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A tsallaka zuwa: Shawagi, nema

ha: A tsakaninku, da bot tutar kada a yi wa wannan shafin. Wannan wiki yi amfani da daidaitacciya bot manufar, da yarda ɗumamar yanayi bots da bindiga mai yi na'am da wasu nauoi da bots. Sauran bots su dodana ƙasa, fatawan kuɓutattu daga boyi idan akwai wani ban ce a'a ba.
en: Requests for the bot flag should be made on this page. This wiki uses the standard bot policy, and allows global bots and automatic approval of certain types of bots. Other bots should apply below, and then request access from a steward if there is no objection.

[gyarawa] connectivity project

Hallo, my name is Anastasiya Lvova, I'm "duty" in Connectivity project. The essence of the "Connectivity" project is to study and enhance the coherence of Wikipedia, or, in other words, to improve hypertext navigation between articles. The project deals with deadends, isolated articles, non-categorized articles, transitivity of the category tree, etc.

We want to work with your language version, but we need configured MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage for it (with direct links to template namespace pages, for example, ru:MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage/de:MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage/fr:MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage). Is it possible to set it up for our usage?

thanks in advance, Lvova 18:50, 12 Yuni 2010 (UTC)

[gyarawa] Arabic or Arabic?

Shouldn't there be a consensus on whether to use Arabic or Latin? Anon 01:28, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Sure - but to have a consensus you first have to have some editors who speak Hausa... My bet is Latin, though; as far as I know, there are no Arabc-script Hausa websites. - 64.81.54.23 18:07, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

I think it should be written with Arabic Alphabet.

[gyarawa] Boko & Ajami

The Latin-based transcription, known in Hausa as Boko, is the currently dominant standard in print, instruction, and the internet, in Nigeria and Niger, so that should be the choice here. That said, there are many people who know or use the historically older Arabic-based Ajami transcription to one degree or another, and there are efforts to accommodate this in ICT (one aspect is meeting character needs in Unicode, which I understand to be complicated a bit by the fact that Ajami usage is not standardized in the same way Boko is). In the ideal world there should be both - maybe eventually with the elegant technofix of a transliteration feature between the two - but go with the Boko now and provide alternative space for Ajami if/when/as the interest is manifested.

[gyarawa] See Wikipedia:Community Portal

--Picaroon (t) 00:24, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[gyarawa] Vandal

If there are any sysops on this wiki, can they block 68.224.183.29 for vandalism. Hut 8.5 20:31, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[gyarawa] Bot flag requests

[gyarawa] SieBot

Please give a bot bit to SieBot, so it will not flood your RC as it adds interwiki links using pywikipedia's interwiki.py. SieBot is active on 180 Wikipedias. See the user page of the bot for more details, or check a complete overview of its activities here. Cheers! Siebrand (talk) 23:29, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

No active community, go ahead and request the flag at meta. Picaroon (t) 15:29, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

Already done. —Pathoschild 23:49:12, 09 March 2009 (UTC)

[gyarawa] PipepBot

Hello! I ask for permission to run my interwiki bot PipepBot here, and to get a bot flag for it.

Operator: it:User:Pipep
Purpose: Interwiki
Software: Pywikipedia
Has bot flag at: als, am, an, ar, arc, ast, av, az, bat-smg, be, be-x-old, bn, bpy, bs, bug, ca, ce, ceb, co, cs, cu, cv, da, de, eml, en, eo, et, fo, fr, frp, fur, fy, ga, gd, ha, haw, hr, hsb, ht, hy, id, ie, ilo, io, is, ja, ka, kk, ksh, ku, kw, la, lb, li, lij, ln, lt, lv, mi, mk, ml, ms, nap, nds, nds-nl, nn, no, oc, pl, pms, qu, rm, rmy, ro, roa-tara, ru-sib, sc, scn, sco, sh, si, simple, sk, sl, sq, sr, su, sv, te, th, tl, udm, uk, uz, vec, vls, vo, wa, wo, wuu, yi, yo, zea, zh, zh-classical, zh-yue
Details: Interwiki using Pywikipediabot. It mostly runs manually assisted. May run automatically in some cases.

