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Я вновь прошу обратить внимание на проект ингушский раздел Википедии. За последние два-три месяца на главной странице Инкубатора из раздела «These are active and might get their own site soon:» в раздел
«These have been approved and/or created:» перенесены 3 проекта, а «Ingush Wikipedia» (Анализ активности), который не отстает в процессе развития, остался... Прошу объясните мне, чем мы хуже?.. Может мы делаем что-то не так? Помогите нам определить наши минусы. Прошу Вас посодействуйте нам. Будем всегда Вам признательны !... С уважением, Adam-Yourist (talk) 09:36, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
Я просто до сих не получил ответы от экспертов, хотя направил несколько запросов в разные места.
Продолжаю пробовать и не забываю. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 16:22, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
Спасибо большое, Амир! Хочу также напомнить контакты Ингушского научно-исследовательского института, который является официальным органом управления и развития ингушского языка: ingushnauka@mail.ru или mail@ingnii.ru (директор Барахоева Нина Мустафаевна). Можно им написать также для экспертного мнения. Еще раз благодарю за ваши усилия! С уважением, Adam-Yourist (talk) 08:33, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
Добрый день, Амир! Есть ли новости по ингушскому разделу?.. Мы беспокоимся.. Работаем регулярно, но пока продвижения не замечаем.. Можете ли обрадовать нас?.. С уважением, Adam-Yourist (talk) 08:45, 26 September 2017 (UTC)
Media-gumbi.js in Slovenian
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You helped us a month or two ago with some deprecated / not working macros. First of all, thanks!
However;( ... the following problem, you have detected earlier ...
A missing template (i.e. SL copy of the EN template - ?) freezes the translation)
... With @Nikerabbit's help I found that this is a local problem in the Slovenian Wikipedia. See https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogovor_o_MediaWiki:Common.js#Gumbi . A Slovenian Wikipedia administrator will be able to fix it. After it's fixed, this shouldn't happen any more.
Changes to gumbi.js had no effect on the behavior of automatic translation. Maybe the gumbi.js was the wrong tree to bark on... I have a very superficial knowledge of js (am better with Java and still better with c#), but I do not like the situation at all and am ready to bite the js granite, if you can give me an initial push.
And now to a completely different story as Monti Python would say: I am pretty sure we have met in person and I think it was during the Mozilla Summit in Berlin: I talked about OmegaT and you were the only audience if I remember right. You asked me to show the right-to-left option and it worked ... Have i ghot it right?
Shalom and TiA SmozBleda (talk) 13:35, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
Yes, it's quite possible that we met at a Mozilla event and spoke about OmegaT!
Which article are you trying to translate? --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 16:52, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
Withdrawing a FAC
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Hi! I recently nominated Fawad Khan for FAC but now I want to have it peer reviewed. Can you please tell me how to withdraw a FAC. Amirk94391 (talk) 15:10, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
content translation tool mess
Because the talk page technology over at mediawiki.org swallows my posts while presenting me a captcha that doesn't allow me to send the answer, I'm trying to voice some feedback on the content translation tool here:
I'm confronted with a lot of issues in the tool. The main one is that I can't publish my translation, not even to my user namespace. I get some abuse filter error message that looks like below, complete with HTML mess and all:
"
Beim Veröffentlichen der Übersetzung ist ein Fehler aufgetreten. Bitte versuche, die Seite erneut zu veröffentlichen. Fehler: Hit AbuseFilter: Leertroll<p>Diese Aktion wurde automatisch als möglicherweise schädlich erkannt und deshalb nicht ausgeführt. Wenn du denkst, dass dein Beitrag konstruktiv war, melde dich bitte auf <a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Bearbeitungsfilter/231&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wikipedia:Bearbeitungsfilter/231 (Seite nicht vorhanden)">Wikipedia:Bearbeitungsfilter/231</a>. </p><p>Kurzbeschreibung der verletzten Regel: „Leertroll“ </p>
"
During translation I somehow manage to get a warning for nearly every paragraph. The warning only links to some generic description while a link below promises details but only reveals two words in smaller script that don't help at all.
Some other things I've noticed:
Recognition of sentence boundaries (yellow background on mouse-over) seems disturbed. Trying to open links in the translation leads to https://LANG.wikipedia.org/w/TOPIC – error 404.
