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 ==LanguageRu== 
 Greetings, Angela. I am Ramir from ru:Wikipedia and Wikibooks. Since yours was the second familiar name on the Developers list (after Brion Vibber), I ask you, on behalf of the Russian Wikipedia users, to update the language files: meta:LanguageRu.php and the newly created meta:LanguageWikibooksRU.php. Thank you very much if you do this. (The ru:w language file hasn't been updated for a very long time).    
 :Since it's not something I have any experience of doing, I asked in #mediawiki if anyone else could do it but have got no response so far. Btw, swearing on the Requests for languageXX.php update page isn't likely to increase the chance of this being updated.   
 ::Sorry for swearing, but I just couldn't think of a better way of expressing great irritation. Also I have only just noticed the note at the top of that page, saying it is deprecated. Fine, but how can I get the right people's attention without going on to bothering others (eg you) on their personal talk pages? (I don't know what #mediawiki is. A newsgroup?) By editing locale files we are also doing Wikimedia a little favor, since the load on the server is lower when the l10n is done through .php files as opposed to MediaWiki: namespace.   
 :::You could try m:Non-development tasks for developers, but with only volunteer developers, there's never going to be any guarantee people want to do these sorts of boring tasks. Asking a developer directly might help, and  seems to have done a few of these lately, so he might be a good person to ask first.   
 :::: Thank you! But note that his name is Hashar, not Hasher. So... yeah, it looks like I have to ask the right people in person (while I don't know many).   

 ==W.C. Handy== 

 Merry Christmas, Angela!  
 I hope the holidays bring much peace and joy to you and yours. 
 My concern regards the changes I've made to the W.C. Handy page. Upon my observation, I first thought the page was plagiarized and hence very well may have violated copyright. However, I was wrong. Yet, the information contained on the original page did not reference any source or citation, save for a brief, excerpted online version of a biography which was (and remains) in no wise exemplary. As a long-time resident of the area of Handy's birth, I have done research into his life and music. Motivated by what I perceived to be a poorly written article which was little better than a stub, I completely rewrote it, citing sources, and adding  external links to current events that celebrate and commemorate his work. Referencing the previous article, there was (and which I incorprated in a revision) a reference to some of his works which I felt though only somewhat appropriate, would be better suited in a musicology article. They mentioned only one person's opinion - the writer - again, with no source citation of any kind. In my complete rewrite, I referenced the subject's autobiography, and several independent sources which are included in the external links. There is, in my estimation, a more fully complete picture of the breadth and character of the subject, and one which the casual visitor/reader would find fascinating. One example is that he started his own highly successful publishing company in an era of aparteid, and was widely acclaiamed by all. Though that detail was not necessarily of itself important, in context of the time, it was. And, seeking to present and offer understanding of the subject in context of his era and the current era was my objective. Please take a look at the article(s) and share your thoughts with me. Realize also however, that some minor formatting issues may be present, forwhich others more experienced will hopefully and gladly correct. The main thrust of my concern is for content, not mark-up. Wishing you a Warm and Kind Christmas,   

  
 == Block log == 

 While you are fooling about with testing blocks, can you see what's wrong wtih the formatting of the block log?  The userpage, talk, contribs links are getting extra sets of brackets - way ugly.  Since (if?) you've got the power can you fix it?  \  

 :The ""fooling around with testing blocks"" was an attempt to see how it could be fixed. Currently, it's formatted properly, but with far less information that it used to contain, in par