User talk:FeralOink
Welcome to my talk page!
[edit]--FeralOink (talk) 05:38, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
TUSC
[edit]I am now proud owner of a TUSC account!
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Picture of the Year voting round 1 open
[edit]Dear Wikimedians,
Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the 2012 Picture of the Year competition is now open. We're interested in your opinion as to which images qualify to be the Picture of the Year for 2012. Voting is open to established Wikimedia users who meet the following criteria:
- Users must have an account, at any Wikimedia project, which was registered before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC].
- This user account must have more than 75 edits on any single Wikimedia project before Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 [UTC]. Please check your account eligibility at the POTY 2012 Contest Eligibility tool.
- Users must vote with an account meeting the above requirements either on Commons or another SUL-related Wikimedia project (for other Wikimedia projects, the account must be attached to the user's Commons account through SUL).
Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.
For your convenience, we have sorted the images into topic categories. Two rounds of voting will be held: In the first round, you can vote for as many images as you like. The first round category winners and the top ten overall will then make it to the final. In the final round, when a limited number of images are left, you must decide on the one image that you want to become the Picture of the Year.
To see the candidate images just go to the POTY 2012 page on Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons celebrates our featured images of 2012 with this contest. Your votes decide the Picture of the Year, so remember to vote in the first round by January 30, 2013.
Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee
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Picture of the Year 2013 R2 Announcement
[edit]Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2013 is open!
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Dear Wikimedians,
Wikimedia Commons is happy to announce that the second round of the 2013 Picture of the Year competition is now open. This year will be the eighth edition of the annual Wikimedia Commons photo competition, which recognizes exceptional contributions by users on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2013) to produce a single Picture of the Year.
Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.
There are two total rounds of voting. In the first round, you voted for as many images as you liked. The top 30 overall and the most popular image in each category have continued to the final. In the final round, you may vote for just one image to become the Picture of the Year.
Round 2 will end on 7 March 2014. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2013/Introduction/en Click here to learn more and vote »]
Thanks,
the Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year committee
You are receiving this message because you voted in the 2013 Picture of the Year contest.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
VisualEditor news
- You can now change image size to default for your wiki. If you add new images to pages, they will also be default size. [1] [2] [3]
- If you switch from VisualEditor to wikitext editing, your edit will now be tagged. [4]
- Template parameters now have a bigger, auto-sizing input box for easier editing. [5]
- VisualEditor now has Arabic, Finnish and Kölsch icons for text styling. If you want icons for your language, ask in Bugzilla. [6] [7] [8]
Future software changes
- The new tool for viewing media files will soon show a progress bar and a thumbnail while loading full images. [9] [10]
- You will soon be able to make user contributions show only page creations. [11] [12]
- Article Feedback Tool will be removed from the English and French Wikipedias on March 3. It will also no longer be possible to add this tool to any Wikimedia wiki. [13] [14]
- Wikis using the new search tool will come back to the old tool for a few hours starting at 00:00 UTC on March 6. [15]
Problems
- For about an hour on February 23, there were problems with page loading due to a MediaWiki bug. [16]
Picture of the Year 2013 Results Announcement
[edit]Picture of the Year 2013 Results
[edit]- In other languages: Deutsch, español, français, 日本語, Nederlands, русский, svenska, Türkçe, українська
Dear FeralOink,
The 2013 Picture of the Year competition has ended and we are pleased to announce the results: We shattered participation records this year — more people voted in Picture of the Year 2013 than ever before. In both rounds, 4070 different people voted for their favorite images. Additionally, there were more image candidates (featured pictures) in the contest than ever before (962 images total).
- In the first round, 2852 people voted for all 962 files
- In the second round, 2919 people voted for the 50 finalists (the top 30 overall and top 2 in each category)
We congratulate the winners of the contest and thank them for creating these beautiful images and sharing them as freely licensed content:
- 157 people voted for the winner, an image of a lightbulb with the tungsten filament smoking and burning.
- In second place, 155 people voted for an image of "Sviati Hory" (Holy Mountains) National Park in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
- In third place, 131 people voted for an image of a swallow flying and drinking.
Click here to view the top images »
We also sincerely thank to all 4070 voters for participating and we hope you will return for next year's contest in early 2015. We invite you to continue to participate in the Commons community by sharing your work.
Thanks,
the Picture of the Year committee
You are receiving this message because you voted in the 2013 Picture of the Year contest.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
We are looking for contributors to help write new issues every week. If you would like to help, please contact us.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf22) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and all Wikipedias on April 17 (calendar).
