Wikipedia:Jumuiya/Kumbukumbu hadi Julai 2008

Wasimamizi wanahitajika (Administrators needed)

Ili kuzuia wahuni na kulinda makala ... tembelea Wikipedia:Wakabidhi.

(To block vandals & protect pages ... see Wikipedia:Administrators.)

Makala fupi

Ninaazimia kufuta makala fupi — Special:Shortpages — kwa sababu nyingi ni duni kabisa (k.m. viungo vya Wikipedia zingine tu, au makala ya kamusi tu). Matt Crypto 10:49, 26 Julai 2005 (UTC)

I intend to delete some of the shorter pages, because many of them aren't of much use at all (for example, containing only interwiki links, or a brief dicdef etc). This makes the encyclopedia look very unpromising indeed. I suggest we cut the cruft, and keep only the articles that are either full articles or proper stubs. Matt Crypto 10:49, 26 Julai 2005 (UTC)

Agreed; nice work! On to the next barrier...' Sj 13:26, 6 Desemba 2005 (UTC)

Makala yanayostahili kufutwa

Tufanyeje kuhusu makala yanayostahili kufutwa? Wikipedia za lugha mbalimbali zina ukurasa wa kupendekeza kufutwa kwa makala. Halafu wanawiki wanaweza kuchangia rai zao.

Mimi ningependekeza kufuta makala Benzi karl fredrickkwa sababu mbili: A) mtu huyu alikuwa na jina kamili ndilo "Carl Friedrich Benz". Tusianze aina hii ya lugha tafadhali - baadaye tutapata "Bushi Georgi" au "Churichilli Winisitoni" au hata "Muwarimu Niyelele" kwa sababu mtu fulani anataka kuingiza lahaja ya nyumbani au tatizo lake la kutamka herufi fulani akidai kasoro yake ndicho Kiswahili chenyewe!! B)makala inajaa makosa - Benz haikuwa mtu wa kwanza aliyetengeneza injini ya petroli. Kwa sababu ya jina la makala ni la makosa haina faida kusahihisha makosa yaliyomo --Kipala 19:32, 26 Januari 2006 (UTC)

Ninakubali ni lazima kutumia jina kamili kwa makala. Wanawiki wote wana uwezo kusogeza makala (bonyeza "sogeza" juu ya makala). Pia, tunaweza kutumia majina mengi kwa makala moja (yaani "redirects": en:Wikipedia:Redirects). Sasa, makala hii inaitwa Carl Friedrich Benz (labda Karl Friedrich Benz ni bora kabisa?).

Kupendekeza makala kufutwa, haidhuru kuuliza hapa kwa sasa; pengine tuanze, kwa mfano, Wikipedia:Makala kwa ufutaji (kuliganan na en:Wikipedia:Articles for Deletion)? . Matt Crypto 21:36, 26 Januari 2006 (UTC)

Sawa, lakini kwa jina twende kwa Benz Karl Friedrich - nimeangalia upya kuna umbo zote mbili ingawa "Karl" ina ushuhuda bora kuliko "Carl" --Kipala 23:40, 26 Januari 2006 (UTC)

Sahihi Yesu Kanisa

inafaa kufutwa. Mwandishi anajaribu kuipeleka katika wikipedia za lugha nyingi. Nimeombwa kuitafsiri lakini sijapata majibu nilipouliza kuhusu mambo mbalimbali; siamini ya kwamba habari zake ni sahihi. Jinsi ilivyo makala ni ya Kiingereza pamoja na maneno kadhaa ya Kiswahili; halafu ameongeza kwa Kiswahili maneno ya Biblia yasiyoeleweka jinsi yalivyo. Sababu ya kuifuta ni pamoja na lugha ya kwamba mwandishi hajui mwenyewe jina la kanisa hili kwa Kiswahili; ameniandikia ya kwamba wako Tanzania, Kenya n.k. lakini hajui jina wanalotumia. "Sahihi Yesu" ni hisia tu. --Kipala 22:44, 18 Machi 2006 (UTC)

Zergeisterung

Neno »Zergeisterung« halina maana kabisa kwa Kijerumani. Makala ni mzaha. Neno hili limewahi kufutwa mara kadhaa katika wikipedia ya kijerumani kwa sababu hawakubali makala ya mzaha. Lifutwe na hapa. --Kipala 21:26, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Sanduku la mchanga

Nimefanya "Sanduku la mchanga" nikasihia "Idadi" hapo.

