User talk:Metsavend

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Priozersk
Hi. I just want to note that it is Priozersk (Приозерск) and not Priozyorsk (Приозёрск), therefore the Estonian article is wrong. Colchicum (talk) 21:10, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Article writing contest
Hi Metsavend! I'm Kolja from the german Wikimedia e.V. In our next volume of our printed magazine on Wikimedia and Wikipedia we will have a short article on the writing contest. As I can see, you won the first price in the Estonian language Version of Wikipedia (congratulations!) - can you name my the article that you won the price with? Best regards from Berlin, Germany --Kolja WM (talk) 09:40, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
 * There was no specific article, that brought me the prize. It was overall work on many articles on various themes. --Metsavend (talk) 21:34, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

The total number of speakers of Russian in the world is really 400 million and it is a fact!
Why did you remove 400 million total speakers when that is an actual fact published by the People's Friendship University of Russia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.58.105.176 (talk) 11:33, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Because it is not true. First you have to make difference between native speakers and overall speakers. Secondly 400 millions is wrong even of overall speakers. The right number is about 270 millions. The web-page of People's Friendship University of Russia should not be trusted (they are not impartial). You will find more credible data here: http://www.ethnologue.com/language/rus

--Metsavend (talk) 21:18, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

First of all you are from Estonia, so by you living in a post-soviet country, you would like to defame and discredit the Russian language and to propagandize to the English-speaking world that Russian is not spoken natively by 400 million people in the world.

Second, how do we even know that Ethnologue is even correct? Did they personally go up to each person in the world and asked them if they spoke Russian? NO!! SO TELL PLEASE TELL ME MR. "FANATIC FOLLOWER OF PROPAGANDIST ETHNOLOGUE", Please tell me why ethnologue is more credible than the People's Friendship University Of Russia??? You do know that PFUR receives HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF APPLICANTS EACH YEAR on their website, phone, fax and in-person WHO PHYSICALLY SPOKE RUSSIAN TO THEM??! SO why must you think that BRITISH OWNED ETHNOLOGUE is more correct than PFUR?

And it is spelled million not millionS, learn to write English better!


 * Thank you, I'm trying to improve my English. Since I am also a speaker of Russian, the exact number of speakers of Russian is 400 000 001, since I have never written a letter to PFUR. Please let them know and correct their data. --Metsavend (talk) 07:46, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

You like to propagandize and defame the Russian language and culture buddy. You come from a third-world and unimportant European country that nobody cares about. Ever heard of STATISTICS GATHERING from other countries???

Yeah go and eat your borscht and keep hiding the truth about the Russian language. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.58.105.176 (talk) 13:18, 7 January 2014 (UTC)

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Tere, hope you are doing well! I am Iñaki LL writing to you from the Basque Wikimedians User Group following up from Wikimania 2017. Things are going pretty slow on WIL, but still with that on mind. Now for the time being it would be interesting, actually great, if we could interview you for our wikimedia website and get to know your project, since you are on a campaign to reach a high number of articles in Estonian, and may help us get inspired and find good practices. Please reply on my talk page and will send you a short questionnaire to publish on our website. Best regards Iñaki LL (talk) 21:03, 10 December 2017 (UTC)

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