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Bot bit request SieBot

Please give a bot bit to SieBot, so it will not flood your RC as it adds interwiki links using pywikipedia's interwiki.py. SieBot is active on 180 Wikipedias. See the user page of the bot for more details, or check a complete overview of its activities here. Cheers! Siebrand (talk) 23:24, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild 01:15, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Bot status for PipepBot

Hello! I ask for permission to run my interwiki bot PipepBot here, and to get a bot flag for it.

• Operator: it:User:Pipep
• Purpose: Interwiki
• Software: Pywikipedia
• Has bot flag at: als, am, an, ar, ast, az, bat-smg, be, be-x-old, bn, bs, ca, ce, ceb, cs, cv, da, de, en, eo, et, fo, fr, frp, fur, fy, ga, gd, hr, ht, hy, id, ie, ilo, io, is, ja, ka, ksh, la, lb, li, lij, ln, lv, mk, ml, ms, nap, nds, nds-nl, nn, no, pms, rm, ro, roa-tara, ru-sib, scn, sh, simple, sl, sq, sr, su, sv, te, th, tl, udm, uk, vec, vo, wa, zea, zh-yue
• Details: Interwiki using Pywikipediabot. It mostly runs manually assisted. May run automatically in some cases.

Thank you! --it:User:Pipep 19:20, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild 19:06, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Thank you! it:User:Pipep 04:22, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

BotMultichill

Hi, i request a bot bit for BotMultichill.

• Botmaster : Multichill
• Bot's name : BotMultichill
• List of botflags on others wikipedias: about 100+ atm (see meta:User:Multichill for the current list)
• Purpose: Interwiki (pywikipedia)
• Technical details : BotMultichill is an interwiki bot starting at the Dutch wikipedia. The bot uses the pywikipedia framework and runs day and night in autonomous mode. Sometimes the bot will run in manual assisted mode to solve interwiki conflicts. Multichill 12:02, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Already flagged. —Pathoschild ۰۷:۱۶:۰۲, ۰۳ مارس ۲۰۰۹ (UTC)

Betawiki: better support for your language in MediaWiki

Dear community. I am writing to you to promote a special wiki called Betawiki. This wiki facilitates the localisation (l10n) of the MediaWiki interface. You may have changed many messages here to use your language in the interface, but if you would log in to for example the English language Wiktionary, you would not be able to use the interface as well translated as here. Infact, of the 1798 messages in the core of MediaWiki, 0 messages have been translated. Betawiki also supports the translation of messages of about 80 extensions, with almost 1000 messages.

If you wish to contribute to better support of your language in MediaWiki, as well as for many MediaWiki extensions, please visit Betawiki, create an account and request translator priviledges. You can see the current status of localisation of your language on meta and do not forget to get in touch with others that may already be working on your language on Betawiki.

If you have any further questions, please let me know on my talk page on Betawiki. We will try and assist you as much as possible, for example by importing all messages from a local wiki for you to start with, if you so desire.

You can also find us on the Freenode IRC network in the channel #mediawiki-i18n where we would be happy to help you get started.

Thank you very much for your attention and I do hope to see some of you on Betawiki soon! Cheers! Siebrand@Betawiki 09:26, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Currently 1.01% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at betawiki. There is a bonus available of up to EUR 200,- for working on the localisation. Details can be found at betawiki. Thanks, GerardM ‏۹ مارس ۲۰۰۸، ساعت ۰۸:۲۷ (UTC)

i jor GerardM gune ki ame va ami systeme peyghamone tarjume bukunim. i kar zaruri isse. GerardM ite muhem kas wikipedia meen isse o ine gabon mohem issan. be nazare shame ame chito tinim ite taze harkat dar i zamine saragirim?

are jan berar, bur ije baxun peyxumun re, degard haken, me hem vene tere hadem yari, ki laa'aqel eta sistem peyxum hedar bavimo, betundi almaniki peyxumun je ide bayri, sar axer ege nexani ti vaxt telef bave, betundi buri ije re eşeni ke xaar matleb darene, yeni aflayn betundi degard hakoni! --Parthava ‏۱۱ مارس ۲۰۰۸، ساعت ۱۴:۲۳ (UTC)

