User talk:Walter

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Truncated interwiki map?

Hello Walter. Please note that I've partially reverted your recent changes to the Interwiki map, which by apparent accident truncated the table. The other edits were left as-is, except for an alphabetisation change. // [admin] Pathoschild (^talk/_map) 14:25, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. This is not the first time I have this problem. I suspect there is a problem with MediaWiki and my browser (FireFox 1.5.0.2/Linux) working together. --Walter 21:34, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rename

Hi Walter. In Requests_for_permissions you say that you can rename the old Slade. Do you can provide that in this week? Maybe the new nick for the old Slade is user:Slade Old or something closer. Sorry for the english and thanks for all. -- Slade ^pt.wp 15:44, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Semiprotection of Wikimedia News

See Talk:Wikimedia News. Tuf-Kat 03:05, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New impose, ops, news

[1], http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Scriptorium#Logo_update. ¬ 05:06, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Sorry, I've been busy and I hadn't checked Meta for a few weeks. Thanks for the note! Andre (talk) 05:32, 29 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

De-adminship because of violation of "administration ethics"

How do you think, if an administrator violates so-called "administration ethics", but does not violate any Wikipedia rule, may administration privileges be dropped? --Jaroslavleff 16:45, 1 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly. The function of a admin is to serve his community. If a other admin is acting very strongly against the benefit of that community it is the responsibly of any other admin to stop that admin. Even if there is no formal rule broken. If you contact my because I am steward; I am not a universal wikipedia-judge. It is up to the local community and sysops to take there responsibility. --Walter 20:00, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

De opkomende Chinese economie

KATHOLIEKE HOGESCHOOL LEUVEN DEPARTEMENT ECONOMISCH HOGER ONDERWIJS

Vak: Internationale organisaties en diplomatie Paper: China binnen de wereldeconomie; een pijl op een gespannen boog

[knip]

Wat zit jij dit hier op mijn overlegpagina te posten??? --Walter 08:45, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

job

hi you and job of work do wikimedia

Wikizine

Hello Walter, I thought You might be interested in this bug [2] for Wikizine, if You have questions about it You can contact me, best regards --birdy geimfyglið _{(:> )=|} 01:36, 7 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

De Vernufteling

De Vernufteling is Nederlands meest prestigieuze Ingenieursprijs. Elk jaar strijden 12 Ingenieursbureaus om de bokaal voor het meest innovatieve project. De prijsuitreiking is een initiatief van het magazine De Ingenieur en branchevereniging KIVI NIRIA. In 2006 vind op 21 juni de feestelijke prijsuitreiking plaats in de kuip te Rotterdam. Het evenement wordt gepresenteerd door Mart Smeets, sportverslaggever en liefhebber van innovatie.

Goed .... en welke relatie is er met Wikimedia/Wikipedia? Groet, --Walter 16:18, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

CURRENTISOYEAR

You reverted my addition of the CURRENTISOYEAR to the date announcement. I really should have commented my revision so you would at least know why I did it. Anyway, I ask that you consider re-adding it because the CURRENTWEEK template follows the ISO year, which doesn't agree with the calendar year for a few days around the turn of the year. The ISO year is week-justified such that every week begins on a Monday and ends on Sunday. The year that contains the Thursday of that week determines whether it is week 52 or 53 of year X or week 1 of year X+1. The upcoming year transition will be a breeze since 2006-12-31 is a Sunday. However, 2007-12-31 is a Monday and will be part of week 1 of 2008. So, your date announcement on that date will say, "Today it is: Monday 31 December 2007, 21st century and this is week 1", which will appear to be a mistake without the ISO year specified. —BozoTheScary 20:33, 8 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I have changed it back. --Walter 23:00, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Atomuim images

There are quite often images of Atomium uploaded on Commons. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomium for what Atomium is.

In Belgium there is evidently no such thing as freedom of panorama, and the owners of Atomium have explicively denied permission to use images of the Atomium on Wikipedia. So we delete these from Commons, again and again. As this is getting a little tedious, it would be desirable if users stopped uploading Atomium images on Commons -- unless they want to argue for a change of policy.

/ Fred Chess 09:01, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I now about this problem. I have voted agianst keeping those images on commons. For the Dutch Wikipedia I have found a way out. There is now a €2 coin with the picture of the atomium. So now there is image that can be used. See w:nl:Atomium.

