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[tshintsha] Bot flag requests

[tshintsha] Techbot

I request the bot flag for Alexbot:

Operator:en:User:Techman224
Programming Language:Pywikipedia SVN
Functions:Interwiki(+autonomous),

The bot has been running on the and Wikipedias. Thank you. Techman224 23:09, 17 Eyo Kwindla 2009 (UTC)

Done on Meta.--Jusjih 00:15, 31 Eyo Kwindla 2009 (UTC)

[tshintsha] Purbo T

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

Thank you! --Purodha Blissenbach 12:16, 12 Eyo Mdumba 2008 (UTC)

Already done. —Pathoschild 09:24:08, 13 Eyo Kwindla 2009 (UTC)

[tshintsha] Alexbot

I request the bot flag for Alexbot:

Operator:zh:User:Alexsh
Programming Language:Pywikipedia SVN
Functions:Interwiki(+autonomous), double redirect fix, featured article interwiki link.
Other languages:All statistics in here

Thank you--Alexsh 12:27, 26 Eyo Mdumba 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 09:24:44, 13 Eyo Kwindla 2009 (UTC)

[tshintsha] WOPR

  • Bot operator: User:White Cat (Commons:User:White Cat) - En-N, Tr-4, Ja-1
  • List of botflags on other projects: Bot has a flag on wikimedia (meta,commons) wikipedia (ar, az, de, en, es, et, fr, is, ja, ku, nn, no, ru, sr, tr, uz, simple) (See: m:User:White Cat#Bots)
  • Purpose: Interwiki linking, double redirect fixing, commons delinking (for cases where commonsdelinker fails)

-- Cat chi? 12:03, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild 09:27:20, 13 Eyo Kwindla 2009 (UTC)

[tshintsha] SpBot

Hello. I would like to get a bot-flag on this wiki.

  • Operator: de:User:Euku
  • Purpose: Interwiki links: It adds/modifies/deletes interwiki links.
  • Software: pywikipediabot framework via SVN
  • Already has bot flag on: 51 Wikipedias, for example: ar, bn, ca, cs, de, en, es, eu, da, fr, he, hu, it, pl, ro, ru, sq, tr. (on German Wikipedia since 2006, with >67.000 edits), look at details

Thank you! --Euku 07:48, 3 Eyesilimela 2008 (UTC)

Already done. —Pathoschild 09:27:44, 13 Eyo Kwindla 2009 (UTC)

[tshintsha] CarsracBot

Hello. I would like to get a bot-flag on this wiki.

  • Operator: nl:User:Carsrac
  • Purpose: Interwiki links: It adds/modifies/deletes interwiki links.
  • Software: pywikipediabot framework via SVN
  • Already has bot flag on: als, en, nap, nl, ru, sq, to, tr, vec. For complete list see this alternative page)

thanks CarsracBot 17:35, 21 Eyesilimela 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 09:28:10, 13 Eyo Kwindla 2009 (UTC)

[tshintsha] 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 18:01, 10 Eyo Mnga 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 09:28:21, 13 Eyo Kwindla 2009 (UTC)

[tshintsha] Merged from Talk:Iphepha Elingundoqo

[tshintsha] Ingxoxo Zabantu

  1. Inkqubela kwiXhosapedia
  2. Iindaba

Qaphela: Siyacela kwingxoxo zethu sigxininise imiba esemqoka kweliKhasi. Ekuhambeni siyathemba sizakwengeza neKhasi leeNdaba. Masizame ukuba sakhe amagama amatsha xa igama lilitsha ngengxa yenkqubela yobuGcisa okanye iNtetha yezinye ilwimi, nazo masiziwole sizijike sizongeze ukuze isiXhosa sande. I-Xhosapedia ikholo lonto.

[tshintsha] Main Page should be protected

Hello. The Main Page shouldn't be free. Please protect it because of vandalism. --ku:Bangin / de:Bangin 11:45, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

It has now been protected from anonymous users. --Jose77 04:05, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[tshintsha] Translation

I request translations for the interface.

  • All pages => Amanqaku onke
  • Inqaba => Inqaku
  • My page => Inqaku lam
  • Language: => Ulwimi:

--58.179.203.212 09:56, 5 Eye Thupha 2007 (UTC)

I request more translations for the interface.

  • User page => Iphepha lomsebenzisi
  • Cancel => Rhoxisa

--202.138.7.78 11:08, 16 Eye Nkanga 2007 (UTC)

Molweni, ingaba sivumelekile ukuba senze utshintsho kule sayithi?? [Msindisi Sam] IYunivesithi iRhodes nayo emva kwexesha elide ithe yanazo izifundo zabo bantetho isisiXhosa. Zininzi izinto onokuzifunda kweliziko lemfundo ephakamileyo apha kwisebe leeLwimi zesiNtu.

[tshintsha] Vote for Administrators

If you want someone to become an administrator or you wish to become an administrator, then please place your name Here. --Jose77 04:07, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

[tshintsha] Betawiki: better support for your language in MediaWiki

Dear community. I am writing to you to promote a special wiki called Betawiki. This wiki facilitates the localisation (l10n) of the MediaWiki interface. You may have changed many messages here to use your language in the interface, but if you would log in to for example the Japanese language Wiktionary, you would not be able to use the interface as well translated as here. In fact, of 1,736 messages in the core of MediaWiki, 5.99% of the messages have been translated. Betawiki also supports the translation of messages for 126 extensions, with 2,174 messages. Many of them are used in WMF projects and they are vital for understanding the wiki. Currently 0.00% of the WMF extension messages have been translated. Translators for over 90 languages contribute their work to MediaWiki this way every month.

