User talk:HarpreetSingh

Respected Veer ji,

Sat Sri Akal

Thanks for the message. Will wait for your signal. Please take your time. I will also like to keep the history intact so that readers can see the efforts made by you since this website was setup. So I will look at all these options and we will decide once you have done a full backup of all relevant user related pages. I suggest that you do not delete anything and leave that to me as I may redirect to your "old" talk page so that we still have that intact, etc, etc.

Another thing, we are coming to India next month and it will be great if some of us can get together for a meal together and have a long chat. Please send me an email at [email protected] and we can discuss this more. I hope you will not be too busy in late November.

Guru's blessing, Hari Singh^talk 18:53, 18 October 2011 (EDT)

Problems editing

Veer ji, Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh

Many thanks for the message. All is well with Guru's blessings. I hope you too are keeping in chardikala.

I have had many messages from user:Allenwalla who is having multiple problems with Captcha security screen interrupting even when he does small edits and then logging him out. I have just reported this with your problems to Gurumustuk Singh (GMS). This is an on-going issue as I too had some issues with the system last week. I believe that this has all come about due to the latest update to the Mediawiki database software.

The Unicode corruption has also been highlighted but we have not found a solution apart from re-entry - which will be too onerous. I have suggested a few other options and I am waiting for a response. I believe that GMS is on holiday in Florida with his parents and so it may take a little while to resolve these issues. I will keep you posted but it seems a sensible precaution to do the editing in Wordpad and saving this locally before transferring to Sikhiwiki; this is a sensible precaution until we have resolved all the pending issues about the reliability of the system.

Warm regards, Hari Singh^talk 14:50, 19 December 2011 (CST)

Unicode Gurmukhi corruption

Veer ji Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh

We have just managed to retrieve the uncorrupted version of Sikhiwiki from October 2011. I am doing some Wiki export of the pages to a backup and hopefully we will have most of the corruption resolved in the next few days.

Can I suggest that you do this posting of Punjabi quotes after we have a recovered version of the database in the next few days. I will send you a message when the recovery is complete. I hope this will be OK. Kind regards, Hari Singh^talk 18:40, 15 January 2012 (CST)

Veer ji, Hope all is well.

We have reverted back to the data as at 19 October 2011 and updated with all the articles from then to today (16 January 2012) morning time.

Can you please check to see if all your recent work is intact; also most of the Gurmukhi Unicode characters will now display correctly apart from the updated articles containing Unicode. I will amend these manually by looking at the last version of the article which will correctly display the Unicode characters.

Many thanks and kind regards, Hari Singh^talk 13:53, 16 January 2012 (CST)

Censored

Veer ji,

This was in protest to the proposed laws called SOPA & PIPA in the USA. If these become law, we would have to guarantee that all the external links at Sikhiwiki were pointing to legal, non-copyrighted material at all times. Even if one of these links pointed to a copyrighted photo, music, video, etc then the authorities in the USA can automatically block our site even if we based outside USA!

This would pose a serious risk to Sikhiwiki as this is an automatic process without legal intervention. It would probabaly mean an end of our site as no one can monitor each external link all the time. So if the link content were changed after we had setup the link, we would still be deemed to be guilt by some US citizen!

Read more at Wikipedia -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more

Kind regards, Hari Singh^talk 19:39, 19 January 2012 (CST)

Veer ji,

No. References to books is perfectly OK. This will never be a problem and we should encourage references to books. However, direct links to other websites could have become a serious problem.

And in particular, when we put links to other websites or to online kirtan which may be infringing copyright - either now or sometimes in the future when the webmaster at the other site changes the content without our knowledge.

Luckily, I believe the Wikipedia protest has been successful and the 2 bills in the USA have been put on-hold. However, if these did become law then we would be at serious risk of being barred by the USA authorities as they control the internet and most of the common domains.

So for now, we do not have to worry but may be we should review how we protect ourselves in future. We need to work on this for the future as the work that has been done on this site is too valuable to be put at such a risk. One safety would be to publish this as a book so that the website is saved for future generations. We will have to develop thoughts on this in the next few months.

Many thanks & kind regards, Hari Singh^talk 11:17, 21 January 2012 (CST)