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[edit] Gideon Gono

Hi Wikiwizzy,

Impressed by the work you've done on profiles of Zimbabwean people. Wondered if you'd have time or be interested in doing one on Gono, the Governer of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe? I've been doing stuff on Operation Murambatsvina, and still have more to do there, but am seriosuly interested in knowing more about the guy, especially with what's happening right now in Zimbabwe.

H.A. 14:00, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi Wikiwizzy! Nice to see another South African on Wikipedia!

I changed Cetewayo to Cetshwayo as you requested (leaving Cetewayo as a redirect page). I also changed the name to the "correct" spelling in quite a few articles. (As a matter of fact, it gets even worse, being spelled Cetywayo in quite a few articles as well.)

Of course, the transcription of names from a people with no alphabet of their own (like the Zulus) or a completely different alphabet (like the Arabs) are always a problem (e.g. all the different spellings of Ghadafi, Khadafi, etc.), but I agree with you that Cetshwayo is the most commonly accepted way of spelling it. I have a suspicion that the other spellings may be more "archaic".

Kind Regards, Elf-friend 22:04, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Hi again, Wikiwizzy.

  • Origin of Cetewayo page: I haven't checked, but maybe it has been copied from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. This is not copyright-protected anymore and is available online, so it is a likely candidate.
  • Well, five years qualifies you for being an honorary South African, I think ;-). Coincidentally, I have been living in Holland for 5 years now, our planes might have passed each other on the way :-).
  • I agree that the two articles should be merged. I think that Zulu War is the more commonly-used name, but I agree with you that the correct article to place it under is probably Anglo-Zulu War, as this is the more "academically correct " term. I think the way that you are doing it now is probably the best way; we should keep Zulu War as a redirect. Good luck! Leave a message if I can help!
  • The encyclopedia4u site is a copy from Wikipedia (there are numerous other sites that does this as well and most of these sell advertising). But it is not a copyvio as long as they mention Wikipedia and the GNU Free Documentation License (see Tip of the day at [1]). Personally, I'm not big fan of such people/sites (to say the least), but there is nothing that can be done as long as they follow those rules, seeing that Wikis is free, anyway.
  • By the way, could you please check and tell me if you agree with my List of Zulu kings? I'm not so sure of the earlier ones - different sources give me different information.

Kind Regards, Elf-friend 16:09, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Good work

Just want to let you know that I think you're doing a fine job over at Battle of Isandlwana. Keep it up. →Raul654 21:55, Mar 25, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures

As a result of your comment, I was motivated to write Wikipedia:Picture tutorial. Please take a look at that and tell me what you think. →Raul654 08:35, Mar 26, 2004 (UTC)

Hey, I was just wondering what your source is for Monica Bellucci's year of birth? IMDB has it listed as 1964 and you changed it to 1968. Why? sik0fewl 03:18, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Shaka message

Yes I agree with some of your comments, I am not articulating his tactics on that page but more his social significance (which is great) for Africa-most of which stems from his innovations dealing with the military. I will articulate his actual tactics on the "buffalo formation" page. Shaka's lasting legacy and brilliance had mostly to do with his progress in the military which allowed him to excert control over extensive African territory and win some stunning victories against Western imperalist and colonial forces. Thanks, I think the page could be much improved though, lets keep working on it. GrazingshipIV 19:25, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)

In response the tactic of the buffalo formation was first used by Ghengis Khan hundreds of years before Shaka. It is a tactic though that Shaka rather than the Zulus let alone Dingiswayo invented. Without Shaka and his ideas the Zulus would have faced the similiar fate of most Africans. But because of Shaka and the support of the Zulu people the Zulus were able to make an important statement to the Western powers and the world, namely that they were people too; capable of intelligence and dignity. During Shaka's time Africa was (and was being) carved up by the powers of Europe. Most tribes and peoples were either conqueored without any or with little effort as Western military technology and theory proved superior in all forms. The Africans at that time (and for a long time after, some even say to this day) were looked at as subhuman animals only fit for slavery not capable of human emotions and intelligence. Shaka and the Zulu people proved this to be fantasy as they served some of the strongest Western powers with stunning defeats showing them that such animals were not only capable of intelligent thought but could form complex strategies and implement them. It was a blow to the European social theory of social Darwinism which was flowing through Europe.

