Aulis Eskola

Hi,

I see that some time ago you edited pages for Finnish place names, adding the translations of "in XXX", where XXX is the place name.

This information is useful but is in the wrong place and is incorrectly formatted. It belongs in the translation section at should look like the following (using Tampere as an example):

Translations

• Finnish: Tampere

  in Tampere - Tampereella

Please could you change these if you can. — Paul G 14:53, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Is in now better Tampere, Helsinki,...

One funny thing about these place names: should we create this kind of entries not at all with names like Finnish Helsinki/English Helsinki/French Helsinki?! Should we only have one entry without language in case of proper nouns? Or only one with "original" language - in some cases it is difficult to deside what language is original?

We need this kind of articles about Finnish places because names have different formats in languages (odd thing but it is used) and how to say "in place xxx" is irregular in Finnish. Also Swedish in official language in Finland and many places have different names both in Finnish and in Swedish. --Aulis Eskola 15:17, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi,

I suggest the following:

• For placenames that are the same in many languages, yes, we should have:

==English==

Helsinki

...definition here...

==Finnish==

Helsinki

1. Helsinki

==French==

Helsinki

1. Helsinki

etc. In other words, we need an entry for every language in which "Helsinki" is a word, even though, in most cases, these all mean the same thing. This is because a user might be reading (say) a Finnish text and want to know what "Helsinki" means (not knowing that is it the capital of Finland). They would expect to find a Finnish entry for it, even if they are an English user.

• For information about how to say, for example, "in Tampere" (etc) in Finnish, create a Finnish page for "Tampereella", with an English translation ("in Tampere"), and add information to the English page for "Tampere" as I have described above. — Paul G 09:12, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

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Sysopship

I have made you an administrator. Enjoy your new privileges. Congratulations and welcome aboard! — Paul G 09:12, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

E-mail

Hi Aulis. Could you specify an e-mail address please? As an admin, you should be contactable for people who have been blocked. Cheers. —Vildricianus 15:23, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

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Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

23:37, 17 March 2015 (UTC)