Mendor

NOTE: A rarely check this onie mair, no oot o lack o interest but acause A'm juist ower busy in "real life". Gin ye write something on here A'll likely no see it. Gin there's something needin duin that a bureaucrat haes tae dae, or gin ye really need tae contact me for ae raison or anither, uise the E-mail this uiser link at the left-haund side tae lat me ken. Mendor 03:55, 7 Julie 2010 (UTC)

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Hiya

I made you sysop. If anyone complain, please tell us. Anthere 11:41, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Interface translation

Hi Mendor,

To expedite the translation of the intrface t Scots, I racommend that you assist that other guy who doin it now.

Special:Allmessages

Thx :))

Sicilian

A'm Sicilian. Please, could you put our Sicilian Wikipedia in the list of the ones that have more than 1.000 articles ? Thank you very much !

Scots speir on the 2011 census

Aiblins ye coud pit the bittie anent the Scots speir on the 2011 census on the Gaun on the nou page, efter aw, is thon no for newsins an siclike?

Jimmy 23:43, 23 Julie 2005 (UTC)

Babel

Hi Mendor,

I took the liberty (as a freshman on this wikipedia) to create the Template:User en-2 and Template:User nl templates. I will be happy to create the Template:User nl-1, Template:User nl-2 and Template:User nl-3, but I thought maybe better ask first... regards, Moribunt 20:16, 2 Augist 2005 (UTC)

doitit lass

thanks, darnit I spelled it nae the first time but then looked it up. :( Couldn't find dog. thank you thank you! (and if you're wondering what a non-Scots speaker is doing here, I'll be more than happy to answer but its a little long and not very informative. Please post on my uiser collogue page if your curiosity compels...) KillerChihuahua 19:57, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Help

Mendor,

"User" 84.135.44.205 has edit every page I made yesterday adding the fixscots thing to the top of it. I know my work isn't perfect, but I've been trying to use only my print dictionary and Scots-Online's as you advised to stop old words. See I've tried to configure to this sites tastes, and yet with each of these fix scots banners emblazened on the page I'm alienated from the rest of the group. Maybe I'm being too sensitive, and part of me can really believe that, but the greater part knows that this isn't right.

He also seems to particularly fond of such rude phrases as "ye'r taen the pish again." further insults...I'd quite editing here all together if I didn't like to "translate" pages (maybe into gibberish if you must) and seeing the tally go up another notch. Nou Uiserr

Ah've jist had a wee keek at the pages ye made, and they dae read like they've been written bi a non-native speaker. Maist ae it luiks like English owerset intae Scots, likes. Mibbes that's how yer man wis adding the Fixscots tag. Bazza 7/7/06.

Wird Help

I need help again. This time it's for a word. I can't find it (or it's translation) on D.S.L, Scots-Online, my print dictionary, or really any others I can think of. The word is Vespae.

Spam

Hope you don't mind me writing in English. Thought I should give you a heads-up that 80.68.6.198 has spammed the main page again, and you warned them that they would get blocked if they did so. Cheers. OpenToppedBus --194.73.130.132 14:44, 21 Dizember 2005 (UTC)

Cheers for that. (A dinna mynd English on collogue pages ava.) Mendor 15:45, 21 Dizember 2005 (UTC)

Kurów

Could you please write a stub http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kur%C3%B3w - just a few sentences based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kur%C3%B3w ? Only 2 -5 sentences enough. Please. Pietras1988 21:53, 30 Januar 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for correcting my extras in What Wikipedia isna

Hiya. I told Derek Ross last night that my command of Scots is not perfect, I am roughly SCO-1 level wise... Just want to say thank you for correcting what I added to that area. Its appreciated. Do you know of any good resources where I can get better at Scots??? Cheers. Thor24 22:42, 5 Februar 2006 (UTC)

Bot

Hello. Would you mind taking a peek at my request, please? Cheers. --Rebel 13:19, 19 Februar 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. --Rebel 12:26, 20 Februar 2006 (UTC)

Fraunce an Ower

I won't change them any more. The first I changed because I thought it was the proper form having found it elsewhere in the article. I'll change them to "fraunce". Thanks, Nou Uiserr 19:27, 26 Mairch 2006 (UTC)

Article request

Hello. Could You create article about Katowice in Scotich wikipedia. Just a few sentences, please. Best Regards from Poland Stimoroll

Bureaucrat

Mendor, I'm proponin that ye be the first bureaucrat for the Scots Wikipaedia. As ye ken, we dinna hae ane the nou an there's a puckle fowk that micht weel hae been made admin bi nou gin we did. Say you're it! -- Derek Ross 06:01, 17 Julie 2006 (UTC)

Growing the Wiki

Ah was speakin with Jimbo Wales aboot buildin the commonty on the wiki here, an this is what he said, Ah thought ye may be interested:

“

I would say that some of the things that lead to success on small wikis are: 1. Don't have too many rules. Try not to make up or copy any rules from en.wikipedia until you have clear and overwhelming need for it. Gentle talk and loving friendship is always a better way. 2. Reach out to people in the broader commnity... language preservationists, community groups, professors.

