User talk:Spacebirdy

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You can also reach me on IRC: #wiktionary, #is.wiktionary, #wikimedia-stewards and #is.wikipedia (nick: spacebirdy or when afk: geimfyglid)

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	This user is always busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries.
	I don't watch Your talk-pages so if You reply there, please leave me a note or I might not see it.

Gracias ...

Por tu invitación y los botones, un besito, --LadyInGrey 15:22, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Hilf mir bitte

Hallo! Ich habe diese Problem: [1] Ich wisse nicht was mach ich, da mein Bot diese nicht mache! Ich habe pywikipedia. Bitte, hilf mir! wikt:hu:Szerkesztő:Szajci

i requested a logo for ancient greek wikipedia

i requested a logo for ancient greek wikipedia. please help me creating it

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by 190.40.205.185 (talk) diff, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 05:50, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I have seen it, iirc there are two other people who asked me for modifying a logo, I am not at home this week, maybe I can get to it next week as soon as I am on my pc again.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| ∇ 05:50, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

I am sorry, i copied this from your archive, please don't forget this request. Thanks for your attention, and excuse me.

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by 190.40.196.242 (talk) diff, please sign Your discussions with --~~~~ --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 16:40, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

As said, I have no time for this right now, I don't forget it, it is in the requests for logos. Thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 16:40, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

2 de.wikipedia spam issues: suite101.de and Benutzer:Prinz Rupi

Hi.

21 months ago, we found a massive spam problem with the suite101.com domain on en.wikipedia and we had it blacklisted on meta. There was also some cross-wiki spam. There's little or no editorial oversight of their 140,000 articles and the writers are not experts in most cases, so these links were not encyclopaedic. Suite101.com pays its writers based on page views of their articles and was coaching them as to how to build traffic through linking. There have been extensive discussions about this blacklisting; the owners and their writers have repeatedly protested this action, but they've found little support from the Wikipedia community for blacklist removal once our editors learned how unreliable their stuff was.

For a list of previous discussions to skim, you can see the long list I posted at User talk:Drini#Blacklist in connection with a proposed removal from the blacklist; we've since resolved that's not going happen. (All those old discussions are a lot of stuff to read, so you may just want to skim the stuff from late 2006.)

In the process of looking at this once again, Dirk found they also have a German site, suite101.de and there are a number of links to it. See the discussion on my talk page at User talk:A. B.#More about suite101.de and related spam. I have listed a number of IPs that added these links. Note that there were some suite101.com that were innocently added by regular de.wikipedia editors.

There was also a de.wikipedia editor, Benutzer:Gorillamoon (also known as Benutzer:Prinz Rupi) who added a number of links to domains he owns in addition to his Suite101.de pages. I have researched this and left a number of relevant links for you or someone else to check out.

I'm not comfortable pursuing suite101.de further since I am not a member of the de.wikipedia community. I suggest you or someone else on de.wikipedia take a look at both the desirability of your suite101.de links as well as the Gorillamoon/Prinz Rupi issue.

Regards, --A. B. ^(talk) 19:10, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Summaries

First of all, thank you for running your bot on the Esperanto Wiktionary. All help with maintaining interlanguage links is highly appreciated.

One minor thing: the edit summary is grammatically incorrect. Please make it read, for example: aldoni en, fi, fr, hu, it, ja, ko, ku, pl, ru

« D. Trebbien (talk) 02:26, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks birdyyyyyyyy! :DD Sir Lestaty ^discuţie 03:08, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

om.wiktionary addition to pywikipediabot

Hi, Pássaro espacial :). Regarding the bug you submitted at Sourceforge for Pywikipediabot, you can tweak your version to process the Oromoo Wiktionary meanwhile:

1. Open file families/wiktionary_family.py
2. Add 'om' to the end of the comma-separated list (on line 29, as of today)
3. Comment out om from the obsolete list (on line 375, add a # to the beginning of the line)
4. It should work now

