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Apparently, all Wikisaurus pages are employing {{ws header}}
to (among other functions) be categorized into Category:Wikisaurus.
These pages are naturally listed in alphabetical order on the category. However, their titles are currently read in a case-sensitive manner: pages that begin with a capital letter appear first, and are followed by pages that begin with a lowercase "a".
Here is, as an example, a small list of pages organized as how they appear on the category:
A
E
I
T
a
c
e
I disagree with this specific collation. So, let me once more suggest an improvement to Wikisaurus.
As a result, the emphasis on words that begin with capital letter would be deprecated. And, for example, the list above would be reorganized to:
A
C
E
I
T
--Daniel. 03:50, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
I propose a change to {{countable}}
, {{uncountable}}
, {{transitive}}
and {{intransitive}}
. Right now countable and uncountable always categorize, while transitive and intransitive never do. What I'd like to see them do is only categorize when lang is given. This stops wrong categorization, whilst allowing categorization when an editor chooses to do so. I proposed this once, probably early this year, and got very little feedback, so I didn't do it. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:54, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
SemperBlottoBot is repeatedly getting the above error message. Sometimes it adds a couple of words and falls over. On retry, it doesn't even get that far, always failing in a different place. Any ideas? SemperBlotto 16:09, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
{{citation gloss}}
I've created {{citation gloss}}
and added it to Citations:Portuguese and Citations:Galicia, to consistently handle individual sections for multiple definitions. --Daniel. 19:03, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
==...==
?—msh210℠ (talk) 19:10, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
{{citations}}
also prevents section editing, elsewhere. Anyway, if you want to edit sections of citation glosses, the usage of the discussed template may be changed to ==={{citation gloss|proper noun|former Iberian kingdom}}
===; or ==={{cg|proper noun|former Iberian kingdom}}
===, which is shorter. --Daniel. 19:40, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
{{citation gloss}}
. After you demonstrate consensus for its support, or at least some other people supporting you in this activity, it can be readded. --Dan Polansky 21:53, 5 November 2010 (UTC)Today I got the following error in Firebug's error console:
searchBox is null http://en.wiktionary.orghttps://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=User:Connel_MacKenzie/keypad.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript Line 164
Helder 17:18, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
Under IE, for a non-logged in user, when you click on one of the feedbacks (http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/8666/scrshots.png) you get a download window (http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/8484/scrshotd.png) --Tyw7 (Talk • Contributions) Changing the world one edit at a time! 04:44, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
Just notifying of my creation of this template, like Template:rfp but for use in entries where the pronunciation is not recorded anywhere yet. — lexicógrafa | háblame — 01:42, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
{{rfp}}
? NB I quite dislike pronunciations for dead languages. The pronunciations are by nature, unattest. So we don't allow unattested words/terms, but we do allow unattested pronunciations. Anyway, that would be a Beer Parlour issue. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:08, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
Someone invented a widget which collapses quotations under a "" button. This reduces clutter and makes it easier to find the definitions of word, so this widget represents a great improvement to Wiktionary. However, I am doing a lot of work with quotations, so I would like to not collapse quotations by default... is there somewhere in Prefs I can set that, just like I can set it not to show page content below diffs, etc? — Beobach972 03:28, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
Now that Interwicket is down as well, Interwicket, Tbot and AutoFormat are all down, Conrad.Bot is also 'down' while Conrad.Irwin is absent. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:11, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
I'm running the pywikipedia software (LA2-bot) and the interwiki.py module has a -wiktionary mode. I decided to give this a try. However, it first visits every existing language of Wiktionary (by API, one at a time, which takes some time) to find out if the article exists there. Is this really an efficient way (and the only way) of doing things? The changes made was to remove interwiki links from given and brunnen which were redirects on the target wiki. Is that a correct action, or should those interwiki links have been kept? --LA2 19:18, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
It seems to me that AutoFormat and Interwicket are as important to Wiktionary as are the wiki and database themselves. So should we ask WMF to run these bots with regular staff, instead of relying on volunteers for running bots? --LA2 21:06, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