Interface

There are still a number of interface strings that need translating... anyone up for it? Sj 13:27, 6 Desemba 2005 (UTC)

i can try Omoo 04:16, 18 Desemba 2005 (UTC)

I've tried to do a couple, taking the cue from Kilinux's glossary [1]. The strings "My watchlist", "Privacy policy" and "Cite this article" remain to be translated for the main browsing (as opposed to editing) interface. Matt Crypto 17:13, 22 Januari 2006 (UTC)

I can help out too Mudux01 12:19, may 2006 (UTC)

sanduku la mchanga ni kitu gani kwenye wiki? labda ninaweza kuchangia...fredwash

Interwiki Bot Status

Hi. I would like to get my interwiki bot YurikBot marked as a bot in your language. The bot is already operating in almost 50 languages, and it would lower the server load and improve the quality of articles if all interwikies are updated at the same time. You can read more or ask questions here. I always run the latest version of the Pywikipediabot (i am also one of the developers of this project). The request for the bot status is here. Please support. Thank you. --Yurik (en) 23:39, 5 Januari 2006 (UTC)

This would be great (I presume there'd be no objections from anyone else here); but there's no listing for sw on meta:Requests for bot status#en:User:YurikBot. Matt Crypto 17:26, 22 Januari 2006 (UTC)

Already done. —Pathoschild 02:55:40, 11 Januari 2008 (UTC)

Jimmy Wales wa Wikipedia

[2]. Matt Crypto 13:46, 25 Januari 2006 (UTC)

Tahajia ya Jina letu, "Village Pump" na Templeti "Swen"

(sw) Fikra tatu: 1) Tahajia ya Jina la toleo hili la Wikipedia kwa Kiswahili. Sasa ni "Wikipedia". Matoleo mengine yatumia tahajia ya lugha zao, k.m., Wikipedia ya Kifaransa ni "Wikipédia", ya Kiesperanto ni "Vikipedio" etc. Swali langu ni, "Wikipedia" ni tahajia bora kwa toleo la Kiswahili? Labda kitu kama "Wikipidia" au "Wikipiidia" ni bora? 2) Wikipedia zingine zina makala za kuzumgumza juu ya mambo ya mradi wote. Inaitwa "Village Pump" kwa Kiingereza. Sasa, tunatumia makala hii kwa madhumuni ile. Labda tuanze makala ya "Wikipedia:Pampu ya kijiji" (au "Wikipedia:Kisima cha kijiji"...)? 3) Nimetunga Templeti kwa kuandika katika Kiswahili na Kiingereza pamoja. Templeti hii inaitwa "swen". Ninaitumia kwa sababu ninaweza kushiriki kwa Kiswahili cha kiwango cha msingi tu, lakini ningependa kufahamika!  Matt Crypto 13:45, 2 Februari 2006 (UTC)

Sioni tatizo kuhusu "wikipedia" kwa sababu mbili: a)Kiswahili chenyewe ni lugha ya kupokea maneno mapya haraka (kutoka Kiarabu, Kiajemi, Kireno, Kijerumani, Kiingereza pamoja na lugha nyingi za Kibantu); b) maneno yatokayo nje hubadilishwa yasipolingana na tabia ya Kiswahili (k.m.: konsonanti nyingi zinazofuatana hutenganishwa kwa vokali; herufi au sauti zisipopatikana kwa Kiswahili hubadilishwa na herufi ambazo ni kawaida). Hata mifano iliyotajwa hapo juu ya Kifaransa na Kiesperanto inaenda sambamba na msingi huu.

Mimi naona neno "wikipedia" halina kitu kinachodai badiliko: hakuna ufuatano wa konsonanti nyingi wala herufi zisizopatikana katika Kiswahili wala maana ya kando yasiyofaa.

Nimelinganisha kurasa za wikipedia za lugha zingine za Kibantu: vilevile isipokuwa utaratibu wa lugha yenyewe inadai badiliko (taz. st: Wikipedia ya Sesotho; rw: Wikipedia mu Kinyarwanda; tofauti kufuatana na tabia zao: sn: Wikipediya Chishona; xh: iWikipedia Xhosa). --- Basi, ibaki!