Tables that are wider than the column size appear cut off.
It doesn't handle the de:template:Einheitenumrechnung correctly. If it substitutes for its counterpart from another language, in case of units it doesn't actually support (like °F <–> °C) you'll end up with garbage.
Note that I tried with a fresh user account.
Greetings!
I hope this thing gets useable at some point.
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Underscore
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Hi Amir. Saying no one uses the low dash is terribly wrong. Omitting it would be a disaster for so many reasons, ie. teens using Instagram won't be able to search for accounts smoothly. I Hope you understand. 37.142.174.173 (talk) 13:47, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
I'm not suggesting to remove it completely. It appears twice and I'm suggesting to remove one of the appearance, and even that is not very important. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 13:51, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
Sorry. Like you, I too use Gboard to type Hebrew on an Android, and I agree that many changes need to be made in order to make it suit better for the costumer. 185.32.179.3 (talk) 19:06, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
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Hi! @Amire80, as you might know Kazakh is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin script. How can we start the process of changing Kazakh Wikipedia script?AlibekKS (talk) 05:22, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
There already is a script converter for Kazakh, although it converts to a spelling that is closer to the Turkish alphabet and the alphabet used on Kazinform, than to what was proposed a few days ago, with á, ǵ, etc.
Thanks for pulling me into the conversation, Amir! I'm still working on the Crimean Tatar transliteration for now, and after that I have a fair number of other projects in my queue, but I will keep this one in mind. Given that there's already been a change from the Oct 2017 plan to a new Feb 2018 plan, and the official switchover date is 2025, it might make sense to wait a little while and see if there are any further revisions before investing in development of a new or updated script converter. TJones (WMF) (talk) 13:57, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
13 years of editing, today
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שלום לאמיר,
האם תוכל בטובך להעיף מבט בדף של Corinna Hasofferett
בויקיפדיה האנגלית.
האם האיש שמפקפק בנוטביליטי , בניגוד למעירה קודמת שקבעה כי יש על פניו... נוטביליטי, טועה?
האם אני קיימת?
משהו מוזר בויקי אנגלי. תחושה של חורשי רעה. אתה, שיודע עברית ויכול לעיין בויקי העברי ובשאר העדויות לנוטביליטי, אפשר תוכל לעזור לסיים את הסאגה בצורה מכבדת.
בתודה,
שוחרת
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Exploration of the Unknown
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Shalom, my name is Jarod (Coin945) and my focus at Wikipedia is on improving articles on obscure video gaming topics. As a jew, I naturally looked up the Israeli video gaming history and became fascinated by the Piposh series, which seemed to be one of the few out there. As I am sadly unable to speak Hebrew there are limitations to my work so I was wondering if you'd be willing to head over to the article and copyedit my work? Otherwise would you be able to refer me to anyone who would?
Best regards,
Coin945--Coin945 (talk) 14:46, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
Ways to improve Valentin Vydrin
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Hello Amire80. Thank you for reaching out. Here are the answers to your questions:
When you say "translation tool", do you mean Content Translation? --Yes.
Are you familiar with the page Best practices for Content Translation events?-- I was not, but now I am and will show it to my colleagues
Was it helpful? --Yes, it is. I will read the manual next.
If you have anything to add or correct on that page, can you please do it?-- Will do, if I find anything. I will ask my colleagues to do so too.
Machine translation to Nepali: It works for me. Can anyone please test it again? --Will try asap
In your experience, is the outreach dashboard a good tool for such events? --It's okay. We also have print sign-in sheets because not everyone signs in, etc. It helps to create our report numbers.
You should know we plan to have our translatathon every April for the foreseeable future and all are welcome. We are still in the process of writing this year's report and recommendations. I hope to see you often in cyberspace. Cheers, --DrX (talk) 13:24, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for the replies! Sorry I only noticed them now—I've been very busy with my family :)
Generally, I'm very happy you're doing this. Given New York's massive multilingualism, it's one of the best places in the world to do it! The more, the better. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 09:53, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
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Undeletion request
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I'm not enthusiastic about restoring it because if it gets updated in the source, which may happen, it will either have to be deleted or manually updated here, which is not so robust. A message should be edited locally only if there is a reason for it to be different. If it's not different, it should be deleted.