Thank you! --it:User:Pipep 18:20, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

No active community, go ahead and request the flag at meta. Picaroon (t) 15:29, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

PipepBot has now bot status. Thank you! it:User:Pipep 14:45, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[gyarawa] 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 12:09, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Already done. —Pathoschild 23:49:45, 09 March 2009 (UTC)

[gyarawa] AlleborgoBot

Hi, i request a bot flag for AlleborgoBot

Operator: Alleborgo
Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, in "-autonomous" mode. Sometimes the bot will run in manual assisted mode to solve interwiki conflicts.
Programming Language(s): Pywikipedia framework daily updated to the last SVN version
Function Summary: interwiki
Already has a bot flag in: ar, am, an, ast, az, bar, bat-smg, bg, br, bn, bpy, bs, ca, ceb, cs, cv, da, de, el, en, eo, es, et, eu, fa, fi, fiu-vro, fr, frp, fy, ga, gl,ha, he, hr, hsb, ht, hu, hy, id, is, it, iu, ja, jv, ka, kk, ksh, ku, lb, li, lmo, ln, lt, lv, mk, mi, ml, mr, ms, mt, nap, nds, nds-nl, nl, nn, no, pl, pms, ps, pt, ro, roa-tara, ru, sco, sh, sk, simple, sl, sq, sr, su, sv, ta, tg, th, to, tr, tt, udm, uk, ur, vec, vi, vls, vo, zh, zh-classical, zh-min-nan, zh-yue. On it.wiki has done more than 65000 edit.

Thanks --AlleborgoBot 17:33, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Sure. Go ask on meta. Picaroon (t) 22:53, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

AlleborgoBot has the flag now, thank you. --AlleborgoBot 19:14, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[gyarawa] VolkovBot

Hello! I'd like to request a flag for this bot --VolkovBot 22:57, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Botmaster: ru:User:Volkov (talk)
Bot's name: User:VolkovBot (contributions)
List of botflags on other wikipedias: an, ar, be, be-x-old, bg, bpy, bs, ca, cdo, ceb, cs, cv, da, de, en, eo, es, et, fi, fr, frp, fy, gl,

ha, he, hr, hu, hy, gu, ia, id, is, it, ka, kk, ku, ln, lt, lv, mi, ml, na, nl, nn, no, os, pl, pt, ro, ru, simple, sk, sl, sr, tg, th, tr, tt, uk, uz, vec, zh-yue

Purpose: interwiki
Technical details: use pywikipedia framework; registered in 200+ wiki versions

No active community, nor bureaucrats, here; stewards, please flag this bot. Picaroon (t) 23:24, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Approved. DerHexer 11:19, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

[gyarawa] Purbo T

Hi, I'd like to request a bot flag for Purbo_T (contribs)

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 to latest version
Already has bot flag on: am, ar, be-x-old, bn, bo, bxr, cdo, co, crh, de, dsb, dz, fa, fr, gv,

fr, ha, hr, hsb, ht, ig, ja, ksh, ku, lbe, lmo, ml, mr, nds, nl, pms, simple, stq, sv, tg, ts, vec, vi, vls, vo, zea, more pending, cumulated data (sorry, the toolserver is having technical problems at the moment, so the data is partially not up to date) Thank you! --Purbo T 22:20, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Already done. —Pathoschild 23:50:45, 09 March 2009 (UTC)

[gyarawa] SpBot

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

Operator: de:User:Euku
Purpose: Interwiki links: It adds/modifies/deletes interwiki links.
Software: pywikipediabot framework via SVN
Already has bot flag on: >74 Wikipedias, for example: ar, bn, ca, cs, de, en, es, eu, da, fr, ha, he, hu, it, pl, ro, ru, sq, tr. (Since 2006 on German Wikipedia, with >69.000 edits), look at details

Thank you! --Euku 08:24, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Already done. —Pathoschild 23:51:04, 09 March 2009 (UTC)

[gyarawa] タチコマ robot

Hi, I'd like to request a bot flag for タチコマ robot:

Operator: commons:User:White Cat
Purpose: Interwiki, Double redirects, commons delinking
Software: Pywikipedia, awb
Bot with Flag: (full list)
Details: autonomous and supervised.

If this is the wrong place for this request, please move it to the right location.

Thanks! -- Cat ^chi? 17:45, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Not done; a local bot flag is no longer needed. This is a global bot, and this wiki recently enabled global bots. —Pathoschild 23:51:24, 09 March 2009 (UTC)

[gyarawa] Synthebot

Dear all, 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: global bot running on more than 200 wikipedias.