So it is in that social context that I put Shaka's military revolution. I will decribe in detail how he used the buffalo formation but it would be important to note that the Zulus would not have it if not for Shaka. GrazingshipIV 23:49, Apr 1, 2004 (UTC)


[edit] Zulu and ethnic

I appreciate your support for changing colors of ethnic groups!:) I am also glad to see that you are doing lot of editing in Zulu which is nice because people from Europe like me don`t get to know much about African people.

                     thanx and see ya Avala 20:08, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Nguni

Hi Wikiwizzy. You're welcome! Great that you could translate it. I like translating articles to German... --Napa 10:52, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Mfecane

Thanks for the hint. I translated the article to German and added some senteces in the german article. In earlier days it wasn't possible to have a army for a longer period. The fighters had to go back to their home and to work on their fields. Because of the Corn, King Shaka could found a real army, because he needn't all man working on the fields. --Napa 08:10, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Hirtentum

Hirtentum means in english the economic system of a pastoral people. --Napa 17:41, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)

[edit] S African elections

I gather you are South African? Are you interested in politics? If so, I want to talk to someone about the South African elections. If this interests you, please reply at my Talk page. Adam 05:20, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Excellent. I am after some information which is not provided at the South African Election Commission website or at the media websites I have looked at. As you know the National Assembly consists of 400 members, 200 elected from national party lists and 200 elected from party lists in each of the regions. I would like to know the number of MPs elected for each party in each region, as well the as the numbers elected on the national lists. I am hoping this has appeared in the South African print media even though it is not available at the media websites. If you can find these figures for me I would be very grateful. I will put them at the article South African general election, 2004 and also at my website, Adam Carr's election archive. Adam 07:16, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I agree the IEC website is hopeless. I emailed them asking for this information after the 2000 election but got no reply at all. This compares badly with a poor country like Kenya, where the electoral office went to great lengths to send me bundles of information, far more than I asked for, because they were so pleased that someone in the outside world was interested in their work. Anything you can send me or refer me to will be appreciated. Adam 08:01, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the nice comments on my talk page. Moreover, thanks for directing me to your user page, where I found out about your work on Zulu history. You've been doing great work on the South Africa articles. It's especially exciting to find out about a user focusing on articles pertaining to Sub-Saharan African history, which hardly gets enough attention on Wikipedia.

BTW, I've been interested in overhauling History of Africa and esp. expanding the coverage of precolonial Africa for a while. If you're doing something like this and want to divvy up the work and specialize in certain areas, please drop a note on my talk page. I'm definitely not a specialist on Africa and my knowledge is very broad and limited, but I'd try to help out. 172 17:15, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the reference to the ANC website, but I'm afraid it just duplicates what is at the IEC website. What I want is the number of National Assembly seats won by each party from each province. Why is this so difficult to find? It's astonishing that South Africa is the only significant democracy in the world from which I can't get complete election results. Adam 02:47, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I have found it now [2], so thanks for your help. Adam 03:33, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Once again, great work on the ZANU-PF-related articles. I've been unexpectedly busy lately, so I'm sorry that I haven't been able to help out. I'll get to it shortly, though.

BTW, a timeline's a great idea on History of Africa. I'll try to come up with a draft outline (perhaps along the lines of Timeline of events leading to the American Civil War, but with more than one column for comparisons across regions). 172 08:00, 4 May 2004 (UTC)

I've unprotected the page. I'll now rename it. It might take a while since my browser is working very slowly now. 172 09:40, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Gas Turbines

Hi Wizzy, thanks for the wiki tips. I moved some of the Gas turbine comments from my talk to gas turbine talk.

Pud, 8 June 04, 12:22 PST


[edit] Cetshwayo

About Cetshwayo: I did not deliberately change any dashes to question marks - in fact I tried to do exactly the opposite. However, I have noticed that sometimes inserted dashes have turn into them (I have cleaned my own page from similar question marks in occasion). It may be something to do with the Windows ME machine I had to use yesterday, but I am far from sure of that. Trying to correct the situation from my own computer now. (PS: When I wrote the original Cetewayo page - which is now redirect - I was apparently misinformed about the modern spelling.) - Skysmith 16:42, 22 Jun 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Nansindlela School

