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Hi, I've just had an Email notifying me that an article I created on EN wiki has been migrated here, except it hasn't. I frequently move poorly named new articles and I wonder if that has lead to your migration bot being confused? As you haven't got the relevant history I can't see what happened in that case, but am pretty sure that would be the case. WereSpielChequers 01:47, 3 July 2011 (MDT)

Hi. Thanks, yes that page was one of the first we did, and it appears to have been accidentally removed during testing. Sorry about that. --Richard 02:14, 3 July 2011 (MDT)

Copyright/License terms

At the head of pages copied from Wikipedia you properly refer to CC-BY-SA, but at the foot of the pages and on the main page it still says "Content is available under Public Domain". That is misleading and untrue - at most it should say something like "Content is available under Public Domain unless otherwise stated at the head of the page." 79.69.225.150 (talk) 15:36, 10 July 2011 (MSD)

Yes, we will update the template to be more explicit. Richard (talk) 16:26, 10 July 2011 (MSD)

Status

I was wondering about the status of this site. It seems that Richard hasn't edited in a couple weeks and HistoryBot is only running sporadically. I was hoping this place would be running full steam by now. Could somebody provide a status of the site operations? Thanks. Web (talk) 06:33, 24 July 2011 (MSD)

Hi Web, we've been a little busy the last couple of weeks but we've both been monitoring the site and the situation with wikipedia. I need to make some adjustments to HistoryBot, but it will be back up and running soon. Thanks for your contributions by the way. Cheers Richard (talk) 09:04, 24 July 2011 (MSD)
Thanks for the update, Richard. Thanks also to you and Govind for setting up the site and everything. It's very kind of you to provide a safe haven for disenfranchised Wikipedians. Thanks. Web (talk) 01:03, 25 July 2011 (MSD)

September11wiki?

See [1]. I just heard about this site, which dates back to a 2002 dispute at Wikipedia which began a trip down the wrong path... unfortunately, the site is closed, but maybe the operators could be contacted and recruited to your project? Just a thought. Wnt (talk) 22:30, 27 July 2011 (MSD)

I think anything that adds to WikiAlpha would probably be benefitial. Web (talk) 07:46, 29 July 2011 (MSD)
I was admin there. There and I think the Afar WP, which was also closed. Interestingly the September 11 wiki became more encyclopedic as time passed, and less of a memorial as such. There was no real problem with keeping it, but some folk just like tidying up for the sake of it. Rich Farmbrough (talk)

Time zone

The time zone for the server appears to be UTC, while the time zone on signatures appears to be "MSD" AKA Wikipedia:Moscow Time and Wikipedia:UTC+04:00. Why the discrepancy?   — Jeff G. ツ 05:09, 3 August 2011 (MSD)

Using templates from Wikipedia?

I'm going to be working on articles, but there are a number of templates I need first. I've been grabbing templates from Wikipedia for the new ones, but I was wondering if anybody would mind if I used Wikipedia's templates for existing ones, like {{cite book}} and {{cite news}}? I wanted to ask permission before I started doing this. Another one I was hoping to replace was {{infobox}}, but I want to ask first because it will change the look of all infoboxes from the yellow/orange border to black like Wikipedia.
@Richard, Govind & Mathew, I wanted to get your OK on this before I did anything since this will change how the site looks. Thanks in advance for your input. Web (talk) 07:20, 25 August 2011 (MSD)

That sounds good, but be warned, the cite templates on enwp take esoteric to a whole new level. :)   — Jeff G. ツ 07:55, 23 October 2011 (MSD)
Feel free, but as Jeff said above, they take some getting used to. :P Govind (talk) 10:09, 23 October 2011 (MSD)