Wicipedia:Y Caffi/archif/5

BBC's on-hover translation tool

golygu

Has anyone investigated getting the BBC's new word-by-word translation tool enabled on Wicipedia? I think it'd be really great for learners - I'm trying to get the Clwb Malu Cachu list ppl to come to Wicipedia, and having this sort of tool working here would be a boon to learners everywhere (including me!). Jimmy Wales is pretty interested in the idea, but was just wondering if anyone here has already discussed it.

Minxette 17:52, 27 Tach 2004 (UTC)

Yn ôl Iwan Standley y bwriad cynta yw cael Geirfa i weithio ar ambell i flog. Ddim yn siwr os ydy e wedi meddwl am y Wici. Wna i ofyn.

Nic Dafis 14:25, 27 Maw 2005 (UTC)

Problem on Hafan...

golygu

After changing two links on Hafan, there suddenly was a Taflen cynnwys. I haven't got a clue where it suddenly sprang up from - and what is worse I haven't got a clue how to get rid of it again... Ehm.... HELP!!! --Okapi 13:57, 30 Tach 2004 (UTC)


BBC's on-hover translation tool

golygu

Has anyone investigated getting the BBC's new word-by-word translation tool enabled on Wicipedia? I think it'd be really great for learners - I'm trying to get the Clwb Malu Cachu list ppl to come to Wicipedia, and having this sort of tool working here would be a boon to learners everywhere (including me!). Jimmy Wales is pretty interested in the idea, but was just wondering if anyone here has already discussed it.

Minxette 17:52, 27 Tach 2004 (UTC)

Yn ôl Iwan Standley y bwriad cynta yw cael Geirfa i weithio ar ambell i flog. Ddim yn siwr os ydy e wedi meddwl am y Wici. Wna i ofyn.

Nic Dafis 14:25, 27 Maw 2005 (UTC)

Problem on Hafan...

golygu

After changing two links on Hafan, there suddenly was a Taflen cynnwys. I haven't got a clue where it suddenly sprang up from - and what is worse I haven't got a clue how to get rid of it again... Ehm.... HELP!!! --Okapi 13:57, 30 Tach 2004 (UTC)

Sori Dw i ddim yn gallu helpu. mae'n siwr y gall Arwel neu Debs 80.177.21.76 14:22, 30 Tach 2004 (UTC)
It looks alright now. Perhaps the server threw a wobbly -- I was just reloading Hafan now, and the bullet points were showing some sort of elongated character until the whole page had loaded. The server's been dreadfully slow today on all the Wikipedia's I'm on, so I guess it's time for the Foundation to spend some more money again! If it happens again, try putting __DIMTAFLENCYNNWYS__ near the top of the page. -- Arwel 19:56, 30 Tach 2004 (UTC)
I saw a connection to Prif tudalen instead of Hafan on the page I was editing. But there seems to be no such page. I wondered if someone was tampering -- has "Hafan" ever been called "Prif tudalen" in the past? Deb 20:08, 30 Tach 2004 (UTC)
I don't think so. It was "Main Page" when the software was first set up in July last year, but it got moved to Hafan quite quickly. What page were you editing? -- Arwel 23:32, 30 Tach 2004 (UTC)
Yes, indeed, the taflen cynnwys is gone. Thanks! --Okapi 07:41, 1 Rhag 2004 (UTC)
I think it happened when I was creating a new article - possibly Molly Weir - but when I returned to the page it was back to normal. (I didn't imagine it, honest I didn't...) Deb 18:00, 1 Rhag 2004 (UTC)
I'll believe you (thousands wouldn't! :) ). I've been spoiled by Wikipedia, I was correcting Molly Weir's birth year from 1920 to 1910 on the Internet Movie Database, and was horrified to see that it'll take 7-21 days for the correction to come through.... -- Arwel 19:44, 1 Rhag 2004 (UTC)
Mae "Prif tudalen" yn dod o MediaWiki:Mainpage; dw i'n wedi newid y dudalen nawr i "Hafan". Marnanel 04:39, 20 Awst 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Nadolig llawen!

golygu

Nadolig llawen a blwydden newydd dda i bawb!

