CityElefant

Thank you for your Poland-related contributions

Hello and welcome CityElefant! Thank you for your contributions related to Poland. You may be interested in visiting Portal:Poland/Poland-related Wikipedia notice board, joining our discussions and sharing your creations with our community.

--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 16:44, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland

Thank you for your Poland-related encyclopedic contributions! But creating content by yourself is only part of the collaborative Wikipedia user experience, there is an active community of editors discussing how to better improve the Poland-related content; please consider joining our discussions at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Poland. There are many editors who would like to work more closely with you, benefit from your insight, and help you with their experience! PS. Please also consider editing your entry in our participants list to state your areas of expertise/interest.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 19:24, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Articles of interests

You may want to see Lithuanization, ethnographic Lithuania, Lithuania proper, krajowcy, tutejsi and Ethnic minorities in Lithuania (note we are missing an article on the Belorussian minority in Lithuania. PS. You may want to use WP:BABEL to declare known languages in addition to alphabets. It would be useful to know for other editors if you can read sources in Polish, Lithuanian, Belorussian, Russian and so on. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 16:11, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Dear Piotrus, thanks a lot for your comments. I have been observing these articles for a while before I joined Wiki. Maybe I will be able to add something. CityElefant (talk) 16:21, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

I was going to leave a comment on Coat of arms of Lithuania but thought it better to drop a note here. First of all, welcome to WP, I see you have already made Piotrus' acquaintance. Just taking a peek at your edits, I wanted to pass a comment your way. The Baltic and Eastern European editors work together quite well across a broad range of topics. One area of dispute, however, is Lithuanian/Polish relations and history, going all the way back to is it Jogaila or is it Jagiełło? As you would expect, Lithuanian-Polish relations in the 20th century are also a problem area.

   My own background is Latvian, and having a fondness for both the Poles and Lithuanians, I've been able to assist here and there where nationalist accounts have come into conflict. While there are places where editors are pushing POV accounts of history which are patently false and, IMHO, doing so in bad faith, I can say that on even the most contentious Lithuanian-Polish issues, virtually everyone is editing in good faith even while disagreeing (rather stridently at times!) based on reputable--but because of the narrow topic of interest--generally nationalist sources.

   Try to stay away from the swirling black vortices and you can have an enjoyable and productive WP experience! Best regards, PetersV       TALK 21:31, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Dear Peters, thanx for this message. Firstly, I am not intend to bring any kind of "disorder" to the Polish-Lithuanian relations. To this topic I may say many things and I do know positions of both the parties. Secondly, I do consider that your understanding of Polish-Lithuanian relations in a historical perspective is a bit narrow. In my opinion, you interpret these relations as the relations between ethnic Poles and ethnic Lithuanians and it is a bit wrong perception. In many cases, Belarusians and Ukrainians are thus eliminated from the discource. And what is more important the role of the Slavic component in the GDL as well as the status of the Belarusian language in this entity is underestimated. Thirdly, I am indeed trying to back all my statements with academic sources. Moreover, I have an article to the GDL problematic published in one of German academic journals. And that is why I am convinced that my passages are reasonable. Fourthly, as you may see from my profile I am for the consolidated version of the GDL history. But in my opinion, what we now have is far from the really consolidated version. I do emphasise that the GDL was a multiethnic state and was the cradle not only of the Lithuanian but also the Belarusian statehood (if you need arguments I will provide you with them). We have, let me say, many links to the Lithuanian and Polish sources but their Belarusian and Ukrainian counterparts are virtually underestimated. By this disproportion we could hardly achieve any compromise. Thus, there is no proportion which really proves multiethnicity of the GDL. Moreover, if you read a current version of the article about the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, it is just inconsistent as it leaves more questions than provides answers. To be more precise, some of its quotations are just contradictory to each other (compare the beginning and the last parts of the article). Finally, you may be interested in my argumentation regarding the coat of arms of Lithuania and you may find it here [1]. I left some reasonable questions and have not got the answers so far. Anyway, I am open for discussion and I do accept reasonable critic. Paldies! CityElefant (talk) 22:16, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

If I may ask - feel free to ignore this question - are you from Poland, Belarus or Lithuania? PS. You may want to do this. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 22:17, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Monitor. WikiProject Poland Newsletter: Issue 1 (April 2011)

