Jon Harald Søby

Azak på tyrkisk!

Hei!

Jeg er nybegynner!

Jeg har akkurat lest Jakten på Odin og hvordan boka ble motarbeida. Jeg fant en side om Asovhavet på wikipedia. Brukeren heter Mahlum. Der står det: "Navnet Azov kan stamme fra det tyrkiske ordet «azak», som betyr «lav» og refererer til beliggenheten." Jeg tok kontant med noen tyrkere i går. Det kjenner ikke ordet azak, men derimot uzak som betyr lang, evig. Så jeg lurer på om du har noe å bidra med når det gjelder tyrkisk og hvordan jeg skal komme i kontant med Mahlum.

Vennlig hilsen

Odd Øivind Bergstad alias Oddvind

Hva er i veien med mobilen din?

— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Oddvind (talk) 09:23, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Rosetta Barnstar

Jon, thanks a lot for the Barnstar, it was as appreciated as unexpected :-) I liked very much to collaborate, it was fun! Thanks a lot again.--212.239.80.134 15:06, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

You're very welcome. :-) Jon Harald Søby 17:04, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Barnstar

Oh, thank you very much! I promise that I will continue helping with translations as much as possible. --Toliño ^{Fala aquí comigo} 15:13, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Good to hear! And you're welcome. Jon Harald Søby 17:03, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Re: Barnstar

Thank you. It was much appreciated. :) --FollowTheMedia 15:40, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

:-) Jon Harald Søby 17:03, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

RE:Thank you for your help with board election translations

You're welcome :). And thanks for the barnstar! --Isha 15:41, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Also, thank you very much :) --minhhuy*= 04:17, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

You gave me one for this here, and then again? Mhm.. I think you wanted to say, come on for fundraiser? :P LOL, Mhm. okay you know I am here for this! :P Obrigado! — [ Tanvir | Talk ] 04:29, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank You! very much...Pasindu Kavinda  ^Talk 04:52, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome all, it is deserved. @Tanvir, take it as a double thank-you and a call for action. ;-P Jon Harald Søby 17:03, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Thank you! It's the first time that I receive a barnstar outside the Chinese Wikipedia. --DS-fax 08:10, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

RE: Barnstar

Thank you... JB82 19:30, 4 September 2011 (UTC)

You're welcome. :-) Jon Harald Søby 17:03, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Observer

"Observers are Wikimedians who receive copies of e-mails sent to the internal language committee mailing list, but who cannot browse the archives or reply to the e-mails directly. If you want to become an observer, you should ask one of the committee members. If there are no objections within the committee after seven days, you will be subscribed as an observer." (Language committee)

I'd be interested. Should I write some sort of introduction, or just say "please" here? /Julle 14:34, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Hi

Hi Jon Harald Søby

Can you help me in translating of this in albanian, because I don't have permission to edit, here and text:

Please help translate - Ju lutemi ndihmoni në përkëthimin

the 2011 fundraiser - në shqip të fondeve 2011

Help translate - Ndihmoni përkëthimin

Thanks in advance. :) .--Liridon 17:32, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Done. :-) Jon Harald Søby 02:38, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

Albanian logo

I don't know what is happening with albanian wikipedia's logo, how to restore the original logo. Who have permission to change this. Please help us.--Liridon 11:08, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Whoa, that was weird. Someone set the logo for Sängö Wikipedia (sg.wikipedia) as the logo for the Albanian Wikipedia. I have uploaded the Albanian logo above that one for the time being, and will file a bug so someone can fix it for real. Jon Harald Søby 12:31, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

bugzilla:31668. Jon Harald Søby 12:36, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, now is OK.--Liridon 15:09, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

No problem. :-) Jon Harald Søby 15:13, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

Update WMFChap on foundation-wiki

Hello, do you have an account on the foundation-wiki? If you can, please help me update Translation requests/WMF/Local chapters/vi at that. I translated this page has long. Similarly, update the Italian page. Thank you very much :) --minhhuy*= 12:49, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

All done! :-) Jon Harald Søby 14:00, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

And, please update Translation requests/WMF/Local chapters/vi again, Translation requests/WMF/Home/vi & Translation requests/WMF/OurProjects2006/vi, also Uk page :) --minhhuy*= (talk) 02:11, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

From Vietnamese Wikisource

Hello, sorry for disturbing you. Could you merge the history of s:vi:Tác gia:Phan Kế Bính and s:vi:Tác giả:Phan Kế Bính? A user moved this page from "Tác gia" (Author) namespace to "Tác giả", but "Tác gia" is right namespace and "Tác giả" namespace does not exist, then this user corrected by cutting anh pasting, so the history of this page has been lost. I am not a sysop in Vietnamese Wikisource, while sysop Vinhtantran not available. Thanks in advance (sorry for bad English). Tranminh360 (talk) 12:51, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Done! :-) Jon Harald Søby 22:08, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

Translator

Thanks for the notice but I will encourage to do the translation for the Wikimedia fundraiser. I will try to work as hard as I can with it. I need meta-wiki auto-patrolled right because, I am working heavily a lot of translation articles and its difficult to patrol. Kindly grant me this right because, im a trustful and experienced user. I'm a trustful user on en.wiki and I can be also there. See this for further understanding how im trustful on en.wiki. Regards. --Mohamed Aden Ighe 21:03, 20 October 2011 (UTC)

Kindly thanks again and respond to me. --Mohamed Aden Ighe 21:49, 1 November 2011 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I forgot to reply to this. Don't log in to Meta with my volunteer account that often these days. :P You have autopatrol rights now. Jon Harald Søby 01:05, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, but thanks --Mohamed Aden Ighe 10:50, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

From Vietnamese Wikisource (2)

Please do some tasks below to fix several bugs in the interface of Vietnamese Wikisource:

1. In s:vi:MediaWiki:Common.js, in the function BilingualLink(), delete "http:" from the line beginning with "var bilang".

2. In s:vi:MediaWiki:Common.js, add this script to translate "optlist" in the sidebar:

self.ws_messages = { 
 "optlist": "Tùy chọn hiển thị",
 "hide_page_numbers": "Ẩn liên kết trang",
 "show_page_numbers": "Hiện liên kết trang",
}

3. In s:vi:MediaWiki:Proofreadpage index attributes, add "Nơi xuất bản" between "Nhà xuất bản" and "Lần|Lần xuất bản".

You can see these requests at s:vi:User talk:Vinhtantran#Fwd: Vấn đề giao diện ở vi wikisource and s:vi:Thảo luận MediaWiki:Common.js. Because sysop Vinhtantran is not available now, could you help us to do these tasks? Thank you. Tranminh360 (talk) 15:34, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Done! :-) Jon Harald Søby 05:35, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Bot on Wikispecies

Just like to remind you that your bot has been approved for trial. Thanks. OhanaUnited^{Talk page} 07:02, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder! One thing I didn't check when I requested bot status is that pywikipedia doesn't actually work with Wikispecies without some adjustment – it checks the interwikis and makes changes where it needs to, but only in the links it follows – it doesn't make any changes on Wikispecies even when things need to be changed. I'll try and look into it to see if I can make the necessary changes, but it may take some time. Jon Harald Søby 06:04, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Apology

I apologize I have not helped more with translations wrt. message of yours at my talk page but currently I'm undergoing such strange process at WP [1] that my good faith in WP is utterly shaken, and in general I think the trend is not good. I must say I had much higher expectations about internal situation in WP but still I hope it is not entirely lost. Naturally, if things happen with you as currently happened with me, you do not feel that super enthusiastic about the project and your inner man is rebelling against idea to participate in such environment. Thanks for your understanding.--Stephfo 04:36, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

?

Hello. I'd like to ask when you are finished checking the lezgin wikipedia on the reliability of the language. And how to speed up the process, already four years of it in the incubator.Lezgistxa 14:56, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

EdwardsBot

I don't think EdwardsBot is intentionally unflagged here at Meta-Wiki. I think nobody has gotten around to it or something. It's flagged at the English Wikipedia and on other wikis. --MZMcBride 14:25, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

Help

Can you suggest me some of the extenshan that we can propose at the start of Marathi wiki source.

Thanks Rahul Deshmukh

mr:user:rahuldeshmukh101

Coordination of review with Barras

Hi. Barras suggested I contact you about this. See, User talk:Barras#Review of RfD closure Thanks. Alanscottwalker (talk) 18:37, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

LibraryThing-o en Esperanto

Kara amiko! La tradukado de LibraryThing-o al Esperanto bone progresis. Dankegon al "Annix"! Vidu http://epo.librarything.com/zeitgeist/language/epo paĝon pri la ĝis nun plej ofte aldonitaj verkoj kaj aŭtoroj. Tamen necesas pligrandigi la bazon de la esperantlingvaj kunlaborantoj, de la esperantlingvaj libroemuloj. Bv. sekvi (provizorajn) klarigojn haveblajn ĉe http://epo.librarything.com/topic/134789 . Antaŭdankon! ‫·‏לערי ריינהארט‏·‏Th‏·‏T‏·‏email me‏·‏‬ 21:35, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Please help us

My name is Rexford. I live in Ghana. For time now, a group of Ghanaian Akan native speakers have tried editing the landing page of the ak.wikipedia site. However, since we do not have the administrative rights, we never are able to edit.

Can you please help us constantly update the landing page and give it a nice look?

--Nkansahrexford (talk) 23:16, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Two questions regarding Translation Notification Bot

Dear Jon Harald Søby, I have two questions regarding Translation Notification Bot on nl.wikipedia. I hope you can help me.

Firstly, the bot places messages with incorrect links, pointing to nl.wikipedia instead of meta. See this edit for example. Could you please fix this?

Secondly, the account currently doesn't have a bot flag. Would you please consider requesting one here?

Kind regards, Mathonius (talk) 02:03, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

Hi,

The first issue is already fixed and will be deployed soon.

I'll poke the right people about the second issue. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:38, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Dear Amire80, thank you very much! Mathonius (talk) 20:54, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

There still seems to be a problem with the links, see for example [2] and Talk:Translation reques. Mathonius (talk) 00:21, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship

Hello Jon Harald Søby. In accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged administrator actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/October 2012. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before October 08, 2012. Kind regards, -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 09:41, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice! Haven't been that active here with this account (was quite active with Jsoby when I was working as a fellow), but will be again. :-) Jon Harald Søby (talk) 14:23, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Simple French Wikipedia?

Hi! I started a discussion about starting a Simple French Wikipedia. Please see Meta:Babel#Simple_French_Wikipedia_proposal_based_on_fran.C3.A7ais_fondamental WhisperToMe (talk) 06:52, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

• I have now formally submitted my proposal: Requests for new languages/Wikipedia French Simple (2) WhisperToMe (talk) 19:37, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Translation Notification Bot @ ar.wiki

Hello. I'm so sorry to tell you that I blocked the bot, since it made a lot of edits without permission. Please, request bot flag for the bot here, and it will unblocked as soon as it has the flag. Regards.--Avocato 15:30, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

I have unblocked it and put a request to grant bot flag myself. Regards.--Avocato 20:00, 25 October 2012 (UTC)

:)

I whished that this ought not be forever. Now I see you'll be returning. I'm happy to see you stand again, Jon. Best of luck! Regards, -- MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:30, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Thanks. Crossing my fingers. :-) Jon Harald Søby (talk) 15:56, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

Questions

Please answer steward candidate questions here --Ansei (talk) 14:45, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the notification! I had missed them for some reason. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 21:12, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Congratulations

Hello Jhs,

on behalf of the stewards' election committee, congratulations on your appointment as a steward! Your permissions have now been set and you are able to start working.

You have been added to the list of stewards and the stewards' chart. Please take a moment to check that your details are accurate and update them if necessary. In addition, please contact Trijnstel to obtain access to the various mailing lists and wikis. Alternatively or in addition to, you can drop by IRC #wikimedia-stewards^connect and we can see who's around and sort out what we can.

These include: checkuser-l, the private mailing list for Wikimedia checkusers, stewards-l, the private list for stewards. In addition, you will be given access to the related private wikis, one for checkusers and the other solely for stewards, details of which will be provided.

If you use IRC, you will be given access to several channels, including #wikimedia-checkuser^connect and #wikimedia-privacy^connect.

Best of luck with your new tools; I am sure you will do a fantastic job. Please remember that your fellow stewards are always available if you need a second opinion, either via the mailing list or on IRC.

On behalf of the election committee,

Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 02:48, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! :D Jon Harald Søby (talk) 09:54, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Gratulerer!

Salam Jon Harald Søby. Sizi stüard seçkisində müvəffəqiyyət qazanmağınız münasibətilə səmimi qəlbdən təbrik edirəm. İnanıram ki, vikidəyərlərə sadiq qalacaq və vikicəmiyyətin daha da operativ və daha da ədalətli fəaliyyətində Sizin xüsusi əməyiniz olacaq. Dərin hörmətlə, --►Cekli829 06:25, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Qardaş, çox sağ olun! Jon Harald Søby (talk) 09:55, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Edits to WM NO's FDC Proposal

Hello, Jon! Hope you're well. We saw your edits to WM NO's FDC proposal. Unfortunately, no changes to the proposal are allowed after the submission deadline (even minor copyedits) unless they are necessary changes requested in writing by a representative of the chapter and approved by FDC Staff. Thanks very much for reading the proposal and contributing, however, and I hope we can look forward to your comments on the discussion page. Best regards, Winifred Olliff (Grants Administrator) talk 16:37, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the notice, Winifred. I didn't realise the deadline had passed already, I just skimmed through the introduction to get to the good parts. Won't happen again. :-) Jon Harald Søby (talk) 14:15, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Fundraising translation feedback

Hey Jon Harald Søby,

I wanted to ask for your help. As you may be aware we have been running banners on many language wikis. We have a lot of new content this year and I really want to conduct a thorough review of our translations. This is a combination of feedback from the community, readers, donors as well as those with professional translator experience. This will help us ensure the highest quality of translations used in our messaging.

To help us out with this I wonder if you would be willing to give us feedback for norwegian bokmal using This Link

Simply follow the simple instructions on that page and if you have any questions feel free to contact me on my talk page.

Many Thanks

Jseddon (WMF) (talk) 11:40, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Interwiki links from SWWP to another sites

Hi Jon, mambo vipi? I was about to add some interwiki to American Pie (mfululizo) but I didn't because I thought the bot will take care the interwiki matter (since the interwiki are added through wikidata). But so far nothing happened and I don't know how to make the interwiki of the mentioned article appear in our Wikipedia. I went there and I've added the link but still I can't find no link to the other sites. So please tell me what to do or should I follow the previous style instead? I mean, adding an interwiki manually?--_Wikipedian ^(Activist) 10:17, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Poa sana, kaka. Habari yako?

I think you have done everything correctly, seeing as the interwikis show up for me. There is a problem with caching, but if you just append ?action=purge to the article in swwiki after you have added its link on Wikidata, the interwikis will show up. Jhsoby (talk) 18:19, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Oh, man.. You are adorable! Thanks for the purge info. Next time I'll make sure to do the same. Thank you again, Bonge a.k.a--_Wikipedian ^(Activist) 06:45, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship (April 2013)

Hello Jon Harald Søby. In accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged administrator actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/April 2013. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before April 08, 2013. Kind regards. -- MarcoAurelio 14:45, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

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Hi

You can read Norwegian and said you're active - so I would like to suggest you read the discussion I started about it. Gryllida 23:47, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Translation of Norwegian Church hymn title for article in English

I was hoping you could provide me with an idiomatic translation of the Norwegian Church hymn title "Høgt frå den himmelske klåra". As far as I can tell it does not appear in Lutheran Hymnals in English (or if it does, it's under an unrecognizable). I've made a couple of attempts, such as "High from the Heavenly Heights" and "From the clear heavens" but I'm not really satisfied. This is for an article about the author of the hymn in English Wikipeida, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodora_Cormontan . Someday I would like to see it translated into bokmal, but I want to get it to a good status first. Any help you can provide would be appreciated. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dictioneer ) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dictioneer ) 22:05, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

Email translation

Will the raw text be used for the email? Will HTML/wikitext formatting like this work? BTW, please add categories when you create pages. PiRSquared17 (talk) 03:30, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

P.S. same with gender-specific stuff [3] PiRSquared17 (talk) 03:31, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

We won't use the raw wikitext per se, though essential HTML formatting should remain. I'll fix the GENDER issue in a bit (have to go to work now). Jon Harald Søby (talk) 04:19, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Query about translation template litter

Jon, I believe you had an important role in designing this template. I'm new to it.

