Or we could request for Standard Zazaki (under zza) and Northern Zazaki (under kiu ) to get a place for them separately. Best regards! --Mirzali 21:48, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello, three things:

1. 1 Sorry, but I can't really do much about these internal differences, the one thing I would certainly do, would be to temporarily desysop all three of the involved sysops until they stopped the fights (which included heavy editwar, wheelwar (pagemove war), blocking and unblocking each others), because that damages the project.
2. 2 Afaik the requisites^[2],[3] for new projects and new languages criteria do not allow languages that have no iso-code or are just a dialect, but I might be wrong, if You are interested in opening seperate projects, I would suggest to contact someone of the language committee for an advice.
3. 3 As far as I can see and followed the discussions there seem to be valid arguments on both sides, I think You should discuss them further peacefully and if You feel more comfortable to do this in a neutral environment, be invited to do this on Meta

(just a plea) Please could You edit logged in, so I know for certain that You are the one You are claiming to be.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 20:15, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Grazie

...dei fior

--M/ 20:36, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Bot on wiktionary fr

Hi, first, excuse me for my english language but I am French. Your bot adds interwiki link. This is good but it doesnot respect french Wiktionary conventions because interwiki links must be grade in alphabetical order. This link shows that your bot does not do it. Can you modify your bot to correct it ? Thanks.

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pamputt (talk)

Salut, j'ai répondu ici, mes amitiés, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 12:00, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Closure of Burmese wiktionary

Hello, I just put my comments on, you can check it.--Johnson40213 10:34, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Disappereance of Bot

Hello, Ndege. There's something still make me in deepest darkaness! I'm just asking about "BOT", most of them their not available at all (especially InterWiki Bot). So, I want to know exactly if there's anything still on progress regarding Bot, or what? Could you kindly give me some info?--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 08:28, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Your Opinion

HI Birdy, I want your opinion on whether to allow or not creation fo the pages, sontaining solely material from another website which allows to copy the material on the condition to acknowldge the source. I am against that. There is a user on gu.wiki, who is creating an article on how to write Gujarati Script, but what he is doing is just copying images from another free website and pasting them on the page, that's all. My suggestion to that person was to create articles with moral material, and where needed the material form other website shoudl only eb used as a resource. But he has ignored it and creating new pages after I deleted one. Before I give him warning, I wanted to know your view and what exactly is the Wiki's policy on such creation of pages. PLease have a look at gu:Learning_Gujarati_Script and advise. Please even go through our discussion here--Dhaval^Talk 13:36, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Birdy, You definitely understood it correctly, you even provided one more reason why it can't be permitted on wiki. Thanks once again for your message there.--Dhaval^Talk 12:46, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Renameuser request on Betawiki

See http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User_talk:Spacebirdy#Renameuser. Thanks, Ferrer 12:32, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

The Barnstar of Iran's Merit of Excellence

		The Barnstar of Iran's Merit of Excellence
		From the moment that set my foot in international project of wikimedia foundation i felt you beside myself .You were helping and teaching me a lot so i hereby present you this barnstar to thanks all your precious effort for all wikis.And i wish you success in all part of your life . --Mardetanha talk 14:18, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Mardetanha, especially for Your wishes, I wish You of course the same! Please do note, that I did not really do much, it was mainly Cometstyles, Fabexplosive and .snoopy. who helped a lot, I like it when people work together making each others lives easier instead of the contrary, best regards to You, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 16:28, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

I speak another languages

Hi, birdy. I don't speak Burmese but I can speak a little bit Taiwanese and Chinese. (I come from Taiwan). Also I can speak Twi language, Kanuri Language and some Japanese. I already have an account over there, but how can I help? I will like it if I can help there. Thank you.--Johnson40213 15:12, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Little spelling mistake?

On top of this page are two boxes, one tells us: I don't watch Your talkpages so if You reply there, please leave me a note or I might not see it. Isn't it talk pages (with a space) :) --OosWesThoesBes 15:18, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

I usually call English a fake language because it's just a mixture of Latin, French, Anglo-Saxon and some more :) In Limburg, and also in the rest of the Netherlands, we use the same system as in Germany and Austria. One quite "yearly" word of the Limburgish language - but quite unused outside of Limburg - is linzeflaajebaombekkeriehuuskessjóp, meaning lentil flaaj bottom (the dough underneath the filling) bakker's workshop construction place, so a construction place where parts (like stones, roof parts etc) are made for the use on a bakkery where bottoms for lentil flaaj are made :) --OosWesThoesBes 07:38, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Bad rename

Hi, birdy, ¿tudo bien?

In pt:wp, we have a little problem. See this request, after rename (Cameta2 from Cameta) the account Cameta2 continue login, same Cameta. So, Cameta2 is a Cameta's sock. Are possible you can block the Cameta2 account (if this account will be global account)? Or, what do in this case? Yo prefiro contestar en español, como sabes, mi inglés es horrible... Alex Pereira ^falaê 17:58, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello, done, please send users to SR/SUL, when they have such problems, (P.S. don't worry about Your English, if You prefer You can talk Portuguese with me, I understand it but I can't reply in Portuguese :) ), thanks, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 18:09, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Muito obrigado!!! Alex Pereira ^falaê 18:13, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

block

Hi! Ich bekam block in afwiktionary! Warum? Hilf mir bitte! Danke. Diese problem: Sjabloon:hin ist in afwikitonary jetzt schon gut. Szajci 19:25, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Lieber Spacebirdy! Ich verbesserte die Probleme. Bitte wieder Botflage. Ich frage noch! Was kann ich diese probleme, dass in Zukunft nicht vorkomme? Entschuldigung die Probleme, und danke deine Hilfe! Szajci 08:25, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Re: bureaucrat duties

Hi Spacebirdy!

On pt wiktionary you wrote:

Olá ValJor, we got a request for rename for this wiki on meta [1],
please can You do the rename request by clicking here You got some
months ago [2] because this is one of the bureaucrats tasks, if You are
no longer interested in fulfilling these, please feel free to request
removal of crat rights at m:SRP. If You have any questions please feel
free to contact me, many thanks in advance for Your help

First of all, Nino is not telling the truth when he says that I have not replied. As you can see here, I did reply and he did not follow through.

