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most destubs for each of the 53 African countries, so should be enjoyable! Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance (think Regions of countries etc). If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing, whether it's a river in Malawi, a Nigerian footballer, or a South African civil rights activist, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. For those of you who signed up to the North African contest, that will hopefully be held in the new year. Thanks. --

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even an assistant prof or two, will not really slow down academic work since most academics don't edit Knowledge. Your third question does assume that we can't do anything about global warming, which is partially true (the Earth already is warmer), but I don't know of any source which says we might as well give up (except those who think it is "too expensive"). Nevertheless, I think most Knowledge editors don't contribute to forward a political agenda. Instead they simply are reporting the facts as best we know them. And if the facts say our planet is inevitably in trouble, that's what gets reported. Hope this helps, --

1646: 1488: 1277:. The idea is to run a series of contests/editathons focusing on each region of Africa. He has spoken to Wikimedia about it and $ 1000-1500 is possible for prize money. As someone who has previously expressed interest in African topics, would you be interested in contributing to one or assisting draw up core article/missing article lists? He says he's thinking of North Africa for an inaugural one in October. If interested please sign up in the participants section of the Contest page, thanks.♦ -- 1429:. There's a new bonus prize of $ 200 worth of books of your choice to win for creating the most new women biographies between 0:00 on the 26th and 23:59 on 30th November. If you've been contributing to the contest, thank you for your support, we've produced over 2000 articles. If you haven't contributed yet, we would appreciate you taking the time to add entries to our articles achievements list by the end of the month. Thank you, and if participating, good luck with the finale! 1197: 2564: 1979: 1933: 1877: 1821: 1765: 1374: 1569: 1653: 1495: 1346:. If you would like to see this happening for Latin America, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Latin America, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant!♦ -- 1441: 266: 1338:. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Argentina etc, much like 1515:. This new project is dedicated to improving the Knowledge coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the carribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this or you're already contributing in this area, kindly list your name as a participant on the 2036:, we are happy to announce that it will be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition of the contest, about 600 Knowledge articles were created in at least 8 languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons, which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the contest to over 1,000. 936:- well i was in a hurry so in haste i just designed it and nom. for featured portals and then i contributed few more things and now i am unable to spend my time here due to my studies. i was the only one to do that work thats why the discussion page was empty. check out the history of the portal. thanks for appreciating my work. Happy editing!!!! 225:, one of the biggest contributors of Cape Verdean wiki content) to join me in working out the basic foundations that will allow such projects to exist. Namely, we're currently discussing the possibility of localizing the MediaWiki software interface and system messages, at www.translatewiki.net; even before that, we need to submit some data to 1342:. For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Latin American content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current 2444: 2335: 2218: 2109: 2023: 1306:

which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to

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until June! One of my goals as resident, is to work with Wikipedians and staff to improve content on Knowledge about people who have collections held in the Archives - most of these are scientists who held roles within the Smithsonian and/or federal government. I thought you might like to participate

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for process details. Your second question is interesting. I don't know of any evidence that petro dollars are being spent to confound Knowledge editors with tedious requests, but if they did it would be an ineffective political strategy. Tying up the time of a few grad students (such as myself) or

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Thank you for your sweet words . but I'm really trying to do my best and I would like to improve myself more It would be very kind of you if you talk to me sometimes to guide and help me editing more of things . as I have some questions (and it will work better for me if I talked to u directly- just

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But anyway, this idea is not new at all to me, we have discussed this at pt.wikipedia a while ago, but set aside the idea of creating a kea.wikipedia, for lack of manpower. Nevertheless, recent happenings (including the announcement of the possibility of a constitutional reform proposal by PAICV, the

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Well, I must agree with the other editors: some of the links you added were indeed relevant (and were kept), but many of them were a little too much. We have to keep a balance between necessary information and too much info, otherwise we risk overwhelming the readers with an overly long list of links

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Well, if you're really as new to wiki editing as you're saying, then I must admit that you're pretty good at following instructions! You've been doing a flawless job so far! :) Well, except for leaving a message in the wrong section of my page, but that's ok -- the mediawiki software really does have

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Hey Wiki User 68! Thanks for your support in the Cape Verde portal discussion, and for joining the wikiproject. Even though the portal has been deleted, the wikiproject is still there -- and there's lots of stuff to do! Please read the suggested activities list and let me know if you're interested --

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It is already the middle of the contest and a lot have been achieved already! We have been able to get over 1,500 articles created in over fifteen (15) languages! This would not have been possible without your support and we want to thank you. If you have not yet listed your name as a participant in

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Now, back to the subject: you say creole is an officially recognised language... welll, it sort of is, but not quite. It does have an ISO code (kea), but is is not an official language even in Cape Verde! the grammar is largely unstandardised, and the vocabulary as well. The only standard is ALUPEC,

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I think User:TenIslands will probably be of great help in this issue. He seems to have a pretty good grasp at the linguistics of the cv creole, and I know he knows at least one other person that has considerable interest in the issue. I am more of an amateur, but I'm enthusiastic about the subject.

