User talk:Drbug

Press release

Editing on the meta version of the press release has effectively stopped. Please finalize your version of the press release. We may be distributing them as early as Monday the 29th. --maveric149 22 Sep 2003

Русская Вика в дауне. Я добавил   в http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Mainpage между словами "Заглавная" и "страница". Для того, чтобы в меню они не переносились на другую строку. В итоге, из-за знака ";" вся русская Вика ушла в даун с сообщением:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-new/includes/Skin.php on line 872

Не знаете как всё можно исправить? Я пишу админам и девелоперам в английской вике, но они пока молчат. --Ctac

Не знаю, кто всё починил. Но Вика вновь заработала. Ура!--212.5.125.25 11:38, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Science pearls

Hi,

I address you as the ambassador of your wikipedia. Please notice the above project.

This project, more than other projects, will benefit from inter-wiki cooperation. Can you post a message regarding this project at your wikipedia village pump?

Thanks for your help, APH from the English wiki

Question concerning Soviet Copyright

Hi. I fear you were asked this question a million times before, but I still hope you'd give me an answer. The English Wikipedia lists a certain category of images that are flagged as PD, due to their release prior to May 1973. Could you confirm the information that these pictures are PD ? And do you know anything about the legal situation in Germany concerning these pictures?

Greetings an Best Wishes. - http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Nasiruddin , German Wikipedia, Portal Imperialism and World Wars

Trust in Wikipedia

this is Cathy from Hong Kong working on a research about trust on Wikipedia. I wonder if you would kindly contact me at researchingmedia@gmail.com? I'd like to chat with you about Wikipedia of your language. Would you kindly drop me your email or IM (Skype, MSN, AIM or ICQ)? It wouldn't take more than ten minutes, but it would help enormously for us to understand the overall trust-based social landscape of Wikipedia. Thank you!

Disputed image

Dear Dr Bug, I don't know why your (and anyone else's) honour should be under discussion for such a case.
I admit I gave an opinion based on Jaroslavleff's words only and without knowing in detail the policies of ru.wiki.
On it.wiki we started to be very cautious and began to remove many pictures for which the situation is not crystal clear. We allowed few exception after discussion, but they mainly refer to "public" information only (coat of arms, road signs and so on).
The cleanest way to solve the problem is to ask the user who uploaded the picture to send an email to permissions@wikimedia.org in which he/she declares under his/her responsibility to have obtained the agreement of the "Olimp" company to use the picture.
Hope this helps. Bye. --Paginazero 13:50, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

По поводу падонкоффской вики

Вы пишете "If there's a space for "Siberian language" in the wiki, there should be a space for the "Padonkian language", too. Despite none of them should be treated seriously, in my opinion."
Но при этом голосуете за падонкоффскую, но против сибирской, как вас понимать? Ответьте, пожалуйста.--Kojpiš Anton 16:22, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Уважаемый Антон, я уже написал своё мнение - создание обеих подразделов примерно одинаково неуместно. За "падонкафкую" я проголосовал просто потому что так захотела моя левая пятка. Можете свободно цитировать это моё высказывание... Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) 05:24, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Огромное вам спасибо за честный отрвет.--Kojpiš Anton 17:33, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Thanks!

		The Rosetta Barnstar
		Thanks for your help with translations! Evrik 01:06, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Ref.

You're welcome! Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) 07:13, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

And thank you for the Rosetta Barnstar! :-) Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) 07:14, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Check User mailing list

Unfortunately I'm just a subscriber of the list as you are. I cannot answer about the delay. Please wait for a while and, if necessary, write again. Sorry. Bye. --Paginazero - Ø 12:58, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

(Sorry - I confused the topic) - yes, the list is moderated. Please be patient for a while. Bye. --Paginazero - Ø 13:00, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Transbabel

Hi, Drbug, would you like to put Transbabel besides babel templates? It indicate you as so-and-so lang combo translators and help to generate a translator list automatically.

Thank you for your consideration! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Aphaia (talk • contribs) .

