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Blogswara
Hello! Sorry for the delay in replying. The article is good. I've categorised it now. Since the blog isn't very famous, it is best to keep the external links only to reputed sources (see WP:EL). Otherwise people will be doubtful about its notability.--thunderboltz(TALK) 05:34, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

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Helpme
I notice that you had a helpme template on this page without a question and then removed it. If that was just a test, no problem! But if you do have a question, please feel free to replace the template and ask. --Nick—Contact/Contribs 06:29, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I am from Malayalam Wikipedia (http://ml.wikipedia.org). I have one question regarding a policy of wikipedia.

We have one user in malayalam wikipedia who have been giving lot of contributions (In the form of articles and photographs). Recently he created a sock puppet and participated in one election using the sock ID. Hence we blocked his sock ID from wikipedia. This sock has also lot of contributions especially in the form of photographs.

Now this user is adding delete tags for all the photographs that he had contributed to wikipedia. He himself had took those phographs and add GNU free licennse to that earlier. And we have used these photographs in lot of articles.

Now my question is this.

Suppose I have been giving lot of contributions to wikipedia (both in the form of articles and photographs (The photographs that I tookmyself. I am not talking about uploading some copyrighted photographs) and some time later I have some problems with wikipedia.

Do I have the right to delete the contributions that I have made in the articles and add delete tag for the photographs that I have contibuted. Do wikipedia has some policy regarding this. If there is some policy please provide the link. Please help. --Shijualex 06:50, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * In the hypothetical situation you provided at the end of your question, I would have to say that one would be incorrect to revoke the license under which you originally licensed the material. All article contributions to Wikipedia are licensed under the GFDL and under that license, as I understand it, one does not have the ability to demand that their content be removed. As for the images, it would depend on how they were licensed, but again as far as I know, out of all the free licenses available for use on Wikipedia, none of them allow you to go back on releasing the material. If you could point us in the direction of which image(s) you are talking about, we may be able to provide a more detailed answer. --Nick—Contact/Contribs 06:58, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

http://ml.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B4%9A%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%82%3ADaNcing_girl.jpg&diff=74292&oldid=61441

See the above link. The mentioned user has changed the copyright tag of the image from cc-by-sa-2.5 to ifd (image for deletion).

He had done this for several images.

Now before removing his edits we want to show some policy regarding this to him. That is the reason why I am asking the help of wikipedians.--Shijualex 09:29, 2 August 2007 (UTC)


 * The problem is that the policies on various language wikipedias can differ from other languages. Here on the enwiki, we may have different policies to the mlwiki. You could try asking the same question on mlwiki, and see what answers you get. :) -- Stwalkerster  talk 10:57, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Ok then let me ask the question in another way. What is the policy of english wikipedia regarding this issue. Since we don't have any policy regarding this in malayalam wikipedia, we have to follow english wiki policy still we frame one policy.--Shijualex 11:19, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Have a read of WP:GFDL, and see if that tells you anything. If you still have trouble, replace the helpme tag. :) -- Stwalkerster  talk 11:23, 2 August 2007 (UTC)


 * The user being blocked doesn't invalidate the license. His contributions to the encyclopedia aren't invalidated just because he's been blocked. I'd remove the ifd tag, restoring the license and move the images to Commons, giving him credit as the author, of course.  Lara  ❤  Love  17:58, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

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Special Pages in local wikis
Hi I am from Malayalam Wikipedia (http://ml.wikipedia.org/). We are trying to make the upload pages in malayalam wikipedia more user friendly as it is in English Wikipedia.

For that we have to create/modify special pages as in English Wiki. For example we need an equivalent page of http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork. I know that a local special page is available at http://ml.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork. But we need to include the explanations as in the english wikipedia on this page. How to achieve this.--Shijualex 15:38, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
 * An administrator will need to create a page at MediaWiki:Uploadtext/ownworkrep, and add the text you want to show up at http://ml.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=ownwork .--Werdan7T @ 18:55, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

This is not working. I think you have given wrong information. We tried this Malayalam wikipedia. But we are not getting the desired result.

If the information that you have provided is correctr, then the media wiki text in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Uploadtext/ownwork would have been as in http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork. But that is not the case. We tried creating the media wiki text as you said. But we are not getting the desired result.

We want to know where the text and formatting in the page http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork is defined in English Wiki. We want to create a malayalam version of it.

Also we want to restrict the licenses that are appearing in the drop down list on this page as in the English Wiki. In malayalam Wiki most of the licesnses that are appearing in the "ownwork upload page" are meaningless.

