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An Esperanzial note
As I remember, the last spam that was handed out was on the 20th of December last year, so I think it's time for another update. First and foremost, the new Advisory Council and Administrator General have been elected. They consist of myself as Admin General and FireFox, Titoxd, Flcelloguy and Karmafist as the Advisory Council. We as a group met formally for the first time on the 31st of Decembe. The minutes of this meeting can be found at WP:ESP/ACM. The next one is planned for tonight (Sunday 29 January) at 20:30 UTC and the agenda can be found at WP:ESP/ACM2.

In other news, Karmafist has set up a discussion about a new personal attack policy, which it can be found here. Other new pages include an introductory page on what to do when you sign up, So you've joined Esperanza... and a welcome template: EA-welcome (courtesy of Bratsche). Some of our old hands may like to make sure they do everything on the list as well ;) Additionally, the userpage award program proposal has become official is operational: see Esperanza/User Page Award to nominate a userpage or volunteer as a judge. Also see the proposed programs page for many new proposals and old ones that need more discussion ;)

Other than that, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you an Esperanzially good new WikiYear :D Thank you! --Cel e stianpower háblame 16:57, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

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AMA Coordinator Election
Dear AMA Member,

You are entitled to vote in the AMA Coordinator election, set to begin at midnight on 3 February 2006. Please see the pages on the election and its candidates and the procedure and policy and cast a vote by e-mail!

Wally 11:01, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

New Zealand portal
I'm happy with the logo for New Zealand Cadet Forces, but if you can take a photo to illustrate the article as well, that would be good, and I'll choose between the logo and the photo when I come to write up the portal selection.

I moved the article down the queue because I have a city and a biography at four-article intervals. If there's a particular reason for wanting the cadets up in a particular week, I'm happy to rearrange things. Thanks for the suggestion.-gadfium 02:08, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Another Esperanzial note...
Hi again Esperanzians! Well, since our last frolic in the realms of news, the Advisory Council has met twice more (see WP:ESP/ACM2 and WP:ESP/ACM3). As a result, the charter has been ammended twice (see here for details) and all of the shortcuts have been standardised (see the summary for more details). Also of note is the Valentines ball that will take place in the Esperanza IRC channel on the 14th of February (tomorrow). It will start at 6pm UTC and go on until everyone's had enough! I hope to see you all there! Also, the spamlist has been dissolved - all Esperanzians will now recieve this update "newsletter".

The other major notice I need to tell you about is the upcoming Esperanza Advisory Council Elections. These will take place from 12:00 UTC on February 20th to 11:59 UTC on February 27th. The official handing-over will take place the following day. Candidates are able to volunteer any time before the 20th, so long as they are already listed on the members list. Anyone currently listed on the memberlist can vote. In a change since last time, if you have already been a member of the leadership, you may run again. Due to the neutrality precident, I will not vote for anyone.

Yours, as ever, Esperanzially,

--Cel es tianpower háblame 09:00, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

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My mockup for Te Hau Kāinga
Hello - I have on my user page at the Māori wiki a mockup of my proposed new version of the main page. Since I translated some of the text into Māori the page has looked particularly ugly, so I had a go at a redesign. I know you had a draft version but I'm not sure whether you are still going to do it - I used your idea for the Sister Projects format among other things. I thought we needed some more colour on the page as well, and to reduce how much space is taken up by the long lists. I have included all the info and links on the current page, plus put some English fairly prominently to acknowledge the input of English speakers so far. Kahuroa 09:32, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

OTRS
Thanks for the offer! We've actually just got a small flood of new people in, so we're not taking any more help for the moment until they get settled in and we see if any more are needed. (I should go update that story now!)

Re:Award
Thank you very much! It's good to know the work is appreciated :) Grutness...wha?  23:16, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

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NZ Cadet Corps photo
Thanks for that. I'll use the photo if possible, but I'm not quite sure of the etiquette here. The people in the photo are recognisable; should they be asked for permission before we use their photo online? I realise the photo was presumably taken in a public place and the people were aware they were being photographed, and so there isn't a legal issue as far as I am aware.-gadfium 03:44, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * If you told them at the time it was for publication, then I think use on Wikipedia is fine. If they reasonably assumed it was for your private photo album only, then I don't know. I'd say if they were doing anything silly or potentially embarrassing, it would be fairly clear cut that the photo shouldn't be published without clear approval from the subjects, but there's no reason to suspect that anyone would not want the photo published. I go around in circles on this.-gadfium 04:24, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't see a problem, then. I suggest you add the photo to the article, and let them know out of courtesy next time you see them. You might even gain some converts to Wikipedia.-gadfium 04:38, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Greetings
Greetings from an Indian wikipedian. I saw you on this page, and just felt like saying you a hello. Let us sometimes exchange our wiki-experience to build the best global encyclopedia. --Bhadani 07:35, 20 March 2006 (UTC)