User talk:Apoivre

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This is getting pretty far afield from Petronila, so I thought I'd reply here instead. BTW, given that you apparently have some serious areas of expertise, you might (1) put a brief note about that on your personal page and (2) add yourself to relevant lists at Translation into English. And please do sign yourself up a WikiProject Ethnic Groups!

Yes, WikiProjects are oriented towards uniform handling of material, rather than to content. Maybe that's not the right vehicle for this. It sounds like you have very, very serious expertise on medieval Aragon, and maybe the best thing to do is just to go through and make the relevant changes yourself. I would suggest, in any case that you also engage the people who have been handling this material in the Catalan Wikipedia, whether or no you are not planning to edit there yourself. That is presumably where the most people are who feel a stake in the matter and consider themselves knowledgable, and they deserve at least a heads-up so that they can contest things if they feel that part of where you are taking this is wrong. -- Jmabel 16:55, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Cities of Russia
I see you've been going through Russian cities lately, introducing some markup that looks pretty strange. AFAIK, the use of bold is reserved for the first mention of the name(s) of the subject. That is, in an article on a city, it's definitely OK to mark its name in bold the first time it appears (same goes for older names of the city) - but not every time you mention it and not when it comes to population, highway distance from Vladivostok and such. apoivre 18:50, 19 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Yes, I know, actually. I was marking them all because I misunderstood the guideline (I edited the cities you are looking at quite a while ago when I just discovered the wikipedia).  I stopped doing extensive markup about 2 months ago when I realized it had not been the way to go :).  If you can correct the ones I screwed up, I would appreciate that, but I was planning on returning to those articles anyway to add more information and would eventually clean them up myself.--Ezhiki 20:25, May 19, 2004 (UTC)
 * OK. Somebody must go through them anyway. I'll do the now missing pages on republics and oblasts capitals when I have time. More like stubs actually but anyway, better than nothing at all, I say -- apoivre 12:33, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Go ahead. I will join you when I am done with the districts list.--Ezhiki 13:59, May 20, 2004 (UTC)

Vocabulary Project
Hi there, since I saw you registered as a translator I would like to know if you are interested in this. I have written a program for learning vocabulary. It is based on the belief that it is best to learn foreign words by learning typical sentences. I currently have files in English, French (with sound), Spanish, and Portuguese, Catalan is in the planning. The program can also be used for learning other stuff that works with the question/answer scheme, e.g. the theory for the driving licence or anatomy. It also uses images and sound files for alternation and in order to work on the pronunciation. If you are interested please check my page and let me know. Get-back-world-respect 00:48, 22 May 2004 (UTC)

Area
Where did you get the information on the areas of the federal subjects of Russia? It seems that every time I look this info up in a different source the numbers are different. I just wanted to find out where the most accurate information was. Thanks.--Ezhiki 16:17, Jun 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * I used encyclopaedia available through Yandex. Numbers do differ from one source to another.--apoivre 07:54, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Translations, greetings
Hello Apoivre,

I thought you might be interested in this:

There are some major translations taking place this week. The first edition of the Wikimedia Newsletter, and a global press release for the 1,000,000th article, both of which are scheduled for the next two weeks. See Translation requests for more information.

Cheers, +sj +

translation
There is an enormous backlog at Translation into English, more than for all other languages combined. I see you are signed up at Translators_available. Would you be at all interested in taking on one of these articles? (Full disclosure: this is a bit of a "mass mailing", I'm working my way down the whole list of French-to-English translators.) -- Jmabel 00:08, Oct 10, 2004 (UTC)

esTotW
Since you put your name down as a spanish to english traslator, and since you are "a delightful multilingual contributor+sj", i thought you might be interested in the new Spanish translation of the week collaboration project. This weeks collaboration is Género chico.(Full disclosure: this is a bit of a "mass mailing", I'm working my way down the whole list of Spanish-to-English translators.)

paz y amor, The bellman 05:27, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Wikibooks
Would you please write a bit on the Catalan Grammar in Wikibooks?

