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Sea Shepherd images[edit]

Hi, I undid one of your recent addition of an image to the article on Paul Watson. As you can see on the description page, the image is tagged for deletion because it is a copyright violation. There are a lot of other Sea Shepherd images which are also on commons and are tagged to be deleted, so just make sure you look at the description first to be sure the images are not copyright violations. Thanks, Terrillja _talk 16:02, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, thanks! I didn't notice that :) Cheers. Pikolas (talk) 14:35, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It is a weird situation from my understanding. Basically, IMDB is typically good as in general info is usually OK but there is some user submitted content. SSCS (the other source) on the other hand is a primary source that links to should be limited since they are exceptionally promotional and admittedly not accurate. The edit also appeared to give it some prominence weight wise (due to the rest of the section being not filled in). The revert may have been a little knee jerky on my end. I actually was thinking about ways to incorporate your edit while poking around other pages when you messaged. Since I haven't seen the documentary, is it about Watson or is it about SSCS? I feel like we need to be extra careful with how it is done so it doesn't pop out as a "Hey, go look at this!". Also want to make sure it is on the right page.Cptnono (talk) 12:47, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am so on the fence about it that I won't revert if you stick it back in. Remove the SSCS link though. It might be better in the SSCS article but need to look into it more. It could also be a concern with the section in general (not really good prose right now) and not the content itself.Cptnono (talk) 13:45, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Go for it. The primary source you provided might be unduly self serving but it is much better then the SSCS site. It also seems t be about Watson more than SSCS. Independent coverage would be preferred (we need to find some sooner or later) but put it back in if there is a way to do it (notability impacts article creation not content if anyone else gives you a hard time). Have to go watch it since the British part isn't mentioned on Wikipedia. Cptnono (talk) 14:35, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Just a random thought. On one of the pages it mentions that he stopped sealing in the British Isles. I never heard of that so am just wondering what it is about. I'll do some googling and see what is out there.Cptnono (talk) 15:01, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

We actually built a pretty comprehensive history. It just got ripped out since it was too big and moved to a new specific page for the different operations since it was so bloated (Sea Shepherd Conservation Society operations). A summary is still needed at the main SSCS page but I was waiting for all of the hub bub around the Ady Gil to die down and got sidetracked on local sports. For the sake of transparency, I am not a fan of the group. If you see nay neutrality issues or anything lacking feel free to chime in.Cptnono (talk) 15:12, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Kaŝtankolora pasero on the Esperanto Wikipedia[edit]

Can you check the caption for the image of a nest at eo:Kaŝtankolora pasero? It should say that they are Grey-headed Social-weaver nests, like Chestnut Sparrow, but I don't think it does. (I found your page at the history page for the Esperanto Wikipedia's sparrow article). —innotata 13:09, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Does this clear it up: Can you check the caption for the image of a nest? It should say that it is not a nest of a Chestnut Sparrow, but a nest of a different bird that sparrows sometimes use. —innotata 17:43, 26 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for this "Territorial nationalism" picture! I also started the article Territorial nationalism a few months ago but never found the time to expand it... Feel free to ad pictures and/or text to that article too. "Territorial nationalism" is a underlighted subject which deserves more study. — Mariah-Yulia • Talk to me! 15:04, 3 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Esperanto[edit]

Sorry, Portuguese does not have 5 vowels. — kwami (talk) 20:41, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, we sometimes learn the same thing about English, though generally we learn that there are "long" and "short" a, e, i, o, oo, u, which isn't exactly right either. People tend to think of vowels as being letters rather than sounds. — kwami (talk) 20:49, 19 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Pikolas. you've placed a NPOV-tag in the D. T. Suzuki article, but without an explanation at Talk:D. T. Suzuki. Could you give your point of view there? Joshua Jonathan (talk) 08:20, 20 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Libreboot release[edit]

Hello NMaia, the release information in Libreboot disappeared after renaming it to "GNU Libreboot", how can me make that this info appears again? Cheers, User:Hórdómr (talk) 09:51, 20 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Hórdómr: Hi! Thanks for spotting that. I reverted my edit to make the information now be displayed. NMaia (talk) 10:30, 20 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Your deletion[edit]

As a new user, I am surprised you deleted a perfectly valid image for the article. I was not aware that the article had too many pictures according to the Wikipedia rules. At first sight it looked like an arbitrary decision according to your personal preferences. I wish in cases like this, that a consensus were used instead. At any rate, I don't want at this point in my early contributions, to change already established regulations. GinnevraDubois (talk) 20:08, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@GinnevraDubois: Hi Ginnevra. Sorry if my reversion seemed a bit harsh, and welcome to Wikipedia :) It looked a little out of place there, and while I agree that a picture of Zamenhof would be nice for the article, in my opinion it'd make the article a bit crowded with pics. Not sure if there is any rule about that, it's more of an aesthetics issue. ~★ nmaia ^d 20:16, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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LibertyBSD[edit]