Second of all: when I try to do as you say, I got a message saying

The user "Nino" already exists.

And the request doesn't complete.

Third and last of all: no, I don't want to request removal of my bureaucratic rights.

--ValJor 18:12, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello, thanks for Your message, I replied on pt.wikt [36], best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 19:36, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Can I be an administrator?

Hello, birdy. Maybe I can be an admin at Twi Wikipedia. In the Twi wikipedia, the only admin Paa.Kwesi is not active. I think it doesn't make sense if there's no admins at one wiki. I make a request for an admin, but no one voted. I created 10 or more pages at that wiki, so I think I can be an admin. Can you make me an admin? Thanks.--Johnson40213 05:51, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

ui

Einfach mal ein kleines Dankeschön, weil Du immer so hilfsbereit bist! —YourEyesOnly 13:52, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Vielen herzlichen Dank, YourEyesOnly, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 15:06, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Request

[37] Hello, I apologize for the trouble my absence might have caused. I was not active on wiki the past few months due to personal obligations, therefore I did not have time to check the requests page. I tried to rename the user but it appears that the target user name already exists. Both users (the one who submitted the request, and the one who owns the target user name) have no contributions. Should I, in that case, rename the target username? Thank you, — Krstulović 14:57, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

No worries, thanks for Your answer, I have replied on Your talkpage [38], best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 15:05, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Renames done ([39]), and the new owner of the account was informed about the long awaited operation [40] :) Thanks for the help, — Krstulović 19:01, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey birdy

Hey birdy, can i change my user name? something like... spacebug or spaceanimal --189.165.47.34 21:39, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Make a request either at Steward requests/Username changes for wikis without local crats, or on Meta:Changing username for Meta or on the appropriate local requestpages, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 22:29, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Mi estómago apesta

Mi estómago apesta ... que me ayude! Alvaro. --83.244.212.141 11:23, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Lo lamento, por favor contacta un servicio de urgencia médica en tu región, un saludo, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 11:46, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

XD (siento la intrusión), llame al 112 si está en la unión europea o al 911 si está en américa. ¿es esto ahora un consultorio médico? Dferg (talk) 17:27, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Buzz buzzzzzz

Du hast mein Tag aufgehellt. Dank! Snakesteuben 13:53, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Template:vert in Af wiktionary

Hi There,

I made a suggestion to change this template on its discussion page. Please comment.

Thank you.

Arnobarnard 15:10, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

temporary Sysop on Greek wikipedia

hi there Birdy, I was wondering if there would be a chance that I could get Sysop on the Greek wiki. I know fluent Greek as this is my second language. As the Crats arent online when I am I have sent them emails and I havent recieved any form of reply. Vandalismterminator 15:23, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Komi Wikipedia logo

• Sorry, I still haven't understood the way I have to put a request for logo on Bugzilla(((. Show me the exact page, where I've to do this one.--Yufereff 18:12, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I opened bugzilla:15939, hope that helps, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 17:18, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

P.S., the logo has no transparent background, it should have. The username "Yufereff" is not registered, please register an account special:userlogin or create a global account on kv:special:mergeaccount, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 17:23, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

What I have to change for logo background become transparent? Thanks.--Yufereff 13:23, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

I found the "Transparency" option in PhotoShop, but I don't know how to change the file and test it then for its transparency(((. Maybe, you will do it by yourself? Have I to delete its protection? --Yufereff 23:07, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Maybe 2 previous versions of Wiki.png would be good for You? Regards)) --Yufereff 23:13, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Cloack

Ya tengo el cloack en mi cuenta. No sé cómo agradecerte tu ayuda. Gracias de todo corazón. Dferg (talk) 20:08, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Oversight

The following discussion is closed.

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I was wondering if you could oversight a name from the talkpage of User:Vandalismterminator. Many thanks 212.219.59.241 13:40, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that hun. 212.219.59.241 13:46, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

I have deleted the page and added the appropriate info. I personally think it is disgusting what You are doing, vandalizing and then reverting to make the other account look good, lying around to get some sort of access... Your IP is unblocked on Meta atm, but if that continues this might change.

--birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 13:54, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Not quite true, I dont request Sysop on projects as I am a Crat on en.wikipedia anyway but edit from a different Ip so wont be discovered however I will promote all of the creations made by me and my friends to sysop after 6 weeks of being active. I know plenty of other people with sock accounts in the college. I will happily tell you all of them if you would like via email? The details of which I hope will remain under lock and key. 212.219.59.241 14:02, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

--birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 14:56, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naudotojas:Emka and http://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naudotojas:Pegasas problem

There is such a situation, User Pegasas in Lithuanian Wikipedia has blocked by Atlantas. Emka is blocked by the administrator Homo. Reason: obscure the main user. I would like to use acount "Emka". I was blocked for an indefinite period and that can no longer use any account altogether. --78.59.117.4 18:46, 14 October 2008 (UTC) user Emka.

Hello Emka, I am not sure, why You are contacting me about this, there is not much I can do, this is a local problem, please try to contact a local admin via special:emailuser and explain the situation. I can see You have been blocked before for several reasons [41] and also Pegasas, the blockreasons I all can't read due to not knowing the language, and I don't understand what You mean by "Reason: obscure the main user."

