User talk:Angela

Deleting duplicate pages

I would ask that you consult the meta deletion policy before deleting any more pages. Your deletion of IRC Channels was contrary to established policies. Perl 00:41, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

The deletion summary was "deleted "IRC channels": copy of a page from en without any attribution of original authorship with the addition of highly objected to links".

I think meta is the proper home for this page. Only one of the links was "highly disputed" or even disputed at all, and that is hardly a reason for deleting the page. Silsor 00:46, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Elections

Yes -- you are right -- I saw the edit summary...and obviously didn't carefully check what was edited and assumed the worst. I suppose I really shouldn't edit when I'm on a conference call ;-). Sorry, and thanks. -- BCorr|Брайен 21:32, 11 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Enciclopedia Libre

142.177.92.38 wrote that in Enciclopedia Libre [...]

I supose this may be of your interest (those comments are not for EL neither from EL). Willy 16:29, 29 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

142.177 is a well known user who has declared himself a troll. He is permanently banned from the English Wikipedia. I wouldn't take too seriously what anyone who admits to trolling is saying. If you have concerns about the trademark issues, the Foundation-l mailing list is a good place to raise them, but please don't worry about what "142.177" is saying on EL. Angela 16:36, 29 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; as the troll is banned... post his/her comments on EL :( Willy 17:00, 29 May 2004 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations

Congratulations Angela. -- Looxix

Thanks. Angela

I am happy you are elected. I think we will continue to work together closely multingually. Arno Lagrange ✉ 21:44, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. Working on the multilingual side of things with you will be great. Angela

Me too! You'll be a great asset to the board! BCorr|Брайен 15:52, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. Angela 22:12, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Broken category link

Hi,

you recently removed a broken category link ([[:category:]]). How did you found it? if you click on special:allcategory the link category: i get an error-message. --WikiWichtel 11:16, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

yes, of course, we shouldn't have broken links as [category:], but if the software accepts such category, the software should give a chance to _find_ the article where this category is used. If someone types [[:category:]] into an article, you'll see that this has happened on the list of all categories special:categories _but_ you can't use the link because mediawiki says 'error'. Again: how do you find such broken categories? --WikiWichtel 15:39, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

↓ use this link, see the first category and click...

Sorry, I don't know of any way. Have you reported it as a bug anywhere? Angela 20:28, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Yes: MediaWiki_1.3_comments_and_bug_reports#category:

Since the broken category is named "Category:" you can use "what links here" and manually enter the target. --Borislav 21:19, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

No, that won't work. Special:Whatlinkshere/Category:Wikimedia Foundation only shows three pages, despite there being many more in that category. What links here shows only the pages that link inline to the category by using [[:Category:Wikimedia Foundation]] rather than [[Category:Wikimedia Foundation]]. Angela 21:30, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

What a beauty you are!

This an official complaint.

Dear Angela,

This an official complaint.

At first glance, the Wiki concept looked very sympathetic. However, the reality, in French Wikipedia, is far from nice, owing to the mobbing mores in power, there.

I would have preferred to have this matter treated with the administrators or fr.wikipedia; Infortunatelly, I have not found any mean to join any of them.

I wish to have my contributions quickly eradicated from fr.wiki, owing to the mobbing mores of this pack. Threats, insults, insinuations, campain of calumnies... They have used so with me, they will do it again against anybody who is not completely at their taste, who is not completely submissive.

I demand to have my paper fr:Produit extérieur, and its images destroyed from the site. Though they pretend a quite another story, it is a matter of morality : I deeply regret to have contributed in anything to such violent, insulting, and rogue pack.

By the way, a human audit should not be unnecessary... Otherwise the same causes will produce the same effects, again.

Very regretfully,

Jacques Lavau

213.44.226.71 19:40, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

As the work is released under the GFDL, that is not something you can demand unforunately. Have you tried emailing any of the admins on fr? There is a list of them at fr:Wikipédia:Administrateurs#Administrateurs actifs. Also, are you happy for Anthere to deal with this, as she speaks French and is in more contact with the admins on fr than I am? Angela 20:09, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Angel, I read all incriminated pages and I can assure you that the only insults that was used was all from Mr Lavau. A☮ineko 02:51, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Admin powers

Dispute over the editing of What we use the money for moved to en:User talk:Angela

Shell

I see that you now have shell access. Well, congratulations :-)
I am sure the solution you found for the foundation website is the best for most people. As for myself, two of the main reasons I joined Wikipedia and throw so much energy in it, was that I was empowered to do things without having to ask people all the time to help me, and second, that I did not need to learn a complicated language. Funny thing is that these are two reasons we claim Wikipedia is great.

So, what do I do now ? Anthere

wiki.linuxquestions.org bashing

hehe.. sorry if i slip into wiki.linuxquestions.org bashing, I was in a horrible WikiWar with one of the moderators, it mostly came down to my ignorance of the MediaWiki, however, it was also him not telling me how to use it... now I know a lot more, and I want to write how to use this beast (a friendly beast) so other people don't quit, or wage WikiWar. AaronPeterson 15:29, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome!