I saw your edit on Trisquel, a free OS. Can you please help me keep LibertyBSD? It is the only free BSD variant. --Gstree (talk) 05:19, 7 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! Thanks for reaching out. As much as I like LibertyBSD, I think it's still too young to have a Wikipedia article on it, mostly due to the scarcity of independent sources covering its existence. So it's going to be deleted, at least for now, but that can change in the future :) ~★ nmaia ^d 12:55, 7 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

UK copyright expiry[edit]

Thank you for your changes to Norman Heathcote and for transferring and categorising the various associated files. I'd forgotten about them falling out of copyright and I see what you have done is just what was needed. Years ago some files I uploaded to enwp were transferred to Commons in a highly unsatisfactory manner so it is good that our standards have improved (or maybe it is just that someone else did the old transfers!). Best wishes. Thincat (talk) 13:45, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the compliment! I use CommonsHelper, and another bot cleans up the uploaded file. Cheers! ~★ nmaia ^d 14:31, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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@SummerPhDv2.0: I somehow missed the quotation marks, sorry. Thanks for letting me know. ~★ nmaia ^d 17:04, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not a problem. As it turns out, while verifying your edit, I found some old white-washing that needed to be corrected.[1] - SummerPhD^v2.0 17:56, 20 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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I am investigating adding more context to each entry that is shown (such as the edit summaries, tags, patrol marks, the user who made the edit, etc.). Is there any desire for such additions? If so, what should be added first, and what is a low priority? Please leave feedback on the relevant phabricator task, phab:T238300.

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Site validation has been overhauled. Rather than hard-coding a list of valid sites, users will be able to watch any site where they have an attached local user account. If a site is rejected as invalid, please ensure that there is indeed a local account attached to your global account.
Users will now be alerted regarding the results of attempting to update their settings.
Live updates have been added - when activated, the script will refresh in the background, and then load the new feed, every 7.5 seconds. In the future, this frequency may be configurable.
OOUI icons have been added to most buttons.
There is now an option to eliminate the confirmation dialog when marking all sites as seen.

Announcements

WARNING: Starting with version 6.1, site aliases currently used when saving settings will be removed, and only sites in the form of `lang.project` will be accepted.
As noted in the last update, marking a site as seen now uses entirewatchlist, which means that any changes to watched pages between when the watchlist was loaded and when the site was "marked as seen" may be ignored.

Next release

Version 6.0 was just finalized for the development and stable branches of the script.

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Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 21:03, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Global watchlist user script: About • Updates • Code

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks![edit]

Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

If you have any questions, please let us know at google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

--User:Martin Urbanec (talk) 21:58, 23 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Global watchlist - Update 4[edit]

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script:

Recent additions

A new "fast" mode has been introduced. When used, the watchlist serves as just a list of pages that have been modified, and no longer includes context about the edits themselves.
More information has been added to entries. When edits are not grouped by page, or when there is only 1 edit to a page, minor and bot flags are shown, as well as the user who made the edit, the summary used, and any tags that were applied. When multiple entries are grouped, bot and minor flags are only shown if all of the grouped edits were made by bots or where marked as minor. If only 1 user edited the page, that user's name is still shown, but no summaries or tags are included.
All watchlists are now fetched in parallel, rather than in series, greatly reducing load time.

Technical notes

Most of the source code is now annotated with jsdoc notes, allowing others to more clearly understand and review the code.
I will be looking into creating guidelines to let others contribute to the script; see phab:T238298.

Translations

There is now proper qqq documentation for translations. Translation takes place at m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist/Translate, and help is appreciated.
Newly translated messages are added to the script when I notice them; if you have translated messages that aren't showing up, please let me know at m:User talk:DannyS712.

Next release

Version 7.0 was just finalized for the development and stable branches of the script.

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Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 04:37, 15 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Global watchlist user script: About • Updates • Code

Global watchlist - Update 5[edit]

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script:

Future development

I have requested a grant to fund conversion of this script into an extension, as well as further development. Please see m:Grants:Project/Create a global watchlist extension.
If anyone is interested in reviewing the code and making suggestions regarding coding style, techniques, or something else, please let me know. See phab:T234507 for more.

Recent additions

I have added basic tests for the script, so bugs should be less likely to make their way to the deployed versions of the script (both the unstable development version, and the stable release version).
If there is an error with the script, the user will be notified and and the console will include a stack trace of the issue.

Translations

Many thanks to those that have contributed translations for the script's messages. Translation takes place at m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist/Translate, and help is appreciated.
Newly translated messages are added to the script when I notice them; if you have translated messages that aren't showing up, please let me know at m:User talk:DannyS712.

Next release

Version 8.0 was just finalized for the development and stable branches of the script.

To subscribe or unsubscribe from future updates, see the distribution list.

