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Thanks for your work on cywiki

Many thanks for your help on cywiki. However I've reverted this edit. On Welsh Wikipedia, we take a live feed from Wikidata; at present we have 9,000 photos coming from WD and we are busy filling the remaining gap of around 1,500 (decreasing; live / not extinct) - there were 2,250 in January! We have done the same with bird sounds - they are automated, and at present we have c. 154 (increasing) coming from WD. On the 6th May we have around 50 ornithologists coming together in Snowdonia to edit cywiki, Commons and Wikidata. You're welcome to join us! Cell Danwydd (talk) 15:32, 13 April 2017 (UTC)

Could you please replace with "Black-crowned Tchagra (Tchagra senegala).jpg" with "Black-crowned Tchagra, Tchagra senegala.jpg", due to incorrect identification of the first file. Not sure how to do it in your system. JMK (talk) 18:47, 16 April 2017 (UTC)

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I am collaborating on Zulu Wikipedia and would like you to give your opinion on an issue there [1].

Could you give us your suggestion? Thanks. DARIO SEVERI (talk) 01:45, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

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I’m part of a project called Fredrika, that aims to improve content related to the Swedish minority in Finland on Wikipedia. We used a so called “scraping tool” in order to analyze what users have contributed the most to articles regarding this topic on Swedish and Finnish Wikipedia and your name came up!

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Many of us are also attending the Wikimania conference in Stockholm next week and would love to meet you if you are going to be there too.

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Thanks JMK for all your contributions to Crime in South Africa ! Regards --Olga Ernst (talk) 19:56, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Appreciated. Glad you noticed. Trying to address theoretical as well as practical aspects, improve the focus on the subject matter, and reveal its scope – so that we may know what the actual problems are, and what perhaps not. JMK (talk) 08:25, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

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Ai, my vriend, hoekom tog?

JMK, ek het al vantevore gesê ek verstaan nie mooi hoekom jy so hard op 'n ou is nie. Goed, ek weet jy wil tot op die letter sorg dat al die vereistes van die Engelse Wikipedia nagekom word sover dit plasing van artikels betref, maar dit is nou ook so dat baie daarvan daagliks deur ander bydraers omseil word sonder dat 'n haan daarna kraai. Dit wil my voorkom jy ken dalk die betrokke persoon beter as ek, dit is baie moontlik, want ek het hom nog nooit van aangesig tot aangesig ontmoet nie, slegs in korrespondensie. Dit sal dalk jou volgehoue verset kon verduidelik (anders nou as die Broederbond-ding!). Kan jy asseblief per e-pos met my kontak maak by my minder gebruikte e-pos-adres: dugeot@gmail.com . ? Ek is 'n ou man wat in Junie 82 jaar oud word. Ek hou niks van kwaaivriendskappe nie. Jy kan ook maar in Engels vir my skryf as jy so voel Mieliestronk (talk) 17:26, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

Die betrokke saak word op die artikel-besprekingsblad hanteer. Onderhandelinge is onnodig. JMK (talk) 20:44, 2 May 2021 (UTC)

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Lead Paragaph

right on!

A lead introduces you to the subject in a limited number of steps, and is accessible to as many as possible, whatever their angle of incidence. It stops short of specialist details. Some articles to the contrary exist only on a lofty, inaccessible platform that intimidates or excludes newcomers. cf. Timmer, 2015, Byrne, 2017 While the articles have grown and matured, many lead paragraphs are still neglected. They are often too short or too long, and do not provide a summary of the article. Any new contributors may well dedicate themselves to these, and render a valuable service. The lead is a good place to describe the context of the subject, to give a perspective on how the topic fits into the larger picture.

As a new contributor I am finding that I am clarifying Lead Paragraphs here or there. So yes, and thanks! Flibbertigibbets (talk) 23:56, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

Glad to hear that the idea resonates with someone. Many lead paragraphs are either single sentences or unfocussed introductions that flow into the body of the article. The latter should be abscised and placed under fitting section headers. Creating useful and fitting lead paragraphs is an art which some writers and experts neglect, as they don't care to stoop to that level. Perhaps wikipedia is still too young to have found that balance, and a new generation of contributors can certainly help fix it. JMK (talk) 07:42, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Generally, One big edit on lead was moving existing first sentences of the body content up to the Lead; and rewriting the first sentence. I am looking around at the talk pages of folks who edited articles I am editing to help with the learning curve. I was glad to find your insight.

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Fort Clery

Hi JMK, Would like to enquire where you have the source for the exact map of Fort Clery and especially interested in the church structure. Am writing a book on the history of Luneburg in the Zulu war.

Thanks TH Thomas Hambrock (talk) 07:38, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

The map is from the information board on this small monument: Fort Clery memorial. I don't think the source was mentioned but I will enquire further, and report back here. I should also add the source to the map once I have it. JMK (talk) 13:05, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Create a page for Albania and Tirana in Xhosa Wiki

@JMK Hi JMK! I am from Albania and I have a request. Please can you create a page for Albania and the capital city of Albania, Tirana, in Xhosa Wiki? I would love them to be on this Wiki. Please create them with short content and add them to Wikidata. I would thank you so much... GeriKola93 (talk) 21:21, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

With my level of Xhosa that will be difficult, though not impossible. The finer points of Xhosa are beyond me. When I have time though, I could try. JMK (talk) 12:37, 29 October 2024 (UTC)