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Ko-Wiktionary

Hi, Angela, I appreciate your kindly attention to the ko-wikipedia. About three months ago you have helped me in revising the Allmassage. The revision is not completed. I suppose you are informed about my "malheur". Well, I am trying to set up the recently established ko-wiktionary. A main difficulty with which I am confronted is the index function. The en-wiktionary seems to function after the alphabetical ordered, self-seeking index. I've looked round wiktionary of other languages like Japanese or French. But they seem to gather words manually in indices they have apparently created for their own - even though French belongs to Indo-European language. You know, Korean is a language which also disposes of alphabet. How functions the myterious anchor "//wiktionary.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Allpages&from=A A" ? I've tried to exchange the Indo-European alphabet with the Korean, but it goes wrong. -- 12:07, 14 May 2004 (UTC) 아흔(A-heun)

I replied at ko wiktionary. Angela 20:27, May 14, 2004 (UTC)

Swedish spoken

That is cool, you can your Swedish! :-) May I ask why you can write? :-) // Rogper 23:33, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

I can't really write Swedish at all. The text on my user page was initially a machine translation until Mats gave me some advice on IRC about changing it. :) Angela 14:08, May 16, 2004 (UTC)

Deletion

dear angela,

i was a little sad when you deleted my what i had to say {"justice=the pieces of peace"}. any way, i think you people are doing a great job. i like the idea of free access to diverse views. should you/editors delete views? i think this is where u&i have an issue. all views are of equal value in a fair system. this includes the "bad" guys. victor kacala.

key issue for your group is that it lacks balance in extreme views. even physics is merely a fairy tale. ps i hope u had a nice week-end.

Sorry, I have no idea what you are talking about. What are you claiming I have deleted? Angela 14:08, May 16, 2004 (UTC)

Multilingual meta

Ah, you might be interested in these new translation pages and international overviews on meta. +sj+ 20:40, 2004 May 16 (UTC)

I've put some comments on the talk pages over there. Angela 20:53, May 16, 2004 (UTC)

Unblocking me:-)

Many thanks, Angela, for unblocking me and for taking the trouble to explain. You've been a great help. David Cannon 20:43, 16 May 2004 (UTC)

No problem. :) Angela 20:53, May 16, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks again for all your help, Angela. Let's hope the it stays settled this time:-) Cheers!David Cannon 01:44, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

Re-sysopping

Serious thanks! --Merovingian ↕ T@Lk 20:57, May 16, 2004 (UTC)

Blank Pages

I'm sorry, Angela. I thought I was doing Wikipedia a favour by (a) bypassing redirects whenever I saw them, so that links would point directly to their articles, and (b) by blanking the redirect page, as it no longer connects with anything and is now redundant. I didn't realize anybody might have a problem with that. Now that I know, I won't do it again. Thanks for telling me:-) David Cannon 23:06, 16 May 2004 (UTC)

Pesky images

Thanks for the image delete and for trying to delete the second... --Tagishsimon

Xxos banned and unbanned...

Thank you, Angela, for 'unbanning' me.

It is possible that Wikipedia is not interested in the areas that fascinate me.

I would certainly like to see Wikipedia being more than a humdrum compendium of homogenised 'knowledge'.

Paul Annear

www.xxos.net

Xxos was repeatedly told to stop creating articles which had gone through the VfD process, but he chose to ignore the requests. RickK 03:22, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

His original articles all went through the seven-day VfD process, and had the VfD headers listed on the articles for the full seven days. He had a different account, I think it was XXoS, or something like that, but I don't remember it for sure. RickK 14:48, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

Fixedreference

Angela, Thanks for your comments on fixedreference on the copyright page. See reply, have tried to fix your points, still working on a couple. Please have another look and see if you are now happier with it --(talk to)BozMo 09:04, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

Vandalism@simple

Please see vandalism I just reverted on Simple main page. Can you block the IP of this user please? --(talk to)BozMo 10:38, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

Seems to have settled down now. I've noted it on simple:vandalism in progress. Angela 18:27, May 17, 2004 (UTC)

Lst27

A general note to people who may be wondering whether this user is in fact Alex Plank. You may observe that Lst27's decision to remove his self-nomination for adminship, after it had received considerable opposition, is entirely consistent with Alex Plank's behavior when nominating himself in the past. --Michael Snow 21:09, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

