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== Changes for the morning of May 11, 2016 ==
  
== Interwiki ==
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You're probably still working on this, but it looks like the changes I made to pages this morning were lostA couple of them were minor, but I did a significant wikification/edit of one of the pages [[Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada and Australia]]. Any chance this can be restored?  (P.S.  Thank you for all your hard work!) [[User:Katjuscha|Katjuscha]] ([[User talk:Katjuscha|talk]]) 18:05, May 11, 2016 (UTC)
 
 
Father, would it be okay to get rid of some of [[Special:Interwiki|these]]?  For instance, the [http://andstuff.org/ AndStuff] wiki is personal and closed.  For many of these, it's doubtful that we would ever link them, let alone in quantities enough to justify having an interwiki link ([http://www.linuxwiki.de/ LinuxWiki], for example).  On the other hand, it may be easier to keep them than weed them out.  Additionally, some of the interwiki links do not link to wikis, like those related to Google.  Your thoughts?  {{User:Magda/sig}} 13:06, November 21, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
== Favicon License ==
 
 
 
Father, That license for the favicon was for the favicon that I created. If you read the log, I think HappyGrievling replaced it with a favicon of his version. He just didn't change the license.
 
 
 
== [[OrthodoxWiki:Buzz]] ==
 
 
 
Father, I thought you might be interested in [http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=orthodoxwiki this link] which I found last night. {{User:Magda/sig}} 09:23, November 24, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
== Link buttons ==
 
 
 
Fr., the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/magdalainn/13560522/ first one] is link-button size, but the [http://www.flickr.com/photos/magdalainn/13445237/ second] is more banner-sized, and rather illegible when reduced to the size of the first.  Still want the second?  You're welcome to both, of course.  {{User:Magda/sig}} 12:08, November 25, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
== [[OrthodoxWiki:Photo galleries]] ==
 
 
 
* [[:Category:Skete Images]] - For images used by permission from Skete.com - See [[Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Skete.com]]
 
I have noticed that [[Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Skete.com]] does not include all of the images which actually use the template (cf. [[:Image:Dionysius the Areopagite.jpg]]).  Also, how do you make the category page show up as a gallery? {{User:Magda/sig}} 12:56, November 26, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
== Press photos ==
 
 
 
They're probably actually more in the line of "fair use" than public domain, something like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Promotional what you find here] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Promophoto here], i.e., that the image was produced for mass distribution.  {{User:ASDamick/sig}} 14:13, November 26, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
== IRC ==
 
 
 
Fr. I noticed that Dcn. Damick, Magda, and yourself are doing some serious work with images. I would jump in and help, but don't know where to start. Do you use Firefox for your browser? If so, have you looked at the ChatZilla IRC Client [[OrthodoxWiki:Chat|I wrote about]]. I think this would help everyone talk about what everyone else is doing at the moment and might help speed things along. This is the last time I will mention it for a while. I am currently logged into the #orthodoxwiki channel at irc.freenode.net using the default user name. Joe 18:09 EST 26 Nov 2005
 
 
 
==Japan==
 
 
 
Father John, I'll give it a try[[User:Wsk|Wsk]] 17:33, November 26, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
== [[OrthodoxWiki:Photo galleries]] ==
 
 
 
Father, what images do you want in [[:Category:Images of Icons|this category]]? {{User:Magda/sig}} 19:54, November 26, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
''Please import all appropriate images from a whole category at one time and then register the category on Wikimedia Commons that they were imported from here.'' — I don't think I understand this sentence.  Would you please clarify? {{User:Magda/sig}} 22:06, November 26, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
Okay, so what images do you want in [[:Category:Icons|''this'' category]]?  Each and every icon?  Just want to make sure before going ahead.  My plan is to go through [[Special:Imagelist]] tomorrow (or later today, in my time zone) and make sure they're in the lists by subject. {{User:Magda/sig}} 23:17, November 26, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
:More specifically, do you want to add <nowiki>[[Category:Icons]]</nowiki> even to the images which are already in, say,  [[:Category:Skete Images]]?  The Skete Images category itself is in [[:Category:Icons]], but the individual images do not show up in the [[:Category:Icons]] gallery.  {{User:Magda/sig}} 14:30, November 27, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
How about images which are included in a permission category, but not a topical category—[[:Image:Alaska.png]], [[:Image:Alexandria logo.gif]]—would you want them to be in the ironic "Uncategorized Images" category? {{User:Magda/sig}} 16:08, November 27, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
:Any idea what to do about the two almost-identical Atalla Hanna pictures? I would prefer to delete the second, but am not sure how. {{User:Magda/sig}} 16:20, November 27, 2005 (CST)
 
