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Yea i like this place indeed. I would like to contribute to wikipedia with my knowledge.Thank you for taking notice of me.It is my pleasure to serve Wikipediya. --Trengarasu 04:06, 9 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please any admin can do somthing to do this page.I think this is a misstake. may have to be removed because this article containss the same detais as in [Colombo] --Terrance 10:44, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi Terrance. This article is in Mystìc's userspace, so she is entitled to use it as a practice rather than editing the main article, so it's okay not to be deleted. Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia - visit my talkpage if you need more help. --Xyrael ^T 10:47, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Major crimes attacks against civilians, use of child soldiers(TMVP), acts of ethnic cleansing, torture Attributed assassinations(TNA) Notable attacks prison massacres, assassinations of political opponents have taken place,State Terrorism

• • ADD THIS TO THE SRI LANKA PAGE IT IS ONLY FAIR B/C you did it to the LTTE PAGE (MAKE A LIST LIKE WHAT YOU GUYS HAVE DONE TO THE LTTE PAGE)

The following article needs a renaming. [1] Title of the article is not appropriate since the article deals with the Dambulla Cave Temple of Sri Lanka not with Dambulla town. Proper title will be Dambulla Cave Temple

• can I rename it? Is there any Standard procedure fro that?

--Terrance 09:02, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Hello, Dambulla appears to deal with the World Heritage Site. First, mention the move at Talk:Dambulla, and wait a few days. If nobody complains, or if other users agree, simply use the [move] tab at the top of the article to move it to its new location. You may also be interested in the Manual of Style to see what the appropriate title is. Cheers, Tangotango 09:08, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Please add the prominent persons like you have mentioned. This list and article can be expanded. RaveenS

hi, i am righting som articles on chiristianity in ta: i found a open source picture bible which is in the form of figures. I want to know weather i can use some of the pictures in wiki? is it allowed? etc. This is the site.

Hi, yes, it's okay to upload these images (since they are in the public domain). Make sure you cite the source and use the appropriate copyright (or no copyright) tag. If at all possible, please consider uploading to Wikimedia Commons, so that all Wikimedia projects can use the images using a unified name. If you need any more help, please feel free to ask again. Cheers, Tangotango 09:45, 18 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

this is problem i encounteres in ta::

• i could not insert a template in one article more than 85 times.(it is country list so i need at least 200 times) when I do that a red link appears. when follwed that link it goes to to article space not to the teplate which is already there in wiki saved.

is there such limits on number of templates. any tricks to overcome it? thank you for your help in advance--Terrance 03:17, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Er...then just don't do that? Frankly, I do not believe any template should be used that much in one article. Ryūlóng 03:22, 24 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Trengarasu, thanks for joinning this project to help clean SL related article on wikipedia. NCSLC: Neutral Coverage of the Sri Lankan Crisis. Pls let me know your inputs and how to take it forward from here. We are eagerly looking fwd to seeing many positive contributions from you. Cheers, Elalan 01:44, 12 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

With the computer i uses now, i'm not able to type any sinhalese letters..sorry that i cant help you in this case --Iwazaki 10:12, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

THANKYOU SO MUCH Terrance for your brilliant translation help and effort!

I am very very Grateful.

MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU!

(In the future, if you ever need any articles to be translated to the Chinese or Taiwanese language, then I would gladly help you).

Yours Sincerely, From --Jose77 04:40, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Seeing that you are an active member of the WikiBiography Project, I was wondering if you would help lend a hand in helping us clear out the amount of [unassessed articles] tagged with ((WPBiography)). Many of them are of stub and start class, but a few are of B or A caliber. Getting a simple assessment rating can help us start moving many of these biographies to a higher quality article. Thank you! --Ozgod 22:58, 23 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The March 2007 issue of the Biography WikiProject newsletter has been published. You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. Thank you. Mocko13 22:10, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

