User talk:Ser Amantio di Nicolao/Archive 6

Nice work on those lighthouses BTW. Hope you are well, I've added infobox maps to many countries of Africa now, its gradually improving. Pakistan, Syria, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and China though are serious countries to add them to. Have a look at

Thanks. The problem is that when there is so much to do either with expanding existing articles or creating/translating new content, I find it difficult to concentrate on one task or area that needs developing so much thats sometimes I don't know where to start!! It literally does give me a headache thinking about it sometimes. I guess we can only play our part, we can't be expected to create thousands of new detailed articles from missing lists manually by ourselves. Editor of the wiki told me there are over tow million articles needing translation from other wikis alone! Aaarhgh!

Wow good job on the church!!

Yeah I've just been browsing through some of the foreign wikipedias its really huge. the whole wikipedia project isn't it. I know I was looking at some US articles and Canadian ones the other day -remember the Canadian mountain encyclopedia. I was quite surpised how much missing American content there is and how undeveloped many of the community articles are. There just seems to be a complete focus on American culture and sport above anything else so even some important American geographical or wildlife articles are sub standard while we have frickin full articles on some low league baseball team season.

Yes I was just telling Shahid I'm fortunate to have travelled all across Malaysia from SIngapore up to

Wow that was freakishly quick!!!!!! I've sepnt ages sorting it today!!!Glad its done. Hope you can help sometime in the future with sorting SOuth Africa, Colombia and Argentina out. Many thanks,. Regards

I think you did Egypt before didn't you? Well the sub categories in

Cool I've set it up ready at

I've checked out Pakistan. I think I did the biggy anyway by sorting out Punjab. There was a large number of articles on that region so splitting by district was necessary. However for the others at present it would probably be best to keep by region, so this will make your job much easier. Apart from moving

I've had a look at Colombia, There is a 700 in the one category but reorganizing by department might be difficult unless we go by the nav templates which house many articles in a department within it. So that could go on hold for now until the articles are at least cleaned up. Other than this Argentina remains. Most of the articles are located in e.g Settlements in Buenos Aires Province and Cities in Buenos Aires Province etc. The articles in the two categories for each province will need merging later. I can't think of much more that needs changing for now other than a handful of countries which need splitting by region. Naturally I would like to change some of the European ones but I am "not entitled to" so I guess I'll have to leave them. Regards

Yep I know. Ohhh dear I've still got those French communes to complete!!! I was hoping the new geobot could add the remaining ones. Where did you say you were living again. Wasn't it Texas? No it was Virginia wasn't it I remember now. That explains why you have done a lot of work on your home state!

My parents visited Virginia and North Carolina last summer and loved it. The

Oh yeah I know they're nothing alike, you can see that by pictures anyway. Anyway different parts of the Rockies look different anyway to other places within that mountain chain. My parents also went to a town I think it was called something like Colonial Williamsburg where they dress up in 17th or 18th gear. There was also some mill they visited which was supposed to have state significance. Yes I love the mountains too, I've always wanted to go to Swtizerland and the Alps. Some Christmas I'll catch a plane and go skiing I think!! I wonder whether I should reopen my "lair" at

Sounds great. You majored in art right? I come from an artistic family, my father and his brothers and sisters are either painters or writers. I've always had a great interest in art although I've always been more talented at writing rather than art. My dad painted me a large painting of a lush blue sea and ships in a port in Tahiti. The color is amazing!!. I;ve requested him to paint a mountain scenery of Tibet now! Yes in the UK the year 1066 sort of marks an important change and sort of marks the line between "ancient" and more modern history. I believe some of our best known universites and colleges like Oxford date back to around this time and even colleges like

No see

Ah yes you missed Cities, towns and villages in North-West Frontier Province, Cities, towns and villages in the Northern Areas of Pakistan and Cities, towns and villages in Sindh

Yes I noticed you had done a few of the others. Many thanks. After Pakistan there is Argentina...Whenever you feel like doing any...

Excellent. Most of the articles are located in e.g Settlements in Buenos Aires Province and Cities in Buenos Aires Province etc. The articles in the two categories for each province will need merging into

Sure will do in about 5 minutes I'll let you know when I've done it. Unfortunately I'm having a lot of server difficulties so it keeps locking me or delaying me to edit pages!

OK you can follow the progress at

Mmm the only thing is all the articles in categpry

What I mean is if you look at

Any idea what happened to the ones in

OK

Not quite, Check the first couple of provinces in Cat:Cities, towns and villages in Argentina in the "c"s and "d"s. You;ll see I had begun moving the settlements out. You;ve missed the first couple like

And

I know thats what I meant earlier when I said that some of them will need to be done twice to rid of the "settlement" cat.