”

Cheers, ✎ Wizardry Dragon ^{(Ma Collogue) (Ma Contreibutions)} 20:49, 12 Dizember 2006 (UTC)

Ha! Dinna hae ower monie rules! He micht be better tellin the Wikimedia stewards thon! They're still nae lattin us hae a bureaucrat less we lowp ower their hurdles. A'll hae tae draft a daft bit o policy on the wey tae pick ane afore they'll gie us ane. -- Derek Ross 05:48, 13 Dizember 2006 (UTC)

Heh. Derek, can ye pynt me tae whaur a' this debate is takkin place? A didna e'en ken ye were still at thaim aboot it. Guid on ye, mibbe we'll can get a bureaucrat suin.

Aboot reaching oot tae the braider commonty, we gied that a shottie back whan we set up the wiki an it didna seem tae attract ower muckle interest. Mibbe we shuid gie it anither shot. As for professors, A shuid really talk wi some o the professors in the Linguistics and English Language department here. A'll be daein a coorse cryed Scots: history and structure in the New Year, sae mibbe A'll can get some contacts/interestit persons that wey. Mendor 22:20, 13 Dizember 2006 (UTC)

Ach, weel. Still at them oniewey. Nae wi muckle result though. Readin atween the lines, A jalouse that, gin we set a policy on walin bureaucrats, an gin we hae anither successfu walin, we micht get ye made up tae bureaucrat. But naethin's definite...

Anent the braider community, A wad sey that it has tae be an ongaein effort. Maist fowk arena that like tae contribute tae Wikipedia oniewey, sae ye hiv tae spread the word tae a wheen o likely chiels afore ye'll get a puckle guid editors. -- Derek Ross 23:49, 13 Dizember 2006 (UTC)

Im sorry this response is English however I'm in a hurry and I'm rather stressed at the moment so it'd be overly difficult for me to communicate outside of my native tounge.

That being said, I would not worry overly much about the bureaucratship at this juncture, as Jimbo says, we need to avoid having too much authority creep - this may scare away the volunteers that are neccesary to the growth of the wikipedia. I think an important step is to reach out to language conservationalists, researchers, and professors, to get a little more of a community going.

Personally I post here out of great interest and in hopes that I can improve my Scots, s many have pointed out it is quite terrible. Thusfar though, while people have been a little frustrated and have made some mistakes this place has been a good environment for that - and that's something I'd encourage too. If we can help get more people into the language, that's not just a bigger Wikipedia community, that's a service to the Scots community as a whole :)

Anyways just my two cents, ✎ Wizardry Dragon ^{(Ma Collogue) (Ma Contreibutions)} 00:32, 14 Dizember 2006 (UTC)

But it's got naething tae dae wi authority, WD. It maks nae differ tae me whether the bureaucrat is Mendor, me or yersel. Ony trusty body'll dae. It's juist that there are a puckle things on ony wiki that ye need a bureaucrat for, cause naebody else can dae them. Tae gie ye an example, ye maun hae noticed a gey lot o bots fullin up the Scots Recent Chynges list. That's cause naebody here can mark them as bots. Ye maun be a bureaucrat afore ye can dae that. On the Scots Gaelic WP they hae a bureaucrat (me), so they dinna hae the same problem wi bots that we div. Likewise the raison that we juist hae twa admins the nou is that we dinna hae a bureaucrat. Gin we did, there's a puckle mair fowk wid be admins as weel. I've taen the policy on the Gaelic wiki of makkin onybody that taks a serious interest intil an admin an A wid hope that we'd follae a seemlar policy here. We're nae aifter the authority; juist the abeelity. -- Derek Ross 03:01, 14 Dizember 2006 (UTC)

A read the collogue at "requests for permission", and I dinnae unnerstaund whit the oncairy is aboot. Sae we are smaa. Whit's that gat tae dae wi onything? Gin anither vote is taen, A'll uphaud whit yuise that hae been here longer propone. Aleta 06:25, 14 Dizember 2006 (UTC)

I understand the concern over bureaucratship, however, could we also talk about my other points? :) Thanks, ✎ Wizardry Dragon ^{(Ma Collogue) (Ma Contreibutions)} 20:51, 14 Dizember 2006 (UTC)

Weel, A dinna see ony need for collogue on yer ither pynts, WD. Aye, we need tae reach oot tae fowk. Aye, we're nae big eneuch tae hae muckle need for hierarchy. Aye, we're daein Scots spikkers a service gin we grow the Scots Wikipedia. Nae disagreement on ony o thon. -- Derek Ross 05:11, 15 Dizember 2006 (UTC)

Re:

Heer maet, am no seein hau a hif tae ryt wae englis orthografee ... saylint Es, euslis Cs and aa that ... nor dae a see hau a hif tae euz Teuchtir taak an no euz Glesga taak whin that iz ma aktual taak. wi seud ryt the wae wee taak an bee consistint. An hau kum Y an AY ur the saem let'erz whin thur no akteulie that wy in Scot'land, lyk AYE an fYf? 129.215.149.97 21:27, 2 Februar 2007 (UTC)

Guid on ye!