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 19:21, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Some local administrators blocked my Skype contact. prithee unblock Emka. I can not resolve problems with local administrators. Therefore, I wrote to you.--78.59.117.4 18:00, 15 October 2008 (UTC) Emka

As said, I can do nothing about that, You can try to contact a local admin via lt:special:emailuser, I can't unblock You because I am no admin there, don't know the blockreason..., best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 20:14, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Image problem

Hello, Ndege. There's some problem occured in our local Wikipedia. Initilly we were just use to upload an image right there and commons also. But today I tried to upload two images in sw:wiki and their no longer be Thumbnailized. What I meant is: they can't be shown at all. See this this and check it's link if it can be shown in your side. I would like to know about it, please!--_Wikipedian ^(Activist) 15:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Oooh, so, if next time occured again I'll have to do that as you said? But today I can see them and I didn't do anything, and I don't know what is all this about. Terrible!--_Wikipedian ^(Activist) 07:05, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for let me know! Cheers,--_Wikipedian ^(Activist) 13:05, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

User:···Nancy··

Thanks for catching that, I've fixed the option to allow account creation. xaosflux ^Talk 12:10, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

As this was a manual creation (not a SUL autocreation [42]) using generally non-typeable characters for the language the rest of the username appears to be in, the use of those bullet marks appear to be to intentionally make this username difficult to work with for others, making it inappropriate in my opinion. If you disagree and want to reverse that block, (especially if the user has any type of explanation or states they plan on being a productive contributor) it's fine by me. Thank you, !!!!

Along agf, I've unblocked, left them a note that they may want to consider a different name. Thank you, xaosflux ^Talk 17:00, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

File:Checkusr sais... SOX!!.png

Thanks :DD  — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 16:15, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Welcome :) --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 18:34, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Why did you delete pictures from wikimechanist?

The pictures you have deleted were there for more than one year. So firstly you must give a warning message to backup them. I can not find the old pictures now. This page is built to tell wikipeople how the wikimechanist sholud be. I think you are always busy so you have not time to bulid home made things so you do not need wikimechanist but real wikipeople may need it. Now, can you put the pictures again to make a backup then you can delete again. You succeed to cut my writings and work. wikimechanist

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wikimechanist (talk) diff, please sign discussions with --~~~~ (UTC)

Answered on Your talkpage, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 13:09, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

SUL assistance

Hi. Although the SUL util tool only lists 3 of the accounts I attached to my SUL, Special:MergeAccount correctly lists the 7 accounts currently merged and the unattached fr.wiki account (which has one edit in 2006) that doesn't belong to me. Does this discrepancy between the toolserver and MergeAccount raise any issues? Also, do I still need to request deletion of my SUL account prior to requesting usurpation on fr.wiki? (Is this related in any way with the recently fixed bug 13507?) And finally, do I qualify for such a request given that my main account is 3 years old and has around 500 edits? Thanks in advance. --Arcadie | Talk 19:47, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply. I created this temporary account at fr.wiki in order to submit the usurpation request (and have it renamed to my global account), but the Special:MergeAccount page automatically created a SUL account for it without even asking me. :( Do I have to request deletion of this SUL account first before I can proceed with the usurpation on fr.wiki? Thanks. --ArcadieSUL 21:20, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

This is so confusing. The system obviously still has some flaws. I'm sorry if I'm creating even more confusion. --Arcadie | Talk 21:23, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

I have successfully usurped the account at fr.wiki and now my SUL unification is complete. Thank you very much for your support! :) --Arcadie | Talk 10:27, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

thanks

Thanks for deleting some rubbish from the Papiamentu Wikipedia. --Rikat 19:28, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

No problem, I have replied on Your pap.wiki-talkpage, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 20:40, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Lock

Hola Spacebirdy,

¿Cuáles son los requisitos para que un steward le haga un lock a una cuenta? ¿Tiene que ser vandalismo interwiki o basta con que sea vandalismo local? Es que hoy se han bloqueado más de tres cuentas pertenecientes al mismo usuario, las cuales han sido usadas sólo para vandalizar. Gracias. Dferg (T-ES) 20:24, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Gracias por tu respuesta. Lamentáblemente, las cuentas de las que te hablaba, de momento, no cumplen con los criterios que me has enunciado. Muchísimas gracias de todos modos.

Dferg (T-ES) 20:37, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

CheckUser block on Test Wikipedia

Greetings. I recently noticed that I was blocked on Test Wikipedia "per checkuser results". Can you kindly identify the IP address that caused you to block my account, as I don't believe that I have abused multiple accounts in any way. I don't recall ever logging into Wikipedia outside of my home.

I'm not blaming you in any way and I apologize if I sound harsh, but I'm quite speechless at the moment as I've been active on Wikimedia projects for over a year now and I would like this resolved as quickly as possible. Wenli 03:41, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

I am not trying to play any games with you. I am an experienced user on the English Wikipedia and I have over 4,000 edits there. Please take a look at all my active Wikimedia accounts (enwiki and simplewiktionary, as well as WenliBot). Also, I am indeed blocked on Test Wikipedia as you can see here. I merely would like to know what caused the recent actions taken on my account. If you are not interested in handling my request, please direct me to a page where it can be handled. Thanks. Wenli 04:41, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm guessing that you identified an IP address other than my home IP address. My home IP starts with 70.72 (I'm not putting the rest for privacy reasons). Can you at least tell me if the other IP address is a public IP, open proxy, or some form of a shared IP address? I would like to find out where I logged in, and I don't want to be responsible for all the vandalism that is done by a shared IP address. Thanks. Wenli 05:17, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

Block User After 1 week

Please watch this user. Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 05:16, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Rollback tool/Rollback.js

Hello, Ndege. Could you kindly tell me what is exactly of this rollback tools doing with user? I meant: What is that for?--_Wikipedian ^(Activist) 16:42, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Bluegoblin7

Im not danding anything, but since the user has been aquited of all wrong doings, I think an apology is in order, the jesture woudnt go un-noticed. Promethean 01:38, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I have contacted the user via e-mail long ago already, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 01:49, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

I thought I might just check. Promethean 02:46, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Ok, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 02:53, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

ts.wikipedia main page acting up

Hi there. Please help with this page. its acting up and I dont know how to fix it --Thuvack 14:33, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello Thuvack, I have answered on Your ts.wiki talkpage [43], best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 14:49, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Err

This & this seems strange? The info for the one I blocked earlier is in the log if you need it ;). Regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 15:30, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks - I wasn't planning to block - just that it looked a little odd :). As you say it seems fine looking at it now. Regards --Herby ^{talk thyme} 15:38, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

More silliness

Hi, after you blocked User Talk:68.199.133.47 here, he has now followed me here and seems bent on carrying on. As a steward, is there are way he can be globally blocked from all WMF projects, as he seems to be, er, in need of help? Since I tend not to use my Commons and Meta accounts that much, could you let me know here? Thanks. --Rodhullandemu 23:35, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I don't have the time to look deeper into this right now, according to luxo it seems to have stopped for now (also I would unblock him on Meta if globally blocked or shorten the block, so that an innocently affected user could complain against the gblock), please feel free to open a request on SRG if it continues, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 00:24, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Request

The following discussion is closed.

