Kaarel Vaidla (WM EE)

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FDC proposal \o/

Hi Kaarel, just letting you a message because I love what you guys did with the layout of your FDC proposal, it looks really nice and readable. I hope you'll be successful! --PierreSelim (talk) 07:18, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Science Photo Competition

Hi,

were I can learn more about Science Photo Competition?--Juandev (talk) 19:08, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Dear Juandev,

I apologize for the delay in replying to this post. At the moment there is very little information about the competition available in English (see the page on English Wikipedia). For further information please contact Ivo Kruusamägi, who is the organizer of the event! Best regards, --Kaarel Vaidla (WM EE) (talk) 11:30, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

WMCEE Spring Menu

Hi, I'm glad that you have done tempalte WMCEE Spring Menu. And can I ask you to make this motley parts of WMCEE Spring Menu in only one color? For instance, #ffd700 could be fine and it would be fit in with background behind header. What do you think? Marycha80 (talk) 23:47, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Dear Marycha80, thank You for being engaged with WMCEE Spring event! Providing article lists about Poland has been most helpful! Thank You!

On the other side I do not completely understand the idea of having less colors on the project page. I personally think that colors used on the page are not disturbing reception of contents and are making the page look more attractive. Nevertheless, I will start a discussion on the talk page of the project and am looking forward to further opinions about page colors. If different formatting of the menu will increase the usability of the page, I am certainly for the needed changes (and I also do not mind others changing the menu template).

Thank You for sharing Your opinion and for trying to make the project page better! --Kaarel Vaidla (WM EE) (talk) 12:36, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

IMO the grey in the menu is too boring. But something soft could be nice. Marycha80 (talk) 17:33, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank You Marycha80 for Your opinion! Do You have any concrete hex code in mind? Best regards, --Kaarel Vaidla (WM EE) (talk) 17:37, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, could you look at this: [1] and tell me what do you think? Marycha80 (talk) 17:40, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

But highlighting in gold is IMO very good option :) Marycha80 (talk) 17:42, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Dear Marycha80, thank You for sharing Your menu template! I agree that the color used is more interesting than the grey one. Nevertheless, it seemed that white text is not readable on light yellow and thus I changed the text color to black. What do You think? Best regards, --Kaarel Vaidla (WM EE) (talk) 17:52, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

And try instead of black use that previous grey to letters and "Idea" field...? Marycha80 (talk) 18:09, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Not bad. It also seems more reasonable to have such discussion on the talk page of the template, so maybe we will continue there? :) Best regards, --Kaarel Vaidla (WM EE) (talk) 18:17, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Inspire launches March 4th!

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Tele conference

Hi, good work. I want to join the conference at Wikimedia_cee_spring_2015. What should I do? Yours Sincerely ... --İkmal (talk) 23:40, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Dear İkmal, I emailed You with instructions! Best regards, --Kaarel Vaidla (WM EE) (talk) 16:30, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Wikimedia CEE meeting on Wikimedia Conference 2015

Alrighty, I've added myself. :) See ya soon --FiliP ██ 09:00, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Dear FiliP ██! Thank you! --Kaarel Vaidla (WM EE) (talk) 10:15, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, I thought it was obvious I'll be there :) Halibutt (talk) 10:41, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

I notified you all just to be sure ... --Kaarel Vaidla (WM EE) (talk) 10:56, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

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Grants panel

Hi Kaarel. Would you be interested in participating in the Grants panel at the CEE conference as a panelist? --FiliP ██ 04:17, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Dear FiliP, as the funding session was one of the sessions I planned to attend anyway, I can join the panel if You think it would be appropriate. Is there anything I should prepare for participating on the panel? Best regards, --Kaarel Vaidla (WM EE) (talk) 07:20, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

I don't think there's need to prepare in any sort of official way. Just bring your experiences with you :) See you soon --FiliP ██ 12:11, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Inspire Campaign on content curation & review

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Translation

Hello. Sorry to bother you, but I don't know who to contact. I need to address an important message to et.wikipedia, with regards to Admin activity review/2015. But the messages on Admin activity review/Notice to communities and Admin activity review/Notice to inactive right holders are not translated to estonian. I've tried to contact translators, but there's none subscribed via Special:TranslatorSignup for estonian. Could you please help translating those simple messages into Estonian, or have anyone you know do it? Best regards. —MarcoAurelio 11:17, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Dear MarcoAurelio, thank you for reaching out! I have provided a quick translation and will see if there are people interested in proofreading and/or signing up for future translations. Thank you once more for your kind attention! Best regards, --Kaarel Vaidla (WM EE) (talk) 12:08, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

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Thank you! --EGalvez (WMF) (talk) 22:25, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

The Afrikaans Wikipedia

Hi Kaarel. I trust that you are well. I have been active on the Afrikaans Wikipedia since 2009 and have created 10418 articles and done 181000+ edits since then! The Afrikaans Wikipedia is the biggest African Wikipedia currently with 104662 articles and 69th biggest of all the Wikipedias. In short, we are a giant on the African continent! I have done some pioneer work for the Afrikaans Wikipedia: the first Afrikaans speaking person to attend a Wikimania Conference 2016 in Mexico City and the first Afrikaans speaking person to a German Conference as well: 2016 in Berlin.

The Afrikaans Wikipedia, grammer wise, has nothing in common with other African Wikipedia's. The Afrikaans language is a deravitive from Dutch, Flemish and to a lessor extend German. Politically the Afrikaans Wikipedia is ignored by the rest of Africa, you will not see our Wikipedia been mentioned on any of the African FB groups, not invited or involved by them or given any recognition. The situation is aggrivated by the South African politcal history, 99% of Afrikaans editors are white. We have now reached a stage were we cannot worry about this anymore, we are moving on by ourselves - creationg content (articles) day by day! Nobody can stop us.

I do serve on the WikimediaZA chapter but is up against all the other South African language Wikipedia's. They are simply is not growing.

Why I am writing to you: the Afrikaans Wikipedia would like to build relationships with the German and Dutch Wikipedia - the Afrikaans Wikipedia has requirements as well! I would have loved to attend your 2022 Summit, only learned of it today and watch you video on YouTube!

For the record: Ich sprechen ein kleinen bichen Deutch! I had German as a third language for 2 years at school and it helps me to get around your country with ease. Remember Afrikaans is close to German.

I would like to get an answer from you.

PS Good luck with the Summit. Oesjaar (talk) 07:18, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

User:Kaarel Vaidla (WM EE), hi there... Oesjaar (talk) 07:39, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

User:Kaarel Vaidla (WM EE), hi there... Oesjaar (talk) 12:05, 11 October 2022 (UTC)