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Λua∫Wise (Operibus anteire) 12:25, 7 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

Hello!

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Hello! I see that you are back to WP. Several months ago, you left a note on my talk page, this encouraging note was a turning point in my wiki-career. For the most part, I was inactive, well that was until I saw your friendly message (which was the first on my talk page then). Ever since, I have been diagnosed with editcountisis! This is just a message to thank you again. I used to be known as the German Corrector (see message above)

Cheers! :)
Λua∫Wise (Operibus anteire) 18:42, 17 February 2008 (UTC)Reply
Thanks again!
Here is the message I am talking about.
Actually , I have listed you on my userpage a long time ago as a friendly wikipedian. When I used to edit before on other accounts, people seemed as if they were attacking every edit I make, delete every article I create, and criticize every step I take (it rhymes a bit, sorry!). It was a refreshing to see a positive message; the reason I am still editing on this article. So now, I decided to pass it on to new users.
Cheers!
Λua∫Wise (Operibus anteire) 17:57, 21 February 2008 (UTC)Reply

Invitation to Wikipedia meetup in London

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Wikimedia UK logo

Date: 13:00 onwards, Sunday 10 August 2008

Venue: Penderel's Oak pub, Holborn WC1 map

More information: Wikipedia:Meetup/London 12


Hello,

I noticed that you have listed yourself as a Wikipedian in London, so I thought you might like to come to one of our monthly social meetups. The next one is going to be on Sunday 10 August, which might well be rather short notice, but if you can't come this time, we try to have one every second Sunday of the month.

If you haven't been before, these meetups are mainly casual social events for Wikipedia enthusiasts in which we chat about Wikipedia and any other topics we fancy. It's a great way to meet some very keen Wikipedians, but we'd also love for you to come along if you're interested in finding out more about Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects, or other collaborative wiki projects too.

The location is a pub that is quite quiet and family friendly on a Sunday lunchtime, so hopefully younger Wikipedians will also feel welcome and safe. Alcohol consumption is certainly not required!

Although the meetups are popular, many UK-based editors still don't know about them. It would be great to welcome some fresh faces, so I hope you can come along.

Yours,

James F. (talk) 09:27, 3 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

Please forgive the slightly impersonal mass-invite!

Articles for deletion nomination of Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover

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I have nominated Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. WWGB (talk) 10:40, 27 January 2010 (UTC)Reply

London Wikimedia Fundraiser

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Good evening! This is a friendly message from Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry, inviting you to the London Wikimedia Fundraising party on 19th December 2010, in approximately one week. This party is being held at an artistic London venue with room for approximately 300 people, and is being funded by Ed Saperia, a non-Wikipedian who has a reputation for holding exclusive events all over London. This year, he wants to help Wikipedia, and is subsidising a charity event for us. We're keen to get as many Wikimedians coming as possible, and we already have approximately 200 guests, including members of the press, and some mystery guests! More details can be found at http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/London - expect an Eigenharp, a mulled wine hot tub, a free hog roast, a haybale amphitheatre and more. If you're interested in coming - and we'd love to have you - please go to the ten.wikipedia page and follow the link to the Facebook event. Signing up on Facebook will add you to the party guestlist. Entry fee is a heavily subsidised £5 and entry is restricted to over 18s. It promises to be a 10th birthday party to remember! If you have any questions, please email me at chasemewiki at gmail.com.

Hope we'll see you there, (and apologies for the talk page spam) - Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 23:21, 12 December 2010 (UTC)Reply

Babilu kun mi

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Se vi ŝatas multajn lingvojn, vi devu paroli esperanton. Ĉi tiu lingvo tre interesas kaj vi rapide lernos ĝin. Vizitu lernu.net por lerni plu! ;) Mi volis aldoni tiun tekston, leginte vian profilon. Ĝis la revido & bonŝancon! Genjix (talk) 10:21, 7 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

  • Sorry, im not interested in Esperanto as I think it's too Eurocentric to be a truely international language. From a linguistic point of view, a lot of its grammer is also totally pointless 亮HH (talk)

The Contribution Team cordially invites you to Imperial College London

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All Hail The Muffin Nor does it taste nice... 20:55, 5 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of Kagyu Samye Dzong

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Speedy deletion nomination of 4x4 (music group)

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invitation

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Thank you for your recent contributions to one or more of Wikipedia's Mauritius related articles. Given the interest you've expressed by your edits, have you considered joining the Mauritius WikiProject? We are a group of editors dedicated to improving the overall quality of Wikipedia's Mauritius-related content. If you would like to join, simply add your name to the Active members List.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project's talk page. We look forward to working with you in the future! --Kingroyos (talk) 17:40, 4 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

Love history & culture? Get involved in WikiProject World Digital Library!