Kuhusu Kisima cha Kijiji: si dhana ya Kiafrika sana; ukitaka kuiga mfano wa pampu: iwe baraza. Ndipo sehemu ya nyumba ya Waswahili wenyewe wanapopenda kukaa kivulini na kuzungumza. --Kipala 17:37, 2 Februari 2006 (UTC)

Template:Sanduku la habari za nchi

(sw) Mimi na User:Kipala tumetengeneza templeti ya nchi. Inawezekana kunakili templeti hii kutoka Wikipedia ya Kiingereza. Kwa mfano, angalia Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo. Ni lazima kubadili "Infobox Country" kwa "Sanduku la habari za nchi", lakini majina ya uga (fields) zinabaki kwa Kiingereza. Data katika uga zinahitaji kutafsiriwa. Napendekeza turuhusu Kiingereza kwa majina ya uga kwa muda mchache, wakati Wikipedia hii ni ndogo, kurahisisha kunakili data. Pia, nimeficha uga kama GDP, HDP na PPP, lakini ni rahisi kuzifichua.  Matt Crypto 16:48, 21 Aprili 2006 (UTC)

==Masahihisho la Sanduku la nchi==

Tunahitaji masahihisho. Country boxes za Kiingereza mara nyingi zina nafasi ya "leader Title1" na "title2" pia "name1" na "name2". Inaleta matatizo kidogo. Naomba mabingwa wasahihishe. --Kipala 18:37, 27 Juni 2006 (UTC)

ndio ni sawa kabisa katika swala zima la wikipedia mi naona halitoki nje ya maudhui kwa sababu limejitosheleza na katika hali zote (kuandika na kutamka) bado halipotezi misngi halisi wa neno lenyewe ila katika hii wikipedia:pump ningeshauri litumike neno kama Baraza au hata kijiwe kwani linaleta maan ya haraka na iliyo wazi katika watumiaji wa lugha ya kiswahili .....[[user:fredwash]1:41 pm, august 2006

Thijs!bot

I would like to ask the support of the community of the swahili wikipedia for getting a bot status to do automatic large-scale addition of interwiki-links. I use the pywikipedia-platform which Yurik mentioned above. The bot adds interwiki-links which are unambigious, which means it only works if all the interlinked wiki-articles have consistent linking among each other. This is an important point to prevent mistakes. Please mention support here, so iI can apply at meta for the botstatus soon. The bot currently works on af, als, ar, ast, az, be, bg, bs, ca, cs, da, de, el, en, eo, es, et, eu, fa, fi, fr, fur, gl, he, hr, hu, ia, id, ie, io, is, it, ka, ko, la, lb, li, lt, lv, mk, nap, nds, nds-nl, nn, no, oc, os, pl, pt, ro, ru, scn, sh, simple, sk, sl, sq, sr, sv, th, tr, vi, zh, zh-yue, an, br, co, cv, cy, ga, hi, ht, id, ie, ku, mr, ne, nrm, pap, sco, se, uk, ta, tl, te, tt, uz, wa, yi, and zh-min-nan. Thijs!bot 19:49, 8 Oktoba 2006 (UTC)

(sw) Hujambo! Nimeweka alama ya kikaragosi hapa. Ninakushukuru kwa kazi yako baina ya Wikipedia zetu  Matt Crypto 13:35, 1 Februari 2007 (UTC)

Wikimania 2007 Team Bulletin

Published by the Wikimania 2007 Taipei Team, Wikimania 2007 Team Bulletin provides the latest news of the Team's organizing work to everyone who is interested in Wikimania; it also gives the Team chances to announce calls for help/participation, so assistance in human and other resources can be sought in a wider range. Team Bulletin is published at the official website of Wikimania 2007 and released to the public domain. Issue 1 and Issue 2 has already published.--218.166.212.246 02:15, 29 Oktoba 2006 (UTC)

Fujo (mpira wa miguu)

Naomba wasimamzizi waangalie makala ya mpira wa miguu. Imeshaharibiwa mara 5,6 au hivi. Nadhani ni yeye yule mwenye fujo akiingia bila jina na kutumia mashine mbalimbali kwenye mkahawa wa intaneti. Naomba makala hii ibadilishwe ili washiriki pekee waliojiandikisha wanaweza kuhariri. Hadi sasa hatujapata fujo nyingi. Ikiongezeka naona heri tuweke sw:wiki yote kwa hali ya kujiandikisha kwanza. --Kipala 18:17, 8 Januari 2007 (UTC)

Nimehifadhi makala hii, ona pia makala mpya: Wikipedia:Makala zinazohifadhiwa. Matt Crypto 13:36, 1 Februari 2007 (UTC)

Looking for help

Hi, unfortunately I don't speak any Kiswahili (sorry!), so I hope someone could respond in English...