Lee S. Svoboda 16:13, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Catalan Language article
Please translate some of the english Catalan language Article into Catalan.


 * I'm not sure I'm enough qualified for this, I'm afraid --apoivre 19:12, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Article Licensing
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 2000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
 * Multi-Licensing FAQ - Lots of questions answered
 * Multi-Licensing Guide
 * Free the Rambot Articles Project

To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the " " template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:


 * Option 1
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions, with the exception of my user pages, as described below:

OR
 * Option 2
 * I agree to multi-license all my contributions to any U.S. state, county, or city article as described below:

Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace " " with "  ". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man (comment| talk)

Spanish Translation of the Week
I would like to revive this project. I noticed that you've added yourself to the list of available Spanish-to-English translators. Are you interested in working on Spanish Translation of the Week? &mdash; J3ff 06:09, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ethnic groups
Hi, Apoivre! I just want to drop a quick thank-you note for adding the ethnic groups information to the Russian federal subjects articles. It is going to be way handy when it is those articles' turn to go through the Russian federal subjects WikiProject. Are you planning to update all of them or just some? Also, do you know when the languages census information is going to be available? Again, thanks much!&mdash;Ëzhiki (erinaceus europeaus) 18:32, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)


 * Oh, I'm just slowly making my way up my subjects-by-population list. Let's see how far I can go tonight. As to the language info - it's already available at . --apoivre 19:12, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Chechen President Succession Box
Please see Talk:Sheikh Abdul Halim concerning the removal of the succession box for Chechen presidents. Thanks. &mdash;thames 17:37, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Kurgan
what "1092 towns in Russia"? There are thousands of towns in Russia. Have you even looked at the link I have given you ? dab (&#5839;) 19:01, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 	Kurgan, Kurganskaya, Russia
 * 2 	Kurgan, Amurskaya, Russia
 * 3 	Kurgan, Chukotskiy, Russia
 * 4 	Kurgan, Tul'skaya, Russia
 * 5 	Kurgan, Krasnoyarskiy, Russia
 * 6 	Kurgan, Permskaya, Russia
 * 7 	Kurgan, Novosibirskaya, Russia
 * 8 	Kurgan, Altayskiy, Russia
 * 9 	Kurgan, Altayskiy, Russia
 * 10 	Kurgan, Novogorodskaya, Russia
 * 11 	Kurgan, Altayskiy, Russia
 * 12 	Kurgan, Orlovskaya, Russia
 * 13 	Kurgan, Tverskaya, Russia
 * 14 	Kurgan, Ryazanskaya, Russia
 * 15 	Kurgan, Kaluzhskaya, Russia
 * I have. Only 1092 places in Russia have a town or a city status. If you can read Russian, here is the link . Have a look at all the towns and cities starting with K . Greetings from Moscow --apoivre 18:59, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Russian-to-English translation request
Over at Translation into English there is a request to translate Юдаков, Сулейман Александрович so as to expand Suleiman Yudakov. Would you be able to help out by any chance? Cheers. -- Francs2000 23:48, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Need help for my multilanguage project www.cucumis.org
Hi, I need help for my translation help project. It's a community of translators that help each others. The translations value is evaluated trough a system of points that allows to avoid abuse of the system. The user interface has been translated in many languages with this system, but it's very hard for korean, chinese, vietnamese and north of europe languages. It's a young project and I hope you will like it! Thanks for your help! JP

new collaboration project
You'd you be interested in a participating in a new Collaboration project that aims at translating good and featured articles in the French Wikipedia to English (much likeSpanish Translation of the Week)? I'm trying to see if there's enough users interested in this project before creating it. Thank you. CG 17:34, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

World Citizen userbox,
Hi, I noticed the message saying you're a World Citizen, I would like to invite you to add to your user page if you wish to proclaim it in a more effective way, and this template will also add you automatically to the Wikipedians with World Citizenship category. :) --Mistress Selina Kyle 23:54, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