Further technical information is available on its main page. Thank you in advance. Regards, --Julian 18:08, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Not done; a local bot flag is no longer needed. This is a global bot, and this wiki recently enabled global bots. —Pathoschild 23:51:57, 09 March 2009 (UTC)

[gyarawa] Bot policy

Hello. To facilitate steward granting of bot access, I suggest implementing the standard bot policy on this wiki. In particular, this policy allows stewards to automatically flag known interlanguage linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable), which form the vast majority of such requests. The policy also enables global bots on this wiki (if this page says that is acceptable), which are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots.

This policy makes bot access requesting much easier for local users, operators, and stewards. To implement it we only need to create a redirect to this page from Project:Bot policy, and add a line at the top noting that it is used here. Please read the text at m:Bot policy before commenting. If you object, please say so; I hope to implement 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. Luckas Blade 14:34, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild 23:47:46, 09 March 2009 (UTC)

[gyarawa] Translatewiki.net update

Currently 2.24% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 11:32, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
Currently 3.80% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 13:31, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Currently 20.63% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 16:03, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

[gyarawa] Small request

Hello! I am a Polish wikipedian and I would like to ask you for your help - writing a new article about former Polish President who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 – Lech Wałęsa. I have looked for his biography in your Wikipedia but without success. Polish Wikipedians will be grateful for your help. Thank you so much in advance! PS you can find the English version of the article here. Best wishes from Poland, Patrol110 16:33, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

[gyarawa] Wikimania Scholarships

The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk, Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation offers Scholarships to pay for selected individuals' round trip travel, accommodations, and registration at the conference. To apply, visit the Wikimania 2010 scholarships information page, click the secure link available there, and fill out the form to apply. For additional information, please visit the Scholarships information and FAQ pages:

Yours very truly, Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation

[gyarawa] Localized logo

Hello!

The Wikimedia Foundation recently updated the official Wikipedia globe. We realize that a lot of projects have never had a localized logo in their native language, so we are making sure that we create logos for every Wikipedia project that we have. The only issue is: we can't figure out what should be on your localized logo. :-)

Could you please provide a translation for the following?

Wikipedia
The Free Encyclopedia

Please put the translation on my Meta talk page. Thank you! Cbrown1023 mahawara 00:49, 25 Mayu 2010 (UTC)

[gyarawa] 2010 Fundraising Is Almost Here

Hello Wikipedians, I am Theo and I am working for the Wikimedia Foundation during the 2010 Fundraiser. My job is to be the liaison between your community and the Foundation. This year's fundraiser is intended to be a collaborative and global effort; we recognize that banner messages which may perform well in the United States don't necessarily translate well, or appeal to international audiences.

I'm contacting you as I am currently looking for translators who are willing to contribute to this project by helping translate and localize messages into different languages and suggesting messages that would appeal to your readers on the Fundraising Meta Page. We've started the setup on meta for both banner submission, statistical analysis, and grouping volunteers together.
Use the talk pages on meta, talk to your local communities, talk to others, talk to us, and add your feedback to the proposed messages as well! I look forward to working with you during this year's fundraiser. If someone could translate this message I would really appreciate it so that everyone is able to understand our goals and contribute to this year's campaign.
Theo (WMF) 20:20, 20 Oktoba 2010 (UTC)

[gyarawa] Multilingual Challenge

Please help: replace this red text with a translation of the English message below. Thank you!

Announcing the Derby Multilingual Challenge

This is the first multilingual Wikipedia collaboration. All Wikipedians can take part, in any Wikipedia language. The challenge runs from 1 May until 3 September 2011.
Sign up now!
" Wikipedia is particularly pleased to see that Derby Museums are encouraging the creation of articles in languages other than English." (Jimmy Wales, 14 January 2011)

Andrew Dalby 12:25, 2 Mayu 2011 (UTC)

[gyarawa] Language support group for Hausa

The Wikimedia Foundation has brought together a new team of developers who are dedicated to language support. This team is to support all the languages and consequently it is not realistic to expect that the team members can provide proper support for your language. It is for this reason that we are looking for volunteers who will make up a language support team.

This language support team will be asked to provide us with information about their language. Such information may need to be provided either to us or on a website that we will indicate to you. Another activity will be to test software that will likely have an effect on the running of the MediaWiki software. We are looking for people who clearly identify their ability. Formal knowledge is definitely appreciated.

