Categorization

Short list: * Upgrade pt, ia

• set up new wikis for Thai, Bengali, some others
• Get wiktionary.org multilingual-ready (fix up links to Wikipedia; move current to en.wiktionary.org)
• Look at the UTF-8 editing issue
• Fix mav's login to work on foundation pages
• many other things from below

New wiki installs

(see en:Wikipedia:Complete list of language wikis available and Wikipedia software upgrade status)

Note: most of these are going to wait until the conversion script is set up to import existing pages from the old UseModWiki installs to the new server. Hopefully I'll get a chance to do this soon, but I've been saying that for a long time. :P

Update: We've upgraded the Frisian wiki as an experiment to work out bugs. The link rebuild script still isn't working, requiring manual resaving of every page to fix up the link tables, and automatic renaming and image imports haven't been put back in yet. Broadly speaking it's promising though. :) --Brion VIBBER 22:27, 22 Oct 2003 (UTC)

• Please, localize the http://tt.wikipedia.org/ with uploaded LanguageTt.php file. : since 18:35, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)
• http://af.wikipedia.org/ (change to new software). The localisation has been completed, at LanguageAf.php, so we're ready to go!Greenman 12 Dec 2003
• http://pt.wikipedia.org/ (change to new software)
• http://uk.wikipedia.org/ (change to new software) --Gutsul
  • There are no pages here, so conversion can be done without conversion script (or not?). --Gutsul
• http://kn.wikipedia.org/ (novigi softvaron)

• create Aragonese (an.wikipedia.org) and Asturian (ast.wikipedia.org) wikipedias (recognized recently: LOC Change Notice)
  • Oh, Yes! Please!
• Create http://crs.wikipedia.org (cockny rhyming slang) i want to have a go at it :-). -fonzy
  • Not a real language code. :)
• Change http://ca.wikipedia.org to new software, please. With more than 5000 articles each day will be more difficult to do the change (and the translation is done since december of 2002).

Valona lingvo bezonas redirektilon en Interwiki.php  : "wa" => "http://wikipedia.walon.org/wiki/$1" ArnoLagrange 14:55, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Oni intencas translokigi gxin al wa.wikipedia.org

• http://sk.wikipedia.org/. I have finished the translation ("localization") of the Slovak interface. I hope it is correct concerning the software.

Could someone install it???? Juro 11 Dec 2003

• Can the Latin Wikipedia be converted to the new software? It's moderately busy, and would be easier to use if it was changed over, I think. Adam Bishop 04:12, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC)

• Could you please convert the Estonian Wikipedia to the new software. It has over 1000 articles and is actively growing, yet it is the only large (over 500 articles) Wikipedia still using UseMod. Thanks, Ronline, 06:41, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

• Could you please convert the Indonesian Wikipedia to the new software. Thanks a lot, Muhamad, 22 Dec 2003.

• Could you please convert Low Saxon Wikipedia to Phase III new software. It's the largest Wikipedia still using UseMod.Ronline, 23 Dec 2003

• Can you upgrade eu: with the English interface ? --Youssefsan 18:38, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)~

Configuration changes

• Change the Dutch Wikipedia to a UTF-8 Wikipedia. Giskart Walter 19:31, 26 Aug 2003 (UTC)
  • anytime now is good Giskart Walter 10:33, 29 Sep 2003 (UTC)
    • Still so Giskart Walter 19:56, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• Change the tagline below the article titles of zh: from "Wikipedia????????" to "????????????". --Menchi 07:20, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)
  • Should be working now
• localize Special pages of LanguageZh.php and add zh-cn, zh-tw etc. Please update zh.wikipedia.org, thank you! --Shizhao 09:17, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Sysops

Note: I do *not* deal with sysops on the English wiki.

meta

• Stevertigo and Alex756 for the meta:wikipedia as supported at Wikipedia talk:Administrators. Angela 00:15, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)
• Hi, Brion, mav told me to ask you for admin rights on meta. (See Talk:Wikimedia Fundraising page.) So I would like that, please. -- Toby Bartels 15:31, 17 Oct 2003 (UTC)
• On meta: Hi Brion, can you please give me Admin rights on meta to edit the fundraising pages. I am already Admin in en and de. Thanks a lot, Fantasy 08:30, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC)
• Pcb21 for Meta as he requested on Requests for adminship. Angela 08:26, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC)

wikibooks

• • Uh, Karl - Lord Emsworth needs to accept the nomination first. There also needs to be a second to the nomination, but I just added that. --Maveric149 22:45, 20 Oct 2003 (UTC)
    • Nomination accepted. (By Lord Emsworth.) Cyp 23:28, 20 Oct 2003 (UTC)

