User talk:Aliter

Renaming images

from the pump

Does anyone know whether it's possible to rename an image, eg. by renaming its description page. I can't find anything on the subject, though I would expect a solution other than uploading the image anew just to change the name. Aliter 11:41, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

No, there is currently no other solution than re-uploading the image. If the old name is very bad/inconvenient, reupload the image, and request the old one to be deleted. If it is a trivial name change, you can just as well let it be. ✏ Sverdrup 11:56, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

The deletion request, by the way, should go to Wikipedia:Images for deletion. - IMSoP 22:55, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

This is a very good question. We should have it in the FAQ. Yes, there's no equivalent of "moving article" for images. --Menchi 11:47, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Can such a feature be added to a list of requested features for future editions of the software? I know such exists, just I don't know where. -- user:zanimum

Yes, you want the sourceforge tracker. But note that there is a (very old) request for image renaming already: #606192. - IMSoP 22:55, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Hello; thanks

Hi Aliter, thanks for the translation help. Alas, not long after you started working on the fundraising note, it was decided not to keep the message on any WP instance but en: ... As for translating the "how we use the money" and "our fundraising page" test, please do! The former should be placed at "[[meta:<<what we use donations for, in fy>>]]" (title translated into your language); the latter at meta:Wikimedia Fundraising page-fy.

+sj + 00:44, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Re: limerick

The French limerick comes from Ménagiana, unfortunately dated at second-hand by James Boswell.

As to predating the English limerick there are examples from the 14th century (Harleian MS) and in the article there is a English example from c. 1615. TwoOneTwo 21:42, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

"And this will happen before you have a chance to resume." Well I don't think talk should linger and I hope people can rely on their memory.

The origin of the limerick is obscure, even the origin of the name. Your concern that the form is 'not English' seems misplaced, Herbert Langford Reed proposed the French origin of the limerick, reaching England via Ireland. Even if the English language didn't start the limerick it certainly put a lot of work in later!

The lion is wonderliche strong,

And ful of wiles of wo;

And whether he pleye

Other take his preye

He can not do but slo.

Incomprehensible, but 14th century and fairly well structured. I suspect the lay-out has been altered tho'. TwoOneTwo 10:51, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Olympic medals

I was just working on adding a culminative count of summer olympic medals. I don't recall doing any work on medal counts for individual games (summer or winter). AndyL 03:19, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Not on the list?

Hi Aliter, no place to put the result? Not on the list? Please clarify. I don't know which list you mean. m:Translation_requests/Fund-Sep was the place for translations of the site-notice... of course the list there was not comprehensive (it was, in fact, just a copy of the list of press releases). +sj + 04:16, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Olympiad

Why did you pretty much duplicate a large piece of Attic calendar at Olympiad? It's obvious that's where you took the content from, because your list of years for examples is formatted identically to what I used there. -- Jmabel 00:14, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC)

Olympic age

Moved from User:Aliter.

What's your source for the Olympic athletes usually being young? After all, there are success stories of wrestlers competing over a span of 8 olympiads. Mind you, I'm not saying that was the norm, but I do feel we need to be a bit careful about this. All the more so since there were separate events for boys.

I had an opportunity to read of the average age of ancient athletes on a few museum websites detailing (speculations on) the events of the time. The "Ancient Olympic Games" entry on Wikipedia details an example of Plutarch, the writer telling a story of a young man who wanted to compete, but many felt he was "too old". The young man's boyfriend literally went to the king of Sparta and vouched that he was, in fact "young enough". Certainly the entry may be amended to say that "competitors were often but not always younger" or something like that ; it doesn't make a difference to me and it would be good of course to reflect the many variations of age for the time.

Take care!

Geoff

Moved from User:Aliter.

> Is there something we can say about the age of the participants, boys separate from > men (and from women?), without having to attribute it to a tradition?

Good morning!

Heh, hopefully this is a correct page to leave msgs. on. I apologize if there is another one and I accidentally missed it. Sure! ; one could adjust the statement, on either page, to simply read "Events were attended by males who were physically fit enough to participate in them", or something similar. I agree that it can be tricky with sources and everything ; the event writer Plutarch details may in fact be only mentioned (, that we know of) on this one place on the web. I wouldn't doubt that the situation probably occured ; one could just mention that particular case, but that any (male) who was able to run the marathon, so to speak, of whatever event they were participating in probably was allowed to so do, independent of age. "Tradition" is largely a personal matter to begin with, to say nothing of imagining what had occurred many hundreds of years ago ;) . Certainly adding in a note mentioning the flexible nature of who could participate is fine with me.

