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As some of you may know, I have earlier created a free ePub/mobi (Kindle) English - English dictionary based on Wiktionary and CIDE (i.e. Webster's 1913 Unabridged with some additions). There's also now a Wiktionary only edition. Links to these are on my web page http://personal.inet.fi/koti/korhoj/.
I think there's a little problem in the Perl script that creates the dump file http://toolserver.org/~enwikt/definitions/enwikt-defs-latest-en.tsv.gz. Namely there are some entries that have spanning HTML comments and these aren't recognized. As a result, the dump has some dangling comment end tags. Such as in end of "Chelsea Proper noun # A type of porcelain once manufactured there." The comment continues in the next line like this: "A football club based there. Football clubs don't belong in Wiktionary" (click Edit to see it).
I couldn't think of an easy way to fix this and am not good in Perl anyway. Currently I just remove those entries which I can't convert to well-formed XHTML.
Korhoj 08:32, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
I am doing a comparative study of the vocabulary of Indonesian and Tagalog, two closely related languages. If I look up the Indonesian word pulih, the Wiktionary entry will say "Compare Tagalog puti" and if I look up the word bawang there will be entries for both Indonesian and Tagalog. Is there any way I can pull out all the Wiktionary entries which gives comparisons for both languages and entries for both languages, please? — This comment was unsigned.
<DynamicPageList> category=Tagalog nouns category=Indonesian nouns namespace=0 count=100 mode=none order=ascending </DynamicPageList>
mama
si
abate
abdomen
gas
mars
tuba
radar
ate
be
robot
el
AP
balik
sana
kali
alas
slang
among
bulan
suka
te
ideal
bir
basket
ban
ye
baron
hanger
kimono
arbor
terminal
yu
mare
aa
kata
mana
ge
bus
halal
ha
em
ti
ce
aspirin
tapas
es
dugong
altar
tuna
pare
oasis
panda
melon
iso
drama
bos
santo
batis
video
admiral
barat
kuda
uang
pisang
kawan
hamba
makan
dos
abang
tali
anak
kaki
papa
tema
paha
masa
mula
kapitan
asinan
lisan
timbangan
bilangan
hukuman
tulisan
tahanan
utusan
tanggapan
ala
epistola
kakak
ako
moral
tsunami
balai
abad
kondom
tenor
maestro
lapis
The current protection options for pages aren't really sufficient in some areas. Sysop protection seems too much in many cases and prevents many users from making useful contributions and fixes, but autoconfirm protection takes away our ability to keep a check on who is trustworthy enough to be allowed to make edits. It would be nice if there were an additional block option which allows editing as soon as the user is an autopatroller. Could this be added? —CodeCat 21:28, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
The box doesn't need to be full width. I've looked into making it less, say 50%, but I can't work out how. Is it possible to just have it fit the width of the content of the table? Thank you, Mglovesfun (talk) 17:49, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
When there is more than one definition in the WOTD, as there commonly is, the RSS feed shows only the first one, and when it has a term with a link inside it, it doesn't display anything. —Internoob 04:32, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
{{l}}
but {{transitive}}
breaks it too. —Internoob 00:50, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
{{l}}
also breaks it. Anything with a link. —Internoob 20:49, 24 December 2011 (UTC)The WOTD RSS feed appears to be stuck on February 17: ultracrepidarian. Is anyone else seeing this? Apologies if this is not the correct method/place to comment on this.