Why are you contacting me? Do you want me to do something? --Walter 13:11, 14 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I thought you could add it to the Wikizine. You redirect questions about the Wikizine to this page. / Fred Chess 23:22, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I send Wikizine comments to this page. But it was not clear to me that this was in relation of Wikizine.

I do not see how I can use this for Wikizine. Thanks for the effort. --Walter 09:25, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

So in other words: people should stop uploading Atomium images, or argue to change the policy. Either is good. / Fred chessplayer 23:26, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kleuren vermelding voor grafische deelpositieven of deelnegatieven

Kleuren in scheidingen worden vermeld in de "full colour"-drukkleuren als cyaan met afkorting: cy, magenta met afkorting: mag, geel met afkorting: ge en zwart met afkorting: k. Ook wel als afkortingen worden gebruikt: Cy, Ma, Ye en K. De K- afkorting, daar is nog steeds verwarring over en wordt gesproken dat deze ontstaan is uit het woord: Key. Maar kan ook ontstaan zijn uit de laatste letter van het Engelse woord Zwart als Black. Vroeger werden de deelkleuren vermeld als Blauw, Rood, Geel en Zwart. Maar door de verwarring met de Engelse versies, werden er al gauw verwarringen ontdekt als men de B gebruikte, dat zowel voor Black, als voor Blauw kon doorgaan. Vandaar de betere invulling voor deze notatie: Cy, Ma, Yel, K. Tenslotte werd en wordt er niet gedrukt als "full colour" in rood en blauw, maar cyaan en magenta.

De relatie tussen die tekst en mijzelf is mij niet duidelijk. --Walter 11:51, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A Vandal

See 141.150.24.171 --Jabrwocky7 01:31, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikizine

Upload distribution, June 2006 555 02:51, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiSym

Hi Walter! You wrote about the international Symposium on Wikis in Wikizine. But there will also be a workshop on Wikipedia research Workshop on Wikipedia Research 2006. This workshop wants to bring together people interested in further wikipedia research. A short overview of current Wikipedia research will be given as well as some practical guidelines on methods how to analyze data and where to get in contact with the community. Together we want to talk about differences and commonalities of Wikipedia and other wikis and hot topics in Wikipedia research. Position papers are welcome. -- Nichtich 22:55, 19 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

If I knew that I would have include it. Greetings, --Walter 09:47, 20 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Meetup in Vicenza, Italy

A dozen of Italian Wikipedians is welcoming the guests and showing the Wikimedia projects to the visitors of "FestAmbiente 2006", held in Vicenza, Italy, from June 22nd to 25th. A gallery of photos is available at it:Categoria:Raduno di Vicenza 2006. Lots of fun and mosquitoes! Bye. --Paginazero 21:56, 23 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

i will like to know u more

lo

Hi Walter

I noticed you are using a blog to post about wikimedia - I found that sort of funny :-) If you want to have your wikizine hosted on wiki software, we'd be delighted to host and promote your service.

If not, sorry for the spam :-)

Gil Wikia.com

Hi Gil, thanks for your interest. Before going with Blogger(TM) I have looking around how to do this best. And for what I needed is a blog the best solution. I only need to post a message, not work on it with other people. For the construction of Wikizine I use Meta. And support for adding comments and so. A wiki is not what I need for this. I do have wikizine-wiki only that i use but that is only place to put some comments, purely an internal stuff. --Walter 17:43, 28 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikizine: Meervoude

Haai Walter!

(Ek skryf in Afrikaans en glo jy sal verstaan.)

