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Talk:Interwiki_map#BCNbio proposed removal

It was you who requested it, right? --Nemo 17:52, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

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Mi amigo, he hecho una propuesta de temas a abordar con un par de racionales sobre los mismos, y un desglose más detallado del programa. En espera de tus comentarios. Saludos, --ProtoplasmaKid (WM-MX) (talk) 21:59, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

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Re: NC or ND licenses, that some people argue are not free

What? Does someone argue they are free licenses? :-) I think you meant "that some people dislike/would abolish because they are not free", beware the misunderstandings. --Nemo 06:31, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for your correction :). I don't want to dig in the definition of licensing, considering I'm not an expert and is not also the point of the question, but I don't want to be imprecise so I rephrased that. Thanks for reading also! --Osmar Valdebenito, B1mbo (talk) 18:40, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

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The voting starts today, so it is better to have everything done as soon as possible. I do want to hear your opinion on the questions you have missed, and I am going to ask this from every candidate, as it is important to understand how a future Trustee (and technically any of us can be elected) treats this or that issue, to know his or her thoughts about it on a public page. And I think that I am not very unique in my desire to have more text to get to know people better :) Wikipedians tend to read people (literally speaking) --アンタナナ 02:15, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

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@Antanana: Hi! As I mentioned here a few days ago, I had some personal issues and I couldn't reply as fast as I wish. Now, I'm catching up with the rest of the answers and I hope to have them all answered this Easter weekend. --Osmar Valdebenito, B1mbo (talk) 12:47, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

oh, I see. I wasn't watching that page, sorry. I hope everything is okay. looking forward to reading your answers then :) --アンタナナ 14:08, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

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Good luck!

Hey Osmar, I'd like to wish you all the best for the upcoming FDC election. It would be a pleasure and honor for me to serve with you. Warmly, --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 03:39, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks @Frank Schulenburg:! Best wishes for you in this election! --Osmar Valdebenito, B1mbo (talk) 02:57, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

All the best for FDC election!

Hi Osmar! I see that you running as me for the FDC election. I'll be very happy to work with you on the commettee.--BamLifa (talk) 16:52, 29 May 2017 (UTC)

Thanks @BamLifa:! Good luck for you too! --Osmar Valdebenito, B1mbo (talk) 02:57, 30 May 2017 (UTC)

Funds Dissemination Committee

In Portuguese, you not don't say: "Olá! Eu sou uma Wikimedista experiente desde 2004...". It would be better to change to "Oi! Eu sou um Wikimedista experiente desde 2004...". Boa sorte na sua condidatura no Funds Dissemination Committee. Dr. Loo^{Lets talk about it} 04:20, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Hey @Luizpuodzius:, thanks for the correction! I didn't do the translation, but I changed it now that you mentioned the mistake! :) --Osmar Valdebenito, B1mbo (talk) 17:21, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Neurorebel

Hello. I have a user named Neurorebel. The user is doing well in Spanish Wikipedia but has trouble communicating and writing in English Wikipedia. I've done my best to help that user. See the following links:

• User talk:Neurorebel#In response
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• Another talk page
• One village pump subpage

Maybe you can go to one of the pages and help the editor out: User talk:Neurorebel, es:w:User talk:Neurorebel, or en:w:User talk:Neurorebel.

P.S. Congratulations on winning the FDC election. :) --George Ho (talk) 06:08, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

Bridges across Cultures

Hi B1mbo. Please also translate the Template:Bridges across Cultures signs editnotice/i18n. It will show up when people add their name or articles to the list of Bridges across Cultures/Participants. Many thanks! --

Hi again! I really wonder how you decided to change the criteria. New rules gives a huge disadvantage to writers of high quality articles. Just creating a new article with a infobox easily pushes it up to 5 kB while adding the extra info to make it 20 kB takes several times extra effort but same points! -- Meisam (talk) 09:15, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi Meisam! This is a particularly difficult issue and I understand your concerns. Lowering the minimum size makes it easier for people to participate, while increasing it ensures you will get better articles but it is more difficult, so we need to find a balance. While I was creating the table of proposed articles, I noticed that 5kB seems a reasonable limit. While adding infoboxes and galleries and lists obviously helps to increase the size of an article easily, it still doesn't cross the threshold so you have to provide more information. For example, this article which has basically just an infobox has less than 2kB. On the other hand this other article is a very decent article, not just with the infobox but also with a lot of text; however, it has just 6kB, so wouldn't have been eligible for the contest. I proposed the change to the organizing committee and they agreed. Once the contest is finished, we will evaluate if the 5kB is reasonable for the contest or maybe we should increase it for the next edition. Thanks for your preocupation and thanks also for all the help in the contest itself! --Osmar Valdebenito, B1mbo (talk) 14:57, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

I understand the reason to grant points to 5kB articles. My main concern is not the threshold itself. I’m more concerned about the increments. Consider these articles:

• article_1 (5.1 kB) - 10 points
• article_2 (10.1 kB) - 10 points
• article_3 (15.1 kB) - 10 points
• article_4 (20.1 kB) - 20 points