As for the Closure Proposal, maybe someone should close it for good and revert the result? (result is CLOSE >>>> result is KEEP?) I think no one will dare to re-add om.wikt to Pywikipedia until that is done... I hope this helps. Cheers, Malafaya 13:30, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Template:Not an encyclopedia

Can you not tell the difference between good faith edits and vandalism? You used Rollback to revert my edit,and Rollback is for only for true vandalism. How was my edit "true vandalism"? XxJoshuaxX 01:14, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

You have already been reverted, explained, and asked kindly to discuss Your edition. Rollback is used to revert. That is what I did. Please leave me alone with Your invention of problems that do not exist, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 01:20, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

It's not my fault that image removals must be discussed and that you abused your admin powers by protecting the template. XxJoshuaxX 01:22, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Why should we discuss it, the people who use that template here (mainly admins who patrol the recent changes) seem all to be fine with the template as it is, or they would have changed it. We don't need to discuss every single edit, You get that wrong. Then I protected a template that had been editwared by You, thanks, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 01:24, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

It says in the rules that image changes must be discussed. This includes image removals. XxJoshuaxX 01:25, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Which rules say that. --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 01:28, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

I thought I saw it before,but I don't remember where.

Also,I have a question for you: Why do you mark all of your edits as minor edits? XxJoshuaxX 01:30, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

SUL

Hi Spacebirdy, the problem with merging is solved, thanks for making time. Cheers Mion 17:31, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

I want to change my name into Azmi1995 for SUL Azmi1995 14:47, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

re: wikt:en:User:タチコマ robot

Well, I would disagree that editing user pages without permission of either the community or the users themselves is "uncontroversial". It is also not possible to run a bot here without getting a warning that the bot may be blocked; that message comes through any time a bot flag is not present on the account. Further, the user had been sent to the Bot Policy page several times since as early as March, when the last appeal for bot use here was made.

In any case, the block was only on the bot, not the user, and was made in accordance with our Bot policy: WT:BOT. The user has violated that policy knowingly in that he has set up NO bot explanation here (I quote from policy: "The bot account's name should contain your own username, and an indication of the kind of tasks the bot will be performing") and has NOT provided any of the bot's code. Despite all this, the bot was run. The user in question has been directed more than once to our Bot use policy, which clearly outlines the steps that must be taken to run a bot. The overall tone of the conversation in the BeerParlour (in March) was negative about running the bot here, and the consensus then was thus against the bot. The User proceded to run the bot months later without any further explanation of what it was intended to do.

However, if the user will satisfy the policy problems, I would be more than happy to lift the block so that he may proceed: (1) posting the code through the Bot's page for approval and (2) stating the specific tasks the bot will perform ("making repetitive edits" is not specific enough). --EncycloPetey 22:16, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I just let You know my personal protest [2], I know I am not part of the community, but nor am I the owner and operator of the bot, so I would suggest You should talk to the botowner instead of me, normally it is done like that, to give the botowner the info on his talkpage, maybe even before the block, since it was not doing wrong edits and even encuraged by an admin to start editing without flag on Your Wiktionary.

I have nothing more to say about this, thanks for Your time, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 01:46, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Checkuser

I hope you remember I was talking you on the IRC related to User:Barteik on es-wiki. Well, the user has been blocked for sockpupettering (so diffcult word XD) due to investigate all his contributions. Thanks for your help. Regards: --Dferg (talk) 21:57, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Blockwar-editwar on Zazaki Wikipedia

I (Mirzali) and Asmen are the proposer, two of the three sysops from diq.wikipedia, and we work for Zaza Language Institute.

Our problem had not been "diq" or "kiu" yet, until our colleague Xosere brought the matter to roll. We together had fought generally from the outset for a place for Zazaki in Wikipedia. (Please see Requests_for_new_languages/diq!) It was initially open for all dialects. He has been influenced and guided from discussions in other Zaza forums. None of us sent him really appreciated something malicious. But he sent the worst insults in his private emails to me. But again he felt personally attacked and insulted. Ultimately he reacted emotionally, where he even contacted the people from the Kurdish side to interfere with. Finally when he was abandoned also of those people, he was suddenly olone. If he really would be from the southern Zaza region, it would have been no further problem. But he is now times from the central Zaza area. Apart from this, the fact is that he is not powerful of any Zazaki dialect. This is not an insult to him, but it is an established truth. That is why he would be unable in his position to manage this page scientifically. I also don’t think he would find any support by speakers of the southern dialect.