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World Digital Library Wikipedia Partnership - We need you!
 
Hi LiangHH! I'm the Wikipedian In Residence at the World Digital Library, a project of the Library of Congress and UNESCO. I'm recruiting Wikipedians who are passionate about history & culture to participate in improving Wikipedia using the WDL's vast free online resources. Participants can earn our awesome WDL barnstar and help to disseminate free knowledge from over 100 libraries in 7 different languages. Multilingual editors are welcome! (But being multilingual is not a requirement.) Please sign up to participate here. Thanks for editing Wikipedia and I look forward to working with you! SarahStierch (talk) 22:19, 29 May 2013 (UTC)Reply

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In your What I do... § you say

I deprecate supperficial conversion of Chinese words and names into latin script since confusion and misunderstanding is guaranteed.

Since I'm pretty sure you're not alluding to this, I urge you to remove the supperfluous "p". --Thnidu (talk) 02:23, 13 November 2014 (UTC)Reply

Language-population update project

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Hi. The 18th edition of Ethnologue just came out, and if we divide up our language articles among us, it won't take long to update them. I would appreciate it if you could help out, even if it's just a few articles (5,000 articles is a lot for just me), but I won't be insulted if you delete this request.

A largely complete list of articles to be updated is at Category:Language articles citing Ethnologue 17. The priority articles are in Category:Language articles with old Ethnologue 17 speaker data. These are the 10% that have population figures at least 25 years old.

Probably 90% of the time, Ethnologue has not changed their figures between the 17th and 18th editions, so all we need to do is change "e17" to "e18" in the reference (ref) field of the language info box. That will change the citation for the artcle to the current edition. Please put the data in the proper fields, or the info box will flag it as needing editorial review. The other relevant fields are "speakers" (the number of native speakers in all countries), "date" (the date of the reference or census that Ethnologue uses, not the date of Ethnologue!), and sometimes "speakers2". Our convention has been to enter e.g. "1990 census" when a census is used, as other data can be much older than the publication date. Sometimes a citation elsewhere in the article depends on the e17 entry, in which case you will need to change "name=e17" to "name=e18" in the reference tag (assuming the 18th edition still supports the cited claim).

Remember, we want the *total* number of native speakers, which is often not the first figure given by Ethnologue. Sometimes the data is too incompatible to add together (e.g. a figure from the 1950s for one country, and a figure from 2006 for another), in which case it should be presented that way. That's one use for the "speakers2" field. If you're not sure, just ask, or skip that article.

Data should not be displayed with more than two, or at most three, significant figures. Sometimes it should be rounded off to just one significant figure, e.g. when some of the component data used by Ethnologue has been approximated with one figure (200,000, 3 million, etc.) and the other data has greater precision. For example, a figure of 200,000 for one country and 4,230 for another is really just 200,000 in total, as the 4,230 is within the margin of rounding off in the 200,000. If you want to retain the spurious precision of the number in Ethnologue, you might want to use the {{sigfig}} template. (First parameter in this template is for the data, second is for the number of figures to round it off to.)

Dates will often need to be a range of all the country data in the Ethnologue article. When entering the date range, I often ignore dates from countries that have only a few percent of the population, as often 10% or so of the population isn't even separately listed by Ethnologue and so is undated anyway.

If Ethnologue does not provide a date for the bulk of the population, just enter "no date" in the date field. But if the population figure is undated, and hasn't changed between the 17th & 18th editions of Ethnologue, please leave the ref field set to "e17", and maybe add a comment to keep it so that other editors don't change it. In cases like this, the edition of Ethnologue that the data first appeared in may be our only indication of how old it is. We still cite the 14th edition in a couple dozen articles, so our readers can see that the data is getting old.

The articles in the categories linked above are over 90% of the job. There are probably also articles that do not currently cite Ethnologue, but which we might want to update with the 18th edition. I'll need to generate another category to capture those, probably after most of the Ethnologue 17 citations are taken care of.

Jump in at the WP:LANG talk page if you have any comments or concerns. Thanks for any help you can give!

kwami (talk) 02:40, 4 March 2015 (UTC)Reply

Editathon and Meetup invitations

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Hello, LiangHH. Voting in the 2017 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23.59 on Sunday, 10 December. All users who registered an account before Saturday, 28 October 2017, made at least 150 mainspace edits before Wednesday, 1 November 2017 and are not currently blocked are eligible to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.

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Hi I'm an ADHD specialist and interested in a lot of areas, but these articles are in need of attention because of linguistics. Would you mind commenting on either RfCs as we seem to be interested in a lot of similar areas? Thanks so much E.3 (talk) 13:08, 13 January 2019 (UTC)Reply

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