I'm struggling to see why the template should be applied at such fine-grained level that individual numbered or bulleted points are marked up. I'm finding it disruptive at that level. Why is a section not the most fine-grained level? Tony (talk) 06:14, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata - terms in Norwegian

Ref your comments on Wikidata diskusjon. The current translation of English: item to Norwegian: datasett, contradicts what is provided by dictionaries in the IT/IS field, is inconsistent with Norwegian language practices, it undermines the semantics of the data model behind Wikidata terminology, and it has no support in the community of Norwegian Wikipedia contributors, except from one single person.

In role of Wikipedia contributors and users of Wikidata, we need an explanation or a rationale for 'datasett' still being used in the Norwegian user interface.(Example: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39645?uselang=nb#sitelinks ) And insight into the decision-making process leading to this choice. Thank you! --Roarjo (talk) 11:36, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

doubts on translations

Hi Jon, I'm working with an IEG in the wikiArS initiative. I'm trying to understand how to ask for translations and in general how to manage the translation issues. I've some doubts and Siko told me to ask you.

I put the <translate> tag inside the main wikiArS pages (outreach:wikiArS, outreach:WikiArS/Get_started,outreach:wikiArS/Schools, outreach:wikiArS/Get_involved) expecting to found this page listed in Special:PageTranslation, but not :-) Why? What is wrong?

Another question is: it is possible to use the translate system to ask for translations from other languages into English or only from English to other languages. For example I've this page in Catalan. It's possible to put tags and ask for translations or first I should to translate it into English and then ask for other languages?

Thanks in advance. Greetings. --Dvdgmz (talk) 13:22, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

2011 election voter list

Hi, do you have a copy of the 2011 election voter list? It doesnt appear to be online. See Talk:Board_elections/2011#Voter_list. John Vandenberg (talk) 06:04, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Survey on Chapters

Thanks a lot for your contributions! I think I owe you a wikibeer or something. :)

Best, aegis maelstrom δ 21:35, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

No problem! :-) I'll try to find data on the stuff I haven't filled in yet, but it's not as easily available as the stuff I have filled in. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 15:11, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Sure. I knew that there are some low hanging fruits and some trickier ones. :) I have some problems even with my home (Polish) Chapter. :) Hope you find some heart and time to attack the more demanding ones as well.

Best Wishes, aegis maelstrom δ 09:04, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Editor @ ar.wiki

Hello. I would like to inform you that I have granted you editor flag at the Arabic Wikipedia, all your edits there will be automatically marked as patrolled. Best regards.--Avocato 12:22, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Old English Wikibooks closure proposal

This proposal is open since January. More people voted in favor of closing than leaving them open. Inform the Langcom to close the project per voting results. Here is the voting [4]

Translation request, pretty please

Hello Jon Harald, I hope you are well!

I was wondering if you'd have a moment to translate this page into nb and nn? Keegan (WMF) (talk) 18:27, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Wrong blocking

I have been blocked for the wrong reason. The other Swedish speaking steward Tegel is involved in this erroneous blocking. It was MagnusA on Swedish Wikipedia who did the blocking. I was never warned before blocking and I didn't fulfill any Wikipedia rules to be blocked. I want to be unblocked and at least MagnusA should be blocked since he blocks people for made up reasons. You can see the discussion of the blocking here: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndardiskussion:Mikael4u#Blockerad Regards, Mikael4u (talk) 18:01, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

I was unblocked right now. This administrator MagnusA has blocked another person for unclear reasons a couple of years ago. This person is more severely permanently blocked and is not even allowed to defend himself on his own page: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anv%C3%A4ndare:Staffan_Jacobson The stated reason that he was blocked was that they said he made extreme personal attacks but I don't agree that he said worse things than the other and the other is now an administrator on Swedish Wikipedia: http://sv.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diskussion:Karl_XII-firande_i_Lund&diff=prev&oldid=8034733 I think it's time to unblock Staffan_Jacobson. We need his help on the article I tried to save and that I was blocked for trying to save twice, but not three times. Regards, Mikael4u (talk) 22:23, 18 September 2013 (UTC)

Disruptive edits

Hi Jon Harald, I wonder if you could help by blocking this editor. There is a bit of a headache with disruptive edits as shown here in this Basque article. Fails to engage in explanation or discussion and comes back repeatedly, broke the rule of the three edits. I have little doubt that it's actually one editor with two sockpuppets (BernardaAlba and the IP address). Please find me for more info in en:User:Iñaki LL. Regards! Iñaki LLM (talk) 12:13, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata Ambassadors

Just notifying you of this... --Ricordisamoa 22:24, 19 January 2014 (UTC)

I made that thing...

...that we were talking about, based on your new method for separating template structure from contents, and thereby keeping the markup and styling of the template clean and editable outside of translation workflows. It's a universal version of the caller template you made that matches text keys in a /Content subpage of a given template. It takes namespace, title, and key (currently "words=") parameters to specify the target. All those params are probably overkill and too sloppy at the moment, but it seems to work as advertised. With a little work, do you think this could be a substitute for Template:TNT for use on templates that have complex markup, or are likely to change? If so, I can work on the doc. Also, FYI I've started to document some challenges and best practices for templates in translation here. Cheers, Jmorgan (WMF) (talk) 00:55, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Wikimedia genealogy project

Please visit this page if you wish to contribute to a centralized discussion about a Wikimedia genealogy project. Thank you! --Another Believer (talk) 21:49, 26 February 2014 (UTC)

Request for feedback on my GSoC'14 proposal

Hi Jon Harald Søby,

I am planning to work on the project titled "Tools for mass migration of legacy translated wiki content" this summer under Google Summer of Code. I have drafted a proposal for the same over the past few weeks. This project is going to help the translation adminstrators like you in a great way, as it would completely automate the tedious manual task of preparing a page for translation and then importing the translations into the Translate extension. You can check the proposal page for detailed information on how I plan to accomplish this.

As you would be an end user of this tool, it would be great if you could go through the proposal and provide feedback/suggestions. Your feedback would definitely help me improve the proposal as well help in creating an even better tool. You can do the same on the discussion page of the proposal or reply here, whichever is convenient for you. I look forward to hearing from you! Thank you!

P.S: I need to submit the proposal to Google by March 19, 2014.

BPositive (talk) 13:24, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

TCT and Grantmaking Navbar

Hi Jon,

I have an interesting new test case for TCT. I just created this grantmaking navbar template. I wanted to familiarize myself with Lua (translation: don’t judge my code too harshly). Currently, this template selects the title to display on a particular page from the list at Module:GrantmakingNavbar/pages.

What’s the best way to make these titles translatable using TCT? I expect we need to call a Template:GrantmakingNavbar/Content page or something from the template itself, before it invokes the module, but haven’t really worked out the details. Any ideas? Using Lua adds a layer of complexity, though I enjoy the extra functionality and non-sucky syntax. I expect to make a bunch of new IdeaLab templates in Lua over the next few months, so it would useful to get the workflow down. Jmorgan (WMF) (talk) 19:49, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

Just to close the loop on this, I managed to replicate the TCT trick in Lua and the GrantmakingNavbar is now translatable. Cheers, Jmorgan (WMF) (talk) 01:12, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Awesome that you were able to do this. I have zero Lua knowledge (speaking of loops, that's one I've fallen out of). Jon Harald Søby (talk) 21:29, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Notice of review of adminship

Hello Jon Harald Søby. In accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged administrator actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/April 2014. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before April 08, 2014. Kind regards, Barras talk 09:59, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Notice of removal of adminship

I regret to inform you that your administrator access has been removed, because you did not indicate that you wanted to keep it on the confirmation page within a week. Kind regards, Barras talk 06:02, 8 April 2014 (UTC)

Grants:IdeaLab/A place to work together

FYI (as I hear you're being contracted for wiki maintenance work again – nice!). --Nemo 09:04, 25 April 2014 (UTC)

Translate some names for hundreds software projects including MediaWiki

Hello, I'm writing you because you subscribed to a Language support team. As you know, Wikimedia projects exist in almost 300 languages; supporting them all is a big effort so we partner with other organisations. One small but visible thing we miss is that many interwiki links in sidebar (among others) don't offer a translation of the language name when hovered. We're now able to translate 100 more language names in your language.

If you're interested, I can create you an account to submit translations on the CLDR web tool (within June 14): please send an email to ask one and I'll follow up with instructions. On CLDR you can translate and tweak many other things, if you desire; your work will impact hundreds of software projects. Thanks, Nemo 17:58, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

luri lrc nominate for verification

Hello
luri lrc wiki incubator was active in ten months past and it has 5 active users with me[5] and this is luri lrc translations[6] statics, please help us could you suggest luri lrc wikitest to language committe for verification? we need who someone that suggest luri lrc to language committe for verification, could you do this request for us? we really need your help It's our honor Mr Jon Harald that you do this request
please help us please help us lrc lori (talk) 15:28, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Please test the new feature Special:PageMigration

As a Google Summer of Code Intern, I have been working on the Mass Migration tools project for Wikimedia. We are now ready with a minimal working product. The tool helps translators and translation administrators import the old translations into the Translate Extension.

An instance of the same has been set up on labs. You can find some useful instructions on the main page.

Please test the tool and report bugs/suggestions using the link provided on the main page itself. You can have a look at the tracking bug to check already reported bugs.

Looking forward to hearing from you! Cheers. BPositive (talk) 14:33, 14 June 2014 (UTC)

Napolitansk wikisource

Hei Jon Harald,

Har du tid til å lese og skrive her da ?: Requests_for_new_languages/Wikisource_Neapolitan

Hva kan vi bidra med til å åpne "nap.wikisource"?

Mange takk! :D

Mvh,--C.R. (talk) 00:15, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Navnerom Form på norsk bokmål

Jeg har nylig lastet ned og installert nye versjoner av MediaWiki og Semantic MediaWiki med div. utvidelser. Jeg ser da at tidligere oversettelse av navnerommet Form, Skjema, er blitt borte. Nå må en prefikse med den originale engelske betegnelsen for navnerommet. Er dette en bevisst endring, eller resultatet av overgang fra no til nb, eller noe annet?

Når jeg først har kontakt med deg, lurer jeg på om oversettelsen av navnerom Concept, Konsept, er heldig? Burde det ikke kalles Begrep på norsk bokmål? Jeg håper du er rette vedkommende å spørre. --Event (talk) 10:31, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Hei Event, her ser det fortsatt ut som det heter «Skjemaer» (ikke «Skjema»). Ser ikke at det skal ha vært noen forandringer på det. Men ja, språket bør være satt til «nb» og ikke «no», det er «nb» som brukes i all oversettinga på Translatewiki. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 11:42, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Jeg ser at CreateForms og Forms fortsatt oversettes til Skjema, men navnerommet Form ligger ikke i denne oversikten og skal kanskje heller ikke gjøre det fordi det hører til Extension:SemanticForms.--Event (talk) 10:50, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Vet du hvem som er koordinator for bokmålsoversettelsene av de semantiske utvidelsene, slike som SemanticForms? Jeg ønsker å bidra med flere innspill.--Event (talk) 11:17, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Jeg har funnet kilden til problemet. Følgende i SF_Namespaces.php foreligger bare i no-utgave:

 /**
 * @author Jon Harald Søby
 */
 $namespaceNames['no'] = array(
   SF_NS_FORM           => 'Skjema',
   SF_NS_FORM_TALK      => 'Skjemadiskusjon'

Blir det gjort noe med dette? Selv har jeg redigert den aktuelle filen for mine to wikier med Semantic Forms, men hva med resten av norske SF-baserte wikier?--Event (talk) 08:19, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

Feedback needed from LangCom

Dear member of the Language Committee, can you please try to answer some of the messages on Talk:Language committee (and its archive)? Many people are asking for updates and indications about their requests, but they are almost never getting an answer of any kind. Candalua (talk) 12:27, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for let me know about the gendergap translation issue

I can wait until it's not in the draft stage. Thank you to let me know what happened, that's very considerate. --Liang(WMTW) (talk) 10:04, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

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Adminship removed

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Global CSS/JS migration

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Hi again! I haven't heard back from you, so I'll assume you don't want to do this. Feel free to leave me a message or add a Synchbot request if you change your mind. :) —Pathoschild 16:59, 09 January 2016 (UTC)

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Humble Request to Hon'ble Members of Language Committee

• As a Test Admin of Wp/khw Khowar Wikipedia Project I on behalf of the Khowar language communities of Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Xinjiang(China) humbly request the all respectable members of the language comittee for early approval, creation of Khowar Wkipedia i.e. khw.wikipedia.org. The Khowar language is spoken in Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and Xingjiang(China). I have created a test page for Khowar language in incubator i.e. Wikipedia Khowar (Khowar Language Wikipedia), On behalf of the abovementioned Khowar speaking four countries for early approval and creation and normalization of Khowar Wikipedia edition. Khowar is one of spoken 14 languages in Chitral(Pakistan). It will be useful to Khowar internet users to report news from worldwide. I strongly feel it deserves its own Wikipedia. Being a test admin i have translated all most used messages into khowar. I have created test Khowar Wikipedia at Khowar Wikpedia.--Rehmat Aziz Chitrali 05:57, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

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Hello

Hello Jon,

Last weekend we had an event in Tirana, and Greta told me about participation in BotAcademy, and for you. Thank you for the greetings . I hope one day to meet in person.

All Best --Liridon (talk) 19:11, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Open Wikinews Thai and voyage Thai

Please Open Wikinews and wikivoyage Thai Please [7] --Pitpisit (talk) 06:40, 9 January 2016 (UTC)

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Langcom list

A little over a week ago I sent an email to the LangCom mailing list regarding the Khowar Wikipedia, and received an automated response saying that "Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive notification of the moderator's decision". Neither of these have happened yet. You're listed as one of the people running the LangCom mailing list. Could you please help with this? Thanks. --Yair rand (talk) 05:31, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Western balochi wikipedia

Hi Jon Harald Søby!
Please help us for approval Western balochi langauge wikipedia, its active sinse 2014 and now has more than 6300 article in this test project.--Ibrahim khashrowdi (talk) 22:28, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

@Ibrahim khashrowdi: Looking into it. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 09:12, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

Thank you so much :) --Ibrahim khashrowdi (talk) 10:59, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

Khowar Wikipedia

@Jon Harald Søby: Thank you very for approval of Khowar Wikipedia, I being the Khowar Wiki test administrator on behalf of the khowar speakers thank you for this act of kindness, Regards --Rehmat Aziz Chitrali 04:04, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

Tunisian Arabic

As shown in the new edition of Ethnologue, Tunisian Arabizi (One of the Latin Scripts used for Tunisian) has been recognized as a common script for Tunisian Arabic. As it is the most used script in Internet, we will use it in Wp/aeb. I have slightly modified this method so that it can be converted to Arabic Script. I have created a script converter for Tunisian Arabizi and I will implement it with explanations very soon. However, I need to test it before. So, you are invited to change the name of Tunisian Arabic in Latin Script into Tounsi and change the editing software of Tunisian Arabic Wikipedia into Left to Right format. Thank you in advance. --Csisc (talk) 16:17, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Discussion Request

My dear brother Mr.@Jon Harald Søby: please add this discussion request for khowar language here [8]--Rehmat Aziz Chitrali 09:11, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

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Ingush Wikipedia

Hi Jon Harald Søby! Please help us for approval Ingush Wikipedia – Wp/inh! ElizaMag (talk) 09:37, 13 August 2016 (UTC)

Close Wikinews Norway

Link : [[9]] --Pitpisit (talk) 00:07, 4 September 2016 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Norge

Hello, Wikimedia Norge members and other contributors, here is our newsletter for the fourth quarter of 2016.