Aifter sax month, ye've bin made bureaucrat. It's bin a sair trauchle but it's come richt at the end. Sae guid on ye! Noo that ye haev the powers, could you look at mairkin some o thae bots as bots, sae they dinna show up on Recent Chynges. Ye'll finnd the needfu page on the puckle neow "Byordinar pages" that's bin eikit for ye. Cheers -- Derek Ross 08:27, 4 Februar 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

I'm scottish (live in edinburgh) and I am trying to get my scots improved. your changes to tenacious d helped no end. Tenacious D Fans 21:07, 24 Februar 2007 (UTC)

Reenaiming ma accoont

Och aye, "Maclennan o' Kintail", that's the wan. Gang richt aheid an' dae et.--Maclennan of Maclennan 23:11, 30 Mairch 2007 (UTC)

Thankye awfy much like. - Maclennan o' Kintail 14:31, 2 Apryle 2007 (UTC)

Requests for Adminship

What happens if no-one votes? OchAyeTheNoo 19:36, 17 Apryle 2007 (UTC)

Hullo Mendor, A read the thing on the Mercant Cross Page...I left a comment. A like the idea, an A'm gonnae ask gin A can be an Admin. Ther ye go, ye can decide. Please? :) OchAyeTheNoo 18:19, 19 Apryle 2007 (UTC)

Aha! Result! :) I got one vote...Of course IP's cant vote but Bazza did! It WAS two days late but its still a vote... :)

Aye aye. Ah widnae mind bein an Admin an aa. An aye, it wis me at voted fae OATNBazza 09:45, 20 Apryle 2007 (UTC)

Mendor, A'm in full support o yer proposals for giein adminship tae onybody that seems ready for't. It's fit A dae masel ower on the Gaelic Wikipedia. But A think it's aye the case that fowk hae to pruive themsels ower time. Bein ready for adminship is a maiter o shawin yersel trusty tae the regulars here and that canna happen owernicht. But richt noo, we're a smaw eneuch commonty that formal walin is a bit owermuckle process. Collogue shuid be eneuch. The ae thing tae mind is that it's aesier tae mak an admin nor tae unmak ane. Sae ye want tae caw canny an mak shuir. -- Derek Ross 03:57, 21 Apryle 2007 (UTC)

New user page

There's some error on the New User Created page "== Guid tae see ye, Alton! == Yer accoont haes been creatit. Mynd an chynge yer Wikipedia preferences." Alton 06:13, 8 Mey 2007 (UTC)

• Also, is it more appropriate to use "æ" or "ae" in the name of this edition? ALTON .ıl 07:05, 8 Mey 2007 (UTC)
• How about namespace names? For example, should it be "Uiser:Mendor"? What about "Uiser collogue"?

I'm just taking a cursory look through here and there seems to be much more interest in this project than the others, undoubtably due to Scots' similarities with English. I'm going through all the common templates right now and making initial versions, but I don't speak a lick of this language so I'm keeping them all temporary. I'm just dumping all this on your page since you seem to be the heartstring of this entire project, so bear with my rants...! ALTON .ıl 07:25, 8 Mey 2007 (UTC)

Aye aye Mendor, fit like:} cuid ye hae a keek at the collogue page here . Talk:Apologetic apostrophe‎; as am no siccar gin ma airgument is richt anent the apologetic apostrophie, and ad appreciate yer expertise in the debate:} cheers ممتاز 20:15, 15 Mey 2007 (UTC)

Thon link didnae work:] it wis til the talk page on the English version o the apologetic apostrophe airticle. Please tak a keek ower whit av skreived an contreibute tae fill in ma ignorance. Thanks (if ye can?)ممتاز 20:18, 15 Mey 2007 (UTC)

Bot statut

Hi ! My primary account have bot statut but I will now edit on my bot account User:Le Pied-bot (list of flag). Can you please switch the bot flag from my primary account User:EDUCA33E to my bot account User:Le Pied-bot ? Cordialy, EDUCA33E 04:59, 7 Juin 2007 (UTC)

Wiktionary

Hey, Mendor (English is okay for talk pages, yeah?), would you be interested in starting a Scots Wiktionary? I've already figured out how to do it, I just need a few extra people who are interested.

If you are, give me a shout, cheers. OchAyeTheNoo 19:46, 12 Juin 2007 (UTC)

Bot status for Byrialbot

Hello Mendor! I am not sure where the right place for this is, so I turn me to you as a bureaucrat.

I ask for permission to run my interwiki bot Byrialbot here at the Scots Wikipedia, and to get a bot flag for it.

