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[edit] HELP US MAKING THE PROJECT OF ANCIENT GREEK WIKIPEDIA

We are the promoters of the Wikipedia in Ancient Greek. we need your help, specially for write NEW ARTICLES and the TRANSLATION OF THE MEDIAWIKI INTERFACE FOR ANCIENT GREEK, for demonstrating, to the language subcommittee, the value of our project.

Thanks a lot for your help. Ἡ Οὐικιπαιδεία needs you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.40.197.5 (talk) 19:55, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguation of "Valence"

Hi! I was disambiguating the links to "Valence" and I guess you finished off the task for me! I suspected most of the links were to "Valence, Drôme" but wasn't sure. How did you know? I was able to disambiguate a few that had postal codes or department numbers 26000 or 26. How does "popups" work? Did you notice I'd put messages on a number of talk pages asking for someone to disambiguate? (e.g. Talk:Cadenet). Should "Valence" now be removed from the list on Wikipedia:Disambiguation pages with links? I'm new to disambiguation and finding it fun. Sorry if I'm asking too many questions. Thanks for collaborating! --Coppertwig 02:38, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Now I'm confused. Valence is actually on the "done" list; but I don't see anything having been moved recently in the page history. Maybe I had taken it from the "done" list by mistake in the first place? It did still have a lot of links to disambiguate. Anyway, now that it's on the "done" list, don't feel you have to answer all my questions if you don't feel like it. That was the main thing -- knowing whether to move it to "done". --Coppertwig 02:49, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply on my talk page! Following your suggestions I've installed popups and now I can disambiguate with a single click (more-or-less) -- whee! I feel almost like a divinity -- or even an admin!  :-)

Most of the Valence links were to Valence (chemistry), I found. I may be able to disambiguate Impedance but first I might ask some questions on one of the talk pages; either a page is wrong or I'm confused about one of the definitions, so I'd better clear that up first.

I've started a lot of projects on Wikipedia; maybe I start new things faster than I finish them. One of the great things about Wikipedia is that you can do little steps or leave things half-finished and other people will eventually finish it anyway, so the effort isn't wasted. Or maybe I will finish most of them after all. --Coppertwig 01:49, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I made my own copy of the popups javascript and edited it so it leaves edit summaries which also say "Disambig repair: You can help!".

Re edit history of moving Valence to done: I suspected it might be something like a subpage. I don't understand how subpages work, but maybe that isn't important right now.

I can change the colours my browser uses so that visited links are bright red, and this is one way to find the link to disambiguate. (Another way is search with control-F; I'm using Mozilla firefox.) However, to make the links red, I have to choose "always use my colours". That has big disadvantages: broken links are the same colour as good links, which causes problems when doing other projects; and the popups come up with transparent background which is difficult to read. Mozilla only seems to give options to change a very few colours. Any suggestions would be appreciated. --Coppertwig 12:01, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Capitalization of trecento

Hi Flauto -- thanks for contributions to various 14th c. Italian articles. Just curious though about your justification for correcting all mentions of "trecento" to "Trecento." Before writing my dissertation ("Trecento fragments") I looked at a few dozen art and music publications in English to see what other authors chose. There was no clear consensus, but it looked to me like "trecento" beat "Trecento" about 2 to 1. Grove Music is inconsistent: the article "Ars Nova" uses "trecento," (David Fallows), as does the article "Jacopo da Bologna." But Fallows's "Ciconia, Johannes," uses capital Trecento. Grove Art is also inconsistent but mainly favors lowercase. --Myke Cuthbert 22:38, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the research and reply -- wow, it's even more complicated than I thought. I don't think reverts are in order, since there's clearly strong evidence that Trecento is also acceptable. I think "festschrift" et al. look odd because no German nouns look correct (to me) in lowercase until they are fully absorbed into English (I wonder when "bratwurst" began to look correct without the capital?). Anyhow, I was mainly looking for an excuse to contact someone else who cares about this century! --Myke Cuthbert 06:08, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Beatles trivia

Was there a good reason to take out nearly all of the photos? andreasegde 05:16, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

I sincerely apologise, dear Flauto Dolce. I will now proceed to stamp down Ed g2s' pathway and knock sternly on his door. Have fun :) andreasegde 13:35, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Portal History

Time for proetection dont you think? I'm very impressed - you are the longest/oldest registered user /editor I have met so far... how do you survivie this so long? SatuSuro 04:12, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Aristarchus of Thessalonica

I know it is a trivial thing, but do you think you could phrase this differently so it isn't copied straight from the source? Also, it would probably be best to rephrase it, so that you are careful to provide the context of Christian belief. I would do it myself, but I have a strong bias against Christianity. J Milburn 23:58, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, that is much better. J Milburn 01:19, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] My talk page