• Please add me to this so that I can start to deal with movements between Wikibooks and Wikisource. Eclecticology 20:29, 27 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Wikisource

• Eclecticology (already an Admin on Wiktionary])

ko

• Please give ???:??? in ko.wikipedia the sysop status. May he have the developer status? He has some experiences in hacking moinmoin wiki. --en:User:Xaos sysop --Brion VIBBER 07:36, 16 Aug 2003 (UTC)

simple

• Stevertigo (seems to have left?) and Angela for the simple.wikipedia

zh

• New sysops: zh:User:Wing, zh:User:Colipon and zh:User:Ktsquare.--Formulax
• Please giveuser:shizhao on zh.wikipedia developer status. He contribution most, and already an Admin on zh.wikipedia.--Shizhao 15:54, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)

ja

• Please make user 0null0 a sysop at ja. Though not without opposition (from anons), and reservation (from a regular), supported by many others (8 or 9 logged-on users) after an open discussion. Tomos 02:28, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC) In addition, it was announced that this page is here the request is made, and anyone who sees the need for further discussion should come to this page, delete this request before you act. There has been no discussion since that time til now. Tomos 18:40, 3 Dec 2003 (UTC)

ca

• Hello, Brion. It seems that after the switch to MediaWiki there are not anymore sysops in the Catalonian wiki. Can you help them? I don't know who were them because I just come there from the Spanish wiki. Thanks and salut, -- 1984 20:11, 16 Dec 2003 (UTC) (aka pieter at es: and ca:)

• There is a problem in the Catalan version. The links to pages with apostrophes (') points to the edit page and no to the article.
  • Plàcid Pérez Bru <- new admin, please.

pt

• Hi, Brion. the Portugues wiki, has the same problem of sysops, previous ones unregistered, as in the Catalonian wiki, and I don't know who they were. Can you fix it?. It seems all the new wikipedias converted to MediaWiki have the same problem. Saludos JorgeGG 12:51, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC).
  • Unfortunately I can't just "fix" it because the way user accounts and admin priviledges work on the two wiki systems is totally different. If you can provide a list of accounts which should be marked as admins, I can do that. --Brion VIBBER 18:53, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)

nl

• Hi Brion, Wikipedia NL is growing fast, we need new sysops. We have followed a procedure to request for new sysops. Five long-term users have reacted and have agreed with our guidelines for sysops. No negative reactions have been received from the current sysops, nor from the current users. So can you please make these users a sysop: Hooft, Falcongj, Jeroenvrp, Domie, Willinckx. Thanks, Ellywa 08:38, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)

bg

• Hi, Brion. Please give the user Borislav a sysop status on the bulgarian Wikipedia. Thank you, Borislav 06:01, 22 Dec 2003 (UTC).

Stats

Web stats

• Not all locales done, some charset problems
• Exclude stats in robots.txt for all languages (btw, robots.txt isn't the same on en and de)

Wikipedia stats

• Add fy: to list (request from Andre Engels) Erik Zachte

Bugs:

• csv directory has not been uploaded since September

It would be really nice to fix this - perhaps a bug in the upload script? -- Nichtich 14:26, 20 Nov 2003 (UTC)

• webalizer stats have not been updated in last two runs, wget job at fault?

Erik Zachte 01:12, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)

• Could you please redo the making of the last stats? Something seems to have gone wrong. For nl: and fr: only a very small subset of their pages is found, and for en: there seem to have been created no data for the last measuring point. Andre Engels 08:45, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I thought I reran it already, but I think I forgot. Running now... --Brion VIBBER 10:15, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)

nl: and fr: are now solved, but en: still lacks the last datapoint. Andre Engels 08:33, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)

should be ok??????