--Shijualex 03:49, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
 * There was a typo in Werdan7's reply; to customize http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork, an admin needs to change MediaWiki:Uploadtext/en-ownwork; the dropdown list of licences is controlled by MediaWiki:Licenses/en-ownwork. (Replacing en with ml in the URLs and before the -ownwork (or whatever, you can put anything you like after the hyphen as long as you use the same thing on all three pages) will come up with the corresponding pages on mlwiki.) Note that much of MediaWiki:Licenses refers to templates on the local wiki, so you will have to create those templates first. Hope that helps! --ais523 10:29, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

helpme

With the help provided by User:ais523 we are able to create the special page for uploading in Malayalam Wikipedia. As an experiment we have created/mofified the special upload page that is avaiable at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork in English Wikipedia. See the corresponding page in Malayalam Wikipedia at http://ml.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=en-ownwork.

But the license part is still creating problem. The licesnse that is used in English wiki is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses/en-ownwork. We have created the same license in Malayalam Wiki. See that at http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses/en-ownwork. But still the license drop down list in this special page is showing the licenses that are defined at http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Licenses. We want this special page to show the same licenses as in English Wikipedia. How can we achieve this? Thanks in advance for all the help. --Shijualex 16:24, 1 October 2007 (UTC)


 * I think you'd have better luck at MediaWiki, talking directly to the developers there. You may also be able to go to the Technical Village Pump, where you'll find more techno-savvy people there. Working here, you're much less likely to find someone who is able to help out. An administrator may also be able to give you a copy of the code used on the upload pages here. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 18:20, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Same problem
Hello, I'm from Vietnamese Wikipedia and I have the same problem with you while creating a Upload page. I've read the answer in mediawiki.org but don't know how to deal with it. Can you? Vinhtantran 07:22, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * This is reply from Cohesion, the one who created Upload page in Wikipedia English, I have vi's bureaucrat do this and waiting for result, hope it can help User talk:Cohesion. Vinhtantran 10:04, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Collapsable sections or tables
Hello,

I am trying to create a collapsible section/table in my personal wiki.

To test this feature I have copied the following page to my wiki. *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Collapsible_tables

I have also copied the common.js file to my wiki. *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js

The corresponding pages in my wiki are:

But the show/hide feature is not appearing in my page. Can someone tell me what all additional templates that I need to create or what are the code changes that I have to make n common.css or common.js files.

I am unable to find a solution for this from english wiki or meta. Thanks in advance. --Shijualex (talk) 03:48, 9 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi, welcome, and all that. I'm sorry, I can't help you, but I have asked someone who can, and they should be here very shortly...keep up the good stuff, --  Chzz  ►  04:11, 9 May 2008 (UTC)


 * There you are! Tiptoety  talk 04:12, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Hello! Can I help?
I notice that you've asked for help A LOT :-)

Please - tell me your problems, and I will respond to them quickly.

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You have an English page too!
Heh... I found your other user page before this one. Gerardo has been very kind to me, helping me learn how to work with GLAM. However, he recommends that I have a number of contacts to learn from. I am an American English teacher who has been living in central Mexico for about seven years. I am involved with the newly-forming Wikimedia México, as the coordinator of "viniculación" (literally - linking). My job is to work on making contacts and connections to develop projects and other stuff for the organization. I am working on my first GLAM project with the Museo de Arte Popular, which is a museum in Mexico City dedicated to Mexican handcrafts and folk art. (BTW, I wrote both of the articles linked here) I choose this museum as I have a contact there, plus I have an interest in Mexican crafts/folk art. So far, I have only been able to get my contact to agree to give a presentation or proposal to the director of the museum, rather than a face-to-face meeting. My Mexican counterparts in Wikimedia México says this is an OK start, but we have to make the presentation good. What I guess I am looking for is advice and help from those more experienced in this kind thing, from as many angles as possible. Gerard has been very helpful and has given me lots of good tips. However, he says that your experience may be even more helpful to me.Thelmadatter (talk) 19:34, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Your work with the Indian government for the release of materials is very interesting. Are there websites where I can read what has been done so far? That is very similar to GLAM and we hope to work with the Mexican government eventually.Thelmadatter (talk) 15:32, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

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Dear Shiju! Kindly see this for help and go to this page Ram Prasad Bismil: Difference between revisions. Then put your openion here Destructive attitude of other users. Since I have been blocked on en. wiki I can not edit there any more. Fortunately I saw the above article today, I am puting it to your notice. Thanks Krantmlverma14.98.88.179 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:33, 14 February 2013 (UTC)

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