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Hi Angela. My name is Roy and I am one of the 18 administrators of the Hebrew Wikipedia. About a month ago, a user from the Hebrew wikipedia asked you to help him, after his pornogrphic articles were deleted, and after he was banned several times. After several administrators explained what happend, and after you didn't back him up any more, he left.
Now he is back, and worse than ever. Blocking doesn't help, since he registers with different user names. I know you don't agree with the suggestions made at m:Anonymous users should not be allowed to edit articles (neither do I, by the way), but a few a them could help us at the moment (especially those regarding registration and the editing ability of specific users only). Even if this would be only temporary, it would help a lot.
Anyway, we would be thankful for help you can offer us.--Roy 08:52, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)
- As for your questions - This isn't a normal vandal. He isn't like those anonymous users that write 'fahj' a few times and leave. He is here for more than a month, with only one thing in mind - driving us crazy. Therefore, blocking him doesn't help, because he registers with a different username, and deleting his so-called "articles" doesn't help either, since he creates them again.
Because of that, the problem isn't the amount of work we need to do in order to delete his articles - we can handle that. The thing is that we can't work on meanwhile. The main problem is the fact that he is so obsessive - he just won't stop.
The main reason we contacted you is because we need a way to find out his IP number even though he has a username. That is the only thing his Internet Provider needs in order to find him and worn him, and then block his acces to the site for good.
All the other things would be helpful in case we would desperately need to block him, because at the moment we can't. But this isn't that important at the moment.--Roy 06:55, Sep 15, 2004 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot for your help. I hope things will be better now. In our case, the ISP usually does help - they will block him in the next few days, and this isn't the first time they cooperate with us.--Roy 13:18, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)
Human, NPOV, and POV forking
Hi, Angela. At Human, we are merely beginning what will be another long, hard slog toward quality NPOV compliance (by the way, we finally came up with a pretty good solution at Mormonism and Christianity). But some of the proposals under early consideration involve ending up with separate articles for each POV. While this sounds somewhat reasonable, and certainly (I think) in harmony with NPOV policy, it stirs fears in me of eventual degradation of Wikipedia quality by forking it into parallel sets of articles written (admittedly) from various POVs. We are contemplating articles such as Human (biology), Human (traditional), etc. The question I have for you is, has the problem of internal content forking been dealt with somewhere already? Wikipedia already has the interesting feature of harboring back alleys and cul-de-sacs where specific POVs reign supreme, and this is all part of the grand scheme if kept under proper control. But what a different Wikipedia it would be if there were Christianity (apologetic) and Christianity (Hinduist criticism) articles, etc. Tom
Pic of the day Wednesday
Angela, I recycled an old picture because at that time the deadline for the candidates had not passed. I don't think we should try to rush out candidates to prevent ever having to recycle an old picture, that is OK. Anyways, I'll process the bottom 3 candidates now. By the way, I wondered why image you recycled a few days back was not the oldest POTD, was there a specific reason? Take care, Solitude 06:48, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Your "thermometer"
Here is how I would deal with Wikistress if I were you:
- Drink three (3) Bloody Marys.
- Post exactly what you feel like posting.
Just to tell you...
... that Serbian Wikipedia reached 5.000 articles :) --Millosh 13:42, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Wikispecies: lil' stuff
Hi Angela, the village pump is installed and in use, thank you. There is the suggestion to establish "semi-internal" links for glossaries and definitions, which could be displayed in green and would link to a wikipedia article. That might also convince some people that wikispecies is actually no fork or competitor.
Also, the logo is not displayed on some computers. That's currently a minor issue, but just to let you know as I am already here. Best wishes,
Benedikt
- The logo problem might have been temporary since it seems ok to me now but wasn't yesterday. Do you know if anyone is still having problems with it. The link color can probably be changed in MediaWiki:Monobook.css. Angela.
- Nosy person nosing in, an' all, but is this interesting-sounding item available to the general peruser? --Phil | Talk 07:47, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)
- If you mean Wikispecies, then it's at species.wikipedia.org but it looks like you already found it. Angela.
- Nosy person nosing in, an' all, but is this interesting-sounding item available to the general peruser? --Phil | Talk 07:47, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)
Picture of the day
Hello Angela, could you take a look at Wikipedia:Picture_of_the_day. I've updated thursday with the latest promoted Featured picture candidate. It's my first non-recycled POTD, any comments on the text? I guess it should go live soon, it's been past thursday afternoon here for some time now :). -- Solitude 11:52, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- In response to User_talk:Solitude#Pic_of_the_day.
- You are right, I used the 200px from the Star Thistle picture by mistake. But I think you make a good point there, the 300px seems quite large combined with the text, also considering the condensed POTD version which uses 300px as well. Using 200px on the text-version, which focuses more on the combination of text and image, will differentiate it more from the condensed picture-only version as well as creating a more compact POTD template. Good idea. -- Solitude 13:20, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Inter-wiki projects coordination
Hi Angela! I'm one of the administrators of Russian part of Wikipedia. I have feeling that at the moment our section is very isolated from other language section and the whole Wikipedia project. For example, your recent request for deletion of Black Sea image was caused that we did not provide interwiki link for WP:VFD. Another example - we use a bot (ru:User:HedgeBot) which is not registered so its work cannot be hidden in Special:RecentChanges page. The problem is that we do not know what we shall do for coordination of our section with other wikies and whom we can ask about this or that problem. May be there is a special place where all such a stuff is described, sorry I could not find by myself. May be you can help us? Please answer at ru:Участник_обсуждение:Maximaximax Maximaximax 04:41, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Essex Boy
Just found out about Wikipedia via the Computer Active Magazine. What an excellent site! I agree with your views. Keep up the good work.
From an elder Essex Boy (Colchester).
Developer help request
G'day Angela
According to the latest post to Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Error/Bug on the main page we need developer level help. How should we request this? Andrewa 02:45, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Via foto
Saluton Angela !
eo : Kompreneble vi povas uzi la foton kiun mi faris. Ĉiuj miaj kontribuaĵoj por la vikipedio estas sub GFDL.
en : Of course you can use the picture I made of You. all my contributions to Wikipedia must be under GFDL.
But I can't edit http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Image:Angela.jpg nether create an account for myself on wikimediafoundation.org. It doesn't work. Arno Lagrange ✉ 09:54, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Most Wanted Troll
Hi there. I was looking at the Wanted Pages for something to do, and found that the most wanted article was User:Angela(Troll). All of the links to that page appear to be the ones linking to your page, but I couldn't find a redirect on your page that might explain it. Anyhoo, the first 8 or 9 entries appear to be Redirect/LinkSpam of this type. Not sure if you were aware of it or not, but it sure messes up the Most Wanted pages. Also, a good portion of the wanted pages are User: pages, which seems wrong somehow... Take it easy, The Steve
- It's a bug caused by page moves. A vandal once moved my page to Angela(Troll), and the links to my page never updated properly when it was moved back. The problem is mentioned at MediaZilla:221. Angela. 14:06, Sep 19, 2004 (UTC)