First of all, is this the "real" help page? (It's not linked to the respective German page, so I'm a bit confused...) If it's not the right page: Sorry, and could you tell me where else I should ask my question? Thanks!

The reason I'm writing, however, is that I'm looking for information about a river in Tanga. Someone wrote an entry in the German Wikipedia on "Sigifluss" (English translation would be Sigi River), which is supposedly a river in the Tanga province in Tanzania, which had that name until 1918. Now we're trying to find out which river it is and what it is called today. There seems to be a "Sigi River" and even an "mto Sigi"/"Mto Sigi" on the internet, but unfortunately I haven't yet found out if this is 1.) the same river, and b.) the official name of it.

So I'd be grateful for any and every information about the river or anything else that you could tell me about it, or if you could even tell me where to find more information about it (books? internet?). (Maybe you could even mark it on Tanga on wikimapia.org? If you want to do that, just click onto "Add place" in the upper left corner...) I'd be happy to include whatever information I find into the German article--so this is your chance to contribute to the German Wikipedia ;o) ! Thanks a lot (!) in advance, --Ibn Battuta 02:36, 12 Februari 2007 (UTC)

Dear Ibn Battuta, as your chosen name is so closely related to our beautiful Kilwa Kisiwani of course you are most welcome. As for Sigi (Zigi)-River: I just passed by once (maybe User:Rerehambegha has more - he lives in that area.) For a small river you have milked most information from the sources. About the name you have it on the linked reference by Krebs that it is called mostly "Zigi" nowadays, as with many names which were written with "s" by the Germans because German does not write the difference between sharp "s" and soft "z". It is interesting that quite a few times the spelling "sigi" is also found which looks like some memory of the German orthography (or just Tanzanian liberality as far as spelling is concerned?).

From the German Koloniallexikon you see quite clearly that "Sigi" it is the river ending in the Creek that finally forms Tanga Bay. If you look in the internet using "Zigi river" you get a lot more descriptions from different projects about its basin. --Kipala 16:58, 13 Februari 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, Kipala! Yes, another user had found yet more information about the river after I had already posted my question(s) here. As for the Koloniallexikon - is that somewhere online? Otherwise I'm afraid I don't have access to it. And which one is the Sigi/Zigi River on this map: the one right next to Tanga or the one slightly further to the North? Thanks a lot, also for the link to Kilwa Kisiwani, which I didn't know about before (it sounds truly amazing!). --Ibn Battuta 17:41, 17 Februari 2007 (UTC)

Soko / Masoko

Hi, I created Category:Soko la hisa. Does it need to be changed to Category:Masoko la hisa? And would Category:Benki be actually Category:Mabenki? I am not sure. --Mr Accountable 03:56, 18 Februari 2007 (UTC)

Makala "requested"

In English: Sisal, coffee, tea, rubber, ground nut/peanut, banana, pineapple, birdseye pepper, cotton, palm oil. In Kiswahili: kilima or ukilima. --Mr Accountable 03:43, 19 Februari 2007 (UTC)

Angalia makala za mawese na nguta. Neno la "agriculture" ni "kilimo" (kilima ni "small mountain, hill". Otherwise you are right, we should get these main crops in soon. --Kipala 20:57, 27 Februari 2007 (UTC)

Tufunge uhariri kwa wale waliojiandikisha?

