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Western Sahara articles

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Thanks As you can see from the histories, I started a lot of the content, but as you can also see, I let it fall fallow a long time ago as well. It's always been in the back of my mind to increase the quality of these articles and I'm always glad for help on Western Sahara-related topics. Thanks for saying hi! —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:47, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, I noticed there is a lot to improve, but I still think the project is a very good start to work on. It seems like what is really needed is more editors, since it's a huge topic to be covered. I'll see if I can manage to lure some more into Wikipedia :) – Danmichaelo (talk) 09:17, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Your input is needed on the SOPA initiative

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Thank you

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Thanks for all your reference cleanup work on Reactions to Occupy Wall Street.--Amadscientist (talk) 06:03, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

My pleasure, just couldn't leave the page like it was without doing something :) – Danmichaelo (talk) 13:26, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

The blackout came and I went on wiki break for vacation. When I got back to it the other day...I was thrilled to see someone else work on it!--Amadscientist (talk) 21:03, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Bushehr nuclear plant

Latest comment: 12 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I just wanted to note that I agree with your edits at Bushehr nuclear power plant. It's always good to have editors who are able to notice WP:NPOV violations and correct them. Nanobear (talk) 16:51, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

Much appreciated! I was actually a bit worried about touching the articles about the Iranian nuclear program, since I know there are so strong feelings about this out there, but I felt it was necessary. – Danmichaelo (talk) 09:01, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Your edits regarding a Norwegian "university"

Latest comment: 12 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

You have edited the Norwegian article about the Women's University in the Nordic countries foundation. I have added info [1] from your version, to the English article.

Note that the both articles have issues related to edit warring and removal of references from national newspapers. (Less critical references from two local newspapers have not been touched. Agenda pushing?) --155.55.60.112 (talk) 10:02, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

I have just reverted a reference removal and external link removal in the English article, performed by an administrator from Norwegian wiki. --155.55.60.112 (talk) 10:14, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

I'm not really involved in this article, I just did some cleanup during patrolling. Regarding the grant story covered in Bergens Tidende, it's an interesting story worth mentioning, but it should be put in context, not added as an "external link" as you did. I'll add the page to my watchlist. – Danmichaelo (talk) 17:21, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

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Well done!

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Hi Danmichaelo, Well done for reverting this edit in Western Sahara [2]. I'll add it to my watchlist from now on. Best regards. Tamsier (talk) 20:36, 11 June 2012 (UTC)

No worry, and thanks for all the interesting content you bring to Wikipedia! I didn't know about the Serer people before reading your work :) – Danmichaelo (talk) 09:59, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

A brownie for you!

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Thanks for your edits at Vennesla Library and Culture House. Don't take the brownie inside the library though, lest the books become stained with chocolate! Eisfbnore ^{(下さいて話し)} 13:43, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

Haha, thanks, I have some experience with chocolate stains in books – only my own ones though :) – Danmichaelo (talk) 14:18, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

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Hello. You have a new message at Template talk:Str index's talk page. BigNate37_(T) 20:44, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

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Books and Bytes: The Wikipedia Library Newsletter

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Books and Bytes

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Module:UnitTests/doc

Latest comment: 10 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Hello. You linked to Module:ScribuntoUnit from this page, but did not explain how those two modules are related to each other. Is one intended to replace another? Will one be more conservative and stable and the other bleeding-edge and feature-rich? I want to copy a "test framework" to an another Wikipedia and wonder which module to choose. Could you add a short explanation what's the difference between the two modules?

Btw, if you want to advertise ScribuntoUnit, please note how Wikipedia:Lua#Unit testing is written - it only mentions one module for unit testing. --Derbeth ^talk 21:45, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

Hi. Added a short note now. I was actually in the same situation as you – I started transfering Module:UnitTests to nowiki, but then came across Module:ScribuntoUnit and happened to prefer the coding style of the latter. They are really very similar, so I think it's mainly a matter of preference. – Danmichaelo (talk) 23:14, 1 January 2014 (UTC)

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fetchLanguageName('no', ...)

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Perhaps you can answer this question for me. At Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 6#An ISO 639-1 language name test I discovered that mw.language.fetchLanguageName('no', 'en') appears to return the wrong value when given ISO639-1 code no. I think that it should return 'Norwegian' but instead it returns 'Norwegian (bokmål)', a variant of the official language name assigned to ISO639-1 code nb – code nb should be 'Norwegian Bokmål'; title case without the parentheses. The magic word which appears to use the same Wikimedia resources also exhibits the problem:

{{#language:no|en}} → Norwegian

Interestingly:

{{#language:no|no}} → norsk

{{#language:nb|no}} → norsk bokmål

{{#language:nn|no}} → norsk nynorsk

My question to you is: What, from your perspective, is the correct return value in English for code 'no'?

