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2004 archive of User talk:Mzajac
Hi Mzajac, I have a comment about the Byzantine emperors template - I think succession boxes should be more consistent throughout the site, and the current plain HTML boxes, with three cells (predecessor/state/successor), is a better way to do it. There are many cases where the boxes can become very complicated, with more than one state and different successors in each, and only by having visible cells is it possible to make any sense out of them (see Charles of Anjou for example - but even some of the later Byzantine emperors have more complicated boxes). So, if you don't mind, can I change them all back to the earlier style? Adam Bishop 07:25, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hello. I have just received 5 more Gmail invitations. If you still want one, email me (through Wikipedia, if you'd like) your full name and email address, and I will put it through. - Mark 03:56, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for this. I looked through the help sections and saw information about lists, paragraphs, etc., but if my query was answered there, I missed it. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 17:13, Sep 1, 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the additions! :) I went and checked out your quicktime VR stuff, really beautiful work. Cheers. func (talk) 17:13, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I really like your new article on the Ukrainian alphabet. Excellent work!
BCorr| Брайен 17:20, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Original question by Michael is here.
Hi Alex. I noticed you're making a real article about oblasti, etc. How can I help? Building a navbox, maybe? Cheers. — Michael Z. 18:49, 2004 Sep 17 (UTC)
Thanks for your note in my talk page.. As a matter of fact, no. When I created the map (before I heard of Wikipedia), it was for my personal knowledge so I designed it in French. I never realized that uploading my map on this site would involve such changes in it, particularly since I've done it in several other languages. For a moment, I thought I made a mistake. So I appreciate your message very much. It gives the oumph! I needed to keep going. But I do agree that many comments that were made are relevent and the suggestions will help a lot. Robin des Bois ♘ ➳ ✉ 23:15, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I've set up WikiProject Ukrainian subdivisions. I'll shortly be moving relevant discussion there, from here and elsewhere. — Michael Z. 04:26, 2004 Oct 4 (UTC)
It's really difficult to translate the infobox to german. We miss some words in our language to find a short definition like urban-type or localities. Direct translation gives a different meaning in german. elya an me are searching for a solution. So long, I'm going to sleep now. -- Steschke 22:35, 2004 Nov 2 (UTC)
original Ukrainian | transliteration | official translation | my literal translation |
---|---|---|---|
Райони у містах | Raiony u mistakh | City districts | "Raions in cities" |
Селища міського типу | Selyshcha mis'koho typu | Urban-type localities | "Settlements of urban character" |
Сільські населені пункти | Sils'ki naseleni punkty | Villages | "Rural inhabited points" |
As you will notice, I'm going to move the oblast maps to commons step by step and delete the images we're using now in the english and german WP. -- Steschke 18:08, 2004 Nov 6 (UTC)
Dear Mzajac,
1. Why have you removed external link to FREEWARE Agile BMI calclulator and commented it as removal of COMMERCIAL LINK? (in Body Mass Index article)
2. What is your definition of commercial link?
3. Are commercial links prohibited in Wikipedia? Point me.
Best regards, Vitaly Pedchenko.
Pryvit, Michael,
You haven't answered my questions instead you are trying to stalk me (you edit Ukrainian category but for some unknown reason started to play the wicked game of chasing ALL CONTRIBUTIONS of particular individual).
Everyone can contribute to Wikipedia. For example I'm in Logo Design for 5 years and you have deleted my logo design links with just couple of second of viewing it (as log shows). It's pure deface and stalking NOT contribution.
Naykrashchi pobazhannya z Kyeva, Vitaly.
