User talk:Glacious
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[edit] Welcome
Welcome!
Hello, Glacious, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
- How to edit a page
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- How to write a great article
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! --Oblivious 17:18, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Ill make good changes now!Lumptyluffy 21:20, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Backgrounds, colors
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[edit] Request for Adminship
I have closed your request for adminship; you cannot make a request on this wiki to be adminned on another wiki. Requests to become an admin on another wiki must follow that wiki's adminship process, and if it does not have one, then they must be made at m:Requests for permissions on the Meta-Wiki. English Wikipedia bureaucrats are not able to grant adminship on any project but the English Wikipedia. Essjay (Talk) 08:09, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
- If it's of any consolation to you, I've now moved it to m:Requests for permissions#Dhivehi Wikipedia. Feel free to log in or create an account there so that you can continue. --Slgr@ndson (page - messages - contribs) 21:39, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Hello
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Sorry for not answering earlier but I was busy for a couple of weeks. Anyway, as for your question about uploading and copyrights I'll give you some links that will help you: Wikipedia:Uploading images and Wikipedia:Image use policy. Cheers. CG 14:58, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] can u delete the page spongebob....
hey... i have a lil prob.. i made this article spongebob squarepants. but its not interconnected with the english article.. can u delete the spongebob page in the dhivehi wiki so i can make a new one..??? thnx for ur tym.. Mohamed Ishan 00:16, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Image copyright tags.
When you upload a screenshot on a tv show, please use the television screenshot copyright tag, not a public domain one. Regardless of who took the shot, the copyright still belongs to the owners of the show.--Fyre2387 (talk • contribs) 06:21, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Bot request
I've written a few bots and am fairly competent with python and the pywikipedia framework - what specific function(s) do you need this bot to perform? ShakingSpirittalk 22:33, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry, but I don't quite understand, what exactly do you need doing? Remember that I don't speak a word of Dhivehi/Mahl, and I've no idea how your writing is supposed to look! ^_^
- Python is a programming language, and Pywikipedia is a framework which runs ontop of it, making it easier to code bots and other wiki-connected apps without dealing with all the low-level network code. ShakingSpirittalk 16:00, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re: dv.wp
Hi. Regarding your inquiry on Meta: Yes, if you are an admin on that project, you will be able to edit the relevant MediaWiki page normally. I don't know the nature of the changes you want to make, but if they might be controverted, or extensive, you might consider consulting with the other admins, or the community in general before making them. If you want to fix grammar, typos, etc, then you can probably go right ahead with it.
In order to become a Bureaucrat on that project, you need to gain consensus locally, i.e., ask the local community for the flag. If you gain consensus, then you can post a request on Meta, linking to the discussion page, and we'll look into it. Before you post a request, you should consider the real need that the community might have for a Bureaucrat (or lack thereof). Remember that this flag includes only 3 additional abilities: make other users sysop or bureaucrat (so you should check the frequency with which those actions take place there), username change (check to see if there are requests that would need attending to) and granting and revoking bot flags (check the need for blot flagging/revoking of bot flags on the project). Additionally, if the community does not have a page set aside specifically for requests such as those, you can make it on a already-known forum there (such as the local equivalent of the Village Pump). I hope this helps. Cheers, Redux 23:03, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
- Hi. I've looked over your request page on dv.wp, and it looks ok. In fact you seem to have already started getting community feedback on your request. It would be inappropriate for me to "!vote" on that though, given the fact that I'm not active on that project, and don't even speak the language. My work on that project is overall limited to Steward-related work. I wish you all the luck in your RfB there though. :-) Cheers, Redux 02:01, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
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- Hi again. I've been able to fix the original problem, by copying and pasting the original table from enwiki and copying the translations already made. A couple of new problems arised (see my edit summary on dvwiki), but I was having too much trouble with the "inverted" interface (from my point of view, at least) and it was getting difficult to fix those. Hopefully, you or someone else on dvwiki will be able to handle those. Also, in copying the table from enwiki, a few items had there order on the table changed, so you might have to make minor adaptations, and a few items did not have translations on the table that was originally on dvwiki. If it still doesn't work, we might contact one of some users I know who are really good with solving html code problems — although I don't know how much of a hurdle the inverted interface could pose for them — hopefully, minimal. :-) Cheers, Redux 21:17, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re:Block
Hi. That means you've been autoblocked. That is easily fixed. What is the message you're getting when you attempt to edit? With this information, I will be able to identify which autoblock refers to you (there's a few on the list, and usernames for collateral damage are not given, only a number ID) and unblock you. Ideally, you may e-mail the admin who issued to original block, inform him that you've been affected, and he will unblock you asap. You should first, however, check the logs to see the length of the block issued to the original blockee. If it is a short, 24-hour block, you would be unblocked automatically just as soon (and depending on the timeline, it could probably happen sooner than it would take the admin to respond, or maybe by the time you read this, you could be already unblocked). If the original block is longer (especially if it is indefinite), then you will need to be unblocked specifically, which is really easily done, once we know which autoblock on the list refers to you. Cheers, Redux 12:26, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
- Humm, this sounds like a task for a developer. It would probably be productive to contact one of them directly. If you have access to IRC, you might also try the channel #mediawiki there. Cheers, Redux 15:52, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Hi Right Back!