This is just a notice that I plan to include support for Catalan verb forms to User:MewBot sometime soon. I plan to use {{ca-verb form of}}
(though after some adjustments) as the main form-of template. If anyone has any particular requests or comments on how it should work, please let me know. —CodeCat 14:00, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
New Swedish entries are added all the time. Our new templates for declension/conjugation tables work fine. However, some words should have alternatives for one or two of the forms. For example the word kammare (“chamber”) in the definite singular form kammaren can also (somewhat dated, mostly in spoken and poetic use) be kammarn, leaving out the e (similar to English burned/burnt). Is there a standard way to design a template parameter that adds an alternative form? E.g. if the parameter is 2=kammaren should this be named alt2=kammarn? --LA2 18:07, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
It must be possible to filter out all or, at least, assisted translations from Recent Changes and Watchlist. It would be easier for a simple basically monolingual contributor like me to patrol with lists that had a larger share of items within my scope. DCDuring TALK 19:07, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
{{infl form}}
I have recently given this little-used template a bit of a revamp, and brought it in line with the existing {{infl}}
. I think this template could be but to good use quite easily. Currently the only thing it does differently is that it categorises the entry in '(lang) (POS) forms' rather than '(lang) (POS)s', but it could do more specific form-of related things in the future. I think it is definitely preferable over putting the pagename in the entry 'raw'. Any thoughts? —CodeCat 15:43, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
{{infl}}
— aside from the nicely formatted wikitext, which is nice — are (1) it doesn't support g=g and (2) it infers an additional _form in the POS field. For example, {{infl form|foo|bar}}
is equivalent to {{infl|foo form|bar}}
. (It just moves the _form from one field to the other. ;-) ) The old version made much more sense to me: it already did the "more specific form-of related things" that you think you might someday add to this one. (Not that I was a fan of the old version, either. I think the form-of information belongs on the sense line, not the inflection line. But the new version makes even less sense IMHO.) —RuakhTALK 16:46, 12 November 2010 (UTC){{infl form}}
; for me, {{infl|he|verb form|head=יָבוֹא|tr=yavó}}
is perfect (see ]). Now, some editors apparently prefer to put the form-of information in the inflection line itself; I could presumably make this template more useful for those editors by simply clicking the "rollback" link. I could easily imagine there being a third group that preferred something different yet; but to judge by the Catalan entries you're creating, your ideal form-of inflection line is actually the same as mine. So, again, I just don't get it. I'm not even particularly opposing your change, so much as I am just totally not understanding it.{{infl}}
. But yes, I do think that the link back to the lemma form should not go in the inflection line. If we do that, it would either duplicate information or make the definition line useless. But... now that I've already created a ton of pages, do you think I should do a quick search-and-replace on them? It would take a while... —CodeCat 18:18, 12 November 2010 (UTC)After poking around Wiktionary for a little while, I discovered User:Conversion script, a script username used by Mediawiki software to convert entries into lowercase per the new Wiktionary standard. Unfortunately, it left behind a lot of unnecessary redirects when moving the pages. Could somebody take a look through them and delete those redirects? TeleComNasSprVen 20:34, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
Why are half the definitions on the site in italics, and can this be turned off? It's fairly annoying. — lexicógrafa | háblame — 16:57, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
{{non-gloss definition}}
. It should be possible for someone to allow registered users who don't want a typographical reminder of the distinction to suppress it. DCDuring TALK 17:17, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
.use-with-mention { font-style: normal }
When a page loads, the "Delete", "Move", and "Protect"/"Unprotect" tabs not tabs at all but options in a drop-down list. About a second later, they become tabs. I can't figure out why. (I don't like it, as sometimes I mean to click "Edit" only to find that as I click it "Move" takes its place and got clicked instead.) Any ideas, please?—msh210℠ (talk) 20:44, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Hi,
I hope it is the right place to ask this question / report this problem. Do not hesitate to move it to the right discussion and tell me.
I use the Wikitionary a lot as it is a good tool for translation...
For some time now every new page I open takes up to a minute to come to a message from Internet Explorer, read below, once I have the message, I click Ok and the page pops up instantly.
English translation:
Stop the execution of this script, a script present on this page slows your Web browser; If it continues, your computer might not answer any more
Or the original in French:
Arréter l'exécution de ce script? Un script present sur cette page ralentit votre navigateur Web, S’iI continue, votre ordinateur pourrait ne plus répondre.