About the first level headers, NOOOOOoo... (fourth level headers wern't working when I started using MediaWiki).. and I need some headings to be 3 deep.. do 4 equal signs work to the same effect?

Finding stuff

I'm finding stuff as I go, I don't intend to duplicate things. I will try to merge WikiWars with Edit Wars... I'm in love with the way WikiWar sounds... About the prexisting format guides, I linked to the ones I found. I'll follow your link, but I find most to be too verbose for my tastes. I wish we all had a voice conferance system... ... Team Speak! We need to find a donor to supply team speak to wikipedia developers! That way we could be working on articles, instead of spending 1/2 hour writing a short messages (at 10 words per minute)

already on IRC on #mediawiki

I'm actually on the IRC channel quite a bit. just #mediawiki though, and not auto logged on, untill now.. I think team speak would rock... (I've never actually used it) It would be nice to use all of my sences to do something rather than just listen to music... I'll look into it a bit.

Question re appropriate content

Hello Angela,

I am a Wikipedia newbie with a question about the policy regarding appropriate content. I was not able to find the answer to my question in the policy articles.

Does an entry such as [pearl necklace] belong in the Wikipedia, or does it violate the policy for content?

I ask because I have children using the Wikipedia and such articles seem to be (in my opinion) nothing more than textual pornography.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

--Jelammers 26 July 2004

I've replied at en:User talk:Jelammers. Angela 23:55, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Transwiki process

Good evening. On m:Talk:Transwiki#New proposal, you mentioned that the transwiki process will no longer be dependent on cut-and-paste once 1.3 goes live. If I understood right, that happened in May. The instructions for transwiki still talk about cut-and-paste (and I must admit that I could not figure out how to execute them without losing the required history). There is quite a list of articles piling up for transwiki at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Old. I'd like to help clean that up if you can help me to understand the process better. Thanks. Rossami 22:35, 28 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Lojban Wikipedia

I tried to create the Lojban Wikipedia by pushing the button, but I got "Invalid request". Can you fix it? -PierreAbbat 01:03, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Replied at User talk:PierreAbbat

Thanks! I've started working on it. -PierreAbbat 08:53, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I asked Tim about the language file and capitalization, but he doesn't want to help, or doesn't understand what I'm asking. Whom else could I ask? -PierreAbbat 03:22, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I've replied at jbo. Strangely, I replied before I saw this message! Angela 03:55, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Swedish wiktionary

Hi and congratulations!

I have a question which I posted at the meta-wiki Babel. As noone has answered it for weeks now I try to ask you. I wonder about unicode in article names. It seems as it is impossible to use korean characters as name for articles in the swedish wiktionary. I get transfered to a special "illegal page" page when clicking on a red link containing only korean characters. Can you help me? I couldn't help noticing that you are an admin at the korean wikipedia. Do you mind if I ask about your interest in korean? // Wellparp 13:27, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

replied at sv wiktionary

Newletter

Angela, could you please give me temporary sysop status here for the Newsletter purpose. Doing the cover, and getting into the design, and uploading pictures, I'd like to erase pages, especially pictures that aren't so good after tested on the pages. See User:Jean-Christophe Chazalette/NLContents and draft covers (which I'm going to put here) at w:fr:Utilisateur:Aurevilly/NLC. Thank you. villy 16:10, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC) aka Aurevilly

Thank you, I'll let you know when I'm done. villy 07:17, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Discussions not up to date

Hullo Angela. I am curious to know the reason why an addition I made on Sept 6 to the discussion I have started on child protection in the Privacy policy page is not showing up this morning (Sept 10), but it can be found on the history page. It looks as though I am accessing a server with an earlier version only, but if that is the case it does not explain how I can get the History.

PS, I know that you and Jimmy Wales were interviewed by the BBC last week. Do you know when and where it will be broadast? I would like to listen to it when it appears. Will it be Radio 4 or the World service? Kind regards. Apwoolrich 06:10, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Small hint

Angela, just a small hint: I saw you do this several times: when you add an url to a wikixxx mail do not follow with a dot immediately. Like in

See bug 57 at http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57.

At least in MSIE the dot becomes part of the link, with a 'page not found' as result. Most people will not realize what happened and just assume the page is no longer online. I had to use <nowiki> for the example, because MediaWiki is smarter than the average mail client and separates url and dot correctly, thus making it a non-example. :) Erik Zachte 17:16, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)

Old habits die slowly. This time I am redirected to non existing Wikipedia page :))

Full details on the stats can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/Sitemap.htm.

But, but... I did it right in this one. You want me to send correct links in every email? Angela

Admin status

Angela, I'm done with my job on pictures as to now. I have made an official request to get the administrator status on meta. So, you can withdraw my temporary status. Thx. villy 20:01, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Sure. Angela 20:13, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

thanks for removing the status after me. I came today to do it, and went mumbling, fumbling, pesting, that once again, it was not working... till the moment I thought of going to the log :-) Anthere

Oh, I should have told you. Sorry, I was just tidying up. :) Angela 13:32, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Category browser for static WP Dist

Just leave away the editor, and get the pages from a local WP source .. this should be quite easy to accomplish. For me this has not such a high priority, but please let me know, if there is need for such a version.

