Samuella99

Wikimania 2007

Hi Samuella99

Wikimania 2007, which is being held in Taipei, Taiwan on August 3-5, is offering opportunities for travel scholarships to Wikimania for active users of Wikimedia projects from the continent of Africa. Although the original scholarship deadline has passed, please, if you are interested, you may still apply at http://wm07schols.wikimedia.org/apply.php. Sincerely yours, Cary Bass 21:27, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Footnotes

Moved from Wikipedia talk:Questions

I just wanna contact somebody (preferably admin) without all the drama of reading things. How do I do that? Anyway, what I need is somebody to fix my referencing and tell me what I'm doing wrong because I've followed all the guidelines but the footnote is not in syncrony with the citation.

I need help with 'Campuses section' reference on this page: University of the Witwatersrand

Thanks Samuella99 21:15, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Just start a new section at Wikipedia:New contributors' help page, and someone will help you there. Or read Wikipedia:Footnotes ;) --Quiddity 22:58, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:The Wits University East Campus (archived).jpg

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I've acquired non-copyrighted images

I asked the Wits University personnels for a non-copyrighted image of the campus and they emailed it to me. The author is aware of Wikipedia and knows the image's purpose and that I would upload it on Wikipedia (giving due credit to the university). How do I tag this picture given the above information?

Samuella99 21:04, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

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Please, help me on Setswana Wikipedia. --Jeneme 08:29, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

We need people to translate the names of the countries and, if you want, you can translate me a template, then, I'll can make articles without help. --Jeneme 19:48, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

The template is this:

Barcelona is a city of Spain, Europe. It has XXX inhabitants.

--Jeneme (talk) 12:44, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:SABC 3 (2007 logo).JPG

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I've added a fair-use rationale to that image for the use of the image on the SABC 3 article which should satisfy Wikipedia policy and BetacommandBot. However, I believe that Wikipedia policy doesn't allow you to include the images on your user page (even though you uploaded them!) because it wouldn't meet the requirements of US copyright law. If you replaced the thumbnails in your gallery with ordinary links to the images, that would be OK. (In case you don't know, to link to an image without showing it, you use something like [[:Image:SABC 3 (2007 logo).JPG]].) Cheers, htonl (talk) 01:45, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

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Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 22:14, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

questions on Wikipedia_talk:Administrators

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• Take a look at WP:Twinkle which will add tabs to the top of your screen (with a supported web browser) that can simplify reporting problems to the right places. The simple way to turn it on is to go to your "my preferences" link at the top of the page, and under the "Gadgets" tab, turn on Twinkle. Be careful using it until you are familiar with it and how reports should be made.
• Re: 72.95.40.211 (talk · contribs), I'll keep an eye on it for a short while, you can always take it up with the administrators at WP:AIAV if it becomes a serious problem.

Regards – Zedla (talk) 01:21, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Help on Setwana Wikipedia

Hi! I need your help on Setwana Wikipedia. I'm the only person who edits there and I don't speak the language. If you have time, please, go there.

Could you translate these texts onto Setwana, please?:

Spain is a country of Europe. His capital is Madrid.

Castile and León (Spanish: Castilla y León), known formally as the Community of Castile and León is an autonomous communities of Spain. It covers an area of 94,223 km² with an official population of 2.5 million (2005).

I suposse that the name of the countries in Setwana are the same as in English. Or not?

Could you translate this list of words onto Setwana too, please?

History · Politics · Administrative divisions · Geography · Climate · Economy · Demographics · Peoples · Languages · Religion · Culture · Education in Spain · Spanish art · Spanish literature · Spanish architecture · Music of Spain · Cinema of Spain · Spanish cuisine · Sports in Spain · External links

Thanks a lot for your help --Jeneme (talk) 18:14, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Interested Editors needed

Hello. I am looking for people who would like to help building the following article. It is currently in need of practical people who appreciate reality. If I could get people who are interesting in the medical aspects of living on a extra solar planet (people NOT bacteria), that is what is survivable/tolerable/habitable, it would be great. I am lacking in experience in finding the right people to edit this article that we are trying to finish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Explodicle/Planetary_human_habitability http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Explodicle/Planetary_human_habitability GabrielVelasquez (talk) 21:42, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Translation of a short story

Hi! So, you speak Setswana. I hope, you could help me. I'm a Hungarain wikipedian, my name is Norbert Kiss. I wrote a really short story and now I have 121 translations about it, but only two are from the real Africa. Could you make me a Setswana version? The English version is here:

Myself

Ancient are my people to whom I belong, we are ancient ones, on this whole world. I speak an ancient language, the language of my own. I live in an ancient land, I’ve never lived elsewhere, and I belong here. This is me, myself. I am alone in the big world. I am alone, my nation passed away a long time ago, only I stayed. I speak my ancient language alone.

I am wandering on the road called life, I eat my bread and I drink my water alone. It is me who writes my books and I am the one who reads them. I climb the mountains behind my house; me I get the fish from the river which is in front of my house. Every day I go up to the hills to think and to meditate alone, only me on my own. While I was away, I have seen other people; some of them came to my land. I was good to them. I gave them food and drink, they could rest in my houses.

And now... strangers tell me, when they come here, what I should do, what I’m allowed to do. But here I am the landlord, I am the owner, I am the one who is at home. This is my ancient home, where my fathers and their fathers lived. This is my home, my land; I live here on my own.

I hope, you could help me. --Eino81 (talk) 10:01, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

South African Wikimedia Chapter

Hi there. The idea of setting up a local Wikimedia chapter has been discussed by South African Wikipedians (and those associated with other Wikimedia projects) for some time now, and we want to help turn this dream into a reality. There are currently over 25 chapters established around the world, and several more planned and being discussed, but so far, none in Africa. A South African chapter, should it become a reality, would be a continental first. If you're interested in being involved in the creation of a South African Wikimedia Chapter, could you please email me directly :). Thanks and have a great World Cup Opening day, Kaydee 68 (talk) 07:24, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

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Call for Wikipedians in Residence in Africa

Hello,

I hope you are well and thriving!! WikiAfrica has just put out a call for two Wikipedians in Residence. One in Cape Town at WikiAfrica, at the Africa Centre; and the other for WikiAfrica Cameroon in Douala, at doual’art. If you are interested, please contact either Marilyn [marilyn.doualabelldoualart.org] for the WikiAfrica Cameroon call or Isla [islahfafricacentre.net] for the WikiAfrica position in Cape Town.

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