Our work (from the Zazaki-Institute) on the standard language of the Zazaki is a result of year-long scientific research. It isn’t an artificially constructed language, as some assume it. Only those, who have little or no knowledge of Zazaki think so. We're very hurt, that now our trouble and work will be questioned and destroyed at once.

Unlike us, the work of the Vate (a Pro-Kurdish group) is not scientific. Apart from the Kurdish spelling, try these people to equal Zazaki at Kurdish, in which they use numerous Kurdish words in their books and magazines, although exist there original Zazaki words.

Now if you look at the matter from the outside, there should be actually five Wikipedias in Zazaki.

- one for Zazaki institute

- one for Vate group

- one for northern dialect of Zazaki

- one for central dialect of Zazaki

- one for southern dialect of Zazaki

And as it seems, this is not technically feasible. Unless you get all this with a general code zza, in which each of the above-mentioned sections would have a separate part.

Or we could request for Standard Zazaki (under zza) and Northern Zazaki (under kiu ) to get a place for them separately. Best regards! --Mirzali 21:48, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello, three things:

1. 1 Sorry, but I can't really do much about these internal differences, the one thing I would certainly do, would be to temporarily desysop all three of the involved sysops until they stopped the fights (which included heavy editwar, wheelwar (pagemove war), blocking and unblocking each others), because that damages the project.
2. 2 Afaik the requisites^[2],[3] for new projects and new languages criteria do not allow languages that have no iso-code or are just a dialect, but I might be wrong, if You are interested in opening seperate projects, I would suggest to contact someone of the language committee for an advice.
3. 3 As far as I can see and followed the discussions there seem to be valid arguments on both sides, I think You should discuss them further peacefully and if You feel more comfortable to do this in a neutral environment, be invited to do this on Meta

(just a plea) Please could You edit logged in, so I know for certain that You are the one You are claiming to be.

Best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 20:15, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Grazie

...dei fior

--M/ 20:36, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Bot on wiktionary fr

Hi, first, excuse me for my english language but I am French. Your bot adds interwiki link. This is good but it doesnot respect french Wiktionary conventions because interwiki links must be grade in alphabetical order. This link shows that your bot does not do it. Can you modify your bot to correct it ? Thanks.

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pamputt (talk)

Salut, j'ai répondu ici, mes amitiés, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 12:00, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Closure of Burmese wiktionary

Hello, I just put my comments on, you can check it.--Johnson40213 10:34, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Disappereance of Bot

Hello, Ndege. There's something still make me in deepest darkaness! I'm just asking about "BOT", most of them their not available at all (especially InterWiki Bot). So, I want to know exactly if there's anything still on progress regarding Bot, or what? Could you kindly give me some info?--ReCorD PrOduCer!! (Come a ClosE) 08:28, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Your Opinion

HI Birdy, I want your opinion on whether to allow or not creation fo the pages, sontaining solely material from another website which allows to copy the material on the condition to acknowldge the source. I am against that. There is a user on gu.wiki, who is creating an article on how to write Gujarati Script, but what he is doing is just copying images from another free website and pasting them on the page, that's all. My suggestion to that person was to create articles with moral material, and where needed the material form other website shoudl only eb used as a resource. But he has ignored it and creating new pages after I deleted one. Before I give him warning, I wanted to know your view and what exactly is the Wiki's policy on such creation of pages. PLease have a look at gu:Learning_Gujarati_Script and advise. Please even go through our discussion here--Dhaval^Talk 13:36, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Birdy, You definitely understood it correctly, you even provided one more reason why it can't be permitted on wiki. Thanks once again for your message there.--Dhaval^Talk 12:46, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

