User talk:Aegis Maelstrom

Welcome to wikipedia. In case you had some questions - you can always ask on my talk page, I'd be happy to help. (English/Polish/Spanish/Czech) [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] 13:04, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)

Well, I want to offer my apologies for calling you a sock puppet. I pressed a wrong button when checking your contributions. Actually, I have been recently harrased by user:Molobo in her innumerable reincarnations, so your pretty rude comment raised my suspicions. Which doesn't pardon my negligence as to your contributions, of course. --Ghirlandajo 11:05, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry, I am still not familiar with the case. It would be very helpful if people referring to it would provide diffs, so I can quickly look things up; I tend not to enjoy delving into dispute histories, so quick references to what you are talking to are much appreciated. regards, dab (ᛏ) 22:29, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Hello, Aegis, I'm sorry to say it, but your hysterical behaviour over legitimate Polish invasion of Russia redirect confirmed my suspicions that you are just a sockpuppet maintained by one of major Polish editors. I eagerly await explanations of your nasty behaviour on Talk:Polish invasion of Russia. --Ghirlandajo 01:53, 20 November 2005 (UTC)


 * "Legitimate" is only your word so far as well as a "sock-puppet". I don't have to respond to the user who notoriously abuses me. What is more, as he has no proof, I may request him to stop it - or others to make him stop. As the first option seems to be not working...
 * I don't have to explain my POV and basic historical facts I submitted on a talk page as well - it's a free encyclopedia - and I can do that. aegis maelstrom δ 23:14, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Polish invasion of Russia
I'm sorry, it kind of slipped my mind to respond to that. But looking at the page now, it seems in reasonable state despite revert warring by Ghirjlandago or whatever his name is. Anyway welcome to EN, and here's a couple of suggestions... if a redirect is inappropriate (e.g. "stupid moron" -> "George Bush"), tag it with rfd and list it on WP:RFD (redirects for deletion).

People call other people sockpuppets all the time; you should probably ignore that, it's just childish namecalling. The best defense against it is having a reasonable edit count. Having multiple accounts is legal as long as you don't use them to vote twice, stuff like that. Allegations without evidence are pointless.

Happy editing! Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 23:43, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Halibutt's RfA
I would like to express my thanks to all the people who took part in my (failed) RfA voting. I was both surprised and delighted about the amount of support votes and all the kind words! I was also surprised by the amount of people who stated clearly that they do care, be it by voting in for or against my candidacy. That's what Wiki community is about and I'm really pleased to see that it works. As my RfA voting failed with 71% support, I don't plan to reapply for adminship any more. However, I hope I might still be of some help to the community. Cheers! Halibutt 05:10, 29 November 2005 (UTC)


 * blush* :) Halibutt 05:57, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

LA
Niestety, wywędrowałem za samicą do Nowego Yorku. Pozdrów ode mnie boską San Fernando Valley. Miłych edycji, Space Cadet 22:13, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

ROTFL
Great Soviet Encyclopedia strikes back! :D Check here: Talk:History_of_Belarus. Halibutt 13:09, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Nice. Semper similem ducit Deus ad similem. --Ghirlandajo 14:09, 1 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank You!! It was nice, indeed - and you don't even know how much.
 * "Więc kimże w końcu jesteś? Ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft." =)
 * However, next time please communicate in a language I know. I wouldn't like looking for a traslation from, say, farsi. aegis maelstrom δ 08:46, 2 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I saw that one. And I believe you're wrong, Poland was not controlled by Jews and Vatican in 1939, it was controlled by joint forces of Gorbachev and CIA... Halibutt 08:46, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

RfC
It is a generic message to inform you that there was a User Conduct Request for Comments at Requests for comment/Ghirlandajo started recently. As you are one of the sides in the conflict and your name appears in the evidence of disputed behaviour section you might want to take a look at it. Halibutt 00:25, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Babel
Could you consider adding this template to your userpage? It is very helpful in case translators are needed and such.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 15:00, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Space Cadet
hi aegis, thanks for the note. I have to say that I am quite concerned that Space Cadet's edits are almost entirely reverts, and that he constantly reverts articles 3 times a day to revert a lot and still avoid actually breaking 3RR. These sorts of disputes really should be worked out through dialogue and by bringing the dispute to the attention of the community, rather than revert warring. It isn't really a question of who is right or wrong in this situation in terms of content; rather, Space Cadet really should be engaging in dialogue and getting community support if he's so concerned about the content, and edit summaries like "go away castro" are quite unconstructive. I didn't block him or anything, as it didn't quite seem warranted, but he really shouldn't be reverting so much. . . Anyways. thanks again for the note, i'll try to be kinder. --He:ah? 03:29, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Zaproszenie
Kurczę, gdybym zaproszenie odebrał na czas na pewno bym się pojawił. A tak chyba trochę za późno... Ale dzięki za informację - i daj znać następnym razem.  // Halibutt 14:09, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * O! To zaproszenie odebrałem na czas i na 90% postaram się pojawić. Może nawet skrobnę coś zawodowo, do poniedziałkowej Rzepy?  // Halibutt 05:50, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * WP:PWNB byłoby dobrym miejscem, ale z Warszawy jestem chyba tylko ja. Większość jest zza Kałuży.  // Halibutt 13:32, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Jest jeszcze kilka osób z Warszawy. User:SylwiaS z bardziej aktywnych, ale nie tylko. Bardzo zapraszam na WP:PWNB dla takich ogloszen w przyszlosci :) PS. ROTFLOL za angielski headerek :) --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 16:59, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

