User talk:Mendor

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Hiya

I made you sysop. If anyone complain, please tell us. Anthere 11:41, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Table o contents 1 Interface translation 2 Sicilian 3 Scots speir on the 2011 census 4 Babel 5 doitit lass 6 Help 7 Wird Help 8 Spam 9 Kurów 10 Thanks for correcting my extras in What Wikipedia isna 11 Bot 12 Fraunce an Ower 13 Article request 14 Bureaucrat 15 Growing the Wiki 16 Re: 17 Guid on ye! 18 Thanks 19 Reenaiming ma accoont

[edit] Interface translation

Hi Mendor,

To expedite the translation of the intrface t Scots, I racommend that you assist that other guy who doin it now.

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Thx :))

[edit] Sicilian

A'm Sicilian. Please, could you put our Sicilian Wikipedia in the list of the ones that have more than 1.000 articles ? Thank you very much !

[edit] Scots speir on the 2011 census

Aiblins ye coud pit the bittie anent the Scots speir on the 2011 census on the Gaun on the nou page, efter aw, is thon no for newsins an siclike?

Jimmy 23:43, 23 Julie 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Babel

Hi Mendor,

I took the liberty (as a freshman on this wikipedia) to create the Template:User en-2 and Template:User nl templates. I will be happy to create the Template:User nl-1, Template:User nl-2 and Template:User nl-3, but I thought maybe better ask first... regards, Moribunt 20:16, 2 Augist 2005 (UTC)

[edit] doitit lass

thanks, darnit I spelled it nae the first time but then looked it up. :( Couldn't find dog. thank you thank you! (and if you're wondering what a non-Scots speaker is doing here, I'll be more than happy to answer but its a little long and not very informative. Please post on my uiser collogue page if your curiosity compels...) KillerChihuahua 19:57, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Help

Mendor,

"User" 84.135.44.205 has edit every page I made yesterday adding the fixscots thing to the top of it. I know my work isn't perfect, but I've been trying to use only my print dictionary and Scots-Online's as you advised to stop old words. See I've tried to configure to this sites tastes, and yet with each of these fix scots banners emblazened on the page I'm alienated from the rest of the group. Maybe I'm being too sensitive, and part of me can really believe that, but the greater part knows that this isn't right.

He also seems to particularly fond of such rude phrases as "ye'r taen the pish again." further insults...I'd quite editing here all together if I didn't like to "translate" pages (maybe into gibberish if you must) and seeing the tally go up another notch. Nou Uiserr

Ah've jist had a wee keek at the pages ye made, and they dae read like they've been written bi a non-native speaker. Maist ae it luiks like English owerset intae Scots, likes. Mibbes that's how yer man wis adding the Fixscots tag. Bazza 7/7/06.

[edit] Wird Help

I need help again. This time it's for a word. I can't find it (or it's translation) on D.S.L, Scots-Online, my print dictionary, or really any others I can think of. The word is Vespae.

[edit] Spam

Hope you don't mind me writing in English. Thought I should give you a heads-up that 80.68.6.198 has spammed the main page again, and you warned them that they would get blocked if they did so. Cheers. OpenToppedBus --194.73.130.132 14:44, 21 Dizember 2005 (UTC)

Cheers for that. (A dinna mynd English on collogue pages ava.) Mendor 15:45, 21 Dizember 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kurów

Could you please write a stub http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kur%C3%B3w - just a few sentences based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kur%C3%B3w ? Only 2 -5 sentences enough. Please. Pietras1988 21:53, 30 Januar 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for correcting my extras in What Wikipedia isna

Hiya. I told Derek Ross last night that my command of Scots is not perfect, I am roughly SCO-1 level wise... Just want to say thank you for correcting what I added to that area. Its appreciated. Do you know of any good resources where I can get better at Scots??? Cheers. Thor24 22:42, 5 Februar 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bot

Hello. Would you mind taking a peek at my request, please? Cheers. --Rebel 13:19, 19 Februar 2006 (UTC)

Thank you. --Rebel 12:26, 20 Februar 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fraunce an Ower

I won't change them any more. The first I changed because I thought it was the proper form having found it elsewhere in the article. I'll change them to "fraunce". Thanks, Nou Uiserr 19:27, 26 Mairch 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article request

Hello. Could You create article about en:Katowice in Scotich wikipedia. Just a few sentences, please. Best Regards from Poland Stimoroll

[edit] Bureaucrat

Mendor, I'm proponin that ye be the first bureaucrat for the Scots Wikipaedia. As ye ken, we dinna hae ane the nou an there's a puckle fowk that micht weel hae been made admin bi nou gin we did. Say you're it! -- Derek Ross 06:01, 17 Julie 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Growing the Wiki

Ah was speakin with Jimbo Wales aboot buildin the commonty on the wiki here, an this is what he said, Ah thought ye may be interested:

Cheers, ✎ Wizardry Dragon ^{(Ma Collogue) (Ma Contreibutions)} 20:49, 12 Dizember 2006 (UTC)

Ha! Dinna hae ower monie rules! He micht be better tellin the Wikimedia stewards thon! They're still nae lattin us hae a bureaucrat less we lowp ower their hurdles. A'll hae tae draft a daft bit o policy on the wey tae pick ane afore they'll gie us ane. -- Derek Ross 05:48, 13 Dizember 2006 (UTC)

Heh. Derek, can ye pynt me tae whaur a' this debate is takkin place? A didna e'en ken ye were still at thaim aboot it. Guid on ye, mibbe we'll can get a bureaucrat suin.