I hope I'll have a little more time for editing articles on Wicipedia next year than I had the past few months, but meanwhile I enjoy reading and keeping track of things! --Okapi 03:11, 24 Rhag 2004 (UTC)

Y gwyddoniadur rhad????

golygu

I just noticed that it now says y gwyddoniadur rhad above the articles, while it still is y gwyddoniadur rhydd below the logo. I wonder if rhad has the same negative connotations about quality as cheap does in English, if it does I would opt for a change! --Okapi 04:55, 29 Rhag 2004 (UTC)

English is ambiguous here. I've always taken it in a "free as in freedom" context rather than any reference to price. This same semantical issue occurs in the free software movement where they stress that free refers to free to be modified in the context of loose or open, not as in "of zero price". The alternative term open now actually being preferred in software circles to disambiguate the context clearly. Wouldn't something like Wicipedia, y gwyddoniadur agored dismabiguate the semantics while stressing the major difference of Wikipedia to any other encyclopedia? I also think it just sounds better linguistically. PetrochemicalPete 06:37, 23 Hydref 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

International Writing Contest

golygu

Hello everybody,

In Berlin at Dezember 2004 there was the critique that there is not enough connection in the work of all the different Wikipedias in their different languages. I think, that an internationally linked writing contest should be one possible chance to cooperate and work together. At March 1st there will be the start of the second writing contest in the german Wikipedia so I thought, we can start it as an international project. There had bee contests in the Wikipedia of the Netherlands nl:Wikipedia:Schrijfwedstrijd, the german Wikipedia de:Wikipedia:Schreibwettbewerb and the english one en:Wikipedia:Danny's contest and as far as I could see it, it worked really good.

I hope you will join the Contest, please visit meta:International writing contest to find out more. -- 149.225.56.90 08:50, 11 Ion 2005 (UTC) (Achim Raschka aka Necrophorus)

Guto Harri

golygu

I would welcome an article on Guto Harri please, but can't find the wanted pages link.

The ugly little diwedd-bug...

golygu

There is an article called Canol Oesoedd diweddar yng Nghymru which has been linked to Canol Oesoedd - but unfortunately the link does not seem to work due to the above bug. What to do??? --Okapi 13:53, 1 Chwe 2005 (UTC)

The link from Canol Oesoedd as "Canol Oesoedd <nowiki>diweddar yng Nghymru</nowiki>" does seem to work - I've just created the article with "test" in it if you want to edit it. Unfortunately even if we had a fix for the bug (I think it's in the LanguageCy.php file), I have my doubts we'd get any action out of the developers for quite a long time -- I've just seen a shirty comment from one of them on one of the mailing lists to the people who want an Ossetian Wikipedia about lack of time and resources (not helped by developer Tim Starling taking a (temporary, I hope) break from Wikipedia because it was impinging too much on his real life). -- Arwel 20:56, 2 Chwe 2005 (UTC)
Hmmm, yes and no... The original article did not link, so I copied the contents and pasted them to your new link with the proper explanation on Sgwrs. At least the article is not orphaned any longer, but we will have to remember the exact string when linking it from any other page.... Argh... And, oh, so we are being discriminated against just because we are tiny, are we? Hmpf. What is the use boasting about all the exotic languages on the Wikipedia and then let them fend for themselves? --Okapi 00:36, 3 Chwe 2005 (UTC)

Anyone have a picture? 165.161.3.12 16:29, 9 Maw 2005 (UTC)

Llythrennau mawr neu fach

golygu

Dw i'n ansicr pryd i ddefnyddio llythrennau mawr. Dw i'n tueddi eisiau rhoi llythrennau bras i deitl erthygl. Beth yw'r polisi? Diolch Dyfrig 15:44, 21 Maw 2005 (UTC)

2,000th article

golygu

For the milestone statistics table on en:, we are trying to list when various editions wrote their 2,000th article. Does anyone know the exact date? thanks, Warofdreams 31 Maw 2005

According to meta:Wikimedia News/2004 it was 15 August 2004. -- Arwel 18:57, 31 Maw 2005 (UTC)
Let's crack on and get to 3000! Deb 21:39, 31 Maw 2005 (UTC)

Wikimedia Collaboration

golygu

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 someone could translate the following into Welsh and encourage people here to improve the Welsh language help pages. The text below is from en:Template:Wm-cotw and will be updated every week. Thanks. Angela 20:20, 3 Ebr 2005 (UTC)


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!