If you wish to contribute to better support of your language in MediaWiki, as well as for many MediaWiki extensions, please visit Betawiki, create an account and request translator privileges. You can see the current status of localisation of your language on MediaWiki.org and do not forget to get in touch with others that may already be working on your language on Betawiki.

If you have any further questions, please let me know on my talk page on Betawiki. We will try and assist you as much as possible, for example by importing all messages from a local wiki for you to start with, if you so desire.

You can also find us on the Freenode IRC network in the channel #mediawiki-i18n where we will be happy to help you get started.

Thank you very much for your attention and I do hope to see some of you on Betawiki soon! Thanks, GerardM@Betawiki

  • Currently 4.87% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.24% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 12:07, 11 Eye Khala 2008 (UTC)
  • Currently 4.87% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.29% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 15:40, 9 Eye Thupha 2008 (UTC)
  • Currently 4.65% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.26% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 12:00, 11 Eyo Msintsi 2008 (UTC)
  • Currently 4.51% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.26% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 10:50, 18 Eye Dwarha 2008 (UTC)
  • Currently 4.52% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.19% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 10:16, 11 Eye Nkanga 2008 (UTC)
  • Currently 4.44% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.19% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 12:39, 15 Eyo Mnga 2008 (UTC)
  • Currently 4.42% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.19% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 22:02, 12 EyoMqungu 2009 (UTC)
PS Please help us complete the most wanted messages..

[tshintsha] The village pump

Could someome be so kind and move my contribution to your "village pump" and also, could someone please add a link to your village pump on meta ? Thanks, GerardM 11:15, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[tshintsha] Bot policy

Hello. To facilitate steward granting of bot access, I suggest implementing the standard bot policy on this wiki. This will involve creating a redirect to this page from Project:Bot policy, and adding a line at the top noting that it is used here. In particular, this policy allows automatic acceptance of known interlanguage linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable), which form the vast majority of such requests.

Please read the text at m:Bot policy before commenting. If you object, please say so; it will be implemented 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. CarsracBot 17:44, 21 Eyesilimela 2008 (UTC)

Implemented. —Pathoschild 09:23:20, 13 Eyo Kwindla 2009 (UTC)

[tshintsha] 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 20:43, 2 Eyo Kwindla 2009 (UTC)

Implemented. —Pathoschild 09:23:20, 13 Eyo Kwindla 2009 (UTC)

[tshintsha] The LocalisationUpdate extension has gone live

The LocalisationUpdate extension is now enabled for all Wikimedia projects. From now on new localisations that become available in SVN will become available to your project within 24 hours. Your localisations get into SVN from translatewiki.net typically within a day and at worst in two days. This is a huge improvement from the old practice where the localisations became available with new software. This could take weeks, even months.

The localisations done by our community at translatewiki.net are committed to SVN typically every day. When the system messages in English are the same as the local messages, they will now be inserted in a file and are available for use in all our projects in a timely manner

[tshintsha] What this means for you

Local messages have an impact on the performance of our system. It is best when messages are as much as possible part of the system messages. In order to remove unnecessary duplication, all the messages that have a local localisation and are exactly the same as the system message will be removed. What we ask you to do is to compare and proof read the messages in translatewiki.net and the local messages. You can then either remove local messages when the translatewiki.net message is to be preferred or, you can update the message at translatewiki.net.

Messages that are specific to your project will have to stay as they are. You do want to check if the format and the variables of the message are still the same.

[tshintsha] Why localise at translatewiki.net

When you localise at translatewiki.net, your messages will be used in all Wikimedia projects and eventually in all MediaWiki based projects. This is how we provide the standard support for your language. When messages change, at translatewiki.net you will be prompted to revisit your translations. Localising is more efficient because we have innovated the process to make you more efficient; there is text explaining about messages and we have applied AJAX technology to reduce the number of clicks you have to make.

[tshintsha] Translatewiki.net update

  • Currently 4.13% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.07% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 21:32, 30 Eyo Msintsi 2009 (UTC)
  • Currently 4.10% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.07% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 18:43, 1 Eye Nkanga 2009 (UTC)

[tshintsha] How can we improve the usability for your language

We expect that with the implementation of LocalisationUpdate the usability of MediaWiki for your language will improve. We are now ready to look at other aspects of usability for your language as well. There are two questions we would like you to answer: Are there issues with the new functionality of the Usability Initiative Does MediaWiki support your language properly

The best way to answer the first question is to visit the translatewiki.net. Change the language to your language, select the “vector” skin and add the advanced tool bar in in the preferences and check out the new functionality. And make some changes in your user page. When there is a need to improve on the localisation, please make the necessary changess . It should update your localisation straight away. We would like you to report each issue individually at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usability_issues.

When there are problems with the support of MediaWiki for your language, we really want to know about this. It is best to report each issue separately. In this way there will be no large mass of issues to resolve but we can address each issue on its own. Consider issues with the display of characters, the presentation of your script, the position of the side bar, the combination of text with other languages, scripts. It is best to try this in an environment like the prototype wiki as it provides you with a clean, basic and up to date environment. The prototype wiki is available for five languages but you can select any of them, change the preferences to your language and test out MediaWiki for your language.

We would like you to report each issue individually at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Languageissues. The issues you raise will all be assessed. It is important to keep each issue separate, because this will make it easier to understand the issues and find solutions.

PS This text has been approved by Naoko, Brion and Siebrand. Thanks, GerardM 21:32, 30 Eyo Msintsi 2009 (UTC)

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