An RFC has been filed to determine whether or not the position of the Jesus Seminar should be included in Lazarus and Dives. Your comments would be most welcome. --Joopercoopers 22:31, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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The April 2007 issue of the WikiProject Biography newsletter has been published.You may read the newsletter, change the format in which future issues will be delivered to you, or unsubscribe from this notification by following the link. BetacommandBot 20:30, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, you are now a member of Sri Lanka reconciliation project. Thanks for your interest. Taprobanus 12:50, 25 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please add the Sinhalese and Tamil texts to the articles Sri Lanka Scout Association and The Sri Lanka Girl Guides Association. Thank you! Chris 21:17, 23 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much! Chris 06:42, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, and thank you for your contributions! Can you help render "Be Prepared", the Scout Motto, into Tamil script? Thanks once again! Chris 03:48, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

[here Thanks Taprobanus 21:46, 24 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Biography WikiProject Newsletter Volume IV, no. 4 - September 2007
Project News The three-month long Summer Assessment Drive, organized by Psychless, was a huge success! It ran from June 1 – September 1, and reduced the backlog of unassessed articles from 113,385 to 56,237. In all, over 100,000 articles were assessed. Over 60 people contributed in some way. A barnstar has been created for exceptional work on Wikipedia biographies and for assisting the project. The Biography Barnstar is listed with the other WikiProject awards and can be awarded easily with a template. See the template page for more details. Member News Congratulations to the editors who worked on the newest featured biographies: Augustus; William Shakespeare; Adriaen van der Donck; Alfred Russel Wallace; Alison Krauss; Anne Frank; Anne of Denmark; Asser; Bart King; Bill O'Reilly; Bobby Robson; Bradley Joseph; CM Punk; Ceawlin of Wessex; Colley Cibber; Cædwalla of Wessex; Dominik Hašek; Elizabeth Needham; Frank Macfarlane Burnet; Georg Cantor; Gregory of Nazianzus; Gunnhild Mother of Kings; Gwen Stefani; Hannah Primrose, Countess of Rosebery; Harriet Arbuthnot; Harry S. Truman; Henry, Bishop of Uppsala; Héctor Lavoe; Ine of Wessex; Ion Heliade Rădulescu; Jack Sheppard; Jackie Chan; Jay Chou; John Martin Scripps; John Mayer; Joseph Francis Shea; Joshua A. Norton; Kate Bush; Kazi Nazrul Islam; Kevin Pietersen; Martin Brodeur; Mary Martha Sherwood; Mary of Teck; Maximus the Confessor; Miranda Otto; Muhammad Ali Jinnah; P. K. van der Byl; Penda of Mercia; Pham Ngoc Thao; Rabindranath Tagore; Ramón Emeterio Betances; Red Barn Murder; Richard Hakluyt; Richard Hawes; Robert Garran; Roman Vishniac; Ronald Niel Stuart; Ronald Reagan; Roy Welensky; Rudolph Cartier; Samuel Adams; Samuel Beckett; Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; Sarah Trimmer; Sargon of Akkad; Shen Kuo; Sophie Blanchard; Stereolab; Sydney Newman; Sylvanus Morley; Tim Duncan; Timeline of Mary Wollstonecraft; Uncle Tupelo; Waisale Serevi; Wallis, Duchess of Windsor; Walter Model; William Bruce; William Goebel; Yagan; Zhou Tong; Æthelbald of Mercia; Æthelbald of Mercia New Members Congratulations to our 225 new members	From the Editors The newsletter is back! Many things have gone on during the past few months, but many things have not. While the assessment drive helped revitalize the assessment department of the project, many other departments have received no attention. Most notably: peer review and our "workgroups". A day long IRC meeting has been planned for October 13th, with the major focus being which areas of the project are "dead", what should our goals be as a project, and how to "revive" the dead areas of our project. Contribute to the discussion on the the new channel (see below) We decided to deliver this newsletter to all project members this month but only those with their names down here will get it delivered in the future. This is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue. Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned or post news on the next issue's talk page New irc channel Lastly, a new WikiProject Biography channel has been set up on the freenode network: #wikipedia-en-bio Our thanks to Phoenix 15 for setting it up. Contributors to this Issue Psychless (talk · contribs) Phoenix 15 (talk · contribs)
Complete To Do List Write an article Expand an article about: a person an actor an animator an artist a bishop a businessperson a diplomat an educator an engineer a lawyer a military person a musician a photographer a saint a politician a scientist a sportsperson a writer Improve an article by: adding references adding categories Review an article Romano Volta • Suzanne Carrell • Mullá Husayn • John Gilchrist (linguist) • Thomas Brattle • Answer requests for comments Work on the Portal Portal:Biography Assess an article Assessment requests Unassessed articles Assessment Progress Biography articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Core Other ??? Total FA 34 1,589 1,623 FL 191 191 A 1 103 104 GA 41 8,051 8,092 B 92 37,043 37,135 C 35 158,988 159,023 Start 3 733,791 733,794 Stub 1,031,827 1 1,031,828 List 7,464 7,464 Category 2 187,498 187,500 Disambig 8,074 8,074 File 29,597 29,597 Project 1 196 197 Redirect 3 41,781 41,784 Template 12,644 12,644 NA 238 238 Assessed 212 2,259,075 1 2,259,288 Unassessed 1 32,323 32,324 Total 213 2,291,398 1 2,291,612 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 10,623,737 Ω = 5.39
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Category:Ratnapura, which you created, has been nominated for merging into Category:Cities and towns in Sri Lanka. You are invited to participate in the discussion located here. – Black Falcon ^(Talk) 02:33, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is some progress now in WP:SLR, please come and check it out! Because there's so much going on, I just created Wikipedia:WikiProject Sri Lanka Reconciliation/housekeeping to separate our internal housekeeping stuff from the current discussion about articles, which is of interest for more than just our members. Please add this page to your watchlist. I also wrote a new proposal on its talk page, WT:SLR/H#Proposed recipients for barnstars. Please let me know what you think of it! — Sebastian 11:28, 11 November 2007 (UTC)    (I may not be watching this page anymore. If you would like to continue the conversation, please do so here and let me know.)[reply]

