I want to inform you all that the nl:wiktionary has reached its 5000th article. The word was Italie (French for Italy).
To celebrate it, I have uploaded 100 spoken words to Commons. They are in the format xx-word.ogg xx for the ISO 639 code, word, is the spoken word and .ogg because that is the sound format that we use.
Thanks, :) GerardM
Good morning!
And congratulations to number 5.000 to Gerard :-) it seems to be some strange coincidence.
Yesterday before going to bed I noted that it.wiktionary.org does not seem to have an admin - why I noted this? I was searching for someone to ask about the capitalisation issue on the Italian wiktionary in order to avoid double work starting to upload the acutal colour list I have.
Besides that I noted that a user is uploading images and descriptions that to my opinion should be on wikipedia and not on wiktionary: http://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rosso_araldico http://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/Croce_araldica
As the descritption of the aspects, history, dimensions, proportions etc. should not appear there, but the term, maybe from which language it comes from, if its a noun, verb, adverb etc., as well as the translations. If an explanation than one like in the Oxford Dictionary. I already contacted this user and asked him to hold on for a moment as I wanted to ask how to go ahead on this.
One of his questions was: how to create links from wiktionary to wikipedia (to articles with the same name and with similar names). Where can I find the rules for linking or is it just to insert the definite weblink starting with http://it.wikipedia.org/....?
So who is the one I need to talk to for the Italian admin and if there isn't one what to do to become one - as things need to be adjusted now and not somewhere in the future. Imagine a person uploading 1500 terms including images ... sigh ... and then having to adapt hundreds/thousands of terms to upper/lowercase ... no, this must be done now.
Ciao, Sabine
I want to inform you all that the nl:wiktionary has reached its 5000th article. The word was Italie (French for Italy).
To celebrate it, I have uploaded 100 spoken words to Commons. They are in the format xx-word.ogg xx for the ISO 639 code, word, is the spoken word and .ogg because that is the sound format that we use.
Sabine Cretella schreef:
Good morning!
And congratulations to number 5.000 to Gerard :-) it seems to be some strange coincidence.
Yesterday before going to bed I noted that it.wiktionary.org does not seem to have an admin - why I noted this? I was searching for someone to ask about the capitalisation issue on the Italian wiktionary in order to avoid double work starting to upload the acutal colour list I have.
Besides that I noted that a user is uploading images and descriptions that to my opinion should be on wikipedia and not on wiktionary: http://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rosso_araldico http://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/Croce_araldica
As the descritption of the aspects, history, dimensions, proportions etc. should not appear there, but the term, maybe from which language it comes from, if its a noun, verb, adverb etc., as well as the translations. If an explanation than one like in the Oxford Dictionary. I already contacted this user and asked him to hold on for a moment as I wanted to ask how to go ahead on this.
One of his questions was: how to create links from wiktionary to wikipedia (to articles with the same name and with similar names). Where can I find the rules for linking or is it just to insert the definite weblink starting with http://it.wikipedia.org/....?
So who is the one I need to talk to for the Italian admin and if there isn't one what to do to become one - as things need to be adjusted now and not somewhere in the future. Imagine a person uploading 1500 terms including images ... sigh ... and then having to adapt hundreds/thousands of terms to upper/lowercase ... no, this must be done now.
Ciao, Sabine
Ciao Sabine,
What you need to do to become an admin is to start an election. If there is enough people who agree you would make a good admin, you can ask André Engels to make you one. It wouldn't be a bad idea to nominate several of the more active people and have something like three or five people administering a Wiktionary. If you manage to determine a good person to take on the task of burocrat during the same elections, then you don't have to bother Andre any more afterwards.
Jo
So who is the one I need to talk to for the Italian admin and if there isn't one what to do to become one - as things need to be adjusted now and not somewhere in the future. Imagine a person uploading 1500 terms including images ... sigh ... and then having to adapt hundreds/thousands of terms to upper/lowercase ... no, this must be done now.
What you need to do to become an admin is to start an election. If there is enough people who agree you would make a good admin, you can ask André Engels to make you one. It wouldn't be a bad idea to nominate several of the more active people and have something like three or five people administering a Wiktionary. If you manage to determine a good person to take on the task of burocrat during the same elections, then you don't have to bother Andre any more afterwards.
Hi Jo,
this means I should try to contact the people contributing to the Italian wiktionary and maybe also ask who of them would also like to take over an admin job. Where does this election then take place? On the wiktionary itself? Maybe on the admin page? Is there any example around? How can I determine who are the people who contributed most to the wiktionary - is there some kind of list? Sorry for so many questions.
Ciao, Sabine
Sabine Cretella schreef:
So who is the one I need to talk to for the Italian admin and if there isn't one what to do to become one - as things need to be adjusted now and not somewhere in the future. Imagine a person uploading 1500 terms including images ... sigh ... and then having to adapt hundreds/thousands of terms to upper/lowercase ... no, this must be done now.
What you need to do to become an admin is to start an election. If there is enough people who agree you would make a good admin, you can ask André Engels to make you one. It wouldn't be a bad idea to nominate several of the more active people and have something like three or five people administering a Wiktionary. If you manage to determine a good person to take on the task of burocrat during the same elections, then you don't have to bother Andre any more afterwards.
Hi Jo,
this means I should try to contact the people contributing to the Italian wiktionary and maybe also ask who of them would also like to take over an admin job. Where does this election then take place? On the wiktionary itself? Maybe on the admin page? Is there any example around? How can I determine who are the people who contributed most to the wiktionary - is there some kind of list? Sorry for so many questions.
Ciao Sabine,
I thought you were an active contributor yourself. Then you would have known who contributes a lot. Otherwise you can see what contributions people do and see if they are regular. The election would take place on the administrator's page. (an example from the Spanish page: http://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Administrador) People can propose themselves or they can be nominated.
I hope this helps,
Polyglot
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