User talk:Purodha

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Contents 1 Welcome to Wikipedia! 2 Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Germany is being replaced by a category 3 Berlin wiki meeting 4 Invitation and Recommendations for writing articles on Hindi Wikipedia 5 Thanks! 6 Toolserver 7 Reverting HI 8 Aramaic Wiki 9 Kölsch language braucht Hilfe 10 Purodha on hr:wiki 11 bot flag on mr wikipedia 12 bot on lb-wikipedia 13 Purbo T bot change to Keith 14 WikiProject Germany Invitation 15 wpStarttime

[edit] Welcome to Wikipedia!

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If you have any questions, feel free to ask me on my talk page. Thanks and happy editing, Alphax ^τεχ 15:46, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Germany is being replaced by a category

Hello! You were listed on the Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Germany page as living in or being associated with Germany. As part of the Wikipedia:User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, or one of the Bundesland-based subcategories, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Germany for instructions. --Angr (tɔk) 15:17, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Berlin wiki meeting

Hello, I have been mulling over this for some time (actually at least a year), and would like to propose a meeting of the Berlin-residing Users of the english wiki. Wolud you be interested at all, or do you think this a bad idea ? Thoughts are welcome. Cheers. Lectonar 20:02, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

I would not mind :-) and be interested to come if I am in Berlin - which does not happen too often currently. I am working abroad. Just find more people interested, and keep me informed. The German community has a pretty meeting place, see de:Wikipedia:Berlin, maybe this is an option for us, too? As I am quite occupied at the moment, I may not look at my talk page here too often. You might get an earlier response at my talk page at ksh:User:Purodha, or use the e-mail function there. Thank you for asking! -- Purodha Blissenbach 19:04, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Thx for showing interest, but we have proceeded a little bit (see here; please add your ideas :)) Lectonar 15:27, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

and PS: I don't like the way the German wiki is run, and would be sure to run into trouble, so I've no intention of visiting one of their meetings again (I've been to one some 1 1/2 years ago, near Jannowitzbrücke). Lectonar 15:29, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

I was not suggesting to join a German Wikipedia meeting. On the contrary, I'd suggest to only use the place - a spacious public place as I read, but have never been there - if there is not a German Wikipedian assembly at the same time ;-) Btw. since I am active in several language Wikipedias, I am interested in learning what other peoples criticisms are of the way the German one is run, notabene sharing my point of view, too, if someone cares. -- Purodha Blissenbach 13:00, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I should read comments before replying to them...but as another location seems to be fixed, this point is moot anyway...and am I right to construe you aren't exactly happy with the way the German-wiki is run? Lectonar 12:01, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Ok :-) yes, and yes. -- Purodha Blissenbach 11:59, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm. Interesting, did you have a look at Jimbos talk-page lately? Anyway, I'd very much like to talk about it...if you can't make it to the meeting, please "e-mail this user function" (in en-wiki). I tried to send you one, but you don't seem to have enabled it. Lectonar 16:27, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for making me aware - there was a typo in my e-mail address here, which is now corrected. (Confirmation pending) No, I wasn't even aware that he has one :-) I briefly looked over it and over his lengthy talk page. Is there anything particular that I should read? If I don't make to the meeting, I put myself in the waiting line for the next one ;-) I happen to be in Berlin every now and then. If you like, I let you know when. No dates fixed at this point in time, though. -- Purodha Blissenbach 10:11, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation and Recommendations for writing articles on Hindi Wikipedia

Hindi wikipedia invites and welcomes Wikipedians to contribute for the cause of spreading knowledge and the Hindi language. This page contains guidelines for writing a wiki-article on any topic at the Hindi Wikipedia, with special recommendations for writing in Hindi (Note: The script/font-family for Hindi is Devanāgari; the script/font-system for English is Roman script, also, the Hindi spelling system is not completely standardized). This article is yet in English language (mostly), in order to encourage even non-native/foreign people who have learnt/are learning Hindi to contribute to the Hindi wikipedia, and native Hindi speakers who normally write in English. The examples given below are only for explanation. Recommendations:

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Thank you,

Cygnus_hansa 00:50, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

...for helping me with Kölsch translations! --Soman 15:35, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Toolserver

Hi Purodha!

• Sorry, I can't seem to be able to see any problems with the table - can you tell me what exactly is wrong with it?
• I've made the source code for my functions library available here, so please take a look. The function you need is parseWikiTitle(); that one uses getNamespaces(), which is rather a fancy way of caching namespaces for each Wikimedia wiki as they're used. I'm thinking of changing the function to use Duesentrieb's toolserver database (as you might already know, information about all namespaces on all WM wikis are stored there), but for now it seems to work fine. The parseWikiTitle() function doesn't normalize article titles; not all wikis have articles that start with a capital letter, so I think you need to check each wiki (again, the information is available in toolserver) to see if it's necessary. (My function is too lazy to do that ;) ) Of course, you're free to reuse and improve the code in your own tools. If you're wondering what exactly is "defined in layout.php", it is the following:

$subdom_wikis = array ('.wikipedia.org','.wiktionary.org','.wikibooks.org','.wikiquote.org','.wikinews.org','.wikiversity.org');
$semi_subdom_wikis = array('.wikisource.org');
$no_subdom_wikis = array('commons.wikimedia.org','meta.wikimedia.org','incubator.wikimedia.org','species.wikimedia.org','wikimania2006.wikimedia.org','wikimediafoundation.org');

• Thank you very much for your translation!! I'll put it online when I have some time, probably later today. Would it be possible to ask you to translate the following general strings for use in Whatredirectshere and some of my other tools? If not, then it's entirely fine.

