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Please, if you are administrator, can you just give me an extract of the written rules of Wikepedia concerning the NOTABILITY of specian functions This extract is said to be in WP pages, but my Chinese browser makes it diffucult to fetch.

Thank you for teh help

L. Guo-ZhangLuoguozhang (talk) 21:25, 30 November 2008 (UTC). Luoguozhang (talk) 21:25, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Never mind

Other kind administrators understood my request and answered positively. Thank you for all 谢谢你! 21:56, 30 November 2008 (UTC)Luoguozhang (talk)

Hi. I've noticed your good work on translating Chinese articles. I've created {{Expand Chinese}} to be added to the top of articles or sections which you know has more content on Chinese wikipedia. It is part of a drive to transfer content on other wikipedias into english. Please add the following templates to as many articles as possible which need translating and help out in the translation process and inform as many Chinese speaking people you know of to do the same. Adding the template will automatically place the article in a category "Chinese articles needing translation" and will be a useful project tool for grwoth for Wp:China. Keep up the great work!

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Chinese. Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 303 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Chinese Wikipedia article at [[:zh:Exact name of the Chinese article]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated page|zh|Exact name of Chinese article}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

The Bald One ^{White cat} 22:30, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes indeed that is my hope. The idea is that any person interested in China or has a knowledge of Chinese comes across an article, sees the information lacking in English. A lot of the time the editor will leave the articles thinking "mmm this article isn't very good lets try something else". If there is a strong translation needed banner at the top of an article or section the editor will be made acutely aware of the disparancy between wikipedias and is far more likely to use their translation skills if they possess them to help the article. I'm thinking of letting editors who speak Chinese know about it to maximise useage and hopefully the development of our articles. The content missing from China is one of the greatest, if not the greatest on here, particularly geographically as you are undoubtedly aware with starting thes emissing large districts which undoubtedly contains many settlements and places of note within them. I;v elet Wp:China know but if you could post as many of your colleagues as possible I;d be very grateful. Feel free to administer the tag to any article which is lacking which will probably be several thousand, but several thousand article we hope soon enough will increase in quality! Keep up the good work! The Bald One ^{White cat} 22:42, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

P.S. I've started building a template:

By the way, how will templates like this work with the province templates that already exist? See e.g. Template:Shaanxi. Will they both go on the county level divisions pages?--Danaman5 (talk) 02:00, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. They can do, but really there ar eintended for the county and district articles. If the counties/districts ar elisted in the city division articles then it won't be needed. Just apply them to all the counites and districts at the foot of the page to keep it tidy. I'm wrapped up in Nepal at present, when I've finished I'll make an effort to create Wikipedia:WikiProject China/County-division templates and draw up the bones for the templates by province so eventually we should have all of the counties/district covered in China and all in easy navigation. I'll also been meaning to show you about using a standard infobox where you can also write Chinese transliterations into it but it has the benefits of the Infobox Settlement.If I add one as an example can you use it in the other countries.districts?

OK I;ve added one as an example for Yintai District. The coordinates aren't quite correct yet we'll need to find them but if you could follow this example this would be great. Ideally we want all the district/counties covered withh infoboxes and details! The Bald One ^{White cat} 10:41, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

The Bald One ^{White cat} 10:21, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about using this page like this to message you, I couldn't find a forum page but would like to raise some points. Since there was some mention of Chinese translations here, it looked like the best place to raise questions.

1) There are several languages listed on the main page. Why isn't Mandarin listed among them? 2) Mandarin should be listed among them as it is one of 6 International languages used at the U.N.. Also Mandarin represents a user base of possibly 2 billion, why has no effort to translate been done? 3) Hindi should also be listed among them as it contains 1.2 Billion users, why has no effort to translate been done either? 4) It has been years since Wikipedia's presence on the internet. These two critical languages should be featured by now. But they are not. Meanwhile all major European languages with far less users are featured. Is this intentional or a geo-politically motivated statement of some sort?