Napendekeza kufungs uharitri wa makala kwa watumiaji waliojiandikisha. Uhalifu wote hadi sasa ilikuwa ya watu bila jina. Leo nilirudisha "Msaada wa kuanzisha makala" baada ya uhalifu. Hatujakuwa na matatizo mengi bado lakini ilhali tuko wachache inasumbua hata hivyo. Wasimamizi wenzangu: Je kuna kizuizi chochote tukiruhusu uhariri wote kwa waliojiandikisha tu? --Kipala 20:57, 27 Februari 2007 (UTC)

(Sorry for the English, but I've only got 5 minutes, and it takes me ages to write even half comprehensible Swahili...) You're suggesting we limit editing only to those who have registered. This has been proposed and debated many times elsewhere, but for better or worse -- and to cut a long story short -- Wikimedia Foundation has settled it: see [3]. That is, we have to allow anonymous edits. The advantage is that the barrier to contributing is as low as possible; the cost is that we have to deal with more vandalism. But in truth, there's not really all that much vandalism on sw currently, at least by the standards of en (and I imagine the other larger language editions too). An admin spending a minute each day is more than enough to keep on top of it. Matt Crypto 23:06, 27 Februari 2007 (UTC)

Asante kwa maelezo. Maana yake sisi tunaweza kufunga makala moja-moja? Kuna utaratibu kwa hatua hii? --Kipala 07:38, 28 Februari 2007 (UTC)

Kipala, ninavyoona wewe kama mkabidhi una uwezo ama kulinda makala fulani (bonyeza kitufe kinachosema "linda"; iko katikati ya vitufe vya "historia" na "futa" kando ya juu) ama kumzuia mhalifu asiyejiandikisha (bonyeza kiungo kinachosema "block" baada ya anwani ya ICP ya mhalifu inavyoonekana katika orodha ya "Mabadilisho ya karibuni"). Kila la heri, --Oliver Stegen 16:24, 28 Februari 2007 (UTC)

SieBot

Dear user community. I am hereby requesting bot status for SieBot, my robot, using the pywikipedia bot framework to make edits on this wiki in all namespaces related to interwiki links. I already have bot bits at about twenty Wikipedias (nl, en, pt, it to a few larger ones - see interwiki at SieBot's userpage for details). I specifically request a bot bit here because running interwiki, I noticed that I could have made a relatively large amount of edits here. Please let me know if you think I should not start editing with the bot in a few days. Siebrand 17:10, 25 Aprili 2007 (UTC)

I'm happy with you're bot making edits on this wiki. (We don't yet have any formal procedures regarding bot status on this Wikipedia, but I guess if no other user disagrees here, the this shouldn't be a problem. At any rate, other bots have already made edits on this Wikipedia without any special permission; I think the rule is that a bot onle needs a permission if the concerned Wikipedia has some rules about bots, which we don't yet have). Marcos 00:36, 26 Aprili 2007 (UTC) (Admin on this wiki)

Isn't there this bot-flag? I think it helps to get the edits off the screen when you look at "latest edits - hide bots". Ifthat is important one of us should give it tohim - I have no clue how. --84.143.241.182 08:17, 26 Aprili 2007 (UTC)

The only one(s) able to grant bot-status are beaucrats of which we only have one, namely Matt Crypto. So far, he has replied positively to my suggestions for bot-status, e.g. AmaraBot, Escarbot etc. --Oliver Stegen 12:47, 26 Aprili 2007 (UTC)

OK, thank you for your input. I'll configure the bot to run from now on. I'll also post a note on the bureaucrat's talk page requesting a bot bit, so that SieBot will not clog your RecentChanges page. Cheers! Siebrand 18:28, 26 Aprili 2007 (UTC)

Already done. —Pathoschild 02:55:40, 11 Januari 2008 (UTC)

bot:Robbot

Tunahitaji bendera kwa ajili ya Bot:Robbot. Nisipokosei hana. --62.154.201.129 14:25, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Already done. —Pathoschild 02:55:40, 11 Januari 2008 (UTC)

Le Pied-bot

Hi ! I request bot flag for my bot account Le Pied-bot. (I hope this is the good place).

• Operator: EDUCA33E (fr bureaucrat)
• Function Summary: Interwiki for categories (first edits made with primary account Special:Contributions/EDUCA33E)
• Function Details: pywikipedia
• Flag on : List of flag and request for Le Pied-bot

Cordialy, EDUCA33E 12:03, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Already done. —Pathoschild 02:55:40, 11 Januari 2008 (UTC)

Wikimedia Election Notice

If you are able, please translate this notice to as many possible languages and post it anywhere applicable.

