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User talk:Nohat

Hallo Nohat, im a blackhat — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A459:CAB:1:C55F:AA49:C5AF:4823 (talk) 23:24, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

 * What are you guys doing to me? 24.250.137.2 (talk) 20:25, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

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3D-Binary File of the Logo ?
Hi, i would like to animate your Logo (3D). I can reconstruct the whole Sphere, but if there's a Binary-File (3D Studio, Cinema4D, OpenFX, Povray ...) - would be nice to use. At last - where can i upload the Result and the related 3D-Data at the end ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.190.185.90 (talk) 15:17, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

nice edits
Very nice editing job on my recent contributino to acronym --Russell 01:13, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

ceb-wp logo
Hi,

I would like to request a change of the text of the ceb-wp logo to "Wikipedya, ang gawasnong ensiklopedya" because the correct spelling is "ensiklopedya", not "ensayklopedya" as in the last version. See also my post @ meta. Thanks! --Bentong Isles 14:20, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Can I incorporate your logo?
I'd like to incorporate the Wikipedia logo into an icon, if that's alright. I'd like to put sunglasses on it to indicate privacy on Wikipedia for the user group User pro-anon. I think that putting the sunglasses which are currently the icon over the globe would really convey the message. What's more, I already made it. I want to get your OK before uploading it, though. Thanks. P.S. One of your cats shares my last name. -Justin Force 23:28, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Be my guest, thought it's really not my decision. The Wikimedia Foundation owns all rights to the logo now. Cool last name. Nohat 04:55, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Check it out: [[Image:Wikipedia-in-Sunglasses.png|100px]]. Justin Force 00:00, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Hi
This is Sandy from the Wikimedia Foundation. Could you please email me? There is a reporter that would like to do a story on the current logo talks. My email is sordonez@wikimedia.org. WikiBlue

Tagalog Wikipedia article
Hello. Can you please kindly assist me in placing a Tagalog Wikipedia logo thumbnail for the Tagalog Wikipedia article. Would really appreciate it really if it comes from the original creator of the Wikipedia logo. Many thanks.Dragonbite 23:15, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Fixed logo
I saw the article at about errors in the logo, and though I would give fixing them a quick try. What do you think about ? I just hand pixel edited the logo to resemble the correct version suggested by the New York Times article. Thue | talk 12:12, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
 * What errors (I was unable to access the NY times article)? Both logos look the same to me, I even noticed an error on the fixed image that is not on the other one. Tcrow777  talk  00:12, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
 * The Japanese chars just to the right of the top middle needed a vertical line on the first char. And the sanskrit char on the leftmost piece in the middle row was wrong (according to the NYT). The NYT article was available with free registration when I posted the initial comment, but is now only available if you pay for access. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thue (talk • contribs) 20:49, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Oromo Wikipedia logo
Hi, would it be possible for you to create a version of the WP logo for the Oromo Wikipedia? The text, as I was informed by the local admin (see om:User_talk:Johannes_Rohr) would be: Wikipedia, Encylopedia Billisaa

Thank you so much in advance, --Johannes Rohr 22:10, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Font for Korean logo
Hi, thank you for all your logos :) Can I ask you which font you used for the Korean Wikipedia logo? Link: Image:Wikipedia-logo-ko.png I suspect Apple Gothic (judging from your use of Hoefler Text) but I'm not sure, because Apple Gothic doesn't support bold natively. --Kjoonlee 00:15, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

UBX
I am a newbie at English Wikipedia, and I saw you had been here for 4 years. I would like you to help me out with linguistics userboxes, such as "a full understanding of the Cyrillic Alphabet", an "advanced understanding of the Hebrew abjad, and a "full understanding of the IPA". The only languages I know are listed on my Babel boxes, but I know the full Cyrillic, Hebrew, and International Phonetic Alphabets, and would like those userboxes. I also need other help, because I only joined yesterday, and I am already a Recent changes patroller, and have helped to block User:Teletubbiesaresexy. Please assume good faith, and respond on my talk page. Also, can you please sign my petition on Simple.wiki? bibliotheque  (Talk)   02:29, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

New SVG logo
I thought that I should tell you that I created a new SVG version of the Wikipedia logo, located. It has a few problems, could you help me with it? Tcrow777 talk  23:22, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
 * That is why I called it "experimental", it is a work in progress. Did you not read the note or the to-do list on the Commons talk page where I pointed out those problems? Yes, I auto-traced it. I used Inkscape to edit it a litle.

