User talk:Christopher Sundita

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new topic
Hey Christopher, I need to talk to an admin about some stuff, so please respond to this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Obeyel (talk • contribs) 04:17, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Tagalog
Hi Chris,

The infobox assertion which cites this source and this source in support is "Total speakers: First language: 24 million, Second language: more than 65 million". I was unable to verify that assertion from either of those two sources. Perhaps I missed something? -- Boracay Bill (talk) 23:05, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

(the following snippet was copied from my talk page 23:31, 12 January 2008 (UTC). I have this talk page on my watchlist at present, and will keep it there for a while. Let's do any further changes here, OK?

--begin snippet
 * I am going to discard the US Census link for now, but I am going to put 20M and 2000 census but the mother tongue statistics aren't available online. For the 53.7M figure I cited, I'll put the source I labeled above.  Is this acceptable? --Chris S. (talk) 01:40, 12 January 2008 (UTC)


 * PS.. Btw, I thought you put the failed verification tag because there was no mention at all in the source. There is a mention, but just an inflated number that should be actually 12M speakers lower. --Chris S. (talk) 01:41, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I hope you see this here, Chris. I'll post on your talk page if I don't get a response, but bouncing back and forth between talk pages gives me a headache. IMO, a source cited in support of assertion X should support assertion X. Sources available online are better for me than paper sources (from Boracay I'm pretty much limited to online sources), but I don't have a problem assuming good faith if a publicly-available credible-sounding source not available to me is cited (a NBS publication, say, cited by title, publication date, publisher, and giving specifics of page number, table title, etc. where the data supporting the assertion is located).  I'm not selectively nitpicking here&mdash; your addition of the 24M and 65M figures to the infobox caused the article to pop up on my watchlist; I saw supporting sources cited, checked them, and placed the tags when I couldn't verify the assertion from the cited supporting sources. -- Boracay Bill (talk) 02:14, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

---end snippet -- Boracay Bill (talk) 23:31, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Source for Phil. etymologies
Hey Chris, Can you convert "Tracing your Philippine Ancestors written by Lee W. Vance" to a Template:Cite book format? We'll use it as a "Further Reading" or even a reference for List of Philippine provincial name etymologies. Once properly referenced, the article has a chance to become a featured list like List of U.S. state name etymologies.-- Lenticel ( talk ) 13:26, 25 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I happen to currently have this talk page on my watchlist, and saw this. Since I'm here, I did this.
 * -- Boracay Bill (talk) 00:03, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * -- Boracay Bill (talk) 00:03, 26 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank's Bill, I'll add it to the article.-- Lenticel ( talk ) 05:26, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Oh, thanks, Bill. Sorry, Lenticel dumeretso ako sa kama nang umuwi ako (galing sa trabaho). hehe. --Chris S. (talk) 06:15, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Help with "unlapi"
Hi, we recently discussed the translation of taxonomy terms in tl wiki. However, we don't know how to translate "infra", "sub" or "micro" to Tagalog so we can use infraorder or subspecies etc. Perhaps you can help us in translating these terms.-- Lenticel ( talk ) 12:44, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * This isn't really my domain, so I cannot help. Sorry. --Chris S. (talk) 03:55, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

It's okay. Guess we'll just have to be creative then-- Lenticel ( talk ) 05:14, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

hi
Hi. I found you in the category of users who can contribute in English and Portuguese. I myself am a native speaker of English, but I'm well on my way to learning Portuguese. Just check out my user page and talk page, and join in any of the discussions. To keep updated, you can even put a watch on my user page, which will automatically watch my talk page. :-) learnportuguese (talk) 16:16, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

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Lots of thanks
I have read your Salita blog about Tagalog verbs, and it has been very useful for me to understand archaic Tagalog conjugations found in Florante at Laura since I have been writing a wikibook about it here: Florante at Laura. Thanks! Do you have any idea what mupo, ipamintakasi or ninitang means? --  Felipe   Aira  11:50, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Hey! Thanks, again!
 * I found mupo in this sentence: Di mamakailang mupo ng panimdim sa puno ng manggang naraanan natin;. It looks like its used as a noun.
 * Ikaw na bulaklak niring dilidili, Selyang sagisag mo'y ang M.A.R. sa Birheng mag-ina'y ipamintakasi ang tapat mong lingkod na si F.B.
 * nagdaang panaho'y inaalaala, sa iyong larawa'y ninitang ginhawa

--  Felipe   Aira  11:56, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

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Nunukal
Hi! I am sorry to bother you again. Do you now what is the root word of nunukal, and its tense? I am sure it's a verb. dugo'y nang matingnang nunukal sa gitgit; Thank you! --  Felipe   Aira  07:52, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Spanis language
Hello Christopher Sundita! You may want to check Talk:Spanish language # Maps and the inclusion of certain areas/countries. Cheers! The Ogre (talk) 17:10, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

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Please participate on Wikimedia Philippines discussions
 Call for participation to Wikimedia Philippines As one of the participants of Wikipedia Philippines, we are inviting you to participate in the discussion about the revised Articles of Incorporation. Feel free to comment and scrutinize the document. Some of the topics to be resolve include:


 * a) start-up capital;
 * b) bank account of choice;
 * c) and nomination of a treasurer.