Other than that, no problems with Wikipedia for now, it is a very informative and helpful tool which is mostly accurate. Keep it up! But address these issues!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.50.38.158 (talk) 15:07, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Hope you don't mind. If you prefer the original panorama, just mention and I'll revert. (Btw, takes a li'l while for the new image to display properly; at first it's distorted, using the old image's dimensions until the WP's server updates something or our individual computers' caches get cleaned out/reloaded or forsomreasonernuther.) Just tips me hat but then 〜on thought bows deeply … 16:30, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I've followed my word and created "The Bones" at Wikipedia:WikiProject China/County-division templates. Now the templates just need building, and thencreating/applying to the articles The Bald One ^{White cat} 19:23, 14 December 2008 (UTC)

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Please see this discussion Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games#Final_Fantasy_Legend_name_translation_woes.2C_mk._II

There is an ongoing issue with Kung Fu Man over an edit dispute which is getting out of hand, and I'm fairly certain the user is relying on sockpuppets to make revisions to the article. Check the revision history yourself to verify this. Also, I've been receiving harassing comments and threats from this user and am not sure where to turn for help. Please get involved and try to act as the voice of reason. Thank you. 74.242.123.2 (talk) 01:19, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi, About speedy deletion of [Jens_Eisert], you said "speedy declined-there is a clear assertion of notability in this article, so A7 does not apply", but I cannnot find any clear assertion of notability. He's just a quantum information researcher. Nothing less, but nothing more. 87.221.81.204 (talk) 00:34, 18 January 2009 (UTC) Thanks for your explanation. Clear as water. I think the assertion is quite insufficient, considering the relevance of quantum game theory, the quantity and relevance of his contributions, and his argued notability in the quantum information science community. He's truly notable in the community, yes, but because of the way he has to draw attention to himself, and I fear having a Wikipedia page is part of it. If you could please begin the correct path for it to be deleted, I think proper discussion would clarify everything. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.116.100.92 (talk) 01:50, 19 January 2009 (UTC) This is a strange thing to write, is it not? How can anybody be held responsible for content or existence of a Wikipedia page on himself or herself?

Thanks very much :) I've now got an interview for this week, but next fortnight I'll be doing one for China. I'll let you know when I have questions up for you to answer. Thanks!

I contacted you in relation to a Signpost story on this Project. I now have questions up for you to answer in the interview. Please answer the ones at

I've put more questions up for you to answer. Thanks!

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22:02, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Another big thank you for answering my questions!

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Request for mediation not accepted

A not accepted and has been delisted. You can find more information on the case subpage, Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/Li Yong (Tang Dynasty) . For the Mediation Committee, Ryan Postlethwaite 20:43, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

ISuppli gets 29100 hits in a Google news archive search that subtracts press releases (http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22ISuppli%22+source%3A%22-newswire%22+source%3A%22-wire%22+source%3A%22-presswire%22+source%3A%22-PR%22+source%3A%22-press%22+source%3A%22-release%22&btnG=Search+Archives); you just speedied it per A7, may I restore it? (Watchlisting) - Dan

Wy did you ignore the holdon and delete MK Forum? I explained on the TP that the page was being built. Andrewjlockley (talk) 12:32, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

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Hi, can you revisit this and see if there's any more work to be done? Thanks, Dabomb87 (talk) 15:48, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

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I am trying to find a picture of a leader of a political party in a certain country. This political party put up a poster advertisement that featured a picture of the leader. Then, someone took a picture of the poster and posted it under an acceptable creative commons license on Flickr. I'm afraid to use the image, because I'm worried that the political poster might still be copyrighted, even though someone took a picture of it. Do you think it is usable?--Danaman5 (talk) 18:26, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

It is almost certainly not usable, as it would be a derivative work. Unless the original poster is freely licensed or public domain for whatever reason, the image would have to be considered non-free. It's possible (though highly unlikely) that it is usable due to the freedom of panorama- I can double check that if you provide a link to the image? J Milburn (talk) 20:38, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