$lang['gen_error'] = 'Error';
$lang['gen_db-connect-error'] = 'Could not connect to database server (Zedler may be down); Error was: ';
$lang['gen_db-select-error'] = 'Could not select database (The database you selected may be non-existent); Error was: ';
$lang['gen_welcome'] = 'Welcome';
$lang['gen_invalid_dbname'] = 'Patently invalid database name';

$lang['gen_nonexistent_wiki'] = 'The project you selected is either non-existent or is not replicated to the toolserver.';
$lang['gen_query_failed'] = 'The SQL query failed with the following error: ';
$lang['gen_query_failed_badrowcount'] = 'The SQL query did not return the correct number of rows.';

Also, please tell me how I should credit you - Purodha, Purodha Blissenbach, or something else? And should I link to your user page on EN, or on KSH?

Cheers, Tangotango 20:35, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reverting HI

I was confused by the "Watt ėßß datt?" in the edit summary. I had no idea what it was, and when TW brought up the talk page, and I saw it was a bot, I got even more confused. I decided to leave the mildest template TW had and hope I was doing the right thing. turns out I was the one that goofed. When I saw the edit come back, I left it alone. DarkAudit 22:56, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

The expression: "(Watt ėßß datt?)" marks a disambiguation page, literally meaning "What is this?", or "Qu'est-ce que c'est?" --Purodha Blissenbach 07:59, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Aramaic Wiki

Hallo,

Ich gesehe Ihr Aramaic Wiki seite, und von dort, ich gesehe alle von Ihr andere Wikis. Ich habe ein Fragen: tuten Sie alle von dieser Sprachen-Wikis, oder gibt es ein extra Weise in welcher es tuten? Vielen dank, --MosheA 04:03, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

bitte antworten mir auf Anglish, wie Sie kannn sehen, das mein Deutsch ist nicht so gut :)

I am having logins on about 210 Wikipedias at the moment. I made one edit at least on each of those (beyond my user page), almost always adding or altering an interwiki link, or, maybe, several over the time. Whenever I stumble over an opportunity to do something on another language Wikipedia, I do. Of course I am unable to read or understand all those languages, and some scripts. Nevertheless, I am capable to navigate them, using the native language interface almost everywhere, since I memorize where functions are located by screen layout. Also, it does help to use the generic (english) names of some special pages.

I get to the right pages following interwiki link chains, starting from a language I know, usually adding Ripuarian, and possibly others ones, that I have collected along the way. Sometimes, I cannot do what I want, since existing interwiki links and their backwards links are ambiguous. If there are no images, or helpful international words in the foreign language pages, I am lost, and unable to decide what their exact meaning is. I must leave linking these pages to others, then.

I think, or hope, I caught enough of your German, to give a useful answer. By the way, tuten is to honk as with the horn of a car; I believe you meant tuen = tun, which is both to do and some of to make (but not to create) -- so I have choosen to understand what you wanted to say as: Do you do something in all of those languages' wikies? and the answer is Yes as written above. Just tell me if I am wrong, or gave an incomplete answer, or if you want more comments in order to improve your German :-)

Many greetings --Purodha Blissenbach 01:48, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Kölsch language braucht Hilfe

Der Artikel Kölsch language sucht einen Experten (Philologen?) - kannst Du helfen? Wschroedter (talk) 00:04, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Purodha on hr:wiki

Hi, Purodha. I'm Roberta F., bureaucrat from Croatian wikipedia. If you want me to grant bot status to your bot, please make a request on this page. :-)) --Roberta F. (talk) 14:00, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

• My request is at hr:Wikipedija:Botovi#Purbo_T. Thank you for your hint and for your assistance. --Purodha Blissenbach (talk) 15:57, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Bot status on hr:wiki granted. :-)) --Roberta F. (talk) 17:15, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

• Thank you again for setting the bot flag so quickly :-))) --Purodha Blissenbach (talk) 17:46, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] bot flag on mr wikipedia

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You may continue to run your bot during a test-phase while not exceeding 10 edits per day until your bot will have reached 40 edits. Meanwhile we would really appreciate if you could answer us the following questions

• How does your bot proceed actually? From which data do you start when running your bot, how often will you run your bot?
• Are there any known difficulties in your bot and how does it interact with other bots running actually on lb-wikipedia (RobotQuistnix, Robbot, TuvicBot, Escarbot, FlaBot, JAnDbot, ...)
• What will be the added value for lb-wikipedia if your bot runs there? (compared to other bots (especially those running already on lb-wikipedia))
• Are you ready and able to run your bot for us if we will have a special request?

with best regards from sunny Luxembourg

lb:User:Robby LURobby (talk) 15:36, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Purbo T bot change to Keith

Hi, your bot removed a link to it:Keith, however this page exists. I've manually put the link back in, perhaps something to look into in case there is a bug! Thanks, Halsteadk (talk) 19:38, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the hint and for your quick response. I knew of the removal since the bot is running manually controlled. It was indeed a mistake that came from an ambiguation/non-ambiguation page issue. I did not manually correct the mistake knowing that the bot was going to that automatically anyways with this edit which I knew was going to come pretty soon. I was interrupted, had to leave, and finally it took a night before I had a chance to return and had that done. So it is good, that you were quicker. Thank you, again. --Purodha Blissenbach (talk) 10:38, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Germany Invitation

Hello, Purodha! I'd like to call your attention to the WikiProject Germany and the German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board. I hope their links, sub-projects and discussions are interesting and even helpful to you. If not, I hope that new ones will be. Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany | watch Wikipedia:German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board | watch

--Zeitgespenst (talk) 07:59, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] wpStarttime

Thank you for the reply, you're most kind – and I've been a bastard for not updating that talk page when I fixed it. You might still want to read the follow-up, it's most interesting. Thank you again, Gutza ^{T T+} 21:38, 15 March 2008 (UTC)