 * I am not the first one to point out the inconsistencies between the main page logo and large PNG logo, see it's talk page on Commons.

 * Tcrow777 talk  04:20, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

 * So it seems we both already know the problems with the current logo and the SVG one. What can I do to help you? Nohat 04:25, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Can you use Inkscape? I am still very new to it. Feel free to upload a new version of the SVG logo if you want to. Tcrow777  talk  05:10, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
 * You said "Second, the gradient across the sphere is implemented as a series of overlapping strips of slightly different shades of gray." But the PNG logo dark gray going into almost white, I thought that the SVG was supposed to do the same thing. Tcrow777  talk  05:48, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I do not think that was a very smart question. I have next to no experience with Vector Graphics. Tcrow777  talk  00:16, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Do you think that I should get assistance from a VG-3 user? Tcrow777 talk  01:49, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Have you left Wikipedia? Tcrow777  talk  22:21, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Missing accents
If you compare this image with the logo used on the en.wp main page, there are differences: Tcrow777 talk  23:40, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I think that one international logo with different characters with additional translated text added below it would be better. Tcrow777  talk  05:15, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Logo for Haitian Creole Wikipedia
Hello Nohat !

You seem to be the man to contact when we need a logo, so here I go : the Haitian Creole Wikipedia has recently been renamed from "Wikipedia" to "Wikipedya". Would it be possible to change the logo to reflect this ? The text would be "Wikipedya - Ansiklopedi lib".

Thanks ! le Korrigan → bla 08:32, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Hmm, some user from the French Wikipedia seems to take care of this; you can ignore my request :-) le Korrigan → bla 11:48, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Large version of logo in English
Nohat, this is Vishal Patel, from the Foundation, could you please e-mail a large english version of the logo to vpatel@wikimedia.org?

Thanks,

Vishal —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Vishal-WMF (talk • contribs).

Catalan dialect examples
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Completed Wikipedia Sphere
If you have any extra free time, lots of people would like to see how the Wikipedia sphere would look if it was completed (with all the puzzle pieces. -- Dom the dude 001 05:32, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

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AskWiki Logo
I thought this would interest you (since you're mentioned): AskWiki Logo —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.54.15.117 (talk) 02:38, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Use of the wikipedia logo
With a bit of research I think I'm posting this message to the right person... I would like permission to use an edited version of the UK wikipedia logo on our School wiki. http://khs-wiki.wikispaces.com/ Thank You Paulfl123 23:39, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

 * You need permission from the Wikimedia Foundation, who owns the copyright and trademark to the logo. Nohat 23:59, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

MfD nomination of WikiProject Latin alphabet
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Text in Hoefler
Hi, could you please make a large image of the word "Scheurkalender" in the Hoefler font? On the Dutch Wikipedia we are working on a Wikipedia-calender, so it would be lovely to have this word on the first page :)

Thanks in advance! Yorian 15:30, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

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Franz Josef Strauß
Might I ask you to take a look at the new discussion going on at Franz Josef Strauß? Yes, it is an ancient topic (the use of ß on en-wiki), but this is one of the most prominent articles in which this issue is of significance. Given your experience, your input would be very much appreciated. Unschool (talk) 01:39, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorting of IPA symbols in edit tools
Hi Nohat, I saw at Noetica's page that you are in the know about the tool box in the edit panel. Would it be possible to sort the IPA symbols the same way as the page help:IPA. As they are now, I always have great trouble finding the one I need. The sorting sequence in the help file is not ideal, but much easier to use. −Woodstone (talk) 08:48, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Hard space
Hi Nohat. Thanks for your recent pointer at our discussion of markup for the hard space. I do hope you'll join in, and help with this drive for a simple change that will help make editing easier and better. Right now we have to host the discussion at a subpage of a userpage, because anywhere else it's too hard to keep order and focus. But later we want to take this to a much wider forum, and gain the necessary consent of the wider WP community.

Your advice and assistance would be much appreciated!

–  Noetica ♬♩ Talk 04:56, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

I hope you'll come back and take another look, now. Your expert input and support would be extremely valuable.