To save you some confusion, there is a workaround in place in Module:Citation/CS1/sandbox that 'fixes' this issue so the CS1 examples now show 'Norewegian' when |language=no so all of the citation examples at Help talk:Citation Style 1/Archive 6#An ISO 639-1 language name test that purport to show the problem don't actually show the problem now.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 18:09, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

@Trappist the monk: I guess there's actually no easy answer to that :) Historically 'no' has been used for 'Bokmål', which is the dominant of the two variants 'Bokmål' and 'Nynorsk', (which are btw. really similar). And it is still used as the site prefix for Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia (no.wikipedia.org), while we have changed the content language code to 'nb'. Today, following ISO 639, 'no' is technically 'Norwegian' (meaning "unspecified variant of Norwegian; either Bokmål or Nynorsk"), but in practice 'Bokmål' since 'Nynorsk' has always used the code 'nn'. The situation is quite unfortunate, and causes a lot of confusion. Well, if I were to choose, I think I would stick with the default output from mw.language.fetchLanguageName() since 'Norwegian' is formally not a written language, only 'Norwegian Bokmål' and 'Norwegian Nynorsk' are. Another option would be to just deprecate the code. – Danmichaelo (talk) 20:01, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

That similarity between Bokmål and Nynorsk is, I think, undetectable by those of us who live in the great desert wastelands of North America. If we consult some source written in either variant, we won't go too far astray if we cite that source using |language=no and that renders as (in Norwegian); especially since we can't tell the difference. Of course, over here, I suspect that most of us haven't got a clue that there are variants; I didn't until I tweaked the code and got those unexpected results.

Your points are well taken; thank you for taking the time to enlighten me.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 21:59, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

@Trappist the monk: Hehe, that's a valid point that didn't come to my mind :) If you're not sure if a text is Bokmål or Nynorsk, it can surely be practical to be able to label it as just 'Norwegian' (using the 'no' code), that should be totally ok. – Danmichaelo (talk) 22:26, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

I came to that realization when I looked at Category:Articles with non-English-language external links and noticed the huge discrepancy between Norwegian‎ (2 C, 4,935 P), Norwegian Bokmål‎ (46 P), and Norwegian Nynorsk‎ (17 P). We at enwiki hadn't a clue. Wouldn't be the first time we were / are clueless

—Trappist the monk (talk) 22:53, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Books and Bytes - Issue 8

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Books and Bytes - Issue 9

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Books and Bytes - Issue 10

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A new reference tool

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Books and Bytes - Issue 11

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Books and Bytes - Issue 12

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New donations - Taylor & Francis, Science, and three new French-language resources
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Books and Bytes - Issue 13

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New donations - EBSCO, IMF, more newspaper archives, and Arabic resources
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Books and Bytes - Issue 14

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hey wassup

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i think ur opinion on little sisters getting blamed is good idea seeing that i am an older sister who always gets into trouble because of my lil sisters doing

    :) :) :) :} XD

United kingdoms my home (talk) 15:31, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Books & Bytes - Issue 15

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Books & Bytes - Issue 16

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Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

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Issue 17, April-May 2016
by The Interior, Ocaasi, UY Scuti, Sadads, and Nikkimaria

New donations this month - a German-language legal resource
Wikipedia referals to academic citations - news from CrossRef and WikiCite2016
New library stats, WikiCon news, a bot to reveal Open Access versions of citations, and more!

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Books & Bytes - Issue 18

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Books & Bytes
Issue 18, June–July 2016
by The Interior (talk · contribs), Ocaasi, Samwalton9, UY Scuti, and Sadads

New donations - Edinburgh University Press, American Psychological Association, Nomos (a German-language database), and more!
Spotlight: GLAM and Wikidata
TWL attends and presents at International Federation of Library Associations conference, meets with Association of Research Libraries
OCLC wins grant to train librarians on Wikimedia contribution

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Books and Bytes - Issue 19

The Wikipedia Library

Books & Bytes
Issue 19, September–October 2016
by Nikkimaria, Sadads and UY Scuti

New and expanded donations - Foreign Affairs, Open Edition, and many more
New Library Card Platform and Conference news
Spotlight: Fixing one million broken links

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Books and Bytes - Issue 20

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Books & Bytes
Issue 20, November-December 2016
by Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs), Samwalton9 (talk · contribs)

Partner resource expansions
New search tool for finding TWL resources
#1lib1ref 2017
Wikidata Visiting Scholar

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Books and Bytes - Issue 21

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Issue 21, January-March 2017
by Nikkimaria (talk · contribs), Ocaasi (talk · contribs), UY Scuti (talk · contribs), Samwalton9 (talk · contribs), Sadads (talk · contribs)

#1lib1ref 2017
Wikipedia Library User Group
Wikipedia + Libraries at Wikimedia Conference 2017
Spotlight: Library Card Platform

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Books and Bytes - Issue 22

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Books & Bytes
Issue 22, April-May 2017

New and expanded research accounts
Global branches update
Spotlight: OCLC Partnership
Bytes in brief

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Books and Bytes - Issue 23

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Books & Bytes
Issue 23, June-July 2017

Library card
User Group update
Global branches update
Spotlight: Combating misinformation, fake news, and censorship
Bytes in brief

Chinese, Arabic and Yoruba versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!

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Books and Bytes - Issue 24

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Books & Bytes
Issue 24, August-September 2017

User Group update
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- Star Coordinator Award - last quarter's star coordinator: User:Csisc
Wikimania Birds of a Feather session roundup
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Bytes in brief

Arabic, Kiswahili and Yoruba versions of Books & Bytes are now available in meta!

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