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IMF Country Report No 12/100 reference in Economy of Kosovo
I noticed this because AWB noted an unended tag. (This specifically is because you half copied The Daily Telegraph ref .) Your original problem about the cite error "no text was provided for refs named IMF_Country_Report_No_12.2F100" was because your change of "unemployment" to "registered unemployment" removed the "unemployment" text (and the reference definition) from the output as the Infobox economy template does not have a "registered unemployment=" argument.

As the page is now, I thought it was in too much of a mess of references for me to undo your attempted fixes. (Note the duplicated reference (which is also ignored) has been named "autogenerated3" and is further referenced throughout, whereas the "IMF Country Report No 12/100" name is not referenced outside of these two ignored "references".) I was going to let you, who seems to have some local knowledge, fix it :-) But in writing this summary of issues out I've decided I do know what to do and have fixed it, as well as some other formatting issues. (NB don't put ~ in articles.) You need only check I've not made a blunder.

Specifically, if you want to dispute the "official" unemployment rate, add a referenced note saying that the "real unemployment rate" is higher. Mark Hurd (talk) 01:48, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

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Have some tea
After living four years in Turkey you must have got accustomed to drinking tea. Have some Turkish tea. All the best. --E4024 (talk) 21:29, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Babam çay çifçitisi Afrikadaydı. Büyüdim çayle inglizce modasında, ama şimdi çay içerim türkçe modasinda. Daha güzeldir.


 * Turkish classes (free of charge :-): "Babam Afrika'da (çiftçi idi,) çay tarımı yapardı. Ben İngiliz usulü çayla büyüdüm, ama șimdi Türk usulü çay içiyorum; daha güzel..." I congratulate you, you have learned quite a bit; certainly more spoken Turkish than writing, but all the same it is OK. Selamlar. --E4024 (talk) 22:13, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

Kosovo Wines
=Kosovo Wines=

Wine-making in Kosovo almost certainly has a history as old as in Italy and older than France. It was an important part of the Kosovo economy in the middle ages and in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Production collapsed in the early 1990s, but with privatisation of former Socially-Owned Enterprises from 2006 onwards, quality and quantity of production have resumed an upward trend.

History

 * Please find the required sources because I think this would probably be an interesting Wiki article!HammerFilmFan (talk) 20:23, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

Wine in Kosovo has a history of around 2000 years. It has historically been centered around the region of Rahovec (Albanian: Rahoveci, Serbian: Orahovec). As elsewhere in Europe, monasteries played an important part in maintaining wine production after the fall of the Roman Empire; the reason why the village of Velika Hoca near Rahovec, with its thirteen Serbian Orthodox Churches, has so many churches is because the monasteries of Kosovo used the village as the administrative center for their wine-producing land-holdings; its vineyards were asigned to a monastery by a Serbian Tsar as early as 1189. The continued existence of the monasteries under the Ottoman Empire contributed to a continuing tradition of wine production.

Under the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Kosovo wines became a major exporter, especially to Germany, where a bulk sweet red, composed of a mixture of Pinot Noir and Gamay grapes, was a leading brand under the name of Amselfelder (English: "Blackbird Fields" deriving from the Serbian meaning of Kosovo). The collapse of communism in East Germany, followed rapidly by the disintegration of Yugoslavia and UN sanctions against Serbia (then in control of Kosovo) made the loss of this outside market inevitable. In the late 1990s new EU quotas on wine imports from the Balkans also made bulk exports of low-quality wine impossible. The very late privatisation of wine-producing socially-owned enterprises under UNMIK, compared with privatisations elsewhere in South-Eastern Europe also delayed innovation and reform. The combination of all these factors (and also the Serb exodus from the Rahovec area in 1999, since they were usually those who cultivated the vineyards) reduced the area of vineyards from 9,000 hectares in 1989 to 5,000 hectares in 2011, with the state of care also reduced. . Kosovo introduced a Wine Law in 2005 and a Wine Institute in 2007 in order to increase quality.

However, Rahovec always produced higher-quality wines as well as bulk ones, which were sought after in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. It is claimed by Kosovo wine producers that in Macedonia, to the south, wine tends to be too sweet; in Serbia, it tends to be too acidic.

−==Wine Producers== The largest Kosovo wine producer is Stone Castle, owned by American interests, which resulted from the privatisation of Kosovo's largest wine-producing socially-owned enterprise in 2006. The winery has a production and storage capacity of 50 million litres, which makes it one of the largest wineries in Europe (Tikveš, in Macedonia, claims 55 million litres). Other producers include Iliria and Bodrum i Vjeter, also from the Rahovec Valley. The monastery of Visoki Decani also produces its own wines, albeit in low quantity.