• Retriever access: Starting 7 November 2016, 6 Retriever accounts are available to Wikimedia contributors. The accounts will be given out for 6 months at a time to the first people to request one after 18:00 (CET), 2 November 2016, on this page. A new round will start on 7 May 2017. We hope this will be a useful tool!
• Girl Geek Dinners Trondheim: Girl Geek Dinners Trondheim will host another editathon 3 November 2016 at Work-Work. Join the event on Facebook.
• Armenia contest: In week 46–49 the weekly contest will be about Armenia, where the prize is an Armenia trip for one (flight and hotel covered). Wikimedia Armenia will hold a corresponding contest about Norway. The contest page can be found here from week 45.
• User survey: Wikimedia Norge is conducting a survey about what motivates Norwegian Wikimedia users. In November the survey will be linked from CentralNotice. We hope you will take the time to answer it and give us insight into how Wikimedia Norge can better support Wikimedia contributors!
• New website: Wikimedia Norge has a new website to supplement our wiki. Take a look!

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Thanks

My dear brother thank you very much for your support regarding Khowar Language Wikipedia. your comments are required her [10]--Zaheeruddin25 (talk) 09:53, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

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We wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year!

• Wiki Loves Monuments: The results from this year's edition of Wiki Loves Monuments are summarized on our blog. You can see the winners of the international part of the contest here. In 2017 we will be arranging Wiki Loves Earth instead of Wiki Loves Monuments. Please get in touch with us if you want to help organize it!
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• Meetup: There will be a wiki meetup at Litteraturhuset, Oslo, on January 17. You can register here.
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Whose Knowledge? News - February 2017

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What's new in 2017:

1. Volunteers needed

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Building partnerships and testing our approach with marginalized communities.

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• Women's Human Rights Defenders: In partnership with Urgent Action Fund, we'll be supporting a group of women's human rights defenders around the world with more mapping and wiki content creation. Themes and geographies coming soon!
• Kumeyaay Wikipedia Initiative: Following the 2016 Indigenous People's Day edit-a-thon, we're continuing to work with members of the Kumeyaay tribe in Southern California and Baja to map and contribute indigenous knowledge to Wikimedia projects. A discussion day with Kumeyaay community in San Diego is being planned for May.

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• WMF grant: 6-month funding (February-July 2017) was approved to pilot our approach to mapping knowledge and creating Wikipedia content with the Dalit community and global women's human rights defenders. Thanks for all your endorsements!
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Find us at Wikimedia Conference.

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Wikidays in Trondheim March 24–25

On March 24–25 Wikimedia Norge's office (temporarily) moves to Trondheim!

• On Friday, March 24, there will be a tour for Wikipedians at the Norwegian National Museum of Justice, followed by a wiki meetup with food and the announcement of the winner of Wikipedian of the Year at Work-Work. All Wikipedians and other interested parties are very welcome!
• On Saturday, March 25, Wikimedia Norge holds its general assembly, this too at Work-Work. Suggestions for the board can be sent to styre@wikimedia.no until 23 February 2017. Remember that you have to be a registered member to be allowed to vote at the general assembly and to get travel expenses reimbursed by Wikimedia Norge.
• You can read the agenda for the general assembly here.

You can find information about the agenda and how to sign up here. We hope to see many of you in Trondheim!

Wikigrants and travel grants

• February 15 is the deadline for applying to wikigrants from Wikimedia Norge. We hope to get applications for many exciting projects! You are also welcome to apply for travel grants to participate in WikiCite, the Wikimedia Hackathon and Wikimania.
• You can also apply for [$url travel grants for Wikimania 2017 in Montréal] from the Wikimedia Foundation until 20 February 2017.
• In the end of May WikiCite and Wikimedia Hackathon will be held in Vienna, Austria. Until February 27 you can apply for travel grants for WikiCite and until February 26 you can apply for travel grants for the Wikimedia Hackathon.

User survey

• In November/December 2016 Wikimedia Norge held a user survey, thank you to everyone who participated! The results have been published on Meta.

Website translated

• Our website has been translated from Norwegian Bokmål into Norwegian Nynorsk and English. Feel free to take a look, and let Jon Harald know if you find any mistakes.

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Fjernet bilde av no:Øystein Sevåg

Hei, jeg har ikke vært aktiv på en stund (har derfor mistet litt oversikt over rutiner) men har lagt inn et spørsmål her:
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brukerdiskusjon:CommonsDelinker#Deleted_image_of_.C3.98ystein_Sev.C3.A5g
men mistenker at det kan være feil sted å be om hjelp. Øystein Sevåg har bedt meg å prøve å finne ut av det. Det eksisterende bildet skal altså byttes ut mot et nytt som ikke blir akseptert av ukjent grunn. Kan du veilede meg? --Profero (talk) 22:38, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Hei, Profero. Jeg kan ikke se bildet siden det har blitt sletta, men jeg antar ut fra slettebegrunnelsen at det ble sletta fordi det er funnet en kopi en annen plass på nettet, og det pleier å være en indikator på at den som har lasta det opp bare har funnet det et sted og så lasta det opp på Commons. Så spørsmålet er, er det du som har tatt bildet (og dermed eier rettighetene til det)? Hvis det er tilfelle bør en epost til info-no@wikimedia.no hvor du skriver at du bekrefter at du er opphavspersonen og at du gir ut bildet under den gitte lisensen (CC-by-SA 4.0 er vel standarden nå tror jeg). Jon Harald Søby (talk) 22:45, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Hei, Jon Harald. Takk for svar. Nei jeg har ikke tatt det nye bildet, men jeg har lovet å prøve å hjelpe Øystein Sevåg å laste det opp igjen siden han tydeligvis har blitt blokkert etter gjentatte forsøk. Han/vi vil imidlertid kunne dokumentere att fotografen har gitt tillatelse till bruk av bildet. Hvordan bør dette formelt utformes og kan jeg sende det til epost-adressen du oppga samtidig som jeg laster opp bildet? --Profero (talk) 00:46, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

@Profero: Ja, samme epostadresse. Du kan se eksempler på eposter her, eller prøve denne generatoren (jeg har aldri prøvd den, men den ser enkel nok ut å bruke). Og når du har lasta opp bildet så kan du sette inn malen {{OTRS pending}} på beskrivelsessiden, så det ikke blir sletta med en gang. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 08:03, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

@Jon Harald Søby: Takk, da prøver vi det. --Profero (talk) 12:04, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hello Jon,
I just wanted to say Thank You for your contributions to the Attribution Generator! I just saw that you committed a number of changes. Thanks for spotting them and helping to improve the Attribution Generator. If you need anything, feel free to get in touch.
Best, Katja Ullrich (WMDE) (talk) 08:05, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Whose Knowledge?: [April 2017]

Whose Knowledge News

April 2017 • Volume 1 • Issue 2

Activities and Events: Dalit History Month Events; Wikimania 2017 submissions

Resources: Resources lists

Wikimedia Movement: Wikimedia Strategy: Knowledge is Global

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Hello, Wikimedia Norge members and other contributors, here is our newsletter with activities during spring 2017.

• On May 8^th we will disperse six new accesses for Retriever. Are you interested? The first ones to sign up will get them; sign up on this page.
• On May 9^th there's a wiki meetup at Litteraturhuset (the House of Literature) in Oslo. The theme this time will be Wikipedia at its best – cooperation on good articles. The introduction will be held by Morten Olsen Haugen (known as Orland on-wiki). Sign up here, or just show up! Wikimedia Norge can cover travel expenses if you get in touch with astrid@wikimedia.no.
• On May 15^th Wiki Loves Earth starts. This photo contest is about taking the best pictures of protected nature in Norway. The comtest page can be found here.
• Wikimedia Norge participates in a theme contest organized by Europeana about the 1914–1918 time period. Follow the development on this page!
• Wikimania will be held in Montréal from August 9^th to 13^th. All information on Wikimania can be found here.
• Are you interested in taking photos using a drone? Check out this post on Torget.
• Wikimedia Norge has changed its logo to a new all-black version (see logo at the right). Wikimedia Foundation is in a process of changing their logo, and Wikimedia Deutschland has already changed to this new version.
• Wikipedia was blocked in Turkey on April 29^th. The Wikimedia Foundation has made a statement about the block on their blog.

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Hello, Wikimedia Norge members and other contributors, here's our newsletter with activities for the upcoming weeks.

• Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 has started! The world's largest photo contest runs from September 1 through September 30, where the goal is to upload photos of monuments in Norway. There will also be a concurrent writing competition on the Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Northern Sami Wikipedias during weeks 37 and 38.
• September 12: There will be a wiki meetup about references, with Ole Bjørn Rekdal as guest lecturer. The meetup will be held at the House of Literature in Oslo, and starts at 17:00.
• September 15: This is the deadline to apply for this round of wikigrants from Wikimedia Norge. Everyone can apply (you don't have to be a member), so if you have a project or an idea that you would like to see through, but could use some money to achieve it, apply now!
• September 16: Wiki-LAN, an editathon to increase the coverage of–and participation from–women in Wikipedia, will be organized at Musikkonservatoriet in Tromsø. Even though there's a focus on women, everyone is welcome!
• September 21: During the Oslo Science Days Wikimedia Norge invites you to the event Writing women into history, where the Director of research and dissemination at the National Library of Norway, Hege Høsøien, and artist and curator, Merete Røstad, will introduce the subject, followed by a conversation with Jorid Martinsen from Wikimedia Norge.
• October 6: During the announcement of who will be this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, a group of Wikipedians will be present at the Nobel Peace Center for #wikinobel in order to cover the prize and the laureate(s) in a good way. Get in touch with Jon Harald if you want to participate!

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Wikipedia Montenegrin

Does anyone know when Montenegrins will get their Wikipedia? Since Montenegro has received an international code for the Montenegrin language, so now Montenegrins are entitled to their Wikipedia. --Ookuninusi 21:56, 12 december 2017 (UTC)

@Ookuninusi: Do you have any sources that this code (cnr) has been assigned? I see the two sources in the English Wikipedia article, but they refer to the National Library in Washington, which is the registrar for ISO 639-2 (not -3), and ISO 639-2 has had no updates since 2012 according to their own website – and indeed I thought ISO 639-2 was frøzen, as in not assigning any new codes. I also can't find anything on SIL's website (the registrar for ISO 639-3): Not under the code and not under the pending change requests. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 22:02, 12 December 2017 (UTC)

The people from SIL International have notified me that they will publish the CNR code on their site in January. --Ookuninusi Talk 03:21, 22 december 2017 (UTC)

@Ookuninusi: Alright, we'll wait for that then. Happy new year! Jon Harald Søby (talk) 07:34, 22 December 2017 (UTC)

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Hello, Wikimedia Norge members and other contributors, this is the last newsletter of the year from us. We wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year! 🎅

Meet-up on January 16^th

On Tuesday the 16^th of January at 17.00 there will be a wiki meet-up in the Amalie Skram room in Litteraturhuset, Oslo. There will be a presentation from Thomas Hylland Eriksen, who describes the theme of the meeting like this:

"Wikipedia can be used as an example of many things, including humans' exceptional lust for knowledge and insight. There are, however, stumbling blocks along the way, including them monopolization, relevance and knowledge aversity. In a world like this, an institution like Wikipedia is more important than ever."

Please do sign up on this page! The meet-up is free and open to all. Travel expenses can be covered by Wikimedia Norge (get in touch with astrid@wikimedia.no).

Wikigrants

The 15^th of February is the deadline for applying for wikigrants. We're looking forward to seeing many exciting applications!

General assembly

Wikimedia Norge's general assembly will be held at Samisk hus, Oslo, on the 3^rd of March 2018 at 11.00. We're planning a wiki meet-up, drone safari and a Wikidata workshop this weekend, so keep the dates March 2–4. Members' travel expenses can be covered. We'll return with more information in the next newsletter.

Northern Sami Wikipedia

This fall, Wikimedia Norge has started a project to improve the Northern Sami Wikipedia. During the fall we have translated our website into Northern Sami, held a survey among current and former contributors to the wiki, planned cooperations with various institutions and participation to Márkomeannu and Riddu Riđđu. This work will continue in 2018, and those who are interested in ollowing it can sign up for updates on the project here.

This project is also the first one where we use Phabricator for project management. The project can be followed here.

Retriever and Bokhylla.no

Accesses to Retriever were dispersed again on the 20^th of November, 2017, and a new dispertion will happen on the 20^th of May, 2018. We remind you that we can also help get access to Bokhylla.no for Wikipedians with foreign IP addresses. More information about this can be found on this page.

Wiki Loves Earth

The international winners of Wiki Loves Earth were announced on the 11^th of December! We especially congratulate the Norwegian photographer who came in 5^th.

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Notice

Hi Jon,

I would like to inform you that you have banned from two IRC channels by chan ops from respectively wikimedia-stewards and wikimedia-operations due to ongoing quit and rejoin spam from your client. If you want to join these again you need to fix issue I've been told. Regards, Wiki13 _talk 22:50, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Same applies for #wikidata. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 23:08, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the notices, Wiki13 and Sjoerddebruin, and sorry for the annoyances! My machine was supposed to be hibernating, but apparently wasn't, at least not completely… Do any of you happen to have a suggestion for good Ubuntu IRC clients that may avoid this issue? Jon Harald Søby (talk) 09:39, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Hi, personally I use HexChat on Windows. But from the looks of that page there is PPA for Ubuntu that has a stable version in it. You might want to try that out. Regards, Wiki13 _talk 09:44, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

@Wiki13: Hehe, HexChat is the one I'm already using… Oh well. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 09:48, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

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Hello, Wikimedia Norge members and other contributors, here's our newsletter with some info on what happening in the upcoming months.

Membership fees due

The membership can be paid by using Vipps (to 10386 – Wikimedia Norge) or by transferring the money into account no. 1503 08 00866. The fee is normally 200 NOK, but 100 NOK for students and retirees and those on welfare.

Thank you to everyone who has already paid their membership fees for 2018 and support our work!

Still not a member? Become one on wikimedia.no!

Wikigrants

February 15^th is the deadline for applying for wikigrants. We're hoping to see many interesting applications!

Wiki meet-up March 2^nd

On Friday March 2^nd there'll be a wiki meet-up in Samisk hus, Oslo. There will be wikiwars, food and drinks, and the board of WMNO will award the Wikipedian of the Year. Everyone is welcome, but kindly register on this page so we'll know how much food to order.

General assembly March 2^rd

Wikimedia Norge's general assembly will be held at Samisk hus, Oslo, on March 3^rd starting 11.00. Everyone is welcome, but only members have the right to vote. The assembly will also be streamed on our YouTube channel.

The agenda for the general assembly has been published here, and proposals for the assembly can be sent to the board until February 15^th to this address: wikimedia-no-styre@lists.wikimedia.org. Register here.

Drone safary March 3^rd

Do you want to learn how to use a drone? Join our drone safare and learn how to use Wikimedia Norge's drone! Starting at Samisk hus at 14.00. Register here.

Wikidata workshop March 4^th

On Sunday March 4^th from 12.00 to 16.00, we will host a Wikidata workshop at Samisk hus, Oslo. This will be a workshop aimed at Wikipedians on how to use the many available Wikidata tools; how to use them to edit Wikidata and how they can be used on Wikipedia. Register here.