Hello, wfy does mean wikify, yes. By vfd I was referring to "votes for deletion" not because its a bad article, but because I'm not sure of the policy on keeping pages about schools. I'm not going to vote for deletion on it, because i'm not sure though. My best suggestion to avoid deletion is to expand the article with some more history, and any exceptional facts about the school. —siroχo 11:51, Jun 30, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Tugela Map

Hi W,

Tugela route was added on the map but it seems it was not showing latest version, so I just changed name of map and fixed problem. Any way nice to talk to you. I grew up in Natal and miss the smell of the sea air. Up here in Joburg things are too rushed.--Jcw69 12:37, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Will also add map of tributaries and catchment area much later. --Jcw69 12:55, 7 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Maps

Sawubona, Happy you like the maps, will get to Richards Bay, not sure about the towns of St Lucia or Ingwavuma although I did extensive work on The Greater St Lucia Wetland Park. There is abit on the town St Lucia on that page. I surpose I could do a location map for Ingwavuma (I had to look on a map for it ;-). I also did pages on Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve, Itala Game Reserve and Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation Area. Spent some of my youth in the forests of Mtubatuba and on Jozini Dam. Any other requests please just contact me...Jerome--Jcw69 17:06, 8 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Added location map to Ingwavuma--Jcw69 09:29, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Eshowe

Hi again,

Liked the eshowe website. Will put Nongoma and Babanango on my list. If you make up the pages, I can supply the location map and maybe some extra information if I can find. I have made a KZN map tempete on my image editor (Photoshop), which I can easily put locations on it for different places.--Jcw69 08:54, 9 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Me Again

Me again, we must stop meeting like this, people will start talking.

Anyway did all I could find on Nongoma. Need you to full out the blanks and fix any mistakes that may have slip through.

Thanks --Jcw69 10:07, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)


Also added Babanango--Jcw69 13:14, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing the recent additions to recent Russian history! 172 18:14, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] User: 198.54.202.2

Are you User:198.54.202.2? That user signed as you on User:Jimbo Wales/Pushing To 1.0.

Acegikmo1 04:26, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I don't know if nominating Robert Mugabe is a good idea, just out of consideration of Wikipolitics. For one, the article stands little change of getting featured. Lately, no article can get featured unless all the images have source information. Some users will not withdraw their objections to featured status until all the pictures are removed. (This derailed the nomination of the Che Guevara.) Also, even if this article could make it through the process, featuring Mugabe might do more harm than good. (Attracting extra attention could attract yet more POV editors). 172 07:42, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] European map

Why had you reverted the EU map at Image:EU_map_names_isles.png?? Croatia is now a country with official EU candidate status, so you should definitely not have restored what had become an outdated version. Aris Katsaris 23:41, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Henry Bartle Frere

I've generally been guided by Naming conventions (names and titles), which does allow the use of title with hereditary nobility. Now, admittedly, Frere was a baronet and not a peer, but we've taken to treating the baronetcy in a similar manner for purposes of disambiguation. The particular section of the policy treating baronets was, I think, written before we'd hashed out baronet naming conventions and thus doesn't reflect the new consensus. Mackensen 15:14, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Pud

Yes Wizzy, I am the same guy. Pud was short for my email, puddlduk at yahoo. And then I found out that 'Pud' had an obscene meaning (how embarrassing). So I changed it to Duk.

Anyway, the last time we talked you suggested that the brayton cycle page be moved to the gas turbine page, right? I don't have a problem with this, but haven't had the guts to do it. Do you still think it is a good idea?

Duk 00:04, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Gas turbine/ Brayton cycle

Ok Wizzy, I think we should keep the pages sepperate. A couple of reasons; other thermodynamic cycles have their own pages, and the brayton cycle is often used in larger systems (Combined cycle, for exapmle.)

I'll plan on adding more graphics to the brayton cycle page to show re-heat and intercooling (but leave them off the gas turbine page). And I'll re-work the current graphic to show a graphical representation of work output and efficiency, hopefully it won't take me four months this time :)

Duk 18:01, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Hi W, Just quick question since you down in Natal amd I am up here in Gauteng.... Has Stanger changed its name?--Jcw69 11:16, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Is the new name official or hoax? I will follow up and make changes where needed. Keep your eyes open--Jcw69 14:56, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Cyril Ramaphosa

Hi Wikiwizzy, thanks for the compliment! :-) It actually came at a good time, as I needed a bit of encouragement and motivation after some disparaging remarks made on Talk:South African Valour class patrol corvettes.