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Can you check ru:User:Forward.06 and ru:User:Канопус Киля to be one person? 79.124.131.176 05:28, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello, ru.wiki has local checkusers, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 05:31, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

No. Five of them aren't active, Kv75 is in Somalia now, he can't check, and DR has been killed this night. 91.145.202.25 05:34, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Please check. All ru-wiki checkusers are shocked by that murdering, they aren't able to check morally... 79.124.146.226 05:51, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Enough active ones: [44], this discussion is closed, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 05:53, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you for your advice on local bureaucrat. SUL has been done. Best.
follows; m:Steward_requests/SUL_requests/2008-10#Minque--minque 15:52, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for replying to my notepage. Good luck to you, too.--minque 14:17, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Renaming on License space

Hello, Ndege. It's quite long time now we are just using the same word (Licensing:) on sw:special:upload. I want to change it from English to Kiswahili. Kindly your needed to consider about it. Means: How to swahilize it?--_Wikipedian ^(Activist) 12:00, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Hahahaha! I do have an account from Beta. And I did a lots of translation right there. And I'm happy you shown me a good way to translate which one I prefered to do so. Initially I just couldn't to choose them induvidual, but they come all at a time and I choose of the message which I'm going to localize it! But now.... I got to know! Thanks for your help, Cheers,--_Wikipedian ^(Activist) 09:30, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Sysop rights on the ANG-wiki

Sysop rights on the Old English ANG-wikipedia would be very useful for me indeed, as I am easily one of the greatest contributors, and easily the most passionate about it. I have written several lengthy and detailed articles, and I consider all creations to be works in progress, will continual additions. Sysop rights would help me to better perform these functions.

—Wōdenhelm 05:04, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Sysop rights on Moksha Wikipedia

Spacebirdy, thank you for granting sysop rights. Thank you for using нармонь word in you signature :-)--Khazar II 08:20, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for admin access, Spacebirdy! How nice of you using Mokshan words! Just if it is interesting for you Space in Moksha is Менельботма/menäljbotma, so full your nick translation will be Менельботманармоння/Menäljbotmanarmunnä  :-) --Numulunj pilgae 10:29, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for the translation :) --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 13:52, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

thanks

I delete ja:n:銀河万丈 and ja:n:郷里大輔. Thanks for your notice! --Marine-Blue [ talk contribs ] 08:33, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Error while Using Template:coord

Hi Birdy, I just copied template:coord from en:Template:coord to gu:Template:coord with all its subtemplates, and used in article ખાડિયા. But I am getting the error while using it on the page, which reads "Expression Error: Unexpected < operator.", can you please look into it and advise me where have I gone wrong?--Dhaval^Talk 11:41, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Great, is there any short cut to import them all at one go? or a workaround to get rid of the error?--Dhaval^Talk 13:49, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to bother you much, but as you advised to develop new templates for smaller projects like gu, can you tell me whether there is any tutorial or something available for it? I would like to venture in developing such complecated but though simple templates.--Dhaval^Talk 10:40, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Birdy, It didn't help a bit, It in fact Helped a LOT.. Thanks asa always.--Dhaval^Talk 17:34, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Map Source

Hi Birdy, one more advise I seek from you regarding the message displayed while accessing Map Source. WHen clicking on Coordinates on the page, the page that opens with Map Source, displays the below message in Red Box on top of the page,

Please edit your local wikipedia templates and Template:GeoTemplate language links to point to the new stable toolserver!

I don't understand which LOCAL WIKIPEDIA TEMPLATES should I be editing and what shjall I edit in them? as well as the other advise regarding point to the new stable toolserver. Can you please assist me in these as well?--Dhaval^Talk 11:48, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

Hi Birdy, I hope you haven't missed this, any update on it mate?--Dhaval^Talk 12:46, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Birdy, see for an example, when you click on the Lat-Long coordinates values on top right corenr of અમદાવાદ or ખાડિયા it opens this page, where the above error message is displayed at top in red box.--Dhaval^Talk 10:38, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Great mate, You are a real star, you not only provided me the solution, but created templates and modified the link as well. Much obliged. Lastly, can you please answer my question just above this topic?--Dhaval^Talk 11:41, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for French Wikinews

Τhanks for having blocking vandals in french Wikinews :-) --Bertrand GRONDIN – ^Talk 00:08, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Simple English Wikiquote

Hi, Spacebirdy, thanks for your reply to American Eagle's request. It wasn't very evident in the way the request was formulated, but this is also a request from me. The request is for a steward to volunteer to review my closing of an RfB. Since I'm the only bureaucrat on the project, I can't ask another bureaucrat to review it, and it seems to be a situation where having it reviewed by another person would be a good idea, so I thought I would try to get a steward to review it. Would you be willing to do so yourself, and if not, would it be OK if I re-open the request on the Permissions page and add an explanation? Thanks. Coppertwig 23:37, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your comments. If you're interested in how things worked out, see this decision which I posted in this discussion. ☺ Coppertwig 01:14, 12 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: Welcome

Ja. Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 07:47, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Sticking banner on Thai main page

Guten Tag. Will it be ok if we [in representative of Thai Wikipedians] stick a "Royal" banner on the main page? Many are afraid of strict policy of Wikipedia. It is, however, look normal to all Thai people. Thousands of websites also stick the banner. This occasion is because passing away of Her Royal Highness. It is normal on Thai website to have this banner. Her funeral will be on 15th November 2008. The banner is here. Can we stick it? It says something like "Sent HRH to the heaven with the deepest mourn." Thank you. --Passawuth 14:35, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