Renameuser request on Betawiki

See http://translatewiki.net/wiki/User_talk:Spacebirdy#Renameuser. Thanks, Ferrer 12:32, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

The Barnstar of Iran's Merit of Excellence

		The Barnstar of Iran's Merit of Excellence
		From the moment that set my foot in international project of wikimedia foundation i felt you beside myself .You were helping and teaching me a lot so i hereby present you this barnstar to thanks all your precious effort for all wikis.And i wish you success in all part of your life . --Mardetanha talk 14:18, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks Mardetanha, especially for Your wishes, I wish You of course the same! Please do note, that I did not really do much, it was mainly Cometstyles, Fabexplosive and .snoopy. who helped a lot, I like it when people work together making each others lives easier instead of the contrary, best regards to You, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 16:28, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

I speak another languages

Hi, birdy. I don't speak Burmese but I can speak a little bit Taiwanese and Chinese. (I come from Taiwan). Also I can speak Twi language, Kanuri Language and some Japanese. I already have an account over there, but how can I help? I will like it if I can help there. Thank you.--Johnson40213 15:12, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Little spelling mistake?

On top of this page are two boxes, one tells us: I don't watch Your talkpages so if You reply there, please leave me a note or I might not see it. Isn't it talk pages (with a space) :) --OosWesThoesBes 15:18, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

I usually call English a fake language because it's just a mixture of Latin, French, Anglo-Saxon and some more :) In Limburg, and also in the rest of the Netherlands, we use the same system as in Germany and Austria. One quite "yearly" word of the Limburgish language - but quite unused outside of Limburg - is linzeflaajebaombekkeriehuuskessjóp, meaning lentil flaaj bottom (the dough underneath the filling) bakker's workshop construction place, so a construction place where parts (like stones, roof parts etc) are made for the use on a bakkery where bottoms for lentil flaaj are made :) --OosWesThoesBes 07:38, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Bad rename

Hi, birdy, ¿tudo bien?

In pt:wp, we have a little problem. See this request, after rename (Cameta2 from Cameta) the account Cameta2 continue login, same Cameta. So, Cameta2 is a Cameta's sock. Are possible you can block the Cameta2 account (if this account will be global account)? Or, what do in this case? Yo prefiro contestar en español, como sabes, mi inglés es horrible... Alex Pereira ^falaê 17:58, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello, done, please send users to SR/SUL, when they have such problems, (P.S. don't worry about Your English, if You prefer You can talk Portuguese with me, I understand it but I can't reply in Portuguese :) ), thanks, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 18:09, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Muito obrigado!!! Alex Pereira ^falaê 18:13, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

block

Hi! Ich bekam block in afwiktionary! Warum? Hilf mir bitte! Danke. Diese problem: Sjabloon:hin ist in afwikitonary jetzt schon gut. Szajci 19:25, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Lieber Spacebirdy! Ich verbesserte die Probleme. Bitte wieder Botflage. Ich frage noch! Was kann ich diese probleme, dass in Zukunft nicht vorkomme? Entschuldigung die Probleme, und danke deine Hilfe! Szajci 08:25, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Re: bureaucrat duties

Hi Spacebirdy!

On pt wiktionary you wrote:

Olá ValJor, we got a request for rename for this wiki on meta [1],
please can You do the rename request by clicking here You got some
months ago [2] because this is one of the bureaucrats tasks, if You are
no longer interested in fulfilling these, please feel free to request
removal of crat rights at m:SRP. If You have any questions please feel
free to contact me, many thanks in advance for Your help

First of all, Nino is not telling the truth when he says that I have not replied. As you can see here, I did reply and he did not follow through.

Second of all: when I try to do as you say, I got a message saying

The user "Nino" already exists.

And the request doesn't complete.

Third and last of all: no, I don't want to request removal of my bureaucratic rights.

--ValJor 18:12, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Hello, thanks for Your message, I replied on pt.wikt [3], best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 19:36, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Can I be an administrator?