Moves

Hi Angela! I see you've been busy at the pump. good on you! I got a suggestion. when you move text to another talk page rather than just say 'from' blah blah, could you say 'moved from' blah blah. That way the stunned people (me in this case) in the recipient page know where the conversation is continueing.. I might be a bit slow but took me a while to figure it out! best wishes (by the way how do you do this post message form?) e 21:49, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

Post new message

thanks that was it! cool! e 21:59, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

Democratic Underground

This has been blocked for ages ages, when the edit war had died doen a long time ago. Would you consider unprotecting it? thanks. User:Neutrality

Pardon me Angela, just want to point out that the above was added by User:68.232.48.239 in case that is important. - Tεxτurε 00:46, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

I'm not sure it is important or not, but thanks anyway. I've unprotected it for now. Angela 01:50, May 18, 2004 (UTC)

I accept arbitration. I prefer you, but anyone can do. Thanks. Neutrality 21:21, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

Speedy deletions

Hello Angela, Thanks for putting me straight on Speedy deletions. Thanks also for the feedback. As you may have noticed I have been putting quite a lot on Speedy deletions lately and was wondering how to get some feedback on my judgement/guesses. I gather that patent nonsence doesn't included the merely trivial like characters in games. I will continue to list a few of my nominations just to explore the parameters ofr nomination. Cheers ping 07:28, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, I will do that. I like your user page, makes mine look quite pedestrian. ping 07:42, 18 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks :) Angela

Self-ban

Angela, I'm banning myself for 72 hours due to WikiStress over US politics. (Just so you know...) --Uncle Ed 14:38, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

Admin on Meta

It's been a couple of weeks since I listed myself at m:Requests for adminship and there appear to be no objections. Would you be willing to make this so? Thanks - UninvitedCompany 16:46, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

Done. Angela 17:14, May 19, 2004 (UTC)

SimpleEnglish Wiki General Disclaimer

I've done a chainsaw-and-scalpel reconstruction of this page, and I'd appreciate your feedback. I've tried to bring it down to about a grade 8 reading level and there remain only a few intractible phrases (this one in particular: " it is protected by the laws of the United States Constitution's First Amendment and the en:Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations"). Denni 19:00, 2004 May 19 (UTC)

Choice of position reply

~rather than Contributing, because I think contributing wikipedians have much money are rather american and I feel nearer rom people withoiut money and not in the USA. Arno Lagrange ✉ 09:08, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Angel 23:44, May 20, 2004 (UTC)

Ethnic groups

Thanks Angela - I appreciate it - I hadn't seen this. Not sure I am going to be able to get much time to participate, but it's good to know that someone is on the case... ;) Hope you are well, Mark Richards 00:10, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

PS Love the pic of the day. MR

Edits to Arabic Wikipedia

Angela, why the Arabic Wikipedia? Do you know any Arabic? Or do you just do stuff that doesn't require you to know the language?

Sometimes I've done edits on Wikipedias where I didn't know the language, but (thought I) could figure out from context what was going on. Juuitchan

The only Arabic I know is the list of words on my user page there. I can tell the difference between "edit" and "delete" but that's about it. I very rarely edit on the Arabic Wikipedia anymore. I used to be a sysop there whilst it was very new because most of the things that needed doing didn't require any knowledge of the language; reporting bugs with the R->L interface, reverting vandalism on the main page etc. When it became big enough to look after itself, and got some Arabic-speaking admins, I de-adminned myself and focused more on looking after some of the small ones that still don't have sysops. Angela 05:02, May 21, 2004 (UTC)

Your sig

There appears to be an error in your sig; it doesn't show up right for me. I get a link with text "Angel" followed by a bold "a.". --Juuitchan

It's because self-links appear bold. The a is a link to this talk page, so if I sign on this talk page, it's bold. Anywhere else it looks like a normal link. Angela. 05:23, May 21, 2004 (UTC)

I've decided to change it back anyway, so it's just the full stop that links back here, not the "a". Angela. 02:35, May 25, 2004 (UTC)

Docs thank you

The SQL query for docs in wikipedia are appreciated. I deleted the question and response.

Steve Holland, Kd4ttc

Broadcom

Thanks. Jondel 13:47, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

Table ronde

Well, I am currently busy trying to make a second powerpoint with screenshots of wikipedia, as I feel deeply no live-demo will be decent.

