''[[/archived discussion 6]] (through 11-25-2008)''<br>''[[/archived discussion 7]] (through 12-10-2014)'' 

==August 17 Menaion== Should we call our father among the saints Theodoretus the enlightener of the Sami, as opposed to the enlightener of the Lapps. Lapp is considered something of an ethnic slur; much like calling the Inuit by the name Eskimo. On the other hand, should we wait until the Menaion itself is changed to reflect the better name Changes for the people morning of northern Scandinavia. [[User:Eddieuny|Eddieuny]] 03:22May 11, November 18, 2009 (UTC) 2016 ==Ukrainian version== Dear Father, I thought to start Ukrainian version. How can I do that? I work with articles related to Orthodoxy on Ukrainian wikipedia.  --[[User:Roman Z|Roman Z]] 21:38, March 12, 2009 (UTC) ==Orthodox Source==Hi father john, it is with much sadness and hurt that I see you close down Orthodox Source. Mainly because I invested a huge amount of time to put information onto that site that took a lot of my time and I dont have access to any more. I am a bit saddened because you didnt even give me some notice that you were going to close the site down so that I could at least download some of the information onto my personal computer that I can access in the future ... a bit disappointed that this was not considered and an opportunity given to do this. It only proves that the Internet is not a very viable Christian tool. [[User:Ixthis888|Vasiliki]] 05:50, November 27, 2008 (UTC) == Fact check == Dear Father,I am trying to recall the name of the cemetery chapel at Saint Anna's Skete on the Holy Mountain. I wondered if you or any of your readers/discussants might help me. Thanks,Isaak Scott Cairns :One source tells me it's "Holy Cross" — [[User:FrJohn|<b>FrJohn</b>]] ([http://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:FrJohn&action=edit&section=new talk]) 20:54, March 16, 2009 (UTC) == Hymns of Contrition == Father John, I bought a CD last night that in Greek is called "Kataniktika of Great lent". So, I set about doing a google today to find out just what are these hymns (although I understand the words). Many articles come up but they are primarily from the Catholic church and are seven Psalms ... these do not seem to be the format of the kataniktiko service. Can you help me. What are the Kataniktika of Great Lent? I want to post an article onto OrthodoxWiki for others to reference too.!! Thanks in advance. [[User:Ixthis888|Vasiliki]] 22:54, March 16, 2009 (UTC) :O man, these Greek terms -- best ask a Byzantine-style cantor, I think. Anyone around here? — [[User:FrJohn|<b>FrJohn</b>]] ([http://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:FrJohn&action=edit&section=new talk]) ::Триоди в Воскресенья - the CD translates the "Kataniktika" as the "Hymns of Contrition". However, if you do a google on that term it comes up with the Catholic version of Hymns of Contrition - which are not the same! Oi! What is wrong with the Greek terms? The church lasted 2,000 years because of the beauty in the Greek language :-) Do you want us to convert everything to Russian so you can understand? LOL ANYWAY! You are a priest - you should know what these are! ROFL [[User:Ixthis888|Vasiliki]] 23:07, March 16, 2009 (UTC) ::: The ''Katanyktikoi Hymnoi'' (it helps to use standard Latinization for Greek!) may be called the "Hymns of Contrition" or "Penitential Hymns," and the term refers to a wide set of pieces of hymnography used throughout the period of the Triodion, most especially in the stichera of Lenten Vespers (most often referenced in Sunday night Vespers).  ::: They are not the same thing as the "Penitential Psalms." &mdash;[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">Fr. Andrew</font>]] ^{[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]} <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font color="black">contribs</font>]] <font face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">('''[[User:ASDamick/Wiki-philosophy|THINK!]]''')</font></small> 23:53, March 16, 2009 (UTC):::: Thanks! What I did was cut and paste what you just said and inserted it into an article. Hopefully we can develop it a little ... there is not much available on the Internet for this. [[User:Ixthis888|Vasiliki]] 00:34, March 17, 2009 (UTC) == ΒΟΗΘΕΙΑ == ΧΡΕΙΑΖΟΜΑΙ ΣΤΟΙΧΕΙΑ ΓΙΑ ΜΙΑ ΠΑΛΙΑ ΑΙΡΕΣΗ, ΛΕΓΕΤΑΙ ΑΦΘΑΡΤΟΔΟΚΗΤΙΣΜΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΙΔΡΥΤΗΣ ΤΗΣ ΗΤΑΝ Ο ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΣ ΑΛΙΚΑΡΝΑΣΣΟΥ ΙΟΥΛΙΑΝΟΣ :Ελληνικά, παρακαλώ. Δεν μιλούν ελληνικά. Σε ευχαριστώ. — [[User:FrJohn|<b>FrJohn</b>]] ([http://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:FrJohn&action=edit&section=new talk]) ==User Creation - Proposal==Greetings Fr. John,With the amount of Vandalism we have, I propose that anyone requesting a new account first has to submit a request online, with some brief info about temselves, and THEN THE REQUEST WILL REQUIRE APPROVAL by yourself or Fr. Andrew or other Sysops. '''The ability for anyone to automatically create accounts will be disabled''', unless they are sincere and simply request a free account which they can then of course have; I think that the Conservapedia and some other wikis might have this system in place. Anyhow, just an idea I wanted to pass along :)  By the way, regarding the note immediately above this one (in greek), it reads something like this: ''"I require information on an ancient heresy, called "Aftharto-Docetism"?, and its proponent was the Bishop of Halicarnassos Julianos."'' I see that it was an unsigned comment however. Cheers, [[User:Angellight 888|Angellight 888]] 00:10, June 4, 2009 (UTC) :Hi Angellight, given the number of users we have, this sounds like an awful lot of work. I'd rather just clean up occasionally as needed, but let me keep my eyes open for another solution. — [[User:FrJohn|<b>FrJohn</b>]] ([http://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:FrJohn&action=edit&section=new talk]) 00:17, June 4, 2009 (UTC) ::other forums require that you Verify your "humanity" by typing into a box the combination of numbers/letters you can see on the screen to verify that you are indeed "real" and not a bot. maybe that is all you need. [[User:Ixthis888|Vasiliki]] 00:51, June 4, 2009 (UTC)

