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setting up a multilanguage dictionary using MediaWiki
by edward molasses 11 Jul '05

11 Jul '05

Hello, I'm planning to setup a dictionary of terms related to the field of plant genetic resources, using MediaWiki. I want it to have all definitions in 5 different languages and there is a possibility of adding more. I was wondering if the usual/recommended case of setting up a site like this would be to follow the model of Wiktionary and have separate installations for each language of the dictionary, using interwiki links between them (I would have all installations on the same server and use interwiki links, which I think amounts to the same structure of links as what we see in Wikitionary). I'm not sure if this is the best idea for my case since perhaps for Wiktionary this installation fits the situation in regards to maintenance/curation and server load and in my case there would less server load and centralized maintenance/curation would be preferred. So I suppose my main question is, are there more advantages to having everything on one MediaWiki installation or on separate installations? Also, what would the advantages/disadvantages be for each situation? Any of your suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Andrew.

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Foundation votes on Wiktionary.
by Ray Saintonge 10 Jul '05

10 Jul '05

One of the effects of the recent page capitalization issue has been that the notice about this has overwritten direct access from en:wiktionary to the foundation vote pages. I was only able to find it by rooting around special pages. It would be helpful if the appropriate links were re-established Ec

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Tables for Ultimate Wiktionary
by Sabine Cretella 09 Jul '05

09 Jul '05

Yesterday we were talking about tables and structures for Ultimate Wiktionary. Repeating basically all we said time and time again. Gerard wrote some notes on this on his blog. http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/ The design phase for the tables of UW is apparantly starting .. Please give us your ideas so that we will have the best UW possible :-) Ciao, Sabine ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it

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Tables for Ultimate Wiktionary
by Sabine Cretella 09 Jul '05

09 Jul '05

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Changing username
by Angela 09 Jul '05

09 Jul '05

Ævar (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ævar_Arnfjörð_Bjarmason>) made a tool recently that enables bureaucrats to rename users and told me yesterday that Tim Starling has just deployed it at the servers. Therefore, any bureaucrat can change the username of users on their wiki using [[Special:Renameuser]]. For more details, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Changing_username http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Changing_username http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_permissions#Requests_for_name_c… http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards#Instructions_for_changing_usernames http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bureaucrats#Instructions_for_changin… Please translate this into your language and let the people on your project know about this new process. People on wikis without bureaucrats can make their request at [[meta:Requests for permissions]] instead. Angela.

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Re: [Wikitech-l] en.wiktionary.org temporarily broken
by Brion Vibber 04 Jul '05

04 Jul '05

Tomer Chachamu wrote: > On 30/06/05, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote: >>Someone has changed the $wgCapitalLinks setting on en.wiktionary.org, >>causing many thousands of links to break without warning -- far too many >>for humans to fix up in a reasonable amount of time. >> >>I'm really, really, really annoyed about this, and I'd appreciate it if >>whoever made this premature change would at least confess to the deed. > > > I'm really, really sorry about this: I'm sure somebody announced it in > the IRC channel and thus knew who was responsible - but I've forgotten > who it was. It was Tim. He didn't announce the change (that I noticed, anyway) and forgot to log it in the administrator's log, then happened to be away from the computer for the next several hours. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Icelandic - "Jökull/jökull"
by Sabine Cretella 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

Hi, on the Italian wiktionary someone with only IP added the above term with a capital letter. The definition says that it means "ice" or is a person's name. Now I tried to check with is.wikipedia/is.wiktionary and I found out that indeed it is a persons name, but I cannot find a reference to its meaning of "ice". Anyway when it means "ice" doesn't it need the spelling "jökull" with a lower case "j"? I hope there's someone talking this language on the list, otherwise I'll just add the name and delete the rest. Sorry for crossposting, but since this is a seldom language chances are higher that someone can help me. Ciao Sabine ___________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger: chiamate gratuite in tutto il mondo http://it.beta.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: en.wiktionary.org temporarily broken
by Klaus-Eduard Runnel 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

On 6/30/05, Sabine Cretella <sabine_cretella(a)yahoo.it> wrote: > > Klaus-Eduard Runnel wrote: > > >Maybe someone can think of a way to create automatic links to pages with > >titles differing just by the case of the first letter? E.g. it would be > >helpful to have link to "aa" from the article titled "Aa". I have had no > >success trying to accomplish something like that using the available > means > >of mediawiki. That's by the way one of the reasons why not-yet-so-big > >Estonian wiktionary has not switched over to case-sensitivite first > letters > >yet. > > > >There could be use for a magic word similar to PAGENAMEE which would > return > >the page title with spaces substituted by '+' characters. > > > > > > > Hi Klaus, as much as I know there is a bot that can revert everything to > lower case (see the mails of Biron today). So creating all pages in > lower case should be possible without problems. Thanks Sabine. Well yes, conversion should not be a problem, and a bot could also add those see-also links we were thinking of, step-by-step. We just hoped we could temporarily display a message (possibly using MediaWiki:Sitenotice) suggesting the user to try the alternatives with the alternatives listed as direct links or giving a link to a query that would search for (all kinds of) alternatives. If you then need help to > have a look at the German words that often have capital initial letters > ... let me know. > > I noted you already use templates like {{-en-}} so I suppose the > category for German is there. We do not have much German words yet, so those can be dealed with manually. > Do you have a template list somewhere? We do not have a template guide, although it would be a good idea to have it. You can check the template list at Special:Allpages http://et.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Eri%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=10 . > Ciao, Sabine Tšau :), Klaus.

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en.wiktionary.org temporarily broken
by Brion Vibber 30 Jun '05

30 Jun '05

Someone has changed the $wgCapitalLinks setting on en.wiktionary.org, causing many thousands of links to break without warning -- far too many for humans to fix up in a reasonable amount of time. I'm really, really, really annoyed about this, and I'd appreciate it if whoever made this premature change would at least confess to the deed. Right now I'm working on an automated script to fix up the links. This change should *not* have been made before this script was reaady. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Language counts
by James R. Johnson 29 Jun '05

29 Jun '05

Is there any way to add some tag to the wiktionary so that we can get a count of the number of different languages we have on a wiktionary, and the number of words in each? For example: On EN: This wiktionary has: English: 50,345 words German: 4,211 words Japanese: 123 words Spanish: 422 words .. .. And so on. Is that somehow possible by adding a language tag, say [[lang:en]] and have the tags identified per wiktionary, so that en shows up as Inglés on Spanish, Englisch on German, etc.? Thanks, James

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