Wikimedia Norge awarded funding from Arts Council

Wikimedia Norge has been awarded 100,000 NOK to make an image collection by Bodil Biørn available on Wikimedia Commons. Bodil Catharina Biørn (1871–1960) was a Norwegian missionary, nurse and midwife who was a missionary in eastern Turkey (Ottomon Empire). Biørn was an eyewitness to what has later been called the first genocide of the 20^th century, the Armenian Genocide. She documented this by taking photographs and writing detailed image descriptions. In May Wikimedia Norge and the National Archive invite Wikipedians to help work on these image descriptions. Read more here..

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Translation Request

HI,

I was looking for speakers of various on babel on meta. I am wondering how to say "village in China" and "village in Indonesia" in Norwegian. Thanks in advance. --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 23:35, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

@Artix Kreiger: «landsby i Kina» and «landsby i Indonesia». :-) Jon Harald Søby (talk) 09:15, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Sorry for late reply but Thanks so much. --Artix Kreiger (Message Wall) 01:21, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Ready for translation: Editing News #1—2018

Hi! This is an invitation to join translators working on the upcoming issue of the multilingual newsletter for the visual editor, which will be widely delivered when it's end of Friday in Central Europe. Thanks in advance for your help with this: getting to interact with fellows so skilled like the translators are is among my favorite things about my job :) Best, Elitre (WMF) 10:29, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

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Come join Wikimedia CEE Spring 2018/CEE Women again! <3

Get a postcard from one of the countries in red :)

Hello, Jon Harald Søby! You receive this message because last year you took part in the CEE Women challenge. This year the challenge repeats, and it will take longer: from now until the end of May (about 10 weeks).

Please, feel invited to visit the page Wikimedia CEE Spring 2018/CEE Women and join the challenge again. Help have more notable women from Central and Eastern Europe in more language versions globally, including Norwegian (both of them! :) ). We again have a list of ideas for biographic articles of women from all over the CEE.

What is different this year is that now you can set your own minimal number of articles as a measure of your challenge (i don't advise you to challenge yourself with more than 70 ;) 10-20 is perfect!). Also, you can receive as a prize a postcard not only from Bulgaria (as in 2017), but also from a list of countries from CEE and around the world. Apart of being a receiver, you can also opt to be a sender of postcards from your country to some of the other participants! That would also be awesome!

Thank you in advance for any contribution you make to CEE Women, and for spreading the word in your local wiki community! Love, Vassia / →Spiritia 18:34, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

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Hello, Wikimedia Norge members and other contributors, here's our newsletter with some info on what's happening in the upcoming weeks and months.

Meet-up at Litteraturhuset, May 15^th

The introduction this evening is Silvija Seres¸who will talk about how the fourth industrial revolution changes business models, markets, how we work, and how we are. The meetup is free and open to everyone! Welcome! More info in the Facebook event.

Dispersion of Retriever accesses, May 20^th

The accesses for Retriever will be dispersed again after May 20^th. Sign up here if you're interested.

Oslo Freedom Forum, May 28^th

Wikimedia Norge is participating in the Tech Lab during Oslo Freedom Forum with a full-day editathon. Do you want to join us? Get in touch with astrid@wikimedia.no. Lunch and travel expenses can be reimbursed. This is the invitation from the Human Rights Foundation, which organizes the Oslo Freedom Forum: As a member of Norway's Wikipedia community, you are invited to spend May 28 with hundreds of human rights activists and technologists at the 2018 Oslo Freedom Forum. Wikimedia will have an area inside the venue at Sentralen in downtown Oslo to encourage participants to edit various human-rights related entries in Norwegian, English, and other languages. A key goal will be to get the dissidents, activists, journalists, and netizen and OFF attendees from more than 50 countries to get involved in editing their own country's important pages, such as country page, leader (or dictator), top activists, and any key human rights or corruption issues. Working together, we can expose the crimes of corrupt governments while also shining a light on those who are working to make the world a better place.

Bodil Biørn event at the National Archive, May 30^th

200 photographies from Bodil Biørn's collection are kept at the National Archive. With support from the Arts Council, the National Archive is digitizing these photos, and Wikimedia Norge is transcribing them and making the content available in cooperation with Wikimedia Armenia. This afternoon we invite everyone to get more acquainted with Bodil Biørn and the National Archive's collections. More info in the Facebook event.

Conferences and festivals

The employees of Wikimedia Norge are participating in several conferences and festivals this summer to promote the Northern Sami Wikipedia. If you are going to any of them, we would love to get in touch! Reach out to astrid@wikimedia.no.

We are part of the program at Celtic Knot in Wales and Wikimania in South Africa. We will also be present at the festivals Riddu Riđđu and Márkomeannu.

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Hello, Wikimedia Norge members and other contributors, here's our newsletter with some info on what's happening in the upcoming weeks and months.

Wiki Loves Monuments: photo and writing contests

During September, the annual international photo contest on cultural heritage, Wiki Loves Monuments, will be held. There will also be a 2-week long Wikipedia writing contest about cultural heritage.

Meet-up at Litteraturhuset, September 4^th

For this meet-up, Anine Kierulf has been invited to talk about Wikipedia and the Constitution of Norway – about article 100. "Wikipedia is decidedly the largest and most used encyclopedia in Norway, while it also has many shortcomnigs. Article 100 of the Constitution says The authorities of the state shall create conditions that facilitate open

and enlightened public discourse, so is this a challenge for the authorities?" The event is free and open to everyone. You can register on-wiki or in the Facebook event.

Wikigrants, deadline September 15^th

All contributors to the various Wikimedia projects can apply for our wikigrants. The maximum amount is 8 000 NOK. The wikigrant must be used for activities that support one or more Wikimedia projects.

Researchers' Days, September 26^th

During this year's Researchers' Days, we will discuss what can be done to make women's contributions to culture and the arts as publicly visible as men's contributions. We are inviting organizations and people who have worked on the subject to talk about why it is important to do something about this, to share the good methods and not least to inspire to action. See the Facebook event.

#wikinobel, September 27^th

A #wikinobel event will be held at the Nobel Peace Center on this date. More information is coming on wikimedia.no.

Workshop: Wikidata, November 10^th

A new workshop on Wikidata! There will be merch from Wikimedia Deutschland to celebrate that Wikidata is turning 6. Feel free to suggest topics on the registration page.

There are many round numbers this fall. The Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia is getting close to half a million articles, Wikidata is about to surpass 50 million items, and is also turning 6. Congratulations! Please get in touch with us if you have ideas about how to celebrate all of this!

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Help me Please !

Hi, I would like to know if you can activate the Guianese Wikipedia project, and please do not discuss it with another administrator, because I think I have sent too many messages; they do not want to answer any more, please, I did all that I was asked to do for this project, Check by yourself, it has been a year since I am told that they will activate it and create officially the Guianese Wikipedia, but they have not done anything so far, so please activate this project because it's really important for me, but it has also developed in me a huge stress, I think about it all the time and it drives me crazy to tell me that they will never approve of it, even though I did everything as they asked, please Create the Guianan Wikipedia! At least for a trial period, if you want just 3 months, but created the SVP, it's really important for me! LeGuyanaisPure (talk) 13:20, 29 August 2018 (UTC)

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Translation: VisualEditor newsletter October 2018

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18:20, 24 October 2018 (UTC)

Your unfair Gerrit patch

Regarding your gerrit:454700:

Please, can you abandon it? It's really not a good effort, it's neither a good idea nor a bad idea, it's just not a solution, your patch will break the Wikidata structure about it, you will unfairly mark Nynorsk and Hognorsk monolingual texts wrongly as Bokmal, you will also unfairly call Bokmal = all Norwegian in your user page Babel, you will also introduce a lot of confusion ways on handling Bonnie-and-Clyde issues in our codebase. Please, abandon it, and I will buy candys to you. --180.97.204.24 22:47, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

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What do you think about @Prz rulez:'s comment? This looks like contesting the rules of langcom and is it appropriate to you? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 13:39, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

New respond:Well... First of all this "grandfather clause" is causing a discrimination. I really can't understand that Bosnian standard has its own Wiki and Montenegrin doesn't. Secondly - I guess a compromise would be creating common Serbian/Montenegrin Wiki with possibility of 2 articles existing - one in Serbian standard and second in Montenegrin one. That would sort of solve the problem. Because, even if I know that Wikipedia isn't (usually) a reliable source for citing, it's not fair that Montenegrins can't use the Wiki material in their own standard. --2409:8902:9301:F7F8:661C:FD23:FBA4:F48 00:56, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

User:117.15.55.182 : abuse

Can you do something against User:117.15.55.182 for its repeated insults on this wiki ? Even when ordered to stop that, he posts again and again, and adds new versions in multiple languages (approximate non-sense automatic translations). I cannot stop him, he posted 18 messages in a raw and is constantly pinging me. He's unable to defend a position without abusing and directed personal attacks (plus out of topic political concerns and lot of bad faith/short vision about the real history of this region of Indonesia and refusal to recognize that this is only a technical issue, not a politically-oriented one). Can he be blocked for a while by an admin? verdy_p (talk) 02:54, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Nothing stops him: he delete my own warnings and orders to stop insults. Now 20 messages of insults (plus some of them containing translations in a dozen of languages, apparently using automatic translators, most of them are even worse than the original or don't have any meaning: he does not know what he posts). verdy_p (talk) 03:20, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

I think this is the same user as "Liuxinyu970226". I think he just logged off from his MW account, just thinking that he could post his spew "anonymously". (an IPCheck could reveal it, I cannot do that myself). verdy_p (talk) 03:34, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

@Verdy p: I don't use that IP address, by cmd ipconfig /all, my current IP address is 36.102.227.22 (talk • contribs • info • WHOIS

• guc) . I have no idea what this IP is. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 04:28, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Maybe this is the actual reason: An Internet-stealer accessed my Wi-Fi access point without authorization, so maybe changing my AP password will help a lot? --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 04:35, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

Oops 36.102.227.22 was also stolen two days ago, oh no, I may need to ask my ISP to renew DNS records for me. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 04:45, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

@Verdy p: Sorry, but I'm not an admin here, so there's not much I can do about this. I would suggest you try asking on Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 14:13, 6 November 2018 (UTC)

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Hello, Wikimedia Norge members and other contributors, this is the last newsletter of the year from us. We wish everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year! 🎄❄🎅☃

UN International Year of Indigenous Languages

2019 is the UN's International Year of Indigenous Languages, and Wikimedia Norge has been recognized by UNESCO as a Civil Society Partner. Throughout 2019 we will hold a series of events connected to indigenous languages and Sami content online. The first event is an international writing contest in February of 2019. Read more on this page

General assembly in Tromsø, 9 March 2019

Wikimedia Norge's general assembly for 2019 will be held in Tromsø.

As usual we will hold a wiki meetup the day before the general assembly. The meetup on 8 March will begin with a tour of Perspektivet Museum from 17:00 to 18:00, after which we will meet at Casa Inferno.

The general assembly will be held on 9 March from 12:00 to 14:00 at Skansen.

We have been given a new grant from Arts Council Norway to continue the Bodil Biørn project. The project is a cooperation with Wikimedia Armenia and the National Archive of Norway, centered around transcribing and digitizing Biørn's letters from Armenia. You can read an article about the project written by Wikimedia Norge and the National Archive here.

On 12 December 2018, Wikimedia Norge moved its office to Schweigaards gate 34C (greenhouse.no). We're hoping to organize a wiki meetup here in the spring.

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Hello, Wikimedia Norge members and other contributors, here is an overview of goings-on organized by Wikimedia Norge this spring.

Wikipedia editing workshop in Trondheim

Litteratur for inkludering are organizing a Wikipedia editing workshop at Litteraturhuset in Trondheim in cooperation with Wikimedia Norge on May 14^th. The event is free and open to everyone. Welcome! Facebook event

Travel scholarship for Wikimania

The annual Wikimania conference, which is for anyone interested in the Wikimedia projects, will be held in Stockholm on August 14^th–18^th. Wikimedia Norge is offering travel scholarships of 3,000 NOK to volunteers who wish to go. You can apply for a scholarship by May 15^th on this page.

Retriever access

Every six months Wikimedia Norge are disseminating 6 accesses for Retriever to active Wikipedia contributors. If you are interested in obtaining an access, please add yourself to the list of interested users on this page by May 20^th.

Wiki meetup in Oslo

The next wiki meetup in Litteraturhuset will be on May 23^rd. Wikimedia Norge has invited faktisk.no for a wiki meetup in Litteraturhuset to talk about fact-checking, and what fact-checkers think about Wikipedia as a project. The event is free and open to anyone. Welcome! Facebook event. Registration page on Wikipedia

Employees and volunteers from Wikimedia Norge will be present at the Oslo Freedom Forum (May 27^th–28^th), the Celtic Knot Conference in Cornwall (July 4^th–5^th), Riddu Riđđu (July 10^th–14^th) and Márkomeannu (July 25^th–28^th). Please get in touch with us if you are planning to attend any of these events!

2019 is the Year of Indigenous Languages, and Wikimedia Norge has received a grant of 140,000 NOK from UNESCO Norway for our work with Sami knowledge online.

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Italian simple wikipedia as txikipedia

Hi, I'm Matteo Ruffoni Hi! I'm Matteo and I work as teacher at a middle school in Valle di Ledro, near Trento. My pupils and I have been contributing to Wikiversity and Wikimedia Commons since 2016. Another interesting project is Vikidia, a wiki for 8-13 aged children. My user page in Wikiversity is here and at Vikidia is here. an Italian math teacher. I'm writing on behalf of a group of teachers, members of wikimedia and vikidia. We are very committed in involving our students (8-13 years old) in creating entries in Italian Vikidia, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage and Wikibooks. We had the pleasure to meet Koldo Biguri and we would like to do the same he has done with vikidia and txikipedia. He told us that you konw how to create a suitable namespace where to add the created entries. At the moment we are dealing with vikida and wikimedia-it administrators in order to make this possible. Could you please give us some technical details? Looking forward to hearing from you Best regards Matteo mattruffoni@gmail.com Mattruffoni (talk) 14:32, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

@Mattruffoni: Hi, and sorry for taking so long to get back to you on this! The number one thing to remember is getting community consensus in the Italian Wikipedia (and preferrably in the Italian Vikidia as well – most if not all users in the Basque Vikidia consented to moving the content to Txikipedia). After consensus is reached, we will post a request in Phabricator to create the namespaces. Then you need to export all relevant pages from Vikidia and change all links to use the namespace prefix with regular expressions (very important to keep a clear head here), then import them to Wikipedia. I'll be happy to help with this step since I have the experience doing that already – it can get a bit complicated. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 12:27, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

typo, when someone translated words from Jimbo Wales?

Unclear translation of message from Jimbo Wales.
(If possible, please pass on the information to a relevant person, so someone perhaps can correct it.)

"Kvart å bestemmer akkurat nok menneske seg for å gje."

One could say that a typo has turned the whole sentence into gibberish. Regards! Sju hav (talk) 20:01, 7 July 2019 (UTC)

Takk for årvåkenheten, det er fiksa nå. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 22:32, 11 July 2019 (UTC)

Please translate the Editing newsletter

Would you please translate VisualEditor/Newsletter/2019/July into your favorite language for me? I'd really appreciate it. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 17:30, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

Nyhetsbrev frå Wikimedia Noreg

Wikimedia Norge

Hello, Wikimedia Norge members and other contributors, here is our newsletter for August 2019.

Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm

This week, volunteers, employees and board members of Wikimedia Norge will be participating in the international Wikimania conference, which will be held in Stockholm this year. We will participate with a series of presentations, and one of the keynote speakers, Liv Inger Somby, is invited by Wikimedia Norge. You can read more about her in this blog post (also in Northern Sami).