(The important thing being the country.) -

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As well as, depending on the country, the location of the poster, and how permanently it was installed there- as I said, it's a long shot :) J Milburn (talk) 20:46, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. The picture is located here, and the country is Japan. I'm glad that my instincts were accurate in this regard.--Danaman5 (talk) 20:49, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

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I would like to set a threshold to display stub links in a different color (under preferences-appearance-advanced options), but whenever I do so and click save, it reverts back to 0 B and doesn't work. What's the problem?--Danaman5 (talk) 11:35, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Actually, having messed with it a bit, I think it is working, but the preferences option doesn't stay at what you set after you click save. Someone might want to fix that.--Danaman5 (talk) 11:39, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Hi Danaman5, you may like to refer to Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). Also, consider filing a bug report at BugZilla. I can confirm the error on my end - the link formatting works correctly, but the current setting is not reflected in Preferences. ∙ AJCham^talk 12:31, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

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Hi Danaman5. I notice that you recently recreated

I recreated it because WikiProject China also feeds into that category. I went ahead and redirected the recreated page to the film WikiProject's page. From now on, we will simply jointly administer that page.--Danaman5 (talk) 16:02, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Cool. Thanks for sorting it out. DH85868993 (talk) 16:40, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

This article shows a diachronic approach to the records of seniority in US Congress, while the List of members of the United States Congress by longevity of service has a synchronic one. I've no problems with merging "my" article with the latter, provided that both the lists, that is the criteria, are set in. Excuse me for my English!--Jacvan (talk) 17:44, 18 November 2009 (UTC)

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Round one is over, and round two has begun! Congratulations to the 64 contestants who have made it through, but well done and thank you to all contestants who took part in our first round. A special well done goes to Sasata (submissions), our round one winner (1010 points), and to Hunter Kahn (submissions) and TonyTheTiger (submissions), who were second and third respectively (640 points/605 points). Sasata was awarded the most points for both good articles (300 points) and featured articles (600 points), and TonyTheTiger was awarded the most for featured topics (225 points), while Hunter Kahn claimed the most for good topics (70). Staxringold (submissions) claimed the most featured lists (240 points) and featured pictures (35 points), Geschichte (submissions) claimed the most for Did you know? entries (490 points), Jujutacular (submissions) claimed the most for featured sounds (70 points) and Candlewicke (submissions) claimed the most for In the news entries (40 points). No one claimed a featured portal or valued picture.

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Judge iMatthew has retired from Wikipedia, and we wish him the best. The competition has been ticking over well with minimal need for judge intervention, so thank you to everyone making that possible. A special thank you goes to participants

We are half way through round 3, with a little under a month to go. The current overall leader is

Two of last year's final 8,

We're half way through 2010, and the end of the WikiCup is in sight! Round 3 is over, and we're down to our final 16. Our pool winners were

Though unaffiliated with the WikiCup, July sees the third Great Wikipedia Dramaout- a project with not dissimilar goals to the WikiCup. Everyone is welcome to take part and do their bit to contribute to the encyclopedia itself.

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We are half-way through our penultimate round, and nothing is yet certain. Pool A, currently led by

Planning has begun for the 2011 WikiCup, with open discussions concerning scoring and flags for next year's competition. Contributions to those discussions would be appreciated, especially concerning the flags, as next year's signups cannot begin until the flag issue has been resolved. Signups will hopefully open at some point in this round, with discussion about possible changing in the scoring/process opening some time afterwards.

Earlier this round, we said goodbye to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Genghis_Khan#Rashid_.2F_Jewish Wernergerman (talk) 20:51, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi there, my computer is down so I haven't been able to work. Thanks for adding a few pages, it seems like you did figure it out. [s:Index:A Chinese Biographical Dictionary.djvu] is an index to all the pages; The ones that are edited appear in boxes (color indicating whether they have been proofread, etc.); the red links are all the other pages (about 1,000) that have yet to be done. If you get more time to work on it, feel free to proofread any of those pages (the page you created was fine) or validate ones that have been proofread once. That's most of the work, other than that is updating the index at [s:A Chinese Biographical Dictionary] and creating the entries by transclusion (hit edit on any of those entries to see how that is done). Thanks for your interest and I hope you get a chance to keep working on it. Rigadoun (talk) 18:44, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

We have our final eight! The best of luck to those who remain. A bumper newsletter this week as we start our home straight.