Ek is onlangs verras met die moontlikheid om meervoude korrek te spesifiseer in stelselboodskappe, soos byvoorbeeld in [3] ek was nie bewus hiervan nie, en ek glo vele Wikizine-lesers sal inligting hieroor waardeer. Ek vermoet dit is redelik nuut; Help:Magic words is die enigste dokumentasie wat ek daaroor kry. Groete, Alias 13:35, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ja, ik begrijp het, al moet ik het wel 2x lezen :-) Bedankt voor de suggestie. Ik moet zeggen dat het mij nog niet echt duidelijk is wat nu exact de bedoeling is van die meervoudfunctie is. Het is moeilijk uitleg te geven over iets wat je zelf niet echt zelf begrijpt. Maar als ik mij wat ermee kan bezighouden, en minder moe men, zal het ik het wel begrijpen. Het zal wel niet voor deze week zijn denk ik. Groet, --Walter 21:12, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikizine: poem

Brion write a <poem>-extension and activated it on Wikisource. See http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-June/036557.html -- Nichtich 20:11, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. --Walter 21:18, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Problem

You may have a conflict of interest between Wikizine (which you wish to have independent from WMF) and your volunteer roles with WMF. How would you suggest resolving this problem? Please e-mail me when you get this... amgine@saewyc.net. I will be on the boat for a couple of weeks, but will occasionally have e-mail access. - Amgine / ^{talk meta} 15:14, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

For the rest of the world; I have spoken with Amgine by phone about this. I see no problem and I belive Amgine also not now. --Walter 16:26, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikizine

Requests for new languages#European Portuguese Wikipedia, "A new voting is hereby scheduled to begin on the 1st of August, 2006. Independent moderators for the voting/process are needed and much welcome."?? [4] ¬ 20:50, 1 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wiktionary, 1,000,000 articles ?

Hello, that's what I read on Wikizine, but if I believe [5] (see at the bottom), we have not reached 1 million yet, even though we are close: 989 458. What would be cool is to reach 1 million total, and more than 200k on the French wiktionary (where I contribute) at the same time :-). Kipmaster 13:27, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It can be that I am wrong about it. But about that page also notice "Last modified: May 29 2006". --Walter 22:20, 12 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Just a reminder...

You've granted a temp adminship to User:Barrie on meta.wiki, this was to expire on July 12. Ciao, M/ 17:40, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikispecies

Hi there, here is short statement about wikispecies.

Wikispecies is a Wikimedia project designed to be a directory of species. There are currently about a dozen active editors and over 60,000 listings. It is similar to Commons in that it is monolingual. We are working on the fine line between being a framework of species with links to information in all of the various wikipedias and containing that information here. Searching is always challenging when working in multiple languages. We hope to utilize wikidata when it becomes available to serve up the data. Come check us out at wikispecies:Main_Page

Feel free to edit wikispecies:User_talk:Open2universe

Thanks --Walter 10:44, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikizine: fur.wiki reaches 1000 articles

Hi, I want just to inform you that we at the Friulian Wikipedia have reached 1000 articles today. Friulian is a language spoken by about 600.000 people mainly in North-East Italy. Greetings- Klenje

thanks, will use it --Walter 10:55, 14 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

election officer

Thanks for the offer; however I don't have much spare time. If there is a shortage of candidates and you are in real need to find someone, then maybe I could help; but if there are enough candidates, then there is no need to take me.

Thanks Srtxg 23:33, 15 July 2006 (UTC) (also wa:Uzeu:Pablo)[reply]

WikiThanks

en:Wikipedia:WikiProject Awareness (and Meta:MetaProject Awareness)

I'd like to thank you for including this WikiProject in the WikiZine, as the mailing list hasn't yet generated any discussion. I hope that by doing that people might decide to come and join up. Thanks again, —Xyrael _{/ 08:23, 18 July 2006 (UTC)}[reply]

This is unexpected. Thanks, --Walter 22:04, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland - inschrijving

Hoi walter,

Het volgende bericht heb ik doen uitgaan via verschillende kanalen. Zou er een samenvatting met Wikizine meekunnen? (Vooral dat er een conferentie is, en dat inschrijving openstaat met links etc). Bij voorbaat hartelijk dank. Effeietsanders 19:42, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Er zijn plannen om 2 september a.s. een conferentie voor Wikianen te organiseren. Daarom zijn er al even geleden oproepen gedaan voor bijdragen (in de vorm van lezingen, workshops, discussies enz.) Een aantal bouwstenen zijn inmiddels aangeleverd en sinds kort buigt een comité, bestaande uit de gebruikers Annemiek Kennisnet, effe iets anders, Kim Bruning, RonaldB en Tdevries, zich hierover en tracht de juiste cement te vinden om er een aantrekkelijk programma van te maken.
Het doel van de conferentie is tweeërlei:

Kennis en ervaringsuitwisseling

Een beeld te ontwikkelen over de toekomst van de wikimedia projecten.

