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• en: Requests for the bot flag should be made on this page. This wiki uses the standard bot policy, and allows global bots and automatic approval of certain types of bots. Other bots should apply below, and then request access from a steward if there is no objection.

Bot flag requests

SieBot

Please give a bot bit to SieBot, so it will not flood your RC as it adds interwiki links using pywikipedia's interwiki.py. SieBot is active on 200 Wikipedias. See the user page of the bot for more details, or check a complete overview of its activities here. Cheers! Siebrand (talk) Siebrand 16:28, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Already done. —Pathoschild 00:45:38, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

PipepBot

Hello! I ask for permission to run my interwiki bot PipepBot here, and to get a bot flag for it.

• Operator: it:User:Pipep
• Purpose: Interwiki
• Software: Pywikipedia
• Has bot flag at: als, am, an, ar, arc, ast, az, bat-smg, be, be-x-old, bn, bpy, bs, ca, ce, ceb, co, cs, cu, cv, da, de, eml, en, eo, et, fo, fr, frp, fur, fy, ga, gd, hr, ht, hu, hy, id, ie, ilo, io, is, ja, ka, ksh, ku, kw, la, lb, li, lij, ln, lt, lv, mi, mk, ml, ms, nap, nds, nds-nl, nn, no, oc, pms, rm, rmy, ro, roa-tara, ru-sib, sc, scn, sco, sh, simple, sk, sl, sq, sr, su, sv, te, th, tl, udm, uk, vec, vls, vo, wa, wo, wuu, zea, zh, zh-classical, zh-yue
• Details: Interwiki using Pywikipediabot. It mostly runs manually assisted. May run automatically in some cases.

Thank you! --it:User:Pipep 17:08, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

PipepBot has now bot status. Thank you! it:User:Pipep 14:45, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

BotMultichill

Hi, i request a bot bit for BotMultichill.

• Botmaster : Multichill
• Bot's name : BotMultichill
• List of botflags on others wikipedias: about 100+ atm (see meta:User:Multichill for the current list)
• Purpose: Interwiki (pywikipedia)
• Technical details : BotMultichill is an interwiki bot starting at the Dutch wikipedia. The bot uses the pywikipedia framework and runs day and night in autonomous mode. Sometimes the bot will run in manual assisted mode to solve interwiki conflicts.

Multichill 12:34, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Already done. —Pathoschild 00:46:18, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

AlleborgoBot

Hi, i request a bot flag for AlleborgoBot

• Operator: Alleborgo
• Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, in "-autonomous" mode. Sometimes the bot will run in manual assisted mode to solve interwiki conflicts.
• Programming Language(s): Pywikipedia framework daily updated to the last SVN version
• Function Summary: interwiki
• Already has a bot flag in: ar, an, az, bar, bg, br, bpy, bs, ca, ceb, cs, da, de, en, eo, es, eu, fa, fi, fr, gl, he, hr, hu, hy, id, it, ja, jv, ka, ksh, lb, li, lmo, ln, lt, mi, ml, ms, nds, nl, nn, no, pl, pt, ro, ru, sk, simple, sl, sq, su, sv, th, tr, uk, vec, vi, zh, zh-yue. On it.wiki has done more than 45000 edit.

Thanks --AlleborgoBot 14:13, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

AlleborgoBot has the flag now, thank you. --AlleborgoBot 19:37, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Purbo T

Hi, I'd like to request a bot flag for Purbo_T (contribs)

• Operator: User:Purodha = ksh:User:Purodha
• Function: interwiki link maintenance
• Operation: manually-assisted, occasionally in automatic or autonomous mode, starting mostly from the Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages
• Software: pywikipediabot framework updated daily from svn
• Already flagged on: aa, am, ar, be-x-old, bn, bo, bug, bxr, cbk-zam, cdo, chy, co, crh, da, de, dsb, dz, ee, eo, fa, fi, fj, fr, gv, hr, hsb, ht, ig, is, ja, kn, jbo, ksh, ku, kv, lbe, lg, lmo, lo,lt, ml, mr, nds, ne, new, nl, nn, nov, om, or, os, pa, pms, scn, simple, stq, sv, tg, ti, to, ts, ty, vec, vi, vls, vo, yi, za, zea, zh-classical, more pending.
• Generally, there is cumulated data on the bot (sorry, due to current technical problems at the toolserver, the data is partially not up to date)

Thank you! --Purodha Blissenbach 22:23, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Already done. —Pathoschild 00:46:36, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Synthebot

Dear all, this is to request a bot flag for Synthebot. Its technical information is summarized below.