–  Noetica ♬♩ Talk 07:22, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Logo for Tamil Wikipedia not listed
Hi,

I have seen your name on the and  Wikimedia file page and was wondering if you could created similar logos which are not listed for Tamil and Kannada? Wiki Raja (talk) 10:12, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Tout
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Wikipedia Logo
I'm currently producing an inclusionist fork of Wikipedia, to be called Includipedia. I like the Wikipedia logo you've done and I'd like you to do one for our site. (I'd be willing to pay you a suitable amount). If you're interested in doing this I can be contacted on cabalamat@googlemail.com -- Cabalamat (talk) 08:45, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

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Wikipesca.com Logo
Hi! I am promoting wikipesca.com. It will have the same "substrate" as wikipedia.com but focused on "fishing" and fish lovers to the spanish speaking community. "pesca" means to fish in spanish. I didnt reach to find any similar initiative... but a russian one wikifishing.ru (unable to contact them...) But i guess that with time more will come. I found a sponsor who accepts the wikipolicy.

My question is that, if you could do a wikipesca, wikifishing logo. Sketch concept brieffing: "wikipedia globus, instead puzzle pieces fish, and on the top a fisher" The logo will be under wikilincence ready to use for futher other wikifishing initiatives.

what do you think? --MisticVisions (talk) 16:56, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Bot activity
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2d version of the Wikipedia logo?
Hi there! I'm currently looking at making a new Wikipedia logo for the wikipedia iPhone app. Do you have a 2d version of the current logo? By this I mean the flat jigsaw image which was then "wrapped" around the sphere. All the best, Ludraman (talk) 01:17, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

We need your advice in Farsi logotype design.
Hi. We are changing the Logotype of farsi wikipedia because we think It's a bit ugly and has non-persian design. We might think if you can help us and share your advises. This is link of discussion. thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bahman3d (talk • contribs) 20:53, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

 * I don't know Farsi, so I don't think I'll be able to contribute much to your discussion, but I'm all for a traditional Persian rendering of the logotype for the Farsi Wikipedia. Nohat (talk) 03:12, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Can you fix the Wikipedia logo?
I've left a couple messages on the logo's discussion page, but maybe I should leave one here too. The problem is that the devanagari script puzzle piece in the logo has been pretty badly mangled by whatever software generated it. It's almost like a little poster child of the Western World's inability to deal properly with indic text. It's embarrassing. I'd be happy to fix it myself if I knew how the image was generated, but I don't. If it can't be fixed, could a new logo be created with no attempt at devanagari at all? Xezlec (talk) 17:32, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

 * No. Nohat (talk) 00:38, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

deletion
Hi Nohat,

You moved a table to Table of consonants four years ago, and I just nominated it AfD. Just to let you know, in case you aren't watching it ... kwami (talk) 20:01, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia's logo
Hi, I'm a french wikigraphist and I want to have more information about the logo. Because I'ld try to draw a good version in SVG (the last version is here) but I need to know the font wich was used. Thanks and sorry for my bad english Otourly (talk) 19:24, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia's logo (two bottom left symbols)
Hi Nohat: I'm a Spanish user (w:es:Usuario:Roblespepe, and I'm writing a complete article about Wikipedia's logo (see: w:es:Wikipedia:Logotipos de Wikipedia). One of the questions I've found making it, are the two left symbols at the bottom raw. I couldn't find what are they, and the English article only says that, one is not identified and the other could be abugida, adding a question mark. Can you help me about this, telling me from what script ther are taken?. In advance, thank you very much,--Roblespepe (talk) 12:48, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Saterfrisian logo
Hallo Nohat, Last December you were so friendly to create the logo for our Saterfrisian Wikipedia: stq:Wikipedia-logo-stq.png. At that time, however, it was not brought by our helpers to the top of the left column, so it can only be found at our page stq: In between we are approaching 400(!) real articles and we found it time now to have the logo moved to its right place. Now, however, some people are complaining about the text Ju fräie Enzyklopädie being unclear. Indeed you can’t read it very good. So we would be very thankfull if you could find a way to make it a little more “bold”. --Pyt (talk) 14:05, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Oh no, it's another Wikipedia logo thread!
Hello! I'm sure you're tired of hearing about logo questions. :-) I heard that you had lost the original POV-Ray source, so I'm working on trying to recreate it.  If you want to pitch in at either of these discussions, please feel free (although you don't have to if you don't want). We're also bandying about the optional idea of replacing the Klingon piece, since the tlhIngan Hol Wikipedia is no longer around.
 * Meta-wiki page on the issue (central)
 * Reference desk/Language (attempt to figure out two particular characters; my main stumbling-block!)