• Bot accout: User:Byrialbot (contributions)
• Botmaster: User:Byrial
• Botmaster's home project: da:User:Byrial
• List of botflags on others wikipedias: als:, ar:, bat-smg:, be:, bn:, bs:, bpy:, ca:, ceb:, cs:, da:, de:, el:, en:, eo:, es:, et:, fo:, fr:, fy:, gl:, he:, hu:, id:, io:, is:, it:, ka:, ksh:, lb:, li:, lt:, lv:, mk:, ml:, mr:, ms:, nds:, nds-nl:, nl:, nn:, no:, pms:, pt:, ro:, ru:, simple:, sk:, sl:, sr:, sv:, ta:, tl:, th:, uk:, vo:
• Purpose: Interwiki
• Technical details: Interwiki using Pywikipediabot (constantly updated with CVS) starting from da:, nn:, no: and sv:. It mostly runs manually assisted and I try to solve found interwiki conflicts when I can.

It will soon begin to do test edits. Thank you! Byrial 15:22, 28 Juin 2007 (UTC)

Dankon pro la robotflago! Salutas Byrial 16:06, 28 Juin 2007 (UTC)

Spellin

Hiya,

Ah've been tryin tae find oot whit the decision wis for spelling things like "ceety"/"ceity"/"ceitie" etc, "meenister"/"meinister" etc. Ah can see loadsae debate anent the matter (dae we follae the RRSSC or no, etc), bit Ah cannae see a decision! Bazza 09:12, 9 Julie 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! Ah've been tryin tae get a staundart across the hale wikipedia, and the ee/ei hing's the maist common mishanter. It's aw a bittie tapsalteerie mind. Ah micht chynge "fitbaa" tae "fitbaw" neist. Bazza 08:51, 10 Julie 2007 (UTC)

User:SieBot

Please give a bot bit to User:SieBot so it will not flood your RC as it adds interwiki links. User:SieBot is active on about 120 Wikipedias at this moment. Cheers! Siebrand 12:00, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

BotMultichill

Hi, i request a bot bit for BotMultichill.

• Botmaster : Multichill
• Bot's name : BotMultichill
• List of botflags on others wikipedias: about 100+ atm (see meta:User:Multichill for the current list)
• Purpose: Interwiki (pywikipedia)
• Technical details : BotMultichill is an interwiki bot starting at the Dutch wikipedia. The bot uses the pywikipedia framework and runs day and night in autonomous mode. Sometimes the bot will run in manual assisted mode to solve interwiki conflicts. Multichill 15:50, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

RRSSC PDF

Mendor, A've got a bit wabspace free on cameronross.org, gin ye want tae pit the PDF there. -- Derek Ross | News 03:04, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Ither leids

Freends, A'v eikit a propone for a new version o the 'ither leids' on the main page. Hae a leuk. Ony chance o a sysop sneddin an batterin it intae the template? Jimmy 20:14, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

user:Gangleri

user:Gangleri → לערי ריינהארט

• Saluton Mendor! Bv. ŝnĝi mian ekrannomon klakante ĉi tien.
  
• Ĝisnuna ekrannomo:: Gangleri (talk · contribs · logs · block log)
• Dezirata ekrannomo: special:Listusers לערי ריינהארט
• Kialo: w:yi:יידישע וויקיפעדיע#לערי_ריינהארט

La ligo w:yi:יידישע וויקיפעדיע#לערי_ריינהארט direktas al projekto de la Wikimedia fondaĵo al la Vikipedio en la jida lingvo.

La sekcio direktas al « לערי ריינהארט » ; la transkribo estas « lɛʁi ʁɑjnhɑʁt » ; Tio estas mi.

Vidu ankaŭ GglobalWPSearch:user:Gangleri.

Antaŭdankon! Amike Gangleri

‫·‏לערי ריינהארט‏·‏T‏·‏m‏:‏Th‏·‏T‏·‏email me‏·‏‬ 10:49, 6 Januar 2008 (UTC)

Dankegon!

‫·‏לערי ריינהארט‏·‏T‏·‏m‏:‏Th‏·‏T‏·‏email me‏·‏‬ 01:40, 11 Februar 2008 (UTC)

Kintra names

Mendor, A'v pitten doun some thochts anent the Scots form o kintra names at Category talk:Kintras. Tak a keek an lat us ken whit ye think.Jimmy 13:23, 7 Februar 2008 (UTC)

Dundee

Hi Mendor, A noticed on yer uiser page that ye're fae Dundee an ye're aboot ma age (A wis born in '87). A wis juist wonderin whit schuil ye went tae in Dundee. Juist wonderin if A kent ye or onbody ye ken. If ye dinnae want tae say that is fine acause A ken ye hae tae be canny on the wab these days. Scroggie 01:02, 9 Februar 2008 (UTC)

Nah, A dinnae ken onybodie that went tae the Grove. A went tae Baldragon. Ah well, A wis juist wonderin. A'm on Facebook gin ye are. Scroggie 17:24, 9 Februar 2008 (UTC)

Bot Status for Purbo_T

Hi, I'd like to ask for a bot flag for Purbo_T (contributions)