Wiki Loves Monuments

This year the international photo contest Wiki Loves Monuments will be organized in Norway for the ninth time. What's new this year is that there will be an extra category for photos of Sámi monuments. The criteria for the contest are simple – the photos need to be of registered monuments in Norway, and must be uploaded during September 2019, but can be taken whenever. In September the monthly writing contest will also be about monuments in Norway.

Hålogalandsvegen

During the Márkomeannu festival in July, Wikimedia Norge and Várdobáiki Sámi Centre started the wikiproject Hålogalandsvegen. The wikiproject focuses on improving articles related to the new road Hålogalandsvegen and nearby places in Norwegian Bokmål and Nynorsk and Northern Sami. The project page and the lists of relevant articles will be updated during fall. Feel free to sign up if you are interested in contributing!

Researchers' Days 2019

Wikimedia Norge will again take part in the Researchers' Days (Forskningsdagene) organized by the Research Council of Norway. On September 24^th at 17:30 we will hold a seminar on Decolonizing knowledge online at Kulturhuset in Oslo. Welcome!

Keep the dates! October 11^th is #wikinobel, and November 27^th there will be a meetup at Litteraturhuset. Mer information on these events will come on a later date.

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Editprotected

Why not just make a big request on RfH? Matiia (talk) 21:56, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

@Matiia: That's a very good idea that I should've thought of sooner. :-) I'm almost done now, just a few more, so I'll just finish it this way if you don't mind. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 21:57, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

@Matiia: If you're doing them, please feel free to just delete the talk pages once done instead of editing to reply, if that's easier for you. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 21:59, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

The notebook I'm using isn't very good, so I can't do it for now. If nobody take a look at it in a few days, I'll do it. Matiia (talk) 22:02, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

No problem. I'll just ping Billinghurst who did the last ones I requested (thank you!) so they can see this. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 22:04, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Done A list would be easier (User:Jon Harald Søby/sandbox), then I can just run AWB to the append {{subst:#titleparts:{{SUBPAGENAME}}| |-1}} and we don't have to manage a long series of edits that say {{done}}.  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:37, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: Thank you very much! Yes, the {{done}} thing is why I suggested just deleting the talk pages instead. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 22:50, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Guiana Creole Wikipedia

Hi Jon, I'm a main contributor from Guianan Creole Wikipedia. Do you know why this project is not yet been approved ?

Do you need maybe a linguist, because we have one, this is his mail : louis.honorien@hotmail.com, his name is Mr. Louis Honorien, this is a university professor of French Guiana.

If you miss something, please tell me, I was already sent all of this to Steven some months ago, but he said, he was too busy at this time, I try with you today, hope you'll help us, because we starting to lost hope that one day, Guianan Wikipedia could be created, and we put so much work on it.

Just please help us to make approved this project ! PouLagwiyann (talk) 13:56, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi PouLagwiyann! I actually just got a reply today from a linguist about Guianese Creole, and he verified that the language is correct. I will bring this to the attention of the language committee later today. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 14:01, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Nyhetsbrev fra Wikimedia Norge

Wikimedia Norge

Hello, Wikimedia Norge members and other contributors, here is our newsletter for November 2019.

During one week of October, Giellavahkku, the UN International Year of Indigenous Languages was celebrated all over the country. Wikimedia Norge was recently granted money from the Sámi Parliament's language funds to create an education program in cooperation with the Sámi University of Appliec Sciences and the University of Tromsø for students to contribute to the Wikipedia in Northern Sámi, or to contribute Sámi content to other Wikimedia projects in general. We have also been granted money from Fritt Ord to put Sámi place names in Wikidata, in cooperation with the Norwegian Mapping Authority. You can read more about this work on our blog.

The jury has finished its task for this year's Wiki Loves Monuments, and the 10 winning photos that go on to the international part of the contest have been announced on the winners page on Commons. Congratulations to all the winners, and thanks a lot to all contestants and jurors!

Here's an overview of Wikimedia Norge events happening in the next few months:

Bodil Biørn and women's invisibility in history

On the 11^th of November, Wikimedia Norge and the National Archives of Norway invites you to an event at the National Archive from 17:00 till 19:00. History has often been written by and for men. This is reflected in archives, history books, and on Wikipedia. Why is it important to make source material showing women's perspective on history available? The event is free and open to all. Welcome!

Meet-up at Litteraturhuset

On the 28^th of November, Wikimedia Norge invites you to a meet-up at Litteraturhuset in Oslo from 18:00 till 19:00. Ruth Vatvedt Fjell will be presenting.

Fjell, who is quite interested in curse words, is a professor of lexicography and cares about how language can maintain unbalanced gender patterns. Wikipedia is a huge knowledge base where anyone can contribute. Therefore it's right to ask what the type of language we use means for how knowledge is disseminated?

The event is free and open to all. Welcome! Tables in the bar have been reserved from 19:00 for those who wish to continue the discussion there.

Deadline for applying for wikigrants

The 20^th of November is the deadline for applying for wikigrants. You can apply for getting expenses related to contributing to Wikimedia projects covered.

Dissemination of Retriever accesses

Also on the 20^th of November, 6 accesses to Retriever will be disseminated to active Wikipedia contributors who could use this tool to write articles.

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Nyhetsbrev fra Wikimedia Norge

Wikimedia Norge

Hello, Wikimedia Norge members and other contributors, here is our newsletter for January.

Wiki meet-up

During the spring of 2020, we will test out monthly wiki meet-ups at Kulturhuset in Oslo for all wiki people. No set agenda, just bring what you're working on and get help or just have a chat. Jon Harald will be there from at least 17 till 19.

General assembly March 14^th

Wikimedia Norge's general assembly will be held on March 14^th at noon in the Interkulturelt museum, Tøyenbekken 5, 0188 Oslo. The general assembly documents will be published before the meeting on this page. After the general assembly, everyone is invited for lunch and a tour of the exhibition Typisk dem.

Membership fees due

Wi are grateful for everyone who supports our work! The membership fees for 2020 can be paid via Vipps to 10386 – Wikimedia Norge, or via bank transfer to account no. 1503 08 00866. The fee is normally NOK 200, or NOK 100 for students and others.

Community survey about Wikimedia Diversity Conference in Oslo

Wikimedia Norge is planning a Wikimedia Diversity Conference in 2020, and would love it if you could answer a short survey. You can read more about planning the conference and do the survey on our blog.

Are you a student and interested in freelancing?

Some times Wikimedia Norge needs help with mass uploads to Wikimedia Commons or Wikidata. Would you be able to help with some of this? We imagine it would be a nice freelance job for a student who knows Wikidata and/or Wikipedia. Email jhsoby@wikimedia.no if you're interested or have any questions.

Snøhetta to create new visual profile for Wikimedia

Last week two workshops were held in Oslo, after Snøhetta was chosen as a partner by the Wikimedia Foundation to make a new visual profile for Wikimedia. You can read more about that work on this page!

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Wikimedia Norges årsmøte blir virtuelt

Wikimedia Norge

Hello, Wikimedia Norge members and other contributors.

Wikimedia Norge's general assembly on March 14^th at 12:00 will be held purely online, because of the coronavirus situation. The agenda for the general assembly and related documents can be found here.

We're hoping many of you will be able to participate by video or by telephone. On our blog (in Norwegian), you can read about how to join the meeting.

Did you remember to pay your membership fees for 2020? Everyone who paid their membership fees for 2020 has the right to vote at the general assembly. The mebership fees for 2020 (NOK 200, 100 for students and others) can be paid by Vipps to 10386 – Wikimedia Norge, or to account number 1503 08 00866.

We wish all the best for our members!

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translate prefixes

Hi, I need to translate prefixes such as Index, Page etc. into Turkish on tr.wikisource but i have been able to go as far as to find this page. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/EPRP/repository/master/ --Satirdan kahraman (talk) 23:28, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

Nyhetsbrev fra Wikimedia Norge

Wikimedia Norge

Hello, Wikimedia Norge members and other contributors.

Online wiki meetup April 29^th, 17:00–18:00

Jon Harald Søby from Wikimedia Norge will explain how to help translating MediaWiki and other software on Translatewiki.net. You can join the meetup by using the same link as the previous online meetup, which is https://meet.google.com/ooj-hpyk-hmp, either via computer or with a smartphone. You don't need a Google account to join. Everyone is welcome to join, and we would like to remind you of Wikimedia Norge's safe space policy. The next meetup after this one will be on May 27^th. We have created a page for meetup notifications, so you can be notified on your favourite wiki whenever a new meetup is announced. The link to add yourself to that list is on the top of the meetups page.

Wikigrants

The next deadline for wikigrants will be on May 22^nd. All Wikimedia contributors can apply for wikigrants. The maximum amount you can apply for is 8 000 NOK. The wikigrant must be used for activities that support one or more Wikimedia projects.

The Wikipedia Library

On May 22^nd, accesses to Retriever will be redispersed to active Wikimedians. Access to Sámi newspapers for contributors to the Northern Sámi Wikipedia will also be dispersed for the first time on the same date.

Monthly contest

In June, Iran will be the subject for the monthly contest. In parallel with this, there will be a contest about Norway in the Persian Wikipedia organized by Iranian Wikipedians.

Those who are interested in the ongoing rebranding process can check out brandingwikipedia.org for updates.

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heads up next time

hey, I just happened to find out about this post last year. Could you guys maybe make it a habit to notify the project in question about stuff like that by pinging the active sysops? Seems the user simply disappeared when she could've been an asset. thanks. Seb az86556 (talk) 01:26, 15 May 2020 (UTC)

User Research - Looking for volunteers

Hey Jon Harald Søby,

For a current research project we are looking for active community members in Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons who are interested in filling out a survey and participating in an interview. And we would love your input especially in regards to Wikidata. The aim of the research is to identify opportunities for participation and access for new volunteers in the Wikimedia projects. For this purpose we would like to learn from the experiences of the already active community members and find out success factors for participation in the projects. Participation includes filling out a preliminary survey, a self-study and an interview.

If you are interested in participating, simply fill out this survey. The participants in the interviews will be selected on the basis of the answers in order to be able to consider as many different perspectives as possible.

All selected interview partners will receive a book or photo voucher of 25 euros as a thank you.

Feel free to forward this call to other people you think might share interesting experiences about Commons. If you have any questions you can of course contact me or check the project page :) On the Project Page you can also find more information.

Regards --Merle von Wittich (WMDE) (talk) 10:36, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Question about jawy importing

Hello, Jon Harald Søby.

There was a request from jawy to grant admin permission. I would like to ask if your job has ended prior to processing the request. And can you please contact me after the import work is complete? If you let me know that your work is done, I'll change the Wikisets :D Thank you for your work! and I hope you stay safe. --Sotiale (talk) 08:02, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

@Sotiale: Import is complete (almost, see below). But even if it wasn't, there is no conflict with granting anyone rights before it is done. :-) Jon Harald Søby (talk) 08:33, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

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Hello! First of all, thank you for the importation.

Now, I wasn't sure if I should make a new section, but I'd rather write here. The pages from the MediaWiki namespace and MediaWiki_talk namespace have not yet been imported. If you have necessary privileges to import them, I'd appreciate if you can do it. Otherwise, I'll do it manually. --Tmv (talk) 08:21, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

@Tmv: No problem. I read (through Google Translate) that there were some problems with the village pump import – sorry about that. That one page alone was 170 MB when exported as XML, which is way too big for MediaWiki's Special:Import to handle, so I had to split it into several chunks as you saw – sorry that some problems occured because of that.

As for the MediaWiki pages, I can import them – is it only the pages in incubator:Special:PrefixIndex/MediaWiki:Wy/ja (& talk pages), or are there more? Jon Harald Søby (talk) 08:33, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

@Jon Harald Søby: That's all I need. Thank you for your collaboration! --Tmv (talk) 08:48, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

@Tmv: Done, as you may already have noticed. :-) Jon Harald Søby (talk) 09:45, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

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Thanks for the reply! I was considering that actions such as deleting related pages would have an effect when the import work was not all done. Glad there is no problem, it was already handled by another stew before your confirmation. --Sotiale (talk) 02:42, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Nyhetsbrev fra Wikimedia Norge

Wikimedia Norge

Hello, Wikimedia Norge members and other contributors.

Here is an overview of some of Wikimedia Norge's activities for the next few weeks:

Wiki Loves Monuments

Wiki Loves Monuments is starting today, and will last through all of September. All photos of registered cultural heritage in Norway is eligible for the contest – and as usual, there is a writing contest on the Norwegian Bokmål and Nynorsk and Northern Sámi Wikipedias in conjunction with the photo contest. Good luck!

Virtual wiki meetup

The next virtual wiki meetup will be on Thursday, October 1st. This time the board chair of Wikimedia Norge, Sigrun Espe, will join us as a guest, and the subject will be the cooperative climate on-wiki. The meet-up will take place on Google Meet as usual, from 17.00 CEST at https://wikitreff.wikimedia.no/. You don't need a Google login to participate. Everyone is welcome and we would like to remind everyone of Wikimedia Norge's safe space policy. See you there!

Arctic Knot, Wikimedia language conference in Norway

In the summer of 2021, Wikimedia Norge will organize Arctic Knot 2021. The conference is a continuation of the Celtic Knot series of conferences organized by Wikimedia UK. We are planning for both an in-person and digital conference. The theme will be small languages and the wiki projects.

For the planning of the conference, we are holding a survey. It's rather short, and we would really appreciate if you would answer it. Thank you!

Wikipedia turns 20 on January 15th, 2021

Wikipedia is turning 20! How should it be celebrated? Wikimedia Norge wants to commemorate the occasion in a good way, and we appreciate all ideas related to the celebration! Feel free to write to Mali if you have any good ideas!

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Request for importing to JAWY

Hello, I'm Atmark-chan.

We in JAWY noticed that some of the pages that there are in Incubator but not imported to JAWY.

Those are:

• Wikivoyage talk:コミュニティ・ポータル (Incubator)
• all of the pages in the Template talk: namespace (Incubator)

So will you please import them? Thank you. --Atmark-chan <^T/_C> 17:35, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

@Atmark-chan: Sorry about that! I just imported them now. Let me know if you see anything else missing. :-) Jon Harald Søby (talk) 14:47, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for your importing! --Atmark-chan <^T/_C> 15:14, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikilinksbot

It was a bit challenging to find you. Are you the operator of the Telegram bot "wikilinksbot"? If so, I let you know that it is not working. It does not respond to any command I give him, neither in a chat nor in private messages. If not, ignore this message and sorry for the inconvenience. Bageense (talk) 17:34, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

@Bageense: Thanks for the heads-up! I have restarted it now, so it should work. Let me know if there's any trouble. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 17:57, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Yup, it's working. Thanks! Bageense (talk) 18:03, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Wikimedia Norgga ođasreive

Wikimedia Norge

(That's Northern Sámi for "Newsletter from Wikimedia Norge")
Hello, Wikimedia Norge members and other contributors.

Here is an overview of some of Wikimedia Norge's activities for the next few weeks:

Virtual meet-up

The next virtual meet-up is on Wednesday, October 29^th. Infoboxes are this month's theme. The meet-up will, as usual, take place on Google Meet from 17:00 CET, https://wikitreff.wikimedia.no/. You don't need to have/use a Google account to participate, and there is no requirement for having a camera or microphone. Everyone is welcome to join, and we would like to remind you of Wikimedia Norge's safe space policy.

WikiGap

In the daytime on November 19^th, there will be a small event at the Swedish embassy in Oslo. WikiGap is about minimizing the gender imbalance on Wikipedia. The event will commemorate the 20^th anniversary of the UN Security Council's Resolution 1325. Due to infection control, only a small number of participants may join. Send an email to contact@wikimedia.no if you wish to participate!

Wikigrants

The next deadline for wikigrants is on November 20^th. All contributors to the various Wikimedia projects can apply for our wikigrants. The maximum amount is 8 000 NOK. The wikigrant must be used for activities that support one or more Wikimedia projects.