• Currently 1.03% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ‏۱۴ آوریل ۲۰۰۸، ساعت ۲۰:۳۳ (UTC)
• Currently 0.98% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ‏۳۰ ژوئن ۲۰۰۸، ساعت ۰۷:۴۳ (UTC)
• Currently 0.93% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.15% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks GerardM ‏۲ اوت ۲۰۰۸، ساعت ۱۳:۵۸ (UTC)
• Currently 0.89% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.13% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks GerardM ‏۳ سپتامبر ۲۰۰۸، ساعت ۱۴:۳۵ (UTC)
• Currently 0.85% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.13% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, ‏۱۲ اکتبر ۲۰۰۸، ساعت ۱۱:۴۷ (UTC)

رفئقؤن هوتؤری کی دئدرید، GerardM چندومین باری ایسسه کی امره تذکور هدأدره کی امی سیستمه زوانه وا به گیلکی ترجومه بوکونیم. چونکی اگر امه سیستمه پیغامؤن ترجومه ببی مزیت های زیادی امئبه دأنه حتی اگر فقط ای موضوعه سر کار بؤدید، کومک بوزورگی به گیلکی زوانؤن کؤنین. ای جیر شمره راهنمایی کؤنم:

الؤن ویشتره امی پیغامؤن فارسی ایسسن کی تینید بشید اره [۱] بینید.

هرکی تینه ای پیغامؤنه ترجومه بوکونی. اگر خأنید ترجومه بوکونید جه اره [۲] وا سرأگیرین. بشید اره [۳] و شیمی درخاسته پیغامه بنأید، بزین کی شیمی درخاسته امره مووافقت بوبؤ، تینید بشید اره [۴] و شیمی ترجومأ سرأگیرین.--AminSanaei ‏۱۲ اکتبر ۲۰۰۸، ساعت ۱۳:۵۲ (UTC)

• Currently 0.90% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.10% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ‏۱۰ نوامبر ۲۰۰۸، ساعت ۱۰:۱۹ (UTC)

آقا امه وا GerardM گبه جدی بگیریم ؤ امه سیستمه پیغامؤنه ترجومه بوکونیم.--AminSanaei ‏۱۰ نوامبر ۲۰۰۸، ساعت ۱۸:۵۶ (UTC)

• Currently 0.88% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.09% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ‏۱۴ دسامبر ۲۰۰۸، ساعت ۱۱:۳۹ (UTC)

PS Please help us complete the most wanted messages..

• Currently 0.87% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.09% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ‏۱۰ ژانویهٔ ۲۰۰۹، ساعت ۱۱:۴۶ (UTC)

Interwikis

Hi guys. You already have nearly 300 articles but as I could realize, almost none has interwikis to other Wikipedias. Maybe you could consider inserting them in the articles and create an interwiki to this Wiki in others. Regards, 82.155.230.220 11:57, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

AlleborgoBot

Hi, AlleborgoBot is an interwiki bot run by Alleborgo starting at the italian wikipedia. The bot uses the pywikipedia framework daily updated to the last SVN version. The Bot runs in autonomous, but sometimes, it will run in manual assisted mode to solve interwiki conflicts. Already has a bot flag in ar, am, an, ast, az, bar, bat-smg, bg, br, bn, bpy, bs, ca, ceb, cs, cv, da, de, el, en, eo, es, et, eu, fa, fi, fiu-vro, fr, frp, fy, ga, gl, he, hr, hsb, ht, hu, hy, id, is, it, iu, ja, jv, ka, kk, ksh, ku, lb, li, lmo, ln, lt, lv, mk, mi, ml, mr, ms, mt, nap, nds, nds-nl, nl, nn, no, pl, pms, ps, pt, ro, roa-tara, ru, sco, sh, sk, simple, sl, sq, sr, su, sv, ta, tg, th, to, tr, tt, udm, uk, ur, vec, vi, vls, vo, zh, zh-classical, zh-min-nan, zh-yue. On it wiki has done more than 65000 edit. Now I'm requesting the flag here, thanks --AlleborgoBot 19:54, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

