User talk:Silvonen/Archive 1

Archive 1

Welcome to Wikipedia

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Markku Peltola

Hei ja hyvää uutta vuotta! Kiitosia, kun hoksasit virheeni :) -Yupik (talk) 13:06, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Eipä kestä! Hyvää uutta vuotta sinullekin! --Silvonen (talk) 13:21, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Re: Note on interlanguage links

Thanks for your message. I did not realize that some of those spellings were for other languages and I only intended to change the English spelling (which had all been changed to Katerine). I will look this next time. Thanks again NeuGye (talk) 17:48, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

New Messages from Mifter

Hello, Silvonen. You have new messages at Mifter's talk page.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

--Mifter (talk) 11:55, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Tilaton/tilallinen

SilvonenBot lisäsi sivulle Stateful firewall linkin sivulle Tilaton palomuuri —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.194.212.73 (talk) 10:36, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Kiitos kommentista! Täällä on ollut aiemmin artikkeli Stateless firewall, mutta se on muutettu ohjaukseksi artikkeliin Stateful firewall, jonka historiaosiossa kerrotaan tilattomista ratkaisuista. Botti tulkitsee vain sivun nimen muuttuneen ja päivittää linkit sen mukaisiksi. Korjasin nyt virheen puolimanuaalisesti; toivottavasti meni oikein... --Silvonen (talk) 11:37, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Wikimania 2010 could be coming to Stockholm!

I'm leaving you a note as you may be interested in this opportunity.

People from all six Nordic Wiki-communities (sv, no, nn, fi, da and is) are coordinating a bid for Wikimania 2010 in Stockholm. I'm sending you a message to let you know that this is occurring, and over the next few months we're looking for community support to make sure this happens! See the bid page on meta and if you like such an idea, please sign the "supporters" list at the bottom. Tack (or takk), and have a wonderful day! Mike H. Fierce! 10:54, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Russian Premier League

Dear Silvonen. I looked to Russian Premier League page and found a mistake in section of All-time table. This table included championship play-offs but excluded classifiment play-off in 1992. In this season, placed teams between 6th and 10th competed in classifiment play-off and ranged from 9th to 20th. Thus, it is wrong. Plaese, you fix this mistake.--Cemsentin1 (talk) 19:42, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, but I don't know anything about this topic. Perhaps you could fix the error yourself? --Silvonen (talk) 04:59, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

You are now a Reviewer

Hello. Your account has been granted the "reviewer" userright, allowing you to review other users' edits on certain flagged pages. Pending changes, also known as flagged protection, is currently undergoing a two-month trial scheduled to end 15 August 2010.

Reviewers can review edits made by users who are not autoconfirmed to articles placed under pending changes. Pending changes is applied to only a small number of articles, similarly to how semi-protection is applied but in a more controlled way for the trial. The list of articles with pending changes awaiting review is located at Special:OldReviewedPages.

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Яномами

Здравейте, видях, че сте един от редакторите с приноси в статията за Рорайма. Струва ми се, че името на племето е ямомаМи, а не яномани. То се произнася по начин, близък до транскипцията "яномаМи" и от самите жители на областта, членове на племето. Мога да ви го гарантирам. :) Не знам как да поправя тази неточност, защото това е и заглавие на нова, несъществуваща статия, а аз съм нова сред работещите за Уикипедия, но имам желание да съдействам за достоверността на Уикипедия. Не знам дори дали Вие сте автор/ка/ на този текст, но просто видях, че сте сред редакторите и ми хрумна да ви пиша. Поздрав (Snejanaatanasova (talk) 12:35, 17 February 2011 (UTC))

(Sorry, my Russian is too rusty to reply in the same language, and I had to use Google Translate...) Do you mean the article ru:Рорайма or some other language version of it? I haven’t actually edited the article myself; my bot has just modified the interwiki links of the page. --Silvonen (talk) 14:41, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Shabran vs. Şabran

Do you have a strong preference? For most articles where there are diacritics in a Latin-alphabet script, we keep the diacritics unless there is a usual English name (like Munich, not München), rather than spell out the name according to English-language pronunciation (like Eskişehir in Turkey, Besançon in France, Aßlar in Germany). With that in mind, I'd like to move the various Shabran articles, templates, etc. to Şabran. Would this be OK with you? Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:04, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