For your information, last May 5, 2008, Mr. Vincent Isles reserved the company name “WIKIMEDIA PHILIPPINES, INC.” from the Securities and Exchange Commission. The reservation will expire on August 3, 2008. The next steps will be the approval of the Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws. We are fast-tracking the process that is why your inputs are vital and very much appreciated.

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 * 1) The revised Articles of Incorporation: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Philippines/Articles_of_Incorporation
 * 2) Discussion page for the revised Articles of Incorporation: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Philippines/Articles_of_Incorporation
 * 3) Mr. Isles’ email regarding the company name reservation: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/philwiki/message/156
 * 4) Josh Lim’s (Sky Harbor) pseudo-manifesto: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/philwiki/message/168

Diablo 3
Hi, thanks for unprotecting the Diablo III article. Could you also unprotect Diablo 3 so a redirect can be created? Gaaarg (talk) 10:39, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot! Gaaarg (talk) 10:56, 28 June 2008 (UTC)

Invitation to Meetup/Seattle6, a focus group
Hello. I'm part of a research group at the University of Washington (Seattle campus), and my group is reaching out to Wikipedians in the Puget Sound area. We're hosting a focus group designed to gather information on what Wikipedians would like to know about each other when interacting on Wikipedia. Our end goal is to create an embedded application that helps people quickly know more about others' history and activity on Wikipedia, and we feel our design will be much more useful if it's based on insights of users like you.

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Wikipedia Philippine Chapter in Philippine Youth Congress
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SocCulFLIP
Thanks for finding and posting the FLIP discussion. My laptop was stolen many years ago and I lost all of my old files.

You can find me on Facebook.

ALEX FABROS — Preceding unsigned comment added by Martinisword (talk • contribs) 18:53, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Bú
Bú. --ಠ_ಠ node.ue ಠ_ಠ (talk) 22:40, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

List of common phrases.
Did you create User:Christopher Sundita/List of common phrases in various languages from scratch? Was it okay for me to edit it? -- Jeandré, 2011-06-22t06:29z

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=(
Ugh se ve que os fun ruiners querem borrar a sua pagina. Na minha opiniao, isso e uma merda, e culpa deles que a gran majoria dos novos users nao se ficam aqui por muito tempo nestos dias, sao responsables de quitar tuda a diversao da Wikipedia. Como sempre querem imponer as reglas deles, que lhe passou a WP:IAR? *grouchy face* --ಠ_ಠ node.ue ಠ_ಠ (talk) 04:44, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

O y nomas pa k sepas, voy a wardar una version de la pahina aki en mi compu, me vale madr3 si ay provlemas de "copiar-derecho", es k me canse ya de toda esta mierda que esta pasando en este pinchi sitio con las reglas y todo. --ಠ_ಠ node.ue ಠ_ಠ (talk) 04:48, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Acabo de graduarme de la universidad, con BA en espanol con enfasis en la linguistica... Quisiera hacer una maestria u obtener mi doctorado en algo pero no se en que campo todavia. Por ahora estoy trabajando como traductor en una compania de software educacional pero quiero cambiar de trabajo, no me interesa tanto la traduccion, muchas veces los documentos que tengo que traducir son muy largos y bastante aburridos y siento como si estuviera atrapado en la cabeza del escritor original, obligado a re escribir el texto entero palabra por pinchi palabra. Pero el sueldo es bastante bueno, o sea que a lo mejor me quedo con este trabajo por un tiempo.

Que weno que sabes escribir chabacano, yo lo entiendo pero no se escribirlo muy bien. Has escuchado esta rolita: es super padre, no?

