User talk:Milena Popovic

Welcome

Hello and welcome to the Wikipedia! You might find useful having a look at Wikipedia:Simplified Ruleset and, when you have some free time, Wikipedia:Manual of Style. I hope you enjoy your stay here and feel free to drop me a message in case you have any doubts. Divirta-se. --Sn0wflake 22:12, 25 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

hi, sorry for interruption, could you please see to the NPOV of exclusion of Brazil from this article. It was there until a month ago, and some guys keep excluding South America and Brazil from what I believe is its just place (and I am not alone, since these previous edits were there long before, to include Brazil). thanks Perroot 22:05, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Stokes' law

Not to worry - anyone can make a mistake like that. Your stub was a pretty good start, just a shame it was all included in the other article already. Qwghlm 14:14, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)

COTW Project

You voted for High Middle Ages, this week's Collaboration of the week. Please come and help it become a featured-standard article.

Portuguese

Welcome aboard! (You do know we have a Portuguese Wikipedia, don't you?) Robin Patterson 16:03, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Mind Benders

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Wikipedia:Mind Benders

Hello, Milena Popovic. Thank you for submitting an entry to the pre-round and/or participating in round one of WP:MIND. I sincerly hope you enjoyed it. Round Two, which I have made a bit more difficult than round one, will open at approximately 2 PM EST, Sunday, July 24. In addition, the voting for pre-round has also been extended until the end of round two. I hope to see you at Round Two, so prepare for some WikIFun!!! Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 17:13, 23 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

IDRIVE

You helped choose {{subst:IDRIVEtopic article}} as this week's WP:ACID winner

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Origami Crane

Just wondering... the origami crane you learnt was the bird one, right? I wonder if it is possible to get one of those machinery cranes done in paper. ;) Oh, I just noted that you are on WP:IDRIVE South America too, that's very nice. It is a great topic and I hope will get to WP:FA. See you.-Poli (talk • contribs) 20:23, 2005 July 24 (UTC)

Latin America

You have voted for South America on Wikipedia:This week's improvement drive a few weeks ago. Now Latin America is nominated. Hope you can help us again by voting for Latin America. --Fenice 08:02, 14 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Image Copyright Problem RE: Image:Milena 5.jpg

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If you have any questions, just leave a message on my talk page. Thanks again. --Shanel 18:37, September 11, 2005 (UTC)

Well, I went to the South Park Studio website, and under the "copyrights" section it says you are allowed to use the images for personal use, provided you don't say you drew them. Plus, there's the fact you have to get the image from screenshot. I don't know what license covers that, so I've asked Bratsche. S/he's one of the regular participants in image tagging, and I'm just a newbie. If s/he answers me, I'll let you know. :)

--Shanel 20:03, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

Einstein neice

Hey, thanks for your response on reference desk. And yes, Catherine and not Elizabeth. I was also looking if there is someone who is carrying Einstein's genes. Appears like he has very few descendants. Jay 11:56, 12 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Brazilian portal

Hi, Milena. Thank you for your support and for your offer to help out in the portal. Any help is welcome, particularly in the News section, which requires constant attention, in order to stay fresh. Also, feel free to join the crew at the "Portal Info" window, if you want. Regards, Redux 23:22, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Your South Park Image

I recieved permission to use your little South Park image that you uploaded. The author of the site requested that Wikipedia linked back to her site, so I added a link to the image description page. Glad to see everything worked out. Cheers, Bratsche^{talk | Esperanza} 23:44, 14 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

WP:MIND 22:07, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Challenge yourself, and get ready to think!

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Usercategorization

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WP:MIND 06:18, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

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Thanks

Regarding the message you left on my talk page, you're welcome. Encountered a rather nasty case of biting the newcomer a few days ago, and since then I've been trying to be more helpful :) Mallocks 11:38, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Please help on Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Hello! I recently noticed some edits by an IP 200.150.59.201 user on the English page for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. I identified some of them has not having neutral point of view and reverted a couple of them. However, he used the argument, "Obviously you're not from Brazil." So, I was hoping to recruit a Brazilian editor to review his edits and revert anything that is untrue or extremely biased, with more expertise than I could. Let me know if I should find someone else. Thanks for your help! EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 05:40, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Brazilian Portal

Hi Milena. I'm back from my wikibreak. I've already taken care of the news section of the Portal. I've performed a major update, removing older news and replacing them with more recent stuff, the Referendum results included, of course. Thanks for your help and interest! Regards, Redux 00:06, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Vandalism

Dear Milena,

Anonymous user 12.205.154.91 vandalised your user page. I have taken the liberty of reverting it. Regards, aliceinlampyland 17:25, 29 November 2005 (UTC).[reply]

Serbia?