The Wikipedia Library

On November 22^nd, accesses to Retriever will again be dispersed to active Wikipedians. Access to Sámi newspapers for contributors to the Northern Sámi Wikipedia will also be dispersed on the same date.

Giellavahkku, Sámi Language Week

This week, the Sámi Language Week is organized all over Norway. We are marking the language week by launching a cooperation with the National Library and Giellatekno at UiT The Arctic University of Norway about placenames. We have written about it on our blog!

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Community Wishlist Survey 2021: Invitation

The 2021 Community Wishlist Survey is now open! This survey is the process where communities decide what the Community Tech team should work on over the next year. We encourage everyone to submit proposals until the deadline on 30 November, or comment on other proposals to help make them better. The communities will vote on the proposals between 8 December and 21 December.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can write proposals in any language, and we will translate them for you. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your proposals!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

18:26, 20 November 2020 (UTC)

Community Wishlist Survey 2021

We invite all registered users to vote on the 2021 Community Wishlist Survey. You can vote from now until 21 December for as many different wishes as you want.

In the Survey, wishes for new and improved tools for experienced editors are collected. After the voting, we will do our best to grant your wishes. We will start with the most popular ones.

We, the Community Tech, are one of the Wikimedia Foundation teams. We create and improve editing and wiki moderation tools. What we work on is decided based on results of the Community Wishlist Survey. Once a year, you can submit wishes. After two weeks, you can vote on the ones that you're most interested in. Next, we choose wishes from the survey to work on. Some of the wishes may be granted by volunteer developers or other teams.

We are waiting for your votes. Thank you!

SGrabarczuk (WMF)

16:08, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Need Help!

Hi dear, can you help me for importing data I want to learn thanks. Kaleem Bhatti (talk) 11:30, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Nyhetsbrev nr. 19 fra Wikimedia Norge

Wikimedia Norge

Happy new year, and congratulations with 20 years of knowledge dugnad!

The English Wikipedia was launched on the 15th of January, 2001. The theme of the 20-year celebration is celebrating the people behind Wikipedia – all of you who have contributed in some way to make us able to celebrate 20 years of free knowledge. Due to the pandemic, we can't celebrate in-person at the moment, but we hope to be able to organize a celebration within the year.

Submit a greeting

We have made a congratulatory page where anyone can send their regards to Wikipedia. We hope it will be a nice page that shows why Wikipedia is as important as ever. Submit your greeting now!

Wiki meet-up

The next wiki meet-up will be on January 27th. Karl Wettin from Wikimedia Sverige will participate, giving a presentation of Wikispeech… This is an exciting open-source project about crowdsourced voice synthesis. It also has applications well beyond the Wikimedia projects. Any suggestions for future meet-up topics are very welcome at the bottom of the meet-up page!

Events to look forward to in 2021

• Wikimedia Norge's general assembly will be held on the 6th of March. It will be held entirely online this year, just like last year. More information coming soon.
• We are planning a digital administrator meet-up for all administrators in the Wikipedias in Norwegian Bokmål and Nynorsk, probably in March. If you are interested in helping organize this, please contact Jon Harald.
• Arctic Art+Feminism: We will organize four editathons during 2021, where the theme is female artists and indigenous art. More information coming soon.
• WikiGap: If the pandemic allows, there will be a WikiGap event at the Swedish Embassy in Oslo. We hope to see you there! This year's theme is female activists from South America.
• Arctic Knot: In June, we will organize the Wikimedia language conference, Arctic Knot. This is a continuation of the Celtic Knot series of conferences. More information coming soon!

New membership system

We are implementing a new membership system. What does this mean for you? Hopefully, as little as possible. For us, however, it means better follow-up of our members. Next week, we will send out a newsletter containing information about membership fees for 2021, among other things. They can be paid via Vipps or via AvtaleGiro. If you have already paid your dues for 2021, you can discard this.

Survey from the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is asking for answers to this survey from Wikimedians around the world. The WMF has made a Norwegian translation of the survey. You can answer it anonymously without sharing an email address, but if you do, you shouldn't close the browser before you have completed the survey.

Have you already paid your membership fees for 2021? If not, you can always do so by re-registering on this page.

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Nyhetsbrev nr. 20 fra Wikimedia Norge

Wikimedia Norge

Here are the latest news from Wikimedia Norge!

General assembly

This year's general assembly was held on March 6th, and the minutes are available here. Amongst other things, it was decided to give Wikimedia Norge an official name in Southern Sámi, Lule Sámi and Kven. That means that we now have 6 official names: Wikimedia Norge (Norwegian Bokmål), Wikimedia Noreg (Norwegian Nynorsk), Wikimedia Norga (Northern Sámi), Wikimedia Vuodna (Lule Sámi), Wikimedia Nöörje (Southern Sámi) and Wikimedia Norja (Kven).

New board

Hogne Neteland exited the board after many years of service, we would like to thank him for his efforts! Sigrun Espe continues as board chair. The board has two new board members:

• Fredrik Ljone, Bergen. Board member, elected for the 2021–2023 term. Ljone is dedicated to sharing knowledge, open data and rule of law. He has taken the initiative to make the law more accessible for everyone through jusleksikon.no and rettspraksis.no.
• Stian Amadeus Antonsen, Oslo. Deputy board member, elected for the 2021–2022 term. Antonsen has a lot of experience from different civil society organizations, and works as a political advisor in the Norwegian Students' and Academics' International Assistance Fund (SAIH). He is dedicated to diversity and inclusion, and wants everyone to be able to share in the production and dissemination of knowledge.

Welcome to them both!

Arctic Knot

On June 24–25, Wikimedia Norge will organize the digital Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference.

Wikipedia is a cornerstone of the digital age, but the knowledge you'll find isn't evenly distributed across languages. The Wikimedia movement is about to implement its 2030 strategy, while UNESCO is working on the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (IDIL), which starts in 2022. IDIL shows the potential that technology has in supporting and maintaining indigenous languages. These milestones form a frame for the conference, where we will discuss linguistic diversity in the Wikimedia projects, and how to build good linguistic environments for the users of indigenous and underrepresented language communities.

Arctic Knot is a conference for all Wikipedians and Wikimedians who are interested in indigenous languages, and also for organizations and institutions working in this field. This year's special focus will be on the Sámi languages. If you have any questions, please get in touch with Jon Harald Søby at jhsoby@wikimedia.no.

Administrator meetup

On Saturday, March 20, we held a administrator meetup for the Norwegian-language Wikimedia projects. There were 10 participants, of which one is a Wiktionary administrator, and the rest are administrators on the Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia. The meetup was initiated by Wikimedia Norge on request from the community.

During the meetup there was a walkthrough of "hidden" or little-known administrator tools, like mass deletion, new blocking options and patrolling tools. There was also broad agreement that there is a need to update and centralize rules and guidelines on-wiki.

Wikimedia Enterprise

With its new project Wikimedia Enterprise, the Wikimedia Foundation is working on a way to cooperate with commercial actors like Google and Amazon. A lot of commercial actors are already using Wikimedia content, but without any formal agreements or financial compensation. Wikimedia Enterprise is meant to be a service that will improve the user experience of Wikimedia outside of the Wikimedia platforms, and also be financially self-sustaining.

According to an article in Wired, the Wikimedia Foundation wants to make the effort of the volunteers more visible, and stimulate the tech giants to help contribute to the volunteer community.

Wikipedia 20 years

The Norwegian minister of education, Guri Melby, has sent a video message to all Wikipedians in connection with the 20th anniversary! Go have a look! Remember that you too can send a message!

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Approval of Dagbani Wikipedia

Is this too early to post? The request even doesn't created by now. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 07:25, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

@Liuxinyu970226: Ah, good catch! I have asked them to create a request now. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 07:31, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Approuval of Tachelhit Wikipedia [ Wp/shi ]

Hello sir Jon Harald Søby.

This is a long time we are working on this project, and after putting the question on the Talk:Language committee about the approuval of the project it seems that its stuck with the "verification of the content". See the thread here. The Co-founder of Wikimedia MA User Group sir Anass Sedrati as the usergroup is supporting the project (Tachelhit is a Berber language, which have an official statut in Morocco) have sent a message to one of the language committee members Mr. MF-Warburg with contact of a linguist specialising in Tachelhit language working in the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture in Rabat. We contacted him as well and he seem to accept to verify the content for external validation, but it seems like he still didn't get any email from the Language committee. Could the Language committee contact him so the project can be approved ?

Thank you --Ayour2002 (talk) 14:31, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Nyhetsbrev nr. 21 fra Wikimedia Norge

Wikimedia Norge

Hello, here are the latest news from Wikimedia Norge!

Arctic Knot

On June 24–25, the Arctic Knot Wikimedia Language Conference is finally under way! The conference is fully digital, and we hope you'll find the program interesting! There will be exciting talks and panel debates, and an opportunity to get to know projects like Abstract Wikipedia and Wikisource.

The full program is now available on Meta-Wiki, and you can read more about the conference on our blog.

Registration for the conference has opened, and participation is free of charge.

You can register all the way up until the conference starts, but if you wish to participate in the Unlocking the potential of digital language archives session, you need to register by June 20th in order to be able to use the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) as the session is happening.

The program is varied and exciting, and we think everyone will find something interesting in the program.

Du you wish to contribute to the conference as a volunteer? All participation is very welcome!

Maybe you'd like to help test the platform we'll be using beforehand? Or do you have any questions you think should be raised during the panel debate? Maybe you'd like to contribute with entertainment of some sort? Get in touch on arcticknot@wikimedia.no!

The monthly contest on Wikipedia

The subject of June's monthly contest will be artists. Edits to all articles on artists will yield points, but we hope many would like to write about Sámi and other indigenous artists!

Wikimania

This year's Wikimania will also be fully digital, enabling even more people to participate. The theme will be 20 years of Wikipedia, so it is a time to celebrate what the Wikimedia movement has achieved, and look back on the journey that led us here. You can now propose sessions for Wikimania. If you have an idea for a session, but are not sure about how to angle it, feel free to get in touch with us. We can help with brainstorming and whatever else you need!

Wiki meet-ups

It's not long before we can hold in-person meet-ups again, and some plans are already under way. It would be great for more people to be able to join meet-ups. Wikimedia Norge can help financially if you wish to organize a meet-up where you live.

We will still be organizing meet-ups, workshops and admin meet-ups at (ir)regular intervals, either digitally or in-person. If you have any ideas for topics, feel free to get in touch with Jon Harald (jhsoby@wikimedia.no)!

Have you already paid your membership fees for 2021? If not, you can always do so by re-registering on this page.

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Script suggestion

I recently heard about your diffedit user script, and started using it; it's very useful, thank you.

It made me wonder whether you would be interested in the script I suggested here for changing author name stings to authors, on Wikidata. I regret that I have no skills to code it, but I am happy to test an alpha version. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:26, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: Cool! May I ask how you heard about diffedit? I don't really know where to "promote" it/tell people about it (other than in the edit summaries it creates), so curious to know.

As for the author string -> author thing it sounds doable, but it's not my expertise either. But the functionality sounds a bit similar to some of Nikki's existing tools, so maybe they'd be able to help – if not, I can give it a shot, though I don't dare to promise anything. :-) Jon Harald Søby (talk) 15:00, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

Thank you. I saw the "diffedit" tag in an edit summary here on meta. To promote it further, you could write something for the "signpost" on en.Wikipedia, or maybe do a lightning talk at Wikimania (its online this year)? Or write a blog post, and sindicate it to Planet Wikimedia. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:25, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

Nyhetsbrev nr. 22 fra Wikimedia Norge

Wikimedia Norge

Hello, here are the latest news from Wikimedia Norge!

Arctic Knot – a big success

The final thing we did before the summer holidays was to hold the Arctic Knot Conference. We spent most of 2021 preparing the conference, and the conference lasted for two days with a lot of participation. Most of the videos from the conference are available in this playlist on YouTube.

13–17 August

Wikimania

Wikimania starts tomorrow, and the deadline for registering is midnight UTC tonight. Wikimania lasts for 5 days, and the program is adapted to multiple timezones, so it will take place at various parts of the day. There are plenty of interesting submissions!

Wikimedia Norge is participating with a workshop. The workshop's goal is to further develop the idea of a Wikimedia hub for underrepresented language communities. Everyone is welcome to participate!

Next wiki meet-up

25 August

The first meet-up of the fall will be about Abstract Wikipedia. We will watch Denny Vrandečić's presentation from Arctic Knot together, and discuss afterwards. The meet-up will take place on Google Meet, and start at 17.00 CEST. Simply explained, Abstract Wikipedia is about writing articles as functions in order to make them language-independent.

International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples

9 August marks the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, and we wrote a blog post based on some of the presentations from the Arctic Knot Conference.

Wikipedia 20 years

Due to Wikipedia's 20 year anniversary, we have received video greetings from government ministers and the President of the Sámi Parliament. You can watch the videos here. The greetings are for everyone who has contributed to Wikipedia during its 20 years of existence – thank you very much for your efforts!

Wikipedia in Norwegian turns 20 in November. This will be celebrated at the November meet-up; further information will come later.

Have you already paid your membership fees for 2021? If not, you can always do so by re-registering on this page.

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A Community Wishlist Survey update waiting for translation

Hello! Would you be able to translate the newest update about the Community Wishlist Survey 2022? In short: instead of November 2021, the CWS will happen in January 2022. We would also like to make other improvements. We can't do that without having the volunteers' opinions. This is what we ask for in the message.

After the weekend, I'll send this to all Village Pumps, Cafes, Forums, etc. Our team would like as many people as possible not to ignore this message. Let's remove the language barrier.

Thank you! SGrabarczuk (WMF) 01:29, 4 September 2021 (UTC)

Oversettelse

Hej! Hoppas att allt är bra med dig.

Om du har tid och lust, så finns det några sidor här som snart kommer att gå ut till gemenskapen och gärna kunde få vara på norska. Det är ett ganska viktigt ämne -- hur kommer vi hantera IP-adresser och VPN-liknande funktioner i framtiden?

• Apple iCloud Private Relay
• User:SGrabarczuk (WMF)/sandbox/1
• Template:Editnotices/Page/Talk:Apple iCloud Private Relay

/Johan (WMF) (talk) 17:49, 12 October 2021 (UTC)

Template:Translation request/Languages/doc nominated for deletion

Hello. An item which you created or you have edited substantially (Template:Translation request/Languages/doc) has been nominated for deletion. Please see the ongoing discussion at Meta:Requests for deletion. Thank you. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 13:10, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

Nyhetsbrev nr. 23 fra Wikimedia Norge

Wikimedia Norge

Hello, here are the latest news from Wikimedia Norge!

Wikipedia in Norwegian Bokmål is turning 20!

The Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia turns 20 on November 26, and this will be celebrated during the December 1 wiki meet-up. That will be a virtual meet-up with a quiz and other fun. Do you wish to receive a 20th anniversary T-shirt? Send us your address and size (S–XL) to wikimedia@wikimedia.no!

Here's more information about the meet-up.

Giellavahkku and Sámi work

Maybe you've been wondering why there's been so much Sámi stuff in social media lately? The reason is the Sámi language week, Giellavahkku, which aims to make the Sámi languages more visible. The Sámi languages, culture and history are an important part of the diversity of knowledge. We have summarized the work we're doing with regards to Sámi languages in this blog post.

The Lapp Codicil was repatriated to the Sámi Archives this month, after a long process. The Lapp Codicil is still the base of the laws for borders in the North of Scandinavia. It will soon also be available on Wikimedia Commons.

Queer culture year 2022

Througout 2022, the queer culture year (Skeivt kulturår) will be marked in Norway. In preparation for this, we have uploaded 139 interviews by the Queer Archive to Wikimedia Commons. We also have several other projects planned for next year.

– The fact that queer experiences, history and culture aren't reflected online is a blank spot in our common history, says Heide Rohde Rafto, acting academic director of the Queer Archive of Norway. She adds that queer history is not only the history of LGBT+ people, but of the whole of society.