::::YepYou're probably still working on this, was just posting that but it looks like the changes I've just installed a captcha test for new user registrationsmade to pages this morning were lost. It won't block disturbed individuals A couple of them were minor, but should help with I did a significant wikification/edit of one of the automated creation pages [[Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of accounts from multiple un-blacklisted IPs where email verification the USA, Canada and Australia]]. Any chance this can be performedrestored? (P. Amazing we have to deal with that, eh? — S. Thank you for all your hard work!) [[User:FrJohnKatjuscha|<b>FrJohn</b>Katjuscha]] ([http[User talk://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:FrJohn&action=edit&section=new Katjuscha|talk]]) 0018:5505, June 4May 11, 2009 2016 (UTC)

:Hi! Thanks for all your work. The wiki was long overdue for an upgrade (c.f. [[OrthodoxWiki:News|news]] )... I tried first running 1.27, and then 1.26. Turns out that hitcounters were [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120216 removed]] from core in MW 1.26, so I've moved the site back to 1.25 and added the [[mw:Extension:YeahHitCounters|HitCounter extension]], you have so we should be ok moving forward. Let me see what I can do about recovering those edits. (It was a question of reverting before many edits were made or losing the hitcounter history, going back to wonder why they havent got better things to do than hurl abuse at people who are minding their own business 2004...) — [[User:FrJohn|<b>FrJohn</b>]] ([http://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:FrJohn&action=edit&section=new talk]) 18:10, May 11, 2016 (UTC) — [[User:FrJohn|<b>FrJohn</b>]] ([http://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:FrJohn&action=edit&section=new talk]) 18:10, May 11, 2016 (UTC): ...and please do let me know if you see any other issues. ::No problem! :) I learnt something yesterday'm just kind of noticing the differences. A priest called Fr Demetrius wrote an email about praying I got a whole bunch of server errors for the deceased soul of a "george" who couple minutes there, but I'm sure that was a pro-abortionist in Americafrom the upgrade (I don't get them anymore either). When you read with what tenderness I am determined to get the counter on the front page to 4900 (and love Fr Demetrius writes about hopefully beyond that!):::How does [[Bulgarian_Eastern_Orthodox_Diocese_of_the_USA,_Canada_and_Australia|this "sinner" ]] look?::::Awesome! Thank you realise how much we just pity these people - for they know not what they do. ! :) [[User:Katjuscha|Katjuscha]] ([[Usertalk:Ixthis888Katjuscha|Vasilikitalk]] 01) 20:0426, June 4May 11, 2009 2016 (UTC)