I'm hoping that we can begin to work out the problems on Talk:Translation. I'm trying to mediate; please leave your comments in the new topic on the talk page. Thanks, Whosyourjudas (talk) 02:45, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[moved discussion to Talk:Townlet (p.g.t.) — Michael Z. 16:10, 2004 Nov 5 (UTC)]
Hi Michael. I suddenly recalled that I'm a political analyst and we have some tough elections down here :). Could we start a quick special project about that? Namely, I think we should place respesctive info on WIkipedia's main page until November 21 (when the second round will be held) with few appropriate internal links, may be a short overview. I don't think there's much work on it. I'll shape two candidates' pages and links (with NPOV of course), thinking of overview. What I'm asking you for, is to make sure that we are in the list of main events for that date. Also, proof-reading help would be great. Unfortunately, my professional activities are poorely connected with my English :(( So I'm affraid of some dummy errors in political and especially legal terms. Наперед дякую, привіт AlexPU
Some actual information -- Steschke 22:01, 2004 Nov 10 (UTC)
Thanks for your interest in updating the Did You Know section. However, the article you added ([[Acrophony) does not conform to the guidelines there. the section is for new articles only (new being a maximum of 72 hours old). If you feel other articles need of attention then give a look at: Wikipedia:Fact of the Day or put {{FOTD}} on your talk page and spread the word about it. Thanks for your time. [[User:MacGyverMagic| Mgm| (talk)]] 08:51, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)
[discussion moved to talk:Zaporizhzhia]
Hi Michael, could you save the images of the letters at commons:? That way we can use them in de: also. -- Steschke 07:31, 2004 Nov 20 (UTC)
Done, viewable at commons:Cyrillic alphabet. — Michael Z. 06:08, 2004 Nov 21 (UTC)
Wow! Amazing work with Template:Cyrillic alphabet navbox and so on. Thank you! :o) — OwenBlacker 13:08, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)
You've marked them for deletion, but they still have articles linking to them. Unless the wiki software knows to automatically look at commons, I'm reluctant to delete them, as it seems it would create broken image links on a lot of pages. Niteowlneils 18:05, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
U+480
(
majuscule: Ҁ) and U+481
(
miniscule: ҁ). It appears to exist in the font Bukvica, would you be able to make an image for it, like the other images you've created, and I'll see if I can make a stub page for it… :o) —
OwenBlacker 01:06, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)
Excellent, that was far quicker than I expected! I'll do the Qoppa article later today, if I get a chance (or possibly over the weekend), but I've just spent most of my-waking-day-so-far contributing to
Talk:Early Cyrillic alphabet for you; made a load of edits, done the
IPA bits and so on.
Whilst my annotations (after the table) describe all my comments and changes, you might want to diff my non-minor edits with their previous edits to see the significant changes I've made; I deliberately tried to avoid doing little things in significant edits, if you see what I mean, so you should safely be able to ignore my minor edits.
The rows/cells where I'd set the fonts to Unicode (before setting the whole table to be) are where my browser ( IE6 on WinXP) had problems with characters — usually the diacritics or the IPA didn't show up; the nasalisation symbols work fine in Windows XP's version of Arial.
One thing I forgot to mention was that I think it might be more useful to have your Cyrillic alphabet images in the second column of the table than to rely on people having Unicode fonts installed to be able to see them themselves.
Also, you might find some of the references I put into my blurb (the numbered links) of interest.
Think that's it for now, so I'm off to that supermarket! :o) — OwenBlacker 16:44, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)
Hello again, Thank you for the map references. Actually, the Ethnologue was already in my favorites. It's been quite reliable for me in the past. I think that for now, I will leave the new map as it is for a while. It is not "perfect" but I think it is more than acceptable. I've posted it in many other languages so if I have to change something, it will need to be important so I'll wait to have enough to do on it before I alter it again. And I truly appreciated your support on that matter. Robin des Bois ♘ ➳ ✉ 18:52, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Discussion moved to talk:Titlo — Michael Z. 22:08, 2004 Nov 25 (UTC)]
Hi, I've checked the examples of the Brutopian language. The Cyrillic characters are indeed really cyrillic. The words "СТОЙ! НА АБОРДАЖ" are shouted from a Brutopian frigate. The other example of Brutopian, in Roman characters, is spoken by a Brutopian spy in a hotel room: "Chlobrom groushta pognonski chposki". It appears to me that the first example is Russian, and the second Brutopian (i.e. fake language), perhaps you can verify that?-- Mixcoatl 22:24, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi, you created a redirect from Kolomya to Kolomyia, but there is currently no article at Kolomyia. (As far as I can tell, there was never an article at that name.) Wikipedia policy is to get rid of redirects to non-existent pages, and someone listed Kolomya on WP:RfD If you want the redirect to stay, you will need to create something at Kolomyia (even a stub will do), or else the redirect will go away. If you do create the target, you don't have to do anything on WP:RfD (we'll eventually notice the target is there), but if you do, just delete the entry for Kolomya. Thanks! Noel (talk) 21:02, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
PS: I don't usually check other User_talk: pages (so that I don't have to monitor a whole long list of User_Talk: pages - one for each person with whom I am having a "conversation"), so please leave any messages for me on my talk page (above); if you leave a message for me here I probably will not see it. I know not everyone uses this style (they would rather keep all the text of a thread in one place), but I simply can't monitor all the User_talk: pages I leave messages on. Thanks!
Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes -- Tagishsimon (talk)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man ( comment| talk)
Hi Michael. I've just submitted a "Cassette Scandal" article. Could we someway put it into some WP lists of internationally important historical events? Or some selected anniversaries? Don't take me for a vainglorious writer :) cause that scandal was really a turning point for the history of the whole region. Moreover, for now we can't estimate its whole importance since nobody completely knows what Mel'nychenko recorded about foreign issues. And your edits to that page would also be great. Pryvit, AlexPU
At first look,Bogdana list seems OK. I'll check it thoroughly at home. AlexPU
Hi there! I have lots of good friends in Ukraine (mostly in Kyiv) and every time we meet we learn something new about our societies. Last time I met with them we had quite a decent discussion on recent history (which, as you probably know, is still not the most safe topic for a friendly chat between Poles and Ukrainians, whatever their background is). Much to my surprise, the discussion stayed civilised and I must admit that I learnt a lot. What struck me the most however, was that my good friends Vika, Lena and Siergiey knew absolutely nothing about Semen Petliura. The only bell that rang for them was zradnyk - traitor.
While I understand that Soviet propaganda (and educational system, not much difference here I presume) had no warm feelings towards him, I still don't have a clue as to what is the current view on him and his political aspirations. Is he still considered a traitor and if so, then why? Or is he totally forgotten? I'd be very glad if you could shed some light on the topic. I ask out of sheer curiosity, this has nothing to do with any article. Halibu tt 00:15, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)
Hi Mzajac - any reason for the delete of "The" before Ukraine in the proposed change for the geography category? The country's usually known as The Ukraine, isn't it? Certainly it is here in New Zealand, and I thought it was worldwide (it even means "The edge" IIRC). Is this not standard practice worldwide?
Grutness|
hello?
23:56, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi, caught your edit in Cedar Revolution and followed it to your talk page. I'm now aware that "the Ukraine" is outdated. Thanks for the education. Kaisershatner 20:27, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Another question that came up elsewhere:
— Michael Z. 2005-05-16 21:20 Z
Hello Michael, our specialist, Tilman wrote something that might interest you. -- Steschke 13:54, 2004 Dec 27 (UTC)
Hello, Mzajac! I thought you might be interested in the Russian wikipedians' notice board. Come check it out! We could use more help! KNewman 19:51, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)
(section moved 28 Dec) Thanks for your note in my talk page.. As a matter of fact, no. When I created the map (before I heard of Wikipedia), it was for my personal knowledge so I designed it in French. I never realized that uploading my map on this site would involve such changes in it, particularly since I've done it in several other languages. For a moment, I thought I made a mistake. So I appreciate your message very much. It gives the oumph! I needed to keep going. But I do agree that many comments that were made are relevent and the suggestions will help a lot. Robin des Bois ♘ ➳ ✉ 23:15, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
DO NOT EDIT OR POST REPLIES TO THIS PAGE. THIS PAGE IS AN ARCHIVE.
2004 archive of User talk:Mzajac
Hi Mzajac, I have a comment about the Byzantine emperors template - I think succession boxes should be more consistent throughout the site, and the current plain HTML boxes, with three cells (predecessor/state/successor), is a better way to do it. There are many cases where the boxes can become very complicated, with more than one state and different successors in each, and only by having visible cells is it possible to make any sense out of them (see Charles of Anjou for example - but even some of the later Byzantine emperors have more complicated boxes). So, if you don't mind, can I change them all back to the earlier style? Adam Bishop 07:25, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Hello. I have just received 5 more Gmail invitations. If you still want one, email me (through Wikipedia, if you'd like) your full name and email address, and I will put it through. - Mark 03:56, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for this. I looked through the help sections and saw information about lists, paragraphs, etc., but if my query was answered there, I missed it. Ave! PedanticallySpeaking 17:13, Sep 1, 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the additions! :) I went and checked out your quicktime VR stuff, really beautiful work. Cheers. func (talk) 17:13, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I really like your new article on the Ukrainian alphabet. Excellent work!
