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Current Please put this page on your watchlist if you post here, as I will reply on this page. I like coherent discussion threads. -- Ravn 20:25, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Congratulations! 2 Superfund 3 DAB Machine operation 4 Berlin wiki meeting 5 Translation of meta:Rodovid.org 6 Oil (disambiguation) → Oil 7 Wikifun starts on Sunday 8 WP Berlin reloaded 9 You helped choose this week's WP:AID winner 10 Invite 11 Oil (disambiguation) 12 WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request 13 Image:Wikifun-round12-immix-hint.jpg listed for deletion 14 Image tagging for Image:Arnulf-Rainer.jpg 15 Wikipedia:Translation 16 Wikipedia:WikiProject Historical figures

[edit] Congratulations!

You've just won round 12 of Wikifun! :) Would you like to devise the villa^Wquestions for the next round? Oh, and what's your favourite flavour of Kellogg's and where should it be shipped to? -- Ravn 20:17, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for congratulations and the proposition (I suppose ^W deletes the preceding word... (?)), but I feel not (yet) competent enough for this - in particular, I still ignore many ways to find information on WP, which would make my questions too easy for experienced participants and thus frustrate the more naive ones. But why not at a later moment, after some more participations in WP:WF (this was my first "real" one). — MFH:Talk 23:04, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

PS: I can e-mail you my address, but I fear the shipping will cost much more than the contents. And actually I'm not really a "cereal" guy - I prefer an egg with "Speck" or "Bratkartoffeln" for breakfast. I mostly eat those cereals my kids only wanted for the plastic gadget in the box ;-) But of course it would be a nice "trophy" reminding me of my glorious victory^W^W^W this Wikifun round. So I'll think about the adequate flavour... (Is there a list on WP ? ;-)

I certainly don't mind the shipping. But if you prefer, I can create a virtual box to brag with on your Wikipedia userpage as well. ;) For the list of flavours, try Kellogg's#Products. I just read through some of the descriptions, it's quite entertaining.

I hope to see you again in next round.. I will ask on the Wikifun talk page if someone is interested in becoming the next editor.

P.S.: There's an explanation of the ^W sequence at ^W. Sorry, that was slang. -- Ravn 09:56, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

I think I usually prefer the classical Frosties (did you know that Tony the Tiger was voiced by some Mr Ravenscroft - no link with your wiki pseudonym?), but I didn't know about the (undocumented?) cereals called Pirates of the Caribbean - is this available at your place? (This is related to my address... and unavailable here AFAIK.)

P.S.: Should I explain on WP:WF/talk why I feel a bit too (wiki-)"immature" to be questionsetter? I learned lots of things from this first real particiation (I didn't know anything about all these Special: pages - still don't know how to use them properly), but this makes me think that I should learn still a bit more... — MFH:Talk 02:46, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

I haven't heard of the pirates either, but I will have a look :). It sounds like a promotional thing to me; and the movie was called "Fluch der Karibik" around here. It's not unusual that a winner does not want to become questionsetter, usually for lack of time. But feel free to comment, it's a wiki after all. ;) I personally don't doubt that you could make some great questions. -- Ravn 10:11, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Superfund

Yes, I know. I suspect the initial edits might have been done with somebody either fond of, or connected to, the investment group. —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 14:49, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DAB Machine operation

I noticed your "machine" disambiguated the word transcription to Transcription (genetics) at the Luciferase article. That is fine, but did you know that you don't need repeat the disambiguated word after the pipe sign "|" when a (parenthised) suffix exists in the article title? So instead of this [[Transcription (genetics)|transcription]] you can just have [[transcription (genetics)|]] . --Blainster 03:34, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. I know that, but it takes time to implement all the small shortcuts correctly. I put this one on my to do list. :) -- Ravn 13:24, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Strangely enough, it seems to me that sometimes on saving a page with a [ [ xxx (yyy) | ] ] "shortcut" link, the wiki software automatically inserts the xxx after the |. I just did a page creation with that in, and without any robot passing by, the xxx was there twice. The only explanation I have (apart from schizophrenia of mine) is that I could imagine that since it costs some time to do the expansion, the wiki software automagically does it on saving the page (?). — MFH:Talk 22:11, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Berlin wiki meeting

Hello, I have been mulling over this for some time (actually at least a year), and would like to propose a meeting of the Berlin-residing Users of the english wiki. Wolud you be interested at all, or do you think this a bad idea ? Thoughts are welcome. Cheers. Lectonar 20:00, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi Lectonar. Out of curiosity, I would attend :) It depends a bit on timing, but I think this is a nice idea. -- Ravn 20:21, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

I must admit that curiosity is my main incentive :))), and now we're already 3: ProhibitOnions also thinks this a good idea ... and I'm kind of surprised that so many Berliners are online just now... Lectonar 21:01, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

After having collected some users willing to come, I created this subpage. Would you be so kind and add your ideas? Lectonar 12:56, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Translation of meta:Rodovid.org

Hi there, I find your user page using Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Translators. I am working on the project proposal meta:Rodovid.org and want to have it translated into as many languages as posible. If you could help with translation, add your name to meta:Rodovid.org/translation and please, go ahead, translate the page. I would greatly appreciate your help.--Bjwebb (talk) 14:49, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oil (disambiguation) → Oil

Hello. In the interest of building a consensus, I would appreciate any input you would have regarding the request to move Oil (disambiguation) back to Oil. Thank you, --Kralizec! (talk) 17:36, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikifun starts on Sunday

Hi,

I thought you'd like to know: Wikifun Round 13 starts coming Sunday at 21:00 UTC. -- Eugène van der Pijll 18:28, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] WP Berlin reloaded

What do you think about this? Sarazyn • TALK • DE 14:34, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] You helped choose this week's WP:AID winner

Davodd 06:40, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Invite

Hello! You look like someone who might be interested in joining the Biography WikiProject and so I thought I'd drop you a line and invite you! We'd love to have you help us :-) plange 07:56, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oil (disambiguation)

I was just wondering why you have been removing Petroleum from this article (even as a `see also') on the grounds that it is included in a hatnote (which is in opposition to the de facto standard for disambiguation pages, the general spirit and implication of MoS:DP and MOS:DP's primary-topic recommendations)? Unless you think that people don't call petroleum oil, it should be there. In fact I think you will find that in everyday usage, most references to oil mean petroleum. I would be grateful if you would respond on Talk:Oil (disambiguation).

Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley _{talk contrib} 11:59, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

Please note that I have noticed Talk:Oil#"Moving types of oils to oil disambig ...." and don't think it applies to petroleum, which is just called oil without any context whatsoever (let alone an attributive). In non-scientific (e.g.: commercial) circles, referring to oil usually means petroleum alone and other oils would be called oils, non-petroleum oil or similar. BTW, I supported Oil being used to cover the general sense.

Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley _{talk contrib} 12:10, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Disambiguation Talk Request

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[edit] Wikipedia:Translation

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