:::The only effect really is to drain a little bit of == How can I submit my time away :-(. — [[User:FrJohn|<b>FrJohn</b>]] ([http://orthodoxwiki.org/index.phpsandbox page for publication on Orthodox Wiki?title=User_talk:FrJohn&action=edit&section=new talk])

::::HeyHello Father John, I just did an EDIT have created a page on an article the Nuns of Shamordino of Solovki Prison and it asked me to fill out a box Vorkuta Gulag... is this going I would like to be the standard practise from now on for editing as submit it will grow tedious I think for regulars? [[User:Ixthis888|Vasiliki]] 01:37, June 4, 2009 (UTC):::Whoops, I'll fix this. — [[User:FrJohn|<b>FrJohn</b>]] ([http://orthodoxwiki.org/indexpublication.php?title=User_talk:FrJohn&action=edit&section=new talk]) 01:43, June 4, 2009 (UTC):::How can I missed do that once the setting that said "Require captcha when user edits page and adds a link" - let me know if it happens again! — [[User:FrJohn|<b>FrJohn</b>]] ([http://orthodoxwiki.org/index.phphas been created in Sandbox?title=User_talk:FrJohn&action=edit&section=new talk])

::::Sure, also while I have you and you are in a good mood :D I would like to ask for a favour (as far as practical) my heart is to complete the most comprehensive Table of Saints (in Chronological order) - as you can witness by this new articleThanks very much. At present, I am systematically and patiently working through the information ON OrthodoxWiki ... how can I identify saints I have missed NOT listed on OrthodoxWiki. Do you have any suggestions? [[User:Ixthis888|Vasiliki]] 01:53, June 4, 2009 (UTC) Robert

:::Wow! Sounds like a big job. I guess you'd have to check the websites of the various Orthodox jurisdictions around the world, or get your hands on a really good synaxarion (I like the one published by at Ormylia) and refer to its index. — [[User:FrJohnRelic67|<b>FrJohn</b>Relic67]] ([http[User talk://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:FrJohn&action=edit&section=new Relic67|talk]]) 0118:5614, June 4August 13, 2009 2016 (UTC)

See [[Talk:Alban|this]]. &mdash;[[User:ASDamick|<font size="3= Ro.5" color="green" face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">FrOrthodoxWiki. Andrew</font>]] ^{[[User_talk:ASDamick|<font color="red">talk</font>]]} <small>[[Special:Contributions/ASDamick|<font colororg ="black">contribs</font>]] <font face="Adobe Garamond Pro, Garamond, Georgia, Times New Roman">('''[[User:ASDamick/Wiki-philosophy|THINK!]]''')</font></small> 01:59, July 8, 2009 (UTC)

Thank you very much! I requested only "administrator" permissions, but I see that I got more than I asked for. I hope not to disappoint anyone. God help us! --[[User:Sîmbotin|Sîmbotin]] 05:32, November 10, 2016 (UTC)::Thanksfor your work Sîmbotin. Actually, message leftyou were made a "bureaucrat" which is a funny name, but allows you to administrate users, particularly on RO. God bless, — [[User:FrJohn|<b>FrJohn</b>]] ([http://orthodoxwiki.org/index.php?title=User_talk:FrJohn&action=edit&section=new talk]) 0509:3819, July 8November 10, 2009 2016 (UTC)