Wikipedia-l June 2005

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Greek wikipedia to 1.5 ?
by Gabriel 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

when the greek wikipedia would be convert to 1.5 ?

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switch Võro logo
by Sulev Iva 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

Hi, Can some developer switch the logo for the Võro Wikipedia? It is uploaded, protected and ready to switch: http://fiu-vro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wiki.png Thanks, --Võrok 00:35, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Request for creation of Dutch-Low Saxon (nds-nl)
by Servien Ilaino 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

Hi there, I'd like to request for a Wikipedia in Dutch-Low Saxon (±1.8 million speakers). There is currently a Low Saxon one but 95% of it is in German-Low Saxon and quite ununderstandable for Dutch-Low Saxon speakers. We already have the minimum number of interested persons who will work on the Dutch-Low Saxon Wikipedia encyclopedia. (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages#Dutch-Low_Saxon) Thanks in advance. Servien Ilaino (I'm just new here) -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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Problems accessing watchlist
by John Platt 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

Excuse me, but since the upgrade I have been consistently unable to access my watchlist at all, and have been having problems getting any computer to acknowledge I am logged in when I move from page to page. This is especially embarrassing as I just started a Taro Yashima stub in the English Wikipedia (which perhaps should be a Jun Iwamatsu stub but perhaps not) and much of the information I was planning to use for reference has moved or disappeared so I'm trying to do a lot of revisions.

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Problems with finding native Seeltersk speakers
by Wouter Steenbeek 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

Hi all, Trying to set up a Wikipedia in Seeltersk, I e-mailed Pyt Kramer, who is an important authority on this language, and has good contacts with many native speakers. He already promised his collaborations on the project. Now I explained him in my e-mail that the community wants native speaker support, but that would be problematic. Most native speakers are to be found among elderly people, who are relatively unfamiliar with the internet and have learned no English. There is only one potential contributor, who - luckily - was also willing to work on it. The second category of native speakers consists of children, who are not yet supposed to collaborate. The number of native speakers between 15 and 60 is really very low. But among those, we can recruit some willing contributors: the parents raising their children in Seeltersk. They are real Seelters, and in their daily life they speak the language every day. That makes them as good as native speakers. Therefor I would like to ask: is it possible, with a language which is being revived, to grant requests like these when language revivers rather than native speakers are showing their interest? Thanks, Wouter _________________________________________________________________ Altijd in contact met de kleinkinderen: MSN Messenger http://messenger.msn.nl/

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Wikipedia turns a few heads in Bhutan, China
by Sj 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Wikipedia snagged some Bhutani coverage this week, though it seems to have been written a few months ago... A journalist writing for /kuensel online/, "Bhutan's daily news site," cheerfully noted the existence of a Dzongkha Wikipedia. http://www.kuenselonline.com/article.php?sid=5656 http://dz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilst_Ooli Meanwhile the Chinese government is developing a editable encyclopedia of Chinese history, including all extant documents from before 1911. According to Xinhuanet, "Volunteers may register at www.china-can.com to become an intern editor, assistant editor or editor." The site is designed for "50 billion words and 35 million media files"; I'm guessing that's a British billion... so around 100 TB. >From the looks of their website, however, they're just getting off the ground (and relearning html lessons from 1998) http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-06/23/content_3125788.htm http://www.china-can.com/index.htm -- SJ

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Test wikipedia policy
by Mark Williamson 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi all, I have a few questions about our policy towards test Wikipedias. 1) Can there be a test Wikipedia without a specific request for the creation of a Wikipedia in that language? Examples: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Test-wp/enm/ (Middle English), http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Test-wp/Skandinavisk/Hovudside (Unified Scandinavian), http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Test-wp/mis-ryu/ (South-Central Okinawan). 2) Should it become a requirement to have a test Wikipedia before a new Wikipedia can be created?? 3) Once a Wikipedia is actually created, is there a policy to delete the test Wikipedia? For example with fiu-vro, I transferred all the articles and gave credit on talkpages; for sco: I transferred all articles. Clearly, having all these pages on meta now is just taking up space. Mark -- SI HOC LEGERE SCIS NIMIVM ERVDITIONIS HABES QVANTVM MATERIAE MATERIETVR MARMOTA MONAX SI MARMOTA MONAX MATERIAM POSSIT MATERIARI ESTNE VOLVMEN IN TOGA AN SOLVM TIBI LIBET ME VIDERE

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Announcement - Wikipedia SQL Query Tool www.wikisign.org
by Filzstift 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

It's from now on possible to do SQL queries for several (mostly central european) Wikipedias at http://www.wikisign.org I've done it because Special:Asksql was switched off and so i've done a replacement for it. (it would be also super if the interface could be translated into your language: http://www.wikisign.org/helptranslate.php) Filzstift ---- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Filzstift

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sk.wikipedia reaches 10.000
by Pavol Cupka 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi all, the Slovak Wikipedia reached 10.000th article milestone. The hardworking contributor was [[sk:User:Maros]] with article [[sk:Železo]]. Congratulations :-) -- Palica http://sk.wikipedia.org/User:Palica Nezabudni si vziať svoje Wikamíny. / Don't forget to take your Wikamins today. - Palica http://sk.wikipedia.org - slobodná encyklopédia, ktorú môže každý upravovať - AJ TY

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latin numerals at ml
by Anthere 28 Jun '05

28 Jun '05

Hi Bijee left me a message on my talk page about numerals on Malayalam. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3AAnthere&diff=15858603… What do you think ? Anthere

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