HI! It's always interesting to see a familiar name in Wikipedia! So I wanted to ask you have you ever been to Serbia? How much can you contribute to articles with "Serbian" topics? All the best!!!--RockyMM 19:49, 14 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I noticed your talk with RockyMM :) Also, I noticed that local chapter of Wikimedia Foundation for Serbia and Montenegro (Wikimedia Serbia and Montenegro) was born on December 3rd, too :) (this year). If you want to learn Serbian, come on Serbian Wikipedia and I am sure that people would help you a lot (just note that you are learning Serbian). For example, you can start to write articles about Brazil (or about whatever you want). --millosh (talk (sr:)) 09:16, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to ask anything in English. I am sure that people would help to you :) Also, very soon (in the next couple of months) we would have a Latin version, too. --millosh (talk (sr:)) 14:54, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I left to you a message (for others) on your user talk page on Serbian Wikipedia. Feel free to start to learn Serbian with adding some basic articles about Brazil. As you saw, we don't have a lot articles about Brazil :) --millosh (talk (sr:)) 16:04, 16 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Mi cemo svi pomoći

Mi (we) ćemo (will) svi (all, plural masc.) pomoći (help) s učenjem (with learning) srpskog ([of] Serbian). A osim srpske enciklopedije ima još i hrvatska. (Beside the Serbian encyclopedia there is a Croatian one).

--VKokielov 01:24, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Appologies

Milena, I was not offended. I was just pointing out to the potential problems in the thought process behind your statements which you may have done unconsciously . No need to appologize but thanks anyway. --Dado 16:41, 21 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

sr. Wikipedia

Позивам те да се пријавиш на Википедију на српском језику. Верујем да би свима било драго.:) --M. Pokrajac 18:48, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Pozivam te da se prijaviš na Wikipediju na srpskom jeziku. Verujem da bi svima bilo drago.:) --M. Pokrajac 18:48, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Поред Википедије на српском, постоје Википедије на босанском (бошњачком), хрватском и српскохрватском језику.:) --M. Pokrajac 18:49, 22 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki for Engineering

Engineering Wiki is a wiki entirely dedicated to collecting information about Engineering. The Engineering Wiki is in early development stages at the moment. We invite you to help devlope this wiki.

Olá Milena

Como posso ajudar você nessa tarefa?

Article: pt:Golbery do Couto e Silva Corresponding English-language article: none Worth doing because: principal political architect of the Brazilian military dictatorship (...) Supported: I think I'll take this task. Golbery do Couto e Silva was an important politician in Brazil. I'll start this weekend. Anyone can help? In progress. I've already started translating, but help is needed. Milena 11:40, 25 October 2005 (UTC)Talk

Até mais, Marlos Fabris

Other

Hi! I edited the Bipolar userbox and created a second userbox for Type II. Right now, you're showing Type I. If you are Type II you may want to change the userbox to USER BIPOLAR2. Thanks! CenozoicEra 01:08, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A traditional carnation for the 8th of March, from Zocky

Possibly unfree Image:Milena.PNG

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—Steven G. Johnson 04:18, 14 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing out Image:Milena 5.jpg, which is problematic for the same reason. Permission to use the image is not enough for Wikipedia, because we also need permission to modify, redistribute, and sell the image under the GPFL or similar terms. See WP:BRP for how to request permission for an image under terms that we can use. —Steven G. Johnson 16:42, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Help with translation

There is one sentence in portuguese that couldnt not be translated from Portuguese Colonial War article. Please help. Thank u! Luka Jačov 10:54, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanx for your help:)! Translation was more than fine. Do u use any messengers:)? Luka Jačov 16:37, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am on msn now:). send u request:)...come... Luka Jačov 16:50, 7 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article Improvement Belgrade

You may wish to vote for Belgrade at the Article Improvement Drive page, here. --estavisti 21:59, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