As you may have concerned how Thais revere their monarchy. --Passawuth 14:36, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Re: Genesis in Icelandic

What a beautiful piece. I love that section on your userpage, geimfyglið...very, very nice. :) Iceflow 04:52, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Help with applets

I am extremely good at java now, thus why i have been on leave from the wiki. How do i put up a sim[ple clock applet for my userpage? I know how to tag it, but for some reason, only the code shows up and not the applet. please help asap. Heres the code, its the one in applet tags

Hello, fortunately it is not possible to put java-applets on userpages (or elsewhere), You can use a personal javascript at special:mypage/monobook.js, but that will affect only You.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 21:06, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

User Account

Please watch this. Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 03:39, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Interface - betawiki

Hi, I've replyed to your message at Dutch Wikibooks about translating interfacemessages in betawiki. Koos ... 00:02, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, replied at [45], --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 17:01, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Betawiki

Hello Spacebirdy, Thank you for reminding me, Sometimes ago i asked a request there but no one responsed me, we need that some one change the native name of our wiki to the correct writing (to what is now viewable at wikipedia.com's page), unfortunately they didn't care about it, Current interwiki name (مَزِرونی) is wrong, Please leave a message into my talk page, many thanks & Best regards --Ali 16:40, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Replied at [46], thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 16:59, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Need Help

If u are online please could u respond immediately on my talk page. Thank you!!

--Glacious 17:29, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

SpaceBirdyBot on french Wiktionnaire

Your bot is now listed in Wiktionnaire:Bot/Liste. Regards. --Szyx 14:04, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Artículos de qualidad en la Wikipèdia occitana

Hola! Primero, grácias por ton intervencion contra los vandalismos en la wiki nuestra. Tenemos un problema más, no foncionan los ligams de los articulos buenos de los otros proyectos (no aparece las estrellita al lado del nombre del idioma). Nos puedes ayudar? Cedric31 20:29, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Adieu, respondido allí, coralament, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 21:34, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Box merge

Grácias para los artículos de qualidad !!!! Nos quiero abusar, pero tanpoco foncionan nuestras "boitas desenrotlantas" ; nos puedes aydar otra vez ? (Boxmerge)... Cedric31 21:41, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

ejemplo : dins la plantilla oc:Modèl:Murinae Cedric31 22:34, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Vale, he contestado en tu página de discusión, coralament, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 23:46, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

Cree, BugZilla and the devgods

I reread your message after I sent mine (smart, I know) and realized you offered help contacting the devs. Being that I have never used bugzilla, I would appreciate any help offered. Still interested? The small version of the Cree logo is right here Image:Wikipedia-logo-cr.png Nesnad 06:09, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi, thanks for your informative reply yesterday, I now have a new account. I can't find any place to request for the deletion of the old SUL, would you be able to do it? (User:Orri) --Epiq 14:41, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

BeWiki?

It is possible to put global blocking be:User:Yaneleksklus, be:User:Test, be:User:Test2, be:User:Test3, be:User:Test4, be:User:TestFive, be:User:TestSix, be:User:TestTen, be:User:Test28, be:User:Test30, be:User:Test31, be:User:R2t423423235 and it IP? It, using MergeAccount, it is registered in others Wiki and is engaged in bot-vandalism in BeWiki. Thanks! --MaximLitvin 07:29, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Hello MaximLitvin, we can't block accounts globally, we could lock them (requests for such locks can be placed at SRG.

Can You please explain to me what is going on on be.wiki, I have seen mass-creations of pages by users like be:Адмысловае:Contributions/Test30, etc. what are these pages, they look like substubs to me, but I have seen that be.wiki had not deleted them?

I could run a checkuser on these accounts to find out who is behind it, but I need to know if and what they did wrong in the first place.

Have You also tried to talk to him? If so, what was his response.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 07:56, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Probably it is the sick person, or it is attempt to litter our project. We have removed more these 2000 "stubs". While it is the user it is not blocked can to create more "stubs", than we can physically remove. For removal the bot-sysop is necessary. We spoke with it much, all active community has spoken against these "stubs", we have blocked more than 10 its virtual accounts, but it continues them to register through MergeAccount. It has not given any answers, at all does not wish to write competently, has thought up the variant of language and the names for known words. I have correctly understood, what rules forbid us to address to authorities in our country to stop it? P.S. And be:User:Test32. --MaximLitvin 08:37, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Well, be:User:Yaneleksklus is indeed the sockmaster of all these accounts.

The problem, why he can do this is bug 11148, I have no idea why this has not been fixed long ago, You might want to vote there.

What I can offer You is to delete his pages with my bot, but for doing so the community of be.wiki should be in favor of that.

I would also recommend to stock up the available sysops, if there are some nice candidates available.

I will inform the SWMT about this, so he will get blocked on sight.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 14:58, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Darkoneko has seen this and is doing the deletions, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 16:13, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

P.S. Thogo just proposed that You could ask the devs to enable the Nuke-extension on be.wiki, that would allow You to delete one users contributions in no time, if they are still in the rc-table. See mw:Extension:Nuke. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 17:54, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

I can organise voting by removal of a spam. Though all active users already have expressed therefore to a question in comments. To remove a spam, to write a script, we can. A problem only in that the vandal any more did not work. As to additional sysops the vandal works during such time when the majority of normal people in our country sleep. Therefore, if the additional sysop, from far time zone is necessary. :) Thanks for councils! Best regards, --MaximLitvin 18:16, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

To write a script is not necessary, there is Delete.py, which Darkoneko is using right now, he had seen the locks and this discussion and is nearly finished with the deletion of all the users substubs/vandal edits, only be:User:Yaneleksklus is open, we are not sure which ones should be deleted from his edits, the Andorra-things or others or both or none :)

We'll keep an additional eye on be.wiki, hopefully this helps ~

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 18:23, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Articles about the cities of Andora can be removed, there it is too much errors. It is not necessary to delete articles about the cities of Arubas and about a music (be:Катэгорыя:Музычныя кірункі), they will be corrected by our users. Thanks for the help! --MaximLitvin 19:24, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