I understand your message and I will not make crazy edits in the future. How do I get rid of the orange new messages box at the top of every page? --71.205.200.70 02:09, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposing to merge List of basic classics topics to Classics

Seeking concensus on proposed merger at Talk:Classics. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast 00:08, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Volapük Wikipedia

Hi Flauto, I see that you were (one of?) the initiator(s?) of the Volapük Wikipedia. I've been working a lot on it, and I'd like at some point to write an article on its history. Would you mind telling me a little bit about how you started it -- e.g., when did you learn about Volapük, why start a Wikipedia, how long it took to do it, who helped you, what your intentions were, how it went on, what happened then (the original contributors lost interest, etc.) --Smeira 14:17, 24 June 2007

[edit] DC Meetup notice

Greetings. There is going to be a Washington DC Wikipedia meetup on next Saturday, July 21st at 5pm in DC. Since you are listed in Category:Wikipedians_in_Virginia, I thought I'd invite you to come. I'm sorry about the short notice for the meeting. Hopefully we'll do somewhat better in that regard next time. If you can't come but want to make sure that you are informed of future meetings be sure to list yourself under "but let me know about future events", and if you don't want to get any future direct notices \(like this one\), you can list yourself under "I'm not interested in attending any others either" on the DC meetup page.--Gmaxwell 22:07, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Translation from Volapük

I see that you are listed as a Volapük level 2 speaker, so could you translate (and possibly analyse) the following two words: löpikalarevidasekretel and klonalitakipafablüdacifalöpasekretan

Thanks a lot!--Vorkalloner 20:31, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

If you allow me to jump in -- when it's about Volapük, I can't resist...
löpik = high (from löp = height, highness, ultimately from English up, + -ik = adjective marker)
löpikal = löpik + -al "higher (officer, chief, boss)" (-al marks people at the top of a hierarchy);
revid = revision, revise
sekret = secret + -el "one who does" (in old Volapük, no longer in use) = secretary;
Therefore,
löpikal + -a (linking vowel) + revid + -a + sekretel = the highest one's (boss's, chief's, leader's) revision secretary.
Now the second word:
klon (original Volapük; in modern Volapük kron) = crown, royal;
litakip = lit "light" + -a (linking vowel) + kip "keep, conserve"; "light-keeper" (probably e.g. an abat-jour or lampshade);
fablüd (old Volapük; in modern Volapük fabrik) = factory;
cifalöpasekretan = cif + -a + löp + -a + sekretan:
cif = chief, main, highest
löp = high (physical or metaphorical); see analysis of first word;
sekretan = sekret "secret" + -an "one who does, is involved with... = secretary (an alternative to sekretel);
so cifalöpasekretan = the main/chief high secretary;
and therefore the whole word would be:
klon + -a + litakip + -a + fablüd + -a + cifalöpasekretan = the main high secretary of the royal lampshade factory (a more structurally analogous expression in English: chief royal lampshade factory secretary)


--Smeira

Smeira, thank you very much for your excellent answer to this question! I've just returned to Wikipedia after a long absence. I would suggest just one change to your analysis of the second word:
klonalitakip = candelabra or chandelier. Cf. M.W. Wood's Dictionary of Volapük, p. 55, in Google Books.
That would make the whole word: "chandelier factory chief secretary."
-- Flauto Dolce (talk) 15:16, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Admin in vo.wiki?

Dear Flauto Dolce, you are currently one of the admins at the Volapük Wikipedia, but you've been inactive for quite a while. Are you still interested in participating? There is currently a proposal for revoking your admin status there (see here). If you're still interested, please let us know. Smeira, 15:32, 6 dec 2007

OK -- you're correct in your interpretation (I had thought litakip would be a lampshade, but your reference to Wood's dictionary shows it is a chandelier; I am not as good in the original version of Volapük as in de Jong's!...).
Since you're now coming back to editing, maybe you don't know that there is a proposal at Meta about deleting stubs at vo.wp: m:Proposals for closing projects/Radical cleanup of Volapük Wikipedia. In case you'd agree that deleting stubs is not the way to go -- deleting information never adds quality -- and that the question of bot-created stubs is a matter of wiki-internal decision, not general policy, you might help us fight against it with your vote. But, of course, you must follow your own conscience! --Smeira (talk) 18:56, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia meetup

As someone who may live or work near Washington D.C., you may be interested - if you've not heard already - about the meetup scheduled for Saturday, May 17th, at Union Station. For details, please see Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4.

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