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Contents 1 Vietnamese provinces maps 2 Congratulations 3 Great Seal of Ohio 4 Kurów 5 Source for Paraguay flag information 6 Wikipedia:WikiProject_Usability/Main_Page/Draft 7 Plum Trees... 8 NOVA scienceNOW does exist now 9 Main page alternatives 10 Good Comments by Fellow Wikipedians 11 John Cranley 12 Open Font License 13 Interregional Program Service 14 Vietnamese alphabet renaming 15 Unicode in MakeRef 16 ISO 15924 17 Interlingua Rambot 18 Loveland (Ohio) 19 Vietnamese input methods 20 Whatredirectshere 21 Orhan Pamuk 22 Re: Vandalism 23 wikEd 24 2003 Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War 25 Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can 26 Nepali wikipedia 27 Thanks for revert 28 Change to Common.css 29 thanks for updates

[edit] Vietnamese provinces maps

See User talk:Vardion/Archive 2006.

I think your're probably right about the provincial boundaries — I'll have to re-do the maps, although I'm not sure when I'll be able to get around to it. And thanks for your work on Vietnamese provinces in general — I've been neglecting them for some time. -- Vardion 07:42, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

I've uploaded the new images to Wikimedia Commons — see commons:Maps of Vietnam, although you may need to refresh your browser. Please let me know if you find any which I've forgotten to correct. (Also, it's possible that some old images stored on en: itself will override the Commons ones — I'm not sure how it works, exactly.) -- Vardion 22:57, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

See User talk:Vardion.

Thanks for picking that up. I think it's fixed now. -- Vardion 23:23, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

How about now? ("TP" added, plus fixed another confusion between Nam Dinh and Thai Binh that I've previously had to correct). -- Vardion 23:33, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

See User talk:Vardion.

I believe I've now tagged all the locally uploaded images on the English Wikipedia with the the proper label — someone with admin powers will need to do the actual deletion. (If it takes too long, I suppose I can just upload the corrected versions here as well). I'm not sure what to do on the Vietnamese Wikipedia, though — I don't know any of the procedures. -- Vardion 00:27, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

See User talk:Vardion.

[edit] Congratulations

For the "star" you all got in Ghandi's article (vietnamese wiki). I first saw it due to your vietnamese language robot addition in the Catalan viquipèdia.(Recent changes). I have read your external blog,(nice and eclectic) and if you want somebody to practise Spanish, I would like to have the opportunity to practise English with somebody that could use Spanish as guidance in a given case. On the other hand I could use Spanish when my lack of an English synonimous would require it. Just in case you are interested: Mi name is Toni (although i am not a girl...), I am 36, married, almost father of my first son, Pharmacy graduated. I work in a pharmaceutical lab in Barcelona, Catalonia (currently Spain)...Milky way...Universe, ;-) and live in a northern town 30 kmts (~17 miles) far from the city, called Mataró. I mainly contribute in the Catalan WIkipedia, in a lesser degree in the Spanish one, and just from time to time in the English version. Well I think it is enough for now. Congrutalations again. ca:User:Tonipares.

See Usuari Discussió:Tonipares at the Catalan Wikipedia.

[edit] Great Seal of Ohio

Please read the comments at the Seal of Ohio's Talk page. Because the article's current image appears to be accurate, please consider removing or revising the assertions you have made in various articles (Image:Seal_of_ohio.gif, Image:Ohio_state_seal.png, Commons:Image talk:Ohio state seal.png), especially about a design being "older" or "newer", or at least replace those indefinite adjectives with some actual dates. Cheers JonathanFreed 17:28, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kurów

Could you please write a stub http://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kur%C3%B3w - just a few sentences based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kur%C3%B3w ? Only 2 -5 sentences enough. Please. Pietras1988 09:49, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

See Dyskusja Wikipedysty:Pietras1988 at the Polish Wikipedia.

Thanx for article. Is excellent. If on pl wiki isn't article about your city I can translating him from en wiki. You see http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kur%C3%B3w_%28powiat_pu%C5%82awski%29&action=history .Pietras1988 21:06, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

See Dyskusja Wikipedysty:Pietras1988 at the Polish Wikipedia.

I made also article about Loveland and Stanford. Pietras1988 ^TALK 16:44, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Source for Paraguay flag information

Way back in 2004 in your revision of the Flag of Paraguay page, you indicated that the obverse and reverse of the flag no longer differ. Do you have a source for this? According to the CIA World Fact Book, and the Flags of the World website, the flag still is unique amoung national flags in having two two differing sides. (It seems like simplified versions of the flag sometimes leave this out, but have the official specifications really changed?) ScottMainwaring 06:52, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

See User talk:ScottMainwaring.

