Wikipedia:Kōrero/2005
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Wikipedia:Kōrero, Pūranga 2005
[edit] "Welcome" templates
Having finally plucked up courage to create a "personal message" template on another wiki and seen how easy it is, I'm going to create one here. Anyone (I expect) will be able to use it (just enclosing "welc1" in double curly brackets, same as for the stub message) and any user may create a close equivalent or totally separate one. Beware! - if you ever revise a template (or someone else does), it will appear in its new form on all previously-applied pages where it still resides, and the new wording may not fit with what was on them, eg if you started off without a concluding "Enjoy" and added that word manually, the word will appear twice for those recipients if you then add the word into your template; so keep an eye on such a template if you do create one. See Whakamārama:Tauira. Robin Patterson 01:25, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] General
For ways of benefiting from templates, see Help:Templates and related pages. Robin Patterson 00:56, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
Postscript - to get an unvarying version of a template, prefix "subst:" after the opening brackets. This produces a copy of the current template but doesn't thereafter update it. And it makes less work for Wikipedia servers. Robin Patterson 02:14, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Checklist that may help us get this wiki working even better:
- This should keep us on the right lines when naming new pages:
[edit] Usage of English
New template ("Eng") (just type it inside double curly brackets) intended to reinforce the invitation to translate as much as possible into te reo Māori - in haste, Robin Patterson 06:43, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Usage of English - separate page for much discussion of this "big" issue; I have moved the discussion that was here (from about August 2004) to the corresponding Wikipedia_talk:Usage_of_English Talk page. Not moving the History of those edits; maybe someone can do that manually.
[edit] Wikimedia collaboration
A new attempt to get the Wikimedia community to collaborate on multi-lingual tasks is the Wikimedia Collaboration of the Week. Please see the page on meta for details. It would be great if you could translate the following to encourage other Mauri speakers to help improve the help pages in this language. The text below is from en:Template:Wm-cotw and will be updated every week. Thanks. Angela 19:29, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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The Wikimedia Collaboration of the Week is an attempt to get the Wikimedia community to join forces in tackling problems that affect all our projects. The current COTW is to create a standard multilingual manual for the MediaWiki software. The help pages should be linked from Help:Contents on Meta, our Wikimedia-wide coordination wiki. Please see the instructions for this COTW and help to make it happen! |
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[edit] Audio template
Hi, I am making audio recordings of the pronunciation of words. Example; Media:Nl-be guy verhofstadt.ogg To include this in a good way in your wiki I need to know what your audio template is and how it works. When I know it i, and many others, can put it directly inside articles on your wikipedia.
Can some one please put your audio template on this page;
Greetings, nl:gebruiker:Walter
- (I replied on 7 May, using IP 210.246.21.143, and said I doubted if we had one. Robin Patterson 01:07, 7 May 2005 (UTC))
[edit] Translation volunteers
Hi there, I'm Zanimum from the English Wikipedia. I'm running an international-entry exhibit of small artwork. I've found volunteers to translate the site into Arabic, Catalan, Italian, Norwegian and Spanish, and I was wanting a translator to write something in this language. The text to translate is around 300 words. Does anyone want to do a quick translation for us? Thanks! -- en:user:zanimum (Interested? Contact nicholasmoreau@gmail.com)
[edit] Stewards election
Hello,
The stewards election has started on m:Stewards/elections 2005. Anyone can vote provided that he has a valid account on meta with a link to at least one user page, on a project where the editor is a participant, with at least 3 months participation to the project. Stewards can give sysop right on projects where there are no local bureaucrate. Please vote ! Yann 21:47, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
PS: Please translate this. Thanks. Yann 21:47, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
- I would like to be able to translate that (and the one from Zanimum). Somebody may volunteer to. But 99% of the people who read it are comfortable reading English. Anyway, I looked at the m:Stewards/elections 2005 page and put in a couple of votes (for people fluent in other languages). Robin Patterson 01:25, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Mention on New Zealand's main community website
The managers of Community Net Aotearoa - http://www.community.net.nz - have kindly updated the year-old notice about Wikipedia Māori and are adding it to one or two of their "Links" categories. Ka pai! They now have a weekly newsletter in addition to the long-established monthly "panui". And an RSS feed for people who know what that means. Robin Patterson 01:25, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] More promotion
http://www.panui.co.nz/joblink.php?action=display&id=9 is the result of my being invited to place a free advertisement for WP Māori. It's an adaptation of what I wrote for community.net.nz . Maybe we are on the upturn, publicity-wise? Anyway, out of gratitude I profled panui.co.nz on Zeal and I plan to mention it elsewhere too. Anyone like to offer some thoughts about improving the wording further? Robin Patterson 01:30, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Localized date formats need to be verified
Dear Wikipedians,
I need your help to look at date formats for your language. I created a large list of formats here. Please take a look and fix any mistakes or add any new formats. This will help interwiki bot to match en:April 1, fr:1 avril, ru:1 апреля, zh:4月1日, and all other sites together.
What's needed: Look here at every format for your language, fix any mistakes, note any exceptions (some languages have 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc naming schemas, or year 1 is written as '1 (year)' unlike all other years).
Also, I would like to receive a bot status on your site for my bot User:YurikBot. It will be mostly involved in interwikies.
Thank you!!!
You can contact me at en:Yurik (--70.192.56.68 22:17, 24 September 2005 (UTC))
- I looked at his tables and confirmed or varied what I could; but we haven't finalised all those standards yet. See Wikipedia:Tikanga Wikipedia#Dates. Robin Patterson 02:14, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Pākehā promotion of this site
I think that, there needs to be a better message of this wikipeida, on the en wikipedia, I only found this site, after looking around en wikipeida forawhile, maybe we could have a "Māori Wikipeida template, with a link, on the New Zealand article, I think that most people, (exp New Zealanders) look at the NZ article, other that the portal, which has a mi wikipedia link. Heoi anō; nā, Brian New Zealand 06:19, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Erihāpeti II
I uploaded a photo of H.M. The Queen
to use with Erihāpeti II, can someone translate the summary. I also had to upload some templates, they also need to be translated. Brian New Zealand 10:31, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Wikicities
There is now a wikicity set up for New Zealand, check it out Brian | (Talk) 22:57, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Logo for this site
Please join the discusion at Wikipedia:Waitohu. Robin Patterson 02:14, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Interwiki Bot Status
Hi. I would like to get my interwiki bot YurikBot marked as a bot in your language. The bot is already operating in almost 50 languages, and it would lower the server load and improve the quality of articles if all interwikies are updated at the same time. You can read more or ask questions here. I always run the latest version of the Pywikipediabot (i am also one of the developers of this project). The request for the bot status is here. Please support. Thank you. --Yurik (en) 03:12, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] check user
Please join the discusion at Wikipedia:Checkuser Heoi anō; nā Brian (talk) 08:26, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
