විකිපීඩියා:කෝපි කඩේ/2008

Betawiki: better support for your language in MediaWiki

Dear community. I am writing to you to promote a special wiki called Betawiki. This wiki facilitates the localisation (l10n) of the MediaWiki interface. You may have changed many messages here to use your language in the interface, but if you would log in to for example the Japanese language Wiktionary, you would not be able to use the interface as well translated as here. In fact, of 1,736 messages in the core of MediaWiki, 11.33% of the messages have been translated. Betawiki also supports the translation of messages for 126 extensions, with 2,174 messages. Many of them are used in WMF projects and they are vital for understanding the wiki. Currently 0.15% of the WMF extension messages have been translated. Translators for over 90 languages contribute their work to MediaWiki this way every month.

If you wish to contribute to better support of your language in MediaWiki, as well as for many MediaWiki extensions, please visit Betawiki, create an account and request translator privileges. You can see the current status of localisation of your language on MediaWiki.org and do not forget to get in touch with others that may already be working on your language on Betawiki.

If you have any further questions, please let me know on my talk page on Betawiki. We will try and assist you as much as possible, for example by importing all messages from a local wiki for you to start with, if you so desire.

You can also find us on the Freenode IRC network in the channel #mediawiki-i18n where we will be happy to help you get started.

Thank you very much for your attention and I do hope to see some of you on Betawiki soon! Thanks, GerardM@Betawiki

• Currently 11.05% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.19% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 09:53, 19 අප්‍රේල් 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 11.77% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.13% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 03:55, 19 මැයි 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 11.58% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.12% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM 19:41, 8 ජූලි 2008 (UTC)

The village pump

Could someome be so kind and move my contribution to your "village pump" and also, could someone please add a link to your village pump on meta ? Thanks, GerardM 22:20, 15 මාර්තු 2008 (UTC)

Done! :-) --Lee 14:15, 9 ජූලි 2008 (UTC)

Proposal for closure of si.wikt

The Sinhala Wiktionary has been proposed for closure a long while ago here. If anybody is interested in developing it, I can help with basic structure and content but as I do not know Sinhala, and in my current situation I cannot visualize the Sinhala fonts, I would need some basic translations. Regards. --Piolinfax 09:30, 31 ජූලි 2008 (UTC)

I propose that we should not close down the Sinhala Wikitionary. I may be able to help with basic translations please. -හෙළසෙබළ 10:12, 31 ජූලි 2008 (UTC)

I opposed in the vote and I'll try to contact University of Colombo also to see whether they are interested in joining the project. --Lee 15:26, 7 අගෝස්තු 2008 (UTC)