LanguageRu Greetings Angela I am Ramir from ru Wikipedia and Wikibooks Since yours was the second familiar name on the Developers list after Brion Vibber I ask you on behalf of the Russian Wikipedia users to update the language files meta LanguageRu php and the newly created meta LanguageWikibooksRU php Thank you very much if you do this The ru w language file hasn t been updated for a very long time Since it s not something I have any experience of doing I asked in mediawiki if anyone else could do it but have got no response so far Btw swearing on the Requests for languageXX php update page isn t likely to increase the chance of this being updated Sorry for swearing but I just couldn t think of a better way of expressing great irritation Also I have only just noticed the note at the top of that page saying it is deprecated Fine but how can I get the right people s attention without going on to bothering others eg you on their personal talk pages I don t know what mediawiki is A newsgroup By editing locale files we are also doing Wikimedia a little favor since the load on the server is lower when the l10n is done through php files as opposed to MediaWiki namespace You could try m Non development tasks for developers but with only volunteer developers there s never going to be any guarantee people want to do these sorts of boring tasks Asking a developer directly might help and seems to have done a few of these lately so he might be a good person to ask first Thank you But note that his name is Hashar not Hasher So yeah it looks like I have to ask the right people in person while I don t know many W C Handy Merry Christmas Angela I hope the holidays bring much peace and joy to you and yours My concern regards the changes I ve made to the W C Handy page Upon my observation I first thought the page was plagiarized and hence very well may have violated copyright However I was wrong Yet the information contained on the original page did not reference any source or citation save for a brief excerpted online version of a biography which was and remains in no wise exemplary As a long time resident of the area of Handy s birth I have done research into his life and music Motivated by what I perceived to be a poorly written article which was little better than a stub I completely rewrote it citing sources and adding external links to current events that celebrate and commemorate his work Referencing the previous article there was and which I incorprated in a revision a reference to some of his works which I felt though only somewhat appropriate would be better suited in a musicology article They mentioned only one person s opinion the writer again with no source citation of any kind In my complete rewrite I referenced the subject s autobiography and several independent sources which are included in the external links There is in my estimation a more fully complete picture of the breadth and character of the subject and one which the casual visitor reader would find fascinating One example is that he started his own highly successful publishing company in an era of aparteid and was widely acclaiamed by all Though that detail was not necessarily of itself important in context of the time it was And seeking to present and offer understanding of the subject in context of his era and the current era was my objective Please take a look at the article s and share your thoughts with me Realize also however that some minor formatting issues may be present forwhich others more experienced will hopefully and gladly correct The main thrust of my concern is for content not mark up Wishing you a Warm and Kind Christmas Block log While you are fooling about with testing blocks can you see what s wrong wtih the formatting of the block log The userpage talk contribs links are getting extra sets of brackets way ugly Since if you ve got the power can you fix it The fooling around with testing blocks was an attempt to see how it could be fixed Currently it s formatted properly but with far less information that it used to contain in par