Yeah, I kinda am working my way down the Top 100 list. Leaving aside the merits or not of the individuals on the list, it is at least a good indication of people who are notable enough to be included on Wikipedia. (Although I'm not really looking forward to writing stuff on Leon Schuster and Eugene Terre'blance, to be honest.) Elf-friend 09:11, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Jacob Zuma

Great job on Jacob Zuma! Yep, he definitely needed a page, what with him being the Deputy President and the arms scandal, etc. I'm sometimes amazed by the important topics for which there are not yet articles on Wikipedia, but I guess that is why the countering systemic bias project is there. Regards, Elf-friend 13:44, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Wikipedians/South Africa

Hey Andy,

When you get a chance put your name down here Wikipedia:Wikipedians/South Africa--Jcw69 17:05, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] South African Collaboration of the Week!

Hello, this is just a brief, friendly announcement to let you know that there is now a South African Collaboration of the Week where we vote every two weeks to select an article about South Africa that is either a stub or nonexistent and attempt make it featured article quality by the end of the week. Your comments, voting, and participation would be very welcome! PZFUN 17:37, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Article Licensing

Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:

Option 1
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

OR

Option 2
I agree to [[Wikipedia:Multi-licensing|multi-license]] all my contributions to any [[U.S. state]], county, or city article as described below:
{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

[edit] Thanks!

Hi Wikiwizzy. I appreciate your kind words about my work on Lord's Resistance Army, Congo Civil War and related articles. If nobody talks me out of splitting Congo Civil War, I'll need all the motivation I can get to clean up the mess that will result... but I'm already thinking about how to add a paragraph to Rwandan Genocide so it transitions into the beginning of First Congo War. I may be (just a little) obsessed. ;) Cheers, BanyanTree 17:21, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Cape Town meetup.

Hi Dewet, if you're interested in joining a Cape Town Wikipedia meetup you can have a look at http://wikipedia.meetup.com/38/ — Jeandré, 2004-12-14t16:32z

[edit] Paul Kagame

Bonjour, je suis intervenu sur l'article concernant Paul Kagame en français.--81.56.101.24 08:05, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

J'ai fait la modification de paragraphe que vous suggérez. C'est effectivement mieux ainsi. Et j'ai introduit une allusion aux alternances de victoires et défaites parallèles aux négociations. Les accords d'Arusha seront développés dans leur propre article. --81.56.101.24 21:06, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

Hi Wikiwizzy. Thanks for reverting my user page. Though it's a little embarrasing that I didn't notice it... :) - BanyanTree 08:06, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Africa

You voted for Africa, this week's CSB Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article. A list of concerns about the article have been placed on its talk page. BanyanTree 18:30, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] South Africa

Thanks for your kind comments on my talk page. Hopefully the article will be featured in no time! Warmest regards --Neutralitytalk 00:05, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Calcutta and Spioen Kop

(Now there's two place names that aren't often used in the same header. :-D) Anyway, I'm just a bit puzzled why you oppose the "name change" for the first-mentioned, but support it for the second. Surely the same principle is at work, i.e. the relevant country's own official spelling should be used, especially if that country has English as an official language? Kind Regards, Elf-friend 10:56, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

My take is that Spion Kop never was the right name. Calcutta was, for years. I have been to India (not recently) - but I gather that folks from Bombay still call it Bombay, not Mumbai. I am guessing the same for Calcutta - but it is only a guess. Folks from Spioenkop (proper Afrikaner rabbits) call it Spioenkop. Have not done my research with Indian Newspapers though - what do they call it ? Wizzy 11:21, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
Well, using Google News (which I hate to do, because I have several principial objections against Google being used to test common usage, including that, with all the Wikipedia mirrors, the Wikipedia entry itself may skew results) I get the following results (I think these are limited to the last 30 days, though):
  • Limited to India: Kolkata - 3,090; Calcutta: 4,400. About a 40%/60% split, which is not really a compelling argument for still using Calcutta (IMHO :-) ), as the usage of "Kolkata" will surely grow with time and that of "Calcutta" decline.