• Pool A's winner was Sturmvogel_66 (submissions). Awarded the top score overall this round, Sturmvogel_66 writes primarily on military history, favouring Naval warfare.
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• Pool A's close second was Sasata (submissions). Awarded the top score for featured pictures this round, Sasata writes primarily on natural sciences, favouring mycology.
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Despite controversy, the WikiCup remains open.

The 2010 WikiCup is over! It has been a long journey, but what has been achieved is impressive: combined, participants have produced over seventy featured articles, over five hundred good articles, over fifty featured lists, over one thousand one hundred "did you know" entries, in addition to various other pieces of recognised content. A full list (which has yet to be updated to reflect the scores in the final round) can be found here. Perhaps more importantly, we have our winner! The 2010 WikiCup champion is Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), with an unbelievable 4220 points in the final round. Second place goes to TonyTheTiger (submissions), with 2260, and third to Casliber (submissions), with 560. Congratulations to our other four finalists – White Shadows (submissions), William S. Saturn (submissions), Staxringold (submissions) and ThinkBlue (submissions). Also, congratulations to Sasata (submissions), who withdrew from the competition with an impressive 2685 points earlier in this round.

Prizes will also be going to those who claimed the most points for different types of content in a single round. It was decided that the prizes would be awarded for those with the highest in a round, rather than overall, so that the finalists did not have an unfair advantage. Winning the featured article prize is Casliber (submissions), for five featured articles in round 4. Winning the good article prize is Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), for eighty-one good articles in round 5. Winning the featured list prize is Staxringold (submissions), for six featured lists in round 1. Winning the picture and sound award is Jujutacular (submissions), for four featured pictures in round 3. Winning the topic award is Sturmvogel_66 (submissions), for forty-seven articles in various good topics in round 5. Winning the "did you know" award is TonyTheTiger (submissions), for over one hundred did you knows is round 5. Finally, winning the in the news award is Candlewicke (submissions), for nineteen articles in the news in round three.

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		I was truly humbled by the overwhelming community support for the recent proposal to place featured sounds on the main page. The proposal closed on Tuesday with 57 people in support and only 2 in opposition. It should take a few weeks for everything to get coded and tested, and once that is done the community will be presented with a mock up to assess on aesthetic appeal. Finally, I invite all of you to participate in the featured sounds process itself. Whether you're a performer, an uploader, or just come across a sound file you find top quality, and that meets the featured sound criteria, you can nominate it at Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates. Featured sounds is also looking for people to help assess candidates (also at Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates.) Thanks again for such a strong showing of support, and I hope to see you at featured sounds in the future. Wha? Adam Cuerden (talk) (X! · talk)

So begins round two of the WikiCup! We now have eight pools, each with eight random contestants. This round will continue until the end of April, when the top two of each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers of those remaining, will make it to round three. Congratulations to The Bushranger (submissions) (first, with 487 points) and Hurricanehink (submissions) (second, with 459), who stormed the first round. Casliber (submissions) finished third with 223. Twelve others finished with over 100 points- well done to all of you! The final standings in round one can be seen here. A mere 8 points were required to reach round two; competition will no doubt be much more fierce this round, so be ready for a challenge! A special thanks goes, again, to Jarry1250 (submissions) for dealing with all bot work. This year's bot, as well as running smoothly, is doing some very helpful things that last year's did not. Also, thanks to Stone (submissions) for some helpful behind-the-scenes updating and number crunching.