 

C'mon Arwel. Deb 16:57, 4 Ebr 2005 (UTC)


 

Halló! Most of the disambiguation templates listed at de:Bild Diskussion:Logo Begriffsklärung.png#Vorlagen - Templates are using Image:Disambig.png. The image should give an indication about the nature of the page and avoid linking between "normal" articles and disambiguation pages.
See commons:User:Gangleri#My contributions about a "collection" of other templates used in various Wikipedias. Please link the appropriate pages (if they exist at cy:). Best regards Gangleri | Th | T 08:22, 21 Ebr 2005 (UTC)

Audio template

golygu

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

We don't have one at the moment! -- Arwel 12:45, 21 Ebr 2005 (UTC)


Translation

golygu

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, Italian 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) minnan:Wikipedia:Chhiū-á-kha

The vanishing marnanel

golygu

(Sori am defnyddio yr iaith fain...)

I'm sorry for vanishing without explanation a few months ago. I was becoming more and more conscious of how bad my Welsh really is; I was especially reminded of this by reading someone on maes-e saying about how he thought it was a shame that there are so many learners and so few fluent speakers on Wicipedia. So I thought I'd leave until my Welsh was a bit better, or at least until I was nearer to finishing Catchphrase. I've been dropping in now and again to see how things are going meanwhile, though, and I've recently been having second thoughts about my absence. I miss the challenge of writing Welsh to this level, even the simple level that I can manage, and the feedback I get from people correcting me was really useful when I was first learning. So maybe I'll be around here more often from now on. Marnanel 19:52, 14 Mai 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Croeso yn ôl. You have been missed, and your Welsh is still better than mine. Deb 11:22, 15 Mai 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Stewards election

golygu

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 14:40, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

Nodynniau iaith

golygu

A oes nodynniau iath ar y Wikipedia hwn? Chwilioes neithiwr, ond nid oeddwn wedi cael ddim. Ceisioes ysgrifennu un sv:Mall:Användare cy-1, a hoffwn rhywun could look at it and correct the language in it. (Sorry to change into Saesneg, and excuse me for my bad Cymraeg) /RaSten = RaSten 21:55, 25 Mai 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Translation help

golygu

Hi there,

I tried to formulate a message yn Nghymraeg ar y Wicipedia Swyddeleg. Could anybody please have a look at it and make the language och the message better?

The link to the message is this. RaSten 17:04, 12 Meh 2005 (UTC)

OK -- Arwel 21:30, 12 Meh 2005 (UTC)
Diolch yn fawr i chi. RaSten 19:35, 17 Meh 2005 (UTC)

Calendrau

golygu

I'd like to replace the existing-style calendars: e.g.

Mawrth
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31        


with calendars in this style

 <<        Mawrth        >> 
Ll Ma Me Ia Gw Sa Su
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31
2005


similar to those I recently implemented on the Irish Vicipéid.

These calendars also show the days of the week for the current year and incorporate various links. To see how they work, take a look at e.g ga:9 Márta.

A oes gwrthwynebiadau? -- Jac-y-do 12:43, 1 Gor 2005 (UTC)

Are you proposing to update the calendars every year? It looks like a hell of a tedious task for a small community like ours, which is why I created the current fixed style in the first place! -- Arwel 13:57, 1 Gor 2005 (UTC)

Well, the tedium is the same whatever the size of the community! But, in any case, once the templates have been created updating takes about 15 minutes at the outside -- and I don't go out much on New Year's Eve... ;) Jac-y-do 14:48, 1 Gor 2005 (UTC)

Well, if you want to do it.... -- Arwel 18:08, 2 Gor 2005 (UTC)

Version 1.5

golygu

Oh no! It looks like we've been 1.5'ed... What I mean is that the "new improved" software as recently implemented at en:, de:, and es: is now being used here... and it means my display (the left-hand panel) is now bugg(er)ed, just like in English, etc. (I use Opera for my browser).

You will notice, for one thing, that we now have "Show changes" (in English) at the bottom of the edit box. Is that a real improvement> I'd be glad if anyone here can explain what the pros (if any) of these changes are about, as at en:wikipedia questions from severely-non-techie people like me are usually ignored.