"orats alpins"
At Berguedà, can you by any chance help with the expression orats alpins: I have semi-decent Catalan, but neither I nor my dictionary know what to make of orats. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:34, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
 * According to the IEC dictionary, orat is boig, not sure if it helps. Oh, and it's an adjective. apoivre 17:56, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Yuzhno-Kurilsky District, Sakhalin Oblast
Just as an FYI, all cities and towns in Kaliningrad have Russian names along with the German, Polish, and Lithuanian names listed in the intro line. See Sovetsk for an example. I see the Kuril Islands in a similar light&mdash;having the Japanese names just makes sense. Anyway, I don't really care if the Japanese names are there or not; I just wanted to explain my reasoning behind my copyedit&mdash;obviously someone might need and look for just that information. Take care.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • (yo?); 20:24, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not against your edits and I know it wasn't you who added that bit. I just don't think any Japanese name should be there at all unless it corresponds exactly to what the article is about, i.e, the district. Sovetsk is a town/city, something tangible, if you wish, and was known as Tilsit for most of its history. Yuzhno-Kurilsky district, however, was definitely created after the islands came under Soviet jurisdiction so it can have no direct counterpart in Japanese unless the imaginary Japanese district that they reserved for it corresponds exactly with the Russian subdivision. If this is the case - which I doubt - this info should go in the last sentence which deals with Japanese claims, NOT in the lead. (Japanese names for Russian administrative subdivisons are about as relevant as Inuit ones would be, if they exist). Most likely, some nationalistic Japanese inserted this bit into the article without actually reading it/seeing what it is about, as they feel it is their duty to do so in every single article in Wikipedia dealing with anywhere Japan happens to claim -apoivre 20:51, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for clarifying your point for me; the fact that Russian administrative unit has no direct equivalent in Japanese did not immediately occur to me.&mdash;Ëzhiki (ërinacëus amurënsis) • (yo?); 21:48, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Persian people
Could you take a look at the first sentence in this section? It claims that Persians are descendants of some "Aryan tribes" migrating from Central Asia. Sounds like outdated racial theories to me. The same source (Britannica) says Persians are of mixed ancentry, but when I try to add this in people remove it. I don't think this is consistent with WP:NPOV. Could you take a look at this and leave a comment? Thanks, AucamanTalk 06:43, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Help with Translation
Hi, my name is Ricardo Ramírez, I'm from Colombia and I'm working in the article of Cúcuta. Can you help me to translate it from the Spanish Wikipedia?


 * Cúcuta - Spanish Wikipedia - Click
 * Cúcuta - English Wikipedia - Click

Thanks...

Ricardoramirezj ✍ 15:43, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

SkyTeam - Wings
I'd be delighted if could explain me what is so gross about calling Wings Alliance a "forerunner" of our cherished SkyTeam? maksdo 04:04, 21 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Wings was proposed in 1989 when KL and NW started their cooperation across the Atlantic and in Asia (they came up with the name later, I believe). CO (through its links with NW, with the golden share and all) and AZ (through its links with KL before the Dutch payed milllions of euros to get out of that relationship) participated in Wings to a certain degree.

Skyteam was founded in 2001 by AF, DL, AM and KE. AZ joins later on (after KL severed its links with them?). Between 2001 and 2004 ST and Wings are direct competitors. Finally, in September 2004 KL, CO and NW join SkyTeam, rendering Wings Alliance a moot point (even though they still have separate antitrust immunity and Passport to the World - a round-the-world fare on KL, CO, NW, KQ, MH, EK and several other carriers is still being offered along the ST RTW).

Now, what makes Wings a *forerunner* of SkyTeam? --apoivre 14:17, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Aviation Newsletter delivery
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Flying Blue
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An exciting opportunity to improve yourself!
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Self-published book
I'm working on compiling a book containing information about almost all Non-indigenous ethnic groups living or working in Pakistan. The population of a particular ethnic group would be obtain respectively from their diplomatic missions in Pakistan including regions with significant populations, languages spoken and religious affiliations. I'm not very good with writing so it would be great, if you would like to collaborate with me.--116.71.53.25 (talk) 06:01, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia Stories Project
Привет!