Of course we don't mean to insult your excellent work or anything silly, we're just editing and improving, like all of Wikipedia does. Thanks for your time! -- tiny plastic Grey Knight  ⊖  20:27, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

 * As the logo is a trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, you may not have the authority to modify without the consent of the board of directors. Nohat (talk) 20:38, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Of course, it stands to reason we will probably have to talk to the Foundation about something like this. I want to have a concrete proposal to show, for obvious reasons, hence my research.  -- tiny plastic Grey Knight   ⊖  20:47, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

IPA on Acronym and initialism
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Speedy deletion of Template:IPAVowels
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Copyright image request
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Are you the Nohat who commented on Chameleon?
Is [http://chameleon.osx86.hu/articles/jmicron-ide-dvd-ppf-patch-for-iatkos-20i#c000287 this you? 213.151.52.255 (talk) 17:40, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

 * An impostor! Nohat (talk) 21:30, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

Span tags request
Hi Nohat. I saw your name in the history at Wikipedia:Span tags. If you have a chance, would you please reply to my request here. If it is a good idea, would you please add the span tags as I requested. I think they would be useful in discussions. Thanks. Suntag (talk) 19:25, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Symbols on Wiki globe
Please see Reference desk/Language.
 * -- Wavelength (talk) 03:50, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Here is a permanent link.
 * -- Wavelength (talk) 05:27, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Image:Sea_lions_pier_39.jpg listed for deletion
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Love Systems
Hi Nohat,

I was working on a "company page" and I wanted to make sure several Wikipedia admins would approve the page. Whenever you have time, could you give me some pointers on how to improve the page? The page has to go through a DRV before it can get back up. Any feedback is much appreciated!

The page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Coaster7/Love_Systems

Thanks in advance. Coaster7 (talk) 01:22, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Logo for Manx wikipedia
Hi Nohat,

I was wondering if it would be possible at all to amend the writing on the logo for the Manx wikipedia. The current wording is grammatically incorrect and should read: Wikipedia Y chicklipaid heyr

Thanking you in advance, MacTire02 (talk) 16:40, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Happy 's Day!
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Dutch language vowel charts
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Phonology of Dutch by Geert Booij nohat (talk) 07:27, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

 * Thanks! Moxfyre (ǝɹʎℲxoɯ | contrib) 15:40, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

3D Data
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undefined== Chinese character on our logo ==

Recently some Chinese wikipedians can't understand why the rarely used character "袓" was put on our logo, instead of the more common used one, "维", which is also the first char of "维基百科", "Wikipedia" in Chinese. So may I ask if we can change this character to a more suitable one? That is, from "袓" to "维". Best regards. --Jimmy xu wrk (talk) 11:54, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * nope, sorry nohat (talk) 02:01, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Space and survival
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Sängö Wiki Logo
Hi! I have requested for a new logo for the Sängö Wikipedia here but noone has responded (yet). Could you please make one for us? Thanks in advance :D -- Pineapple Fez 21:11, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

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Graphic Designer's Barnstar
You're quite welcome! I agree the new logo is just awful and wish they'd consulted me before shitting it all over Wikipedia. What a travesty! nohat (talk) 18:29, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Could you try to find the original 3D models? Maybe they can be edited to include new characters… — Kalan ? 19:07, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

 * They haven't yet applied it to the main entrance page at http://wikipedia.org/ . Just something to note.Smallman12q (talk) 22:16, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Dull-Bull merger
Hi Nohat,

Any new findings on the dull-bull merger? Approx. what percentage of the people in your area has it? I have the merger! Originally from upstate NY, moved down to FL still in my preteen years. I've been trying to get /ʌ/ into most words that are supposed to have it, but I still feel a little awkward saying them... especially Hull, Dull, Ultra-, Multi- I used to pronounce most /ʌl/ words with /ʊl/, but some with /əl/ (in my opinion, sounds somewhere in between). I don't think I ever used /ʌl/! I've heard a few instances of the Dull-Bull merger on the radio lately (e.g. the March of Dimes BellyAd Blue ad, "lullaby" is obviously pronounced /lʊləˌbaɪ/ in this ad). Temporal Fugitive (talk) 10:29, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Template:Respell
I recall you were the first or among the first to suggest and promote using IPA here. If you've not been around, there has been a recent trend to use these ree-SPELL-ing KEEZ, and I wondered what you thought about it. I conjectured a set of principles all wikis should have for using it (IPA issues) - there are lot of criticisms and I seem to agree with a few of them, but the divergence is pretty evident by the above template's choice of an example:
 * Worcestershire (pronounced /ˈwʊstɚʃɚ/, WOOS-tər-shər)

The latter is of course just unaccepable, while the original of course seems to have certain orthographical issues. Regards, -Stevertigo (w | t | e) 21:14, 15 May 2010 (UTC) PS: (re:logo"2.0") They said New Coke was better too. -SV PPS: Saw your name at WP:WikiProject Phonetics - perhaps this is a discussion for them as well.