BCorr| Брайен 17:20, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Original question by Michael is here.
Hi Alex. I noticed you're making a real article about oblasti, etc. How can I help? Building a navbox, maybe? Cheers. — Michael Z. 18:49, 2004 Sep 17 (UTC)
Thanks for your note in my talk page.. As a matter of fact, no. When I created the map (before I heard of Wikipedia), it was for my personal knowledge so I designed it in French. I never realized that uploading my map on this site would involve such changes in it, particularly since I've done it in several other languages. For a moment, I thought I made a mistake. So I appreciate your message very much. It gives the oumph! I needed to keep going. But I do agree that many comments that were made are relevent and the suggestions will help a lot. Robin des Bois ♘ ➳ ✉ 23:15, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
I've set up WikiProject Ukrainian subdivisions. I'll shortly be moving relevant discussion there, from here and elsewhere. — Michael Z. 04:26, 2004 Oct 4 (UTC)
It's really difficult to translate the infobox to german. We miss some words in our language to find a short definition like urban-type or localities. Direct translation gives a different meaning in german. elya an me are searching for a solution. So long, I'm going to sleep now. -- Steschke 22:35, 2004 Nov 2 (UTC)
original Ukrainian | transliteration | official translation | my literal translation |
---|---|---|---|
Райони у містах | Raiony u mistakh | City districts | "Raions in cities" |
Селища міського типу | Selyshcha mis'koho typu | Urban-type localities | "Settlements of urban character" |
Сільські населені пункти | Sils'ki naseleni punkty | Villages | "Rural inhabited points" |
As you will notice, I'm going to move the oblast maps to commons step by step and delete the images we're using now in the english and german WP. -- Steschke 18:08, 2004 Nov 6 (UTC)
Dear Mzajac,
1. Why have you removed external link to FREEWARE Agile BMI calclulator and commented it as removal of COMMERCIAL LINK? (in Body Mass Index article)
2. What is your definition of commercial link?
3. Are commercial links prohibited in Wikipedia? Point me.
Best regards, Vitaly Pedchenko.
Pryvit, Michael,
You haven't answered my questions instead you are trying to stalk me (you edit Ukrainian category but for some unknown reason started to play the wicked game of chasing ALL CONTRIBUTIONS of particular individual).
Everyone can contribute to Wikipedia. For example I'm in Logo Design for 5 years and you have deleted my logo design links with just couple of second of viewing it (as log shows). It's pure deface and stalking NOT contribution.
Naykrashchi pobazhannya z Kyeva, Vitaly.
I'm hoping that we can begin to work out the problems on Talk:Translation. I'm trying to mediate; please leave your comments in the new topic on the talk page. Thanks, Whosyourjudas (talk) 02:45, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[moved discussion to Talk:Townlet (p.g.t.) — Michael Z. 16:10, 2004 Nov 5 (UTC)]
Hi Michael. I suddenly recalled that I'm a political analyst and we have some tough elections down here :). Could we start a quick special project about that? Namely, I think we should place respesctive info on WIkipedia's main page until November 21 (when the second round will be held) with few appropriate internal links, may be a short overview. I don't think there's much work on it. I'll shape two candidates' pages and links (with NPOV of course), thinking of overview. What I'm asking you for, is to make sure that we are in the list of main events for that date. Also, proof-reading help would be great. Unfortunately, my professional activities are poorely connected with my English :(( So I'm affraid of some dummy errors in political and especially legal terms. Наперед дякую, привіт AlexPU
Some actual information -- Steschke 22:01, 2004 Nov 10 (UTC)
Thanks for your interest in updating the Did You Know section. However, the article you added ([[Acrophony) does not conform to the guidelines there. the section is for new articles only (new being a maximum of 72 hours old). If you feel other articles need of attention then give a look at: Wikipedia:Fact of the Day or put {{FOTD}} on your talk page and spread the word about it. Thanks for your time. [[User:MacGyverMagic| Mgm| (talk)]] 08:51, Nov 11, 2004 (UTC)
[discussion moved to talk:Zaporizhzhia]
Hi Michael, could you save the images of the letters at commons:? That way we can use them in de: also. -- Steschke 07:31, 2004 Nov 20 (UTC)