Dear Naoko, thank you for this informaion. But is it possible to do this withoud user box? I don't like user boxes, and if there is some plain text template or category, I would prefere to use it. Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) 10:00, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Stewards/elections 2006-2

Paginazero хочет, чтобы мы исправили его переводы на русский. Да и сами можем переводить данные о кандидатах на русский или любой другой нам доступный язык. --Obersachse 16:54, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Переводы

Спасибо. :o) --Paginazero - Ø 17:47, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Translation_teams/ru

Привет! я добавил тебя в Translation_teams/ru - думаю, не зря --Kaganer 16:06, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Да, ты не ошибся. Спасибо! Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) 20:35, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Re: Я хочу подать иск в АК

Привет Drbug! Спасибо за помощь. Я не знал что есть Ombudsmen Commission на ru.wiki. :o) Пока. --Paginazero - Ø 20:57, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Добрый день, Paginazero! эта комиссия Ombudsman_commission - здесь, на Мете... У нас там (в ruwiki) пока только Арбитражный комитет :-). Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) 21:12, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Привет еще Drbug. Тебе ничего смотреть эту просьбу проверки пользователя [1]? Большое тебе спасибо. --Paginazero - Ø 18:10, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

Не за что! Написал. Правда, и без проверки, по modus operandi понятно, кто это... Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) 15:45, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Translations

Thanks for translating the candidate statements to Russian! If you could, when you're done translating, it would be great if you could add links to the translations in Template:Election candidates 2007/quickview ML, like this, so that others can find them more easily. Thanks again! —METS501 (talk) 12:19, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi, welcome to the coordinator team and thank you for your enormous translations! If you or your friends have posted something to Russian projects, please list those postings on Board elections/2007/Translations/en#Wikimedia projects, our distribution list. Thanks again! --Aphaia 00:14, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I will do this tomorrow! Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) 19:07, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Chapter stuff

Hello Vladimir,

One first comment. There seem to be a confusion in your assessment of what a chapter *is*. Chapters are *not* chapters of the Wikimedia Foundation. They are simply Wikimedia chapters. They are independant legal entities that just share a name and overall goals with the Foundation.

To go back on your list:

• Management of content rights:
  • Gathering of written GFDL confirmations from authors (to send them to WMF).
    • I don't see that as a necessity from chapters, since this is taken care of by the community, but why not?
      • I mean, to do this in some systematic way. It's quite easier to Russian authors to send letter to Russian address.
  • Issuing approvals for commercial organisations to allow them to use Wikipedia/etc content.
    • Not so much to use the content as to use the trademark. Remember, content is free ;-)
      • Content is of course free, but no one will seriously work in Russia not having a paper with signature (and stamp) allowing him to use the content. So most need some written document confirming that the content is free. What do you think about this? It is a question of responsibility, indeed...
        • Then noone will work with Russia. You have to realize (and I realize that every day) that Wikipedia is a new "way of doing things". No organisation, whether the Wikimedia Foundation or the chapter, should ever take responsibility for a content that's widely known as "user generated content". If they're not going to do anything without a written paper, then...nothing will be done ;-)
  • Commercial activity such as printing Wikipedia/etc or publishing on DVD.
    • Never ever ever. Chapters (as well as the Foundation) should NEVER engage in publishing activities of any kind, print or offline. It is a very important basic point to remember. Authors are responsible for the content. The chapters and the Foundation may work in partnership with publishers so as to help them with publishing the content of the projects (such as the project I talked about on the village pump of a Russian DVD), never become a publisher themselves.
      • It's just due to my bad wording :-). I meant, to arrange agreements with publishers to promote them to publish the products. Again, few here will use here free content non having an agreement at hands.
        • OK.
  • To represent WMF in courts (subject to additional POA from WMF on per case basis).
    • Again, this should never happen. Chapters are legally independant organisations from the Foundation. Although they might assist the Foundation in understanding a legal case, they should never represent the Foundation to avoid the Foundation be liable in a country where it is not by default liable. Having the chapters act as representatives in their country of origin would extend the scope of laws under which the Foundation had to operate. So when the first chapters have been founded, we've made sure that they stayed completely independant from the Foundation. It is our most important line of defence.
      • It's again wrong wording case from me. I meant, to assist WMF in Russia whenever WMF decides it is resonable. For example, in cases of WMF's trademark violations, etc.
      • Then OK :-)
• Promotion of Wikipedia/etc and of free content ideology.
  • Advertising.
    • Why not ;-)
  • Organisation of meetings and conferences.
    • Yes
  • Lobbying of Copyleft/other free licenses-friendly changes in legislation.
    • Yes
  • To represent WMF in different forums.
    • No, again please forget the "representation" idea. In local forums, Wikimedia Russia would represent Wikimedia Russia. End of the story ;-).
      • I think it's bad wording again. Chapters can not avoid somehow representing WMF and its projects, because they have WM in their title :-). I'll try to explain in more details, what I mean. What if Russian Wikipedia is nominated to some prize? It's some kind of officiality, so prize organizers may need some Russia-registered artificial person to represent the project. How should it be managed? Should local chapters care of it or they should avoid any national prizes?
      • Of course, Wikipedia/etc are community-driven. However, it's sometime inconvient or even impossible to act without having some registered artificial persons, that should somehow represent the community. If it shouldn't be chapter, it's ok with me, but I just a bit in doubt, if chapters can not represent the community at some minor extent, who could? (It's not a rhetoric question, I really interested in answer!)
        • Then the better wording is "act as a real-life emanation of the community when needed". Yes, you're right, getting a prize and stuff can be one of those things. But it also can be that Wikimedia Russia pays the train trip to any random or designated community member ot go and get the prize for example, on behalf of the Wikipedia community. I think the tricky word her eis "representation". A better word would probably be that a chapter will be mandated by the community to do things. It does not by default take the place of the community. If that makes sense.
• Local technical maintainance:
  • Local cashing servers infrastructure.
    • If the need arises and the chapter does not become liable by hosting content, yes, such as the help that has been provided by Wikimedia Germany in Amsterdam.
  • Local service servers (for bots, mailservers, etc).
    • I would see that as a service to the community, so why not, yes.
      • Of course, to the community. I suppose, everything the charter does, is for the community - either for those who are already users of Wikipedia/etc, of who may become user of it :-).
• Finances.
  • Managing donations, fundraisings.
    • Yes.