All right, 'his' Андора-villages are gone, You might want to check his contributions for other things (Aruba maybe), but I think the worst and most things had been on the sock accounts which Darko cleaned. Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 20:05, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Aruba-villages will correct or will remove be:user who has started it to do earlier. Your help very significant. Best regards, --MaximLitvin 20:46, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Deletions are now finished. Please inform me of any account I may have missed. DarkoNeko 18:34, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! --MaximLitvin 18:56, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

• Many thanks to all involved! In be@wiki, we are just a bit too tight on resources (bandwidth, sleep time etc.). The guy showed again, and he is definitely "too enthusiastic" on some rather unrealistic ideas, like "precise phonematic transcription" and such. One may only hope that that's due to his young age (?). Let's hope that now that he's seen the "foreign intervention", he'll keep on the more polite side. Seemingly smart person, but complete flop at social interaction (yet?). Thanks again! Yury Tarasievich 07:52, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Cree, BugZilla and the devgods, part II

I don't see the problem with the size. Hmmm. Maybe it deformed when resized. Is it OK if it is not exactly the "standard" size? Thats the only way I could stretch it down or up to fix the "egg" shape you see. The page about a request for a logo is on: [47] If I get the egg problem fixed, I'd be happy if you utilize your experience to make a bugzilla request. Cheers, Nesnad 20:50, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

I tweaked the logo a bit, it's no longer an egg? :-) I hope it's good to go now? Image:Wikipedia-logo-cr.png Reload if you don't see a difference. Cheers, Nesnad 13:15, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! It looks beautiful! It's because of users like us that wikipedia survives! Keep it alive! :-) Nesnad 15:49, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

map-bms.wiki

Please help me in map-bms.wiki and thank you for your help for Brazil tv and User Dahven. I ask Borgx to help me in map-bms.wiki, but he is very busy. Thanks for your help. Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 02:40, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

"unlikely"

hi.I wanna ask a question,what is the meaning of the term "unlikely" in CheckUser? I hope you may answer me, thanks.--JackyCheung 13:12, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Thanks.But I want to ask that why it is "seem" but not "sure"?--JackyCheung 04:16, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

And wts the different between "unlikely" and "unrelated"?--JackyCheung 06:57, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

• Thanks:)--JackyCheung 14:25, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

navbox template prob in dv.wiki

Hi could u please check dv:Template:MaldivesPresidents and en:Template:MaldivesPresidents. There are no borders on the navbox and the show/hide link is not available in the dv version. Thank you!!

--Glacious 16:17, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

thanks very much!

--Glacious 10:40, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Block

Can you block this user. Mikhailov Kusserow (talk) 03:06, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Hello, thanks for marking the spam for deletion, I won't block the user already, it was just one page and it seems he stopped that, if he continues that might change, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 03:44, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Invitation reply

Many thanks for all your help to Masry wikipedia and for your invitation unfortunatly I could not get in the link you provide , It might be because I did not have the access yet, best wishes.Ghaly 19:55, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

The other thing was the Number of article shown on Masry wikipedia is 34 , I am sure we have a lot more articles than this , would you know why. Ghaly 19:57, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Actualización wikipedia occitana

Hola! En la wikipedia occitana, algunas páginas especiales no han sido actualizadas desde más de 1 año (ejemplo : [48]. ¿Sabes cómo hay que procedir para que se actualizen? Grácias... Cedric31 07:25, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
ps: Los boxmerges y artículos de qualidad todavía no funcionan.

Cómo se vacia el cache? Cedric31 12:29, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Administradores de la wikipedia occitana

Adieu! En nuestra wiki, hay 3 administradores que ya no contribuyen desde más de un año. Hay tratado de saber de ellos, pero nada... Unos utilizadores me preguntan si se puede quitar los dreches de sysop a aquellos... ¿Qué opinas de esto? ¿Hace falta organizar una votación? Cedric31 18:23, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Help

Okay then going to be anyway, you can not always put more images, tambom I do everything right from now on--Vitor mazuco 16:55, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Comment on opinion

Sorry about commenting on your opinion. I wasn't aware that it was frowned on. Feel free to remove, or I can doso if that's suitable.--Brett 01:47, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Usurpación

Hola amiga, como has estado. Te quiero avisar que ya por fin tengo conexión de Internet en mi casa, he estado 600 días sin ella y he dependido de cibercafés para conectarme, pero ando totalmente perdido. Yo sé que hace meses pedí que se tratara mi caso para usurpar las cuentas de ja:user:Taichi, de:user:Taichi y ru:user:Taichi, sin embargo en estas tres wikipedias no podía registrarme con ese nombre y por ende debí registrarme como ja:user:*Taichi*, de:user:*Taichi* y ru:User:*Taichi*. Sé que te pregunté hace tiempo pero como he estado perdido nunca llegué a ver la respuesta y me perdonas. Pero quería hacerte una pregunta, ¿es posible traspasar mis contribuciones de *Taichi* a Taichi, o sólo pueden habilitarse las cuentas pero empezar de cero? Y si fuera posible, ¿qué procedimiento debo hacer? Si no es posible, estaré gustoso que al menos pueda registrarme como Taichi empezando de cero y clausurar las cuentas *Taichi*. Si puedes, dame la respuesta en mi página de discusión. Pacientemente esperaré tu respuesta. Un saludo.--Taichi - (あ！) 05:46, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

respuesta, un saludo, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 10:13, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Hola, espero que estés muy bien! Quería decirte que tanto en de.wiki como en ru.wiki ya me hicieron el cambio, pero en el caso de ja.wiki dejé la solicitud pero han pasado más de los 14 días de espera (llevo esperando 21 días) y aún no han hecho la usurpación. He visto que en ja.wiki no hay mucha celeridad en eso. A ver que se puede hacer. Y feliz Navidad!! --Taichi - (あ！) 21:30, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

reverting vandalism on LI wiki

Thanks for reverting the vandalism on the LI wiki today! - Pahles 15:10, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Glad to be of help, answered here, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 15:36, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

Deletion

[49] - see my keep rationale. if you could help with that in the way you suggested, if you find the time, I'd be very appreciative. Best, —Anonymous Dissident^Talk 14:18, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Answered here, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 00:42, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Solicitud

Hola Spacebirdy/Archiv2008

Mi nombre es Usg19 de Wikipedia en Español. La recomendación a ti viene de Taichi. Quisiera cambiar mi nombre actual Usg19 por Saloca, que es como mi firma aparece, desafortunadamente ya existen la cuenta en 2 wikis creadas recientemente y con 0 edits.

enwiki ---> con 0 ediciones ---> registro 23:22, 28 November 2008 ---> Bloqueo No ---> Status automatically created on login / itwiki ---> con 0 ediciones ---> registro 15:31, 17 November 2008 ---> Bloqueo No ---> Status ??.