Articles 1-3 will all receive only 10 points while it is >x3 times harder to write article_3 than article_1. And, instead of granting at least x4 points to article_4 it will just receive twice the points of article_1! -- Meisam (talk) 15:07, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

On a separate topic; this article is more than 6 kB! -- Meisam (talk) 15:16, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

@ Meisam i B1mboSobre este mismo tema y la puntuación, he dejado un comentario pregunta en la discusión del proyecto, que esperaba respondieran. Parece que en este concurso no va a ser posible ningún cambio. Yo me esforzado en ver como hacer un artículo con más de 20 Kb en español y le aseguro que me ha costado mucho más que cuatro veces que hacer los de 5 Kb. Es una lástima! Saludos. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by MarisaLR (talk)

I agree MarisaLR. As I've written here earlier, it is unfair towards the people writing high quality articles. I propose the points to be distributed in the following manner:

• 0-5 kB - 0 points
• 5-10 kB - 5 points
• 10-15 kB - 10 points
• 15-20 kB - 15 points
• 20-25 kB - 20 points
• 25+ kB - 25 points

It will still favor creation of new articles but does not punish the high-quality article writer as much as now. -- Meisam (talk) 17:14, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi Meisam, this topic was already discussed with the different groups organizing the contest. There were several proposals as you can see in the history of the article, and in fact I proposed a more distributed system, but has different problems. That is why it was decided the current system. The contest is already running so I wouldn't change the system now. As I mentioned, we can evaluate the results at the end of this edition and see if we can change it for next year. --Osmar Valdebenito, B1mbo (talk) 17:26, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Gracias a ambos por vuestras respuestas, sigo diciendo que es una lástima para los que nos gusta hacer artículos de más calidad. --MarisaLR (talk) 17:40, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

Unicode character size problem for contest criteria

Another problem is that ar,fa characters are saved as 2-Byte unicode characters. As an example when I add one "B" character: in es Wikipedia or in tr Wikipedia is a +1 byte edit while adding one character in Persian Wikipedia is a +2 byte edit! This will definitely screw the evaluation for users contributing to tr.Wikipedia. Because, their contributions will count as half of the contributions of ar.Wikipedia and fa.Wikipedia users which are in the same contest group. -- Meisam (talk) 16:22, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

As an example, both of these two articles are 6-7 kB: Caracas Simón Bolívar Meydanı (tr) کارلوس مونسیویس (fa) -- Meisam (talk) 22:27, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Hi! I get the point. However, it is very difficult to implement a different system that can be just, simple to evaluate and easy to explain. We discussed at the beggining of the contest between the organizers the best way to evaluate and it is very hard to find a system that works for everyone. As I mentioned, this is the first edition of the contest so we will evaluate how the points system works and what can we change for future editions. --Osmar Valdebenito, B1mbo (talk) 23:41, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

I think we can simply count the number of added characters (not the total size of the contribution) for the articles written in Arabic and Persian Wikipedias to be on the same foot as the Turkish Wikipedia. As a rough estimate it will be half of the size. Exact value can be automatically extracted by a bot. -- Meisam (talk) 23:52, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

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Estoy participando en el concurso Puentes entre Culturas y acabo de crear un artículo Museo Baghdadi la versión en español de المتحف البغدادي, ¿cómo puedo hacer para verlo reflejado en la página de artículos sugeridos?, atte, Naturista2018 (talk) 08:24, 14 December 2018 (UTC)

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Hi, what about the winners of "bridges between cultures"? When they are going to be announced? --الرشيد (talk) 08:39, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi @الرشيد:! We've just announced the winners at Bridges across Cultures/Results. Congratulations btw! Can you send me privately your email address, so I can start coordinating your prize? --Osmar Valdebenito, B1mbo (talk) 13:38, 15 March 2019 (UTC)

Hi, Osmar Valdebenito, B1mbo, I'm trying to contact you since yesterday.--Amr F.Nagy (talk) 21:49, 18 March 2019 (UTC)

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Hola. Siento no haberte podido responder en la página del CentralNotice. Llevo unos días ausente por enfermedad y estoy entrando de vez en cuando para ver si hay algo pendiente. Un saludo, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:55, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Muchas gracias por la respuesta y la preocupación! Espero que ya estés mejor, un abrazo! --Osmar Valdebenito, B1mbo (talk) 18:00, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Bridges across Cultures

When will the results of "Bridges across Cultures" Competition be announced?--MohammadHuzam (talk) 21:30, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

B1mbo ?

B1mbo ?

Bridges across Cultures

Hi B1mbo. I am not sure if you are the organizor of the contest, but, are you planning to organize it in this year too? I come from the Turkish Wikipedia and I am interested in organizing it there.--Nanahuatl (talk) 00:42, 26 September 2020 (UTC)

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I need the help of a translationadmin in moving a page

Dear B1mbo,

How is your day going? I don't mean to take so much of your time. I raised a little issue on Babylon's Talk and would be so lucky to have you help out. Thank you Danidamiobi (talk) 22:11, 22 June 2022 (UTC)