Locales

• Ko wikipedia have several bugs with IE in using (Special Function Pages). ko:???:??? seems to have figured out what the problem is. ( form tag in the source has different korean encoding : but this description of mine might be inaccurate ) --ko:???:Xaos
  • If anyone can describe the problem in detail for me, that would be real real nice. --brion
• The Special:Intl page on the Romanian Wikipedia is broken; it should either be updated as to state that the page is unavailable, or it should properly list the interlanguage links. Please note the same happens at least on the Hungarian Wikipedia as well (other Wikipedias I checked--Fr and De--show this to be an invalid special page). --Gutza 23:28, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)
• Database error occurs by searching in KoWikipedia. --ko:???:Xaos
• LanguageKo.php updated. Plese make it effective. (It's also expected that we bother you several times more with this.) --ko:???:Xaos
• New versions of languageNl.php and (especially) languageFy.php have been uploaded, please put them effective on the server. Andre Engels 09:43, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• LanguageRu.php updated. Please apply this newer version to the Ru.Wikipedia. Thank you! Drbug 18:09, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)
• LanguageBg.php has been finished. Please, localize the bulgarian Wikipedia. Thank you! Borislav 07:54, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
  • Thank you for the localization, Brion. I have noticed that some strings were cut off from the language file:
    • the strings (in $wgAllMessagesBg) from "emailforlost" up to "longpagewarning" are missing by meta and cvs
    • the strings (in $wgAllMessagesBg) from "retypenew" up to "uploadlog" and from "doubleredirectstext" up to "removedwatch" are cut off only by meta.wikipedia.org
• Please re-update the Romanian locales from CVS. --Gutza 13:25, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Sister Projects

• move wikiquote, wikibooks to their domain names.
• move meta, mail, and download subdomains to corresponding subdomains on wikimedia.org

Wiktionary

• create German, French, Romanian Wiktionaries

Wikiquote

• create French, Polish and Romanian wikiquote.

Wikisource

• Create source.wikimedia.org (as commented in recent listdisc) the ps.wikipedia.org doesnt have enough to codeport (yet).-Stevertigo 19:28, 31 Aug 2003 (UTC)
  • Wikisource.org is another possibility (same access info I sent you for the other Nodaddy domains). --Maveric149 07:47, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)
  • Then can we have http://fr.wikisource.org/ ? Yann 17:14, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)
    • No. All languages are on just one wiki for Wikisource. --mav
      • Well, nothing has been decided. You can decide for other languages. Yann 13:31, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Wikibooks

• separate French Wikibooks. The menu is in English now and there are some conflict page name. See http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Staff_lounge#I18n_of_the_menu_? Thanks. Yann 11:33, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)

TOC

• Checkbox option hidden/shown TOC default. -SV

Redirect

• make a redirect from http://portal.wikipedia.org to The provisional portal of Wikipedia Giskart Walter 19:34, 26 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Bug reports

Arabic

• Check in here and think about some ways to ease BIDI editing. Xie xie.--Stevertigo

Swedish

In Swedish Wikipedia, I get the following message when uploading a picture:

A database query syntax error has occurred. The last attempted database query was: "UPDATE LOW_PRIORITY searchindex SET si_title='antiochos iii jpg' WHERE si_page=20994" from within function "SearchUpdate::doUpdate". MySQL returned error "1016: Can't open file: 'searchindex.MYI'. (errno: 145)".

Den fjättrade ankan 22:37, 19 Oct 2003 (UTC)

This may or may not have gotten fixed. --brion

It's fixed. Den fjättrade ankan 22:04, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)

MySQL error

Hi Brion, There is a MySQL error on Wikisources. Thanks for your work. Yann 21:29, 28 Nov 2003 (UTC) SELECT lcc_cacheobj FROM linkscc WHERE lcc_title = 'Main_Page:Français'

from within function "". MySQL returned error "1146: Table 'sourceswiki.linkscc' doesn't exist".

The above bug affects all pages except the generated ones like the most recent changes, the history pages, and such. I've not been able to go to any page to view or make an edit either, I get this error message for any permanent page:

A database query syntax error has occurred. This could be because of an illegal search query (see Searching Project Sourceberg ), or it may indicate a bug in the software. The last attempted database query was:

SELECT lcc_cacheobj FROM linkscc WHERE lcc_title = 'Main_Page'

from within function " ". MySQL returned error " 1146: Table 'sourceswiki.linkscc' doesn't exist ". Kalki 23:58, 28 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Finnish

On Finnish Wikipedia, the {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} tag doesn't work, it gives only 8 articles.
Den fjättrade ankan 22:04, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Copyright notice change

As discussed on the mailing list and your talk page. { MB | マイカル } 21:47, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Installing the new logo

Chinese

• Please update Chinese wikipedia logo. see zh:Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia????#??logo??

