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There are a lot of manipulation in Wikipedia. That means a lot of editors are "killed" by opposing editors by means of accusations without evidences.

Is Wikipedia an encyclopedia of gladiators ? I red on the pages of some administrators: I killed 20,000 editors, I killed 19,000 editors... Generally, scientific world try to avoid such horrible source when editors kill other editors to have free way to manipulation.

A student of mine who is a native speaker of this language pointed out that it is rather difficult to contribute to Twi - wikipedia, because the language requires letters like ɛ and ɔ in its orthography. People generally do not have that on their keyboards, so I had to resort to character map to write this. To promote growth of this wiki it might be a good this to put a drop box underneath the edit page where people can insert these characters more easily. Another possibility is to advertise where people can obtain a virtual Akan / Twi keyboard if such a thing exists. Jcwf (talk) 21:40, 22 February 2016 (UTC) Reply

It's possible to add a menu to insert these letters by creating a local version of MediaWiki:Edittools. Which characters are all needed? --MF-W 02:12, 23 February 2016 (UTC) Reply

There's also ak.wikipedia which is Akan. They should have been merged into one wiki long ago, imo. PiRSquared17 (talk) 22:56, 2 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

I just note that current total number of wikipedia's edits exceeded 2³¹ − 1, see page's bottom. And my bot which updates this page had broken on it since it had used a 32-bit signed integer variable to count this statistics. Well, funny but significant milestone for Wikipedia. Congratulations! --Emaus (talk) 20:20, 29 February 2016 (UTC) Reply

In the delivery of collaborative projects, there is an idea among aristocrat (print their own money and smuggle it into the common world money system) and oligarch (same thing, just live in colder fort), there is the idea of monetizing things on the internet in a way which destroys the internet. The use of an alternative way of pipelining content would include something like tor for use of tunnels and sockets, but if kademlia is farged, then it behooves us who live in freedom fort nation-states to replace it with something that actually works, and does not fix fixed data (just a few glyphs) at one of five and four of five in the hash string. -User:Stevertigo (talk) 19:31, 1 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

This is early notice for everyone, and a request to share the news:

The Ops team is planning a major change to the servers, (very) tenatively scheduled for Tuesday, 22 March 2016. One probable result is that when this happens, all wikis will be in read-only mode for a short time, likely less than 15 minutes for all editors. You will be able to read pages, but not edit them. "All wikis" means all of the WMF wikis, including Meta, Commons, the Wikipedias, and all the sister projects. It may affect some related sites, such as mw:Wikimedia Labs (including the Tool Labs). There will also be no non-emergency updates to MediaWiki software around that time.

Many details are still being sorted out. I am asking you to please share the word with your friends and fellow contributors now. This will be mentioned in m:Tech/News (subscribe now! ;-) and through all the other usual channels for Ops, but 99% of contributors don't follow those pages. If you are active in other projects or speak other languages, then please share the news with your fellow contributors at other projects, so that whenever it happens, most people will know that everything should be back online in 10 or 15 minutes.

Thanks, Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 16:31, 2 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

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Hello! I haven't been very active lately, but I've seen some media attention about a Wikimedia search engine, and apparently there was some drama. What is actually happening? PiRSquared17 (talk) 22:58, 2 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

Hi! Welcome back. Have you read <http://mollywhite.net/wikimedia-timeline/>? --MZMcBride (talk) 02:00, 3 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

Please help me. In addition can read this page - Talk:Affiliate-selected Board seats/2016/Nominations/Susanna Mkrtchyan--6AND5 (talk) 11:25, 3 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

I quote two Aram Soghomonyan's (Արամ Սողոմոնյան) made phrases in Armenian Wikipedia: "Hayk jan, to your mentioned "two heroes"[means me and 6AND5] imagination and nonsense does lessened your merit or smalls your contribution? You have a great contribution (that realized all), and no need to spend time someone bent on palace intrigues. "The King" and his "favorite" makes intrigue, after us even if be deluge principle."[1], and "This already is end of patience, let deems to violation of Wikietiquette, but I must a say, that it's time to clear off all this and do with serious works. Erjanik, Geo, Beko, stop all this. Enough! two days of that person[6AND5] is on Wiki, and look what do, like the moth demolishes everything. For god's sake, stop this evil. Block her and with her retinue throw out of here!"[2]. By law of Armenian Wikipedia, for one unethical phrase, must be warned, but he continued violation of wikietiquette. --Vadgt (talk) 16:27, 3 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

he maked that phrases, and how he must be punished? --Vadgt (talk) 21:20, 6 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

The character of Tibetan Wikipedia is too small to read (example), can you make it larger?