Arabic Wikipedia Logo Changed
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License of the Wikipedia logo
Hi! I hope you will take a look at the discussion here commons:Commons:Village_pump and especially the part about the Wikipedia logo. I noticed that it was licensed as GFDL in 2004. It would be really nice if you could help me find the original logo. --MGA73 (talk) 18:17, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

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Image
Hi Nohat! I did an edition of a loaded image for you, and I put the portuguese wikipédia slogan, but I did it. I wonder if you could edit a new version of the file to be able to use it on Lusophone wikipédia, because I really liked the picture.

Would you?

Hugs,

Willy Weasley  'Avada'|undefined     'Kedavra!'   15:50, 10 May 2011 (UTC)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Willy Weazley (talk • contribs)

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MSU Interview
Dear Nohat,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
 * Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
 * All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
 * All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
 * The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

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 nameHERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.11.206.39 (talk) 03:37, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Who to ask for permissions for the Wikipedia logo
Hi. I know, you're not holding the rights for the logo, but I currently would like to use the logo for my own wiki project (no, no Wikipedia project), by altering the colors and rearranging it with other components. However, where do I have to ask for permission? I'm only reading that the foundation holds the rights - but how should they be contacted for this purpose? Thanks in advance, --ARestless (talk) 06:45, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * here Nohat (talk) 20:36, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
 * "Simply ask the office" in contrast to "Ask somebody special there who handles these things" would have been enough. Thanks anyway for answering. --ARestless (talk) 15:39, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia Stories Project
Hi!

My name is Victor and I'm a storyteller with the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm chronicling the inspiring stories of the Wikipedia community around the world, including those from readers, editors, and donors. Stories are absolutely essential for any non-profit to persuade people to support the cause, and we know the vast network of people who make and use Wikipedia have so much to share.

In my research I found that you were largely involved in the design of the puzzle globe logo, and I'd be very interested in speaking with you about it!

I'd very much like the opportunity to interview you to tell your story, with the possibility of using it in our materials, on our community websites, or as part of this year’s fundraiser to encourage others to support Wikipedia. Please let me know if you're inclined to take part in the Wikipedia Stories Project.

Thank you for your time,

Victor Grigas

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vgrigas@wikimedia.org

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WP Languages in the Signpost
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Your mod to Lowest common denominator
Please see my comments on the talk page.—PaulTanenbaum (talk) 14:04, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

humanitarian
See [Talk: List of English words with disputed usage: humanitarian]--Lepton6 (talk) 22:01, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Thx Nohat. See updated talk -[Talk: ...humanitarian]. --Lepton6 (talk) 12:14, 12 May 2012 (UTC)
 * See talk update of May 15:--[Talk: ...humanitarian]. Regards, --Lepton6 (talk) 23:00, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

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Black Book - old case
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Language-population update project
Hi. The 18th edition of Ethnologue just came out, and if we divide up our language articles among us, it won't take long to update them. I would appreciate it if you could help out, even if it's just a few articles (5,000 articles is a lot for just me), but I won't be insulted if you delete this request.

A largely complete list of articles to be updated is at Category:Language articles citing Ethnologue 17. The priority articles are in Category:Language articles with old Ethnologue 17 speaker data. These are the 10% that have population figures at least 25 years old.

Probably 90% of the time, Ethnologue has not changed their figures between the 17th and 18th editions, so all we need to do is change "e17" to "e18" in the reference (ref) field of the language info box. That will change the citation for the artcle to the current edition. Please put the data in the proper fields, or the info box will flag it as needing editorial review. The other relevant fields are "speakers" (the number of native speakers in all countries), "date" (the date of the reference or census that Ethnologue uses, not the date of Ethnologue!), and sometimes "speakers2". Our convention has been to enter e.g. "1990 census" when a census is used, as other data can be much older than the publication date. Sometimes a citation elsewhere in the article depends on the e17 entry, in which case you will need to change "name=e17" to "name=e18" in the reference tag (assuming the 18th edition still supports the cited claim).