Wine Varieties
The following varieties of grapes are produced in Kosovo:

-Pinot Noir -Gamay -Merlot -Vranec -Semillon -Cabernet Sauvignon -Chardonnay -Rhine Riesling -Riesling Italico

Prospects
Some, albeit a small proportion, of Kosovo wine is already exported. The history of Kosovo wines suggests that a much larger proportion, of higher quality, could be exported in the future: the first private Macedonian wineries, which claim to export 90-95% of their production, started in 1995, eleven years before the first privatisation in Kosovo. On the other hand, the number of current producers is currently very concentrated, which may mean that competition in technology and quality is therefore lower; and labour costs are higher than in Macedonia, which may lead to lower exports. Markd999 Category:Kosovo Category:Wine by country

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Please watch Talk:Autonomous_Province_of_Kosovo_and_Metohija - thanks.

I have reverted all your edits to Government of Kosovo
I have reverted all of your edits to the Government of Kosovo article. I created this article with the current controversy surrounding Kosovo in mind, with an intent (that IMO is required by Wikipedia community policies) to leave any decision about which is the "real" government up to the readers. Every sentence is or should be supported with a reference given the sensitivity of the subject, and if any claim is controversial is should be identified as such or just plainly left separate from competing or conflicting claims without attempts to reconcile them. I think a quote you deleted (you did not, however, delete the reference but moved the reference to an irrelevant sentence) is enlightening:

… countries such as Serbia, the Russian Federation, Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Slovakia, and Spain, and international organizations, which are 'status-neutral', such as the UN, the OSCE, the Council of Europe, NATO, the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) and the European Commission Liasion Office in Kosovo (ECLO) have not recognized the Republic of Kosovo. According to them the institutions of Kosovo are still the 'Provisional Institutions of Self-Government'.

The only edits that I think could possibly be viewed as acceptable, namely your inclusion of cabinet members, in my opinion is best kept in the Cabinet of Kosovo article. This article is mainly meant, given the current conflicting assertions of governmental authority, as a disamiguation article. Its current form is a good supporting argument for this proposition: it is already fairly difficult to delineate and differentiate between the competing claims of government and their sources, without going into great detail. If all institutions of each competing government is merged into this article (which should be done if the Cabinet is included), this article will be even more difficult to understand. I hope this won't turn into an all out edit war, like other articles dealing with Kosovo, and you see my intent as neutral and conciliatory. Int21h (talk) 03:22, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Also note I finally replied to your talk page comments. I am glad to see you actually tried to discuss this before your edits. They probably got caught up with other discussions concerning Kosovo in my Watchlist, which I often ignore given they are way too active and useless for my taste. (But necessary, as Wikipedia probably has a better system of government than any country in the region of Kosovo.)

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Catching up
Hi, How's it going? I haven't seen you for a while. You did some great work on Kosovo-related topics (despite it being a difficult editing environment). I hope you haven't got tired... bobrayner (talk) 12:53, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

I got very discouraged when a reviewer not only turned down an article entirely unrelated to Kosovo but reverted overnight every single change I had made to the "Kosovo" article over three months. Hope I have now revovered some energy to do more work.

Markd999 (talk) 10:31, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
 * OK. Sooner or later any editor will hit an obstacle, but obstacles are more frequent around Kosovo! 718smiley.png Nonetheless, it's still possible to make progress and improve articles. Sometimes obstacles can be overcome by opening up a discussion and get some outside views from uninvolved editors... (ie. on a noticeboard). It would be a shame to lose you; you did some really great work. bobrayner (talk) 13:39, 20 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, but I'd quite appreciate some support over current disputes with WhiteWriter and AntiDiskriminator on the "Kosovo" article. And the creator of the "Monuments in Kosovo" article must be feeling quite discouraged (it's not yet a good article but it has potential). I'll submit a "Wines in Kosovo" article (for the second time) quite soon.Markd999 (talk) 00:33, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Names per other wiki articles. Again, use those, please
Usage of several names throughout the article is not ok, and it may be violation of wiki guidelines. Use only article names, as those are most usually agreed by consensus. So, dont use dual/triple names in ordinary articles anymore. Thank you. -- WhiteWriterspeaks 17:08, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

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Hi Markd999. We are a team of researchers interested in the editing dynamics on different language Wikipedias regarding the topic of Kosovo. We are looking for users who have edited and discussed articles about this topic, and who would be willing to be interviewed for the purpose of this research project. The project is approved by the Wikimedia Foundations´ Research Committee and you can find more information on this meta-wiki page. Research results will be published under open access and your participation would be much appreciated. If you would like to participate you can reach us at interwikiresearch@gmail.com and we will set up an interview in a way that best suits your needs. Pbilic (talk) 11:08, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

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