As much of the activity will be concentrated on translatewiki.net, it will be a plus when team members know how to localise at translatewiki.net.
Thanks, Gmeijssen

[gyarawa] Hausa is written in two scripts

As the Hausa language is written both in the Arabic and the Latin script, it is possible to ask for having a localisation in both scripts. This is done for other languages as well, eg Serbian and Chinese. When articles are written in the Latin script, it may be possible to transcribe it automatically in the Arabic script. This is one of the issues a language support team may advise us on.

In the mean time it would be wonderful when the Babel extension is translated at translatewiki.net. This extension is used to indicate the proficiency people have in a language and is used on all Wikimedia Foundation projects and on some other project. Thanks, Gmeijssen 13:30, 16 Janairu 2012 (UTC)

[gyarawa] Call for image filter referendum

The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen particular types of images strictly for their own account.

Further details and educational materials will be available shortly. The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party. Referendum details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will be posted at Meta:Image filter referendum shortly.

Sorry for delivering you a message in English. Please help translate the pages on the referendum on Meta and join the translators mailing list.

For the coordinating committee,
Philippe (WMF)
Cbrown1023
Risker
Mardetanha
PeterSymonds
Robert Harris

[gyarawa] HiW-Bot

Bot : HiW-Bot
Operator : Hedwig in Washington
Automatic or Manually Assisted : automatic
Programming Language(s) : Python (pywikipedia), daily update
Function Summary : Interwiki
Already has a bot flag (Y/N) : Yes, please see here
Function Details : just using the standard interwiki.py

I humbly request bot status on this wiki in order to maintain Interwiki. Thank you --Hedwig in Washington 12:09, 24 Oktoba 2011 (UTC)

[gyarawa] Terms of Use update

I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is discussing changes to its Terms of Use. The discussion can be found at Talk:Terms of use. Everyone is invited to join in. Because the new version of Terms of use is not in final form, we are not able to present official translations of it. Volunteers are welcome to translate it, as German volunteers have done at m:Terms of use/de, but we ask that you note at the top that the translation is unofficial and may become outdated as the English version is changed. The translation request can be found at m:Translation requests/WMF/Terms of Use 2 -- Maggie Dennis, Community Liaison 00:51, 27 Oktoba 2011 (UTC)

[gyarawa] Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants

I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.

Do you want to help attract new contributors to Wikimedia projects?
Do you want to improve retention of our existing editors?
Do you want to strengthen our community by diversifying its base and increasing the overall number of excellent participants around the world?

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking Community Fellows and project ideas for the Community Fellowship Program. A Fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order to work on a specific project or set of projects. Submissions for 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia projects. If interested, please submit a project idea or apply to be a fellow by January 15, 2012. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships for more information.

Thanks!

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Community Fellowships, Wikimedia Foundation 13:01, 21 Disamba 2011 (UTC)

Distributed via Global message delivery. (Wrong page? Fix here.)

[gyarawa] Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta

Wikimedia Foundation is getting ready to push out 1.19 to all the WMF-hosted wikis. As we finish wrapping up our code review, you can test the new version right now on beta.wmflabs.org. For more information, please read the release notes or the start of the final announcement.

The following are the areas that you will probably be most interested in:

Faster loading of javascript files makes dependency tracking more important.
New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
Searching blocked usernames in block log is now clearer.
Better timezone recognition in user preferences.
Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
The interwiki links table can now be accessed also when the interwiki cache is used (used in the API and the Interwiki extension).
More gender support (for instance in logs and user lists).
Language converter improved, e.g. it now works depending on the page content language.
Time and number-formatting magic words also now depend on the page content language.
Bidirectional support further improved after 1.18.

Report any problems on the labs beta wiki and we'll work to address them before they software is released to the production wikis.

Note that this cluster does have SUL but it is not integrated with SUL in production, so you'll need to create another account. You should avoid using the same password as you use here. — Global message delivery 00:11, 15 Janairu 2012 (UTC)

[gyarawa] MediaWiki 1.19

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki (the software powering this wiki) to its latest version this month. You can help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid disruption and breakage. More information is available in the full announcement. Thank you for your understanding.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). 15:02, 12 Faburairu 2012 (UTC)

[gyarawa] trial