Done, viewable at commons:Cyrillic alphabet. — Michael Z. 06:08, 2004 Nov 21 (UTC)
Wow! Amazing work with Template:Cyrillic alphabet navbox and so on. Thank you! :o) — OwenBlacker 13:08, Nov 21, 2004 (UTC)
You've marked them for deletion, but they still have articles linking to them. Unless the wiki software knows to automatically look at commons, I'm reluctant to delete them, as it seems it would create broken image links on a lot of pages. Niteowlneils 18:05, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
U+480
(
majuscule: Ҁ) and U+481
(
miniscule: ҁ). It appears to exist in the font Bukvica, would you be able to make an image for it, like the other images you've created, and I'll see if I can make a stub page for it… :o) —
OwenBlacker 01:06, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)
Excellent, that was far quicker than I expected! I'll do the Qoppa article later today, if I get a chance (or possibly over the weekend), but I've just spent most of my-waking-day-so-far contributing to
Talk:Early Cyrillic alphabet for you; made a load of edits, done the
IPA bits and so on.
Whilst my annotations (after the table) describe all my comments and changes, you might want to diff my non-minor edits with their previous edits to see the significant changes I've made; I deliberately tried to avoid doing little things in significant edits, if you see what I mean, so you should safely be able to ignore my minor edits.
The rows/cells where I'd set the fonts to Unicode (before setting the whole table to be) are where my browser ( IE6 on WinXP) had problems with characters — usually the diacritics or the IPA didn't show up; the nasalisation symbols work fine in Windows XP's version of Arial.
One thing I forgot to mention was that I think it might be more useful to have your Cyrillic alphabet images in the second column of the table than to rely on people having Unicode fonts installed to be able to see them themselves.
Also, you might find some of the references I put into my blurb (the numbered links) of interest.
Think that's it for now, so I'm off to that supermarket! :o) — OwenBlacker 16:44, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)
Hello again, Thank you for the map references. Actually, the Ethnologue was already in my favorites. It's been quite reliable for me in the past. I think that for now, I will leave the new map as it is for a while. It is not "perfect" but I think it is more than acceptable. I've posted it in many other languages so if I have to change something, it will need to be important so I'll wait to have enough to do on it before I alter it again. And I truly appreciated your support on that matter. Robin des Bois ♘ ➳ ✉ 18:52, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Discussion moved to talk:Titlo — Michael Z. 22:08, 2004 Nov 25 (UTC)]
Hi, I've checked the examples of the Brutopian language. The Cyrillic characters are indeed really cyrillic. The words "СТОЙ! НА АБОРДАЖ" are shouted from a Brutopian frigate. The other example of Brutopian, in Roman characters, is spoken by a Brutopian spy in a hotel room: "Chlobrom groushta pognonski chposki". It appears to me that the first example is Russian, and the second Brutopian (i.e. fake language), perhaps you can verify that?-- Mixcoatl 22:24, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Hi, you created a redirect from Kolomya to Kolomyia, but there is currently no article at Kolomyia. (As far as I can tell, there was never an article at that name.) Wikipedia policy is to get rid of redirects to non-existent pages, and someone listed Kolomya on WP:RfD If you want the redirect to stay, you will need to create something at Kolomyia (even a stub will do), or else the redirect will go away. If you do create the target, you don't have to do anything on WP:RfD (we'll eventually notice the target is there), but if you do, just delete the entry for Kolomya. Thanks! Noel (talk) 21:02, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
PS: I don't usually check other User_talk: pages (so that I don't have to monitor a whole long list of User_Talk: pages - one for each person with whom I am having a "conversation"), so please leave any messages for me on my talk page (above); if you leave a message for me here I probably will not see it. I know not everyone uses this style (they would rather keep all the text of a thread in one place), but I simply can't monitor all the User_talk: pages I leave messages on. Thanks!