Take care,

Geoff

Olympiad

You can't find the discussion because M87 requested to have his/her User page and user talk page deleted. The short version is newbie error. I figure that if this person has requested the deletion of his/her personal pages, I should respect that and not give details. -- Jmabel | Talk 18:42, Nov 6, 2004 (UTC)

Cable car on rails

Hi.

Thanks for improving my edits to Cable car on rails. I'm in two minds about one thing you wrote though:

The fact that the cable of a cable car system is a loop also adds some other advantages, such as the possibility to go down one slope and up the next.

I think some funiculars also have looped cables, and at least in theory should be able to go down one slope and up the next. But I'm not aware of any doing this; although I guess some of the recent (essentially flat) cable operated people movers may. What do you think?. -- Chris j wood 12:36, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Majoritarianism

Thank you for helping out with the cleanup of this article. It was needing a lot of NPOV cleanup and original research removal for a long time. Cheers! — Stevie is the man! ^{Talk | Contrib} 17:26, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Please, excuse me, if I hurted you

I'm often getting nervous and border with personal attacks, this is due to many injustices and lies which I encountered dealing with other my main topics for now (e.g. lies in an article 1980 Summer Olympics). I am really very sorry if I hurted you. I think, it's important for you to know, what I'll do next there, anything else, nothing personal, like in many other places (as I see now), indeed, just said about my ftuure actions. Once again, please, excuse me... Cmapm 02:23, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedy:Wat is Wikipedia

What I am trying to do is to create redirections from Wikipedia:About to the corresponding page in every language. Thus you can use http://vs.aka-online.de/globalwpsearch/ to search for and check interwikis. Try it yourself, search Wikipedia:About . (Set timeout to 300 seconds, and include small wikipedias.) It would take less than a minute. --elwikipedista 01:42, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Moresnet

I suggested Moresnet as a Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Moresnet. There are some objections, perhaps they can be fixed? --Egil 18:20, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Proposal to improve the Userboxes template

I liked your new improved design for Babel boxes. But since, it didn't get much attention, could you implement it in the new Wikipedia:Userboxes. It lacks of a box where userboxes are put (like in Babel). I think it would be a great test field for your new design. Thank you. CG 22:06, 17 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Babellist

Hi, I just noticed that a template you created, Template:Babellist, is unused and appears to be abandoned. I've marked it as deprecated, meaning it'll be deleted in two weeks' time if nobody objects. If there's a reason to keep it please leave a note at Wikipedia talk:Deprecated and orphaned templates and feel free to remove the {{deprecated}} tag from the template. Thanks. Bryan Derksen (talk) 10:31, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Re: Frisian

Hi. I don't know why the multilingual error message would show Dutch to you instead of English in the event of there being no Frisian text. The error message looks first to the version of Wikipedia you're looking at, then at things like the language your browser has set as its default. One of these would have to be 'nl' or some sub-language of that for it to show you Dutch.

In relation to the adding of the Frisian text to the error message, I hope you don't mind if I copy and paste from what I wrote to someone last week:

"I can't really add the (insert language here) text to the error page, because of the huge process it takes to get the error message updated by the developers (apparently they need to integrate it into the software then update every single squid sever - and there are hundreds - with the new build of the software). Plus there's the added complication that someone else has now adapted the error message to function as the error message for the MySQL (database) servers, which I have absolutely no knowledge of how to do. You might get some luck by convincing one of the developers to do it for you, but I generally just wait until I do the next complete redesign of the page (once every 2 years or thereabouts) to include updates. I hope this isn't too much of a disappointment for you."

I'm not sure how many people speak Frisian, having never heard of it before today, but that probably indicates that it is not a widespread enough language to warrant inclusion. The error message is already a very large file of text, and there are much larger langauges which demand inclusion. I'm sorry, but thank you for the thought of helping me translate this. Perhaps one day the software will be updated to allow specific wikis their own translated error messages rather than the Squids just sending out a uniform file regardless of langauge of wiki. - Mark 01:25, 14 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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