The Wikimedia Election Committee is accepting candidates for the 2007 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election. Please see [4] for more information.

There is still time for a new candidate to be considered for election, and you may now endorse the candidate of your choice (up to 3 candidates) on the endorsements page, [5]. Please read the instructions carefully prior to endorsing. If you can translate the instructions, please do.

If you have any questions, please contact any member of the election committee, who are listed here [6].

Posted on behalf of the Election Committee,
Philippe

Bot status BotMultichill

Hi, i request a bot bit for BotMultichill.

• Botmaster : Multichill
• Bot's name : BotMultichill
• List of botflags on others wikipedias: about 60 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 11:49, 3 Julai 2007 (UTC)

Already done. —Pathoschild 02:55:40, 11 Januari 2008 (UTC)

Bot request for User:Byrialbot

Hello! Sorry for not speaking your language. I ask for permission to run my interwiki bot Byrialbot here at the Swahili Wikipedia, and to get a bot flag for it so it will not fill the Recent Changes page with interwiki updates.

• Bot account: User:Byrialbot (contributions)
• Botmaster: User:Byrial
• Botmaster's home project: da:User:Byrial
• List of botflags on other wikipedias: als:, am:, ar:, bat-smg:, be:, bg:, bm:, bn:, bs:, bpy:, ca:, cdo:, ceb:, co:, cs:, da:, de:, el:, en:, eo:, es:, et:, ff:, fo:, fr:, fy:, ga:, gl:, he:, hr:, hsb:, hu:, hy:, id:, io:, is:, it:, ka:, ksh:, kw:, lb:, li:, lt:, lv:, mk:, ml:, mr:, ms:, nap:, nds:, nds-nl:, nl:, nn:, no:, nrm:, pms:, pt:, ro:, ru:, scn:, sco:, simple:, sh:, sk:, sl:, sr:, su:, sv:, ta:, te:, th:, tl:, uk:, vo:, wo:, zh-min-nan:
• Purpose: Interwiki
• Technical details: Interwiki using Pywikipediabot (constantly updated with CVS) starting from da:, nn:, no: and sv:. It mostly runs manually assisted and I try to solve found interwiki conflicts when I can.

It will soon begin to do test edits. Your local bureacrat (Matt Crypto) seems inactive, but I can then request the flag at the Meta-Wiki if I first get local consensus here. Thank you! Byrial 15:20, 4 Julai 2007 (UTC)

Namkubali. (for Meta: I agree) -- Sorry for your troubles, Matt is somewhere in orbit but he does sometimes descend. Did you try his English user page? --Kipala 06:22, 7 Julai 2007 (UTC)

Now I got the flag by Matt Crypto. Thank you to all! Byrial 22:22, 8 Julai 2007 (UTC)

Bot status for 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
• Have bot flag at: als, am, an, ar, az, bat-smg, be-x-old, bn, bs, ca, ceb, cs, cv, da, en, eo, et, fo, fur, fy, ga, hr, id, is, ka, ksh, la, lb, li, lv, mk, ml, nap, nds, nds-nl, nn, no, pms, roa-tara, scn, simple, sl, sr, sv, th, uk, vec, zea
• Details: Interwiki using Pywikipediabot. It mostly runs manually assisted. May run automatically in some cases.

Thank you! --it:User:Pipep 18:03, 11 Agosti 2007 (UTC)

PipepBot has now bot status. Thank you! it:User:Pipep 00:49, 3 Septemba 2007 (UTC)

Preparation of Fundraiser 2007

Hi, this is just a first introduction message to tell you: there is more to come. I am dealing with the Project Management of the Fundraiser 2007 and therefore will search for contacts of wikimedians who can help us to do our tasks on all projects. I am actually also building the structure for the fundraiser on Meta. We will need people who help to design buttons, translate texts of buttons, documents, sitenotices etc. Should you feel you want to co-operate please let me know. You can reach me on my meta user page or by e-mail at scretella (at) wikimedia (dot) org. If you wish to notify us that you would like to co-operate on translations, it would be nice if you used e-mail and copied the e-mail to me and Aphaia (aphaia (at) gmail (dot) com). Thank you for your attention and I hope to meet you soon! Cheers :-) -- 4 September 2007 Sabine

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, el, en, eo, es, eu, fa, fi, fr, frp, gl, he, hr, ht, hu, hy, id, is, it, ja, jv, ka, ksh, ku, lb, li, lmo, ln, lt, mk, mi, ml, ms, nap, nds, nds-nl, nl, nn, no, pl, pt, ro, roa-tara, ru, sco, sh, sk, simple, sl, sq, sr, su, sv, th, tr, tt, uk, ur, vec, vi, vo, zh, zh-yue. On it.wiki has done more than 65000 edit.