By engaging in the queer cultural year, we are hoping to fill in these blank spots. And we're doing this from a diversity point of view – it's not all about gender and sexuality, but also about individuality and the people who have made an effort to effect change.

Language Diversity Hub

Diversity of knowledge shouldn't just be limited to Norway. Through international cooperations, we are hoping to create a gathering point for those who are working on indigenous and underrepresented languages. In this project we are joined by several participants of the Arctic Knot Conference this summer. You can read more about this work on this page.

Retriever

It will soon be time to disperse access tokens for Retriever again. You can sign up from November 15. Reminders will be posted on Torget and Samfunnshuset when the sign-up opens.

Wikimedia Sverige have a separate deal with the Swedish Retriever. They have many access tokens available, and can share them with Norwegian volunteers as well. Only Swedish media is available through their deal. Sign up on this list on the Swedish Wikipedia if you're interested in getting access to the Swedish Retriever.

Wikigrants

Now that society has reopened, there are more opportunities to go out and about! There are several activities you can apply for a wikigrant for. All Wikimedia contributors can apply for a grant of up to 8,000 NOK. The grant must be used for activities that support one or more Wikimedia projects, and the application deadline is November 20.

Have you already paid your membership fees for 2021? If not, you can always do so by re-registering on this page.

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Update on Gungbe Wikipedia(Wp/guw) in incubator

Hello Jon Harald Søby,

Please is there a way we could assist in the content verification process of Wp/guw as I understand you reached out to an expert. Any update? As a test-admin for this project, I am reaching out to you because it is becoming increasingly difficult for editors to contribute to Gungbe Wiktionary(Wt/guw) and Gungbe Wikipedia (Wp/guw) at the same time without making errors in typing Wt/guw and Wp/guw. In addition, is there anything we can do to accelerate the approval of Wt/guw? Thanks.--Samatics (talk) 12:51, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi Samatics! I sent them a reminder earlier today, hopefully I will have an answer soon! Stay tuned. :-) Jon Harald Søby (talk) 12:56, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Thanks.--Samatics (talk) 13:08, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

Hello Jon Harald Søby,

I sent a mail to you, please confirm receipt. I wanted to know how we can implement the suggestions for readers to be aware of the orthography used in articles. I see something similar here w:eml:Zòbia. Also please see how this is done here Nigeria orthography (with language code guw) and Benin Orthography(with language code guw-bj assigned to it). Even though most readers can read text in the Nigeria orthography (being the older orthography developed before the Benin orthography was developed), I would like to see or know how both orthographies can be accommodated in the future. Thanks.--Samatics (talk) 15:44, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Diffedit

Hej du! Jag ville bara gratulera till vinsten i Coolest Tool Award. Diffedit är som sagt ett väldigt användbart verktyg jag faktiskt hörde talas om för första gången på ceremonin. Bra jobbat och god fortsättning! <3 --Sabelöga (talk) 03:03, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Nyhetsbrev nr. 24 fra Wikimedia Norge

Wikimedia Norge

Hello, here are the latest news from Wikimedia Norge!

English Wikipedia most visited

Statistics for pageviews to encyclopedias in Norway in 2021 were recently shared on Torget. Not surprisingly, Wikipedia is the most-visited encyclopedia; the English-language edition is slightly ahead of the Norwegian Bokmål and Nynorsk editions (combined), with 348 and 325 million pageviews, respectively. In comparison, the next encyclopedia on the list, Store norske leksikon, had 112 million pageviews. The numbers speak for themselves: Wikipedia is where people go to learn.

It is also a reminder that Wikipedians' efforts are incredibly important. We hope these numbers can help motivate both new and experienced contributors.

Thanks to H@r@ld for sharing this information.

Bot workshop

On Sunday 27 February from 12:00–16:00, we will hold a bot workshop! We will go through how to set up and run the most common bot framework, Pywikibot, on PAWS, and show some of the most common standard scripts in Pywikibot.

Maximum 10 participants! Sign up on the meet-up page or via e-mail to jhsoby@wikimedia.no.

Year of Queer Culture

panel debate in Bergen

On Thursday 24 March, Wikimedia Norge and the National Archive for Queer History will hold a panel debate at Litteraturhuset, Bergen. The theme for the debate is how archives, museums and Wikipedia can make queer history, art and culture more visible. IT will also examine how we use contemporary labels for the past. A common understanding of what queer history is will help us to make queer history more visible.

The event is part of the Year of Queer Culture 2022.

Wiki meet-up and general assembly in Bergen

Wikimedia Norge will host a wiki meet-up with pizza and something to drink at Villa Paradiso Ole Bull on 25 March, starting 18:30. Register on the wiki meet-up page or by e-mail to wikimedia@wikimedia.no.

The next day, on 26 March from 12–14, we will hold our general assembly, taking place at Litteraturhuset, Bergenː All members are welcome! The general assembly will also be streamed for those who can't be there in person, and voting will happen digitally.

Active contributors can get a travel stipend. Send an e-mail to astrid@wikimedia.no in order to apply.

Remember membership fees before the general assembly!

You can finally use Vipps to set up a regular, annual payment of your membership. We have updated our website and hope even more people will use a recurring payment. If you wish to use AvtaleGiro, that is also still possible.

Remember that you must have paid your membership fee for 2022 in order to vote at the general assembly.

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Query about test projects for new languages

Hi, Jon Harald. Not sure if you remember me, but we were admins together on Wikidata for a time, when my username was PinkAmpersand. I saw that you'd commented on phab:T300378 as a LangCom member, and so hoped you could answer a question of mine related to LangCom and Toki Pona

A fairly inexperienced user has created a request to (re)create a Wikipedia in Toki Pona [en/no]. This is something that I and a number of other tokiponists have been hoping to make happen for some time, but suffice it to say we would have put a significantly greater amount of effort into a request. We are aware that there's a fairly high bar for conlang wikis, and think that we can meet that bar, but had planned to take more time putting together that case.

I find I have three options:

1. Ask the user to delete the request for the time being.
2. Comment on the request asking that consideration be deferred while the rest of us get our house in order.
3. Seize the day and put together a proper request in place of the rather generic one that's been filed.

I'd like to do #3, but a crucial question becomes that of the test project requirement. A Toki Pona "Wikipesija" exists, dually licensed in CC-BY-SA 3.0 and 4.0, with at time of writing 1,369 content pages, listed on a stats page that for some reason doesn't show our 20 active users (I'm there as "Tansin"). (Any pursuit of option 3 would be coupled with a push to at least double our number of articles, hopefully more than double it, and recruit more editors (there being a sizable pool of tokiponists to draw from).) The concern about moving away from Wikipesija is that we've localized there to a greater degree than would be possible on Incubator (for instance, translating special pages' names and adding a namespace), and, more importantly, it's what users are used to, and I think we would lose some in any move to Incubator. Thus my question is whether it would be possible to have Wikipesija assessed as the test project, or whether LangCom would require us to copy or fork to Incubator in order to have any request be considered. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she/they) 15:48, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi Tamzin, hope you're doing well!

We have made exceptions for the test project requirements in the past, for projects that have already had active communities elsewhere (the most prominent example is probably the Western Armenian Wikipedia, which was started inside the Armenian Wikipedia). That said, there is no automaticality in Toki Pona being eligible according to the Language proposal policy, but given that we approved Kotava and Toki Pona is much more well-known than that, I would say you have a good chance.

As for the request itself, a mix of #2 and #3 would work well. Remember that it doesn't have to be perfect from the start at all – it's a wiki after all, so if you just make some small improvements now and leave a note that you'll expand more on it later, that's completely fine. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 08:45, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the context, Jon Harald. I've gone for the mix you suggested—signalling an intent to do a big content-creation push, and asking LangCom to bear with us while we get that ball rolling. Now I'm off to raise an army of tokiponists. :D -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (she/they) 18:42, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Whose Knowledge? Drop-in July 2022 invitation

Over the next 2 weeks, we want to invite Whose Knowledge? User Group members to a community conversation about the upcoming Board of Trustees election. We’re also testing these drop-ins as a great way to be in touch, and establish periodic check-ins with our community.

There will be 2 informal drop-in sessions on different days and times. Please come to the session that works best for you:

• Drop-in 1: Thursday, July 7, 2022 - 12pm UTC

• Drop-in 2: Monday, July 11, 2022 - 6pm UTC

To learn more, visit the event page. If you can't join us, but you are interested in the conversation, we’d be more than happy to hear from you on our Talk page!

Just a gentle disclaimer: You are getting this message because you have signed up as a member of Whose Knowledge? User Group. We will send invitations like this from time to time, but we promise not to burden your Talk page. Feel free to unsubscribe from the distribution list.

--Mariana Fossatti (WK?) (talk) 18:19, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

Incomplete import of Category

Hello Jon Harald Søby, the category "Category:Wt/guw/Alọdlẹndonugbe" was not imported. Kindly look into it. Thanks.-- Samatics (talk) 15:04, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

The category is there now. Thanks.--Samatics (talk) 19:25, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Montenegrin Wiki

Hello! Can you tell me what Montenegrins have to do to get their wiki. Or can you do something for approving Montenegrin Wikipedia? Пан Хаунд (talk) 19:19, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

@Пан Хаунд: Hi! I am not sure, to be honest. I think we will have to bring it up for discussion again in the language committee mailing list. There is (now) an ISO 639 code, which there wasn't in the past, so that is one of the formal requirements fulfilled. The other relevant requirement in the Language proposal policy is the point that says "The language must be sufficiently unique that it could not coexist on a more general wiki.". If I remember correctly, the consensus in the committee in the past was that if they had been requested today, all wikis in the Serbo-Croatian language/dialect continuum would have had to share one wiki because the languages are so similar. However, I totally understand that it feels "unfair" for Montenegrin to be the only one that is "left out in the cold" because it is the only one that doesn't predate the language proposal policy. So it is a difficult matter.

I will bring the matter up with the rest of the committee, to see what their opinions are. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 11:38, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Hello, :@Jon Harald Søby:! Sorry for late reply! (( Thank you. Пан Хаунд (talk) 08:46, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

So, please tell me if anything change. Пан Хаунд (talk) 17:59, 23 November 2022 (UTC)

@Jon Harald Søby, Hello). Do You know something new about Montenegrin Wikipedia? Пан Хаунд (talk) 20:21, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

As I understand, the main reason why cnrwiki isn't approved is similarity between Montenegrin, Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian. But there is Rusyn Wikipedia project. Status of Rusyn language is ambiguous. Some scholars consider the language as a dialect of Ukrainian and others think it is a separate language. Moreover, Rusyn language is an old name of Ukrainian language. But Rusyn speakers had no problem with eligibility of their projects.

@Jon Harald Søby, what it is the problem to set up Montenegrin project? Пан Хаунд (talk) 08:35, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

Hello, @Jon Harald Søby. I do not want to be annoying, but I have one question:

Do you know anything new about Montenegrin Wikipedia? Пан Хаунд (talk) 18:08, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Hello, @Jon Harald Søby, what's the current status of Montenegrin Wikipedia? Пан Хаунд (talk) 18:49, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

@Пан Хаунд: Hi, sorry about the late reply. It is under discussion on the mailing list, although the discussion is a bit dormant at the moment. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 10:22, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

@Jon Harald Søby. Ok. Thank you for your reply. Пан Хаунд (talk) 10:25, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

diffedit

Hi,

Thanks a lot for writing the diffedit script. It makes the job very, very much easier.

I am pleased to write about a similar tool in the wishes of the community. I don't have to anymore;) SkrzydlatyMuflon (talk) 11:17, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

@SkrzydlatyMuflon: That's great to hear, very glad you like it! 😊 Jon Harald Søby (talk) 11:38, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Nyhetsbrev nr. 25 fra Wikimedia Norge

Wikimedia Norge

Hello, here are the latest news from Wikimedia Norge!

Wikigrants and news archive access

December 1^st is the deadline to apply for wikigrants from Wikimedia Norge. If you have an idea for a wiki-related project you'd like to do, but need some extra money to do it, you should apply! Anything goes as long as the end result benefits the Wikimedia projects.

On the same date we will be dispersing access to the news archive Retriever for the period until May 20^th, 2023. In Retriever, you can search the archives of 2,916 Norwegian news sources. Sign up on the list on Wikipedia if you're interested.

Committee being put together

How should we increase the number of members of Wikimedia Norge? We hope you would like to give us some input.

The 2022 general assembly decided that a committee should be put together to find out how to incentivize members to join. The board of Wikimedia Norge has written a mandate to give the committee a good frame of reference. The committee will consist of members and other Wikimedians, as well as a representative from the administration, and will deliver a report to the board on January 15^th, 2023.

We encourage anyone who wants more info or wants to join the committee to get in touch with board chair Marie Nicolaisen by November 27^th on marie@wikimedia.no.

Start-up help

Do you know someone who wants to contribute to Wikipedia, but doesn't know where to start?

On Wikipedia they can get a mentor, and there is a forum for new users. Now they can also meet an experienced Wikipedian "face-to-face" in an online event to get help live. Wikimedia Norge's start-up help will happen on the first Wednesday of every month. The first opportunity is December 7^th, 19–20 CET.

This is happening before Christmas

Wiki meet-up: Tuesday November 22^nd, 17:00–22:00 at Deichman Bjørvika, Oslo. Active contributors will meet up for a workshop and exchange of experiences. After the meet-up there will be a social meeting at nearby Døgnvill Burger.

Start-up help: Wednesday December 7^th, 19:00–20:00. Digital meet-up for new Wikipedians to get started.

Christmas meet-up: Thursday December 8^th we will meet at Dattera til Hagen in Oslo. Those who want to eat will meet at 17:00; there will be a quiz from 19:00 onwards.

Have you already paid your membership fees for 2022? If not, you can always do so by re-registering on this page.

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Global bot flag granted

Hello,

FYI, I just closed your SRB request for global bot flag, and I assigned the flag to @JhsBot.

Best wishes,
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Great, thank you very much! Jon Harald Søby (talk) 10:19, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

Custom LIJ Wikisource logo

(Swedish) Hejsan Jon Harald! Jag heter Sabino, mitt modersmål är italienska fast känner svenska som mitt andra språk. (Jag såg på din babel att du pratar norska bokmål som modersmål, fast kan förstå svenska)

Jag vet att du brukar importera sidor från Incubator när en Wiki blir publicerad. Jag undrade om det finns ett sätt att ha en personaliserad logga för liguriskspråkiga Wikisource med ett annat namn (Wikivivàgna), fast jag vet inte vart jag ska fråga och undrade om du visste hur. I 2020, det var någon som skapade den (File:Wikivivagna-logo 203 x 233 px.png), men någon annan sa att det var fel px. Mvh

(P.S. du kan svara mig på norska om du vill, jag kan förstå det lite grann :-).)

(English) Hello Jon Harald! My name is Sabino, my native language is Italian but I know Swedish as my second language. (I saw on your babel that you speak Norwegian Bokmål as native language, but can understand Swedish)

I know you usually import pages from Incubator when a Wiki is published. I was wondering if there is a way to have a personalized logo for the Ligurian Wikisource with a different name (Wikivivàgna), though I don't know where to ask and wondered if you knew how. In 2020, someone create it (File:Wikivivagna-logo 203 x 233 px.png), but someone else said it was the wrong px. Kind regards

(P.S. you can answer me in Norwegian If you want, I can understand it a bit :-).) --S4b1nuz ᴇ.656^(SMS) 22:28, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

@S4b1nuz E.656: File:Wikisource-logo-lij.svg. 😃 Jon Harald Søby (talk) 22:40, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Takk så mye Jon Harald!

(Swedish): Jag gissar att nu man ska lägga till en kod på lij:s:MediaWiki:Vector.css, så den nya loggan kan bli synlig på hela Liguriska Wikisource (eller ska man lägga det på ett annat sätt?).