--Shizhao 02:55, 20 Oct 2003 (UTC)

should be done, may need to force reload in brwoser to see it

Logo error. no[1], is above logo. see zh:Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia????/??logo--Shizhao 15:12, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Finnish

-- Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick 13:09, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Tamil

I have modified the wikipedia logo in Tamil, to be used in Tamil wikipedia pages. It has been uploaded as wiki-ta.png. This is for your comment. Translation of the LanguageTa.php too has been about 99% complete. I will inform you when it is 100% finished.--Mayooranathan 22:13, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Vietnamese

File:Wiki-vi.png

I've translated the subtitle of Nohat's logo into Vietnamese. It doesn't have transparency, because I don't have software that'll export to PNG with transparency. If someone can do that for me, that'd be great. Thanks. – Minh Nguy?n 03:30, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Thanks – Minh Nguy?n 03:17, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Romanian (New request)

• Please upload and use this Romanian Wikipedia logo:

--Gutza 02:46, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)

• Sorry to bother you again, I noticed you already uploaded the logo above, but now some of the users suggested that we include a Romanian special character in the Romanian version of the logo. I have to agree, that's a nice touch, so please re-upload this new version. Thank you! --Gutza 04:19, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Welsh

• Could you please advise how one gets a new logo created? The text should read "Wicipedia / Y Gwyddoniadur rhydd". Thanks.

-- Arwel 00:41, 15 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Bulgarian

Please, put this logo on the bulgarian wikipedia. Thank you! Borislav 11:55, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC).

Wikimedia

Could you export the page content noted in this email? Oh, and place the WikimediaFoundation.org template on meta. Thanks. :-) --Maveric149 22:27, 14 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Provizora portalo

Ĉu eblus havi portalon similan al tiu de Esperanto.net kun simpla listo de lingvoj  : xx:xxlingvonomo (xxlingve) kun tia ligo xx:[xxlingvonomo http://xx.wikipedia.org]. Salutvortoj ("Bonvenon en la vikipedio, la multlingva libera enciklopedio. xxlingva versio troviĝas je http://xx.wikipedia.org.") kaj la mencio :"Via lingvo mankas ? Aldonu ĝin" aperus en la en la foliumilo defaŭlte elektata lingvo de la retumanto. Tio supozus ke la servilo sendus la paĝon en la lingvo defaŭlte elektata de la retumanto. Vidu la diskuton kaj mian proponon pri kiu mi ne tiom fieras. -- ArnoLagrange 10:04, 30 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Nu, certe ni faru ion tian...

Deletion

ja

We Japanese wikipedians want certain past versions of articles to be deleted, and decided to ask your help on that. Please take a look at your user page at Japanese wikipedia. Tomos 08:56, 4 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Or, for some reasons, if you think deleting specific versions is not a good idea or it is too much hastle for you to do (though I got an impression from mailinglist posting that it is easy), please let us know so that we can delete the entire articles and start rewriting. Tomos 03:10, 6 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Sorry, I'm still running behind on these things... --Brion VIBBER 10:15, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)

We are adding more items (page versions) to be deleted under the assumption that you will do it sooner or later. Also, sooner is of course better since in some cases copyright holders were contacted (largely to make sure they did not post those texts by themselves), and we received requests for deletion from them. Tomos 20:16, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)

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Hi Brion, A bit of an urgent issue... So I will mail you and the Intl and Legal list on this too. I had this posted under your meta page not Todolist.I heavily editted the front page of ta.wikipedia to capture the meaning of free as in freedom (as set out in the FDL) as the often found misunderstanding of 'free of cost' was magnified by the initial versions.

The job was made easy as Mayooranathan, the original translator agreed and urged me to implement my change to LanguageTa.php I have done the neccessary changes which should really be considered *temporary* as the meaning of free as in freely distibutable or whatever that it should be on Wikipedia has to be worked out with many other capable individulas and possibly organisations, many with internet presence.

So please authorise my temporay change to LanguageTa.php as it will help convey the correct message to those who will inevitably browse through to the front page as I go around advertising the ta module and the issue of definition it self. As for the appropriate text in the logo I have proposed a change to mirror the style and length of the 'en' logo and currently waiting confirmation from Mayooranathan.

FYI there is a discussions page linked from the front page of ta.wikipedia. I have a wikipedia user name : ram ... not home page yet.

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Hebrew Wikipedia

1. Pl. take a look at the request to enable better table handling. I pointed tgis request to Magnus Manske at User:Magnus Manske#Hebrew Wikipedia
2. Can you do something, so that Wikipedia:he will work with the newer version of Wiki and we will be able to use TOC end other goodies I am even not aware of.
3. Please take a look at our Wikipedia. I am very proud of the results so far. It’s far than I expected when I found the site on the 12 Jul 2003.
   This is one way to THANK YOU VERY MUCH for all you have done to fulfill the dream of many of us: free Hebrew encyclopedia. It's YOUR baby, and you can be proud with your work in Hebrew Wikipedia. ^^ Dod1 20:14, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)