:*Atallah Hanna.jpg
 
:*Atallah%20Hanna.jpg
 
:That's part of what has me confused, but there is a separate listing for each on [[Special:Imagelist]] (500, by name), and when clicking on the filename, those are kept in different directories, so it's not the exact same file: [http://www2.orthodoxwiki.org/images/e/ec/Atallah_Hanna.jpg] and [http://www2.orthodoxwiki.org/images/5/51/Atallah%2520Hanna.jpg]. {{User:Magda/sig}} 18:20, November 27, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
== Vandalbot Template ==
 
 
 
We can either do that, or just check the list at the admin yahoo group by searching for ''vandal''. {{User:Magda/sig}} 20:54, November 27, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
== More image stuff ==
 
 
 
[[:Category:OrthodoxWiki Images]]—
 
It seems that some of these, such as [[:Image:Logo wikikto en.jpg]], would be better off in the [[:Category:Logos|Logos]] category.  I don't see them as OrthodoxWiki logos or even system images.  If you think they should remain in this category, perhaps you could add a clarifyer on the category page?
 
 
 
[[MediaWiki:Uploadtext]]—
 
Should we add something like: "If you have obtained this image from the internet, please include the URL in the summary." ? (Or perhaps: "If you have obtained this image from the internet, please include the URL in the summary, unless the source is evident from the image license.")
 
 
 
== Re: Copyright trouble ==
 
 
 
:Hello Father, I edit/create new entries on ''both'' sites (Wikipedia and OrthodoxWiki - see, for example, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Mina] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Mina_Monastery_in_Mariut] and compare to OrthodoxWiki), so it's the same person in most cases, though I use different usernames in Wikipedia and usually even edit without loging in at all, i.e., a different IP address will appear at different times (my IP is not static). I started editing in Wikipedia before moving to OrthodoxWiki. In Christ, --[[User:Arbible|Arbible]] 17:31, November 28, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
::Yes, Father. St. Mina's article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Mina] is a '''complete rewrite from scratch''' by me (''cf.'' previous edits), and St. Mina Monastery article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Mina_Monastery_in_Mariut] has been '''created''' and '''fully''' written/edited by me too on both sites. In Christ, --[[User:Arbible|Arbible]] 17:39, November 28, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
::http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nectarios (I created/edited this one too using username Kyrillos2 (to upload the image) and IP address 80.41.178.115)
 
 
 
::http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraam_Bishop_of_Fayoum (I created/edited this one also using username Kyrillos2 (to upload the image) and IP addresses 80.41.178.114 and 80.41.180.161)
 
 
 
::and many, many more...
 
 
 
::A general problem with wikis is the lack of explicit authorship/editorship information, and of mechanisms to ensure this is clearly present in every article. (For quality benchmarking purposes an IP or nickname cannot qualify as proper authorship/editorship information.) This is a crucial quality criterion that we teach to our students - please refer to the following presentation of mine: http://healthcybermap.org/MNKB_Quality.PDF
 
 
 
::In Christ, --[[User:Arbible|Arbible]] 18:10, November 28, 2005 (CST)
 
(also: http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/OrthodoxWiki_talk:Copyrights )
 
 
 
:That's a nice presentation, Arbible, very clear. One clarification, though. The article in question is [[Cyril VI (Atta) of Alexandria]] (cf. [[wikipedia:Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria]]). Fr. John
 
 
 
::http://www.zeitun-eg.net/stcyril6/
 
::http://www.stmina-monastery.org/popekyrillos6.htm
 
::Arbible
 
 
 
:The WHOIS info of the above domains can be easily checked.
 
:The following resource might also be of interest, especially the sections on self-plagiarism and on proper/improper paraphrasing: http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~roigm/plagiarism/
 
:I need to go now - I will be in Thailand for the coming few days, God willing, to deliver an invited keynote speech at a conference http://www.j-geoinfo.net/HealthGIS/FISH_prog.htm , so won't be available to reply/edit. Please keep me in your prayers. In Christ, --[[User:Arbible|Arbible]] 19:36, November 28, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
==Reply==
 
''Thanks for the links, but can you be more explicit about what you are saying they demonstrate? Thanks, [[User:FrJohn|Fr. John]]''
 
 
 