As I have some free time ...:

  • Limited to the U.K.: Kolkata - 57; Calcutta - 186. (Roughly 1:3.2)
  • Limited to Australia: Kolkata - 18; Calcutta - 80. (Roughly 1:4.4)
  • Limited to New Zealand: Kolkata - 0; Calcutta - 4. (...)
  • Limited to the U.S.: Kolkata - 119; Calcutta - 802. (Roughly 1:6.7)
  • Limited to South Africa: Kolkata - 7; Calcutta - 40. (Roughly 1:5.7)
  • Limited to Canada: Kolkata - 5; Calcutta - 84. (Roughly 1:16.8)
  • For the whole world: Kolkata - 3,420; Calcutta - 5,750. Bigger difference, but still not huge.

Comments:

  • Interesting that the two largest differences are in North America.
  • However, I think the output of international news agencies may skew the whole issue: the same article content being used over and over again by different publications.
P.S.: What do we do regarding the whole Pretoria/Tshwane naming issue once that change becomes official?

Elf-friend 13:31, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for cutting the dross (mine :-) and other) and some of the more inflammatory comments from the Spioenkop talk page, it is probably a better talk page because of it. However, I think I will take a few days off from Wikipedia to get my Wikistress level down a bit after reading User talk:Philip Baird Shearer#Parochialism. Elf-friend 16:05, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Hey - you started it ! Well, not really - I was going to give it all a miss after the first round, then you stopped in. Take it off your watchlist, find something else. Wizzy…☎ 16:49, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback

I removed the edits because I did not feel that statements like South Africa got training and assistance for its development of nuclear weapons from the US, Israel, and the UK could be made without any sort of reference. Also, Pretoria was not renamed Tshwane yet. It has to be approved, and even then, only the metropolitan area has been renamed Tshwane, the central area will remain Pretoria.

I have no doubt you felt justified in removing the edits. My only concern was the manner. If the comments above had been attached to the reverts I would not have a problem. Wizzy…☎ 07:28, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] trimming of comments

I'm sure you have the best intentions while trimming comments, and goodness knows I enjoy the sanity it offers, but it might be frowned upon, or even considered censorship, when you edit others' comments. I wish we can just delete the whole spionkop talk page and start over, since there has been so many arguments spanning in all directions, but here we are. Thanks anyway for your trouble! Dewet 14:18, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Cape Colony

Thanks! I love to edit, after I finish up the Cape Colony I'm going to undergo a massive re-edit of History of South Africa because right now it kind of sucks. Its 90% apartheid, and really not all that much else. Páll 17:39, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] History of South Africa

Sorry, you were probably right about that one. I could see very well now that I thought about it how it could come across as bad faith to someone who was assuming bad fatih. That's why I tried to invite every contributer who had edited in the past five months (there weren't many) to come and take a look. I was doing it at my name space so that I could finish it in one go, which is what I pretty much did, and since the original History of South Africa wasn't bad at all, I figured this would give me a chance to fix syntax and things like that while an already pretty good article stayed up. Anyway, I have posted it onto History of South Africa now with an explanation. About to mention it on the talk page. Páll 21:25, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Zimbabwe elections

My pleasure. As you can see here, elections are a little hobby of mine. If you have access to Zimbabwe election stuff, what I would really like is a set of constituency maps. I can't find any online - have you seen any published anywhere? Adam 11:17, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

They were redrawn at the end of last year, I think. So it has to be fresh. http://kubatana.net/ Seem very jacked - maybe ask them ? Wizzy…☎ 11:28, Apr 1, 2005 (UTC)

I see we could use articles on Mashonaland and Matabeleland. Adam 01:19, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you!

Hi Wikiwizzy, Thank you for your vote of confidence at WP:RFA. It means a lot to me and I look forward to helping out as an admin. Cheers, BanyanTree 03:30, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sig

Thanks, I see what you mean. --Merovingian (t) (c) 09:32, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pretoria Meetup

Hi Andy,

Sorry that I couldn't make it last night. How did the meetup go? --Jcw69 06:15, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Update feed

Hi Andy,

it was nice meeting you. Regarding the article feed, there's an implementation of the OAI-PMH protocol currently in use for http://www.answers.com - see http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html for the specs. As you can see on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%3AOAIRepository , this is currently limited in access (we are offering it as a service). If you want, I'll ask Jimmy Wales to give you free access to it. It does not currently include images, but will likely do so in the future.

Some basic work has been done on a static HTML dumper, see http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/phase3/maintenance/dumpHTML.php?rev=1.1&view=log -- this could be used, in combination with tools like htdig, to create a static DVD copy.