Editing a system message locally is nearly always a bad way of fixing a performance problem. That link should be removed from that page. (In fact, that whole page is highly problematic and far from reality.)
If the edit history is useful in any way, I can restore it to some other name. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 07:57, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
Acholi/Acoli
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Can you please fix? Thanks. 82.132.215.31 (talk) 02:24, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
Help with Amharic/Aramaic
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Hi, I found your name amongst the Wikipedians with some knowledge on Amharic/Aramaic. Could I ask you a favour? I really wanted to know what the inscription on the Imperial Standard of Ethiopia, both sides (the Lion of Judah and St. George and the Dragon). This would help me A LOT with my vectorizing project.
Thanks in advance for reading,
Cid. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SouicivdiC (talk • contribs) 02:41, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
Yeah, I think I know how to read it. Give me a bit of time... --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 05:55, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
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Most people don’t know English.
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I like the statement 'Most people don’t know English', but I would take you one further- 'Most people don’t know English, and most people that think they know English don't know English (including me!).' Just a passing thought I thought I would share with you- haha- Geographyinitiative (talk) 10:28, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
It's quite possible, although difficult to know precisely because statistics about such things are quite complicated and measured very imprecisely. But I know what do you mean.
The most important people who need to hear the message about most people not knowing English are people who do know English and never stop to consider what an immense privilege they have. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 11:28, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
indexing for Dr Dobbs Journal
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I just read that in 2019, and said that I had used someone to find an old article (from Jan 1982) in the past.
I found my correspondence with him from 2003.
A current google search is not getting me a url I can give you.
However, if you are still interested, I would be happy to share, offline the name, address, and email that I have.
AJim (talk) 07:19, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
Oh wow AJim, I forgot about that a long time ago :)
It's nice that you recall it.
It's not possible to use private sources, but I guess that if you can mention it on the talk page of Richard Stallman, it's a bit more than nothing. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:14, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
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The reason I found this just now is that I am moving and as a result am examining and cleaning up old files. AJim (talk) 15:49, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
BTW, I just sent an email to rms, maybe he will reply with helpful info. AJim (talk) 16:07, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
rms said he never was an editor of DDJ. In fact, I think the citation request in the Free software article was resolved by removing the claim a long time ago. I will now add a note after your 2008 question. And, who knows, maybe someday you will need to find something in DDJ. In it's time, it was a fun read. AJim (talk) 04:17, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
سواتاتی که بیش از ۳ سال است ذهن من را درگیر کرده
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با سلام و احترام
بیش از ۳ سال است درضمینه نصب و کانفیگ مدیا ویکی تجربه کسب کردم. بیشتر آزمون و خطا بوده تا دانش تئوری قبلی. برای همین خیلی خیلی سخت پیشرفت داشتم.
چند سوال دارم بلکه با راهنمایی شما مسیر برام روشن شود.
بهترین سیستم عامل بریا نصب ویکی کدام است؟
شرکت ویکی ازhhvm استفاده میکند در صورتی که php7 به بعد سرعت و قابلیت بسیاری پیدا کرد. دلیل استفاده اصلی از hhvm چیست؟
کتابها و راهنمایی های بسیاری دیدم ولی هیچ کدام بصورت جامع و جزء به جزء مطالب نصب و کانفیگ مدیاویکی را توضیح ندادن یا سطحی توضیح داده شده. راهنمایی مد نظر شما چیست؟
نصب برنامههای سمت سرور گیج کننده است و البته نیاز به دانش فنی مربوطه میباشد. لطفا پیش نیازی که فهم مطالب آموزشی را سرعت ببخشد را بفرمایید.
برای ساخت الگو در ویکی خیلی نمونه الگوهای وسعی است ولی باز نیازهای شخصی باعث میشه بخوام الگوی دلخواهم را بسازم.بهترین روش چیست؟
برای نصب و کانفیگ رسا بیس ۳ سال است تلاش میکنم ولی هنوز موفق نشدم. چه پیش نیازی دارد که در راهنمایی های نصب گفته نشده. لطفا جزئی راهنمایی کنید
لایبریهای ویکی پدیا عموما برای چه چیزی ساخته شده و راهنمایی برای مشخصات و نصب را چگونه میتونم پیدا کنم؟
برای ساخت ویکی دو زبانه چه پیشنهادی میدهید؟ البته متن فارسی باشد و ترجمه همان متن به انگلیسی نیز میسر باشد؟
با این که پیکربندی زبان راصحیح انجاممیدم ولی در بعضی مرورگرها یا سیستم عاملها، بجای پیشفرض زبان فارسی از انگلیسی نشان میدهد. دلیلش چی میتونه باشه؟
پیشاپیش از کمک و یاری شما ممنونم
امیدوارم با این همه سوال جواب هایم اذیتتون نکند.