::Even when one is simply importing (to a different wiki)/reusing their ''own'' articles that nobody else has edited this can still sometimes be considered self-plagiarism by academic standards (also depending on the specific details of a particular import and how you approach/judge the whole matter). '''OPEN''' wiki "encyclopedias" are not academically rigorous and were never intended to be so. Nicknames are not any better than IP addresses (in this respect). One can never compare Wikipedia to Britannica, for example - see [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/27/wikipedia_britannica_and_linux/], [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/18/wikipedia_quality_problem/]. Please forgive me Father; you should never describe yourself as "slow sometimes". Thanks for the prayerful wishes. In Christ, --[[User:Arbible|Arbible]] 20:30, November 28, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
'''Food for thought:'''
 
* http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3540259953/102-7745094-9986548
 
* I have also written a bit on the wiki concept in this recent editorial of mine: http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/4/1/22 (see under 'Discussion > The wikification of GIS, maps and satellite imagery/aerial photography: imaging and geospatial information for the wide masses')
 
   
 
===RE: P.S ===
 
''Did I ever mention that one day last year a woman showed up at my church - she had been Muslim by was converted by a miracle that she a her sister both witnessed together -- it was a manifestation of Pope St. Kyrillos? It was a beautiful story. [[User:FrJohn|Fr. John]]''
 
 
 
::There are some volumes in English here: http://www.stmina-monastery.org/miracles.htm
 
:: God Bless. --[[User:Arbible|Arbible]] 20:30, November 28, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
==Ethics==
 
I've been using the off-line OrthodoxWiki known as the seminary for the articleI am taking a course in Orthodox Christian Ethics this semester and when we were told to come up with a project for the semester...  There were three of us, writing three articles each, so hopefully, before the end of the year, there will be eight more articles for that section of OrthodoxWiki. [[User:Vandrona|Virgil]]
 
 
 
: Actually, yes.  Among the options for projects was "creating ethics-related web-pages," with the provision that we would have to show they are useful for more than just getting a grade.  Naturally, I suggested OrthodoxWiki.  Thankfully, it was accepted. [[User:Vandrona|Virgil]]
 
 
 
== address of st catherine- mt siani ==
 
 
 
dearest father - would you happen to know the address to the monastery of st catherine ( mt. saini)? I would like to send a prayer request for 40 days litergy . ( seven days a week for 40 days)I was looking for information who was the heiromonk and where to send a offering.- thank- you! with love in christ- athena
 
:This was actually a longer search than I expected, Father.  I'm still working on going to the library to finish copying out the list of names for [[User_talk:Lin|this request]]. Sorry for the editing conflict.  Thanks for the tip on the favicon.  And what do you mean you don't know everything? :) {{User:Magda/sig}} 10:14, November 30, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
== Favicon ==
 
 
 
Is it just me, or is the favicon not showing up? {{User:Magda/sig}} 09:35, November 30, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
== Maps ==
 
 
 
Fr. If you are talking about using the Google API I think that would be great. Joe 30 Nov 2005
 
:Me, too! {{User:Magda/sig}} 13:58, November 30, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
::Ok, ok. Just give me a little time! [[User:FrJohn|Fr. John]]
 
 
 
:Fr. The first extension you listed looked a little more user friendly. [[User:Joe Rodgers|Joe]]
 
 
 
== [[:Category:Clergy]] ==
 
 
 
The main difficulty with having [[:Category:Clergy]] include individuals is that it would thus necessarily encompass nearly every person whose bio we have on the wiki, thus rendering it nearly useless.  {{User:ASDamick/sig}} 17:33, November 30, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
: I'm honestly not sure.  Obviously, we don't want uncategorized articles, but I'm also not sure how to supply categories for some of these folks.  {{User:ASDamick/sig}} 17:47, November 30, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
== Come Receive the Light ==
 
 
 
Fr. Is that your wife on the receive.org website/broadcast? [[User:Joe Rodgers|Joe]] 4 Dec 2005
 
 
 
==Japanese Church Images==
 
Fr. John, I like the categories setting up all the images on file. I suggest adding the image of Metr. Sergius to the Japanese category. I couldn't how you linked the image to the Japanese image category, so that's why I'm sending this!!  The file is: Image:Met_Sergius%28port%29.jpg. ````
 
 
 
== Chicago ==
 
 
 
The other states are not usually one-large-metropolitan-area and everybody-else.  In Texas, most things (as far as I know) are grouped by metropolitan area.  For instance, someone looking for a church in Dallas may find that the closest church to his location-in-Dallas is actually in, say, Irving.  Since he wouldn't be going to Irving itself, he probably wouldn't look for churches there.  I would love to see a google map interface with these pages somehow.
 