Dear Terrance,

Thank you for your advice on the image. Is it not possible to retain that image under a 'screenshot image' licence? If even that is not possible, then there would be no other choice but to remove the image. P.s. May I also know what brought your attention to this article? AppleJuggler (talk) 06:27, 18 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Trengarasu! I see you're listed as a member of WikiProject Sri Lanka. The wikiproject is currently almost inactive, and we're trying to see if we can get it running again by getting together its members again. If you're still interested in being an active member of the Wikiproject, please add yourself under the list of currently active members on the project page. Hope to see you there. Cheers. -- Chamal ^Talk ± 11:47, 29 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please check out Anniversary - let's celebrate! Your suggestions are very welcome. — Sebastian 22:25, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for uploading File:William Gopallawa.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page.

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If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. Closedmouth (talk) 07:44, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Please see an important notice at WT:SLR#Should we close down this project? — Sebastian 08:21, 5 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia/The 10,000 Challenge has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland Wikipedia:The 10,000 Challenge and Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like South East Asia, Japan/China or India etc, much like Wikipedia:The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Asian content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 200 articles in just three days. If you would like to see this happening for Asia, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Asia, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thank you. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 04:47, 21 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Trengarasu, Thank you for your contributions to the Wikimedia Projects. As an editor from Sri Lanka, you are warmly invited to join the official Wikimedia Community User Group Sri Lanka and to subscribe to its mailing list, Wikimedia-LK. The user group currently includes volunteers from Wikipedia and other projects, from the English, Sinhala, and Tamil speaking communities. It is the Wikimedia-approved platform for editors from Sri Lanka to enable wider collaboration, for both online and offline projects. With your support, we hope to organize cross-project content improvement drives as part of online projects, as well as organize in-person edit-a-thons, training sessions, photowalks, and other such activities, in the near future. The ultimate goal(s) of these initiatives is to improve the overall coverage and quality of topics relating to Sri Lanka, as well as encourage new editors to join the Wikimedia community, while simultaneously empowering and retaining our existing team of editors. There are no mandatory obligations for members who choose join the community, other than the usual editing rules for online projects, and the friendly space policy for in-person projects. You may also (or instead) subscribe to the mailing list, where any member could initiate discussions with volunteers across projects, notify members of events and meetings, stay up to date with competitions, organize your own events, and so on. See you on board, and Happy Editing!

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