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What about to set Latin - Arabic - Cyrillic automatic transliteration of Uyghur Wikipedia on the same principe as it works in Kazakh Wikipedia? (see more info, Kazakh converter)
We need Uyghur native speaker to help us write the comparative table with letters and transliteration rules. Then we can create such converter.
If you wish to help us, contact us.
Kprwiki 10:55, 26 10-Ay 2009 (UTC)
Hi everyone, These 1678 interface messages still need to be translated from English into Uyghur. If you are Uyghur and wish to help translate those messages into Ugyhur, simply request translator priviledges here.
--Jose77 20:13, 2 3-Ay 2010 (UTC)
(Otherwise the Uyghur Wikipedia interface will continue to remain in English or Uyghur Latin script)
Latin alphabet for this language is obsolete. It was only used for a very short time and is rarely used today.
Here are some websites that still use the Latin or Cyrillic Alphabet:
(In Latin, Arabic and Cyrillic Uyghur script)
If Uyghur is written in Cyrillic too, why isn't it used on this Wiki?
Because its too complicated with Arabicscript going right to left, and having everything three times.
Kazakh wikipedia is running in multiscript (Cyrillic, Latin and Arabic). Lets learn from them. --203.173.138.159 20:39, 30 دېكابىر/Dékabir/декабир 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
I notice Uyghur wiki need a convertor for switching the scripts: Latin-Cyrillic-Arabic. The examples You may find on Kazakh wikis. For MediaWiki software look in SVN language files (See LanguageXx.php and MessagesXx.php for kk, zh, sr) kk:Қатысушы:AlefZet-- 22:05, 9 3-Ay 2007 (UTC)
hi, I have an idea, that the Uyghur Wikipedi-trans-system which likes Kazak Wikipedia, http://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Басты_бет.
the name of Oyghurque is totally wrong, how can people correct it?
There has been already a software (called: yulghun.exe) which can convert three different Uyghur scripts(arabic,cyrillic and latin=UKY) to each other,just by one click! works well under windows xp professional, windows 2000. here is the download location:
warning: your microsoft netframe should be Net Framework V.2.0 or higher,otherwise yulghun.exe won´t work!
download address:
official website:
I just found a uyghur script converter website,which can convert latin script and arabic script to each other, check the link below and scroll down little bit until the enf of the list and there is a part called "misiran tor bet aylandurghuchi" put the web address to the first box, next box is options and click 'aylandurush' then you will see changed page.
{{|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930064446/http://www.misiran.net/maz.asp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.misiran.net |date=2007-09-30 }}
Barat 19:50, 1 4-Ay 2007 (UTC)
Hi, why there is two version of uyghur wiki, i am bit confused. lately i am working for this version. but my friends in china told me that they can not open this link. The another one is completely in arabic script, and has lot more articles...which one we should stick to?
here is the link:
{{|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307165900/http://wiki.yulghun.com/index.php/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B4_%D8%A8%DB%95%D8%AA |date=2008-03-07 }}
Good to know that, then i will stick to this one. It is true that they have already blocked wiki for few months by now, thats the most ridiculous thing, i have no idea why.I mean whole wiki they are blocking, i have friends all over china, all keep saying its not available, even chinese version! Anyway, I think they will let it go in near future, they can not block forever! lets hope the best
Sorry for using English, but it seems the best way to communicate with the administrator. I think
sandboks, & сандбокс would be better transliterations. We could also use a calque maybe along the lines of kumak-kutu. I also think
Коммунитй портал should be linked to http://ug.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_Jamiyeti like kommunity portal. Thecurran 03:02, 19 Awghust 2007 UTC
I am not first language Uyghur, so I need much Uyghur practice Thecurran 07:17, 23 Awghust 2007 (UTC).
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, 5.99% 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 0.00% 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
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 15:12, 3 3-Ay 2008 (UTC)
Hello! I ask for permission to run my interwiki bot PipepBot here, and to get a bot flag for it.
Thank you! --it:User:Pipep 09:23, 12 Awghust 2007 (UTC)
Please give a bot bit to SieBot, so it will not flood your RC as it adds interwiki links using pywikipedia's interwiki.py. SieBot is active on about 140 Wikipedias. See the user page of the bot for more details, or check a complete overview of its activities here. Cheers! Siebrand (talk) 09:58, 15 Awghust 2007 (UTC)
Hi, i request a bot bit for BotMultichill.
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Hi, i request a bot flag for AlleborgoBot
Thanks --AlleborgoBot 16:35, 2 11-Ay 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I'd like to request a bot flag for Purbo_T (contributionss)
Thank you! --Purodha Blissenbach 04:35, 12 2-Ay 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I would like to get a bot-flag on this wiki.
Dear all, this is to request a bot flag for Synthebot. Its technical information is summarized below.