AlleborgoBot has the flag now, thank you. --AlleborgoBot ‏۲۸ نوامبر ۲۰۰۷، ساعت ۱۹:۱۵ (UTC)

Bot Status for Purbo T

Hi, I'd like to request a bot flag for Purbo_T (contribs)

• Operator: User:Purodha = ksh:User:Purodha
• Function: interwiki link maintenance
• Operation: manually-assisted, occasionally in automatic or autonomous mode, starting mostly from the Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages
• Software: pywikipediabot framework updated daily from svn
• Already flagged on: aa, am, ar, be-x-old, bn, bo, bug, bxr, cbk-zam, cdo, chy, co, crh, da, de, dsb, dz, ee, eo, fa, fi, fj, fr, gv, hr, hsb, ht, ig, is, ja, kn, jbo, ksh, ku, kv, lbe, lg, lmo, lo,lt, ml, mr, nds, ne, new, nl, nn, nov, om, or, os, pa, pms, scn, simple, stq, sv, tg, ti, to, ts, ty, vec, vi, vls, vo, yi, za, zea, zh-classical, more pending.
• Generally, there is cumulated data on the bot (sorry, due to current technical problems at the toolserver, the data is partially not up to date)

Thank you! --Purodha ‏۱۴ فوریهٔ ۲۰۰۸، ساعت ۲۲:۴۸ (UTC)

Already done. —Pathoschild ۰۷:۱۶:۳۳, ۰۳ مارس ۲۰۰۹ (UTC)

The most often used MediaWiki messages

Hoi, the most often used MediaWiki messages (less than 25% of all MediaWiki messages) are the most visible messages. They help our readers and editors the most. We are aiming to get these messages localised for as many languages as possible by the end of the year. Please help us and yourself and localise these messages. Thanks, GerardM ‏۱۷ نوامبر ۲۰۰۸، ساعت ۱۳:۱۵ (UTC)

Synthebot

Dear all, this is to request a bot flag for Synthebot. Its technical information is summarized below.

• Operator: Julian Mendez
• Automatic or Manually Assisted: mostly automatic in autonomous mode; sometimes manually assisted to solve interwiki conflicts
• Programming Language(s): pywikipedia (source code)
• Function Summary: interwiki links
• Already has a bot flag on: global bot running on more than 200 wikipedias.

Further technical information is available on its main page. Thank you in advance. Regards, --Julian ‏۲۹ نوامبر ۲۰۰۸، ساعت ۱۵:۵۲ (UTC)

Not done, now has global bot access on this wiki. —Pathoschild ۰۷:۱۷:۰۰, ۰۳ مارس ۲۰۰۹ (UTC)

Bot policy

Hello. To facilitate steward granting of bot access, I suggest implementing the standard bot policy on this wiki. In particular, this policy allows stewards to automatically flag known interlanguage linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable), which form the vast majority of such requests. The policy also enables global bots on this wiki (if this page says that is acceptable), which are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots.

This policy makes bot access requesting much easier for local users, operators, and stewards. To implement it we only need to create a redirect to this page from Project:Bot policy, and add a line at the top noting that it is used here. Please read the text at m:Bot policy before commenting. If you object, please say so; I hope to implement in one week if there is no objection, since it is particularly written to streamline bot requests on wikis with little or no community interested in bot access requests. Luckas Blade ‏۲۲ فوریهٔ ۲۰۰۹، ساعت ۱۶:۲۳ (UTC)

Implemented. —Pathoschild ۰۷:۱۵:۲۰, ۰۳ مارس ۲۰۰۹ (UTC)

Bot flag for GhalyBot

I would like to ask for a Bot flag for GhalyBot

• Operator: Ghaly
• Function: interwiki
• Operation: automatic
• Software: pywikipediabot
• Has bot flags on:global and on (ar, arz, ceb, cs, cy, da, de, en, es, et, fi, fr, gl, he, hu, id, it, ja, ka, mk, ml, ms, nl, nn, pl, pt, ro , ru, simple, sk, sl, sr, sv, th, tr, vo ,wuu, zh)

Thank you ! ------Ghaly ‏۲۷ مارس ۲۰۰۹، ساعت ۰۴:۱۵ (UTC)

Not done; this is a global bot, so no local flag is needed. Jafeluv ‏۱۰ مهٔ ۲۰۱۱، ساعت ۱۲:۲۲ (UTC)

The LocalisationUpdate extension has gone live

The LocalisationUpdate extension is now enabled for all Wikimedia projects. From now on new localisations that become available in SVN will become available to your project within 24 hours. Your localisations get into SVN from translatewiki.net typically within a day and at worst in two days. This is a huge improvement from the old practice where the localisations became available with new software. This could take weeks, even months.