Thanks for taking this out -- not a big deal, but it was causing confusion on the Flag of Oregon page (about another rare two-sided flag) which references the Paraguay flag in the respect. I've added in the description from the World Factbook until someone wants to elaborate upon it. ScottMainwaring 07:48, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject_Usability/Main_Page/Draft

FYI, the page title does appear for users of the Classic, Cologne Blue and Nostalgia skins. (Click on the links to see for yourself.) —David Levy 02:48, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

From User talk:David Levy:

Ah, yes, I completely forgot about that. Do you know if there are any plans to hide the title in the Classic and Cologne Blue skins? (It wouldn't really make sense to do that in Nostalgia.) – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 03:34, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

I don't even know if this is intended to be carried over to the actual main page (should we get that far). —David Levy 08:34, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Plum Trees...

Hello my Vietnamese friend, in regards to your additions for the New Year Tree page, the Vietnamese "mai trees" are really just called plum trees. "Mai" is just the Sino-Vietnamese word for plum: 梅. It's also a last name in Vietnamese or Chinese, also meaning plum. User:Le Anh-Huy

[edit] NOVA scienceNOW does exist now

The article NOVA scienceNOW does exist now. Timothy Clemans 02:18, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

You edited it. What do you think of it? Thank you for fixing the first paragraph. Timothy Clemans 02:53, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

See User talk:Timothy Clemans.

[edit] Main page alternatives

From your comment here, you may be interested in this rename vote. --Quiddity 05:23, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Good Comments by Fellow Wikipedians

• Thanks man, your work doesn't go unoticed, User:Jimster 260 14:28, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] John Cranley

You might re-read the comment added to Talk:John Cranley. I did not add the paragraph about Cranley's campaign against Chabot. I did a link to a current news article about Cranley's decision to run for Congress.

BTW, I think some of the editors for the St. Xavier page have the similar IP's. Do you know the users are IP's that start with 24.209.223? Maybe you all go to school together?

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Mfields1 (talk • contribs) 04:45, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

See User talk:Mfields1.

[edit] Open Font License

You noted on WS:COPYVIO#Open_Font_License that you had emailed these people asking about the license. I am currently closing old copyright discussions and deleting copyright violations, and I was wondering if you'd had any response from them that might shine light on the copyright status of the page. I'm also posting this to your talk page on Wikisource, and the Multilingual Wikisource. Jude (talk) 12:30, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Replied via e-mail.

[edit] Interregional Program Service

Do you realize that this page is a redirect to itself? I don't think that's what you indended. Fan-1967 05:24, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

See User talk:Fan-1967.

[edit] Vietnamese alphabet renaming

There is a vote to rename "Vietnamese alphabet". As someone who've contributed to this article in the past, you might want to participate. DHN 15:33, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unicode in MakeRef

Should work now. --Magnus Manske 08:08, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ISO 15924

Since you edited ISO 15924 you may be interested in Template talk:User cyr and Category talk:User cyr. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 11:30, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Interlingua Rambot

Hi, I saw your entry for Loveland, Ohio at ia, and wanted to warn you that there are a significant number of mistakes in the Rambot Interlingua translation. It shouldn't be used for multiple edits there until someone fixes the errors. (I am ia:Usator:Jmb.) Cheers, Cam 02:13, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

See User talk:Cam.

[edit] Loveland (Ohio)

Hi, I didn't want to mean that it was not worth to have this article. What I wanted to say is that it sounds quite strange to have a so long part of (some irrellevant) statistics (tant per cent of families with a femenine head of family, etc). It's true that at the late time of night when I wrote it, I was not in the best cleverness moment and my comment could sound rude, so I'm sorry. I will not ask to delete it because it has also much interessant information. However, if you want to use more this method to create articles, we could discuss before about some changes so that later less corrections are required. Thanx for your contribution!--Xtv - (my talk) - (que dius que què?) 13:30, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vietnamese input methods

Hi. I've just created Telex (IME) and VNI; could you take a look at those? I know nothing about the Vietnamese language, so the information there is 100% guesswork from looking at the Vietnamese WP and trying out the search box (which is really cool, BTW). — LazyEditor (talk|contribs) 11:10, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

See User talk:LazyEditor.

Wow, hats off to the person who wrote all that code. I also find it really weird (or sad) that English Windows does not include any Vietnamese IME (there's a bunch for CJK and Cyrillic, but nothing for Vietnamese). Is there a Vietnamese Windows that has these IMEs? Or does Microsoft leave it to third parties? — LazyEditor (talk|contribs) 18:41, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

See User talk:LazyEditor.