 
 
== photo of Lossky ==
 
 
 
I took the photo from a conference page of the Moscow Patriarchate.
 
http://e.korsoun.free.fr/fr/annonces/conference_20050628.htm
 
 
 
There was no copyright notice on the page.
 
 
 
== Your Welcome ==
 
 
 
Your welcome. Even despite our differences I do wish the best for all people of faith. I do ask if at possible, that I be given access to my user talk page again. I think I understand why you locked it but I think we can agree to disagree without needing to make it a large issue. --[[User:Patriarchanthony|Patriarchanthony]] 21:31, December 11, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
:Thanks! --[[User:Patriarchanthony|Patriarchanthony]] 22:04, December 11, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
== Vandals ==
 
 
 
* Kynilyator
 
* Qolyan
 
 
 
Reverted pages they vandalized. Best I can do. --[[User:Patriarchanthony|Patriarchanthony]] 21:06, December 12, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
Greetings. I'm a student of Orthodox Seminary in Poland and I'm searching books and materials about hisotry of Orthodoxy in America, becouse I want to wrie my bechelor work about this. Maybe You can help for me?
 
 
 
== Broken link ==
 
 
 
Father, I don't get anywhere when I click on the [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/d?fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc,iucpub,tgmi:20:./temp/~pp_4g6Q: link] you added to the [[OrthodoxWiki:Images for import]] page, and I'm not sure what search you used. {{User:Magda/sig}} 12:44, December 21, 2005 (CST)
 
 
 
 
 
Hey, thanks for the encouragement. I'll be sure to work on a better article. - [[User:Ari|Ari]] 23:26, January 2, 2006 (CST)
 
 
 
== Thanks:) ==
 
 
 
Thanks for the extra points of view and thanks for reading some of my site. I did some research on the Great Schism of 1054 for a major project but I could not find enough information on it from first hand historians and most of what I did find was written by the west so it showed bias. I'm will try and work some of your suggestions into the site. --[[User:Ari|Ari]] 00:03, January 3, 2006 (CST)
 
 
 
 
 
==Vandals==
 
 
 
Father,
 
 
 
I did what I could to revert the perverse edits of a few spammers. I can't delete the pics but I assume a revert of them does the same thing? Not sure. But again, I did what I could. Edit this because problem resolved with sysop. :) --[[User:Patriarchanthony|Patriarchanthony]] 01:12, January 8, 2006 (CST)
 
 
 
== Re: Copyright Concern?  ==
 
 
 
Hi
 
We have permission to use this articles.
 
 
 
== Hello again! ==
 
 
 
Thank you very much for responding. I have to apologies, but this system is absolutely new to me. The way its working is little different that just ordinary website, also, tags is different too, so I will ask for your patients and forgiveness for any mistakes I could make in future. I guess it’s going to take some time to learn.
 
If you could advice how this information should be putted we will be much appreciated, and if you think it should be deleted, than do so.
 
About the copyright issue you don’t’ have to worry about this, because I am the owner and administrator of the blago.org server
 
Thank you in advance.
 
  
== Original Sin Question ==
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: 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:HitCounters|HitCounter extension]], 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 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)
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: ...and please do let me know if you see any other issues.
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::No problem!  :)  I'm just kind of noticing the differences.  I got a whole bunch of server errors for a couple minutes there, but I'm sure that was from the upgrade (I don't get them anymore either).  I am determined to get the counter on the front page to 4900 (and hopefully beyond that!)
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:::How does [[Bulgarian_Eastern_Orthodox_Diocese_of_the_USA,_Canada_and_Australia|this]] look?
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::::Awesome!  Thank you!  :)  [[User:Katjuscha|Katjuscha]] ([[User talk:Katjuscha|talk]]) 20:26, May 11, 2016 (UTC)
  
The following is from Our Orthodox Christian Faith: A
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== How can I submit my sandbox page for publication on Orthodox Wiki? ==
Handbook of Popular Dogmatics by Athanasios S.
 
Frangopoulos, theologian and teacher. Published by The
 
Brother of Theologians, "The Savior", in Athens,
 
Greece, 1984, Chapter 9, The Original Sin:
 
  
"4.e. The inheritance of Original Sin. The saddest and
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Hello Father John,
ugliest aspect of Original sin is its transmission
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I have created a page on the Nuns of Shamordino of Solovki Prison and Vorkuta Gulag. I would like to submit it for publication. How can I do that once the page has been created in Sandbox?
from the first man to his descendants and; from
 
generation to generation to the entire human race: a
 
hereditary transmission as a state and sickness of
 
human nature and as a personal guilt of every man."
 
