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Category:Supported projects

Is there any reason why some projects in this category are under * and some under letters A,B,C...? maro21 (talk) 13:01, 11 January 2025 (UTC) maro21 (talk) 18:29, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Maro21: I don't see any logical reason for why it's like that, no. Feel free to reorganize it so everything sorts by letter instead of * if you want! Jon Harald Søby (talk) 15:29, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done. maro21 (talk) 21:17, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Does translatewiki joined the LQT remove programme?

Mediawiki is currently removing Flow and LQT in all wikis. The programme consists of moving boards to subpages, setting them to read-only, convert the LQT pages into wikitext, and finally completely remove the extension from the wiki. It seems there is no existing plan for translatewiki. Will the local wiki joined this programme? If not, will translatewiki do the same thing as mediawiki does? 阿南之人 (talk) 11:51, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

See for example 12:17, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Nike: Well, he wrote a very crude liquidthreads->wikitext converter at 12:39, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like at least in theory the LQT->Flow maintenance script can convert LQT pages from a remote wiki using the LiquidThreads API (although the code that does that is scarily labeled "This is *only* for use in testing, not production"), so in theory one could install Flow on a temporary test wiki, run that script there, and then run my export with history script to produce XML which can then be imported. I may get around to playing around with this idea sometime, but probably not for a very long time. Pppery (talk) 17:26, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Pppery Well, 04:36, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My plan is to let the WMF install Flow there and convert to Flow, and then convert to wikitext from that. Pppery (talk) 16:52, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Removing "old" threads

I don't think it's a good idea to remove threads where no one has answered. Here 18:27, 22 February 2025 (UTC) 13:35, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request for translatewiki

I would like to request the link of the Margi language on TranslateWiki. Galdiz (talk) 04:28, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, the Margi language has been added to TranslateWiki. Language code: mrt. ToluAyo (talk) 14:13, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Related to the name of the language (shn)

As for the language name, if it is used as a short name, it will easily cause others to misunderstand, and in the future, the literature may be damaged. If use တႆး for the language name, it can have different meanings. Shan and Mon people use their ethnic names by abbreviations, but these abbreviations should not be used in literary writing. if ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး is used in a literary context, it can only have one meaning, thanks--𝓓𝓻.𝓘𝓷𝓽𝓸𝓫𝓮𝓼𝓪|𝒯𝒶𝓁𝓀 12:32, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

With which thing can တႆး be confused? Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 12:50, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Amire80 okay, I will explain it as best I can so you can understand. if use the name တႆး for the Shan language, it no longer means the Shan nation, but also includes thirty-four other ethnic groups (example: ethnic groups such as the Tai Nuea (tdd), Tai Daeng (tyr), Tai Dón (twh) also call themselves တႆး (Tai) by their acronym), The real name of the Shan people is 02:36, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation, I'll check this. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 11:22, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki:Logentry-abusefilterblockeddomainhit-hit/en

Plural option is needed, at least for Serbian language. Sometimes its more than one domain hit in the log Milicevic01 (talk) 18:05, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, the 11:06, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

👍 Milicevic01 (talk) 22:35, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requesting for Waalii characters on a keyboard

We humbly request for the assistance with a keyboard where we can in Waalii language easily. This is the orthography. Orthography:

Writing well in Waalɩɩ

Waalɩɩ Vowels

a e i o u ʋ ɛ ɔ ɩ a

Differences between i and ɩ

i uses

1. Waali (when hot water or something burnt someone) 2. Haahi(yawning)

ɩ uses

1. Waalɩ (as in steaming meat before cooking) 2. Haalɩ(eventhough) 3. Naaŋmɩnɩ(God) 4. tɩ(we) 5. Waalɩɩ(ThelanguageofWaalapeople)

ʋ uses

1. bʋɔ (goat) 2. Ʋ ( you; example, Ʋna gaayɛ Wadaa jine. He/she will go to Wa market today)

Difference between a and a

Haahi (yawning. Explaining: looks like big voice sound) Waalɩɩ (The language of Waala people. Explaination: looks like small voice sound)

Consonants sound

b d k g t p s j v f z h y w l n m ŋ r ŋm gb kp ch Zakaria Tunsung (talk) 21:58, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Zakaria Tunsung: Hi! Are there existing keyboard layouts in use for this language that we could draw inspiration from? Like a Waalii keyboard in Google's Gboard (it supports hundreds of languages), or the 08:13, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've already made a keyboard for Wali: mw:Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input methods/wlx-tilde

However, some letters are missing because I didn't know that they are needed. We can add them.

Can you please clarify about the vowels? Your list of vowels says: "a e i o u ʋ ɛ ɔ ɩ a". The last letter is "a", which is the same as the first. Are they actually the same?

Also, can I read about this alphabet anywhere else online?

Thanks! Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 14:26, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The first and last one are the same. They just letter ‘a’. It’s just that, the orthography is drawing attention that we have vowels sounds up to 10.

The language experts are trying hard to make it easy for even non-speakers to read. The language Wali was sharing the same orthography with Dagaare but people find more difficult to read especially non-speakers. That’s why it’s difficult for me to reference online sources about it.

We are currently using Keyman keyboard. The experts also developed extensions on Keyman keyboard called Qkey which we are using currently but challenging. Zakaria Tunsung (talk) 19:45, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just like the 20:01, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]