User talk:Mzajac

Wikipedia 15

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Wikipedia is celebrating its 15th birthday on January 15, 2016. I have thought for a while that it would be neat to meet some local wikipedians. According to the wikipedians in Winnipeg or Wikipedians in Manitoba category you are one of us. I am contacting people in this category to say: Let's celebrate this milestone. If you know other wikipedians, please ask them to join in as well.

I am posting this to your talk page as a transclude so that any updates will show up automatically.

Hope to see you there! Tenbergen (talk) 04:46, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

One other Winnipeg Wikipedian showed up, in addition to a number of regular skullspace members. It was nice to actually talk to someone else who has worked with Mediawiki and actually "gets" transclusion. Cake was eaten! Tenbergen (talk) 06:37, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Aw, apparently I haven't logged in to Wikipedia in over 6 years and I totally missed this message and the event! I guessed I missed any 20 year celebration, too. Let me know if you end up doing a 25 year one. :) Clayton Rumley (talk) 22:52, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

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Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!

Hello,

Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.

I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!

From my own experience, Google Code-In can be fun, you can make several new friends, attract new people to your wiki and make them part of your community.

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Mass changes to infoboxes

I noticed many changes to infoboxes you've been making, and not for the better. They are harder to read and don't have the English article title right up front. I'm not even sure as to why the changes are being made to highlight the Ukrainian spelling over the English/Article spelling. Please don't do this many changes without consensus as I see this causing problems down the line. All the variations should be in the article body, not the infobox. Fyunck(click) (talk) 00:58, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Huh? Why does the infobox have those fields then, which are probably in use in tens of thousands of articles?

What’s harder to read? What do you mean don’t have the English article title right up front? Would you please walk me through one of my edits and let me know what you mean? —Michael Z. 2019-11-26 01:00 z

In Yany Kapu and Kadiivka these are the official names. They are both in Russian-occupied territories where the official name is not in use or not recognized. Furthermore, in Crimea there are three official languages. I am filling in the inbox info consistently. The article text in some of those is confusing and may need improvement. Please stop removing info that I’ve added. —Michael Z. 2019-11-26 01:05 z

Look at Krasnoperekopsk. That is the article title and English name for the city, and its name is prominant at the top of the infobox... everyone can see it plain as day. Then you change it to the mess that is this edit. If you don't see that it is harder to read and is overkill for the infobox then I don't knbow what to say. It looks terrible and does not have the article title front and center. When we create an article on Novak Djokovic we put that spelling right at the top of the infobox. Further down we note his native name and spelling. If he has 5 native names and spellings we wouldn't put that in the infobox because that's not what it's for! It's a super summary of prose and if the variations get extensive then it prose it should remain. Fyunck(click) (talk) 01:13, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Yany Kapu is the official and internationally recognized name. Krasnoperekopsk is the old name, but is used by the Russian occupation. That needs to be explained in the text. Both names need to appear in all three languages, because all three are native, three are official in Russian-held Crimea, and two also have regional status under Ukrainian law. —Michael Z. 2019-11-26 01:19 z

You are recognizing the illegal Russian occupation when you remove the official Ukrainian name from the official_name field. I’m trying to provide balanced info while reflecting the de facto state. It’s complicated, but if you dumb it down because you don’t like complications, then it will just be dumb and not neutral POV. —Michael Z. 2019-11-26 01:22 z

The thing is YOU KNOW THIS IS CONTROVERSIAL. It is controversial on the Kiev page and others have told you so before I did. Yet you are forcing your way by edit warring and mass changes to your pov. That's not good, and doing it while wearing some sort of admin badge is even worse imho. Those infoboxes you are creating look a mess and messes with detailed explanations belong in prose, not an infobox. And now you are edit-warring to get your way and I'm not sure what you hope to accomplish with that tact. Fyunck(click) (talk) 02:39, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

Which “this”? Adding transcriptions to the infoboxes? No one mentioned that at all until you reverted it claiming in “know” it’s controversial. You are objecting to three or four different things, objecting none of them clearly, and discussing them in two different places. —Michael Z. 2019-11-26 03:10 z

November 2019

Your recent editing history at Kiev shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you don't violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly. Fyunck(click) (talk) 05:10, 26 November 2019 (UTC)