The localisations done by our community at translatewiki.net are committed to SVN typically every day. When the system messages in English are the same as the local messages, they will now be inserted in a file and are available for use in all our projects in a timely manner

What this means for you

Local messages have an impact on the performance of our system. It is best when messages are as much as possible part of the system messages. In order to remove unnecessary duplication, all the messages that have a local localisation and are exactly the same as the system message will be removed. What we ask you to do is to compare and proof read the messages in translatewiki.net and the local messages. You can then either remove local messages when the translatewiki.net message is to be preferred or, you can update the message at translatewiki.net.

Messages that are specific to your project will have to stay as they are. You do want to check if the format and the variables of the message are still the same.

Why localise at translatewiki.net

When you localise at translatewiki.net, your messages will be used in all Wikimedia projects and eventually in all MediaWiki based projects. This is how we provide the standard support for your language. When messages change, at translatewiki.net you will be prompted to revisit your translations. Localising is more efficient because we have innovated the process to make you more efficient; there is text explaining about messages and we have applied AJAX technology to reduce the number of clicks you have to make.

Translatewiki.net update

• Currently 1.79% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.04% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ‏۲۸ سپتامبر ۲۰۰۹، ساعت ۲۱:۵۲ (UTC)
• Currently 1.78% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.04% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ‏۱ نوامبر ۲۰۰۹، ساعت ۱۱:۲۴ (UTC)
• Currently 1.82% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.04% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ‏۷ دسامبر ۲۰۰۹، ساعت ۱۳:۰۶ (UTC)
• Currently 1.82% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.04% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ‏۴ ژانویهٔ ۲۰۱۰، ساعت ۱۵:۳۵ (UTC)

• PS Please help us complete the most wanted messages..

How can we improve the usability for your language

We expect that with the implementation of LocalisationUpdate the usability of MediaWiki for your language will improve. We are now ready to look at other aspects of usability for your language as well. There are two questions we would like you to answer: Are there issues with the new functionality of the Usability Initiative Does MediaWiki support your language properly

The best way to answer the first question is to visit the translatewiki.net. Change the language to your language, select the “vector” skin and add the advanced tool bar in in the preferences and check out the new functionality. And make some changes in your user page. When there is a need to improve on the localisation, please make the necessary changess . It should update your localisation straight away. We would like you to report each issue individually at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usability_issues.

When there are problems with the support of MediaWiki for your language, we really want to know about this. It is best to report each issue separately. In this way there will be no large mass of issues to resolve but we can address each issue on its own. Consider issues with the display of characters, the presentation of your script, the position of the side bar, the combination of text with other languages, scripts. It is best to try this in an environment like the prototype wiki as it provides you with a clean, basic and up to date environment. The prototype wiki is available for five languages but you can select any of them, change the preferences to your language and test out MediaWiki for your language.

We would like you to report each issue individually at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language issues. The issues you raise will all be assessed. It is important to keep each issue separate, because this will make it easier to understand the issues and find solutions.

PS This text has been approved by Naoko, Brion and Siebrand. Thanks, GerardM ‏۲۸ سپتامبر ۲۰۰۹، ساعت ۲۱:۵۲ (UTC)

2010 Fundraising Is Almost Here

Hello Wikipedians, I am Theo and I am working for the Wikimedia Foundation during the 2010 Fundraiser. My job is to be the liaison between your community and the Foundation. This year's fundraiser is intended to be a collaborative and global effort; we recognize that banner messages which may perform well in the United States don't necessarily translate well, or appeal to international audiences.