• Operator: User:Purodha = ksh:User:Purodha (b'crat @ ksh)
• Function: interwiki link maintenance
• Operation: manually-assisted, occasionally in automatic or autonomous mode, starting mostly from the Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages
• Software: pywikipediabot framework updated daily from svn
• Already has bot flag on: aa, am, ar, be-x-old, bn, bo, bug, bxr, cdo, co, crh, de, dsb, dz, ee, eo, fa, fi, fj, fr, gv, hr, hsb, ht, ig, is, ja, jbo, ksh, ku, kv, lbe, lg, lmo, lo,lt, ml, mr, nds, new, nl, nn, nov, or, os, pms, simple, stq, sv, tg, to, ts, ty, vec, vi, vls, vo, yi, za, zea, zh-classical, more pending.
• Generally, there is cumulated data on the bot (sorry, due to current technical problems at the toolserver, the data is partially not up to date, and may be inaccessible for short periods of time)

Thank you! --Purodha Blissenbach 13:41, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi,

"Purbo T" now has its bot flag on :sco:.

Thanks, sco:User:Mendor 18:15, 16. Feb 2008 (CET)

• Thank you!. --Purodha Blissenbach ^(Talk) 22:20, 16. Feb 2008 (CET)

Hi

Aim noo to this wiki an i was a woondrin if the way i've voted in milesdatas request was alrite. Thanks Simple11 15:19, 3 Apryle 2008 (UTC)

Fraud

Your not even scottish, so how do you know every interpretation of the scottish language. I am actually Scottish. I think I know best--Milesdata 11:47, 4 Apryle 2008 (UTC)

your nothing but a fraud what gives you the right to tell scots how to speak --195.194.63.254 11:51, 4 Apryle 2008 (UTC)

Why don't you keep speaking your "gey queer dialect o Scots" you idiot so wots the result of milesdatas request ? 81.157.26.251 07:29, 26 Apryle 2008 (UTC)

Can ye no guess? Dae ye no think that we micht be a wee bit pit aff by sock-puppeteers comin on tae the wiki, giein us abuiss (abuiss in English or fakey Scots mind, no even guid an proper Scots abuiss!), an telling fowk that hiv ne'er bidit furth o Scotland i thair hail puff that they're "not even scottish"? Mendor 11:02, 27 Apryle 2008 (UTC)

I think this burocrate does speak enough scots to prove that he is one of few in this discussion that speaks the language. A true Scot write and speaks scottish. I'm born in Holland, so that is my excuse for not speak or writting the noble language. Carsrac 11:57, 5 Januar 2009 (UTC)

Uisername chynge

Hello Mendor. I ken yer a beaurocrat, an sae ye can chynge uisernames. Next time yer on the Scots wiki, could ye please chynge ma uisername tae WBOSITG, tae match wi ma Inglis uisername? I ken yer awfy busy, but I'd appreciate it. Cheers, OchAyeTheNoo 15:02, 7 Mey 2008 (UTC)

Cheers. :) OchAyeTheNoo _{noo ken as WBOSITG} 10:38, 9 Mey 2008 (UTC)

Bot flag request for User:Computer]

• Bot operator: User:White Cat (Commons:User:White Cat) - En-N, Tr-4, Ja-1
• List of botflags on other projects: Bot has a flag on wikimedia (meta,commons) wikipedia (ar, az, de, en, es, et, fr, is, ja, ku, nn, no, ru, sr, tr, uz, simple) (See: m:User:White Cat#Bots)
• Purpose: Interwiki linking, double redirect fixing, commons delinking (for cases where commonsdelinker fails)

-- Cat ^chi? 12:41, 15 Mey 2008 (UTC)

Usurpation of User:E

Hello, In order to complete my unified login on the username E, could you please do the necessary renames to make that account available (rename E to something else) and you may leave this account (Extranet) unchanged as I will use it as an alternate account for public computers. This will allow me to login and redeem the account. I thank you for your help, Extranet 08:47, 28 Mey 2008 (UTC)

Bot policy

Hello. To facilitate steward granting of bot access, I suggest implementing the standard bot policy on this wiki. This will involve creating a redirect to this page from Project:Bot policy, and adding a line at the top noting that it is used here. In particular, this policy allows automatic acceptance of known interlanguage linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable), which form the vast majority of such requests.