Segun este sitio

Siendo razón de que actualmente no hay aportaciones de este usuario, quisiera saber si es factible cambiar mi nombre de usuario por este. Y proteger mi actual cuenta para prevenir que sea utilizada para fines de vandalismo.

Saludos Usg19 09:21, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Muchas gracias por tu amable respuesta Template:Smiley°:) espero verme favorecido por IT:WIKI.

Saludos Usg19 18:01, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Eh contactado con un burocráta de IT:WIKI se ha pedido la usurpación el usuario tiene 7 dias para oponerse de no ser así se procedera al cambio. Espero verme favorecido y nuevamente mil gracias por tu ayuda. --Usg19 08:48, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Re: In response to

I stumbled upon your user page in vi.wikipedia and had thought that it was you who used the N word, and that was why I dropped a warning asking you to remove it. (Had I known that it was Spicybird who did it, I would have warned him.) For such a hasty conclusion, I offer my appologise. Please accept. Mekong Bluesman 14:46, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for Your message, I have answered here, please don't worry about the confusion, I just wanted to let You know, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 15:45, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Bird in Telugu

"పక్షి" is "bird", right? :) Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 22:08, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Yep, that's right. space bird is "అంతరిక్ష పక్షి" - anthariksha pakshi :-) --వైజాసత్య 23:09, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Thank You :) --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 04:59, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Sock-puppetry

Hi Spacebirdy!

We have a weird situation in pt.wiktionary: a user has been creating many sock-puppet accounts for the last few years and has not "declared" them as such. Up to now the worst thing that he has done with those accounts was to make them participate in discussions as if they were independent people. Not too much harm done but the guy seems to have some mild mental deviation, I'm afraid he may be preparing to influence votes and other such things.

So my question to you is: is it possible to find out all the sock-puppets of a given person? I don't want to request an official CheckUser on him, because as I said before, he has not done anything wrong enough to qualify for that, but I don't want to get caught unprepared. Is it possible to start "under the table" investigations?

Please, reply here on my meta talk page, not in pt.wiktionary. I don't want to alarm the guy...

--ValJor 16:25, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi Spacebirdy!

You wrote:

Olá ValJor, it is possible to find socks of an user, but not always
all (some accounts might be too old to check, some might be in an
IP-range he has not had yet with his current account, etc.). But
sometimes it is not even necessary to do/ask for a checkuser because
the behaviour of some users does not leave any doubts :)

Well, his behaviour is very much obvious, I know who he is, but for new users, it's hard to know. That's why I wanted to unmask him...

We have a quite similar situation in de.wikt btw. but since the
accounts are very obvious I would not ask for a check on them, also
when a check is requested and the result is positive some action
should be taken and I don't want to take actions on these accounts
right now. Since in pt.wikt, as You said, the accounts had not yet
been used for votings I would not recommend to take action either, and
the problem is I would not see a reason for justifying a check, only
if he is disruptive, manipulates votes/discussions, etc., 

I just wanted to get a head start on it. But you're right, it's better to wait and see.

but what You could do is to remind the user that the project is a
community and every user has only one voice and should respect the
opinions of others (maybe he gets the hint).

Believe me, I have tried to reason with him (and his many puppets). There is no reasoning with this guy...

Anyway, thanks for replying.

--ValJor 03:21, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Saludos

Hola Spacebirdy.-

Listo ya soy Saloca en it:wiki ahora que debo hacer para que mi user sea Saloca en todos los proyectos ? --Usg19 03:48, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Gracias por toda tu ayuda !!! Lo conseguí. Desde hoy pueden llamarme Saloca antes mejor conocido como Usg19. Saloca 07:28, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Necesito ayuda

Esto me está volviendo loco, parece un bot creando nano-esbozos sobre poblaciones. Lleva más de 24 horas creando esos artículos no enciclopédicos y no sé donde acudir. ¿Se puede hacer algo? Gracias y un cordial saludo. Feliz Navidad Dferg ^(T-ES) 22:40, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Por cierto, y para no acudir a MSD, ¿se puede hacer un mass delete o algo así. Marcar 500 artículos para borrar puede resultar fatigante XD Gracias de nuevo Dferg ^(T-ES) 22:55, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Hm, diría que esto es un problema local, parece que es de este usuario, si permiten estos stubs allí, hay que acceptarlo. Lo que podrías hacer, es preguntar el usuario si podría registrarse o aún mejor usar una cuenta con flag de bot. Un saludo, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 23:19, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

Hola Spacebirdy, gracias por tomarse la molestia de responderme. Me informaré sobre si dichos esbozos (microscópicos) están permitidos (hebleré con un sysop de allí) y en cuanto lo sepa actuaré en consecuencia (mandarlos a borrar o hablar con el usuario). De nuevo, le agradezco su tiempo. Gracias Dferg ^(T-ES) 16:30, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Requests for comments/Croatian Wikipedia - User Suradnik13 - blocking and deleting

