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Thank you for starting the Beer Parlour conversation. But until you have consensus (i.e. more than just my comments) you may wish to limit yourself to a small example for illustrative purposes. --Connel MacKenzie 22:14, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
So I am about to move πάν to παν ((modern) Greek correct spelling). You guys use circumflex for the Ancient Greek form of the word, right? Only thing is, there is this DEFAULTSORT stuff in there and I'm not sure what to do with it. So in lieu of me doing something stupid, can you clue me in? Thanks much, ArielGlenn 02:15, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Sorry for not getting back to you sooner - busy weekend. We don't necessarily have a formalized format for non-lemma Classical noun and adjective forms, but it seems that I'm the only one around here who makes pages for, say, feminine plural datives. At any rate, for ἁγνόν, I removed gender from the citation line because it's an adjective. I also noted the additional inflected forms. For adjectives, I use gender, number, and case in Template:inflection of, while only number and case for nouns. Accordingly, I use the appropriate gender template in the citation line of nouns. Hopefully that made sense.
You've been doing excellent work around here, from my vantage point, and I'm always thrilled to see someone with knowledge of Latin and AG. There aren't many of us.
And now, to digress, go bears! I would like to refer to Greek 10 as the bane of my freshman year, but to be honest it wasn't Greek 10 so much as Greek 10 on top of Italian and two Latin classes. How did you enjoy linguistics? My roommate is a ling major and is trying to convince me to minor in it. And on a completely unrelated note, I noticed you made a few changes to Hawaiian entries. You wouldn't happen to know any Hawaiian/Pidgin, would you? I've been meaning to get work done in Hawaiian basically since I joined Wikt, but can't really muster up the guts to take on yet another language by myself! (I also didn't realize Pidgin had an Ethnologue code, so thank you for that.) Medellia 16:41, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Just FYI, {{PAGENAME}} should be subst'd whenever possible, as in {{Belgium}} and {{blend}}. —RuakhTALK 14:10, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
{{poker slang}}Hey, thanks for all the context template tweaks ;-) Compare the poker slang template (which I tweaked a bit more) with {{Internet slang}}. Both (all) forms work. I hadn't thought of doing what you did with the poker template, it is one more call but not much more than a redirect. All just interesting. Robert Ullmann 19:07, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
{{vulgar slang}}, using your style. Seems to me if someone writes that, rather than vulgar|slang, they probably want it as one noun phrase? Robert Ullmann 19:12, 19 August 2007 (UTC)Hey, thanks for getting rid of the lyrics. :) Neskaya talk 23:38, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi Mike, I yet did not change the "Spanish (Castillian)" headers. My personal preference is to use "Spanish", although there seem to exist opinions claiming that "Castillian" is right term (e.g. on omegawiki). Anyhow the Spanish entry guide Wiktionary:About Spanish states that the header should be "Spanish" and the Spanish Wiktionary uses "Español" and not "Castellano" as language heading. Maybe the issue should be discussed with the rest of the users and if there is a consensus to use "Spanish" a bot could change the "Spanish (Castillian)" headings.Matthias Buchmeier 09:10, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Thank you very much for downloading pywikipediabot and experimenting with it. However, please see WT:BOTS and do not run that from your own account. Please visit http://en.wiktionary.orghttps://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup and create an account such as User:Mike DillonBot for running those. And do remember to request bot approval for it. TIA. --Connel MacKenzie 14:22, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
{{IPAchar}})I inserted the "by extension" template in breakfast. Does it have any effect other than what is visible? What about "figuratively"? Are there others like this? DCDuring 03:09, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
If you let me know when your version works I will include it, I've lost the old one I made. Conrad.Irwin 00:09, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi, would you like to have admin tools here? If so I can nominate you. DAVilla 03:26, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
