Here in Wikipedia there are hundreds of wikipedians whose work and efforts go unappreciated. One occasionally comes across editors who have thousands of good edits, but because they may not get around as much as others, their contributions and hard work often go unnoticed. As Esperanzians we can help to make people feel appreciated, be it by some kind words or the awarding of a Barnstar. This is where the Barnstar Brigade comes in. The object of this program is to seek out the people which deserve a Barnstar, and help them feel appreciated. With your help, we can recognize more dedicated editors!
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September elections are upon us! Anyone wishing to be a part of the Advisory Council may list themselves as a candidate from 18 September until 24 September, with the voting taking place from 25 September to 30 September. Those who wish to help with the election staff should also list themselves!
Appreciation Week, a program currently in development, now has its own subpage! Share your good ideas on how to make it awesome there!
The Esperanza front page has been redesigned! Many thanks to all who worked hard on it.
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The September 2006 Council elections will open for nominations on 18 September 2006. The voting will run from 25 September 2006 until 30 September 2006. If you wish to be a candidate or a member of the elections staff, please list yourself!
The new Esperanza front page design has but put up - many thanks to all who worked on it!
TangoTango has written a script for a bot that will list new members of Esperanza, which will help those who welcome new Esperanzains greatly!
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Hi! I notice you play RuneScape. Maybe you might like to take a look at the Runescape wiki and think about joining us? Just a thought. Hope to see you there. Megalodon99Talk 02:25, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Admin Coaching needs coaches!!! If you are an administrator, or even a generally experienced user, do consider signing up to be a coach.
Admin Coaching, now being coordinated by HighwayCello, is a program for people who want help learning some of the more subtle aspects of Wikipedia policy and culture. People are matched with experienced users who are willing to offer coaching. The program is designed for people who have figured out the basics of editing articles; they're not newcomers any more, but they might want some help in learning new roles. In this way, Esperanza would help keep hope alive for Wikipedia because we would always be grooming the next generation of admins.
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The Tutorial Drive is a new Esperanza program! In an effort to make complicated processes on Wikipedia easier for everyone, Esperanza working to create and compile a list of tutorials about processes here on Wikipedia. Consider writing one!
A discussion on how Esperanza relates to the encyclopedia has been started; please add your thoughts.
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The list of proposed programs has been updated, with some proposals being archived.
There is now a new program: the Tutorial Drive! Consider writing a tutorial on something you are good at doing on Wikipedia.
The suggestion of adding a cohesive look to all the Esperanza pages is being considered; join the discussion if you are interested!
In order to make a useful interlanguage welcome template, those involved in translation projects will be asked what English Wikipedia policies are most important and confusing to editors coming from other language Wikipedias.
Shreshth91 informed everyone that he will be leaving the Esperanza council as life is rather busy; his spot will be filled by the runner up from the last election, HighwayCello.
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Happy Birthday, Actown!
Wishing you a very happy birthday and an awesome upcoming year!
So, how does it feel to be one year older? Be sure to let me know :)
And don't forget to also save us all a piece of cake!
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Thanks for the suggestion! Unfortunately, I just don't feel like moving my userboxes right now. But thanks for commenting anyways! ~~Eugene2xSign here ☺ ~~ 23:56, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The fourth paragraph of the introduction seems quite odd to me. Obviously the social implicaitions of radio are something to be addressed...but in the introduction? It just comes across as a very narrow intellectual discourse of social construct that doesn't really touch upon an introduction to radio.
I'm asking you to look at it...since I really don't know who else to ask and I would not feel comfortable making any changes.