Thank you for your concern. Yes, I have tried contacting different administrators, like I explained in Requests for comments/Croatian Wikipedia - User Suradnik13 - blocking and deleting, but on my great surprise and regret, NONE found it reasonable to at least respond. I can only guess that they are tolerating the given administrator for his nationalistic excesses, or they are simply all like that. Like I explained on the page, too, I've also tried getting opinion from Serbian Wikipedia, where I write the most (Serbian is my native tongue), and they were all also very surprised by events in Croatian Wikipedia. --Дарко Максимовић 08:41, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Well, usually I would say inform also the person in question about that rfc, but since You are blocked You could only do that per email. It would be interesting to hear the other side and essential that he comments to the accusations.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 09:49, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I agree completely. I listened to Your advice and a moment ago I wrote him a message by having previously logged out, so only my IP has been recorded. You can see the message here, which I translated to English as well for convenience. Thank you again. --Дарко Максимовић 23:15, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

I just want to inform you that Suradnik13 gave some responses to my accusations and that, in response, I translated the whole disputed talk page. I would be very grateful if you read it (it's not too long) and gave your opinion. Thank you very much in advance. --Дарко Максимовић 11:02, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Please give me some feedback on this request, or redirect me to an admin that has time for such a thing, in case you are busy at the moment. If you'd like a quick info, the admin I complained about has given some responses, but several other admins (from both hr. and sr. wikis) have given some input, too. Thank you. --Дарко Максимовић 23:13, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Hello Дарко Максимовић, I am sorry, I am quite busy these days, maybe I can read all that at a later time. The problem is I don't really understand it, since I don't speak either languages, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 02:39, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Thai Wikipedia logo

Thank you for your reply in Requests for logos and buzilla (16008). Do you know how I have a new logo in Thai Wikipedia. It seems that the system still read the old location path. --Manop 22:15, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

id.wikisource

would you please to see Undang-Undang Republik Indonesia Nomor 14 Tahun 2008 & Undang-Undang Republik Indonesia Nomor 19 Tahun 2002 especially at article 14, thank you Creptes 01:32, 18 Desember 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for Your message, I have replied there, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 02:38, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Re:uploads on id.wikisource

Dear Spacebirdy, thanks for the info. The so-called Sekretariat Negara Republik Indonesia (literally 'Secretary of the state of the Reublic of Indonesia') is a government agency and as such there is no copyright on works of Indonesian government. However I don't know what the policy is. I am trying to inquire on other users/administrators. You'll hear from me again ASAP. Meursault2004 04:18, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

native name for mazanderanish wikipedia

Hi, Could you please change the native name of [[:mzn:|our wiki] ? there is a bugzilla request already there, and too many discussions, talks, ... without any results, Change the names as following:

mzn: mazərun/تبری
mzn-eu: tabəri / mazərun
mzn-ir: تبری / مازرون

Thank YOu --Ali 06:59, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

I have answered on Your talkpage in mzn.wiki, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 22:56, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes I couldn't even understand what is it! So it's the same to the others. --Ali 03:20, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

re:personal attacks are not accepted

I was provoked, the user whom i attacked lied about the mutual intelligibilty of chinese dialects to shut down my request.大天王皇子 22:52, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Sorry

Hello,

Thanks for the notice. I have responded here also. I am very sorry because I use AGF most of the time.

See ya, Abigor 23:21, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

¡Hola!

As I think you've seen, I speak English as well. :-) Thanks for the welcome message. I've spoken Spanish and English since I was born, but I've never had any formal education in Spanish– while I can speak it well, as anyone who learns a language without formal education in it, I do make minor grammatical mistakes every so often, and would appreciate some help in proofreading the translations of the fundraising pages. ¡Gracias! ベリット 話せます 00:33, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Administradores

Hola! Ya está! He organizado elecciones como me lo pediste, e la comunidad occitana ha votado : [50]. Los dreches de administración de los administradores que ya no contribuyen desde más de un año deben ser quitados. Nos puedes ajudar? Aprovecho la ocasión para desearte unas felices pasquas! Cedric31 19:07, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Cedric31 08:03, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Template:LockHide

Hola Spacebirdy, He detectado un problema en la plantilla {{LockHide}}. Cuando esta plantilla es usada con el parámetro de la "home wiki" ocurre lo siguiente:

*{{LockHide|Abc|w:es}}

da como resultado:

• Abc (talk • contribs • block • xwiki-contribs • xwiki-date ^(alt) • CA • gblock • ST • lwcheckuser)

Si hacemos clic, bien en cualquiera de los enlaces [talk|contribs|block] éstos se muestran así: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/esUser:Abc cuando debería ser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/es:User:Abc, es decir, que faltan los dos puntos detrás del código del proyecto.

He estado revisando el código de la plantilla, pero no soy muy ducho en la creación y mantenimiento de las mismas y me preguntaba si sería posible que tú o alguien familiarizado con las plantillas pudiesen arreglar ese pequeño problema. Muchas gracias por tu tiempo. Feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo. Dferg ^(T-ES) 12:26, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Sí, luego me dí cuenta de que era yo el que tenía que poner los dos puntos detrás y por ello revertí mi mensaje. Lo siento :-( Dferg ^(T-ES) 13:47, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to the Malagasy Wiktionary !

Welcome to Malagasy Wiktionary !

I ask all users of Wiktionary Malagasy for the community will not silent and for everyone expresses his opinion :

A decision must be made by the community mg.wiktionary (7 people in total!: (( ) To see who is for or against the adminiship of Jagwar (myself), please answer me within 30 days.

Best regards Jagwar 10:07, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

I see what you mean. But can you show me what's the command which changes the namespace in BetaWiki ? :) Jagwar 19:23, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Links you needed

Hello, Here are the links you (and other stewards) needed

• This is the real link which shows the list of candidates who are waiting :)
• Community

PS: some links used in the left toolbar are broken and must be corrected. Best regards . Jagwar

Turkmen logo

Hi, thank you so much for making a logo for the Turkmen Wikipedia. You told me to make a logo switch request at bugzilla, how exactly do I do that? Sorry, I'm just not good at all this technical stuff, I apologise for the inconvenience. Regards. Runningfridgesrule 00:33, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Hello again! I started a discussion about the logo here. The users want the word "azat" to be changed to "erkin". Please can you make this change? Thanks in advance. Kind regards. Runningfridgesrule 13:19, 31 December 2008 (UTC)