Sorry for all the English: just wanted to get that off my chest! -- Jac-y-do 3 Gorffennaf 2005 11:15 (UTC)

Go on Jac, tell us what you really think! 1.5's not too bad, once they iron out the inevitable bugs. Most of the benefits are underlying and affect how efficiently the database gets updated, but from our point of view one benefit is that it's now possible to have accented characters in article names, which it wasn't before. I don't claim to understand everything that's going on even though I do lurk on the techies' mailing list! I've fixed the "Show changes" bug -- the problem is that with new versions of the software the developers keep introducing new messages and they don't tell us poor translators about them! The full list of messages can be found at Arbennig:Allmessages, and if you want to edit them I'll gladly make you an Admin (leave a note on my talk page). I did spot a report somewhere that claimed that 51% of our messages had been translated (before 1.5), but I think it looks like we've got more than that done - possibly they're counting the untranslated monobook.css and monobook.js entries, but I'm not going to touch those except very gingerly since there's the possibility of completely screwing up the 'pedia's layout! -- Arwel 3 Gorffennaf 2005 23:45 (UTC)

Gwallau

golygu

Diddorol iawn, ond pam mae cymaint o wallau yng Nghymraeg y safle `ma? 212.219.242.10 13:30, 15 Gorffennaf 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Dw i'n gwybod. dw i'n gwneud fy ngorau i gywiro cymaint ag y gallaf. Mae'n debyg fod cymaint o wallau am mai dysgwyr yw mwyafrif y cyfranwyr a does fawr o Gymry iaith gyntaf yn cyfrannu. Mae'n debyg eu bod yn gweld cymaint o wallau ac yn anobeithio gan feddwl ei bod yn safle israddol. Trist iawn ond dal i obeithio y daw mwy o Gymry iaith gyntaf i fewn, neu o leiaf dysgwyr gyda gwell gafael ar Gymraeg yssgrifenedig Dyfrig 15:53, 15 Gorffennaf 2005 (UTC)[ateb]


Please Express Your Objection

golygu

There’s someone proposing a policy to close some minor, slow-growing, “hopeless” wikipedias on the wikimedia meta-wiki. (see [1]) This proposal is the enemy to the openness of the whole wikipedia community. I come here to inform you to express your opinion there. I think it's OK to use your own language on on the talk page. Thank you. --Theodoranian19:38, 25 Gorffennaf 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Ofn mentro

golygu

Rwyf am wneud cywiriad i'r erthygl am Joseph Parry. Mae nam bychan ynddo sef bod y term emyn wedi ei ddefnyddio yn hytrach na'r term cywir emyn-dôn. Mae emyn yn ddolen i dudalen sydd heb ei greu eto ac na sydd ag unrhyw ddolennau eraill yn arwain ato. Rwyf am ddileu y ddolen emyn yn yr erthygl am Joseph Parry. A fyddai'n sarnu unrhywbeth wrth wneud hyn? Os na ddylwn wneud hyn all rhywun fy nghynghori ar sut mae orau cywiro'r nam. Lloffiwr 18:19, 6 Awst 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Mae hynny i'w weld yn iawn i fi 80.177.21.76 10:51, 20 Awst 2005 (UTC)[ateb]
Diolch. Lloffiwr 20:36, 20 Awst 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Erthygl Caradog Prichard

golygu

Mae problem technolegol ar y gair - 'd d i w e d d a r a c h' - yn y paragraff am Un Nos Ola' Leuad yn y dudalen ar Caradog Prichard. Dim ond y rhan 'darach' o'r gair sy'n ymddangos ar y dudalen. Oes rhywun yn gwybod beth sy'n o'i le? A sut i adfer y gair druan i'w lawn hyd? Lloffiwr 22:23, 6 Awst 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

I've had the same problem and so has Draig goch20. I'm hoping Arwel Parry might know the answer. Deb 22:31, 6 Awst 2005 (UTC)[ateb]
Just a note to thank Marnanel for getting this bug fixed by the developers! -- Arwel 19:49, 12 Awst 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Allwch chi helpu?

golygu

Dwi newydd dechrau ysgrifennu erthyglau yma, gan gynnwys adnewyddu'r un am Llandrindod. Byddwn yn ddiolchgar pe tasai rhywun gyda sgiliau ieithyddol gwell yn gallu cael sbec arni a chywiro unrhyw gwallau ac ati!62.252.32.12 20:47, 11 Awst 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Wedi cymeni'r Gymraeg ac wedi mwynhau'r erthygl. Beth a ddigwyddodd i'r ddau a lamodd o Lam y Cariadon? Lloffiwr 12:44, 12 Awst 2005 (UTC)[ateb]
Diolch am hynny - sai'n sgwennu llawer o Gymraeg erbyn hyn. Gyda'r llaw 'Llam Y Cariadau' ydy e - yn hen dafodiaeth Sir Faesyfed dyna ydy lluosog 'cariad'. Sai'n cofio beth digwyddodd i'r ddau. Bydd rhaid i fi ymchwilio tipyn bach mwy! richnos98 17:21, 12 Awst 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Babel Templates