Aboot reaching oot tae the braider commonty, we gied that a shottie back whan we set up the wiki an it didna seem tae attract ower muckle interest. Mibbe we shuid gie it anither shot. As for professors, A shuid really talk wi some o the professors in the Linguistics and English Language department here. A'll be daein a coorse cryed Scots: history and structure in the New Year, sae mibbe A'll can get some contacts/interestit persons that wey. Mendor 22:20, 13 Dizember 2006 (UTC)

Ach, weel. Still at them oniewey. Nae wi muckle result though. Readin atween the lines, A jalouse that, gin we set a policy on walin bureaucrats, an gin we hae anither successfu walin, we micht get ye made up tae bureaucrat. But naethin's definite...

Anent the braider community, A wad sey that it has tae be an ongaein effort. Maist fowk arena that like tae contribute tae Wikipedia oniewey, sae ye hiv tae spread the word tae a wheen o likely chiels afore ye'll get a puckle guid editors. -- Derek Ross 23:49, 13 Dizember 2006 (UTC)

Im sorry this response is English however I'm in a hurry and I'm rather stressed at the moment so it'd be overly difficult for me to communicate outside of my native tounge.

That being said, I would not worry overly much about the bureaucratship at this juncture, as Jimbo says, we need to avoid having too much authority creep - this may scare away the volunteers that are neccesary to the growth of the wikipedia. I think an important step is to reach out to language conservationalists, researchers, and professors, to get a little more of a community going.

Personally I post here out of great interest and in hopes that I can improve my Scots, s many have pointed out it is quite terrible. Thusfar though, while people have been a little frustrated and have made some mistakes this place has been a good environment for that - and that's something I'd encourage too. If we can help get more people into the language, that's not just a bigger Wikipedia community, that's a service to the Scots community as a whole :)

Anyways just my two cents, ✎ Wizardry Dragon ^{(Ma Collogue) (Ma Contreibutions)} 00:32, 14 Dizember 2006 (UTC)

But it's got naething tae dae wi authority, WD. It maks nae differ tae me whether the bureaucrat is Mendor, me or yersel. Ony trusty body'll dae. It's juist that there are a puckle things on ony wiki that ye need a bureaucrat for, cause naebody else can dae them. Tae gie ye an example, ye maun hae noticed a gey lot o bots fullin up the Scots Recent Chynges list. That's cause naebody here can mark them as bots. Ye maun be a bureaucrat afore ye can dae that. On the Scots Gaelic WP they hae a bureaucrat (me), so they dinna hae the same problem wi bots that we div. Likewise the raison that we juist hae twa admins the nou is that we dinna hae a bureaucrat. Gin we did, there's a puckle mair fowk wid be admins as weel. I've taen the policy on the Gaelic wiki of makkin onybody that taks a serious interest intil an admin an A wid hope that we'd follae a seemlar policy here. We're nae aifter the authority; juist the abeelity. -- Derek Ross 03:01, 14 Dizember 2006 (UTC)

A read the collogue at "requests for permission", and I dinnae unnerstaund whit the oncairy is aboot. Sae we are smaa. Whit's that gat tae dae wi onything? Gin anither vote is taen, A'll uphaud whit yuise that hae been here longer propone. Aleta 06:25, 14 Dizember 2006 (UTC)

I understand the concern over bureaucratship, however, could we also talk about my other points? :) Thanks, ✎ Wizardry Dragon ^{(Ma Collogue) (Ma Contreibutions)} 20:51, 14 Dizember 2006 (UTC)

Weel, A dinna see ony need for collogue on yer ither pynts, WD. Aye, we need tae reach oot tae fowk. Aye, we're nae big eneuch tae hae muckle need for hierarchy. Aye, we're daein Scots spikkers a service gin we grow the Scots Wikipedia. Nae disagreement on ony o thon. -- Derek Ross 05:11, 15 Dizember 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:

Heer maet, am no seein hau a hif tae ryt wae englis orthografee ... saylint Es, euslis Cs and aa that ... nor dae a see hau a hif tae euz Teuchtir taak an no euz Glesga taak whin that iz ma aktual taak. wi seud ryt the wae wee taak an bee consistint. An hau kum Y an AY ur the saem let'erz whin thur no akteulie that wy in Scot'land, lyk AYE an fYf? 129.215.149.97 21:27, 2 Februar 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Guid on ye!

Aifter sax month, ye've bin made bureaucrat. It's bin a sair trauchle but it's come richt at the end. Sae guid on ye! Noo that ye haev the powers, could you look at mairkin some o thae bots as bots, sae they dinna show up on Recent Chynges. Ye'll finnd the needfu page on the puckle neow "Byordinar pages" that's bin eikit for ye. Cheers -- Derek Ross 08:27, 4 Februar 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

I'm scottish (live in edinburgh) and I am trying to get my scots improved. your changes to tenacious d helped no end. Tenacious D Fans 21:07, 24 Februar 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Reenaiming ma accoont

Och aye, "Maclennan o' Kintail", that's the wan. Gang richt aheid an' dae et.--Maclennan of Maclennan 23:11, 30 Mairch 2007 (UTC)

Thankye awfy much like. - Maclennan o' Kintail 14:31, 2 Apryle 2007 (UTC)