pl:Wiki
Szkoda, że bez dowodów zablokowałeś mnie na tydzień. Po rozmowie z kuzynem, przyznał się i po nawrzeszczeniu na niego obiecał, że więcej tego nie zrobi. Ale cóż najłatwiej jest na tydzień kogoś zablokować dla świętego spokoju. Kolanin 13:22, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

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Chapter Financial Statement Consolidation
Hi

I am part of a team consisting of 4 people and currently working on a project of Wikimedia Foundation with regards to the standardization of financial data among the 40 existing chapters. We were pleased to see your presentation about quantitative analysis of wikimedia affiliates carried out in the wikimania event 2013, which is very similar to what we are aiming for.

We plan to announce this project shortly making use of every possible channel/platform within the movement in order for the community to have access to contribute to the final outcome. However, we would like to request for your advice with regards the following points:

- We will face the same constraints as you did (i.e. lack of benchmarks) on some chapters, how did you overcome these obstacles? What would be your advice to us in dealing with these issues? - We'll work on a template so each chapter provides us similar information or more if there's available. It's been complicated to find ways to make all the breakdowns in the expenditures comparable enough, what would you suggest for this? - Any thoughts on how should we reach out to them? - Were there any chapters that were not willing to cooperate at all? How should we approach these? - Finally, we would like to hear your personal opinion about this initiative. It can bring up very helpful outcomes but it certainly requires collaborative work. Feel free to add more information about it as well.

Would you be available for a meeting via google hangout or skype? If possible, the team would like to meet with you to discuss the project further.

We appreciate your support and help beforehand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Oolukoya (WMF) (talk • contribs) 20:01, 16 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Hello, @Oolukoya (WMF), nice to see more people believe it could be helpful. :) I am pretty busy at the moment but otherwise I am happy to help. The biggest obstacle is a manpower needed to gather & compile data and fill some standardized reporting. As chapters in general have highly limited resources and there is a strong push from WMF to keep them simple, there are usually very few paid administrative FTEs (if any) in the orgs. In my case, only the German chapter had enough manpower to fill the form by their own and I was told it was tiring and demanding for them. In this part I understand this issue - to be honest, I do standardized obligatory reporting in my professional life and I am one of a number of hired professionals: accounting, risk mgmt and IT people who do that - this is how much it can take, even if you have automated, centralized, big iron IT systems.
 * In terms of the chapters, they are small organizations, usually without strong accounting and managerial accounting automation, operating under various laws, IT solutions etc. so it is hard for them to report much AND in a standardized way. My initial thought is, every question and data gathered from chapters need to be well considered in order to minimalize the burden. Chapters need to be treated less like big institutions where you can an should require much, and more like respondents in market research: they have little time, limited experience and a lot of distractors. Therefore, IMO WMF should somewhat standardize the data gathering on its side: while gathering info from annual reports, FDC submissions and monitoring of annual plans, grants submissions and their monitoring (here insights of Asaf @User:Ijon will be vital!) and any other run. Proper IT solutions to streamline need to be sought: e.g. wiki is very good to keep our strong transparency and read the data by the old wiki folks, on the other hand reporting there, e.g. on meta, is often described as more time consuming and less efficient (e.g. it is harder to copy+paste spreadsheets).
 * I guess there is a lot of peculiarities here. One thing I am sure, it will be good to have a team consisted of 1+ persons understanding precisely what are your business needs (a.k.a. what data is sought), 1+ persons understanding data reporting (e.g. common problems, data inaccuracies, good practices), 1+ persons technically capable to coin some automation and 1+ chapter persons responsible for data delivery. I know it sounds harsh but if you want to implement such a process and have it work, in a sustainable fashion, it needs to be well-thought, built and agreed upon so the people will understand it and will be eager to do it.
 * Kind Regards, and see you soon, aegis maelstrom δ 17:45, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

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Help decide the future of Wikimania


The Wikimedia Foundation is currently running a consultation on the value and planning process of Wikimania, and is open until 18 January 2016. The goals are to (1) build a shared understanding of the value of Wikimania to help guide conference planning and evaluation, and (2) gather broad community input on what new form(s) Wikimania could take (starting in 2018).

After reviewing the consultation, we'd like to hear your feedback on on this survey.

In addition, feel free to share any personal experiences you have had at at a Wikimedia movement conference, including Wikimania. We plan to compile and share back outcomes from this consultation in February.

With thanks,

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Towards a New Wikimania results
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