Hello, birdy. Maybe I can be an admin at Twi Wikipedia. In the Twi wikipedia, the only admin Paa.Kwesi is not active. I think it doesn't make sense if there's no admins at one wiki. I make a request for an admin, but no one voted. I created 10 or more pages at that wiki, so I think I can be an admin. Can you make me an admin? Thanks.--Johnson40213 05:51, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

ui

Einfach mal ein kleines Dankeschön, weil Du immer so hilfsbereit bist! —YourEyesOnly 13:52, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Vielen herzlichen Dank, YourEyesOnly, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 15:06, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Request

[4] Hello, I apologize for the trouble my absence might have caused. I was not active on wiki the past few months due to personal obligations, therefore I did not have time to check the requests page. I tried to rename the user but it appears that the target user name already exists. Both users (the one who submitted the request, and the one who owns the target user name) have no contributions. Should I, in that case, rename the target username? Thank you, — Krstulović 14:57, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

No worries, thanks for Your answer, I have replied on Your talkpage [5], best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 15:05, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Renames done ([6]), and the new owner of the account was informed about the long awaited operation [7] :) Thanks for the help, — Krstulović 19:01, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Hey birdy

Hey birdy, can i change my user name? something like... spacebug or spaceanimal --189.165.47.34 21:39, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Make a request either at Steward requests/Username changes for wikis without local crats, or on Meta:Changing username for Meta or on the appropriate local requestpages, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 22:29, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Mi estómago apesta

Mi estómago apesta ... que me ayude! Alvaro. --83.244.212.141 11:23, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Lo lamento, por favor contacta un servicio de urgencia médica en tu región, un saludo, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 11:46, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

XD (siento la intrusión), llame al 112 si está en la unión europea o al 911 si está en américa. ¿es esto ahora un consultorio médico? Dferg (talk) 17:27, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Buzz buzzzzzz

Du hast mein Tag aufgehellt. Dank! Snakesteuben 13:53, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Template:vert in Af wiktionary

Hi There,

I made a suggestion to change this template on its discussion page. Please comment.

Thank you.

Arnobarnard 15:10, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

temporary Sysop on Greek wikipedia

hi there Birdy, I was wondering if there would be a chance that I could get Sysop on the Greek wiki. I know fluent Greek as this is my second language. As the Crats arent online when I am I have sent them emails and I havent recieved any form of reply. Vandalismterminator 15:23, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Komi Wikipedia logo

• Sorry, I still haven't understood the way I have to put a request for logo on Bugzilla(((. Show me the exact page, where I've to do this one.--Yufereff 18:12, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I opened bugzilla:15939, hope that helps, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 17:18, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

P.S., the logo has no transparent background, it should have. The username "Yufereff" is not registered, please register an account special:userlogin or create a global account on kv:special:mergeaccount, best regards, --birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 17:23, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

What I have to change for logo background become transparent? Thanks.--Yufereff 13:23, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

I found the "Transparency" option in PhotoShop, but I don't know how to change the file and test it then for its transparency(((. Maybe, you will do it by yourself? Have I to delete its protection? --Yufereff 23:07, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Cloack

Ya tengo el cloack en mi cuenta. No sé cómo agradecerte tu ayuda. Gracias de todo corazón. Dferg (talk) 20:08, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Oversight

The following discussion is closed.

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I was wondering if you could oversight a name from the talkpage of User:Vandalismterminator. Many thanks 212.219.59.241 13:40, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for that hun. 212.219.59.241 13:46, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

I have deleted the page and added the appropriate info. I personally think it is disgusting what You are doing, vandalizing and then reverting to make the other account look good, lying around to get some sort of access... Your IP is unblocked on Meta atm, but if that continues this might change.

--birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 13:54, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Not quite true, I dont request Sysop on projects as I am a Crat on en.wikipedia anyway but edit from a different Ip so wont be discovered however I will promote all of the creations made by me and my friends to sysop after 6 weeks of being active. I know plenty of other people with sock accounts in the college. I will happily tell you all of them if you would like via email? The details of which I hope will remain under lock and key. 212.219.59.241 14:02, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

--birdy geimfyglið _(:> )=| 14:56, 13 October 2008 (UTC)