I recommend you bring these issues up on wikitech-l as well, perhaps with a brief introduction, so that more people are aware of them.--Eloquence* 10:01, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Moscow and Rhind Mathematical Papyri

I refer you to User:Mark Dingemanse/Roylee and encourage you to revert all his and his anon. edits. I was going to do it, but it looked complicated. Wizzy…☎ 09:20, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

Roylee is certainly pushing his pet theories. I think his contributions should be carefully checked and toned down (however tiring that is), but they do not deserve a blanket revert. I am actually not that unhappy with the current state of Moscow and Rhind Mathematical Papyri. -- Jitse Niesen 11:42, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Then I shall leave it alone. I do not know enough on the subject. Wizzy…☎ 12:08, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

If you feel like doing some Roylee watching again, please tune in at User:Mark Dingemanse/Roylee. He's back, hasn't ever responded to inquiries on his talk page and just goes on adding the same web of self-referential fringe theories. — mark ✎ 09:16, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Moslem"

On the Alassane page I changed "moslem", a highly offensive term that you added, to "Muslim". I guess you didnt realize but try not to use moslem in the future. freestylefrappe 19:36, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Robert Mugabe

Hi, it is from Who's Who in the World - 21st Edition, 2003 I will see if I can find it mentioned online. No it doesn't appear to be mentioned on-line anywhere.

Did you remove the mention of his award. It has gone missing.

--Hierarchypedia 22:03, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

You can always check the history of any page with the history tab at the bottom, where you will see that User:Greenman removed it. If you put it back, be sure to add your reference above, at least to the edit summary, or it will probably be removed again. Wizzy…☎ 12:20, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Shuttleworth

It was "On 2002 April 25 Shuttleworth lifted-off aboard..." which had the mark-up On [[25 April]], [[2002]] Shuttleworth lifted-off . The software switches the position for some crazy reason which means that it is no matter gramatical when in context. The bellman 02:55, 2005 Jun 4 (UTC)

didn't know that. Thanks. Wizzy…☎ 17:24, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Addiator.jpg

I just came across Image:Addiator.jpg and since it's orphaned and copyrighted in a manner that's not useful for Wikipedia's purposes I was going to put it up for deletion. However, since I don't know the details of how permission was granted the last time, I figured I'd give a heads-up to you in case you want to get in contact with the copyright holder and try convincing him to licence the image under a less restrictive licence (GFDL, creative commons, etc.) Bryan 08:18, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Tue, 20 Jul 2004 webmaster@TCoCD.de Andreas Tabak, I would like to use one of your addiator pictures for an article on the machine in http://wikipedia.org/
Tue, 20 Jul 2004 Hello Andy, yes, that is possible. Which picture(s) do you want to use? Is the one one my webpage large enough? Please do not forget to reference the images' source and to send me a link to the article.
What more must I do ? Wizzy…☎ 09:57, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)
I do see the picture has been replaced by another - so I have no objection to its deletion. Wizzy…☎ 11:19, Jun 5, 2005 (UTC)


[edit] Zuma

Hi Wizzy, thanks for your kind note, and thanks for the pic on the Manto page too.--best regards, Joe Joewright 20:12, 9 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The site?

You don't think that users have the right to recive information? I added the site to subject i think is relevant and I'm a engineer and have worked in the marine industry and market for 5 years and haw a baclor degree in marine tecnical systems. If you are unhappy about the fact that i like to make all information available I'm more than happy ro remove all the stuff i added to the sites in here.

[edit] Barnstar

Wow! My first barnstar, I am truly honoured!! TreveXtalk 14:30, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

And I think it is the coolest, even though it is a gif .. :-) Wizzy…☎ 15:22, August 10, 2005 (UTC)
It is by far the coolest. It just keeps spinning and spinning! A fine adornment to any user page. Thanks again! TreveXtalk 16:34, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Museveni on peer review

Hey Wizzy, just thought I'd let you know that Yoweri Museveni is now on peer review. I thought now was about the right time, as it would be good to get a feel for the kind of things people will say in WP:FAC now, rather than pressing ahead with expansion and then having to change a whole load of stuff later.TreveXtalk 11:45, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Swahili project

Hello Andy, how are things?

I think you'll like this project on the sw: Wikipedia : sw:Wikipedia:Jamii. Do you have a user account there? Cheers, +sj + 21:36, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

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