Wikipedia has been working well for weeks, and is not far from dead just these days. I am not sure I will *ever* go to a meeting to present WP again :-) ant

Speedy delete notices

Ah, thank you. I had no idea. I learn more about the Wikipedia all the time. Thank you for taking the time to fill me in. SWAdair | Talk 21:22, 24 May 2004 (UTC)

Wiktionary

Hi, Angela,

I've written a message to you in your talk-page on ko-wiktionary. Thanks for wipe-operation through ko-wikipedia! --13:38, 25 May 2004 (UTC) 아흔(A-heun)

Thanks

Just wanted to say thanks for your welcome to Wikipedia. It's much appreciated, and I'm slowly finding my feet around this great resource having made a number of edits and additions to articles already. TonyW 15:10, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

And a late 'thank you' from Mikez too, (aka Användare:Mike) for making me bureaucrat so fast at sv.wiktionary. I wish I got the time to do everything at once as well. (And ...hrmmm... that I remembered to do all the things I postpone during a day).

Och tack för uppmärksamheten på sv:wikipedia:Recentchanges :) Mikez 20:05, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Wikipedia database inconsistencies

Howdy. Playing about with an offline copy of the en namespace, I've discovered a number of articles with identical titles. For example the database contains four articles named "Goblet_of_Fire", each with a unique cur_id. Scouting about you seem to be a SQL-friendly admin who may be in a position to correct this. Let me know if you're interested and I'll pass on details. - TB 15:17, 26 May 2004 (UTC)

Ko Wiktionary

Hi, Angela,

The word Wiktionary could be safely translated into 위키낱말사전 in Korean, so that the Wiktionary namespace wants to be called so as well the sub-text at the top of the page, which you mentioned. I don't know, whether changing the Wiktionary namespace would effect also on the button (i.e. Wiktionary란) at the bottom of the page where about Wiktionary is in general informed. Thanks for your friendly help. --17:18, 26 May 2004 (UTC) 아흔(A-heun)

Nick

Hi Angela, sorry to bother you but one person (begins with A ends in Y) is now pestering me and trying to wind me up, so far i have tried to stay calm and i certainly havent given a personal attack on this person BUT he continues to delete my work from the Brum page like the middle part of my hip hop section and the links to places of interest. He has deleted my conversation to him and he was warned by another user, now he is reverting the text i deleted from my user page, i don't have anything to hide but i just didnt want it there until i can figure out something more informative about wikipedia, why is this person deleting and now tinkering with my own user page??? Thanks if you can help as i am finding wikipedia quite eliteist from some members at the present and i don't know what to do? Someone even blocked me because i deleted MY own work from the brum page out of frustration, i do want it kept as it was too much hard work but...

Thanks Nick.

That's ok

its just my talk page anyhow, and besides you had work to do. Whats the deal w it tho, it looks weird. It looks like a few extra }}}}'s on the end. Sam [Spade] 23:42, 26 May 2004 (UTC)

Thanx, and good work, were lucky to have ya :) Sam [Spade] 23:56, 26 May 2004 (UTC)

Sysop

I dunno, 12 minutes early is a little irregular. But seriously, thanks for your support; i'll try not to make you sorry. [smile] And thanks for all those deletions in support of moves. --Jerzy(t) 00:32, 2004 May 27 (UTC)

London

Would YOU meet with Jimbo and I on June the 4th at 1:00 PM at Cherry Court Hotel to talk with us about the "ESTU" project ? Arno Lagrange ✉ 09:05, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

Filming

I had only just heard about it when I mentioned it to a couple of people on IRC, and that must be how you heard about it. The story is this: the people from the Golden Nica awards want to do a short film about each winner, and so they wanted to know if they could come here and film me doing my work.

But of course, me doing my work here is a very boring thing to watch.  :-)

So I suggested that they film some of our meetings in Europe, as these will be the first time many of us meet, and it's really a big deal for our community as community. They liked the idea, and there you go.

They were planning to meet me at the airport and film me arriving, but the schedule did not work out. But I guess they will be filming me some at Cherry Court Hotel, and then going to our meetup.