P.S., the characters of "edit page" is normal (example).--122.90.103.187 11:16, 7 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

Fixed. Ruslik (talk) 08:21, 8 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

The character of Dzongkha Wikipedia is normal (example), but the characters of "edit page" is too small to read (example). can you make it larger?--122.90.103.187 11:20, 7 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

I think I fixed this problem. Ruslik (talk) 16:18, 7 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

@Ruslik0:The account line becomes two lines in local language. I suggest the following code for the 2 wikis, to apply only in Vector.css:

/* Enlarge font-size */
#bodyContent {
	font-size: 100%; /* 16px */
}
#wpTextbox1 {
	font-size: large;
}

--Lt2818 (talk) 14:53, 8 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

Why 100% for #bodycontent? Is not it too small? And why #bodycontent but not whole "body"? Ruslik (talk) 17:23, 8 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

@Ruslik0: #bodycontent is also set by jawiki, to minimize effect on the interface. 100% is to override the default value 87.5%, enlarging font-size from 14px to 16px.

Your code seems too large on my platform (Firefox, Linux). Also, use of !important makes font-size config invalid on the site.--冷月无声念桥边 (talk) 01:14, 9 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

Problem on Windows is that Latin characters in font "Himalaya" is too small. To solve it, add the following code:

body {
	font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
}

--冷月无声念桥边 (talk) 01:29, 9 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

The Latin characters are fine. The problem is in non-Latin characters. Ruslik (talk) 11:59, 9 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

@Ruslik0: Hello, the problem of Latin characters happens on Firefox, so I think above code is necessary. No other problem now.--冷月无声念桥边 (talk) 10:44, 10 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

I cannot edit Wikipedia but since this seems to be driven by employees at the WMF I thought I would comment here.

I noticed tonight that the English Wikipedia bot Wikipedia:User:Hazard-Bot is spamming thousands of articles on with an unclear and meaningless link called "Using Wikipedia for research" such as this link.

It appears this is being done to help people do research but all this does is clutter up articles with useless crap. If this should go anywhere it should be on the talk page. We should be trying to build an encyclopedia not spamming garbage across tens of thousands of articles.

Maybe it's just me, but I fail to see how spamming thousands of links will do anything but needlessly clutter up articles. Perhaps someone could explain the bigger picture to me so that I may understand why this would be beneficial to anyone and where there is a consensus to do this? Reguyla (talk) 04:44, 8 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

Someone to become hacker and has manupalation publlic you can cheque Identity or paspor pleaase hellp me Dellette Wiki Project siister because thiis use for manipulation in our place Thank

Please provide a link to your problem. --Gereon K. (talk) 06:58, 14 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

Hello!

That news concerns all users, and may be particularly useful for Meta users active on other wikis.

Cross-wiki Notifications will be activated soon as a beta feature on all WMF wikis. This deployment, scheduled for March 10 has been postponed to March 11, 00:00 UTC.

Information and feedback on the dedicated talk page.

All the best, Trizek (WMF) (talk) 13:45, 10 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

Hello. My IP-Address is blocked on the English Wikipedia for no reason. --2003:70:CF58:9E01:2422:98F5:B185:977E 03:54, 13 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

Hello, the reason given was that your IP address has been used by a blocked user in the past. He/she seems to have the same internet provider than you. One thing you could do to contribute to Wikipedia again is to request getting an account at en:Wikipedia:Request an account. --Gereon K. (talk) 06:57, 14 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

Why did this edit not generate a ping on Echo? --Gereon K. (talk) 06:53, 14 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

Gereon K., Echo only pings in certain namespaces. (I have no idea why -- but I'll stay on topic.) I believe it's only in "talk" namespaces that will generate Echo pings. -Pete F (talk) 07:13, 14 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

Oh, ok. Thanks. I thought linking the name was equivalent to {{U}} and Grants:TPS/Wikimania scholars was part of "Project: namespace" as defined in Echo (Notifications). Maybe what accounts for namespace is defined differently than I interpreted from Namespace. --Gereon K. (talk) 07:21, 14 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

There has been a fair amount of news coverage about a "Wikipedia speech Engine" e.g. [3] and [4]. Is there anything Meta can do to support this initiative by the Swedish chapter.--KTo288 (talk) 08:41, 15 March 2016 (UTC) Reply

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