Awesome!!! Finished! Just kitted out the cats with maps and commons links. Looks really presentable and clear now. I was amazed how uneven the coverage is in Argentina. Most of the articles are in Buenos Area or in the north east of the country. SOme provinces only have like 2 articles on towns, SPanish wikipiedia has about 80+. Thanks for your help.

I've made a start on Cuba, it needs cities and towns into the main cat. There is also Greenland, China, and the Koreas to do. Not sure about Croatia yet even though I did SLovenia. Depends on what the system is. No rush. When ever you feel like starting another one in a few days or a week or whatever let me know. Best regards

		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
		This barnstar is awarded to Albert Herring for his outstanding number of edits within a few hours. 1800 edits in just hours really is wizardry particularly when they are important structural ones. As if that wasn't enough you then started creating many new articles on places and geo locations. The Bald One is proud of you and your energy and enthusiasm for the project. Keep up the great work!! $1,000,000? 10:52, 23 July 2008 (UTC)[reply ]

Phew its a warm one over here today. 28 oC is very hot over here. I;ve begun going through Mexico adding infoboxes and maps and that. Have a look at

Dont know the coordinates for the places in Virginia. Using Maplandia I'm reckon you could find them. Its only a case of entering the coordinates in the infobox takes ten seconds. You are familiar with using the infobox settlement of course? How about I do a couple and you can follow how its done? Oh there was one other country, Dominican Republic

Could you provide me an a link to an article thats need one and I'll do a couple if possible. If you are working on a county at a time it takes ten seconds to add the coordinates as you don't need to change any of the sate/country parameters its just a case of entering digits

Another one I did was

I;ve done that it looks quite attractive I think. If you like I can remove some of the empty parameters to simplify it a bit

I've done the top line for you. Do you think you can follow the example?

Thanks. Yes Fritz said he is having trouble with the bot coding. Hes probably still a bit busy with his house and his impending FA on Robert Kennedy's demise anyway. I did ask a few days ago if he really did intend ever running it and almost felt like I was putting too much pressure on him to start it, as it should be done in his own time not when somebody demands it. But he has assured me that it will run soon enough and I believe him. It would be nice to start putting it to some use thats for sure, particularly as it has been authorised and the new GEOBOT project set up!

Hey I started

Yes I wish I could speak french and italian fluently. Particularly French would at least allow me to fill out some of the articles on places in much of Africa particularly the large africa places like Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast and Niger which are pretty much empty pools at present and are liekly to have many thousoands of articles missing from each of them.

Check out

Oh you;d pick it up in hours probably. Yes I also nabbed

You may be interested in reading my recent articles, the 1811 uprising is an interesting one. I'm thking that it would be a good idea to start a Central Amercan Independence Movement series from Spanish colonialism.

I'm really enjoying adding these new articles.

Oh yes in anglophone countries and others where there are an abundance of english speaking contributers, english wikipedia makes all the other wikipedias look very small scale and under developed. We kick the socks of them in most of the english speaking areas. I'm talking about certain countries outside the english world

I;ve since written about a battle of 1524, a spanish conquistador who founded San Salvador, and am now translating Coffee production in Ecuador!

Sounds good. Take care, if you are interested in joining the new African National Parks group even if you develop some articles every now and then let me know. We currently have four people who have put their names down at my proposal

Yes I;ve proposed it at both WP:Protected Areas and Wp:Africa as a joint task force. A number of good editors like

Excellent. Looking good! I haven't continued on central america for a few days, I've been developing

I know thats what I meant when I said before that the Germans and the Dutch appear to be better wikipedians than many of the people on English wikipedia. The only reason why they aren't more developed than us in terms of size is because of the massive difference in the number of users. I've always said the Dutch and the Germans have their priorities sorted and seem to have the most notable articles or traditionally encyclopedia articles up to scratch or referenced when they are either missing on here or in a shoddy state even in countries like the United States and the Anglosphere

Yes it is odd that. I've been surprised how developed some of the articles are on countries like Mexico and Honduras on German and Dutch wikipedia. Also wildlife in countries Gambia are very developed on German wikipedia. I guess people have different interests, some of them seemingly obscure in relation to their national heritage. Many people have said that to me that they have been surprised by the sort of content I've added on here, one being am Argentine cinema pioneer I started on here whose great grandson told me he was very surprised to see his article on here!

Yep thats just about true, except I loathe Japanese manga and web comics

I know, groan groan, whenever I hit the new page patrol I end up speedy tagging most of the cruft that a high proportion of our editors seem to enjoy. When I was 14 I was out playing football and meeting girls, can't remember ever looking at a juvenile comic without throwing it in the bin!! If you are referring to those modern teen sitcoms I know exactly what you mean. Some of the 90s mainstream sitcoms were tolerable but the stuff that appears on cable these days is REALLY awful!