Further technical information is available on its main page. Thank you in advance. Regards, --Julian 17:53, 10 12-Ay 2008 (UTC) Cebeci {{|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140207154955/http://www.cebeci.org/ |date=2014-02-07 }}
-- Cat chi? 12:02, 15 5-Ay 2008 (UTC)
Thank you! — Chesnok 12:52, 9 3-Ay 2009 (UTC)
I would like to ask for a Bot flag for GhalyBot
Thank you ! ----Ghaly 17:50, 15 3-Ay 2009 (UTC)
Hello. To facilitate steward granting of bot access, I suggest implementing the standard bot policy on this wiki. In particular, this policy allows stewards to automatically flag known interlanguage linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable), which form the vast majority of such requests. The policy also enables global bots on this wiki (if this page says that is acceptable), which are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots.
This policy makes bot access requesting much easier for local users, operators, and stewards. To implement it we only need to create a redirect to this page from Project:Bot policy, and add a line at the top noting that it is used here. Please read the text at m:Bot policy before commenting. If you object, please say so; I hope to implement in one week if there is no objection, since it is particularly written to streamline bot requests on wikis with little or no community interested in bot access requests. Luckas Blade 20:49, 2 3-Ay 2009 (UTC)
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The localisations done by our community at translatewiki.net are committed to SVN typically every day. When the system messages in English are the same as the local messages, they will now be inserted in a file and are available for use in all our projects in a timely manner
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Messages that are specific to your project will have to stay as they are. You do want to check if the format and the variables of the message are still the same.
When you localise at translatewiki.net, your messages will be used in all Wikimedia projects and eventually in all MediaWiki based projects. This is how we provide the standard support for your language. When messages change, at translatewiki.net you will be prompted to revisit your translations. Localising is more efficient because we have innovated the process to make you more efficient; there is text explaining about messages and we have applied AJAX technology to reduce the number of clicks you have to make.
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The best way to answer the first question is to visit the translatewiki.net. Change the language to your language, select the “vector” skin and add the advanced tool bar in in the preferences and check out the new functionality. And make some changes in your user page. When there is a need to improve on the localisation, please make the necessary changess . It should update your localisation straight away. We would like you to report each issue individually at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usability_issues.
When there are problems with the support of MediaWiki for your language, we really want to know about this. It is best to report each issue separately. In this way there will be no large mass of issues to resolve but we can address each issue on its own. Consider issues with the display of characters, the presentation of your script, the position of the side bar, the combination of text with other languages, scripts. It is best to try this in an environment like the prototype wiki as it provides you with a clean, basic and up to date environment. The prototype wiki is available for five languages but you can select any of them, change the preferences to your language and test out MediaWiki for your language.
We would like you to report each issue individually at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_issues. The issues you raise will all be assessed. It is important to keep each issue separate, because this will make it easier to understand the issues and find solutions.
PS This text has been approved by Naoko, Brion and Siebrand. Thanks, GerardM 20:27, 30 9-Ay 2009 (UTC)
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The Wikimedia Foundation has brought together a new team of developers who are dedicated to language support. This team is to support all the languages and consequently it is not realistic to expect that the team members can provide proper support for your language. It is for this reason that we are looking for volunteers who will make up a language support team.
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As much of the activity will be concentrated on translatewiki.net, it will be a plus when team members know how to localise at translatewiki.net.
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Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year are all entered in this competition. From professional animal and plant shots to breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historically relevant images, images portraying the world's best architecture, maps, emblems, diagrams created with the most modern technology, and impressive human portraits, Commons features pictures of all flavors.
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Wikidata has been in development for a few months now. It is now time for the roll-out of the first part of it on your Wikipedia. Phase 1 is the support for the management of language links. It is already being used on the Hungarian, Hebrew, Italian and English Wikipedias. The next step is to enable the extension on all other Wikipedias. We have currently planned this for March 6.
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Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this locally. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.
As I annonced 2 weeks ago, Wikidata phase 1 (language links) has been deployed here today. Language links in the sidebar are coming from Wikidata in addition to the ones in the wiki text. To edit them, scroll to the bottom of the language links, and click edit. You no longer need to maintain these links by hand in the wiki text of the article.
Where can I find more information and ask questions? Editors on en:wp have created a great page with all the necessary information for editors and there is also an FAQ for this deployment. It'd be great if you could bring this to this wiki if that has not already happened. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.
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Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.
A while ago the first phase of Wikidata was enabled on this Wikipedia. This means you are getting the language links in each article from Wikidata. It is soon time to enable the second phase of Wikidata (infoboxes) here. We have already done this on the [first 11 Wikipedias] (it, he, hu, ru, tr, uk, uz, hr, bs, sr, sh) and things are looking good. The next step is English Wikipedia. This is planned for April 8. If everything works out fine we will deploy on all remaining Wikipedias on April 10. I will update this part of the FAQ if there are any issues forcing us to change this date. I will also sent another note to this village pump once the deployment is finished.