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 18:25, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Global watchlist user script: About • Updates • Code

Requesting small help[edit]

I was looking for some small help. I created an article en:Kithaab(French fr:Kithaab/Spanish es:Kithaab/de:Kithaab) -a play about women rights issues- which has been copy edited and is ready for translation in various languages.

Portuguese is one of top 9 most spoken global languages. Out of first 9 languages the article is already got translated in 6 of them, but Portuguese language Wikipedia (and Russian & Chinese too) are remaining to get article Kithaab translated in. Translating in Portuguese will also help translating in other global languages.

Looking for your possible help in translating the article en:Kithaab to your Portuguese language Wikipedia. If you are unable to spare time yourself then may be you like to refer the same to some other translator.

Thanks and Warm Regards

Bookku (talk) 13:56, 28 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Global watchlist - Update 6[edit]

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script:

Future development

I have requested a grant to fund conversion of this script into an extension, as well as further development. Please see m:Grants:Project/DannyS712/Create a global watchlist extension.
If anyone is interested in reviewing the code and making suggestions regarding coding style, techniques, or something else, please let me know. See phab:T234507 for more.

Recent additions

The results for each site, as well as the list of sites without changes, can be collapsed; the list of sites without changes starts collapsed.
When the username associated with an edit has been hidden (either via revision deletion or suppression) this is now properly shown in the output, rather than showing "undefined".
Links to view changes open in new tabs.
When marking a site (or all sites) as seen, only changes made prior to the watchlist loading will be marked as seen, so that any changes since then are not missed.
There is now a help link in the upper right hand corner that links to m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist, though it doesn't have the normal help icon.

Translations

Many thanks to those that have contributed translations for the script's messages. Translation takes place at m:User:DannyS712/Global watchlist/Translate, and help is appreciated.
Newly translated messages are added to the script when I notice them; if you have translated messages that aren't showing up, please let me know at m:User talk:DannyS712.

Next release

Version 9.0.0 was just finalized for the development and stable branches of the script.

To subscribe or unsubscribe from future updates, see the distribution list.

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 03:11, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Global watchlist user script: About • Updates • Code

"🤑" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect 🤑. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 May 7#🤑 until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. TheAwesome Hwyh 18:16, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Global watchlist - Update 7[edit]

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script and the Global watchlist extension:

Future development

I have received a grant from the WMF to develop this script into an extension. As a result, I do not plan on any further developments being made to the user script. Please see the grant page for more information. Those interested in reviewing and providing feedback for the extension should follow the new phabricator board, phabricator:tag/mediawiki-extensions-globalwatchlist.

Translations

Many thanks to those that have contributed translations for the script's messages. Now that I am working on an extension, translation has migrated to translatewiki. Please see:

To subscribe or unsubscribe from future updates, see the distribution list.

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 04:41, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Global watchlist user script: About • Updates • Code
Global watchlist extension: documentation

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WikiProject Veganism and Vegetarianism[edit]

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Global watchlist - Update 8[edit]

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script and the Global watchlist extension:

As I noted in the last issue, I received a grant from the WMF to develop the global watchlist script into an extension. That extension has now been deployed on Meta. Visit m:Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings to get started.

I do not plan on any further developments being made to the user script. I have released version 9.1.0 to both the dev and stable versions, which includes a notification about the extension being available when you use the user script. You can dismiss the notification, and the script still works, but it will no longer be maintained.

Those interested in providing feedback for the extension should use the phabricator board, phabricator:tag/mediawiki-extensions-globalwatchlist. Any bug reports about the extension should be filed there.

This will likely be the last update sent to this list.

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 19:42, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Global watchlist user script: About • Updates • Code
Global watchlist extension: documentation

List of vegans[edit]

Hey NMaia, We're wondering for how long subjects of Wikipedia articles have to be vegan to make it to List of vegans. I currently think 6 months, but I'd like to get more input and thus firmer consensus. Please have your say at Talk:List_of_vegans#Coding rules if you have time :) Trimton (talk) 19:55, 18 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Global watchlist - Update 9[edit]

Updates associated with DannyS712's Global watchlist script and the Global watchlist extension:

Hi everyone. As I noted in the last issue, I received a grant last year from the WMF to develop the global watchlist script into an extension. That extension has now been deployed on Meta. Visit m:Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings to get started.

That grant has ended, and I have requested another grant to continue development of the extension, and figured subscribers of the newsletter about the user script might be interested. You can see and comment on the grant request at m:Grants:Project/DannyS712/Continued work on GlobalWatchlist extension - if you support this, I hope you'll consider endorsing the request.

Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 00:28, 19 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Global watchlist user script: About • Updates • Code
Global watchlist extension: documentation

"🛩" listed at Redirects for discussion[edit]

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Also now 🛨, at the same link. -- Tamzin (she/they) | o toki tawa mi. 02:14, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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