Hi Kasper, Thanks for your ongoing work on these. For the benefit of some of us not totally up on how bots and bureaucrats work on Wikipedia if there were a...
... I ni ce, Well, bots, or "robots" are run by people, for different purposes. They make it easier to do tedious tasks, such as making sure that all...
Hoi, A bot is a program that edits on a project. Typically they do things like "interwiki links" connecting articles on the same subject in different...
I think it's much better to postpone this. You can vote for the first bureaucrat whenever your wiki has enough native contributor. On the first steps ...
... Maybe you're right. But I want to help out on these projects. And I don't want to spend a lot of time on tedious tasks such as finding out everything about...
I am the operator of one of the offending bots on wo:, AmaraBot... (based in the Amharic Wikipedia)... Amharic wikipedia has grown to the point where we have...
Hi folks, A while back (not sure when), someone (not sure who) added a nifty on-the-fly transliteration tool to the Amharic Wikipedia. If you don't happen to...
Hi Patrick, all, I passed this question on to some colleagues offline, and one of them, Daniel Yacob, wondered about the kinds of statistical information about...
Hi Don and everyone, ... Thanks kindly for the tip and forwarding my query to your colleagues, Don, I really appreciate it. As Daniel mentioned in a previous ...
Hi, Pat and everyone, I am bureaucrat on the Amharic wikipedia. One of our sysops with some technological know-how implemented this technology back in...
... Clickable diacritics is not the easiest way. Imagine typing a text with the keyboard and having to switch to the mouse, click on a character button and...
... beginning, ... font is ... I'm not ... Is this what they have to do on the French language wikis for example? I'm sure they have things like special...
I find a transliteration-to-characters converter the most useful for complex languages like chinese, so it seems natural to me to try this for other ...
Hi Feqade, Denis, all, This exchange gets to a core issue wrt extended Latin scripts: ease of input of diacritics and extended characters. To respond to...
Hi, as you might already know OmegaWiki is creating the OLPC Children's dictionary. To reach the first goal: 1100 basic words we are going a way that is...
Hoi, There was an e-mail indicating that there are scholarships available to people from Africa who have an existing relation with the Wikimedia Foundation and...
Hi Gerard, Thanks for the information nice to hear from you again it sounds interesting to know so what kind of scholarships it will be? I would like to know...
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Thaks to everyone who sent this to me. I just woukld like to know more about the scholaships. ... Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people....
Gerard, I found some information here: http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarship However, the deadline announced for those scholarships was three...
Hoi, There was a mail the other day saying that the end date was extended. It was extended for people from Africa and from the former USSR. So just apply. ...
... first bureaucrat whenever your wiki has enough native contributor. On the first steps permissions for bot and admin status would be granted ... projects,...
Hi all, It would be great to hear from Africans and non-Africans interested in African language Wikipedias who will be going to Wikimania. Might be some...
A couple of quick questions. 1) Is there a list of bureaucrats for African language editions (or presumably for the whole range of Wikipedia editions), or are...
Had the thought a while back that there ought to be (if there isn't already somewhere I didn't notice) a page on the MetaWiki site http://meta.wikimedia.org/...
Although we all are aware of the shortcomings of evaluating the quality of a Wikipedia language edition by the number of articles, it is still interesting to...
In the en & fr Wikipedias, common names for tree species redirect to the scientific names. Is this a general Wikipedia policy - hence one that we should work...
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