You are right that people should know before they show up, in case they are fugitives or whatever. ;-) But I think that almost no one will ever see the film, it's just for the awards ceremony I think. Jimbo Wales 10:10, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

Duplicate

Hi Angela

Regarding the page Andrea Palladio, have you seen the page Palladio, it was put on the site after the first, I think somebody is supposed to fix a link, but I dont have a clue how! Do you? Regards Ragussa 21:14, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

Uploading files

The uploading file page is pretty basic. I propose that more fields (other than the 2) be added to the upload page. Here are some of the fields: AUTHOR: RENAME FILE: (if file exists on wikpedia) LICENCE: (a drop down menu) SUMMARY: (textbox)

Can you do something about it? Nichalp 19:33, 29 May 2004 (UTC)

Actually, I didn't mean renaming wikipedia's file name, just the matching local file name, while in transition from local computer to wikipedia's server. Nichalp 20:11, 29 May 2004 (UTC)

Categories

I just saw you assinging a catagory to an article. Does that mean the catagory code is functioning? Can I use it as well, or are you betatesting it? Wyllium 10:25, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

Dear Oracle, and i came here to ask you, what exactly is the point of categories, or if you can point me a page where i can read it. MvHG 10:55, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

i found it, thanks. MvHG

Off with the stress! You got my vote! MvHG 11:17, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

Moving pages

Hope you don't mind. -- Docu

Catogories <> Categories: Danger, Will Robinson!

Just noticed that you're spelling Catagory wrong when adding it to the Popes. Hoping to head you off before you get too far! - Nunh-huh 23:59, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

I figured you would, I was a little slow on the draw<g>. ah, well. Is there a discussion somewhere about how categories should be used? (People vs person, child vs children, composers vs composer, buildings vs building, pope vs popes, etc.? ) And what they might be useful for (searches?) and how this might be implemented? - Nunh-huh 00:04, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

Yes, thanks, that page helps a lot. - Nunh-huh 00:14, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

Good luck, Angela:-)

Hi Angela! I've just voted for you:-) Best of luck. It's such a shame, that 90-day rule ... I was going to line up 150 sock puppets to vote for you:-) Have I made you smile?David Cannon 02:20, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

I also voted for you - and myself of course. :) Good luck! --mav 05:25, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

Voted for you, best wishes! Tkorrovi 00:49, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I would have voted for you, but I appear to have only been here for 78 days. It feels like longer! Good luck. -- ALargeElk | Talk 08:54, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Test page

Hi Angela, I'm done with the test pages, but I believe Ed Poor made the last edits on them, so I think you should check with him. -- Cheers, Cecropia | Talk 04:29, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Will do. Thanks. Angela. 05:25, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Wow

Wow, you are fast, i diddn't even get a chance to correct my own spelling mistakes:) thanks- Pud

Thanks =

Thank you for your engagement on the JA WT issue. I've got a mail from Anthere this morning (in JST). I replied her just before. KIZU 03:14, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hiding edit summary

Angela, I came across a rather offensive edit summary while patrolling Recent Changes. The edit in question was reverted, but it was the edit summary that was offensive. Would it be possible for an admin to hide that edit summary? Check the edit history for Zaza and look for the edit by 80.58.34.237. Thank you. SWAdair | Talk 08:48, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

• Oh, my goodness. After posting the above I checked that user's contributions. There are quite a few and every edit summary is identical. SWAdair | Talk 08:54, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Feature picture nomination

Thanks, Angela, for a couple of things. First, people have been saying "make 'em bigger, make 'em bigger" without saying how much bigger. And I refuse to weigh in with a 1.3Mb picture. My standard large image is 4" wide, but it's just as easy to do 300px wide. If 400px is no problem, I'll even go there. I just don't want to be making it impossible for people with more modest machine resources to have memory issues. Second, thanks for the support on this image. I could go back to the top of that hill and live than moment forever. Good luck on the election - my vote is cast and I'm going to be disappointed if you don't win.

Song/humor/namespaces/head spinning

On the eve of probably becoming an admin, I thought I'd finally figure out some of those things I'd never quite figured out. Buuuuuut--I haven't completely managed to sort out the whole namespace thing. After reading the descriptions of the Mediawiki and Wikipedia namespaces, I still don't get why there's some wiki-related humor in both; why there are categorized lists of wikipedians in both; nor how to search in any specific namespace. For example, I know that there are humor pages about wiki/wikipedia/wiki articles in the Wikipedia namespace. I can't find them. I don't know how to search for them, apparently. I would move The Web Encyclopedia Song to one of the namespaces but I'm not convinced which is really the best location to move it to. Anything you can point me to on any of these issues that will help me sort it all out? Thanks! Elf | Talk 04:16, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)