• Operator: Julian Mendez
• Automatic or Manually Assisted: mostly automatic in autonomous mode; sometimes manually assisted to solve interwiki conflicts
• Programming Language(s): pywikipedia (source code)
• Function Summary: interwiki links
• Already has a bot flag on: global bot running on more than 200 wikipedias.

Further technical information is available on its main page. Thank you in advance. Regards, --Julian 18:03, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Not done; a local bot flag is no longer needed. This is a global bot, and this wiki recently enabled global bots. —Pathoschild 00:46:58, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

BRFA HiW-Bot

• Operator  : Hedwig in Washington
• Automatic or Manually Assisted : automatic
• Programming Language(s)  : Python (pywikipedia), daily update
• Function Summary  : Interwiki, Internationalization by removing chaos in Babel-Category so it can be used properly and easy. Double redirects will be added shortly
• Already has a bot flag (Y/N)  : Yes: DE, EN, FR, SL, AR, NL, TH, UDM, TT, NN, KA, DA, BE-X-OLD, BAT-SMG, ARZ and LB, others pending. see here
• Function Details  : just using the standard interwiki.py; parameters: -auto -all - log -catr

I humbly request bot status on this wiki in order to update Interwiki, and improve Internationalization by removing chaos in Babel so it can be used properly and easy by everyone.

Thank you for consideration! --Hedwig in Washington 04:57, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Vagobot

• Operator  : Vago
• Automatic or Manually Assisted : automatic, manually
• Programming Language(s)  : Python,
• Function Summary  : Interwiki, redirect
• Already has a bot flag (Y/N)  : Yes +90 wikis
• Function Details  : just using the standard interwiki.py; parameters: -auto -all - log -catr

Thanks!Vago 05:50, 18 October 2011 (UTC)

Anonymous editors

I am an anonymous user, so any anonymous IP accounts that have been popping up are me. I'm helping out to make this Wikipedia better. 71.125.32.56 20:56, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Three years and not a single article.

Hi, this wikipedia has been around since 2002, not even the main page is there. There is not a single article around. Just some photos. Any indication that this project is not completely dead?--213.6.210.38 13:27, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Restart

I'm leading the initative to restart this project! Am a now an admin, and I have started contacting a few people to try and organize this relaunch. -- Zanimum 19:46, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

That's good. I hope that there a speaker of Inupiaq among your contacts. I see that you link a number of articles from the front page. As these articles are completely void of content, I cannot see the point in doing so. --217.83.95.227 09:03, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Sadly, my pursuit has been fruitless so far. I had contacted the University of Anchorage, and three federal level politicians' offices, looking for guidance. Nothing was found. Linking these poor quality articles from the front page gives new users, unfamilar with Wikipedia's editing system, so where to start. -- Zanimum 14:36, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Although I don't speak this language, I've been some help here since yesterday. I've improved the quality of a few articles by adding words, and I've created 2, Avieeaq and Aglaksruutit. I've translated most of the front into Inupiaq. Whoever found that dictionary deserves half the credit. 72.68.230.164 20:25, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

I've got 1 wd to describe Inupiaq Wikipedia: tainnaunnii (Although it is not very good, it is OK)72.68.230.164 23:23, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Unicode characters

I noticed on the featured article Iqsrabutilik that several characters appeared that aren't actually found in Iñupiaq (most notably the "e"). I believe this is caused by the author of that article using a font developed by Alaskool.org (link to the font page). There are unicode characters available for the language, as seen here. Using unicode would allow for a standard set for this wiki. --Aberwak 20:08, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Uiqipidia

Using the Eskimo writing key on the Iñupiak dictionary, I have come up with the letters that can made into "Wikipedia". The sounds:

• Ui = ui like quick
• qi = q sounds like k but farther in throat, and when i is next to q, it makes a sound like is in English.
• pi = p sounds like English p, "i" alone makes sound like i in police.
• ti = same as pi
• a = when alone, makes ä sound

Uiqipitdia: Makpibaat atanbiqsauruq

EnglishItalianoNihongoRusski 00:51, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Very important note!!