[User:Shannon|Shannon]] 19:14, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi, Angela. Thank you for your treatments on toki pona Wikipedia :) e-Goat 16:18, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Another question of thanks

Thank you Angela and thanks for all who suppported my request. villy 19:20, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

set-user-rights problem

Hi Angela,

I got two requests,

Alfiobot@it as bot
Renato Caniatti@it desysop

but when I try to do it on Special:Makesysop I always geht an error

"User rights for "Alfiobot@it" could not be set. (Did you enter the name correctly?)"

Does it work for you? Is there a problem with this accounts, with my account, ??

Thanks for your help :-) Fantasy 容 18:22, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I replied on my page :-) Fantasy 容 09:25, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Please lock press releases

I was checking out the history for the One Million Articles release, and luckily noticed how much vandalism was going on. Seriously. I saw "jk" in the article and knew something was up, aside from all the broken codes. In the future (and for this one) please protect press releases. --The Inedible Bulk 21:25, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

It seems someone else has already protected it. I agree it would be a good idea for future releases to be protected as well. Angela

MandrakeSoft

Angela, draft contract in now at Wikimedia and Mandrakesoft (draft agreement). I also transferred the talk page. I started an English translation (very bad) on the page and asked for a translation request. The definitive English text is expected from a professional translator paid by MDK. villy 08:14, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. Angela 16:19, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Furry Wikipedians

I deleted Furry Wikipedians with a comment on 6 Oct 2004, 06:13. The page has been recreated again. Both times, it seems to be from an w:en user, MSTCrow. Maybe you could post a message to him on his w:en user page, before deleting it again here ? I can't see the point of such a page on meta ... Thx. villy 05:48, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

It might be best to put it on requests for deletion. They might just keep creating it again otherwise. Angela 01:53, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Lir

User:Lir wants to know why her user page, account, talk page, histories, and contributions list have all been deleted. She put a lot of time and effort into improving the Wikipedia, and finds it offensive that this has occurred. 209.181.211.69

Lir's account and user page seem to still be on both en and meta. Can you explain what you mean please? Angela 00:38, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Wiki Junior Project

We are currently in the process of deciding what the first topics will be. We have already decided that the first humanities topic will be Countries of the World:South America. We need to decide what our first science topic will be. We already have plenty of pictures available for Big Cats, The Solar System and Human Flight. We're having a little vote to decide which one we should work on first. Please come to Wikijunior project first topics. Cheers! Theresa knott 07:42, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Swedish wiktionary (again)

I am very sorry to disturb you with this again. The 15 August Shaihulud promised to convert the Swedish wiktionary to UTF8. We have spoken to him and he told us that he was very busy with his marriage. Isn't there anyone else who can do this conversion? We are getting restless... // Wellparp 21:27, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi. This isn't something I can do. All I can do is request it in #mediawiki the same as everyone else. I've asked, but so far got no positive reaction. Sorry. Angela 00:13, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Polish Wiktionary

Hi Angela. Could you have a look at my question at Requests_for_logos#Wiktionary? There's been no reaction for 5 days; maybe it's a wrong page to put the question on (but then, Meta is a labyrinth), and the continuation of our local discussion depends on what the Board says. Thanks --tsca 12:43, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Replied at Polish Wiktionary. Angela 13:59, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)

subpages etc

Please be careful about breaking subpage links when you move a page (like the former PR department pg). Thanks :) +sj+

Sorry about that. I will be more careful next time. Perhaps the problem should be added to the case against subpages. :) Angela 07:03, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Personal toolbar

"You can overwrite the quickbar with whatever links you want in 1.3 using customised css and javascript pages", you said on [1]. Please: HOW can I do it? IE6 ist displaying the personal toolbar at the left hand side and I really don´t know hwo to edit the main.css of monobook (or any other such file). If you can help, please mail to gmg-online@gmx.de. - gmgK

Kiribati Wiki

Angela,
Why do I not receive an answer at Requests for new languages#Kiribati Wikipedia? I want a yes or a no if possible (if no also arguments of course). Greets,
Belgian man 18:18, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)

- Because you are not the proposer of this proposal ? (11 Dec 2004)
  - ==> I AM the proposer. The e-mail adress given is mine. It is totally different then "Belgian man". And I am tired of it that you or somebody else put my real name again and again on the page linked above, because it is an encroachment to my privacy. Belgian man 23:48, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
    - Oh ok. I didn't know that you and the writer of the request in mailing-list where the same, and did think that you tried to appropriate the proprosal to yourself. Sorry for the annoyance. It's a settled misunderstanding/fixed issue. (12 Dec 2004)
    - A quick tips : on yours (more than 8) user homepages you can write links to others languages as interwiki in article pages, like this and in text like this (12 Dec 2004)

Board meeting

Hi Angela!

Did anything happen at the board meeting?

In the meantime, there is a more to read on the WikiSource saga at:

At he.wikisource.org we really need somebody competent (i.e. not myself!) to deal with updating the translation of the Php codes. Two other people have already asked that it be done. Has the request been made properly at [2]?

Dovi 23:42, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)