In Wiktionary:Per-browser preferences, I have "Replace text in deletion log comment" checked - but it is not working. Is this related to the nasty look of the current site? SemperBlotto 08:37, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
I am a very occasional user at Wiktionary, though do contribute widely through WMF. I find it difficult to quickly add simple entries, or to add citations due to not having ready ability to quickly insert data in the right format. In the end, it is easier to add nothing rather than try to struggle through when I come across old words from my efforts at Wikisource. I wonder whether your community had considered the use of Editnotice to preload templates/text. Here I am thinking of an example like how Commons uses their Creator template into their Creator namespace. If something could be preloaded into the right format for Citations, or for new words, so it is all preset I know that I would find it really useful. Even it was all within html comments, and I unblock the needed bits. — billinghurst sDrewth 03:08, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
if (wgAction == "edit"){
var tosSummary = document.getElementsByClassName("mw-tos-summary")
tosSummary.innerHTML += "<pre> #*{{quote-book<br/>|year=<br/>|author=<br/>|title=<br/>|chapter=<br/>|passage=}} </pre>"
}
{{quote-book}}
but you can just change it. —Internoob 03:08, 14 December 2011 (UTC)I seem to have lost the "alpha-bar" (can't remember what it's really called — the JavaScript thing that loads after the main entry and shows you the previous and next few entries, like "Abba - abbey - abbeys - abduct - abducted"). I think this happened when the new visual layout appeared (the aforementioned Godawful boxes). Are the two things incompatible? Equinox ◑ 22:11, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
The 'hide quote' function isn't working. Have tried clearing my caché, which suggests it is server side, not my computer. I use Firefox and have disabled the current admin-only trial. Mglovesfun (talk) 17:19, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
{{cite-book}}
to use said better way, but plenty of templates still use the prefix= approach. (Better yet, IMO, would be to get rid of these templates altogether — they're more trouble than they're worth — but I suppose that some editors must feel differently, or else they wouldn't keep using them.) —RuakhTALK 19:55, 14 December 2011 (UTC){{quote-book}}
is preferable in a number of respects. It recognizes more parameters (including "editor", "location" and "publisher"). Also, if you don't end your {{cite-book}}
parameters with a page number, {{cite-book}}
will print the citation line so that it ends with a comma instead of a colon. But, I agree with Ruakh -- best of all is the old fashioned way of just typing the citations without using templates. -- · 21:19, 14 December 2011 (UTC)That page beats even water in inefficiency; it uses 1 MB of the 2 MB limit! Anyone able to figure out what causes it? -- Liliana • 20:06, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
{{list}}
template is the culprit. Can't we just get rid of this obvious duplication of topical categories? -- Liliana • 20:17, 14 December 2011 (UTC)Would an admin be so kind to update the file Mediawiki:sp-contributions-footer, one to update ~vvv's script to be quentin's scrip, and two make the toolserver urls protocol relative. I have done that at s:Mediawiki:sp-contributions-footer if you need to peek. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:37, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
See Template_talk:wikipedia#Sidebar_display_bug. Does anyone else experience this bug? —Michael Z. 2011-12-15 16:20 z
// Add a new global toggle to the side bar addGlobalToggle: function(category) {...
Is there any way of making the links on pages in the Category namespace go straight to the appropriate language section when using tabbed languages? —Internoob 20:47, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
{{Xyzy}}
rather than jumping directly to (e.g.) {{he/script}}
. Aside from that, my only concern is that, if I'm not mistaken, it would fail ungracefully if (e.g.) {{he/script}}
or {{Hebr}}
didn't exist, or if {{Hebr}}
started with something other than an HTML element. (I admit, I'm not aware of any script templates with the latter property, but SFAIK nothing currently forbids it. In the past we've discussed the possibility of {{Hebr}}
wrapping its contents in bidi characters to prevent internal RTL directionality from "leaking out" in the case of interstitial punctuation and/or subsequent digits, especially the latter.) Similarly, it could behave rather oddly if {{Hebr}}
did start with an HTML element, but that element wasn't intended to directly hold the templated text (say, if {{Hebr}}
used two layers deep of HTML elements for some reason). It might be safer to use some sort of placeholder text, such as %PLACEHOLDER_TEXT%, and resort to the less-fancy approach of manipulating innerHTML. Oh, and by the way, p should totally be named li. :-P —RuakhTALK 22:29, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
{{Sgnw}}
, which should really be fixed, if just to pass the lang parameter). If there is no script template at all, quite a lot of templates would break, so I think it's okay to assume that one exists. --Yair rand 01:13, 4 January 2012 (UTC){{Xyzy}}
, which copes with a nonexistent {{he/script}}
by falling back on {{Eror}}
(though it does not, I admit, cope with a nonexistent {{ {{he/script}} }}). —RuakhTALK 02:01, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
{{Tibt}}
should be modified so that it can be fixed for all situations, not just the category pages. --Yair rand 23:06, 9 February 2012 (UTC)Is there a character that looks like a ^ that can be placed above numbers in normal text and in page headers? Celloplayer115 18:53, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
I recently got a widescreen monitor, and since we use collapsible tables a lot on Wiktionary, I noticed that a lot of the time, the tables are stretched to the entire width of the screen, leaving a lot of empty space in between. Is it possible somehow to make the table only as wide as its contents, so that it becomes wider or narrower as the words in the table are longer or shorter? —CodeCat 15:16, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
There's been some recent activity here. Can we get one for French, as our current French one sucks? --Simplus2 14:15, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
Hi all. Can someone tell me how to quickly unlink to pages with a specific language section. I'm thinking of stripping all entries on User:Simplus2/more French crap which already have a French section. --Simplus2 20:13, 29 December 2011 (UTC)