I am not the right person to ask, but I think this is a much more general issue that should first be discussed somewhere. As far as I can see, all administrative divisions of Azerbaijan are currently spelled this way (transliterated from Cyrillic Azerbaijani or Russian, or just anglicized?), i.e. Absheron Rayon instead of Abşeron, Aghjabadi Rayon instead of Ağcabədi etc. --Silvonen (talk) 04:35, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Bot issue

Hi. Bots, including SilvonenBot, keep adding sk:The Lost Tapes (Dead Kennedys) to The Lost Tapes article, which is about a different album of the same name. Can you fix this somehow? Dan56 (talk) 04:42, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I can have a look at the problem, unless someone else has fixed it already. --Silvonen (talk) 10:20, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Almost forgot this, but I have now corrected the interwiki links of both The Lost Tapes and The Lost Tapes (Dead Kennedys) in all languages. --Silvonen (talk) 04:27, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

A weird request but take a look!

Hi there! It would be great if you could take a look at User_talk:Addshore#Format_for_Addbot_article_reporting_webpage! Cheers! ·Add§hore· ^{Talk To Me!} 02:44, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Venäjän suomenkieliset paikannimet englanniksi

Millä perusteella kyrillistä kirjaimistoa käyttävän venäjän kielen translitterointi/romanisointisääntöjä englanniksi sovelletaan Venäjällä sijaitseviin, pelkästään suomenkielisiin paikannimiin, kuten Khelyulya, Yurkhyamyayarvi, Yanisyarvi, Leypyasuo, Pitkyaranta, Suoyarvi, Yaglyayarvi jne? Nimethän ovat jo valmiiksi latinalaisessa kirjoitusmuodossa Helylä, Jyrhämäjärvi, Jänisjärvi, Leipäsuo, Pitkäranta, Suojärvi ja Ägläjärvi. --85.76.188.250 (talk) 09:21, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Oikea osoite kysymykselle on Wikipedia:Village pump tai Wikipedia:WikiProject Russia. Viipurissa oli muuten aikoinaan vielä hassumpi esimerkki: tienviitta, jossa luki latinalaisilla kirjaimilla KHEL’SINKI. --Silvonen (talk) 09:36, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Tätä asiaa on Village pumpissa kysytty ja myös suoraan käyttäjä Ezhikiltä näköjään useastikin, muihinkin kuin suomenkielisiin nimiin liittyen. Hän kuitenkin pitää mm. edellämainittuja nimiä, kuten Jänisjärveä venäjänkielisenä sekä Karl Liebknechtiä, Luostaria ja Togliattia kuin myös Kalevalaa, Wrangelia jne. --85.76.188.250 (talk) 13:05, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Your bot on English Wikipedia

A proposal to de-authorize a group of idle interwiki bots on the English Wikipedia is currently in process. A bot account of yours has been included in the list. If you are no longer using this bot, no action is neccessary by you. Should you wish to revive your bot in the near future, please remove your bot from the list here: en:Wikipedia:Bot_owners'_noticeboard#Bot_that_are_inactive_for_the_last_2-4_years_and_may_lose_bot_flag. Thank you for your contributions. For the en: Bot Approvals Group, en:user:Xaosflux 12:05, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!

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ArbCom Elections 2016: Voting now open!

Hello, Silvonen. Voting in the 2016 Arbitration Committee elections is open from Monday, 00:00, 21 November through Sunday, 23:59, 4 December to all unblocked users who have registered an account before Wednesday, 00:00, 28 October 2016 and have made at least 150 mainspace edits before Sunday, 00:00, 1 November 2016.