- MediaViewer was enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be enabled for all users on the Catalan (ca), Hungarian (hu) and Korean (ko) Wikipedias and English Wikivoyage on April 17. Comments are welcome. [17] [18] [19]
- Font issues caused by Typography refresh for Windows users were fixed on April 7. [20] [21]
Future software changes
- The font used for body text on Wikimedia wikis will change to your system default sans-serif font. This temporary change will be enabled on all non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and on all Wikipedias on April 17. [22] [23]
- Files from Commons seen on another wiki will soon have a tab saying "View on Wikimedia Commons". The create tab will change to "Add local description" (see screenshot). [24]
- You will soon be able to hide Notification and Hovercards pop-ups by pressing the Esc key. [25] [26] [27] [28]
- Shorter lists of language links will soon work in right-to-left languages. Languages that you have used before will be shown in the list. [29]
- You will soon be able to send messages with the MassMessage tool to all pages in a given category. [30] [31]
- The date format user preference will soon be moved to the appearance tab. [32] [33]
- An IRC discussion with the Wikimedia Foundation Multimedia team will take place on April 16 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [34]
Problems
- Wikimedia Foundation servers were updated after a security bug called Heartbleed was discovered last week. You should change your password as an extra precaution. [35]
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You have my gratitude for your most random words of appreciation, all the best!
Adûnâi (talk) 22:08, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you, dear Adûnâi! I keep meaning to explain my words of appreciation so that they will not seem so random. I might finally get around to it, 4 months later! I'll stop by your Commons talk page. You were unfairly banished from en:Wiki but a few powerless editors (including me) didn't think that was fair. You were a good contributor.--FeralOink (talk) 16:25, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
- @FeralOink: Ah, don't make me blush! (And I would probably have been banned anyway considering how a few years ago I saw the Strelkov article use a lying source amounting to a libel against a living person (Girkin always opposed any use of nukes against the Ukraine), and nobody seemed to care).
- But if you'd like to get a feel of my Wiki Gnome activity from beyond the grave, I'd like to draw your attention to a few quirks I've found just today:
- 1) weasel words and atrocious punctuation (lower case after a period) in the "Efforts to Promote Tifinagh" section of the Tifinagh article;
- 2) "Simple Black Ruthenian" when the Russian translation clearly just says "Russian" in the Belorussian article (but it's probably related to how Ruthenian is a fake term, and that's a bottomless rabit/d hole).
- My ban does not extend to other Wikipedia projects, however, and that's how I managed to save the Hitler article from vandalism on the Hindi Wikipedia yesterday (don't worry, the vandalism amounted to deleting all the text there, so it was easy to correct).
- And, of course, apologies if this write-up has made you change your view of me to a radical extent, I haven't meant to offend anyone aside from Ahriman :(--Adûnâi (talk) 19:22, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
- @FeralOink: Ah, don't make me blush! (And I would probably have been banned anyway considering how a few years ago I saw the Strelkov article use a lying source amounting to a libel against a living person (Girkin always opposed any use of nukes against the Ukraine), and nobody seemed to care).
- @Adûnâi: , again, sorry for the delay. Your write-up has not made me change my view of you! Your diligence is commendable. I am unequivocally on your side regarding that low quality (and often lying) source stating that a Russian official wanted to nuke the Ukraine! Well, certainly not back in September 2022. Things have changed recently. I suspect that Medvedev is getting rather cranky about the US enabling ATACMS in Ukraine to lob missiles far to the east of Kursk, and more recently, almost reaching Rostov-on-Don to the southeast.
- Your comments here are of interest to me (Ruthenian versus Ruriks)! I will explain more in a few days, I hope!
- I won't wish you Merry Christmas quite yet, as you might be Eastern/Russian Orthodox; I recall that Christmas is celebrated later than by Roman Catholics and Protestants.
- Finally, I was being silly, um perhaps troll-y but only in the friendliest way, by misspelling your user name as Adonai on your Wikipedia user talk page. It amused me in light of the fracas (ruckus?) that had caused you to be banned/blocked from Wikipedia. I am comfortable using the term in jest given that it is a name for G-d in my faith; Lord knows, others of my kind are mostly irreverent atheists so they have no moral high ground from which to chide me!--FeralOink (talk) 18:19, 21 December 2024 (UTC)