Y tu, como has estado? Que idiomas estudias en estos momentos? --ಠ_ಠ node.ue ಠ_ಠ (talk) 06:41, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

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MSU Interview
Dear Christopher Sundita,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
 * Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
 * All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
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 * The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk)

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Article Feedback deployment
Hey Christopher Sundita; I'm dropping you this note because you've used the article feedback tool in the last month or so. On Thursday and Friday the tool will be down for a major deployment; it should be up by Saturday, failing anything going wrong, and by Monday if something does :). Thanks, Okeyes (WMF) (talk) 21:20, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Tagalog help needed
Hello Christopher, I'm contacting you because we need some Tagalog translators to help with the deployment of the new VisualEditor on tl.wikipedia. There are help pages, user guides, and description pages that need translating, as well as the interface itself. The translating work is going on over on MediaWiki: Translation Central. I also need help with a personal message for the Tagalog Wikipedians. If you are able to help in any way, either reply here, or head over to TranslationCentral. Thanks for your time, PEarley (WMF) (talk) 18:16, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Tacloban pronunciation
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Language-population update project
Hi. The 18th edition of Ethnologue just came out, and if we divide up our language articles among us, it won't take long to update them. I would appreciate it if you could help out, even if it's just a few articles (5,000 articles is a lot for just me), but I won't be insulted if you delete this request.

A largely complete list of articles to be updated is at Category:Language articles citing Ethnologue 17. The priority articles are in Category:Language articles with old Ethnologue 17 speaker data. These are the 10% that have population figures at least 25 years old.

Probably 90% of the time, Ethnologue has not changed their figures between the 17th and 18th editions, so all we need to do is change "e17" to "e18" in the reference (ref) field of the language info box. That will change the citation for the artcle to the current edition. Please put the data in the proper fields, or the info box will flag it as needing editorial review. The other relevant fields are "speakers" (the number of native speakers in all countries), "date" (the date of the reference or census that Ethnologue uses, not the date of Ethnologue!), and sometimes "speakers2". Our convention has been to enter e.g. "1990 census" when a census is used, as other data can be much older than the publication date. Sometimes a citation elsewhere in the article depends on the e17 entry, in which case you will need to change "name=e17" to "name=e18" in the reference tag (assuming the 18th edition still supports the cited claim).

Remember, we want the *total* number of native speakers, which is often not the first figure given by Ethnologue. Sometimes the data is too incompatible to add together (e.g. a figure from the 1950s for one country, and a figure from 2006 for another), in which case it should be presented that way. That's one use for the "speakers2" field. If you're not sure, just ask, or skip that article.

Data should not be displayed with more than two, or at most three, significant figures. Sometimes it should be rounded off to just one significant figure, e.g. when some of the component data used by Ethnologue has been approximated with one figure (200,000, 3 million, etc.) and the other data has greater precision. For example, a figure of 200,000 for one country and 4,230 for another is really just 200,000 in total, as the 4,230 is within the margin of rounding off in the 200,000. If you want to retain the spurious precision of the number in Ethnologue, you might want to use the sigfig template. (First parameter in this template is for the data, second is for the number of figures to round it off to.)

Dates will often need to be a range of all the country data in the Ethnologue article. When entering the date range, I often ignore dates from countries that have only a few percent of the population, as often 10% or so of the population isn't even separately listed by Ethnologue and so is undated anyway.

If Ethnologue does not provide a date for the bulk of the population, just enter "no date" in the date field. But if the population figure is undated, and hasn't changed between the 17th & 18th editions of Ethnologue, please leave the ref field set to "e17", and maybe add a comment to keep it so that other editors don't change it. In cases like this, the edition of Ethnologue that the data first appeared in may be our only indication of how old it is. We still cite the 14th edition in a couple dozen articles, so our readers can see that the data is getting old.

The articles in the categories linked above are over 90% of the job. There are probably also articles that do not currently cite Ethnologue, but which we might want to update with the 18th edition. I'll need to generate another category to capture those, probably after most of the Ethnologue 17 citations are taken care of.

Jump in at the WP:LANG talk page if you have any comments or concerns. Thanks for any help you can give!

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Two-Factor Authentication now available for admins
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A new user right for New Page Patrollers
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Notification of pending suspension of administrative permissions due to inactivity
Following a community discussion in June 2011, consensus was reached to provisionally suspend the administrative permissions of users who have been inactive for one year (i.e. administrators who have not made any edits or logged actions in more than one year). As a result of this discussion, your administrative permissions will be removed pending your return if you do not return to activity within the next month. If you wish to have these permissions reinstated should this occur, please post to the Bureaucrats' noticeboard and the userright will be restored per the re-sysopping process (i.e. as long as the attending bureaucrats are reasonably satisfied that your account has not been compromised, that your inactivity did not have the effect of evading scrutiny of any actions which might have led to sanctions, and that you have not been inactive for a three-year period of time). If you remain inactive for a three-year period of time, including the present year you have been inactive, you will need to request reinstatement at WP:RFA. This removal of access is procedural only, and not intended to reflect negatively upon you in any way. We wish you the best in future endeavors, and thank you for your past administrative efforts. MadmanBot (talk) 01:30, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter - February 2017
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2017). This first issue is being sent out to all administrators, if you wish to keep receiving it please subscribe. Your feedback is welcomed.