(English): I guess that now a code needs to be added on lij:s:MediaWiki:Vector.css, so that the new logo is visible on the whole Ligurian Wikisource (or it is supposed to be put it in another way?). --S4b1nuz ᴇ.656^(SMS) 14:56, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

@S4b1nuz E.656: Ah, jeg hadde faktisk glemt at ligurisk allerede hadde en egen Wikisource, jeg trodde det fortsatt lå på flerspråklige Wikisource. Det beste er om du (eller noen andre) starter en diskusjon om det på s:lij:Wikivivàgna:Pòrtego da comunitæ, og når det har gått en uke så kan vi be om at logoen endres på ordentlig på Phabricator. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 18:15, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Ahaa... men det gör inget, sånt händer att man glömmer ibland 🙂. Men ja, jag kan starta en diskussion och en omröstning (avstemming) på s:lij:Wikivivàgna:Pòrtego da comunitæ, för att få tillåtelse från Liguriska Wikisource 🙂.

Jag kommer ihåg att jag gjorde omröstningar på varje Wikis i 2020 och get gick bra på Phabricator (phab:T256109 och phab:T263123) 🙂. Men om du vill, du kan skapa Phabricator tasken för att lägga den nya Wikisource logga, om jag hinner att starta diskussionen/omröstningen imorgon (jag kommer att vara borta i den 26 december, är inte säker att jag kommer att vara på någon systerprojekt). Jag kan skriva till dig på Liguriska Wikisource när omröstningen startar 😉.

En annan sak (som inte handlar om Liguriska Wikisource/Wikipedia), har jag besökt nyligen Nord- och den nyfödda Enaresamiska Wikipedia några gånger, för att jag var nyfiken av samiska språk (jag hörde om samiska språken när jag var i skolan i Sverige) och såg att du var på dessa 2 Wikis ibland.

Jag hade märkt att om man besöker min eller din användarsida på Enaresamiska Wikipedia, som genereras från Meta (och våra användarsidor är ganska likadana som använder {{int:lang}}), dyker det upp på våra Babels "fi-0" istället för "smn-0". Jag tänkte att det handlar om fallback och såg att det var någon diskussion om det (smn:Wikipedia:Kähviviste#Fallback language). Jag tycker att det ska bli fixad, eftersom på min och din användarsida på Nordsamiska Wikipedia visas "se-0" utan problem, även om den har norska som fallback. Kanske jag rapportera på Enaresamiska Wikipedia om det på diskussionen av Fallback, vad tycker du om det?

Jag önskar dig en trevlig kväll! Om du vill, jag kan översätta presentationen på din användarsida på svenska (och italienska om du vill också ha), och du kan översätta min presentation på norska bokmål och nynorsk (eller flera språk som du kan) 🙂. --S4b1nuz ᴇ.656^(SMS) 23:51, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

@S4b1nuz E.656: Så bra! Det viktigste for folka på Phabricator er at det er bevis for «community consensus», så om du poster der og det ikke er noen innvendinger i løpet av en uke så skal det gå raskt å endre logoen offisielt.

Ang. smn/fi så er problemet så enkelt at MediaWiki:Lang/smn ikke finnes her på Meta ennå – jeg ber om at den blir oppretta nå, så vil det nok fungere straks.

Jeg hadde presentasjonen på brukersida mi på mange språk før, men nå prøver jeg å bare holde den til språk jeg bruker mer eller mindre aktivt – de som forstår svensk forstår jo også de(n) norske, så jeg tror ikke det er nødvendig med svensk nå. Jeg kan se om jeg kan få oversatt din, men jeg har ikke tid akkurat nå, så det må evt. vente litt. 😊 Jon Harald Søby (talk) 12:42, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Ja, jag håller med dig att man har diskussioner som bevis för personerna i Phabricator 😉.

Ahaaa ok, jag trodde att det var svårare med att fixa babel-problemet för "smn" (såg också att du frågade att fixa för ISO-koden "dag") 😅. Jag trodde att det var något svårare problem som skulle ta lång tid för att fixa.

Om din användarsida: Okej, jag förstår... det är nog lika bra att du har din presentationen på språken som du brukar förstå/skriva, speciellt om du uppdaterar ganska ofta. Jag håller med att norska, svenska och även danska är ganska lika; men jag måste erkänna att jag trodde det var väldigt svårt för danska, norska och svenska personer att förstå varandra (speciellt när jag var de första åren i Sverige 😅). Men jag hade fel, jag förstod bra vad du skrev till mig utan att nödvändigtvis använda t.ex. Google Translate för att förstå 🙂.

För norska översättningen av min presentation: Det går bra för mig att vänta, ingen brådska 😊! Jag förstår att du är upptagen, speciellt att vi är på perioden av Julen 🙂. Min presentationen har jag valt att ha på språken som jag kan fortfarande förstå, även om jag inte kan riktigt skriva bra på vissa. Men det har varit några användare som ville spontant översatta min presentation och valde att behålla de på min användarsida utan att jag behövde fråga, för mig skulle det vara synd att ta bort översättningar gjorda av andra användare, de skulle vara ledsna om jag skulle göra det...

Men du får ha en trevlig semester och önskar dig en Buon Natale e felice anno nuovo a te e alla tua famiglia (God jul og godt nyttår til deg og din familie) 🙂! Hälsningar --S4b1nuz ᴇ.656^(SMS) 23:06, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Gungbe Wikiquote project logo

Hello @Jon Harald Søby, thank you for all you do. We are glad to have this subdomain finally. I noticed that the project logo is in English. Is there a way to change it to what is in Requests for new languages/Wikiquote Gungbe? Thanks.-- Samatics (talk) 16:59, 4 January 2023 (UTC)

@Samatics: Martin Urbanec fixed the logo yesterday, so now it is finally in place. :-) Jon Harald Søby (talk) 10:10, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

Thanks a lot. I just noticed it.-- Samatics (talk) 10:21, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

Update on ANGIKA Wikipedia (Wp/anp) on incubator

Hello Jon Harald Søby, Please is there a way we could assist in the content verification process of Wp/anp as I understand you reached out to an expert. Any update? Proabscorp! (talk) 16:00, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

@Proabscorp!: I haven't had a reply from the expert yet, but Satdeep has also reached out to them, so hopefully we will have a reply soon. In the meantime, if you have any tips for alternative academics I can contact for verification, feel free to send them to me in an email. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 10:09, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

Server switch message looks for translators

Hello

In the past, you helped with the translation of Tech/Server switch. This message will soon be displayed to the public. We look for translators to update this message and check if everything is okay.

I hope you can help.

Thank you very much in advance, Trizek (WMF) (talk) 14:48, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

@Trizek (WMF): Done Jon Harald Søby (talk) 14:52, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Getting Error while Replying your message

@Jon Harald Søby: Thank you so much for fixing the issue of Template:Metacaixa.

I was not able to reply your message from your user page of Angika Wikipedia, because of following error being encountered. Parsoid/RESTBase Error occurred while contacting the server (HTTP 404) : no message

Thanks. Angpradesh (talk) 15:59, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

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JHS Bot request

Hi we need to do the following repetitive tasks in incubator:Wp/syl. Is it possible to get help with JHS bot ?

find	replace with
।	⁕
,	꠨
:	꠪

(  space before characters)

Thanks in advance --ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ (talk) 08:43, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

@ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ: I'm happy to help, but this can get a bit complicated. Replacing "।" should be fine, but both "," and ":" are used within a lot of code (like CSS or URLs) where it shouldn't be changed; therefore I need to exclude links (both external and internal) and tables (which often have some CSS code in them)

I made a few test edits just now, see incubator:Special:Contributions/JhsBot. Do they look OK? I can continue it, but if there's anything that's wrong or that I misunderstood, it is better to discover that quickly. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 09:50, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

@Jon Harald Søby, Hi you are right, this one worked very well! Please kindly run just one punctuation (।) in your convenience. It will be a great help!

find	replace with
।	⁕

--ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ (talk) 23:33, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

@ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ: Okay! I made two more test edits (same link as above), can you see if they're OK? I'm a bit uncertain about whether to use &nbsp; or just a normal space (I see normal spaces are used quite a lot for this already).

By the way, I updated the messages translatewiki:MediaWiki:Colon-separator/syl and translatewiki:MediaWiki:Comma-separator/syl to reflect this, so you might start seeing this in MediaWiki software messages soon too. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 06:45, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

Brilliant! Thank you. You may use normal blank space. I use   where blank space is suppressed. By the way, you are very helpful, kind and amazing person. Thanks for the help! -- ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ (talk) 07:09, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

@ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ: Thanks for the nice words. :-) The replacement of these is finished now. Should the same be done for the other test wikis in Sylheti, perhaps? Jon Harald Søby (talk) 08:57, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

@Jon Harald Søby Wow nice! It would be a great help if the same is done for other Sylheti test wikis too. Thanks in advance. -- ꠢꠣꠍꠘ ꠞꠣꠎꠣ (talk) 09:12, 15 June 2023 (UTC)

Still, early-bird approval proposals?

Looks like something happened for Dagbani, where I mentioned above 2 years ago, has again happened for twice recently:

• Proposed approval of Kusaal Wikipedia
• Proposed approval of the Dagaare Wikipedia

Where both Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Kusaal and Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Southern Dagaare are not yet created. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 23:47, 17 June 2023 (UTC)

@Liuxinyu970226: Thanks for pointing this out, I will ask the contributors to create proposal pages ASAP. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 10:23, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

Removal of Signature on Saraiki Wiktionary

Hello, Some editors have signed in content pages of https://skr.wiktionary.org/ , I think these should be removed. Please remove these. Sraiki (talk) 17:26, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

@Sraiki: Hi! I think this might be easier said than done… I will try to find a solution, but can't promise anything. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 11:17, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

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Invitation to participate in the photo contest Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports 2023

English Dear Jon Harald Søby,

We’re excited to share with you our first-ever art and photo contest for this year’s #VisibleWikiWomen, on Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports!

We’re inviting submissions of photos, illustrations, and other forms of art depicting womxn and non-binary people in sports — as athletes, fans, cheerleaders, referees, journalists, and much more. Our #VisibleWikiWomxn contest celebrates the bodies of womxn in sports by centering their voices, images, stories, and experiences in all their diversity, plurality, and glory.

You can find all the information on our landing page: Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports

Spanish Hola Jon Harald Søby,

Queremos invitarte a participar de nuestro primer concurso de arte y fotografía "Cuerpos plurales en el deporte" en el marco de la campaña #VisibleWikiWomen de este año.

Estamos convocando a presentar fotos, ilustraciones y otras formas de arte que representen a mujeres y personas no binarias en el deporte - atletas, personas aficionadas, animadoras, árbitras, periodistas y personas ligadas al deporte en todos los aspectos. Nuestro concurso #VisibleWikiWomxn celebra los cuerpos de las mujeres en el deporte centrándose en sus voces, imágenes, historias y experiencias en toda su diversidad, pluralidad y gloria.

Puedes encontrar toda la información en la página del concurso.

Portuguese Olá Jon Harald Søby,

Ficamos felizes em convidar você a participar de nossa primeira Wiki-competição de arte e fotografia, como parte da campanha #VisibleWikiWomen deste ano, sobre "Corpos plurais no esporte"!

Estamos recebendo fotos, ilustrações, e outras formas de arte que retratem mulheres e pessoas não-binárias nos esportes — como atletas, torcedoras, juízas, jornalistas, e muito mais. Nossa competição #VisibleWikiWomxn celebra os corpors de mulheres e pessoas não-binárias e coloca ao centro suas vozes, imagens, histórias, e experiências em toda sua pluralidade e glória.

Você pode encontrar todas as informações necessárias em nossa página: Unpacking Body Plurality in Sports.

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Zgh Wikipedia not added to pywikibot

Hello,

I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out to address an issue I encountered while testing my bot, which is essential for the efficient management of Wikipedia given the increasing number of contributors.

The error I'm encountering is as follows:

UnknownSiteError: Language 'zgh' does not exist in family wikipedia

It seems that the 'zgh' language wiki is not added to Pywikibot. I kindly request your assistance in bringing this matter to the attention of the relevant parties so that it can be promptly addressed. This is crucial for the successful implementation of bots in our Wikipedia operations.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. I appreciate your prompt assistance in resolving this issue.

Best regards,

--AyourAchtouk (talk) 23:42, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

@AyourAchtouk: Hi! Support for zghwiki in Pywikibot was added almost immediately after the wiki was created, so you may just need to update your version of Pywikibot. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 23:46, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

@Jon Harald Søby You are right ! Thank you. It works --AyourAchtouk (talk) 00:19, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

@AyourAchtouk: Excellent! 😊 Jon Harald Søby (talk) 00:27, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

@Jon Harald Søby We are also experiencing an issue with the math library, where mathematical symbols are not displaying correctly. Instead, errors are being shown. You can observe this problem on the following page: https://zgh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E2%B4%B0%E2%B5%8D%E2%B4%B1%E2%B5%93%E2%B4%B9%3A%E2%B4%B0%E2%B5%A1%E2%B5%A1%E2%B5%93%E2%B5%94%3A%E2%B5%9C%E2%B5%93%E2%B5%99%E2%B5%8F%E2%B4%B0%E2%B4%BD%E2%B5%9C%2F%E2%B4%B0%E2%B5%8E%E2%B4%B0%E2%B5%A1%E2%B4%B0%E2%B5%8D_%E2%B5%8F_%E2%B5%89%E2%B5%8F%E2%B4%B0%E2%B4%B3%E2%B5%8D%E2%B5%89%E2%B5%A1%E2%B5%8F_%E2%B5%89%E2%B5%8E%E2%B5%93%E2%B5%99%E2%B5%8F%E2%B4%B0%E2%B4%BD%E2%B5%8F

--AyourAchtouk (talk) 00:32, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

@AyourAchtouk: Oh, interesting, I never saw that error before. Judging from the error message (specifically the part that says "Math extension cannot connect to Restbase"), it should be fixed "automatically" when phab:T350242 is completed, which will probably happen some time next week. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 00:37, 11 November 2023 (UTC)

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Ukbot crash.

Hi, Finnish Wikipedias Elokuun kuvitustalkoot has a problem where user has changed the username and when user is added to competition the ukbot will crash. (crashlog) and code in GitHub [12]. The reason for the crash is that the revision is already in database with another username. So question is do you know how to fix the problem? I am dropping question to you as you are also in Wikimania if we stop to same place at some point but @Danmichaelo: is welcome too to answer too. --Zache (talk) 13:11, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

@Zache: Sorry, missed this message until now! I guess the way to solve this would be to amend UKBot's database to change the rows that need to be changed, but I am unfortunately not good at database stuff at all. Hoping Dan Michael can chime in. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 07:36, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

@Zache: An idea I have that might or not work, but I think it's worth a try: Remove the user from the list of participants, wait for the bot to make its next update, and then re-add the user. What do you think? Jon Harald Søby (talk) 12:09, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

@Jon Harald Søby Hi, we tried removing and re-adding user and it didn't work. I think that I will try to edit the database. My database skill should be good enough for backupping the table and db and then editing it (and restoring the table if something fails). It just feel as bad idea for directly editing the db but oh well. --Zache (talk) 12:53, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

@Zache: Yeah, I don't really have any other suggestions unfortunately… You already have the necessary rights to do that, right? Jon Harald Søby (talk) 13:20, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

technically all who are in ukbot group in tool forge have (me, you Danmichaelo) Zache (talk) 17:05, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

JhsBot on btmwiki

Hi, looks like JhsBot was never run on btmwiki after it was created so there is a large amount of pages still linked through INTERWIKI. Can you migrate them please. Thanks! --Nintendofan885^{T&Cs apply} 19:45, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

@Nintendofan885: Thanks for the reminder! I'm running it now. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 07:57, 13 September 2024 (UTC)