Icem4k

Muli Bwanji Icem4k. I noticed you're the new admin on the block! Are you a native speaker? Chewa or Nyanja? Cheers. Lycaon (talk) 11:10, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

@Lycaon Ife tiri bwino. And no am not native to the language am Luvale/Tonga but I have a high level of understanding of the nyanja and chewa language I was born and raised in Zambia. I didn't know of Wikipedia in chewa until after Wikimaina 2018 in South Africa that's how I applied to see if I can fix one or two things here. Thank you. Chabwino (talk) 11:50, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Oh, great. I was just in Zambia last August, was in Mpulungu, Mutinondo, Kitwe, Lusaka and Livingstone. My wife is Bemba and we visit Zambia every three/four years. I used to be a teacher in Chipata in the late 1980's. Lycaon (talk) 12:32, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

@Lycaon Wow you used to teach in Chipata you must have the full knowledge of the luaguage plus you have a Bemba wife thats fantasitc. Am planning to visit Chipata and run an edit-a-thon to teach the people of chipata and hope that they can help on perfecting so of the artcles here. Hoping we could meet one day. Chabwino (talk) 12:46, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Pages for deletion

Please see Category:Candidates for speedy deletion and take care of those pages however you see fit (deletion, rewriting, etc.). That's a category that you should monitor regularly as the wiki's only active admin. Also, see the newly created Madzi, which, while perhaps not worthy of deletion, is nonetheless a very poor article in need of rewriting. - dcljr (talk) 08:06, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks. - dcljr (talk) 00:10, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

No thank you for taking note i have been busy with Wiki Loves Africa here in Zambia. --Chabwino (talk) 05:11, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

Main and user namespace

Hi, as you are one of the most active ones here, I wanted to directly ask you what your view on the interactions between article and user namespace is. User:Icem4k/Zanco Mpundu Mutembo for example is in [[Category:1936 kubadwa]]. My experience is that the links between these namespaces are limited and article drafts should not be in main namespace categories etc. I'm interested in your POV. --Zenith4237 (talk) 00:02, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Tech stuff to be done

Hi, hit me up if you have any more tech stuff you want me to do, I'd be very happy to do some more. Also, it'd be cool if you checked this. Greetings from Germany --Zenith4237 (talk) 22:52, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Hi Zenith4237 will definitely do that. Wait did you change anything on that you can try and fix or i will look at it later today i need to sleep. --Chabwino (talk) 23:56, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Yo! Zenith4237 The translation 100% correct.--Chabwino (talk) 00:09, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Haha alright, perfect! I was meaning "Palibe chithunzi chowoneka lero." down at "Chithunzi chowonetsedwa" on Tsamba Lalikulu. Get some sleep! ;) --Zenith4237 (talk) 00:11, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

I noticed the summary so i was like you might be asking about the translation lol. --Chabwino (talk) 00:15, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

New article

Hi.could you please make two article about united states and joseph stalin ? if yes please create this two article in your own language wikipedia.

Alright I can do that. Chabwino (talk) 16:45, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

Expo 2020

Excuse my bad Chewa. I had removed the image because it contains the wrong logo as it was made as a joke. This is the right logo of Expo 2020. SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 17:42, 25 Okotobala 2021 (UTC)

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18:18, 4 Januwale 2022 (UTC)

Hi friends

Are you an administrator here or are you even a supervisor? TriTara (talk) 23:03, 11 Meyi 2022 (UTC)

Simple and less exhausting templates

Can we use templates that are simple? This is because the system templates you just adopted that is similar to enwiki is really tiresome as they are written in dates, thus Template: POTD Protected/2025-02-19 which means that if the next template which will be Template:POTD Protected/2025-02-20 doesn't exist yet, then the home (main page) will be rugged. I was thinking of using simpler ones like the ones I made/used on tumwiki that keep looping themselves each month.

Also think of the time when you, me and other current editors won't be around, the look of the wiki could suffer. The enwiki is using that system because it has hundreds of thousands of active editors per day, unlike us here who are less, just you and me and 1 editor(as of 19 April 2025).

Otherwise, this system will always need an active sysop who would be creating such templates every day, tirelessly. Unless you are planning to stick around always, I am no longer an admin here and hope not to be again in the next few months, as have personal business.

If you think this won't affect the wiki then assure me and feel free to continue:)

Thanks,

Tumbuka Arch (𝑻𝒂𝞘𝞳) 13:46, 19 Apulo 2025 (UTC)

Let we work on one. Chabwino (talk) 17:45, 19 Apulo 2025 (UTC)

@Icem4k Your answer is very incomplete for one to understand. What are you saying? Tumbuka Arch (𝑻𝒂𝞘𝞳) 07:11, 20 Apulo 2025 (UTC)

You may be an eligible candidate for the U4C election

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Request to delete several pages

BestBoy201 is a cross-wiki spammer. They made several pages here using ContentTranslation, but they almost certainly don't speak Chichewa; they were just trying to add spam links. Could you delete their pages? Thanks, and sorry for posting in English. lp0 on fire () 10:48, 6 Meyi 2026 (UTC)

Okay will look into that. Chabwino (talk) 08:32, 26 Meyi 2026 (UTC)

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i have been trying to reach out the people of Malawi... Finally some good news. Am founder of Wikimedia Community User Group Zambia I have been trying to get hold of people so that we work together from Malawi. Chabwino (talk) 09:44, 20 Julaye 2026 (UTC)