Administrator changes
 * Gnome-colors-list-add.svg NinjaRobotPirate • Schwede66 • K6ka • Ealdgyth • Ferret • Cyberpower678 • Mz7 • Primefac • Dodger67
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Guideline and policy news
 * A discussion to workshop proposals to amend the administrator inactivity policy at Wikipedia talk:Administrators has been in process since late December 2016.
 * Pending changes/Request for Comment 2016 closed with no consensus for implementing Pending changes level 2 with new criteria for use.
 * Following an RfC, an activity requirement is now in place for bots and bot operators.

Technical news
 * When performing some administrative actions the reason field briefly gave suggestions as text was typed. This change has since been reverted so that issues with the implementation can be addressed. (T34950)
 * Following the latest RfC concluding that Pending Changes 2 should not be used on the English Wikipedia, an RfC closed with consensus to remove the options for using it from the page protection interface, a change which has now been made. (T156448)
 * The Foundation has announced a new community health initiative to combat harassment. This should bring numerous improvements to tools for admins and CheckUsers in 2017.

Arbitration
 * The Arbitration Committee released a response to the Wikimedia Foundation's statement on paid editing and outing.

Obituaries
 * JohnCD (John Cameron Deas) passed away on 30 December 2016. John began editing Wikipedia seriously during 2007 and became an administrator in November 2009.

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Invitation to Pinoy edit a thon @ OSU
Who: All members of the public

What: Filipino American History Month-themed Edit a thon at Ohio State University.

When: Saturday 20 October 2018, 4:00PM EST / 1600 until 4:55PM PST / 1655

Where: Eighteenth Avenue Library, Ohio State University

Sponsor: WikiConference North America 2018 San Diego Wikimedians User Group ( US-SAN )

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Tagalog, Filipino, and ISO 639
Chris, I believe that you are something of an expert regarding this -- certainly far moreso than I. Could you help unmuddle what I've muddled up at Talk:Tagalog language? Thanks. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 14:44, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

ArbCom 2019 special circular
   

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Administrator account security (Correction to Arbcom 2019 special circular)
ArbCom would like to apologise and correct our previous mass message in light of the response from the community.

Since November 2018, six administrator accounts have been compromised and temporarily desysopped. In an effort to help improve account security, our intention was to remind administrators of existing policies on account security — that they are required to "have strong passwords and follow appropriate personal security practices." We have updated our procedures to ensure that we enforce these policies more strictly in the future. The policies themselves have not changed. In particular, two-factor authentication remains an optional means of adding extra security to your account. The choice not to enable 2FA will not be considered when deciding to restore sysop privileges to administrator accounts that were compromised.

We are sorry for the wording of our previous message, which did not accurately convey this, and deeply regret the tone in which it was delivered.

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2019 US Banknote Contest
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Ciudad Quezón
Hi, regarding this edit, I changed the stress again as the city originally had an accent on «Quezón» in Spanish (and still does in that language), as it is reflected on the audio file attached to the template. --Bankster (talk) 22:55, 20 October 2019 (UTC)


 * I'm tempted to change it again, as there are Spanish sources using the name with the accent. UNESCO, UN AIDS, a Mexican TV network, an English-language book about Douglas McArthur, two biography sites, a Spanish radio station (at 2:12 minutes in the video), An Argentine TV station, a Colombian news outlet, Xinhua, the Chinese state-owned news agency, Chiba city's Spanish version articles, A Spanish-language history book about Philippine natives and even many articles inside the English Wikipedia which contain «Quezón». I think it is obvious the original name had an accent that was lost in English-language media during the American occupation (as English does not use diacritics on native words), and as all «-on» terminations in Spanish end with an accent.


 * I couldn't find any Spanish-language speech of Quezón that mentioned his name, so I can't verify if he pronounced the stress on the -on himself. --Bankster (talk) 02:16, 24 October 2019 (UTC)


 * I understand, I'll remove the changes I made in the article. ¡Muchas gracias, de verdad! I'll also change the pronunciation of the city there. --Bankster (talk) 03:20, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

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Category:Visayans has been nominated for merging
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Administrators will no longer be autopatrolled
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How we will see unregistered users
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18:12, 4 January 2022 (UTC)

New administrator activity requirement
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