For info, in case that in usefull,
Thanks in advance, --Cqui 13:24, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
===] to display differently for non-newbies with JS than for others=== */ if (wgUserGroups && wgUserGroups.join("").indexOf("autoconfirmed") > -1) { addCSSRule(".msgfornewbies", "display: none"); }else{ addCSSRule(".msgfornonnewbies", "display: none"); } /*
Someone with the user rights and knowledge should look into this matteer ASAP as it is really impossible to use the site with IE when this stuff goes on. --Harald Khan Ճ 18:04, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
Kind of a pain in the neck to use — MediaWiki was not designed for this! — but potentially useful anyway, at least in some cases. —RuakhTALK 20:40, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
{{unit-test-navbox}}
now. See ] for an example. —RuakhTALK 15:35, 19 November 2010 (UTC){{phrasebook}}
Currently, this template supports only two subcategorisations, using the second and third numbered parameters. This is rather restrictive, so it really needs to be extended so that it can take a larger number of optional parameters. It should behave similar to w:Template:main, where all terms except the last are separated by commas, and the last by 'or'. I just can't figure out how to do it, so can someone else do this please? Thanks. —CodeCat 15:24, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
{{comma-conj-list}}
to simplify such lists — up to seven list items — and changed {{phrasebook}}
to use it. It should be clear how to add support for more items. —RuakhTALK 16:33, 19 November 2010 (UTC)Anyone have an idea of how to include Sámi vowel changes upon inflection into a template? For example, "oa" in "čoađgi" changes to "o" in the singular comitative and all plural cases except for the nominative. Pirkonka 23:03, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
Multiple citation templates, including Template:quote-book, include this well-known piece of text:
|passage=bla bla bla}}
It may generate weird effects if placed below indented definitions. (for an example of entry with indented definitions, see a fila anda)
In addition, it is much longer than this alternative:
#*:bla bla bla
In short, the parameter "|passage=" is unnecessary, long and buggy. Is there any reason for its existence? --Daniel. 10:59, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
{{{1}}}
, {{{i}}}
and {{{i2}}}
, parameters of Template:quote-book whose function is making the indentation even more complicated? :p --Daniel. 13:16, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
{{quote-book}}
, but its use is not in the documentation, AFAICT. DCDuring TALK 15:54, 21 November 2010 (UTC){{cite meta}}
. (Don't worry, I tested this thoroughly before implementing.) Henceforth, the "passage" will always have one level of indentation relative to the "source" (metadata), and the "transliteration" and "translation" will always have one level of indentation relative to the "passage". This will fix any entries that should have been specifying indent2 and/or indent3 but weren't, as well as any entries that were specifying them wrongly; it won't have any effect on entries that were already correct. If anyone objects, feel free to revert (unless you're not an admin, in which case feel free to ask me to revert).{{cite meta}}
intelligently handles the case that it's absent. So even if you use these templates to format the metadata, you can put the passage separately. —RuakhTALK 01:34, 22 November 2010 (UTC)# def #* {{quote-news|year=year|passage=pass- #*: age}}(or the like) was previously equivalent to
# def #* {{quote-news|year=year}} #*: pass- #*: agebut is now equivalent to
# def #* {{quote-news|year=year}} #*: pass- #*:: age. I find it a bit shocking that anyone was using such tortured syntax, but at least one entry had such a thing. I fixed it by moving the passage outside the template completely. I don't think that's a good reason to revert the change, especially since the effect is so minor, but it's good to be aware of it. With MediaWiki, no amount of thorough testing is sufficient . . . —RuakhTALK 16:19, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
I've been trying to think of a way to move masculine/feminine forms (that is, a masculine singular listed on the entry of an Italian feminine noun) inside {{it-noun}}
. The formatting varies quite a lot, some of them use brackets (Masculine: foo) and some do the same thing with no brackets. Also some use bold and some don't, just about all of them list the masculine or feminine in Italics. BTW does anyone think this is not a good idea in the first place? Mglovesfun (talk) 11:31, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
{{it-noun}}
template as User:SemperBlottoBot analyses its usage in order to generate plurals. SemperBlotto 11:34, 21 November 2010 (UTC)I noticed that one of the rare things that AutoFormat has never done is add lang=foo to context labels that categorize, such as {{idiomatic}}
(and a hundred more, at least). These are used outside English sections, or in lists of synonyms/antonyms quite a lot and therefore categorize wrongly. If someone wants to produce a list I don't particularly mind doing at least some, but given the number involved (a few thousand, maybe ten thousand) in the long term, having a bot to do it would be a massive advantage. I can't see how in computer science terms it's more challenging that add lang=foo to {{IPA}}
or {{homophones}}
. Mglovesfun (talk) 15:24, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
{{prefix}}
, {{suffix}}
(etc.) Mglovesfun (talk) 16:38, 28 November 2010 (UTC)|lang=en
to each, taking up even more room, is not worth the minimal benefit if AF/PKbot adds non-English lang
s to context tags based on ==language== headers. (If it can't/wont so add, then I agree we should have lang=en
, but I hope that that's not the case.)—msh210℠ (talk) 16:56, 29 November 2010 (UTC)lang=
to {{rfp}}
?—msh210℠ (talk) 16:18, 2 December 2010 (UTC)lang=
to {{rfdef}}
?—msh210℠ (talk) 08:08, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
{{look}}