Hi Glacious, I have been contributing to Wikipedia since August 2005 and yeah, ފިޒާން user at Dhivehi Wikipedia is me. I used to write quite a lot for the English Wikipedia but at one point, got fed up with the lack of online research material relating to the Maldives so just gave up until there is more visible expansion of the "Dhivehi Web". I did check out the Div Wikipedia a while back and was impressed by your efforts to expand it. Great work...keep it up. As for helping you out there, I have extremely poor Divehi writing skills (as attested by my SSC results - a C in case you were wondering) but I am willing to help you out in any other way including rudimentary translation work and other stuff. Keep in contact. --Fizan 03:09, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:BlindBandit Pro.jpg)
Thanks for uploading Image:BlindBandit Pro.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable under fair use (see our fair use policy).
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[edit] Orphaned fair use image (Image:Avatar-TLAlogo.gif)
Thanks for uploading Image:Avatar-TLAlogo.gif. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable under fair use (see our fair use policy).
If you have uploaded other unlicensed media, please check whether they're used in any articles or not. You can find a list of 'image' pages you have edited by clicking on the "my contributions" link (it is located at the very top of any Wikipedia page when you are logged in), and then selecting "Image" from the dropdown box. Note that any fair use images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. This is an automated message from BJBot 14:38, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Bot request
BJBot for the moment is tagging orphaned (not used in any pages) fair use (copyrighted but we in the U.S. can still use them) for deletion. Just tell me what you want a bot to do and I will see what I can do. BJTalk 21:50, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
- I think this would be better done with WP:AWB and a regexp. BJTalk 12:00, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] You message
Sorry I have to log out now. Either contact me later or get one of the others - sorry. Dbuckner 15:41, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re:font change on dvwiki
Hi. Humm, this one is tricky for me. I don't think I can get this one done myself. But I can tell you where to find the people who will know how to help. The best option, and the quickest, would be to go to IRC, if you have access to it. On the channel #mediawiki you should find people skilled in this kind of code adaptations, including the developers. Redux 18:34, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Re:Questions on Meta
Hi. First, about the people who can help you with the changes you want to make on dvwiki: you might contact the developers, or more specifically, Brion VIBBER or Werdna, who are the devs who are usually more active — even though Werdna is not listed on listusers as a dev, he is one, and I assume he would know how to do the procedure you want.
Second part, about the page on dvwiki: that's a category for articles that other users have tagged for speedy deletion. Administrators would visit the pages, check to see if each given page fits the criteria for speedy deletion and, if they do, simply delete them.
Finally, about Bureaucrats voting: in larger projects, such as enwiki, dewiki, etc, Bureaucrats are expected to remain neutral and not vote or participate in any instance where they will be the ones to assess consensus. In smaller projects, however, there are instances in which a Bureaucrat can vote and still close the vote. What defines that is community consensus. Dvwiki is a small project, so you should check with the base of regular contributors, who would make up the local community, what is the general feeling about having the local Bureaucrat participate in a RfA, for instance, and still close afterwards. If they feel you should not do it, then you have a choice: either you remain neutral and close the vote in the end or you do vote, and ask a Steward to take care of if for you, since you would be expected to recuse yourself from acting as a closing Bureaucrat in the instance where you voted. Cheers, Redux 11:55, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