A while ago, I posted this note to the Embassy page. It seems it is still needed, and not always read, so I repeat it here. As you can see, this page should e.g. not be called "Makpibaaq Kanna" at all.

First, while writing iñupiaq is not impossible, it needs language (especially grammar) studies; combining words from the dictionary is not enough. There is one trap, however, which one should not go into, and that is the use of the online Iñupiaq dictionary without correcting its encoding.

The dictionary is made by people with little knowledge of character set encoding. Instead of using Unicode, they have put all the Iñupiaq letters into the ASCII table, making it impossible to write about, say, Bart, Jack, Fairbanks etc. in Iñupiaq. Here, on wikipedia, as elsewhere on the net we use Unicode. Entries from the online Iñupiaq dictionary should thus be translated into Unicode, according to the following table. The wordform tunixabaa from the frontpage should thus read tuniḷaġaa. All entries in the dictionary containing the non-Iñupiaq letters b, x, o, j, f, e should be translated according to the following table (cf. also the perl script on my user page. Trondtr 13:46, 11 January 2008 (UTC).

Translating the Iñupiaq dictionary

Dictionary	Iñupiaq	Unicode	Dictionary	Iñupiaq	Unicode	Comment
B	Ġ	0120	b	ġ	0121	voiced uvular fricative
X	Ḷ	1E36	x	ḷ	1E37	palatal lateral
O	Ł̣	0141 0323	o	ł̣	0142 0323	voiceless palatal lateral
J	Ł	0141	j	ł	0142	voiceless lateral
F	Ŋ	014A	f	ŋ	014B	velar nasal
E	Ñ	00D1	e	ñ	00F1	palatal nasal

Bot policy

Hello. To facilitate steward granting of bot access, I suggest implementing the standard bot policy on this wiki. In particular, this policy allows stewards to automatically flag known interlanguage linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable), which form the vast majority of such requests. The policy also enables global bots on this wiki (if this page says that is acceptable), which are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots.

This policy makes bot access requesting much easier for local users, operators, and stewards. To implement it we only need to create a redirect to this page from Project:Bot policy, and add a line at the top noting that it is used here. Please read the text at m:Bot policy before commenting. If you object, please say so; I hope to implement in one week if there is no objection, since it is particularly written to streamline bot requests on wikis with little or no community interested in bot access requests. Luckas Blade 14:44, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild 00:44:54, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Small request

Hello! I am a Polish wikipedian and I would like to ask you for your help - writing a new article about former Polish President who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 – Lech Wałęsa. I have looked for his biography in your Wikipedia but without success. Polish Wikipedians will be grateful for your help. Thank you so much in advance! PS you can find the English version of the article here. Best wishes from Poland, Patrol110 16:57, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Wikimania Scholarships

The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk, Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation offers Scholarships to pay for selected individuals' round trip travel, accommodations, and registration at the conference. To apply, visit the Wikimania 2010 scholarships information page, click the secure link available there, and fill out the form to apply. For additional information, please visit the Scholarships information and FAQ pages:

• Scholarships
• Scholarships FAQ

Yours very truly, Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation

2010 Fundraising Is Almost Here

Hello Wikipedians, my name is Kelly and I am working for the Wikimedia Foundation during the 2010 Fundraiser. My job is to be the liaison between the Inupiak community and the Foundation. This year's fundraiser is intended to be a collaborative and global effort; we recognize that banner messages which may perform well in the United States don't necessarily translate well, or appeal to international audiences.