Hope my answers help.

Please have a look at Wikimedia Chapters, Local chapters FAQ as well as Step-by-step chapter creation guide for more info. You can also direct your questions at the Chapters committee or write to me directly at dmenard [zat] wikimedia [punto] org. notafish }<';> 15:34, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much. I've looked there earlier! I just tryed to say in my own words how I understand it, to avoid and fix any discrepancies! Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) 16:29, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Hope my further answers clarify some of the dark points. notafish }<';> 15:48, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Письмо Кэри Бассу

Примерно так:

Сообщество русской Википедии организует первую Викиконференцию - см. ru:Википедия:Викиконференция 2007 (пока, к сожалению, только по-русски). Она должна состояться 27-28 октября в Санкт-Петербурге (Россия). Как только будет определённость с местом проведения, будет сделан краткий пресс-релиз, который мы обязательно переведём на английский язык (ориентировочно - в начале следцующей недели).

Для общения с различными организациями орг. комитету очень помог бы e-mail вида "ruwikiconference(at)wikimedia.org". Можем ли мы попросить Фонд выделить нам такой e-mail хотя бы временно, на период конференции? Это нужно для использования в пресс-релизах и переписки с потенциальными участниками - ВУЗами и иными консервативными организациями.

На наш взгляд, это мог бы быть адрес, перенаправляемый на специальный лист рассылки, участниками которого будут члены оргкомитета. По нашему мнению, это не должно согздать большой нагрузки на сервера Фонда.

Можно ли рассчитывать на такую помощь ?

С уважением, и т.п.

--Kaganer 17:09, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Ok, here is the translation with my minor adjustments, I will copy it to Cary:

The Russian Wikipedia (and other mediawikis) community is organising its first WikiConference (ru:Википедия:Викиконференция 2007 - unfortunately, in Russian only yet; it might be something like Wikimania 2006). It is planned on October 27-28 in St.Petersburg (Russia). As soon as we make a final choice where exactly it will be held, we will issue a short press-release, which we are going to translate in English (hopefully in beginning next week).

In order to contact various organisations, a e-mail like "ruwikiconference(at)wikimedia.org" would be quite useful for the organisation committee. Could we ask the Foundation to grant us such an address at least temporarily? We need it for use in press-releases and when writing to potential participans like universities and other rather conservative institutions.

As we see it, it could be a e-mail address redirected to a mail list used by the wikiconference organisation committee members. We suppose it couldn't cause any significant load on the Foundation's servers.

Could you please advise us if we could get a help like this, or how we would handle this problem else?

Dr Bug (Vladimir V. Medeyko) 19:18, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Спасибо. Я там за нас обоих подписался ;) --Kaganer 15:34, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

О НП

Сэр, Срок голосования по учредителям был установлен 8 октября, сегодня 20, я в очередной раз спустился с гор, через неделю мне на вахту недели на две уезжать. Давайте завершать, тем более я остался один под вопросом :-). Надеюсь, этому есть технические причины. --Egor 13:43, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Да я думаю, что DrBug ждал, пока все выскажутся. А они тормозят. Я попросил Айвола и Стаса определиться - думаю, этого будет достаточно. --Kaganer 11:28, 22 October 2007 (UTC)