Hi. You've helped with the Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Syntax, so I thought it worth alerting you to the latest and greatest of Wikipedia fixing project, User:Yann/Untagged Images, which is seeking to put copyright tags on all of the untagged images. There are probably, oh, thirty thousand or so to do (he said, reaching into the air for a large figure). But hey: they're images ... you'll get to see lots of random pretty pictures. That must be better than looking for at at and the the, non? You know you'll love it. best wishes -- Tagishsimon (talk)
Hi, I've started a drive to get users to multi-license all of their contributions that they've made to either (1) all U.S. state, county, and city articles or (2) all articles, using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-by-sa) v1.0 and v2.0 Licenses or into the public domain if they prefer. The CC-by-sa license is a true free documentation license that is similar to Wikipedia's license, the GFDL, but it allows other projects, such as WikiTravel, to use our articles. Since you are among the top 1000 Wikipedians by edits, I was wondering if you would be willing to multi-license all of your contributions or at minimum those on the geographic articles. Over 90% of people asked have agreed. For More Information:
To allow us to track those users who muli-license their contributions, many users copy and paste the "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" template into their user page, but there are other options at Template messages/User namespace. The following examples could also copied and pasted into your user page:
OR
Or if you wanted to place your work into the public domain, you could replace "{{DualLicenseWithCC-BySA-Dual}}" with "{{MultiLicensePD}}". If you only prefer using the GFDL, I would like to know that too. Please let me know what you think at my talk page. It's important to know either way so no one keeps asking. -- Ram-Man ( comment| talk)
Hi Michael. I've just submitted a "Cassette Scandal" article. Could we someway put it into some WP lists of internationally important historical events? Or some selected anniversaries? Don't take me for a vainglorious writer :) cause that scandal was really a turning point for the history of the whole region. Moreover, for now we can't estimate its whole importance since nobody completely knows what Mel'nychenko recorded about foreign issues. And your edits to that page would also be great. Pryvit, AlexPU
At first look,Bogdana list seems OK. I'll check it thoroughly at home. AlexPU
Hi there! I have lots of good friends in Ukraine (mostly in Kyiv) and every time we meet we learn something new about our societies. Last time I met with them we had quite a decent discussion on recent history (which, as you probably know, is still not the most safe topic for a friendly chat between Poles and Ukrainians, whatever their background is). Much to my surprise, the discussion stayed civilised and I must admit that I learnt a lot. What struck me the most however, was that my good friends Vika, Lena and Siergiey knew absolutely nothing about Semen Petliura. The only bell that rang for them was zradnyk - traitor.
While I understand that Soviet propaganda (and educational system, not much difference here I presume) had no warm feelings towards him, I still don't have a clue as to what is the current view on him and his political aspirations. Is he still considered a traitor and if so, then why? Or is he totally forgotten? I'd be very glad if you could shed some light on the topic. I ask out of sheer curiosity, this has nothing to do with any article. Halibu tt 00:15, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)
Hi Mzajac - any reason for the delete of "The" before Ukraine in the proposed change for the geography category? The country's usually known as The Ukraine, isn't it? Certainly it is here in New Zealand, and I thought it was worldwide (it even means "The edge" IIRC). Is this not standard practice worldwide?
Grutness|
hello?
23:56, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Hi, caught your edit in Cedar Revolution and followed it to your talk page. I'm now aware that "the Ukraine" is outdated. Thanks for the education. Kaisershatner 20:27, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Another question that came up elsewhere:
— Michael Z. 2005-05-16 21:20 Z
Hello Michael, our specialist, Tilman wrote something that might interest you. -- Steschke 13:54, 2004 Dec 27 (UTC)
Hello, Mzajac! I thought you might be interested in the Russian wikipedians' notice board. Come check it out! We could use more help! KNewman 19:51, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)
(section moved 28 Dec) Thanks for your note in my talk page.. As a matter of fact, no. When I created the map (before I heard of Wikipedia), it was for my personal knowledge so I designed it in French. I never realized that uploading my map on this site would involve such changes in it, particularly since I've done it in several other languages. For a moment, I thought I made a mistake. So I appreciate your message very much. It gives the oumph! I needed to keep going. But I do agree that many comments that were made are relevent and the suggestions will help a lot. Robin des Bois ♘ ➳ ✉ 23:15, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)