با احترام
Mahdi.alavi.nasab@gmail.com
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When will it be 18 September 2019? (Waiting to exhale...)
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...and greatly looking forward to resuming lapsed work on our various mutual projects. On a positive note, I've recently discovered what may be the all-around best match for my skills set: the Names WikiProject in Wikidata. After hundreds and hundreds of manual DEFAULTSORT to alphabetize person's names in categories, mainly in the Commons and Yoruba WP - I finally decided to stop splashing around in the shallow end of the virtual pool (i.e. relying on my phenomenal typing and proofreading abilities) and find out how to do this in a radical manner. Makes sense it would be in Wikidata. I've just started learning the proverbial ropes, having created Irit-with-an-alef vs. Irit-with-an-'ayin, not yet complete. It feels like this is where I can do a lot of good. Be in touch soon! -- Deborahjay (talk) 20:59, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
Ah, that's fun :)
Thanks, and do keep in touch! --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 19:46, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
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Ip requests
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I need at least two extra signups from an IP address. Should I tell you the IP address over telegram or some other method/?
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Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
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Hello,
Google Code-In, Google-organized contest in which the Wikimedia Foundation participates, starts in a few weeks. This contest is about taking high school students into the world of opensource. I'm sending you this message because you recently edited a documentation page at the English Wikipedia.
I would like to ask you to take part in Google Code-In as a mentor. That would mean to prepare at least one task (it can be documentation related, or something else - the other categories are Code, Design, Quality Assurance and Outreach) for the participants, and help the student to complete it. Please sign up at the contest page and send us your Google account address to google-code-in-admins@lists.wikimedia.org, so we can invite you in!
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If all goes well, it will be deployed soon and no further action is required. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 14:29, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
Test Wikipedia Awadhi language
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Please review the Awadhi Test Wikipedia and please provide it with its own URL. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ajeetsinghawadhi (talk • contribs) 16:29, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
Happy Birthday!
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Hello! I'm interested in running the converter on Kyrgyz Wikipedia. Why it is not still implemented? How can I contribute to it? Thanks, --A.djan (talk) 05:34, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
This is possible. You'll probably need someone who knows PHP and can do something similar to what was done with the Kazakh converter. Start by reading these pages:
Hi again! I found some code in here http://www.transliteration.kpr.eu/. I guess you've already seen this. What's wrong with it and why didn't you use it? --A.djan (talk) 16:37, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
Somebody who knows the language has to integrate it into MediaWiki code and submit a patch. See the links above. (Also, it can only be used if the license is compatible.) --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 19:24, 18 February 2020 (UTC)
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Can you remove my IP Block Exemption right? I can now access to Wikipedia in Turkey. Thanks.
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Dear Amire80/Archive March 2017 - December 2020,
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אני פונה אלייך כמפעיל מערכת בויקיפדיה העברית, הקמתי ערכים בויקיפדיה העברית וביצעתי עריכות מבוססות עם מקורות רלוונטיים, לא השחטתי אף פעם ואף מדי פעם קיבלתי הודעת תודה על תרומתי לויקיפדיה (אתה מוזמן אפילו להסתכל בערכים שהקמתי), יום אחד מפעיל מערכת ביקש ממני לא להקים יותר ערכים, למרות שלא הבנתי למה כיבדתי את הבקשה ולא הקמתי יותר ערכים אלא רק טיוטות, אך עם זאת הוא בכל זאת חסם את כתובת ה-IP שלי לזמן בלתי מוגבל.