[edit] Whatredirectshere

Wow, thanks for your interest in the tool, and thank you for the translation! I've internationalised and localised the interface now, and the Vietnamese UI can be seen by appending ?lang=vi to the url. (http://tools.wikimedia.org/~tangotango/whatredirectshere.php?lang=vi) It can also be selected by using the small selector box in the top right hand corner of the page. (I will set up cookies or browser language detection when I have more time so the tool can remember/auto-detect the language to be used.)

I changed a couple of strings for the UI - can you translate them as well, please? They are:

• Could not connect to database server (Zedler may be down); Error was: <the error message goes here>
• Could not select database (The database you selected may be non-existent); Error was: <the error message goes here>

Zedler is the name of one of the toolservers. These errors rarely, if ever, happen, but it's nice to have complete coverage :)

Please note that the hemlock.knams.wikimedia.org URL is a temporary one, used while we migrate from the old toolserver to the new one. The URL will return to tools.wikimedia.org in a few weeks, so please link to the tools address from the wiki interface (it provides a temporary redirect at the moment).

Cheers, and thanks once again, Tangotango 17:13, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

See User talk:Tangotango.

Thank you for the extra translations. I've updated the database error messages. I'm sorry, I can't translate the header and footer easily at the moment, as the interface is shared across all my tools and the code is in a bit of a mess at the moment. I'll use your translations when I internationalize the whole interface. By the way, in the English interface, do you prefer your name to be displayed as Minh Nguyễn or Nguyễn Xuân Minh? Cheers, Tangotango 08:28, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

P.S. Sorry, I must have been half-asleep yesterday. The correct URL is tools.wikimedia.de, not .org. (The latter is a redirect to the former). - Tangotango 17:02, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

See User talk:Tangotango.

[edit] Orhan Pamuk

It's rather ironic to get an award -here, the Nobel- for your novels that are in accordance with your political opinions. As far as I can guess, "Ironic" stands (also) for "a literary style employing a contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect". This just fits the situation here in Turkey. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chimeira (talk • contribs) 10:36, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

See User talk:Chimeira.

[edit] Re: Vandalism

I've given them one last warning, since that appears to be standard practice. At this rate, though, they'll be the first person I've ever had to block in my nearly three years of being a sysop at various wikis. It really puzzles me that they'd make many productive edits at Wikipedia yet treat Meta the way they do. Anyways, thanks for keeping an eye on things, and I'll be checking back on them periodically. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 07:14, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Indeed, I was surprised to see that this person is a good-faith contributor to Wikipedia. Hopefully, your warning will persuade him/her to treat Meta with the same level of respect. Thanks very much. —David Levy 12:08, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] wikEd

Hi, I have seen that you are using the Cacycle editor extension. This program is no longer actively maintained in favor of its much more powerful successor wikEd.

wikEd has all the functionality of the old editor plus:• syntax highlighting • nifty image buttons • morefixing buttons • paste formatted text from Word or web pages• convert the formatted text into wikicode • adjustthe font size • and much, much more.

Switching to wikEd is easy, check the detailed installation description on its project homepage. Usually it is as simple as changing every occurrence of editor.js into wikEd.js on your User:YourUsername/monobook.js page.

Cacycle 21:32, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2003 Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War

Thanks for starting 2003 Protocol on Explosive Remnants of War. Hopefully it will be expanded. KazakhPol 20:30, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article in need of cleanup - please assist if you can

[edit] Nepali wikipedia

See MediaWiki talk:Monobook.js at the Nepali Wikipedia.

Thanks for your interest and suggestions in Nepali wikipedia. I have changed the page to include the .js file in Nepal Bhasa edition. If you are interested in helping us more, please list yourself in Nepal Bhasa Wikipedia so that we can contact you easily. Plus, I wanted to know the "code" for entry in multiple script like the one present in Vietnamese wikipedia as it can be of much value to wikipediae like Kashmiri and Romani.--Eukesh 01:00, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

See User talk:Eukesh.

[edit] Thanks for revert

Thanks for your quick revert of the vandalism (back in March) to my Cree user page. I just noticed that. - dcljr (talk) 23:21, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Change to Common.css

Per recent discussions, the way in which Persondata is viewed by Wikipedia editors has changed. In order to continue viewing Persondata in Wikipedia articles, please edit your user CSS file to display table.persondata rather than table.metadata. More specific instructions can be found on the Persondata page. --ShakingSpirit^talk on behalf of Kaldari 01:34, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] thanks for updates

Hi! late thanks for your continuos updates and have a great coming year --TarmoK 21:38, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

See User talk:TarmoK.