Remember, we want the *total* number of native speakers, which is often not the first figure given by Ethnologue. Sometimes the data is too incompatible to add together (e.g. a figure from the 1950s for one country, and a figure from 2006 for another), in which case it should be presented that way. That's one use for the "speakers2" field. If you're not sure, just ask, or skip that article.

Data should not be displayed with more than two, or at most three, significant figures. Sometimes it should be rounded off to just one significant figure, e.g. when some of the component data used by Ethnologue has been approximated with one figure (200,000, 3 million, etc.) and the other data has greater precision. For example, a figure of 200,000 for one country and 4,230 for another is really just 200,000 in total, as the 4,230 is within the margin of rounding off in the 200,000. If you want to retain the spurious precision of the number in Ethnologue, you might want to use the sigfig template. (First parameter in this template is for the data, second is for the number of figures to round it off to.)

Dates will often need to be a range of all the country data in the Ethnologue article. When entering the date range, I often ignore dates from countries that have only a few percent of the population, as often 10% or so of the population isn't even separately listed by Ethnologue and so is undated anyway.

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Preposition stranding ref
Hello, in this revision, you added a reference:
 * <tt> Many sources consider it to be acceptable in standard formal English.<ref name="Cutts 2009. p. 109">Cutts 2009. </tt>

But there is no further information about what this reference is, other than a last name, a year, and a page number. Can you update the reference with more details? Nohat (talk) 00:17, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Based on the edit summary, I found the reference on Common English usage misconceptions in the Bibliography section. If there are any other incomplete citations, the details can probably found there.  I did a rough copy into preposition stranding; I'm sure there's a tidier way to do that but I'm short on time at the moment. -- Beland (talk) 17:34, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

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Nando's

Nando's is a South African multinational fast casual chain that specialises in Portuguese flame-grilled peri-peri style chicken. Founded in Johannesburg in 1987, later purchased by the British Berkeley’s conglomerate seven years later, Nando's operates over 1,200 outlets in 30 countries. Their logo depicts the Rooster of Barcelos, one of Portugal's most common symbols.

History
The restaurant was founded in 1987 in Rosettenville, Johannesburg by Portuguese-born Fernando Duarte and South African-born Robert Brozin. Upon visiting a Portuguese-Mozambican takeaway named Chickenland and trying the chicken with peri peri, they bought the restaurant for about 80,000 rand (equivalent to about £25,000 at the time). They renamed the restaurant Nando's after Fernando's firstborn son. By 1989, the restaurant had three outlets in Johannesburg and one in Portugal. Capricorn Ventures International acquired the chain in 1992.

In 2010, Advertising Age magazine named Nando's one of the world's top 30 hottest marketing brands alongside Tata Nano, MTN and Natura. During the same year, the success of Nando's in the U.K. led The Guardian to write that Nando's was a modern restaurant brand that had "changed the face of British fast food." Nando's 1,000th store worldwide opened in 2012. As of July 2014, the Nando's restaurant group was ultimately owned by South African businessman Dick Enthoven and his family, through the Luxembourg-domiciled company Yellowwoods. Enthoven's son Robby Enthoven, who took over running the restaurants in 1993, was responsible for expanding the Nando's chain in the United Kingdom.

In 2018, American-based recruitment website Indeed named Nando's as the UK's sixth best private sector employer based on millions of employee ratings and reviews.

Worldwide locations
Nando's has locations in five continents worldwide.

South Africa
Fernando Duarte and his friend Robert Brozin, the founders of the first Nando's, bought a restaurant previously called "Chickenland" and renamed it Nando's. They opened it in 1987. By 2018, there were 340 Nando's restaurants throughout its home market of South Africa.

Botswana
Nando's has been operating in Botswana since 1993. There are 19 restaurants in Botswana; 10 in Gaborone, 2 in Francistown and Palapye, and 1 each in Jwaneng, Maun, Mahalapye, Kasane and Letlhakane.

Eswatini
There are 4 outlets in Eswatini; in Mbabane, Matsapha, Ezulwini and Manzini (2022).

Mauritius
, there are 4 Nando's restaurant outlets within Mauritius; in Curepipe, Grand-Baie, Moka and Vacoas-Phoenix.

Zambia
Nando's began operating in Zambia in 2002. , Nando's has 9 restaurants in Zambia; 7 in Lusaka and 1 each in Ndola and Kitwe.

Zimbabwe
Nando's has been operating in Zimbabwe since 1995. , Nando's has 14 restaurants in Zimbabwe; 9 in Harare and 1 each in Bulawayo, Mutare, Gweru, Kwekwe and Victoria Falls.