Hello. I saw that you are a member of the Templates project, and thought it would be good to bring this to your attention. I have made a proposal that would take care of the userbos issues and the general clutter of the Template namespace. Please see it here and make comments conserning it. Thank you for your time. SadanYagci 14:53, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I need some advice as to how to go about what I consider an odious travesty. There is a crazy user that seems pretty determined on rewriting history and reinterpreting it from a lunatic's perspective and not from an accurate perspective. You have reverted it seems many moves I have made on articles that I as a native feel violate my identity on the net. The studies that are cited for instance to account for genetics of "north africa" are actually based on a sampling of 40 individuals from northwest and NOT north africa, that is caucasoid, contrary to the crazy sudani woman's insistence that egyptians and north africans are black, which reality shows are not..but the 40 mauritanians and moroccan bedouins cannot account for others in distant lands. It must be remembered that North africa is more than twice as large as europe. Now, the entire article also seems to be written from an anti-arab vein. It is repeatedly and without evidence asserted that north africans are in denial and claim to be arab while they are not?! surely a people knows its roots and denying them that is absurd, esp when an outsider does it and esp in the absence of facts. Again, applying a study of mauritanians and moroccans to a vast region like the southern mediterranean makes little sense to me, a native..as I am familiar with the people and culture. Now, to you it may seem irrelevant this deleting and reverting while to me it affects my entire being and i do in fact feel frail out of frustration. So, how am I to go about this mad person who is obviously on a mission to spread absurdities such as that sudan, a black sub-saharan country, is in fact north african!? though on maps, historically, politically etc it is not. This is a case of an inferiority complex, but here it has been taken to the extreme and is being projected onto history, a tiny person behind a screen with lunatic ideas is writing the history of my people inaccurately?! how do i contact wikipedia..and i do hope this project sinks, commoners should not be trust!
First, I would like to say "Hi!" :) I would like to know if I could receive some pieces of advice about making very good pages on Wikipedia. And I am sorry for the summary from Gakkou No Kaidan for the ghost RedPaper-BluePaper; I did that summary because I thought that it was a good thing to add at the page.
Hope to receive your advice.Goldenphoenix2007 19:50, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
12 August 07. Law is Visual:
Order in chaos: alphabetical indexing isnt in order except alphabetically. Imagine learning maths alphabetically: Imaginary numbers before Multiplication, etc.
Also 'comm-plete': 'chapter and verse' indexing: number all the paragraphs in wiki automatically.
Injustice is when you cant see it. The whole Knowledge EconomY (KEY) on-screen on one page: xyz. Vitology: the importances, etc. History 2.0.
Plese set something up linked to the UN OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Project the first 300 million units of which are Open Source activated the last quarter of 07 world wide, etc.
Network programmers etc to this - the plannet needs good wishes (Gold or spirit boosting groups), connectivity (Blue groups), Complementary Alternative Medicine/CAM etc (Red groups), and Greenpeace etc (Green groups directories/pages) help.
Its your right to take responsibility for the KEY.
Thank you for any help you can give.
Order precedes Recognition. 09:07, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
You removed my corrections on Frankie Burke's page and restored information that was untrue and unverifiable placed by someone who has a personal issue with me and only did it for spite. I cleaned it up, deleted the unverifiable and corrected the misinformation. Please take note that I have researched this actor for the last five years. The information that user added was based upon a news article that mentioned nor even hinted at absolutely no names. That article was on my website. This person has been slandering Mr. Burke from Find-A-Grave to public forums to internet groups and anywhere that she can and its strictly personal. She knows nothing about Frankie Burke other than what I place on my website www.frankieburkeactor.com. Her information was completely inaccurate yet you put it back and accused me of wishing to "hide the bad". If you still insist on allowing her to abuse Wikipedia, I can put you in touch with Mr.Burke's son and he can verify the information himself... spost8260Spost8260 21:15, 8 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Please accept this invite to join the Wikipedia Welcome Squad, a group dedicated to welcoming actively. We hope you can join us.--LAAFan 19:04, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I've seen your name on the project template and I permis myself to ask you help: I've just created a new portal Portal:Lyon and I would like to create the templates for the subways, trams, bus. They already exist on the french wikipedia of Lyon metro for example. would you accept to help me ? Thank you Lulu97417 (talk) 16:33, 21 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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