WikiProject Poland Newsletter • April 2011 For our freedom and yours Welcome to our first issue of WikiProject Poland newsletter, the Monitor (named after the first Polish newspaper). Our Project has been operational since 1 June, 2005, and also serves as the Poland-related Wikipedia notice board. I highly recommend watchlisting the Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland page, so you can be aware of the ongoing discussions. We hope you will join us in them, if you haven't done so already! Unlike many other WikiProjects, we are quite active; in this year alone about 40 threads have been started on our discussion page, and we do a pretty good job at answering all issues raised. In addition to a lively encyclopedic, Poland-related, English-language discussion forum, we have numerous useful tools that can be of use to you - and that you could help us maintain and develop: we have an active assessment department. As of now, our project has tagged almost 80,000 pages as Poland-related, out of which 1,500 still need a quality assessment, and 20,000, importance assessment. we have also begun B-class quality reviews on our talk page, and if our activity increases, hopefully we will be able to institute our own A-class quality reviews. As of now, we have about 500 C-class articles in need of a B-class review. If you'd like to help with them, instructions for doing B-class reviews are to be found in point 10 of our assessment FAQ. once an article is assessed it will appear in our article alerts and news feed, which provides information on which Poland-related articles are considered for deletion, move, or are undergoing a Good or Featured review. Watchlisting that feed, in addition to watchlisting our project's main page, is a good way to make sure you stay up to date on most Poland-related discussions. you can also see detailed deletion discussions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Poland (which is another good place to watchlist!) also, those articles will be included in our cleanup listing, which allows us to see which top-importance articles are in need for attention, and so on newly created Poland-related articles are listed here. They need to be reviewed, often cleaned-up, and its creators may need to be welcomed and invited to our project we are maintaining a Portal:Poland automated Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland/Popular pages lists the most popular Poland-related pages from the previous month(s) This is not all; on our page you can find a list of useful templates (including userboxes), awards and other tools! With all that said, how about you join our discussions at WT:POLAND? Surely, there must be something you could help others with, or perhaps you are in need of assistance yourself? You have received this newsletter because you are listed as a [member link] at WikiProject Poland. • Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 21:11, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

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WikiProject Poland Newsletter • January 2014 • Issue II

WikiProject Poland Newsletter • January 2014 • Issue II For our freedom and yours Welcome to the second issue of WikiProject Poland newsletter, the Monitor (named after the first Polish newspaper). Our Project has been operational since 1 June, 2005, and also serves as the Poland-related Wikipedia notice board. I highly recommend watchlisting the Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland page, so you can be aware of the ongoing discussions. We hope you will join us in them, if you haven't done so already! Unlike many other WikiProjects, we are quite active; we get close to a hundred discussion threads each year and we do a pretty good job at answering all issues raised. Last year we were featured in the Signpost, and our interviewer was amazed at our activity. In the end, however, even as active as we are, we are just a tiny group - you can easily become one of our core members! In addition to a lively encyclopedic, Poland-related, English-language discussion forum, we have numerous useful tools that can be of use to you - and that you could help us maintain and develop: we have an active assessment department. As of now, our project has tagged almost 83,000 pages as Poland-related - that's an improvement of over 3,000 new pages since the last newsletter. Out of which 30 still need a quality assessment, and 2,000, importance assessment. We have done a lot to clear the backlog here (3 years ago those numbers were 1,500 and 20,000, respectively). Can you help assess a few pages? assessing articles is as easy as filling in the class= and importance= parameters on the talk page in the {{WPPOLAND|class=|importance=}} template. See here for a how-to guide. once an article has an assessment template, it will appear in our article alerts and news feed, which provides information on which Poland-related articles are considered for deletion, move, or are undergoing a Good or Featured review. Watchlisting that feed, in addition to watchlisting our project's main page, is a good way to make sure you stay up to date on most Poland-related discussions. you can also see detailed deletion discussions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Poland (which is a good place to watchlist if you just want to stay up to date on possible deletions of Poland-related content) we have also begun B-class quality reviews on our talk page, and if our activity increases, hopefully we will be able to institute our own A-class quality reviews. As of now, we have about 500 C-class articles in need of a B-class review. If you'd like to help with them, instructions for doing B-class reviews are to be found in point 10 of our assessment FAQ. In addition to this automated list, you are also encouraged to help review articles from our B-class reviews requested list found here. also, those articles will be included in our cleanup listing, which allows us to see which top-importance articles are in need for attention, and so on. We have tens of thousands articles in need of cleanup there, so if you ever need something to do, just look at this gigantic list. (I am currently reviewing the articles tagged with notability, either proving them notable or nominating for deletion; there are still several dozens left if you want to help!). did you know that newly created Poland-related articles are listed here. They need to be reviewed, often cleaned-up, occasionally nominated for deletion, and their creators may need to be welcomed and invited to our project if they show promise as new authors of Poland-related content. we are maintaining a Portal:Poland automated Wikipedia:WikiProject Poland/Popular pages lists the most popular Poland-related pages from the previous month(s) Breaking news: we are looking for a Wikipedian in Residence for the New York City area. See Wikipedia:GLAM/Józef Piłsudski Institute of America for details. This is not all; on our page you can find a list of useful templates (including userboxes), awards and other tools! With all that said, how about you join our discussions at WT:POLAND? Surely, there must be something you could help others with, or perhaps you are in need of assistance yourself? It took me three years to finish this issue. Feel free to help out getting the next one before 2017 by being more active in WikiProject management :) You have received this newsletter because you are listed as a member at WikiProject Poland. Please remove yourself from the mailing list to prevent receiving future mailings. Newsletter prepared by Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here and sent by Technical 13 (talk) using the Mass message system.

Europe 10,000 Challenge invite

Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Europe/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Germany, Italy, the Benelux countries, Iberian Peninsula, Romania, Slovenia etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. If you would like to see masses of articles being improved for Europe and your specialist country like Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon, sign up today and once the challenge starts a contest can be organized. This is a way we can target every country of Europe, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant and also sign under any country sub challenge on the page that you might contribute to! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 02:48, 6 November 2016 (UTC)