Bahrain
, Nando's has 5 restaurants in Bahrain; 2 in Manama and 1 each in Amwaj Islands, Isa Town and Saar.

India
Nando's has been established in India since 2010. , Nando's has 12 restaurants throughout the states and union territories of India; 4 in New Delhi, 3 in Bangalore, 2 in Gurgaon, and 1 each in Noida, Chandigarh and Dwarka (Delhi).

Malaysia
Nando's has been established in Malaysia since 1998. The chain is very popular in the country and Malaysia is Nando's third largest market after the United Kingdom and Australia. Nando's is well known for its effective advertising that celebrates or satirises contemporary local issues. , Nando's has 73 restaurants operating throughout the states and federal territories of Malaysia (with the exception of Perlis and Labuan); 27 in Selangor, 19 in Kuala Lumpur, 2 in Putrajaya, 5 in Penang, 4 in Johor, 3 in Malacca, 3 in Perak, 3 in Sarawak, 2 in Negeri Sembilan and 1 each in Kedah, Kelantan, Pahang, Terengganu and Sabah.

Pakistan
Nando's has been established in Pakistan since 2001. , Nando's has 12 restaurants throughout Pakistan; 5 in Karachi, 4 in Lahore and 1 each in Islamabad, Faisalabad and Rawalpindi.

Qatar
In Qatar, Nando's has been established since 2001, with the first restaurant located on Salwa Road. , Nando's has 8 branches in Qatar, 7 of which are located in Doha while 1 is in Al Wakrah.

Saudi Arabia
In Saudi Arabia, Nando's opened its first restaurant within the country on 12 December 2016 in Riyadh, and opened its first branch in Jeddah on 8 December 2018. , Nando's has 9 branches in Saudi Arabia; 3 in Riyadh, 3 in Jeddah; and 1 each in Dhahran, Dammam and Khobar.

Singapore
In Singapore, Nando's opened its first restaurant on 9 May 2010; and there are 6 outlets throughout the city of Singapore.

United Arab Emirates
Nando's opened its first restaurant within the United Arab Emirates in Dubai (along Sheikh Zayed Road) in 2002 and opened its first branch in Abu Dhabi in 2014. , Nando's has 19 branches in the UAE; 13 in Dubai, 3 in Abu Dhabi and 1 each in Sharjah, Al Ain and Ras Al Khaimah.

Ireland
Nando's was first established in Ireland in 2008. The company opened its flagship restaurant on St Andrew Street in the city centre of Dublin in November 2011, employing sixty staff members to manage a 3,800 sqft space spread over two floors. , they have expanded to a total of 13 outlets in Ireland, with 9 in Dublin, 2 in Cork, 1 in Newbridge and 1 in Limerick.

United Kingdom
Nando's opened its first restaurants within the United Kingdom, in 1992, in the west London suburbs of Ealing and Earls Court, initially focusing on takeaway food. The UK arm, owned by the Enthoven family via a private equity company, struggled until chairman Dick Enthoven put his son Robert in control. The focus then moved from takeaways to a mixed service (counter ordering and table service) model. This decision was taken after Nando's partnered with Harrison, a branding and design agency. They also advised Nando's to design each restaurant individually so no two restaurants were the same, a brand characteristic of the chain. Nando's expanded in the UK in 1993. The company now employs around 8,000 staff in the UK and as of 2013 had over 280 branches, with about sixty serving food conforming with Islamic dietary laws.

In 2010, Nando's UK won the Sunday Times's best place to work award in the big company category. Its sauces and marinades were also retailed in UK supermarkets.

Nando's claims to have the largest collection of South African art in the UK, with over 5,000 works displayed in restaurants; original artworks are commissioned by the company.

In March 2020, all of Nando's UK restaurants closed temporarily due to nationwide lockdown rules introduced by the government to limit the spread of COVID-19. In late April 2020, Nando's reopened select locations for delivery and collection services, with many more locations opening throughout May. In early July 2020, the restaurant chain started reopening a few of its outlets for eat-in service.

In August 2021, Nando's UK was forced to temporarily close 45 of its 450 restaurants due to a shortage of chicken. A Nando's spokesperson said: "The UK food industry has been experiencing disruption across its supply chain in recent weeks due to staff shortages and Covid isolations, and a number of our restaurants have been impacted."

The UK is Nando's largest market.

Canada
Nando's has operated since 1994 in Canada. , there are 32 branches in Canada, with 4 in Alberta, 17 in British Columbia, and 11 in Ontario.

