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Adminship

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Please let me know if you have any further questions. Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 20:48, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Just a quick note, I notice you've gone ahead and created an adminship request. I'm afraid I can almost guarantee that at this time, your nomination won't be successful and you would be best continuing to edit, in a few months someone will notice you and nominate you for adminship. Hope this helps. Nick 22:56, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

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Grutte Pier

You are right on Ivan Poddubny; same goes for an even greater man; Pier Gerlofs Donia, greatest Frisian ever, and the strongest man that ever walked the earth. With an appearence so impressive, that one look at him could make his opponents go weak trough there knees, he was probabaly the most fiersone enemy to coould face uop with in history; his live would make a great action movie-script dammit! 84.87.138.105 20:30, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

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repsonse to accusation of Russophobia

well, that wasn't very rational... i've been accused of being anti-French, English (that's interesting), Arabic, Portuguese, but thanks for the new irrational accusation. The point is, which I already made, is that the article is about what the ethnologue says. The article on Russian is another matter, using seveal sources. Please read what people say before making accusations. Spacebo bolshoi Drmaik (talk) 06:45, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

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48 hours for your personal attacks and talkpage disruption. [1]. Moreschi (talk) (debate) 22:53, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Abkhazia, South Ossetia

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Georgia (country)

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Thanks for helping me fight the good fight and helping me keep it NPOV on the Georgia article, Sergei. Keep it up. Xizer (talk) 01:41, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

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Birth rates

Hi, regarding this, the page you linked is based on stats only up to November 1 2009 (По оценке, численность постоянного населения Российской Федерации на 1 ноября 2009г.) I had updated to according to data for all of 2009, where the birth rate fell by .1 in the last two months. Here is the latest info as of January 1 2010. LokiiT (talk) 20:34, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Indeed. I noticed a strange phenomenon in Russia: over all, the birth rates ARE growing (12.1 in 2008 vs 12.4 in 2009; 11.5 in 2007 vs 12.1 in 2008), at the end of each of those years, they went down slightly (12.5 -> 12.4 in 2009, for example). I'll have to research this more to really see why this is. But if I had to say now, I'd say it is because of the New Year and Orthodox Christmas (as well as Muslim Kurban Bairam) celebrations. November, December, January is when everyone is celebrating and partying. Not a lot of people are conceiving during this time.--SergeiXXX (talk) 22:36, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Yes, birth and death rates vary quite a bit by season, for a bunch of different reasons. The winter months see more deaths and less births, while in the summer it's the opposite. Here are some images that demonstrate this: deaths by month, natural population growth by month. There's a lot of useful info on the site Demoscope if you can read Russian. LokiiT (talk) 23:27, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Photo

Hi! I need this photo [2] in polish version of "wiki". Help if you can. --Morus kot (talk) 14:07, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Which page? The VDV one? --SergeiXXX (talk) 20:37, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

This - [3] --Morus kot (talk) 18:45, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

Well, I tried to type it up into the page, as I did with the English one, but it doesn't work. I think you will have to reuppload it into Polish wikipedia (since I do not have an account there). Should not be a problem. Good luck.--SergeiXXX (talk) 23:56, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

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Меня зовут Виктор, и я рассказчик с Wikimedia Foundation, некоммерческая организация, которая поддерживает Википедию. Я хроник вдохновляющих историй сообщества Википедии по всему миру, в том числе и читателей, редакторов и доноров. Истории совершенно необходимы для любой некоммерческой органицации, чтобы убедить людей поддержывать наш проект, и мы знаем, что у людей, которые строют и используют Википедии есть много, что рассказать!

Я ищу вдохновляющие страницы пользователей, и интересных историй о том, как Википедия влияют на жизнь людей. Я задавал вопросы вроде "Как Википедия изменила Вашу жизнь?", "Какая самая интересная история у Вас есть о Википедии?" и "Википедия ли когда-нибудь Вас удивило?"

В прошлом году мы использовали ежегодный сбор средств как способ показать миру, кто на самом деле пишет Википедия. Мы показывали редакторов из Бразилии, Украины, Аргентины, Саудовской Аравии, Кении, Индии, США и Англии. Этот метод имел огромный успех, в результате чего у нас была наиболее финансово успешная кампании по сбору средств в историе организации. Кроме того, мы остались верны духу Википедии, просвещение общественности, что это бесплатно ТОП-5 Сайт создан добровольцами, как Ви и я.

В этом году мы хотим выделить еще редакторов Википедии на русском языке, так что я нахожусь в процессе планирования поездки в Россию и интервью с редакторами.

Если Википедия положительно повлеяла на Вас или на кого-то из Ваших знакомых, или у Вас есть что-то интересное сказать о Википедии, я бы очень хотел услышать об этом!

Пожалуйста, дайте мне знать, если Ви бы хотели участвовать в проекте Истории Википедии, или если вы знаете кого-то еще, с кем я должен поговорить.

Конечно, если у Вас есть какие-либо вопросы или сомнения, пожалуйста, обращайтесь! Я отвечу, как только смогу. Извините за плохой перевод этого письма, я использую Google-перевод. Я надеюсь, что заставляет вас смеяться :)

Спасибо за Ваше время,

Victor Grigas

http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/User:Victorgrigas

vgrigas@wikimedia.org

Victor Grigas (talk) 23:21, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

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