Меня зовут Виктор, и я рассказчик с Wikimedia Foundation, некоммерческая организация, которая поддерживает Википедию. Я хроник вдохновляющих историй сообщества Википедии по всему миру, в том числе и читателей, редакторов и доноров. Истории совершенно необходимы для любой некоммерческой органицации, чтобы убедить людей поддержывать наш проект, и мы знаем, что у людей, которые строют и используют Википедии есть много, что рассказать!

Я ищу вдохновляющие страницы пользователей, и интересных историй о том, как Википедия влияют на жизнь людей. Я задавал вопросы вроде "Как Википедия изменила Вашу жизнь?", "Какая самая интересная история у Вас есть о Википедии?" и "Википедия ли когда-нибудь Вас удивило?"

В прошлом году мы использовали ежегодный сбор средств как способ показать миру, кто на самом деле пишет Википедия. Мы показывали редакторов из Бразилии, Украины, Аргентины, Саудовской Аравии, Кении, Индии, США и Англии. Этот метод имел огромный успех, в результате чего у нас была наиболее финансово успешная кампании по сбору средств в историе организации. Кроме того, мы остались верны духу Википедии, просвещение общественности, что это бесплатно ТОП-5 Сайт создан добровольцами, как Ви и я.

В этом году мы хотим выделить еще редакторов Википедии на русском языке, так что я нахожусь в процессе планирования поездки в Россию и интервью с редакторами.

Если Википедия положительно повлеяла на Вас или на кого-то из Ваших знакомых, или у Вас есть что-то интересное сказать о Википедии, я бы очень хотел услышать об этом!

Пожалуйста, дайте мне знать, если Ви бы хотели участвовать в проекте Истории Википедии, или если вы знаете кого-то еще, с кем я должен поговорить.

Конечно, если у Вас есть какие-либо вопросы или сомнения, пожалуйста, обращайтесь! Я отвечу, как только смогу. Извините за плохой перевод этого письма, я использую Google-перевод. Я надеюсь, что заставляет вас смеяться :)

Спасибо за Ваше время,

Victor Grigas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas

vgrigas@wikimedia.org

__________________________________

Hi!

My name is Victor and I'm a storyteller with the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that supports Wikipedia. I'm chronicling the inspiring stories of the Wikipedia community around the world, including those from readers, editors, and donors. Stories are absolutely essential for any non-profit to persuade people to support the cause, and we know the vast network of people who make and use Wikipedia have so much to share.

I'm scouring user pages looking for inspiring, motivating and interesting stories of how Wikipedia has affected the lives of people. I'm asking questions like "How has Wikipedia changed your life?", "What's the most interesting story you have about Wikipedia?" and "Has Wikipedia ever surprised you?"

Last year, we used the annual fundraiser as a way to show the world who it is who actually writes Wikipedia. We featured editors from Brazil, Ukraine, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, India, United States and England. This campaign was a huge success, resulting in the most financially successful fundraising campaign ever. It was also a campaign that stayed true to the spirit of Wikipedia, educating the public that this free top-5 website is created by volunteers like you and I.

This year we want to highlight more Russian-language Wikipedia editors, so I am in the process of planning a trip to Russia to interview editors.

If you or someone you know (or have heard about) has been positively affected by Wikipedia, or have something interesting to say about Wikipedia I'd very much like to hear about it!

Please let me know if you're inclined to take part in the Wikipedia Stories Project, or if you know someone else with whom I should speak.

Of course, if you have any questions or concerns, please ask! I will answer as soon as I can. I apologize for any poor translation of this letter, I am using Google-translate. I hope it makes you laugh :)

Thank you for your time,

Victor Grigas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Victorgrigas

vgrigas@wikimedia.org

Victor Grigas (talk) 22:47, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

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