Please read the text at m:Bot policy before commenting. If you object, please say so; it will be implemented in one week if there is no objection, since it is particularly written to streamline bot requests on wikis with little or no community interested in bot access requests. Carsrac 12:47, 14 Juin 2008 (UTC)

• As this is bot request page and it more then one week ago that this request is posted I have activated the basic Bot Policy. Carsrac 11:41, 5 Januar 2009 (UTC)

Me again

Sairy tae bother ye. Could ye chynge ma username again? This time tae "weburiedoursecretsinthegarden"? Just for ma SUL on en.wiki. Thanks, an guid luck at varsity! OchAyeTheNoo _{noo ken as WBOSITG} 10:00, 22 Julie 2008 (UTC)

Sairy, wis alsae away - this site is ma home site for SUL, aye. A've had a rethink though, an I'll stick with WBOSITG for nou. Cheers onyway. OchAyeTheNoo _{noo ken as WBOSITG} 21:15, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Poke? Ah'd nou like the uisername "garden" tae marrie wi ma uisername on the Inglis Wikipaedia and Commons. Sairy, ye're probably sick o me by nou. :P Thanks Mendor! OchAyeTheNoo _{noo ken as WBOSITG} 15:24, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

Thanks muchly :) garden 13:24, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Bot username rename

Hi, I'd like my bot User:Computer to be renamed to User:タチコマ robot. This rename request is per my wikimedia wide bot username rename. I have decided to have a single username to more efficiently use SUL. Thanks.

• If this is not the right place to make this request, please move it to the right place.

-- Cat ^chi? 15:48, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Synthebot

Dear Mendor, this is to request a bot flag for Synthebot. Its technical information is summarized below.

• Operator: Julian Mendez
• Automatic or Manually Assisted: mostly automatic in autonomous mode; sometimes manually assisted to solve interwiki conflicts
• Programming Language(s): pywikipedia (source code)
• Function Summary: interwiki links
• Already has a bot flag on: more than 100 wikipedias (SUL), and approved in many others as global bot

Further technical information is available on its main page. Thank you in advance. Regards, --Julian 10:36, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Duin Mendor 11:51, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Luckas-bot

Dear Mendor, this is to request a bot flag for Luckas-bot. Its technical information is summarized below.

• Operator: Luckas Blade
• Automatic or Manually Assisted: mostly automatic
• Programming Language(s): pywikipedia (source code)
• Function Summary: interwiki links
• Already has a bot flag on: List

Thanks. --Luckas Blade 16:02, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Global bots

Hello. The standard bot policy was updated to allow global bots, which are now technically possible. These are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots (the local policy or request page must explicitly allow them, or they won't get access on this wiki). The current requirements for global bots are:

• a global bot must only maintain interlanguage links or fix double-redirects;
• a global bot must have already been active on several wikis, with long-term contributions demonstrating its trustworthiness.

Does anyone object to allowing global bots on this wiki? I'll update the local policy in a week if there are no objections. Thanks. Carsrac 08:57, 5 Januar 2009 (UTC)

• There is no objections from the burocrate or others that follows this bot request page so I will active the global bot policy also for the scotish wikipedia. Carsrac 16:06, 12 Januar 2009 (UTC)

CarsracBot

I would like to get a bot-flag on this wiki.

• Operator: nl:User:Carsrac
• Purpose: Interwiki links: It adds/modifies/deletes interwiki links.
• Software: pywikipediabot framework via SVN
• Already has bot flag on: nl, en, nap, sq, tr and many more look at this alternative page)

Thanks Carsrac 11:40, 5 Januar 2009 (UTC)

• I still like to get a local flag, but now the bot is running under its global bot flag. Carsrac 22:27, 12 Januar 2009 (UTC)

Usurpation request

Hi,

I'd like to have the user account User:Jack Phoenix on this wiki renamed because the account has been created by a vandal and has only been used for malicious, bad-faith edits and I'm trying to get my my unified account completed. I'm a MediaWiki developer and have previously used - and still use - the username Roosa (please see my Meta-Wiki userpage and this diff for more information).

You can email me at jack[ at ]countervandalism[ dot ]net, replacing [ at ] with @ and [ dot ] with . if you want to discuss this in further detail.

Thanks in advance!

--84.250.43.90 19:53, 21 Januar 2009 (UTC)

Ma uisername

Hi, Ah wis wunnerin gin Ah coud chynge ma uisername fae User:Jimjomsco tae Uiser:Jimjom, an Ah wis telt ye wis the guy tae talk tae aboot it, cheers. Jimjomsco 19:23, 7 Apryle 2009 (UTC)

Ah hae a similar question. I hae chynged ma uisername on enwiki frae Aleta tae LadyofShalott. Aleta 02:43, 14 Apryle 2009 (UTC)

Hi -- baith duin! cheers, Mendor 21:04, 15 Apryle 2009 (UTC)

cheers! Jimjom 12:51, 16 Apryle 2009 (UTC)

Ah thank ye! LadyofShalott 01:31, 19 Apryle 2009 (UTC)

TobeBot

Hello, I am Mymelo from Japan. I request a bot flag for TobeBot. Its detail as follows:

• Operator: ja:User:Mymelo
• Automatic or Manually Assisted: automatic in autonomous mode
• Programming Language(s): pywikipedia bot (Python Wikipedia Robot Framework)
• Function Summary: interwiki fix/add.
• Contributions: scowiki, grobal
• Already has a bot flag on: ar, ca, bpy, da, es, fa, fr, hu, id, it, ja, mn, nap, pdc, th, tr, uk, vi, zh, zh-classical sulutil