You may want to be a bit more careful with reverts. You missed some stuff on मत्स्य. I suppose in a little while you'll have the revert button, and so you won't have to worry about it as much, but as an admin it's always a good thing to be on the watchout anyway. Atelaes 01:18, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Congratulations. You are now an admin here. We do have such a page as Help:Sysop_tools, which you may wish to read about now. Remember that you can still request attention as usual, if you are in doubt about what to do, and you're always welcome to ask the rest of us for help. --Dvortygirl 04:16, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Copied from my talk page, problem is fixed but you might be interested in yet another cross-browser issue :( Conrad.Irwin 23:39, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi, Conrad. Was the browser-integrated search code interfering with something or otherwise causing problems? You removed it in this edit, so WT:CUSTOM no longer lets users add broser-integrated search. Rod (A. Smith) 21:46, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
This is one of the funniest edit history statements I've seen in a while:
--EncycloPetey 18:06, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Thanks again for your help with the preloadtitle thing. :-) —RuakhTALK 02:13, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
Hi Mike, seeing as you did so well with preloadtitle, I was wondering if you could help me get an even less consequential change committed that would help a lot with ensuring the vast amount of Javascript around works more consistently. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12773 . Any input would be much appreciated, even though this only affects borderline situations. Conrad.Irwin 11:40, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
strict flag for? I can see what it does, but I'm not sure why someone would want to use it.I just noticed that you've been expanding the use of {{topic cat}} and I was wondering if you've run into any problems beyond the outstanding issues I've already mentioned at User:Mike Dillon/Topics. Mike Dillon 22:34, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
] into Template:topic cat parents/Etymology and Template:topic cat parents/Slang, probably in addition to the "standard" call to {{topic cat parents/helper}} to get parents that are part of the prefixed topic tree (e.g. Category:Lexicons). Mike Dillon 20:11, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
{{topic cat parents/helper}} to add the language category if addlangcat=1 is passed. Mike Dillon 04:33, 17 March 2008 (UTC)I've looked at the Etymology category configurations and I think this is a pretty complicated situation that addlangcat=1 is not sufficient to handle. Category:Etymology is under Category:Fundamental, but the language subcats like Category:hu:Etymology are under Category:Etymology and their language (e.g. Category:Hungarian language). I think that Template:topic cat parents/Etymology has to have its own special conditional logic to handle this stuff since Category:Etymology doesn't go into Category:English language. If you dig deeper and deal with the derivations categories, it gets even crazier where you have things like Category:Serbo-Croatian derivations under three language categories. I hesitate to go too far to make one template and configuration scheme handle too much. Mike Dillon 05:20, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
Mike, I was wondering if I could ask a favour. I really don't understand the whole topic cat.....stuff, and sadly don't have the time to learn just this moment. However, I do occasionally create these types of categories, and would like to do it correctly. So, would you be willing to give the Ancient Greek cats all that snazzy new templating action that has been written, as I usually just copy off one of them when I write a new cat. I apologize for my laziness on this. I promise that I will learn this stuff later, when I have more time at my disposal. Many thanks. -Atelaes λάλει ἐμοί 02:42, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
Thank you for putting together a help for the derivation categories, it will save a lot of hassle.--Williamsayers79 19:56, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
If you remove blank lines like this, the AF bot will just put them back. We normally want a blank line between the inflection line and the first definition, to make editing clearer. --EncycloPetey 05:14, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
{{es-verb}} template. The rendered source looks like this:<p><b>estar</b> (<i>first-person singular indicative present</i> ...)</p> <p><br /></p> <ol> <li>To have a (transient) location in space. ...
</p> <p><br /></p> <ol> markup is junk. Mike Dillon 05:59, 6 October 2008 (UTC){{es-verb}}, which is still experimental. We're developing a better template coding to replace it, so the whitespace problem would have been solved soon anyway. --EncycloPetey 15:07, 6 October 2008 (UTC)There is discussion at Wiktionary:Grease pit#American_Sign_Language_language. Any input or assistance you can provide would be much appreciated.—msh210℠ 20:44, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Is that still needed for anything? {{topic cat}} is handling that now, and it looks to me that it could be safely deleted. — Carolina wren discussió 06:53, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
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