Een eerste concept-programma, gebaseerd op voorstellen van Wikianen die iets willen presenteren, vindt je hier. Vermoedelijk kan Jimbo Wales een lezing geven als keynote. De paneldiscussie aan het einde van het programma zou een stukje van de vraag hoe het in de toekomst verder zal gaan moeten beantwoorden.
Voor de organisatie is het van het grootste belang dat we een redelijk inzicht krijgen in de belangstelling voor dit event. Daarom het verzoek je eventuele belangstelling hier kenbaar te maken. En als je bepaalde thema's aan de orde gesteld wilt zien, geef dat dan s.v.p. ook aan, zodat we daarmee ook een beter beeld krijgen van de behoefte.
Tenslotte nog wat praktische informatie: Het zal plaatsvinden in Utrecht, de kosten zullen ongeveer € 15,- bedragen (met een korting voor VWN leden) en na afloop zal bij voldoende belangstelling nog een buffet georganiseerd worden (kost wel wat extra).
Mede namens Annemiek, Kim, Ronald en Tjipke,
met vriendelijke groet, Lodewijk Gelauff aka Effeietsanders 19:42, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Wikizine/tmp

I'm very impressed in lists on Wikizine/tmp as a Wikiquoter. This kind of lists are useful for many people ... Can you let me know what kind of distinction is between groep 1 and 2? Thanks. --Aphaia 09:38, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

? That is purely something "internal". I am doing promotion for Wikizine. I have posted request for help on the projects mailing lists. And now I have started to work me slowly true all wikis to ask there in there "village pump" of the are willing to add a banner to there local village pump page and/or community portal. Like on q:en:Wikiquote:Village_pump#Request - no responds yet. The first project I am doing is Wikiquote. "Groep 1" are the wikis where I have asked it last week. "Groep 2" are the wikis I am asking it now this week. That is only for me to see what I have already done. And I also need to watch frequently those pages to see of there is responds.

I am also updating the language links of q:en:Wikiquote:Village pump when I find new village pumps. I add not all wikis because not everywhere I can discover the village pump. Then I post it on the talk page of the Main page or the community portal. --Walter 09:55, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your respond. Your list recalled me a similar list being created by the Internal subcom, it seems not to be finished yet.

As for English & Latin Wikiquote, I'll urge other editors to consider your request. Cheers, --Aphaia 10:05, 26 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Gratitude & Request

Thankyou very much Walter for granting me temporary sysop status on Zulu Wikipedia! I have already translated most of the interface words so you can now de-sysop me there.

I have now applied for temporary adminship for Mongolian Wikipedia Here.

I have also applied on behalf of Zorigt to become the administrator for Mongolian Wiki Here (He is a native speaker of Mongolian whom has been editing on Mongol Wiki since October 2005).

Regards --Jose77 03:45, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiquote-es

Hi, I need help because in Wikiquote-es there is a vanda[6] that persists in putting an image on all of the pages, and in this day this is the second time that I have had to revert 100 pages: Vandalism_reports#Recurrent_Vandalism. Please help me with the situation. --Gabriel Francisco 21:30, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Announcement from Commons: Most images on Vigeland Sculpture Park will be deleted

Not sure if this is the sort of message you broadcast on the Zine, but I don't know of any other means of addressing all Wikipedia projects. If you know of any, kindly let me know.

This post is about images on Vigeland Sculpture park that can not be used for commercial exploitation, such as printed on T-shirt. The debate is at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Deletion_requests#Most_images_on_Vigeland_Sculpture_Park

Some Wikipedias may want to upload images from the park as fair use on their Wikipedia project. I would recommend everyone to check their articles on Gustav Vigeland and on the Vigeland sculpture park. They could also check all images on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vigeland_Sculpture_Park for use in unrelated contents.

The effected images are those where individual sculptures are prominent. Overviws of the park are accepted. If an image is not tagged for deletion, it is not risking to be deleted.

Fred chessplayer 23:26, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I always try to use what the very few people who report something to me in some way. But with this I have no inspiration how to make of this something relevant for wikizine. --Walter 08:50, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]