Hi, Milena, I see you'd like to help with the Belgrade article. I think it's very nice of you that you'd like to contribute to this article, and I'm glad you still feel a connection with a part of your ancestry, since your father is Serbian. I would appreciate it if we could work together on the article, because I love Belgrade, it's one of the last cities in the world that still has a soul. Have you ever been to Belgrade? If you have, I think you know what I'm talking about. I'd love to hear from you, leave a message on my talk page, or add me to your msn if you'd like (bormalagurski@hotmail.com). All the best, --serbiana - talk 22:40, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for Choosing Belgrade

Thank you for your support of the Article Improvement Drive.
This week Belgrade was selected to be improved to featured article status.
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Dachshund userbox

Greetings! I took the code for your Dachshund userbox and copied it onto my own user page, although I made a slight and fitting alteration. :) I'm not sure if you did it yourself or copied it, but either way, thanks for having it on your user page for me to use. —C.Fred (talk) 19:40, 12 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Aerodromi

E zdravo Ako znash gde mogu da nadjem osnovu nekog aerodroma u razmeri javi Natalija studentkinja arhitekture u Beogradu

I beg for your Portuguese mind

Hello, my name is Ken, and I'm a new wikipedian from Texas who found your name while looking for native Portuguese speakers. Could you look at the page Catholic Apostolic National Church of Brazil and see if anything in it contradicts any of the information in the Portuguese version? Kennethmyers 00:41, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

seeking for dusan popovic

Dear Milena, I just found your site and decide to write you. I'm seeking for a man who's name is Dusan Popovic. He was born in Zagreb 1950. I meat him in the 70-this. It was in Stuttgart, Germany. Perhaps you can help me to find him. Mein name is Blazenka Pejic. If you want you can answer in serbian or croatian.

Topli pozdrav u daleki Brazil

Blazenka Pejic-Kobas

Dear Blazenka,

I hope you'll come here again, because you haven't left any e-mail or website for contact. I live in Brazil, and my father was from Leskovac. So, I doubt my father and Dusan ever met.

Sorry for not being able to help you.

Ako procitas ovo Blazenka, pisi na: tobba@mail.vu Da se uvjeris da sam to ja, bili smo zajedno na Killesberg-u.

Obrigado Milena, se Desus queser, gente vai se encontrar.

Stress

Nice to see that your stress level is back down. :) Cheers. --PaxEquilibrium 23:14, 8 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fluid Dynamics Project

I have created {{Fluid}} and the relevant categories. Can anyone come up with an image to use and can we start tagging articles. I think this will (hopefully) mean that if people move into this section (or away from it) it will be easier to keep track of what has been done and what needs to be done. Is this a good idea, have you any feedback? Rex the first ^{talk | contribs} 23:12, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A flower...

Classical Music

Hi, Milena. It says on your User Page that you enjoy classical music. I hope you increase the number of your Wikipedia contributions in that field. Cheers, MUSIKVEREIN 13:33, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ukbjjf

Please nominate pt:User:Ukbjjf for deletion in behalf of me and ask administrators there in the Portugese Wikipedia to block that user as he bears a promotional username. He was previously blocked here in the English Wikipedia as per this edit, which shows that the account was for advertising only. Alexius08 is welcome to talk about his contributions. 02:23, 15 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Physics/Taskforces/Fluid dynamics

Crownest has expressed interest in reviving this. Since you were a member of the FD project (now converted into a taskforce), I'm wondering if you'd be a part of the Taskforce. The taskforce is undergoing a significant overhaul at the moment, and by the end of it, it should be fairly easy to get around and there should be a nifty compendium of useful tools for people interested in FD. Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 10:54, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Très professionnel ce blog!

Chère Milena,

Je cherchais la photo du béret que tu viens de tricoter, mais je suis venu trop vite, j'attendrai... En tous cas, j'ai vu un peu vite, mais ce blog m'a l'air très complet. Tu sais que tu dois avoir en Serbie une cousine qui a le même prénom que toi (et évidemment le même nom) qui a aussi un blog sur lequel je suis tombé en cherchant le tien. Bravo pour la nouvelle Milena en "Milena prof de musique"! J'attends impatiemment la suite logique..."Milena conduit", "Milena aviatrice"... et plein d'autres épisodes encore! Je t'embrasse, Bertrand —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.123.63.128 (talk) 12:52, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

An exciting opportunity to get involved!