I wiki start to run my bot for test edits. 100+ edits or a week on automatic approval policy. Best regards. --Mymelo 17:03, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

I finished test edits during a week, thank you. --Mymelo 11:47, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

granded bot flag from meta, thank you. --Mymelo 22:21, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Jayvdb rename request

Hi, could you please rename my account to "John Vandenberg". see meta:User_talk:John_Vandenberg#global_rename_confirmation. Thank you. Jayvdb 00:50, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

Request for adminship to be able to import language user boxes

Greetings! Please accept my apologies for writing on your talk page in English. I recently become fascinated by scots, being able to understand your written language etc. I've been reading a lot of articles and have from today taken to myself to organising the language user boxes for the languages. For example

sv-1	Denna användare har grundläggande kunskaper i svenska.

or

de-3	Dieser Benutzer hat gute Deutschkenntnisse.

. But there are instances, in which I need to move pages, for example, I needed to move {{User sv-N}} to {{Uiser sv-M}}. And there are also instances in which I'd need to delete pages, that either occupy a space needed for a move or are mistakes. Currently, I have standardised and filled in the missing boxes for German and Swedish, and plan to do French next (done). If it's not possible to allow me adminship based on my poor scots, I understand the reasoning for it, but will continue to do what I can to help! :P Thank you for reading, best regards --Île flottant 01:00, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

A canna see ony hairm in lattin the chiel sort the guddle aw thae uiser-boxes haes gotten intae. Nae dout thare's a guid few ither things that coud be sortit forby. Jimmy 08:25, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

Of course there are things that would be of a greater benifit, but the user boxes on the scots wikipedia are in a mess. Many for one language do not follow the standard uniform of that particular language; and many others have yet to be created; and given my non existant scots, I am limited to contributing only to language templates, images etc. --Île flottant 15:27, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

A'v duin this. A canna imagine oniebodie haein onie problems wi't but gin oniebodie dis, they shuid juist lat me ken. Mendor 04:13, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

RobotQuistnix

Hi, i request a bot bit for RobotQuistnix.

• Botmaster : Quistnix
• Bot's name : RobotQuistnix
• List of botflags on others wikipedias: global bot, working on abt 18 projects at the moment
• Purpose: Interwiki (pywikipedia)
• Technical details : RobotQuistnix is an interwiki bot starting at different home languages from the list each run. The bot uses the pywikipedia framework and runs in autonomous mode. Sometimes the bot will run in manual assisted mode to solve interwiki conflicts. Quistnix 07:13, 1 Mairch 2010 (UTC)

Administrator request

Hello thar! I just present, I am Rabbie Barns. I have made a lot of articles on this wiki, maybe they are not all good but you can see by yourself, the most important ones are on my user page, The Doors, or 1914, Martin Van Buren for example. I have made a lot for this wikipaedia, asking for deletions, making categories etc. I am the most active user of this last 30 days, I have seen it on the list with 267 edits (the articles etc). But I think I can be better as administrator. Introducing external images, deleting empty articles, or spam articles, making messages of attention to the "bad users". I know I'm not here since more than three months, but I have made more in the month I've been here than some folks who are here since the creation of the wiki, countless I've edited and created articles before I subscribed. I am full of hope for the future of this wiki, and hope I'll help more and more. (I'm here to improve!).

So, what do you think of my request?

P.S.: So sorry to use English, I love Scotland, speak a guid Scots (A thocht) but I thought it seemed more "official". If you want me to write in Scots, thar's nae problem, as fowks say! --Rabbie Barns 18:10, 17 Apryle 2010 (UTC)

Hi Rabbie, sorry A dinna check this page awfu often. If ye'r still aboot an wantin me tae act on this please uise the E-mail this uiser airtin at the left-haund side o the page tae lat me ken. Cheers, Mendor 03:58, 7 Julie 2010 (UTC)

Adminship

It does seem a bit empty around here. What when Category:Candidates for speedy deletion has articles tagged since 22 Juin 2010... I would like to request adminship myself to help out. As you last edit/log was 21 Februar 2010, I'm going to email you to check this page, per your uiser page. :) If I don't edit often, I at least check in every day or every other day. I am trusted across several wikis, you can see my flags here. Hope to hear from you soon! Avicennasis 03:43, 7 Julie 2010 (UTC)

Hi Avicennasis, thanks for your email and thanks for your willingness to help out. I'll go ahead and make you an admin. I'm afraid I just don't have the time to spend on here any more, but if there are tasks that a bureaucrat has to do, if someone emails me to let me know then I'll be happy to do them. Best, Mendor 03:50, 7 Julie 2010 (UTC)

Or the active community could go about (s)electing a new bureaucrat, whom I could promote. Mendor 03:56, 7 Julie 2010 (UTC)

No problem, I am happy to help. :) Thanks! Avicennasis 04:33, 7 Julie 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I would be glad to help out too. I am trusted on wikis such as MediaWiki.org and Wikiversity with administrator access. Could you make me an admin here? Thanks. Diego Grez 19:23, 16 Julie 2010 (UTC)