golygu

I have been trying to update the Babel Templates for en, de, and eo. The english and german fixes were minor, and don't seem to have problems, but the Esperanto additions don't seem to be working properly, links still point to EDIT. Robert 06:28, 14 Awst 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Of course, as soon as I left the above msg, whatever the problem was seems to have gone away. If someone fixed the problem, thank you. Robert 06:40, 14 Awst 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Dyfal donc a dyrr y garreg

golygu

Rwyf am gynnig ychwanegu'r ddihareb uchod at y dudalen Wicipedia: Croeso, newydd-ddyfodiaid (is-dudalen i Wicipedia: Help) yn yr adran Wicipedia:Croeso, newydd-ddyfodiaid#Golygu ac wedi'r paragraff sy'n dechrau 'Os gwelwch gamgymeriad'. Cyn gwneud hoffwn gael y farn gyffredinnol ar y syniad.

(I propose adding the above proverb to the page Wicipedia: Croeso newydd-ddyfodiaid (sub-page to Wicipedia: Help) in the section Golygu and after the paragraph which starts 'Os gwelwch gamgymeriad'. Before venturing I am posting the suggestion here to get a general view on the idea.) Lloffiwr 22:23, 19 Awst 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Mae'n syniad da, dw i'n meddwl. Marnanel 01:44, 20 Awst 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Creu dwy restr Gwledydd y Byd?

golygu

Beth yw'r farn gyffredinol am y cynnig yn sgwrs:gwledydd y byd? Lloffiwr 20:16, 1 Medi 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Tsieina/China

golygu

Mae dwy erthygl i gael ar China, o dan y teitlau China a Tsieina. Oes modd i rywun sy'n gwybod mwy am wicipedia na fi uno'r ddwy erthygl?

(There are two articles on China, under the titles China and Tsieina. Can somebody better at wikipedia than me join these articles?) Lloffiwr 22:21, 1 Medi 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

You can easily enough edit one of them, replacing the entire text with a redirect to the other page. The hard part is editing the article you're intending to keep, so as to insert any additional useful content from the article which you're intending to wipe. Llareggub 07:18, 2 Medi 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Ewch yn ôl i Tseina.

golygu

Wrth darllen y tudalen Tseina, dilynais i'r gysyllt "Mewngofnodi". Ar ôl fewngofnod llwyddiannus, dwedwyd imi "Ewch yn ôl i Tseina". Lyfli. Basai hi'n well newid y testun 'na. "Yn ôl i dudalen Tseina", efallai? Llareggub 07:37, 2 Medi 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Voting on a minority language Wikipedia

golygu

Hello everybody.

I would like to ask everyone to vote at this poll: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal_for_Sinitic_linguistic_policy#Vote_-_.E6.8A.95.E7.A5.A8 as it is of immediate concern to the friends of minority languages everywhere. --24.251.198.251 11:21, 10 Medi 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Wicitestun

golygu

Wikipedia's sister site, wikisource.org, used to have just one big wiki for all languages, but has recently started splitting into language sections, (en.wikisource.org, de.wikisource.org and so on). The old site had a small but slowly growing library of public-domain Welsh texts, mostly uploaded and formatted by me (see them here), and now I'd like a cy.wikisource.org to be set up to house them.

If you agree, please go here and sign your name. I've put my name down for bureaucratship simply because they need at least one bureaucrat to go ahead; if anyone else would rather do it, please feel free to volunteer. Also, if you have a better idea for a name than wicitestun, please say here or there.

Once that's done, if anyone has access to texts to contribute (especially from the mediaeval bards) please do.

Diolch a chariad -- Marnanel 15:54, 14 Medi 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Okay, well. I found that the request had been added to the "approved" list on October 27, but then nothing happened. So today I asked en:User:Angela, who told me to ask en:User:Brion_VIBBER, whose talk page said he was away, but that I should raise a bug. So I did. Let's hope something comes of it soon. Marnanel 02:48, 9 Rhagfyr 2005 (UTC)[ateb]

Localized date formats need to be verified

golygu

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 21:45, 24 Medi 2005 (UTC))[ateb]