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It is anticipated that this user right will significantly reduce the work load of admins who patrol the performance of the patrollers. However,due to the complexity of the rollout, some rights may have been accorded that may later need to be withdrawn, so some help will still be needed to some extent

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Read that on wikitech-l. Just wanted to assure myself that "wiping" means replacing the "file content" with a standard message saying something like "They are not up to date and we (developers) prefers to use the special:allmessages from wikipedia". It should not be necessary to delete any pages,

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Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your

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I'm trying to load a single massive flat file into Wiktionary:Wikisaurus pages. The file is a flat file that can be read by any computer. The headword is the first word in the file. Each synonym is comma delimited, and headwords are delimited by a hard carriage return. The synonyms are in

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Sorry if I've screwed up your discussion page :P but we're attempting to get GA status for the MMORPG article and one of the recommendations was the provision of fair-use rationales for each of the images related to the article. Since you've posted the following:

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Uh ! Tu veux dire ce site sur lequel nous avons passé plus d'un an à 3 (Brion, moi et un troll uniquement) et que tout le monde voit aujourd'hui comme un pur lieu de bazar ? :)

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alphabetical order. We'd need the file to make each line (hard carriage return delimited) into it's own page and each synonym would need to be wrapped in wiki code.

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I got an answer from Brion on wikitech, but then he dropped the ball. jbo: is still broken. Can you at least install the language file so that the namespaces work? -

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be done, is it worth the time and effort? (we're talking an increase of about 30.000 root words and over 2.4 million synonyms) How would I go about doing it?

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carefully, then go to the image description page and clarify why you think the image qualifies for fair use. Using one of the templates at

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For easier importing into fr.wiki me thinks. BTW Hashar please credit whoever made the image here when you upload that image to fr.wiki. --

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it would be beneficial for the article if when you found time that you provided a fair-use rationale for it. Thanking you in advance :).

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Hello! I noticed you or your robot is doing interwiking in estonian wiki. that's nice, but could you configure it bit more, as Finnish (

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since many of the article histories are important historical references. I also think you will find it unneccessary to touch

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