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Hello Jc8136!

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I noticed you've been very busy contributing! Thanks! Keep up the great work! Sapphire 05:07, 4 April 2006 (EDT)

Nice rewrite on Germany! Majnoona 09:03, 18 April 2006 (EDT)

[edit] COTW

Since the COTW is now also on the main page it was easier to just have one template with the COTW on it that would appear in all places need - so we now have Template:Current COTW. I updated the steps to change the COTW that were listed on Wikitravel_talk:Collaboration_of_the_week#Volunteers_needed_to_update. Let me know if you have any questions. -- Ryan 03:22, 15 August 2006 (EDT)

Thanks Ryan, I was updating/changing the cotw in the last 5 weeks and didn't noticed that you installed the new template. From next week on I know how and keep doing it. ---Jan

The main page layout was updated earlier today, and I was worried that since the COTW appeared there AND on the project page that people might forget to update the COTW in one of the two places. I guess in trying to make things easier by adding a new template I actually made them harder - sorry! And thanks for updating the COTW in recent weeks, it is much appreciated! -- Ryan 03:57, 15 August 2006 (EDT)

If you ever have trouble refreshing the Project page all you should have to do is follow this link- http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Wikitravel:Project&action=purge This link clears the cache. Otherwise you may have to go to the template's page, click history, in the address bar replace "history" with "purge". That should take care of everything, however, should both of those solutions fail... run like hell because the world is ending. -- Sapphire 14:43, 15 September 2006 (EDT)

[edit] Barnstar

In appreciation of your exceptional work and dedication to keeping the Collaboration of the week project going, I hereby award you the Barnstar. Thank you for your organizational effort! --Evan 11:49, 10 October 2006 (EDT)

Thank you for the barnstar. I will try to keep the work running even if the year end rally at my office started a bit earlier. Jc8136 16:39, 18 October 2006 (EDT)

[edit] Berlin Drinks section

Hello Jc8136. I hope the preparations for your New Zealand trip are going well!

I was looking through the Berlin Wikitravel Berlin article and noticed that you seem to have a preference for New Berlin's pub crawl. I was wondering what makes them so special, and whether you've been on the other pub crawls in Berlin and especially why you decided to ONLY include a link to the New Berlin pub crawl website? I know for a fact that Insider Tours does a pub crawl, as does the Humboldt students company, so why did you choose this company in particular?

I am not going to remove the link myself, nor the comment "but the best known Pub crawl for backpackers is organised by New Berlin Tours." - rather I am interesting in knowing how you measured this: did you do a survey? Did you do some research with hostel owners? If not, I think you should remove BOTH the link (or insert a link to ALL other pub crawls) AND the comment.

I am sure this was only a slip-up on your part and would like to commend you on your active participation to the Wikitravel section. However it is important to keep the website as objective as possible, and in this case the objectivity is debatable.

Thank you for taking care of this!

All the best,

Stellartraveler 04:26, 10 March 2007 (EST)

Dear Sylvia aka Stellartraveler

I am a bit surprised by your aggressive tone towards me, wikitravel articles are always work in progress and if you think the input is outdated or incorrect then change it. You don't have to wait to let me do the changes because what I don't know i don't write in wikitravel articles. Add it yourself, we are all volunteers here, you should be grown up enough to handle that.

You also should have seen that i'm not any more the docent for Berlin because now i'm seldom in Berlin. Third, I wrote this article almost a year ago and at that time my friends visiting Berlin "tested" the nightlife a lot and highly recommended nbto me. I don't know where you live but several newspaper (e.g. Der Tagesspiegel) wrote articles about backpacker pub crawling and also listed New Berlin as first. Regards, Jc8136 05:17, 17 March 2007 (EDT)

Helleo there,

apparently, the "Tagesspiegel" article, you are referring to, wrote about the "Insider Tour Pub Crawl", not the "New Berlin" one...Therefore the Insider" one was lsited first. I agree, there are so many more Tours out there in Berlin, such as "Insider Tour Pub Crawl", the "Insomniac Pub Crawl". Besides, only because something is listed first, or pops up first on google, doesnt't necessarily mean, that it is the best of your choices... And I know for sure, that the other companies I have mentioned, provide far better Pub Crawls. I live in Berlin and have joined all 3 of them several times. Thank you very much for your consideration and time!

Moni

[edit] Jan!?

Grüß Di! Was gibt's mit Dir? Ich weiß, daß Du beschäftigt bist, aber ich möchte eine Gefälligkeit von Dir anfragen. Vielleicht kannst Du als einen Administrator auf der deutschsprachige Wikitravel Ausgabe dienen? Dankeschön! -- Sapphire • (Talk) • 05:09, 31 July 2007 (EDT)

[edit] Berlin vandalism

Thanks for the heads up on this. I reverted as you suggested. You asked about undoing multiple edits. You can do that easily if you have your preferences/recent changes set for "Enhanced recent changes (Javascript). You can also pick a version from the history, edit and save. --OldPine 07:42, 5 June 2008 (EDT)