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WikiMeetup Helsinki

Hi, Mikko Silvonen! Could you please help me find people, who are willing to participate in a meetup in Helsinki? FriyMan ^talk 08:52, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Hello! We have a local association called Wikimedia Suomi, which has its own Twitter feed and Facebook page. Wikipedia-related events are often discussed in a Facebook group called Wikipedian ystävät (Friends of Wikipedia). The default language is Finnish, but I would imagine that most of the involved people speak English, too. Hope this helps. --Silvonen (talk) 14:53, 6 February 2017 (UTC)

Bots Newsletter, April 2017

Bots Newsletter, April 2017

Greetings! The BAG Newsletter is now the Bots Newsletter, per discussion. As such, we've subscribed all bot operators to the newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list. Highlights for this newsletter include: Arbcom Magioladitis ARBCOM case has closed. The remedies of the case include: Community encouraged to review common fixes Community encouraged to review policy on cosmetic edits Developers encouraged to improve AWB interface Bot approvals group encouraged to carefully review BRFA scope Reminders/Restrictions specific to Magioladitis BRFAs We currently have 27 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing! Discussions There are multiple ongoing discussions surrounding bot-related matters. In particular: RFC on COSMETICBOT Efforts at WP:CHECKWIKI to identify cosmetic fixes Requested move for the Bot Owners' Noticeboard A phabricator ticket T162685 has been made to have a "bots" tag, so issues related to bot frameworks can be tracked New things Several new things are around: A BAG Guide has been created (WP:BAGG, discussion). Users now have the option to hide AWB from their watchlists via a script (WP:HIDEAWB, discussion) The guidance on how to deal with bot issues has been overhauled (WP:BOTISSUE, discussion) The bot policy has been updated to clarify that bot operators are required to register accounts. (WP:BOTACCOUNT, discussion) Wikimania Wikimania 2017 is happening in Montreal, during 9–13 August. If you plan to attend, or give a talk, let us know! Thank you! edited by:Headbomb 11:35, 12 April 2017 (UTC) (You can unsubscribe from future newsletters by removing your name from this list.)

Bots Newsletter, July 2017

Bots Newsletter, July 2017

Greetings! Here is the 4th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list. Highlights for this newsletter include: BAG BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are now members of the BAG (see RfBAG/BU Rob13 and RfBAG/Cyberpower678 3). BU Rob13 and Cyberpower678 are both administrators; the former operates BU RoBOT which does a plethora of tasks, while the latter operates Cyberbot I (which replaces old bots), Cyberbot II (which does many different things), and InternetArchiveBot which combats link rot. Welcome to the BAG! BRFAs We currently have 12 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing! Discussions Efforts at WP:CHECKWIKI to identify cosmetic fixes are still ongoing. The RFC on COSMETICBOT has concluded with "a clear consensus exists to adopt the proposed language". The new wording is now live. The venue for bot appeals and reexaminations has been changed from WP:BRFA to WP:BOTN (see discussion) The Wikipedia:Bot owner's noticeboard is now the Wikipedia:Bots/Noticeboard (see discussion). New things A historical correction was made to WP:BOTPOL (see discussion). WP:HIDEBOTS now mentions how to hide all bots from your watchlist, not only specific bots. The phabricator ticket T162685 is now closed, and we now have "#Bots-Framework" tag, so issues related to bot frameworks can be tracked. Wikibits.js has been removed (see discussion). 21 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion). WP:BOTISSUE has been updated to mention that BAG members can act as neutral mediators in bot-related disputes. WP:INTERWIKIBOT has been updated to reflect the post-February 2013 practice of putting interwiki links on Wikidata, rather than on Wikipedia (see discussion). Upcoming HTML Tidy will be phased out in June 2018, or possibly earlier. This may affect some bots (see FAQ). Wikimania Wikimania 2017 is happening in Montreal, during 9–13 August. If you plan to attend, or give a talk, let us know! Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 17:12, 19 July 2017 (UTC) (You can subscribe or unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding or removing your name from this list.)

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Bots Newsletter, March 2018

Bots Newsletter, March 2018

Greetings!

Here is the 5th issue of the Bots Newsletter (formerly the BAG Newletter). You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM

• Magioladitis 2 happened, leading to further restrictions on Magioladitis (decision, summary).
• Betacommand 3 was proposed to be amended to lift the indefinite ban on Δ, but was unsuccessful (decision).
• A motion concerning Crosswiki issues (mostly concerning Wikidata) was passed (see discussion).

BAG

• Hersfold was removed from the BAG due to long term inactivity.

BRFAs

We currently have 6 open bot requests at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval, and could use your help processing!

Discussions

While there were no large-scale bot-related discussion in the past few months, you can check WP:BOTN and WT:BOTPOL (and their corresponding archives) for smaller issues that came up.