As a member of the Aviation WikiProject or one of its subprojects, you may be interested in testing your skills in the Aviation Contest! I created this contest, not to pit editor against editor, but to promote article improvement and project participation and camraderie. Hopefully you will agree with its usefulness. Sign up here, read up on the rules here, and discuss the contest here. The first round of the contest may not start until September 1st-unless a large number of editors signup and are ready to compete immediately! Since this contest is just beginning, please give feedback here, or let me know what you think on my talkpage. - Trevor MacInnis ^contribs 03:18, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

hey milena, i'm looking for relatives in brasil. please contact me on my facebook account "daniela ho hoang". the last name of the relatives i'm looking for in brasil is popovic (who are related to vekonj). dani —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.200.226.222 (talk) 14:43, 13 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

WikiWomen's Collaborative

WikiWomen Unite!

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We can't wait to have you involved, and feel free to drop by our meta page (under construction) to see how else you can participate!

Can't wait to have you involved! SarahStierch (talk) 21:33, 9 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Please create a Wiki bio for:

Simeon Piščević (Šid, 4 September 1731-Imperial Russia, November 1798) was a Serbian memoirist and Russian general.

Originally from the famed Serbian Paštrovici tribe, the Piščević family took their name from their own native village of Pišči. During the Great Migration of 1690 the Piščević family (in question) were soldiers in Austrian service. Simeon's grandfather, Gavrilo Piščević, was a light infantry officer on the Military Frontier dividing the Ottoman and Habsburg empires. Simeon's father Stevan Piščević was also a Military Frontier officer in the service of Empress Maria Theresa.

Simeon Piščević received his education in Šid, Novi Sad, Segedin, Osijek and Vienna. During the last two years of the War of the Austrian Succession (1741-1748) Stevan Piščević took Simeon, his son, along as a volunteer in the Slavonian regiment of the Austrian Army. Being well-educated Simeon became an adjutant in no time. At 17 Simeon was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Srem Hussar regiment. In 1749 General Jovan Sević gave him the rank of captain and ordered him to prepare to move to Russia. In the mid-eighteenth century, the demilitarization of the Military frontier of the Tisza River and Mures River districts compelled thousands of Serb frontiersmen to immigrate to Russia where they established a number of settlements, notably New Serbia and Slaveno-Serbia. A reorganization of Serb border militias in Slavonia lead to the immigration of a number of high-ranking officers who distinguished themselves in the Russian military service, Peter Tekeli, Semyon Zorich, Rajko Preradović, Jovan Horvat, Jovan Sević and Simeon Piščević, among many others.

Piščević received his Russian visa four year later (1753), but it would be another three years before he made the move. He first emigrated to Imperial Russia in 1756, ending up in the Russian Imperial Army.

All Serbian settlements were called "retrenchments" in the popular idiom, although only a few of them were fortified. Piščević wrote that such districts (oblast) as Hlyns'k, Kryliv and Kryukiv in today's Ukraine were the only fortified places in the Pandur regiment. Simeon Piščević left a most vivid description of General Jovan Horvat's broad use of powers. He refers to the latter as "our absolute and tyrannical ruler" and, sometimes with indignation, sometimes with envy for Horvat's versatility, quotes many episodes, shocking even to contemporaries, who were accustomed to the crude rule of singular power.

"The Diary of General Piščević" (Zapisi Djenerala Piščevića) which first appeared in Russian towards the end of the 19th century, was a model of Serbian eighteenth-century memoirist literature, and was ranked equal to the "Memoirs of Prota Matija Nenadovic" about the Serbian Uprising of 1804. Piščević tells about the Serbian migration to Imperial Russia, Serbian activities there, and his own role in this emigration. He also describes participation of Hungarian Serbs in the war between Austria and France in 1774-1775. He emphasized that the Islamized Turkish subjects in Bosnia are Serbs like all the rest, for they have the "Serbian language and traditions" ("jezik i obicaji srpski"), Piščević is using for his time modern terminology, and together with Dositej Obradovic, but earlier than Stevan Stratimirovic, Lukijan Musicki and Vuk Karadzic, and showing knowledge of the language spoken by the common folk. In the section on the Turks Simeon Piščević refers to the German geographer and scholar Johann Hubner's Kurtze Fregen aus der neuen und eaten Geographie (Regensburg und Wein, 1755). The other work by Simeon Piščević is "Knjiga o naciji srpskoj" (A Book About the Serbian Nation).

References

Translated and adapted from Serbian Wikipedia: http://sr.wiki.x.io/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%9F%D0%B8%D1%88%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%9B
Paštrovici: http://sr.wiki.x.io/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%88%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%9B%D0%B8 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.8.187.113 (talk) 21:48, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]