Thanks --AlleborgoBot 14:00, 13 Oktoba 2007 (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild 20:04:15, 25 Novemba 2007 (UTC)

Bot status for Idioma-bot

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

• Operator: lt:User:Hugo.arg
• Purpose: Interwiki
• Software: Pywikipedia
• Have bot flag at: more than 50 wikipedias (en, es, fr, de, ja, zh, pt, pl..)
• Details: Interwiki using Pywikipediabot. It mostly runs manually assisted. May run automatically in some cases.

Thank you! --Hugo 15:27, 25 Novemba 2007 (UTC)

Already done. —Pathoschild 02:55:40, 11 Januari 2008 (UTC)

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. —Pathoschild 20:04:33, 25 Novemba 2007 (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild 02:55:40, 11 Januari 2008 (UTC)

Images

Sorry I don't speak any KiSwahili so I'll write in English. I've noticed that a lot of images on this project do not report basic information as author and license, and many are available on commons. Can some sysop have a look at it? Thanks Utente:Cruccone--131.111.76.140 12:35, 3 Desemba 2007 (UTC)

Bot command translations

Hi. Could anybody translate me these interwiki bot commands to Swahili (they will be displayed in all interwiki bot summaries here instead English):

• robot - ROBOTI
• Adding: - NYONGEZA
• Modifying: - BADILIKO
• Removing: - ONDOA (this one might have to be adapted; I have to see how it looks in Process; try these and come back)

Thank you. lt:User:Hugo.arg 13:50, 6 Januari 2008 (UTC)

Added translations. For the last one lets see. --User_talk:Kipala 16:50, 6 Januari 2008 (UTC)

Bot Flag Request for Purbo_T

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

• Operator: User:Purodha = ksh:User:Purodha (b'crat @ ksh)
• 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 to latest version
• Already has bot flag on: aa, ab, ak, als, am, ang, ar, arc, as, av, ay, bat-smg, bar, be-x-old, bcl, bh, bi, bm, bn, bo, bs, bug, bxr, ca, cbk-zam, cdo, ce, chr, chy, co, cr, crh, cs, cu, da, de, diq, dsb, dz, ee, eml, el, eo, es, fa, ff, fi, fiu-vro, fj, fr, glk, gn, got, gv, ha, hak, haw, hi, hr, hsb, ht, hu, ie, ig, ik, ilo, io, is, ja, jbo, ka, kab, kg, ki, kl, km, kn, ko, ks, ksh, ku, kv, kw, ky, la, lb, lbe, lg, li, lmo, ln, lo, lt, lv, map-bms, mg, mh, ml, mn, mr, my, mzn, na, nah, nds, nds-nl, ne, new, ng, nl, nn, nov, nrm, nv, om, ny, or, os, pa, pag, pam, pdc, pih, pms, ps, rm, rmy, rn, roa-rup, roa-tara, rw, scn, sco, sd, sg, si, simple, sl, sm, sn, so, sr, st, stq, sv, tet, tg, th, ti, tk, tl, tn, to, tpi, ts, tum, tw, ty, udm, ug, uk, ur, ve, vec, vi, vls, vo, xh, yi, yo, za, zea, zh-classical, zh-yue, zu, 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, and may be inaccessible for short periods of time)

Thank you! --Purodha Blissenbach 14:01, 13 Februari 2008 (UTC)

Imefanyika tayari. --Oliver Stegen 13:54, 1 Machi 2008 (UTC)

Changes at "MediaWiki:Common.css"