I'm contacting you as I am currently looking for translators who are willing to contribute to this project by helping translate and localize messages into different languages and suggesting messages that would appeal to your readers on the Fundraising Meta Page. We've started the setup on meta for both banner submission, statistical analysis, and grouping volunteers together.
Use the talk pages on meta, talk to your local communities, talk to others, talk to us, and add your feedback to the proposed messages as well! I look forward to working with you during this year's fundraiser. If someone could translate this message I would really appreciate it so that everyone is able to understand our goals and contribute to this year's campaign.
Theo (WMF) ‏۲۰ اکتبر ۲۰۱۰، ساعت ۲۰:۰۵ (UTC)

Call for image filter referendum

The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen particular types of images strictly for their own account.

Further details and educational materials will be available shortly. The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party. Referendum details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will be posted at Meta:Image filter referendum shortly.

Sorry for delivering you a message in English. Please help translate the pages on the referendum on Meta and join the translators mailing list.

For the coordinating committee,
Philippe (WMF)
Cbrown1023
Risker
Mardetanha
PeterSymonds
Robert Harris

HiW-Bot

• Bot  : HiW-Bot
• Operator  : Hedwig in Washington
• Automatic or Manually Assisted : automatic
• Programming Language(s)  : Python (pywikipedia), daily update
• Function Summary  : Interwiki
• Already has a bot flag (Y/N)  : Yes, please see here
• Function Details  : just using the standard interwiki.py

I humbly request bot status on this wiki in order to maintain Interwiki. Thank you --Hedwig in Washington ‏۲۴ اکتبر ۲۰۱۱، ساعت ۱۱:۵۲ (UTC)

Terms of Use update

I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is discussing changes to its Terms of Use. The discussion can be found at Talk:Terms of use. Everyone is invited to join in. Because the new version of Terms of use is not in final form, we are not able to present official translations of it. Volunteers are welcome to translate it, as German volunteers have done at m:Terms of use/de, but we ask that you note at the top that the translation is unofficial and may become outdated as the English version is changed. The translation request can be found at m:Translation requests/WMF/Terms of Use 2 -- Maggie Dennis, Community Liaison ‏۲۷ اکتبر ۲۰۱۱، ساعت ۰۰:۴۹ (UTC)

Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants

I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.

• Do you want to help attract new contributors to Wikimedia projects?
• Do you want to improve retention of our existing editors?
• Do you want to strengthen our community by diversifying its base and increasing the overall number of excellent participants around the world?

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking Community Fellows and project ideas for the Community Fellowship Program. A Fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order to work on a specific project or set of projects. Submissions for 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia projects. If interested, please submit a project idea or apply to be a fellow by January 15, 2012. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships for more information.

Thanks!

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Community Fellowships, Wikimedia Foundation ‏۲۱ دسامبر ۲۰۱۱، ساعت ۱۳:۰۱ (UTC)

Distributed via Global message delivery. (Wrong page? Fix here.)

Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta

Wikimedia Foundation is getting ready to push out 1.19 to all the WMF-hosted wikis. As we finish wrapping up our code review, you can test the new version right now on beta.wmflabs.org. For more information, please read the release notes or the start of the final announcement.

The following are the areas that you will probably be most interested in:

• Faster loading of javascript files makes dependency tracking more important.
• New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
• The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
• Searching blocked usernames in block log is now clearer.
• Better timezone recognition in user preferences.
• Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
• The interwiki links table can now be accessed also when the interwiki cache is used (used in the API and the Interwiki extension).
• More gender support (for instance in logs and user lists).
• Language converter improved, e.g. it now works depending on the page content language.
• Time and number-formatting magic words also now depend on the page content language.
• Bidirectional support further improved after 1.18.

Report any problems on the labs beta wiki and we'll work to address them before they software is released to the production wikis.

Note that this cluster does have SUL but it is not integrated with SUL in production, so you'll need to create another account. You should avoid using the same password as you use here. — Global message delivery ‏۱۵ ژانویهٔ ۲۰۱۲، ساعت ۰۰:۱۰ (UTC)

MediaWiki 1.19

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki (the software powering this wiki) to its latest version this month. You can help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid disruption and breakage. More information is available in the full announcement. Thank you for your understanding.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). ‏۱۲ فوریهٔ ۲۰۱۲، ساعت ۱۵:۰۱ (UTC)