What will happen once we have phase 2 enabled here? Once it is enabled in a few days you will be able to make use of the structured data that is available on Wikidata in your articles/infoboxes. It includes things like the symbol for a chemical element, the ISBN for a book or the top level domain of a country. (None of this will happen automatically. Someone will have to change the article or infobox template for this to happen!)
How will this work? There are two ways to access the data:
We are working on expanding the parser function so you can for example use {{#property:chief executive officer}} instead of {{#property:p169}}. The complete plan for this is here.
Where can I test this? You can already test it on test2.
Where can I find more information and ask questions? We have collected the main questions in an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.
I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.
--Lydia Pintscher 17:14, 5 ئاپرېل 2013 (UTC)
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Hello! As part of the update of Wikipedias logos to the new (2010) 3D puzzle globe version, we have noticed that your wiki's current logo is missing, outdated or with wrong translation. We are trying to help Wikipedias get a locally-adapted correct logo, by taking the technical difficulties on us, and in about a week from now we'll be replacing the current logo with the new one shown in this gallery, with explanation. If the translation is wrong, or there's another error in the new logo, or the community disagrees with the update, please update the list of logos or tell us on its talk page. Feel free to translate this message and to move/copy/forward it where appropriate. Thanks, Nemo 20:52, 16 ئاپرېل 2013 (UTC)
(Please consider translating this message for the benefit of your fellow Wikimedians. Please also consider translating the proposal.)
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Hello!
There is a new request for comment on Meta-Wiki concerning the removal of administrative rights from long-term inactive Wikimedians. Generally, this proposal from stewards would apply to wikis without an administrators' review process.
We are also compiling a list of projects with procedures for removing inactive administrators on the talk page of the request for comment. Feel free to add your project(s) to the list if you have a policy on administrator inactivity.
All input is appreciated. The discussion may close as soon as 21 May 2013 (2013-05-21), but this will be extended if needed.
Thanks, Billinghurst (thanks to all the translators!) 05:26, 24 ئاپرېل 2013 (UTC)
Sorry for writing in English. I hope someone can translate this. If you understand German better than English you can have a look at the announcement on de:Wikipedia:Kurier.
A while ago the first phase of Wikidata was enabled on this Wikipedia. This means you are getting the language links in each article from Wikidata. We have now enabled the second phase of Wikidata (infoboxes) here. We have already done this on the [first 11 Wikipedias] (it, he, hu, ru, tr, uk, uz, hr, bs, sr, sh) a month ago and two days ago on the English Wikipedia. Today all the remaining Wikipedias followed.
What does having phase 2 enabled here mean? You are now able to make use of the structured data that is available on Wikidata in your articles/infoboxes. It includes things like the symbol for a chemical element, the ISBN for a book or the top level domain of a country. (None of this will happen automatically. Someone will have to change the article or infobox template for this to happen!) The current state is just the beginning though. It will be extended based on feedback we get from you now.
How will this work? There are two ways to access the data:
We are working on expanding the parser function so you can for example use {{#property:headquarter location}} instead of {{#property:p159}}. The complete plan for this is here.
Where can I test this? You can test it on test2 if you don't want to do it in an article here.
Where can I find more information and ask questions? We have collected the main questions in an FAQ for this deployment. Please ask questions you might have on the FAQ’s discussion page.
I want to be kept up to date about Wikidata To stay up-to-date on everything happening around Wikidata please subscribe to the newsletter that is delivered weekly to subscribed user’s talk pages.
We are excited about taking yet another step towards allowing all Wikipedias share structured data and collect and curate it together.
--Lydia Pintscher 19:24, 24 ئاپرېل 2013 (UTC)
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Some accounts will soon be renamed due to a technical change that the developer team at Wikimedia are making. More details on Meta.
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I chanslated Uyghur language
بىر ئىسىم بىلەن كىرىش ئاخىرقى ئۇختۇرىشى
--Aturantekin 06:09, 1 ماي 2013 (UTC)
The default position of the "edit" link in page section headers is going to change soon. The "edit" link will be positioned adjacent to the page header text rather than floating opposite it.
Section edit links will be to the immediate right of section titles, instead of on the far right. If you're an editor of one of the wikis which already implemented this change, nothing will substantially change for you; however, scripts and gadgets depending on the previous implementation of section edit links will have to be adjusted to continue working; however, nothing else should break even if they are not updated in time.
Detailed information and a timeline is available on meta.
Ideas to do this all the way to 2009 at least. It is often difficult to track which of several potential section edit links on the far right is associated with the correct section, and many readers and anonymous or new editors may even be failing to notice section edit links at all, since they read section titles, which are far away from the links.
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