Diego Grez Bot

• Bot User:Diego Grez Bot
• Operator User:Diego Grez
• Function: Interwiki, fix double redirects
• Code: pywikipedia
• Flagged on several other wikis.
• Comment. Gonna do some test edits. Thanks! Diego Grez 19:40, 16 Julie 2010 (UTC)

WikitanvirBot

• Operator  : Wikitanvir
• Automatic or Manually Assisted : Automatic
• Programming Language(s)  : Python (pywikipedia)
• Function Summary  : Interwiki
• Edit period(s)  : Daily
• Edit rate requested  : 2/3 edits per minute at most
• Already has a bot flag (Y/N)  : Yes, see here
• Function Details  : Bot will patrol recent changes and new pages, and add, remove, or modify interwiki links in autonomous mode.

Currently doing some test edits. Notify me if there is a problem. — Tanvir • 03:53, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

TjBot

I request a bot flag for TjBot

• Bot operator: id:user:Tjmoel
• List of botflags on other projects: ar, be-x-old, cs, de, es, et, fr, hr, id, it, lb, lt, lv, ms, no, pl, ru, sr, sw, tr, uk, zh-yue, zh

.. Contributions in all Wikimedia projects see here. Flags and edit counter in other projects see here.

• Purpose: interwiki
• Technical details: use pywikipedia

— Tjmoel   ^talk  15 November 2010 08:29 (UTC)

Ripchip Bot

• Contributions: contributions here
• Operator: Béria Lima (main wiki: pt.wiki)
• Programming language: Pywikipedia (Python)
• List of bot flags on other wikipedias: Wikipedias: pt.wiki, en.wiki, es.wiki, fr.wiki, it.wiki, ru.wiki, ca.wiki, war.wiki, io.wiki, af.wiki, qu.wiki, ast.wiki, yo.wiki, mn.wiki, be-x-old.wiki. - Wikiquotes: pt.wikiquote, it.wikiquote. (bot flags on other wikis)
• Purpose: maintain interwiki links.

Thanks in advance. Béria Lima ^msg 10:25, 16 Mairch 2011 (UTC)

Done. Jafeluv 13:46, 19 Mairch 2011 (UTC)

Bot requests

Hi! Since you seem to be inactive, I've pointed bot requests for this project to Wikipedia:Mercat Cross. In any case it's probably better for bot requests to be made on a centralized discussion page instead of a user talk page. Hope you don't mind. Regards, Jafeluv 22:37, 2 Apryle 2011 (UTC)

Dearth of adminship

Hi, Some very basic elements are missing around here.
I just started a Template:Welcome since there isn't one.
There is no concept of a Portal here. Again, I've cloned a Portal:Scotland from enwiki ...
Varlaam (talk) 04:48, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

Your inactive bureaucrat and sysop flags

Hello. Are you still interested in being a bureaucrat and a sysop here? You have been inactive after 2010-07-07 here and everywhere after 2011-08-31.--Jusjih (talk) 19:50, 18 Dizember 2012 (UTC)

(in Inglis) Our only active admin is Avicennasis.

Everyone else senior to me has retired.

Scowiki rollbacker, Varlaam (talk) 07:02, 19 Dizember 2012 (UTC)

Nae true. Joseph Fox (talk) 17:13, 28 Dizember 2012 (UTC)

(in Inglis) Your last community edit was in 2010, knocking some clown off Bazza's talk page.

Your last article edit was in 2009, and the one before that was in 2008.

When I read most of the articles in this project, I never catalogued you as one of the Scots speakers since your footprint escaped my notice. Perhaps you have a different conception of the word "active" than I.

Anyway, welcome back. It would be good to have an authoritative Scots voice. We have no native-born Scots-speaking editor, to my knowledge.

I have already reverted one of your reversions since you are out of the loop. You reverted Fixer, our most productive editor.

Fixer, Avicennasis and I are all North Americans. I am a 52-year-old engineer.

Cheers, Varlaam (talk) 22:20, 28 Dizember 2012 (UTC)

Regardless of all of this, I would invite if you guys need it to take advantage of the fact that scowiki is part of the Global sysop set. This means that you have the benefits of our experienced global sysops helping out from time to time, and that for non controversial stuff you can poke them for help. Should there be the need for such poking, the best avenue is #wikimedia-gs or #wikimedia-stewards on freenode irc, at [1]. I would also note that temporary admins can be appointed from meta following local elections (I say temporary as I doubt there's enough active users for new permanent ones). Kind regards and hope that it helps, Snowolf ^{How can I help?} 06:36, 10 Januar 2013 (UTC)

That is one option.

Another is I assume a sysop role, since I have been a real world sysop, and a real world manager since the 1980s.

Avicennasis would add the bureaucrat hat since he is our experienced admin.

The tradition of this project has been to hand out adminships freely, without the formality of enwiki which is 400 times our size.

Varlaam (talk) 08:01, 10 Januar 2013 (UTC)