(communication to user:Malangali) We had a problem with the format of templates for info boxes. I consulted meta:user:Pathoschild who as a steward has given us advice before and he thought the reason was the deletion of "MediaWiki:Common.css" by you. I restored the file and the templates are fine. Probably you had some idea why you deleted this so kindly tell the community on "jumuiya". Pathoschild recommended also restoring MediaWiki:Monobook.js but I have no idea what that is for. Maybe its better to discuss such operations - this one left Muddy and me in the dark for some time. --User_talk:Kipala 18:41, 20 Februari 2008 (UTC)

Request for bot flag - BodhisattvaBot

• Operator: Dalibor Bosits
• Purpose: Interwiki, auto and manually mode, from hr Wiki, daily
• Software: Pywikipedia framework
• Bot flagged on: bs, cs, da, de, el, eo, et, eu, fr, gl, hr, hu, id, la, nl, ro, sh, sl, simple, sr, uk, th, vo
• info: contributions on local Wiki

--Dalibor Bosits (talk) 11:12, 26 Februari 2008 (UTC)

Imefanyika tayari. --Oliver Stegen 13:54, 1 Machi 2008 (UTC)

Interwiki links

Hi,

I saw this Wikipedia in the movie The Truth According to Wikipedia and it was very inspirational.

I don't know Swahili, but i tried browsing around this Wikipedia. In the movie i saw the article Mnazi (kinywaji) and i was curious why did they show it. I found it here, but unfortunately it doesn't have interwiki links to other languages and i have no idea what it is.

I looked at a few of your other pages and found that many of them don't have interwiki links. Good interwiki links strongly improve the encyclopedia. Bots are not enough for this - they just complete the work that human editors do, but human editors should check them and add them where necessary.

In the Hebrew Wikipedia we have developed some tools and processes that help editors improve interwiki links. Please take a look here:

he:User:Amire80/Interlanguage links

I think that you may find it interesting! Thanks. --Amir E. Aharoni (majadiliano) 08:27, 19 Aprili 2008 (UTC)

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. 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. Translators for over 100 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.

• Currently 29.06% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% 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. Currently we have a "bounty" program for the localisation of your language.. Check out Betawiki for the details... Thanks, GerardM (majadiliano) 09:32, 19 Aprili 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 28.18% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% 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 (majadiliano) 13:15, 17 Mei 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 26.72% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.35% 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 (majadiliano) 08:57, 11 Julai 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 26.42% 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 (majadiliano) 14:35, 9 Agosti 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 24.94% 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 (majadiliano) 10:33, 11 Septemba 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 25.92% 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 (majadiliano) 09:53, 18 Oktoba 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 26.20% 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 (majadiliano) 09:36, 11 Novemba 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 25.79% 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 (majadiliano) 11:48, 15 Desemba 2008 (UTC)

PS Please help us complete the most wanted messages..

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 (majadiliano) 08:05, 3 Juni 2008 (UTC)

Done. Welcome. --Kipala (majadiliano) 13:51, 3 Juni 2008 (UTC)

Bot flag for 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
• Function Summary: interwiki links
• Already has a bot flag on: more than 60 wikipedias, see SUL table

Further technical information is available on its main page. Thank you in advance. Regards, --Julian (majadiliano) 06:36, 6 Juni 2008 (UTC)

Done. Welcome. --Kipala (majadiliano) 07:23, 6 Juni 2008 (UTC)

Bot flag for StigBot

I hereby request botflag on this wiki for my bot StigBot.

• Owner’s account: Stigmj (talk)
• Bot account: StigBot (contribs • sul • makebot@meta )
• Function: mainly interwiki, but can be used in user-namespace for adding userpages etc. on request from the affected users.
• Software: Pywikipedia, updated from SVN before each run.
• Other: Runs manually initiated automatic supervised and sometimes entirely manual. Already has bot flag on: ar, bpy, en, eo, fr, no, oc, pt, ro and vo.

Best regards, Stigmj (majadiliano) 13:09, 8 Juni 2008 (UTC)

WikiDreamer Bot

• Operator: WikiDreamer
• Purpose: Interwiki from French Wikipedia
• Software: Pywikipedia framework
• Already has bot flag on: 68 wikipedias, more infos here

I start my bot now for 50 test edits. Thanks! --WikiDreamer (majadiliano) 00:12, 22 Julai 2008 (UTC)

Imefanyika --Baba Tabita (majadiliano) 18:29, 27 Julai 2008 (UTC)