  
This seems to aledge that we carry personal guilt for the original sin (which I understood to be a Catholic doctrine).
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Thanks very much. Robert
  
Can you explain whether this does or doesn't say that and why?
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[[User:Relic67|Relic67]] ([[User talk:Relic67|talk]]) 18:14, August 13, 2016 (UTC)
  
:Dear Kharaku, it's a good question. First, it's a mistake to say that the Roman Catholic Church teaches that we carry personal guilt, at least in the way many Orthodox understand them to teach. Here's what their Catechism, which is the current standard of teaching, says:
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: Sorry, Father! I had forgotten to leave my contact details using the four tildes. Hope you can answer my question now. Thank you. [[User:Relic67|Relic67]] ([[User talk:Relic67|talk]]) 18:25, August 13, 2016 (UTC)
::"Although it is proper to each individual,295 original sin does not have the character of a personal fault in any of Adam's descendants. It is a deprivation of original holiness and justice, but human nature has not been totally corrupted: it is wounded in the natural powers proper to it, subject to ignorance, suffering and the dominion of death, and inclined to sin..."[http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s2c1p7.htm#405]
 
:I have some issues with some of the wording in the larger context of that passage, but I don't fundamentally disagree with this. There has been a lot of scholastic influence on both Greek and Russian thought. I take many of the critiques of this kind of explanation of original sin as part of this movement away from "the Latin captivity" of Orthodox church theology (as Fr. Florovsky says). I do think sometimes people take it too far in the other direction.
 
:The RC Catechism also states:
 
::''406 The Church's teaching on the transmission of original sin was articulated more precisely in the fifth century, especially under the impulse of St. Augustine's reflections against Pelagianism, and in the sixteenth century, in opposition to the Protestant Reformation. Pelagius held that man could, by the natural power of free will and without the necessary help of God's grace, lead a morally good life; he thus reduced the influence of Adam's fault to bad example. The first Protestant reformers, on the contrary, taught that original sin has radically perverted man and destroyed his freedom; they identified the sin inherited by each man with the tendency to evil (concupiscentia), which would be insurmountable. The Church pronounced on the meaning of the data of Revelation on original sin especially at the second Council of Orange (529) and at the Council of Trent (1546).''
 
:This could help explain the different emphasis in the Orthodox tradition. Although Pelagius and his teaching were condemned at an Ecumenical Council, the battle between Augustine and Pelagius remained mainly a Western issue. The RC Catechism defends Augustine's position while carefully avoiding some of the more extreme ("total depravity") interpretations of the Reformers which virtually nullify the idea of human freedom, or cooperation with God.
 
:I think what we can understand Frangopoulos to be saying (to put a positive spin on it), is that we have all died in Adam and, through the Fall, have become citizens of the kingdom of darkness. We must die to Adam - not just clean things up, but die - and be reborn into new life in Christ. This is our justification (as we say during the Baptismal service), and the foundation of Church life.
 
:Hope that helps! {{User:FrJohn/sig}}
 

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Changes for the morning of May 11, 2016

You're probably still working on this, but it looks like the changes I made to pages this morning were lost. A couple of them were minor, but I did a significant wikification/edit of one of the pages Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada and Australia. Any chance this can be restored? (P.S. Thank you for all your hard work!) Katjuscha (talk) 18:05, May 11, 2016 (UTC)

Hi! Thanks for all your work. The wiki was long overdue for an upgrade (c.f. news )... I tried first running 1.27, and then 1.26. Turns out that hitcounters were removed] from core in MW 1.26, so I've moved the site back to 1.25 and added the HitCounter extension, 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 2004...) — FrJohn (talk) 18:10, May 11, 2016 (UTC) — FrJohn (talk) 18:10, May 11, 2016 (UTC)
...and please do let me know if you see any other issues.
No problem!  :) I'm just kind of noticing the differences. I got a whole bunch of server errors for a couple minutes there, but I'm sure that was from the upgrade (I don't get them anymore either). I am determined to get the counter on the front page to 4900 (and hopefully beyond that!)
How does this look?
Awesome! Thank you!  :) Katjuscha (talk) 20:26, May 11, 2016 (UTC)

How can I submit my sandbox page for publication on Orthodox Wiki?

Hello Father John, I have created a page on the Nuns of Shamordino of Solovki Prison and Vorkuta Gulag. I would like to submit it for publication. How can I do that once the page has been created in Sandbox?

Thanks very much. Robert

Relic67 (talk) 18:14, August 13, 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, Father! I had forgotten to leave my contact details using the four tildes. Hope you can answer my question now. Thank you. Relic67 (talk) 18:25, August 13, 2016 (UTC)