Some news for those who are interested- March will see

Do you mind to check if my user talkpage is still being blocked in China? I've tried purging a few, um, "keywords". -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 16:57, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

Also, I've addressed the population issue on my talkpage. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 17:27, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

I've also been wondering: is my userpage also keyword blocked in China? If so, I will trim some of my potentially problematic userboxes. -- 李博杰  | —Talk contribs email 06:04, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

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You are invited to the first Wikipedia Baltimore meetup on Saturday, July 23, 10:00am-12:30pm at the Walters Art Museum. Come meet Wikimedians, learn about GLAM-Wiki partnerships, get involved, and discuss future wiki outreach and activities in the Baltimore area!

There also is a Wikipedia & Cultural Heritage at the Young Preservationist Happy Hour on Friday, July 22, 6:30pm at the Midtown Yacht Club, an unpretentious neighborhood pub.

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The first ever

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The WikiProject National Archives Newsletter July 2011 News Featured article contest This week, our first Constitution, or Bill of Rights to featured or good status in English and other languages. Prizes for winners will be a gift package from the National Archives including a book of your choice or a tote bag, and other swag, plus, of course, a special barnstar. August 6 backstage pass Plans are in the works for a WP:NARA , a tour of the building by NARA staff, and then time for a scanathon and editathon in the research rooms and library until the building closes at 5 pm. Keep your schedules open! From our recent uploads: ...see more. Special requests: This section includes special requests from the NARA staff: Archival Recovery Team The National Archives' Archival Recovery Team (ART) is a team of law enforcement agents and archivists who investigate NARA's lost and stolen documents. They have received media attention ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]) and would like to request an article be written for the team, if Wikipedians deem it notable. It is hoped that making more information about the group available on Wikipedia will increase public awareness of the documents they are seeking to recover. Ongoing Today's Document challenge The ""Did You Know...?" the same day that the National Archives features the document. Alternatively, other appropriate articles related to National Archives holdings not already selected will be used for new documents of the day by NARA staff and posted to their tumblr. Wikisource WP:NARA has a sister WikiProject on Wikisource, WS:NARA. On Wikisource, editors transcribe, proofread, and arrange documents. This helps to make little-known documents more discoverable, or well-known documents more searchable, and improves accessibility. See the files being worked on . If you are new to Wikisource and would like to participate, there are experienced Wikisourcerors willing to be mentors. New contributions A list of some recent contributions to the project: Wikipedia District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act (Fetchcomms) Court of the Patriarchs (CutOffTies) Opposition to the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom (Fetchcomms) Wikisource1 Memorial of Queen Liliuokalani in relation to the Crown lands of Hawaii Petition from women of Brookline Resolutions of the Joint Committee on the Washington Monument H. R. 4982 A Petition For Universal Suffrage Susan B. Anthony petition for remission of fine Alexander Hamilton's commission to take rank as Colonel 1Credit goes to Prosody, Theornamentalist, Inductiveload, Digipoke, George Orwell III, Kathleen.wright5, BirgitteSB, and Zhaladshar Tools Archives.gov grabber (Slakr) Future plans Major image contribution The National Archives has hundreds of thousands of digitized documents in its holdings. We are working on a bulk upload to Commons of one particular cache of about 123,000 TIFF master files in the next few days! Once uploaded, these will require a massive community effort to help categorize the files on Commons and add them to articles on Wikipedia or transcribe them on Wikisource. Inclusion in the online catalog We are currently working on a system for including links to pages on Wikimedia projects in the National Archives online catalog. The Wikimedia projects are hosting an increasing number of transcriptions of National Archives documents and high-quality image and video files that are not available through NARA's own site. Links to these Wikimedia pages in the documents' actual catalog records will benefit the end user by providing them access to further resources about the documents, and they will also demonstrate the National Archives commitment to supporting Wikimedians' efforts. To stop receiving this newsletter, please remove your name from the list .

DC Meetup, July 29

DC Meetup 21 - Who should come? You should. Really.
	DC MEETUP 21 is July 29! This meet up will involve Wikipedians from the area as well as Wiki-loving SarahStierch (talk ) 16:32, 25 July 2011 (UTC)