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Chin Dayaratne
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[edit] Main page
Hi Chin,
You are incorrect in saying that many other Wikipedias use a native greeting as the name for the main page. German Wikipedia uses "hauptseite", which means "head site", Haitian Wikipedia uses "paj prensipal", which means "main page", Italian Wikipedia uses "pagina principale" which means "main page", Spanish Wikipedia uses "pagina principal", which means "main page", Chinese Wikipedia uses a word meaning "main page", Japanese uses the English words.
While it's OK to use a Sinhala translation, it's not OK to use such a word, especially since it includes a special character (exclamation mark). You should use a translation which means "main page" or "homepage".
Node ue
PS I requested you adminship on Meta-Wiki. You should be a sysop soon, so you can edit interface messages and translate it to Sinhala.
[edit] Thanks
Chin, Thank you for your message in my Talk Page. I am not fluent in Sinhala Language. If I can contribute any other way I will do so. _ R.Mayooranathan. 13 sept 2005
[edit] Logo
Hi Chin,
I make logos for all the Wikipedias, and since you're here now I think it's good to make one for teh Sinhala Wikipedia.
The text that needs to be translated is:
Wikipedia:
The free encyclopedia
(where "free" is as in "freedom", free of restraint, not free of cost)
Thanks
Node ue 00:36, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Stray articles
Chin,
There are so may articles with just titles. Apparently somebody took si as his/her language and kept adding pages. Any idea what to do with them? They will never be expanded because their titles are not sinhala - Greenleaf 05:36, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
Well, the best would be simply to translate these into Sinhalese and then move them to the correct Sinhalese title. Unfortunately I am not a Sinhalese speaker so this must be done by natives. If English texts help to get people to take the initiative, that's not a bad idea. But on the long run all articles on si WP should be in Sinhalese of course. --Proof 18:06, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Font help
Actually I'm contributing from University computer lab. To both tamil and english wiki pages I can see font but not to Sinhala wikipedia. I can't install font manually bcos it has been blocked by the administrator of the network(I mean in campus). Is there any other way to see the sinhala text???? Please help --Mayooresan 02:32, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] MediaWiki:Edittools page for Sinhala Wikipedia / සිංහල විකිපීඩියාව සඳහා MediaWiki:Edittools මෙවලම්පිටුව
ආයුබෝවන් චින් (Chin),
සිංහල විකිපීඩියාව සඳහා Template:Edittools පිටුවට සමාන පිටුවක් සිංහල - si:MediaWiki:Edittoolsපිටුවෙහිි සිංහල අකුරු ඇති මෙවලම් පිටුවක් නිර්මාණය කරමුද?
මේ සඳහා ඹබ වැනි Sysop කෙනෙකුගේ සහය වැදගත්වේ. මේ ගැන Wikipedia:කෝපි කඩේ පිටුවේ කතාබහ (chat) කරමුද?
-- රුවන් (User:Ruwan) 2006 නොවැම්බර් 24 සිකුරාදා
