Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 03:01, 21 May 2006

Tere, labas dienas, sveiki! I would suggest replacing the geographical limitation at the outset of the page with "those people contributing articles related to the Baltic States." --Pēteris Cedriņš 00:33, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Of course. Much work needs to be done to get this ready. What's your ideas? Renata 01:22, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Marketing

Any ideas how to spread the word? Also, I suggest we keep it abc order: estonia, latvia and lithuania. Renata 02:31, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Labas dienas! I will mention this board here and there, for instance at Latvians Online. I append a link to my user page in the signature to my e-mails lately (and will link this board at my user page, too) ...but I haven't had much luck with getting people I think would make valuable contributors and good editors involved (as I'm sure everybody contributing has noticed, articles can take an awful lot of time, and participation can be intimidating). A hearty ačiū to DeirYassin for coming up with this idea for Baltic co-operation and acting upon it so quickly! --Pēteris Cedriņš 13:21, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

I had posted invitements to join Misplaced Pages in Lithuanian history forums once, but as well did not get much luck it seems. Anyways, it is easier to help people who are already in Misplaced Pages to stay/contribute more than to attract completely new people I guess. So, once we decide that thing sare done with this board, we could write informative messages to tell Baltic contributors of Misplaced Pages about this board, using the talk pages (taht informative messages could be written in Lithuanian, Latvian and English - it seems we have no Estonians here still to write the Estonian version. As well, we could write welcome messages in Baltic langauges, which we would send (via talk page) to every new presumable Baltic member; we would encourage them to stay here, explain some things, tell to ask us in case they'd have some questions, and tell about this board too. In order not to get too much into details (if we will wait until this board will be perfect before advertising we will never start), how about setting a date for "official opening", it could be for example next Monday (13th of February). And no need to thank me, I was thinking about such board for long, but did not seen enough active contributors, as I think Renata and me would be not enough to start such a board (especially as I don't plan to spend much time on wikipedia), while 3 people might be good for start, and 4 (if User:Vecrumba will take part) will be even better. It will take some time for it to start up I believe so that many people would come, but a few enthusiasts can already make the board alive for enough time. So, the best what we can do now is to use it by reporting things and such, if other users will join and report - check the articles they report so that the board would seem useful to them. For now we are setting it up, and when it starts we will see - if we will use it, it should come up eventually. DeirYassin 14:48, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

People know abot wikipedia, but they are not craving to edit. Anyway beside user talk pages maybe note on articles (talk pages) about Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania should be left - I think that article about ones country is one of the first things a newcomer will read. -- Xil/talk 19:11, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

Discussion about un-written articles is needed

I think we would benefit from such thing - there defenetely are things that deserve article, some things are already covered in other articles or there already is article named diferently so they don`t need article and proper naming in english is important, so I think that maybe this board should have section for that (or something) -- Xil/talk 19:11, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree -- "Articles needed"? Any other comments? --Pēteris Cedriņš 07:11, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Be bold :) Renata 18:04, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

I was. I hope you are comfortable with result - I've seen such sections named "Requested articles" elsewhere so I picked that name -- Xil/talk 14:02, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Baltic Way

I was expanding the article and I came upon the image gallery of pics from early independence movement days and there is a number of pics about Baltijos apkabinimas (hugging Baltic Sea). It looks like it took place in 1989 either early spring or late fall and was not that much political (i.e. was more about ecology). But it seems somewhat similar to the Baltic Way (human chain hugging the Baltic Sea, all three states participating), so if is was before it... I could easily draw parallels. Any thoughts? Renata 17:28, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

I have no Idea about this event, but it reminded me another thing - there is an event called "prayer to sea" in Latvia so I googled a bit and found out that it dates back to september 3. 1988. as that webpage I found said "live chain of people encircled largest part of Latvian coastline. Interesting that exposition at museum of popular front begins with similar large scale photograpgy". As far I know This event is still held once in a while. And in fact Latvian ecology movement in the eighties was pretty much political. Image depicting event(s) -- Xil/talk 02:20, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Pictures

Copyright page on photo archive of University of Latvia says that you may copy, reproduce and publish pictures found there without premision as long as you don't use them in advertising and put reference to author. Since page is in Latvian I'm not completly sure if that applays world wide, how do you think ? -- Xil/talk 03:29, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

"don't use them in advertising" means no commercial use. And such images are not allowed on wiki. If they said something like "use it, but just cite the source/author" - it could be used. You have to claim it under fair use if you want to use it. Sad, huh? Renata 23:57, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, anyway -- Xil/talk 03:32, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Geographical Names

I have attempted to keep the names of Lithuanian cities first English, and then Lithuanian, in the English Misplaced Pages. The need of some Polish editors to maintain "mental" possesion of these cities seems to be part of some relentless campaign to revert my efforts. As a compromise, I have left Polish names of towns and cities during the "occupation" of the Vilnius Region alone. My position is that the names of geographical locations in Lithuania do not have to have their "Polish" names included in the leads of articles (especially when there is a link to a Polish article). To see if there was a Quid Pro Quo attitude, I put a few Lithuanian names into Polish articles (Liublinas and Gnieznas), and the response was predictably to remove them. So what was good for the Gander was not good for the Goose. What is the consensus? Dr. Dan 02:01, 7 May 2006 (UTC) p.s. I have made the same edits to German and Russian names as well.

Jana Seta

Is this notable? Should this be translated/transwikied? Please comment at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Jana Seta. Kusma (討論) 00:25, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Soviet Image tags

My dear Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian colleagues, as you might be aware there are thousands of images on wikipedia published in the USSR and because of an action of one person now their future status is under question. Please read this RfC and help to endorse it. --Kuban Cossack 12:59, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Translation request for Nevėžis River

Would somebody beso kind as to give English title for the quoted Lituanian sources? I also suspect "Nevėžis" might be a meaningful word, if that is the case, could the English meaning be added?. Circeus 02:41, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

• I'll translate sources, but Nevėžis is not a meaningful word. I will explain in the article. Renata