I'm contacting you as I am currently looking for translators who are willing to contribute to this project by helping translate and localize messages into Inupiak and suggesting messages that would appeal to Inupiak readers on the Fundraising Meta Page. We've started the setup on meta for both banner submission, statistical analysis, and grouping volunteers together.
Use the talk pages on meta, talk to your local communities, talk to others, talk to us, and add your feedback to the proposed messages as well! I look forward to working with you during this year's fundraiser. If someone could translate this message I would really appreciate it so that everyone is able to understand our goals and contribute to this year's campaign.<brKlyman 23:11, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

An urgent translation request

Greetings :) As you may have noticed, the banners are up and we are in the final stages of testing before the official kickoff on Monday the 15th for this year's WMF fundraiser. We are in a bit of a time crunch to get the Iñupiak translations in before the Fundraiser launch on Monday. We really don't want to have English pages on the Iñupiak projects. This is a calll to to community to get involved, help translate and recruit translators to get all the fundraising materials completed. Here is the translation hub with the Jimmy Appeal, Core Messages, FAQ and Benefactors pages that need to be completed Translations. Once these are completed, we can build the new landing pages and localize the fundraiser! Thanks so much, let me know if there are any questions!Klyman 18:52, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Call for image filter referendum

The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen particular types of images strictly for their own account.

Further details and educational materials will be available shortly. The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party. Referendum details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will be posted at Meta:Image filter referendum shortly.

Sorry for delivering you a message in English. Please help translate the pages on the referendum on Meta and join the translators mailing list.

For the coordinating committee,
Philippe (WMF)
Cbrown1023
Risker
Mardetanha
PeterSymonds
Robert Harris

Terms of Use update

I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is discussing changes to its Terms of Use. The discussion can be found at Talk:Terms of use. Everyone is invited to join in. Because the new version of Terms of use is not in final form, we are not able to present official translations of it. Volunteers are welcome to translate it, as German volunteers have done at m:Terms of use/de, but we ask that you note at the top that the translation is unofficial and may become outdated as the English version is changed. The translation request can be found at m:Translation requests/WMF/Terms of Use 2 -- Maggie Dennis, Community Liaison 00:55, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants

I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.

• Do you want to help attract new contributors to Wikimedia projects?
• Do you want to improve retention of our existing editors?
• Do you want to strengthen our community by diversifying its base and increasing the overall number of excellent participants around the world?

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking Community Fellows and project ideas for the Community Fellowship Program. A Fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order to work on a specific project or set of projects. Submissions for 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia projects. If interested, please submit a project idea or apply to be a fellow by January 15, 2012. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships for more information.

Thanks!

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Community Fellowships, Wikimedia Foundation 13:04, 21 December 2011 (UTC)

Distributed via Global message delivery. (Wrong page? Fix here.)

Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta

Wikimedia Foundation is getting ready to push out 1.19 to all the WMF-hosted wikis. As we finish wrapping up our code review, you can test the new version right now on beta.wmflabs.org. For more information, please read the release notes or the start of the final announcement.

The following are the areas that you will probably be most interested in:

• Faster loading of javascript files makes dependency tracking more important.
• New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
• The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
• Searching blocked usernames in block log is now clearer.
• Better timezone recognition in user preferences.
• Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
• The interwiki links table can now be accessed also when the interwiki cache is used (used in the API and the Interwiki extension).
• More gender support (for instance in logs and user lists).
• Language converter improved, e.g. it now works depending on the page content language.
• Time and number-formatting magic words also now depend on the page content language.
• Bidirectional support further improved after 1.18.

Report any problems on the labs beta wiki and we'll work to address them before they software is released to the production wikis.

Note that this cluster does have SUL but it is not integrated with SUL in production, so you'll need to create another account. You should avoid using the same password as you use here. — Global message delivery 00:14, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

Language support group for Inupiak

The Wikimedia Foundation has brought together a new team of developers who are dedicated to language support. This team is to support all the languages and consequently it is not realistic to expect that the team members can provide proper support for your language. It is for this reason that we are looking for volunteers who will make up a language support team.

This language support team will be asked to provide us with information about their language. Such information may need to be provided either to us or on a website that we will indicate to you. Another activity will be to test software that will likely have an effect on the running of the MediaWiki software. We are looking for people who clearly identify their ability. Formal knowledge is definitely appreciated.

As much of the activity will be concentrated on translatewiki.net, it will be a plus when team members know how to localise at translatewiki.net.
Thanks, Gmeijssen 10:41, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

MediaWiki 1.19

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki (the software powering this wiki) to its latest version this month. You can help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid disruption and breakage. More information is available in the full announcement. Thank you for your understanding.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). 15:04, 12 February 2012 (UTC)