United States
Nando's opened its first restaurant location within the United States, at Washington, D.C. in 2008. After opening more outlets within the Washington metropolitan area, it expanded into the Chicago metropolitan area, opening its first outlet on 20 May 2015 within the metro area. , there are 45 restaurant outlets in the U.S. (only present within the D.C., Baltimore, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, and Dallas metropolitan areas): 12 in Illinois, 6 in Washington, D.C., 13 in Maryland, 10 in Virginia, 2 in Georgia, and 4 in Texas.

Australia
Nando's has been in continuous operation within Australia since 1990, when the first restaurant opened in Tuart Hill in Western Australia. , there were 155 restaurants in Australia; 63 in Victoria, 36 in Western Australia, 30 in Queensland, 16 in New South Wales, four in South Australia, two in the Northern Territory, two in Tasmania and one in the Australian Capital Territory. Per city, there are 59 in Melbourne, 34 in Perth, 20 in Brisbane, 15 in Sydney, four each in Adelaide and the Gold Coast, three in Ipswich, two each in Hobart and Darwin and one each in Ballarat, Bunbury, Canberra, Geelong, Kalgoorlie, Newcastle, Rockhampton, Shepparton, the Sunshine Coast, Townsville and Traralgon.

There have been various public battles between the parent company and its Australian franchisees.

New Zealand
Nando's opened their first outlet in New Zealand, at Glenfield in 2000. , there are 20 Nando's outlets throughout New Zealand, located in the regions of Auckland, Bay of Plenty, Christchurch, Hamilton, Wellington, and Dunedin.

Australian refugee advertisement
In 2002, Nando's ran an advertising campaign in Australia based around a political controversy regarding the mandatory detention of refugees. The detainees had been waging a hunger strike campaign, even resorting to sewing their lips closed. Nando's adverts proclaimed that the strikers "decided to unsew their lips after hearing the news that with every Nando's quarter chicken combo, Nando's are giving away an extra quarter chicken free." Melbourne's Sphere Advertising said that the ad was designed to spark controversy, saying that they knew that "there's a section of our audience that's going to be uncomfortable... but we want to evoke a response."

Malema advertisement
During the South African national elections of 2009, Nando's made an advert lampooning African National Congress Youth League then president Julius Malema by using a puppet that resembled him. Malema's lawyers sued Nando's and the original advert was removed. However, an altered version was released, with the puppet's face pixelated and the voice altered. The puppet used in the advert was later sold at auction for 100,000 rand, which was donated to an educational charity.

"Last dictators" advertisement
In 2011, Nando's launched a "Last dictators" advert in South Africa. The 60-second commercial shows a sad Robert Mugabe dining alone at Christmas in a large mansion while he reminisces about "happier times" with former dictators, such as playing water tag with Muammar Gaddafi, singing karaoke with Mao Zedong, making snow angels in the sand with Saddam Hussein, pushing P. W. Botha on a swing set, and riding a Covenanter cruiser tank with Idi Amin in a similar fashion to Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet embracing each other from the film Titanic, while the music from "Those Were the Days" is played.

Musekiwa Kumbula, holder of the Nando's franchise in Zimbabwe, said his group "strongly feels the advertisement is insensitive and in poor taste." The advert also offended Chipangano, a Zimbabwean youth militia loyal to Mugabe, who then demanded an apology from Nando's, threatened to boycott the South Africa-based chain, and demanded the advert be withdrawn or the restaurant face retribution. Nando's South Africa subsequently withdrew the advert citing threats to its staff in Zimbabwe from a youth group.

Corporation tax bill
Both The Guardian newspaper (UK) and the American non-profit publication ICIJ received documents in July 2014 revealing the details of past and present offshore clients of wealth managers Kleinwort Benson, including the Nando's restaurant group. The Guardian published its belief that, through the use of businesses in Malta, Guernsey and the Netherlands, Enthoven legally reduces the group's UK corporation tax bill by "up to a third." According to the British newspaper, Enthoven's profits eventually accumulate in the Kleinwort Benson-managed "Taro III Trust" that is based in Jersey and contains at least £750 million.

While no member of the Enthoven family agreed to speak with The Guardian, a company representative explained that UK tax laws are not applicable to Enthoven, as "he is not resident in the US or the UK." The spokesperson also stated that, in the UK, Nando's paid corporation tax of £12.6 million on a profit of £58.2 million for the year ending February 2013.

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title: Nando's