Jeff, you're personal adminship status is not of Foundation-wide importance.
Kindly move this discussion to the proper, long-established forum for such
matters, meta's "Requests for permissions" page.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_permissions
Nick
Mr. Wales has removed the ban notices from the English Wikipedia
pertaining to me. Based upon past issues with editing there, I have
given Mr. Wales my promise to avoid the English Wikipedia entirely since
my editing style has not been productive or worked out well with others
on the English Wikipedia due to distant past attempts to have my
article, Jeffrey Vernon Merkey, removed from Wikipedia entirely. I have
gotten very confortable with the fine manner in which Mr. Wales and the
Foundation have handled such a sensitive topic and this controversial
article about me, and it's simply better for me to stay away from the
English Wikipedia since I AM CONTROVERSIAL and MY ARTICLE IS
CONTROVERSIAL. It's just better to not risk the temptation that all of
us seem to experience when articles are written about us on Wikipedia.
Its better to stay away entirely to allow the processes of Wikipedia to
function the way they were intended. My presence on the English
Wikipedia could only exacerbate this old situation surrounding the
article. So I voluntarily choose to avoid the English Wikipedia for
these reasons. If and when I become non-notable enough to not have an
article on Wikipedia, I will revisit the situation with Mr. Wales and
the Foundation pertaining to the English Wikipedia. For the immediate
future and the present, ni-go-di-s-ge-s-di (that's just the way it is).
However, I have and continue to edit on the Cherokee Wikipedia and have
a large body of content in Creek, Chicksaw, Dine, Cherokee, and other
Native Languages I plan to contribute back to the Native American
Wikipedia's over time. There are no bans on my contributions in these
areas. Although Mr. Wales has removed the ban, I wish to avoid any
future problems editing the English Wikipedia and make the best effort I
can to heal old wounds and put the past where it belongs -- in the past.
I also would like to start posting featured articles on the Cherokee
Wikipedia, and in time, the other Native American Wikipedia sites as
well. I formally request consideration by the Wikipedia Community for
admin status on the Cherokee Wikipedia to fully Cherokee Language enable
it and start posting articles in our language and really get the site up
to the same level as the English Wikipedia. Since I have voluntarily
elected to avoid the English Wikipedia site, and since I am the only
active Native Speaking editor on the Cherokee Wikipedia, asking for
admin status there would only result in me voting for myself, since
there is no one else.
I therefore submit this request via the foundation mailing list for
consideration. Your consideration would be appreciated.
Sincerely,
Jeff V. Merkey
Hi,
I think that there are several areas where the projects would benefit
from a more proactive help from the Foundation. I will speak about two here:
1. Legal counselling.
Some projects (mainly Commons and Wikisource) need more input about
copyright issues from knowledgeable persons. I have asked twice to
juriwiki-l specific issues for Wikisource without receiving an answer,
even an acknowledgement that my request was received. Another concrete
example: Commons and Wikisource would benefit most from a cross table
about copyright rules, which countries use "most favourable rule apply",
etc.
2. Helping small projects. It seems that some projects have a difficult
start. Indian languages projects are my first examples. I will go to
India in January, and I would like to use this opportunity to recruit
new contributors. The Foundation could help coordinate this kind of
recruitement.
Best regards,
Yann
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On 20/12/06, Rich Holton <richholton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Andrey wrote:
> > We talk about the English-language Wikipedia here, no? Other Wikimedia
> > projects allow usernames in non-Latin scripts, as best I know. For instance,
> > in Russian wikipedia, you may get a username in Cyrillic. Most complaints
> > are from those editors who have a non-Latin username in their national
> > wikipedia and fail to see why they can't keep it in English wikipedia. Best,
> Single User Login (SUL) _is_ coming soon. This means that someone with a
> login on the Russian Wikipedia will be able to have the same username on
> the English Wikipedia (just as an example).
> The question is, are we ready for this?