.אני רוצה לתרום ולתת מעצמי לויקיפדיה, אודה לך מאוד אם תעזור לי. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.138.61.41 (talk) 13:18, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
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Hi, I saw your note when you restored this text and image. I originally removed it because it says nothing about the coronavirus. If the source directly connects the two, please say that in your article. To my knowledge, the egg shortage was due to hoarding, as people were worried that there would be difficulties bringing food into cities for Passover. (In fact, the food supplies have not been affected by the virus, aside from imported goods.) Here in Jerusalem we didn't get eggs until a few days ago, but in Bnei Brak, even with the closure, they had plenty of eggs. Let's focus this page on the virus and not on the egg shortage, please. Yoninah (talk) 17:56, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
The hoarding is related to the virus, and it's one of the most frequently discussed effects. The source directly connects the two and says so several times. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 18:09, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
I think you should say it directly. panic buying and fear of shutdown doesn't explain anything to me. Also, it's in the wrong place. The page generally proceeds in chronological order. Perhaps move it under Closures of cities and neighborhoods. Yoninah (talk) 18:22, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
What is wrong about the place? It's under "Retail", next to markets. The sentence about the markets in Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv also doesn't say by itself why were they closed by the police, and it's fine, because it's clear from the context of the whole article. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 18:28, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
Well, pardon me if I do some more work on it to make it coherent. Yoninah (talk) 18:47, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
If you do this, I will thank you, not "pardon" you :) --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 07:10, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
Content Translation Tool
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Hello, Amire! :)
I know you look after the CTT, so I wanted to ask you something, even though I don't have a lot of optimism in the awaited answer. :P I'm an admin at the Albanian Wikiquote and at the moment being, we don't have the extension activated there. I'm assuming that a Phab ticket would be all it is needed to activate it. The problem is that we use a special specific format/Manual of Style there, different from most other Wikiquote projects. All the articles follow a somewhat strict boilerplate form that determines how the introduction must be formed, what order should the sections follow, etc. At the moment being, that format is really useful in determining the structure of articles and helping create new good ones. So useful that some time ago, we asked in Phabricator to activate this extension for us but we were refused because that wasn't part of the MediaWiki extensions' list.
Now I know that the CTT doesn't incorporate any boilerplate elements. It works well in Wikipedia because the articles' structure is more fluid (not that rigid) and usually the style is better crystallized globally, so practically, the whole world uses 1 singular "macro-boilerplate" regarding the general format, somehow. But in Wikiquote, that would make things a bit difficult because styles differ greatly from one language to another and even from 2 articles of the same language. And if we activated the CTT extension (I'm always assuming it is possible to do that) in SqQuote, we would have to rearrange everything from scratch after every translation with the tool. Could it be possible to address this problem in any way? As I said in the beginning, I'm not that optimistic because practically what I'm asking for is a way to raise the "intelligence" of the tool and make it able to read the text that is trying to translate, understand parts of it and rearrange the sections to suffice to our manual of style by changing their order or fusing them, more or less. And I know CTT doesn't really deal with things like those. But maybe we could find another workaround that at least would make our work easier if we were to activate the extension? Although to be honest, our manual of style is nothing too crazy. Some example of good and featured articles from SqQuote to see for yourself: Faik Konica, Harry Potter dhe Guri Filozofal (libri), Harry Potter dhe Princi Gjakpërzier (libri).
So basically the question is how many facilities can CTT provide on the context of text and multimedia styling and formatting regarding rearrangement (not saving the formatting used in the original article), if any? Because I don't hope that it really can do as a complex task as automatically rearranging whole articles to fit a certain boilerplate by a single command. Is there hope to add options like these in the future? Small things. For example, allowing for automatic change of image specifications, from thumbnail to frameless, etc. Or other changes related to references or even just text sections in general. Depending on that, we could better judge if we should get the extension or not. - Klein Muçi (talk) 02:03, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
Klein Muçi, drat, so sorry I missed this! Totally my fault.
In theory, it's possible to activate Content Translation (CX) in Wikiquote, Wikivoyage, and other wikis, but it would require some not-entirely-trivial work, so it's not a top priority now.
As for boilerplate: If I understand your question correctly, I can think of two better ways to do it for Wikiquote than using Content Translation:
In the immediate future, if you haven't done it already, try doing something like the Article wizard in the English Wikipedia. It's a manual and difficult to maintain tool, but I think it can do what you want.
In the longer term, Abstract Wikipedia can probably provide an elegant solution to this.
