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Could somebody please check if my bot does not spoil anything while adding audio files? I am not active on en.wiktionary and don't check latest policy changes. Bot contributions: Special:Contributions/DerbethBot. --Derbeth talk 17:31, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
User:Yair rand/orangelinks.js is a script that turns all links to language sections that don't exist orange where the broken links would otherwise be blue. It works by requesting the full wikitext of each of the relevant pages from the API, and checking whether the target language section exists on the page. Does anyone know whether, if the script was turned on by default, it would cause problems to have such large requests being made on every page load? --Yair rand 21:45, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
As a bit of an 'experiment' I converted {{l|xcl}}
to {{l|xcl|sc=Armn}}
in all Old Armenian entries; as I said above, I think the worst that can happen in this case is sc=Armn will appear twice, and really, there's no problem there. It's a bit ugly though, as named parameters should come after unnamed parameters, namely {{{1}}} and {{{2}}} for {{l}}
, but I'm unsure of how to do that. Also, how easy would it be to check (using regexes in my case) for sc=Armn appearing twice in a template, and being able to remove it. Mglovesfun (talk) 12:14, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
{{hy}}
= Armenian) using the regex function of AWB and it skipped all 8000+ Armenian entries. Mglovesfun (talk) 23:05, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
I'm playing with User:Mglovesfun/add t.js in an attempt to write a script to add {{t}}
and also move transliterations and genders inside the {{t}}
templates. It seems to be beyond my capability and don't, worry, I'm not planning on running it any time soon. Current problems is that it matches the format * <languagename>: ]
anywhere, so it'll add it for descendants too. Also, it will only format the first link, so * <languagename>: ], ]
will only add t to foo, not bar. There loads of stuff I can mention, those are too obvious ones. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:48, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Template_talk:term#Smart_quotes, any input? Mglovesfun (talk) 15:36, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
I tried a python script we use in el.wikt to add DEFAULTSORT keys to Greek words (User:Flubot/Adding_DEFAULTSORT_key_to_Greek_words). It's not very elegant because I've made some changes to run it here, but it works. There are two points: (a) If someone had previously inserted a valid DEFAULTSORT key somewhere in the middle of the text, the script moves it right before interwiki links. This change is not necessary but harmless, I think. (b) It changes the order of some interwiki links, for example it moves hu after lt, i.e. Magyar after Lietuvių (see this) and Suomi after Romanian, ie fi after ro (here). That seems alright to me but I would like to have other opinions before I go on with this script. --flyax 02:23, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
I see that Interwicket used to sort interwikis by language name and not by language code order (see Absinth). Luckas-bot does the same (see φόρος). So, if their is no objection I'll resume my edits with this script in a couple of days. --flyax 11:57, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
Greetings from Khmer Wikt!
I have came across a blog post somewhere about pywikipediabot in importing existing database from a free-licensed dictionary into Wikt. I heard that the Burmese or Lao project has been doing it. So, how can I and my team make sure of this bot for Khmer Wikt project? Currently, there's 1-2 active users who devote their time to manually make each entry one by one into our Khmer Wikt. So, I need your help in exploring if this pywikipediabot can help make life easier with a great deal of time saved! Thank you! --វ័ណថារិទ្ធ (Vantharith) 16:36, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
For some time I haven't been finding any results from either Autoformat or a replacement on various clean-up lists. Is that because there is nothing to clean up? If not, this would to make it highly likely that entropic processes will eventually overwhelm us. DCDuring TALK 11:41, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
{{rfc-auto}}
template. Are you still doing those? SemperBlotto 16:53, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
Hi, Can I make the conjugation box open immediately when I enter an entry? For example: If I go to parlare the Conjugation is hidden and i need to manually press "show" in order to show it. Jobnikon 16:13, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
This page contains a deprecated message; Special:CategoryTree was implemented long ago. It should either be deleted, in which case it would revert to the default message "The following {{PLURAL:$1|category contains|categories contain}} pages or media. ] are not shown here. Also see ]." Or the portion labeled "the from the Toolserver" should be changed to "]" instead, or something similar. TeleComNasSprVen 23:42, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
"Category:Latin words needing attention" needs to be changed to "Category:Latin terms needing attention", but unfortunately this template is protected. TeleComNasSprVen 05:28, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
I noticed while I was logged out that there is a section located in the sidebar titled "feedback" with the header "Send you anonymous feedback to Wiktionary" and includes several javascript commands to mark an entry a particular way according to a standard scale of some sort, as well as a link directly to Wiktionary:Feedback, which is of course where we get all of our feedback in writing. However the section disappears while I am logged in, and I'm no longer able to comment on a particular entry. Why has this feature been removed for autoconfirmed users who just wish to scroll through entries? TeleComNasSprVen 00:52, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
Currently, (almost) all category boiler templates have the language code as the first numbered parameter, and the name of the category as the second. {{topic cat}}
is rather conspicuous because it requires parameters called lang= and current= instead. Would anyone object if I modified the template so that it allows you to call it with numbered parameters as well, like other boiler templates? —CodeCat 16:20, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
{{infl|fr|adverb}}
to {{fr-adv}}
. Plus, the old system would still work - editors can still use it, just a bot may modify it later to do the same thing, just slightly simpler. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:08, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
{{topic cat|lang=fr|current=Something}}
over {{topic cat|fr|Something}}
for 'canonical' reasons... But topic cat has always been a bit of an odd one out when it comes to the category structure. —CodeCat 13:28, 22 May 2011 (UTC)Is there a way to find out which appendix pages do not have links to them? It would be useful to be able to see which of our reconstructed entries are not linked to from etymologies yet. —CodeCat 12:36, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
So currently, Template:syc-root-entry is set up to include three (and only three) letters as the basis of the Syriac root. That covers the vast majority of Syriac roots, however, there are quite a few that don't follow this pattern. Some will have only two letters, others four or sometimes five. Is it possible to set the template up in a way so that it includes all of those possibilities? I'm guessing it's an easy fix, maybe make two letters required and the rest optional with "#if:" or something. --334a 20:41, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
{{syr-root-entry}}
? See the discussion below (June 2011). --Mglovesfun (talk) 11:11, 16 June 2011 (UTC)Thought you might find this interesting:]Geof Bard 04:11, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
These seem to be Dawnraybot edits, many of them. How do we fix them? --Mglovesfun (talk) 11:10, 24 May 2011 (UTC)