New things

• WP:BOTDICT, a dictionary of common bot-related terms (see discussion).
• 6 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion).
• The 2017 Community Wishlist Survey happened. Two bot-related proposal passed, #6 deploy Article Alerts to other languages and #10 Commons deletion notification bot, although other entries may affect bots as well.
• Category:Wikipedia bots and its subcategories has had some cleanup. Bot-related pages that were historically important but are no longer of interests can be found in Category:Wikipedia bots (historical)
• The edit summary limit has been increased to 1000 characters (see T6715). If a bot you operate relied on the old truncation limit (255 characters), please review/update your code, as overly long summaries can be disruptive/annoying. If you want to use extra characters to have more information in your edit summary, please do so intelligently.
• You will soon be able to ping users from the edit summary (see T188469). If you wish to use this feature in your bot, please do so intelligently.

Upcoming

• HTML Tidy will be phased out in June 2018, or possibly earlier. This may affect some bots (see FAQ).

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 03:12, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

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Bots Newsletter, August 2018

Bots Newsletter, August 2018

Greetings!

Here is the 6th issue of the Bots Newsletter. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from future newsletters by adding/removing your name from this list.

Highlights for this newsletter include:

ARBCOM

• Nothing particular important happened. Those who care already know, those who don't know wouldn't care. The curious can dig ARBCOM archives themselves.

BAG

• There were no changes in BAG membership since the last Bots Newsletter. Headbomb went from semi-active to active.
• In the last 3 months, only 3 BAG members have closed requests - help is needed with the backlog.

BOTREQs and BRFAs

As of writing, we have...

• 24 active BOTREQs, please help if you can!
• 5 open BRFAs and 3 BRFAs in need of BAG attention (see live status).
• 54 approved bot tasks since the start of 2018. Of note, Community Tech bot 5 (the #10 Wish on the 2017 Community Survey) was approved to notify users concerning problematic images and files from Wikimedia Commons.

Also

• If you're a bot operator that can help with Tidy/Linter error cleanup (see discussion, discussion), please file a BRFA!
• 8 inactive bots have been deflagged (see discussion, discussion, discussion).

Discussions

These are some of the discussions that happened / are still happening since the last Bots Newsletter. Many are stale, but some are still active.

• Use of tags by bots – Exploring the use of a new 'bot' tag.
• Mass page moves – Bot policy question/clarification about mass moves.
• Creation of redirects – Bot policy question/clarification about the creation of redirects.
• Guidance on disruptive use of semi–automated tools? – Related to meatbots (see also MOS discussion, which resulted in small addition to MOS:VAR).
• Discussion concerning WP:BOTFLAG/WP:RC – A reminder that bots should use the bot flag when it makes sense to use it (see also VPT discussion and CREATEBOT update).
• Out of curiosity... (to all bot operators) – BotPasswords vs OAuth usage amongst bot operators.
• Introducing Toolhub – Toolhub is looking for feedback.

New things

• {{Automated tools}}, a new template linking to user-activated tools and scripts has been created. It can be used in articles previews, and can be placed on any non-mainspace page/template (e.g. {{Draft article}}) to provide convenient links to editors.
• AWB 5.10.0.0 is out, after nearly 20 months without updates. If you run an old version, you will be prompted to install the new version automatically. See the changelog for what's new. Note that the next version will require .NET Framework 4.5. Many thanks to Reedy and the AWB team.
• BotWatch, "a listing of editors that have made >2 edits per minute [without] a bot flag", is being developed by SQL (see discussion).
• Massive updates and improvements have been made to Citation bot in the past few months (see discussions, discussions, discussions). You can activate the bot here, amongst other methods.
• HTML Tidy has been phased out (see Tech News #28).
• {{Newbot}} has been reorganized a bit (diff). In particular, it links to previously approved BRFAs (see discussion).
• Wikipedia:Bots#See also has been reorganized a bit (diff).
• The bot dictionary has two new entries, context bot and context-sensitive edit.
• The bot request header has been updated to include better guidance (see discussion).
• The subcategories of Category:Wikipedia bot requests for approval have been sorted in a consistent manner to make past BRFAs easier to find.

Thank you! edited by: Headbomb 15:04, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

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