I was referring to British comedy in the 1990s some of the more adult orientated sitcoms were great in the UK such as

I wonder if you can get more obscure than a

Cool. Did you see the documentary?

Unbelievable. The last few districts of Chihuahua I've started have almost add up to an area of 100,000km2 yet they were atill missing!! Its not even that far from Texas. On average each of the municipalities has like 5,000 km2. Its quite ridiculous that nobody has started them yet, yet we have articles on post boxes and pillars.

It really is awful to see the red links on

Oh yeah its getting better by the day undoubtedly, since my time on here I've seen an enormous growth and improvement, the main problem for me is lack of consistency and quality. Random search through any category and I guarantee you'll find more stubs or unreferenced articles than the good stuff. But the potential is endless and it will keep on growing, perhaps more slowly in parts than we'd hoped for but it will get there whatever it takes.

Hi can you translate this for me:

Maria, ballerina di varietà, fugge con l’amante Dimitri lasciando il marito Antonio e il figlioletto Giacomino.

Sei anni dopo, il piccolo Giacomino deve mantenere sé stesso e il padre dando spettacoli di marionette. Ma un giorno il fanciullo, caduto svenuto per strada mentre trascina verso casa il carrettino delle marionette, viene trovato affetto da anemia mortale.

La tragedia del piccolo colpisce a fondo tutti quanti lo conoscono, tra i quali anche la madre, che si reca subito al capezzale del figlio moribondo. L'ultima ora di Giacomino sarà allietata dalle luci del circo e da un misterioso "venditore di palloncini".

Sorry to here that you can't edit much these days. Yes I'd thought of that translation idea a long time ago, the problem is on many of the wikipedias there are certain articles which really are not notable, particularly on the lesser wikipedias on some people which put their profiles on there when they are not of world note and probably should be deleted. However the majority of articles missing should be valid and it would definately be a good idea for a bot to list them, but this also would be problematic in that it may not read foreign writing or mix things up and list articles we already have.

Yup, filtering for notability. One problem though. Who is going to check 8 million articles for notability!!

You could propose something to the missing encyclopedia articles group to set up a transwiki task force or something and create a gigantic directory. I;ve just see

Check out

I fixed it thats why! Have a look also at

Thanks, yes its funny that as you are eating breakfast I've just eaten my dinner of rice and vegetables with prawns and potato smilies!! Apple crumble with custard for afters now!! Well what I need is to name every municipality (which virrtually always has a main town) in the category:cities towns and villages by department. I'll create the empty categories now and later the

Nope. What I mean is that we need the two sets of categories, given that at present the articles are on both the municipalities and the main towns. For instance think of the county you live in and think of the largest town. FOr instance with COlombia these are together in the same article. So at present we need both categories. Basically it is going through all the municipalities and adding the relevant department city cat, and removing the general Category:Cities, towns and villages in COlombia cat until it is empty. Understand? For instance see

I;m afraid I may have offended Fritz by being honest to him. Its only because I want to seem something happen. See our discussion on his talk page later. I hope "fingers crossed) he will start on Monday with the lists. If we can get a full list of places by country with coordinates/map and basics this would be an enormous step towards full coverage on here

Yes thats perfect, extremely quick. If you could continue with the other departments, I;v ejust added an infobox to

It'll probably be easier to empty

Mmm thats not quite as straightforward as re categorizing!, if you could paste a list of places into the infoboxes I;d be happy to help you format/dab them. I do have a huge amount on my plate at present what with

I know that is very worrying. I'm sure you feel like the only editor working on them which is extremely poor given the scope of this site. I almost always feel like I'm the only one doing what I do, even with two editors working on something e.g you and editor of the wiki helping from time to time it makes a bid difference, imaine what could be done if more people worked together on a more regular basis rather than slagging each other off for "misconduct" at ANI. Given the size of the United States and population who have access to wikipedia and even edit ir from time to time I am amazed at some of the missing content we still have on here, museums, places, mountains, lakes etc. Canada too. Best thing to get such articles up and running would be by bot, and yes that goes for articles from other wikis too

Well done. Ahh I hate the attitude of some of the people I encounter on here, so negative, and well just don't have any social skills whatsoever. Why can't people on here be a bit more like you, and some of the others?

Well with some people every day is like that. Life is too short to bear ill feeling towards people. If people don't like me thats their problem, you can't please everybody. Anyway have a read of my "blog" of

I think you;ve summed it up very well, you also mentioned the species bot which I was also going to propose once GEOBOT was up and running.

I am not sure I have time to help right away - do ask at