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After that, the language will effectively exist for the digital world, and thus for mediawiki as well (it may be translated and then chosed as the interface language). After this, other projects are possible, such as a cape verdean wiktionary, or even a wikipedia. Well, I think I'm writing too much

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and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion

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On a second thought, I guess I'll keep it at level 3. I consider myself an "advanced" speaker of English, but I can't put it at the same level as my Portuguese, which is near-native. As for the level 5, well, that doesn't actually strike me as meaningful: professional level? Is this better than

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Why do the people who understand the real issues re Global Warming waste their time debating time-wasting issues with paid employees of the Oil & Coal industries on here?! They're simply trying to burn up your productive time to reduce your public informational impact! You must be crazy!!

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worked hard to create a new portal for information on zoos, aquariums, and the associated projects and articles on Knowledge. If you could head on over, take a look at our work, and maybe learn some more about zoos and Wikiproject Zoo, it would be great! Cheers and Happy Editing!

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This issue moves exceptionally fast and you Guys need to have all of your human resources necessary to facilitate the informational task at hand. If you thought that a near trillion dollar industry would neglect paying Knowledge it's attention - then you're seriously naive!

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effect! The O&G industries have successfully reduced this informational resource to a near complete time waste and have occupied your time resources so succesfully that they've stopped you from engaging with ongoing environmental issues important to the general

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This is a global online edit-a-thon, which is happening in at least 5 language editions of Knowledge, including the English Knowledge! Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to

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Since article talk pages are intended for discussion of how to improve the article, I took the liberty of moving this disucssion here. If you're interested in starting a climate change or global warming Wikiproject, you might start by discussing it at

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you have put in sites that where already on the cape verde topics and when i was checking out the other countries pages i saw that they didnt even have much so i edited your external links cause it's too much for other countries portugal brazil italy

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isn't a problem anymore but a fact. There's SO much CO2 in the atmosphere currently that even GOD hasn't got the natural resources to remove it without having to shut down the atlantic conveyor belt (equal to Natures' Global Recession) and even

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for writing, but not even that was official until recently (as of last month, IIRC), when the government finally officialized it (well to be honest I don't even know exactly what they mean by that, but I'll assume that means there's now a

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of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.

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website i see NAVY standing on it i wanted to change it because there only stood coast guard on all other web pages could you talk with me about this cause i wanted to write coast guard instead of NAVY try to explain is navy a good name

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We would be adding additional categories as the contest progresses, along with local prizes from affiliates in your countries. For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page

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from 180 m3 to 271 m3. The source attached specifically says the volume is 180 m3. I think you may be using a total volume figure rather than living volume, which is what the infobox calls for. If you have any questions, let me know.

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We are very excited about what has been achieved so far, but your contributions are still needed to further exceed all expectations! Let’s create more articles before the end of this contest, which is this November!!!

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As for my website, well, it's not as good as that, I'm trying to get some time to work on it and put it on a reasonable shape. Anyway, it's always better to keep wiki-related conversations on-wiki, for several

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that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. Join us in this global edit-a-thon, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to

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with a link of guys that are in praia fighting against riots i think when i started the site someone told to put an article about this or it will be put as speedy deletion i even need help on this site

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if u have time you don't mind-and I'm sure you would tell me alot) I actually don't know alot about wikipedia editing .. but I would like to , and I would greatly appreciate it if you help me.

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talk about this in further detail. Do you use any instant messaging service? AOL, GTalk, MSN, Yahoo, Skype?... I think it may work out much better than sending messages on our talk pages. --

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achievements so far! We want to extend our sincere gratitude for the time and energy you have invested. If you have not yet participated in the contest, it is not too late to do it. Please

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Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page

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A category or categories you have created have been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the

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I too noticed a recent increase of activity in this topic. Does he always use the same IP? If that's the case then we should probably drop him a message. Care to take the lead? :) --

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Hey Wiki User its me again long time ago isnt it i wanted to ask you if you could read this 2 sites for me and start like and make like an article with me i just started the site

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First of all, just to let you know that even though I can understand it, my Spanish is terrible. I don't even dare to make a joke from this by writing it in Spanish as you did :P

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Yea, usually when users don't take the initiative to talk to someone on their own, it's useless to try and contact them, most don't respond. Still, it was worth the attempt :) --

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Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Knowledge!

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