Yeah. I should point out that I do think blocking non-Latin character
sets is probably a bad thing, and the only reason it's now done on en:
is one way of dealing with bot-vandals. This problem will need
addressing sooner rather than later.
Are any of the vandal fighters reading this?
- d.
Stephen Bain wrote:
>
> I think it's horribly rude for the other admins on en: to be blocking
> people for using non-Latin characters in their username. A more polite
> approach would be to ask them to add a transliteration to their
> signature, that would satisfy many people.
>
> The problem is fairly simple, people who speak only English don't
> bother installing language support on their computers, even though
> (AFAIK) it is included with all operating systems these days. All they
> need to do is get their installation CD out and turn it on.
>
Generalizing the problem; if your username is written with a set of characters that is different from the one used on the wiki, then add in your signature a translitteration using the character set of that wiki.
Roberto (Snowdog)
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On 12/20/06, Andrey <yaroslavl(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I find this complaint ill-advised. This is an English-language project;
>
No.
Wikipedia is a multilingual project. You need to take hindsight and consider
users not as accounts, but as people who edit on different Wikimedia
projects and in different languages. This is precisely the philosophy that's
behind SUL.
--
Guillaume Paumier
Disciplus Simplex
http://fr.wikipedia.org : Resistance is futile — You will be assimilated.
Greetings:
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A new sitenotice is being rolled out to call attention to this
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It is our sincere hope that you will take advantage of this opportunity
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Hello:
Well, after some bumps we have the fundraiser off and running! There
was a bug in currency conversion reporting when we got started, but
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We also have our default site notice revised and in need of
translation. Please see
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We will go live with the new and improved sitenotice after we get some
translations put together.
Stay tuned!
-Brad
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Brane will translate longer one, also, we will add our comments on Meta.
First of all, I would like to thanks to all of the people who was in
Belgrade and who intended to come here. Special thanks to Nina and
Mathias, who was *two days* on Milano and Frankfurt airports! Also,
Delphine waited on Milano airport for more then one day, Gerard waited
for one day in Vienna, and Oscar, Martin and Florence had, also, a lot
of problems to come. Personally, I realized that there is no sense to
make anything related to Belgrade airport from November to March.
Up to Saturday afternoon everything looked like that conference have
been a totaly disaster, but, thanks to all participants, the
conference was great!
The success of the first day is dedicated to Oscar. Instead of one, he
made three lecturers: instead of Florence he talked about Foundation
and he made two lecturers about interesting things aroud wiki, free
knowledge and Wikipedia.
The second day was with a lot of content: Instead of four lecturers,
we had six. Mathias was talking about German community and Wikimedian
projects, Darko and Roberta were talking about Croatian community and
Wikimedian projects; as a mathematician, Roman made very interesting
graphics as well as he was talking about some funny problems which
Slovenian Wikipedia has (35.000 articles vs. 19.000 categories, a lot
of articles related to military; and around 50% of edits on sl.wiki is
done by only one person and his bot :) ). Slobodan had very
interesting speech about problems of small Macedonian community
(however, their Wikipedia will have 10.000 articles soon; so it is not
*so small*). Oscar was talking again, this time with video beam (it is
very good to have Oscar: as he is a professor, he may talk about lot
of things :) ). At the end, Gerard was talking about improoving wiki
world using OmegaWiki.
Finally, at Saturday evening Martin said to me the secret: how German
Wikipedian community is working without Arbitration Committee and I
think that it is a very good model for dealing with problems. In
general, Serbian Wikipedian community is working similar, but I was
afraid that it is not possible in bigger communities. However, German
community very good deals with POV pushers and nonsenses; I don't know
for any other community which is dealing with that so good (however, I
am not introduced in working of a lot of communities; maybe 10; also,
except a bigger ones, communities becoming famous only when it has
some problems).
So, this is all for now. I have some ideas and some thoughts related
to Wikimedian community and I'll write about it as soon as possible.