As for formatting Content Translation—it provides formatting during editing the translation and gives the same tools as Visual editor does. If you want to do the same formatting every time, then the corresponding semantic parts in the different wikis should be wrapped in the same template, and the implementation of the template should be different in each wiki. For example, a template that shows an image can have the same parameters, but the size of the image will be customized locally in each language. Of course, like so many other things, it will only work really well if the templates are global. That's why I repeatedly say that building a global templates repository is the #1 most important technical change that the Wikimedia world needs.
I hope it answers your questions at least somewhat... --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 12:38, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
Hah! I had lost hope of ever getting an answer here. :P Thank you for answering! :))
Actually, Article wizard was the first thing I encountered when I started researching about this thing, right after I conducted the MoS. Unfortunately, it was too much for me and I couldn't adopt it for use on SqQuote, even though we have it at SqWiki too. Then I understood that it wouldn't be that efficient because it only serves as an optional helper, if I'm not wrong and doesn't redirect ALL article creation workflow to it. Also, its results are marked as drafts in the end, an extra step that in big wikis is a good thing but at us, it just brings more problems than it solves. So amid these thoughts, I encountered that extension I've mentioned above which seemed to solve every problem that we have but alas, we can't have that. Then CTT was activated for SqWiki and it accounted for more than three quarters of our new articles, not to say 90% of them. In SqQuote, despite my efforts to attract new users, we only have 1 or 2 active users in total and it's with some sacrifice that we're keeping it running. One of those also creates many new articles in SqWiki with CTT so I thought it would be a good thing if I could make his life a bit easier and "allow" him to do the same at SqQuote. But this brought the problem that I mentioned above. It would start bringing mosaic pieces of styles and formats and create a similar situation with EnQuote, which hasn't really a well-defined MoS (or if it does, it's a bit "messy", and that's to be understood, considering it has way more volume of work than we do), a situation I was trying to avoid when I started writing the MoS we use. But apparently CTT can't be activated for wikis other than Wikipedia for the moment so, those extra details don't matter much.
Abstract Wikipedia and WikiLambda look like they're "the key" to many internationalization problems (or at least the path to solve them), so finger crossed for that.
As for handling the situation with global templates, I hadn't thought of that. I don't know if that would be possible but counting on your word for it. Anyway that is still out of the way for now so the best solution of trying to guide the workflow into a certain formatting style seems Article Wizard. But I believe that choice comes with the problems I've mentioned above (and it would require a lot of effort from me to set it up because I'm not fully flexible in operating it) so I'm not really convinced into going that way. Maybe the only true option for now remains to manually guide people in the right direction. That is, if we have people to guide to, in the first place. :/ - Klein Muçi (talk) 09:30, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
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Assuming this was you, might wanna rd this. Praxidicae (talk) 13:30, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
Thanks :)
I've been having weird issues with my login sessions lately. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 13:34, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
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אמרו לי מפעילי המערכת בויקיפדיה העברית שאני צריך לעבוד עם חונך, למרות שאיני מסכים עם זאת ואני חושב שאני יכול לעבוד באופן עצמאי התכוונתי לכבד זאת ולחפש לעצמי חונך, אחרי כן חסמו אותי שכן איך אחפש חונך עם אני חסום, בנוסף מתעלמים שוב ושוב ממה שאני כותב בדף השיחה שלי, אם אתה רוצה לעזור לי יותר מאשמח?
בנוסף הנני סבור כי החסימה שלי אינה חוקית, במקרה שמשתמש נחסם מויקיפדיה והוא חושב שזה לא בצדק אז הוא אמור לפנות לדף הבירורים, אני חסום
גם מלכתוב מדף זה ומכתיבה בדפי השיחה
תודה מראש.
77.138.61.41 (talk) 16:21, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
אין לי מה להוסיף מעבר למה שכבר כתבו לך בדף השיחה בעברית. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 18:26, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
מה כבר כתבו לי, כבר לפחות חודשיים לא מגיבים אליי בדף השיחה, תודה רבה לך על הנכונות לעזור לי. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.138.61.41 (talk) 13:52, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
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That image is not so important. The section where it was used, and which you surely enjoyed removing as "not useful" without trying to understand what does it say, is. Have fun in Middle Earth. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 07:10, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
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