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please update this translation

please update translation for MediaWiki:Nstab-mainpage/pa from ਮੁੱਖ ਪੰਨਾ to ਮੁੱਖ ਸਫ਼ਾ. thanks! KuldeepBurjBhalaike ^(Talk) 11:29, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Was there a discussion about it with other people who edit in Punjabi? Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 20:25, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, but for all other wiki projects we are using ਮੁੱਖ ਸਫ਼ਾ KuldeepBurjBhalaike ^(Talk) 07:04, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I see ਮੁੱਖ ਪੰਨਾ on https://pa.wiktionary.org at the moment :) Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 17:02, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Kuldeepburjbhalaike I would support this change, it would be good to get feedback from other pawiki users as well. Bgo eiu (talk) 12:50, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

on translatewiki or any other punjabi wiki project? KuldeepBurjBhalaike ^(Talk) 13:07, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Other projects :) Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 19:47, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please add Nguiemboon Language

Hi,

Could you please add the Nguiemboon language from Cameroon. The language code is nnh.

Thanks. Serieminou (talk) 15:13, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 21:35, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Serieminou (talk) 19:11, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please add Duala language

Greetings. Could you please add Duala language fro Cameroon. The language code is dua . Thank you in advance. Serieminou (talk) 22:50, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 11:13, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much. Serieminou (talk) 19:11, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:Ignatgg

This user is translating into multiple languages. Their translation for Translations:Template:Optional/1/az is wrong, I am not sure about other languages. Nemoralis (talk) 10:55, 14 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I removed this user's translation permissions. Thank you for the notification. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 14:50, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @Amire80. Can you restore Translations:Template:Optional/1/az? I already fixed it. Nemoralis (talk) 14:56, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nevermind. Nemoralis (talk) 15:00, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Username change

Hi, could I have my username changed please? Target username: Ceirios

Thank you in advance. Afalau (talk) 15:49, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 16:35, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lovely, thank you again! Ceirios (talk) 17:27, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unable to login

Hello i am not able to login to translatewiki.net , I get

The supplied credentials could not be authenticated.

Error message when I try to login. And when try to reset password I get

The password reset was not handled. Maybe no provider was configured?

as I was already logged in from mobile device I could post this here.~aanzx ^✉_© 08:22, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki:Tag-cross-wiki-upload

There is MediaWiki:Tag-cross-wiki-upload/en and I expect the content to appear at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Tag-cross-wiki-upload . But it doesn't. MediaWiki:Tag-cross-wiki-upload-description/en seems to have the same problem. (Although for the latter, Commons customizes it.)

It looks like they were removed in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaEvents/+/788259 but I'm not sure why. whym 10:53, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Whym: That's not the right diff to look at, that's just L10n-bot doing its job correctly. You should look at when the message was removed from the English file, which happened in gerrit:787116. Seems they thought it was unused. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 14:47, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot for the pointer. I submitted a patch to partially undo it. gerrit:1064150 whym 03:24, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone here take a look at the link above? The patch concerns interface messages only, and ready to be reviewed. whym 09:06, 28 August 2024 (UTC) EDIT: This is now merged. whym 00:04, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User name change

I would like to change my user name to Paloi Sciurala. Thanks in advance. NGC 54 (talk) 13:10, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 12:47, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

tag-mw-contentmodelchange-helppage

The documentation of this message contains {{optional}}, but it isn’t actually marked as such. Could someone add it to the list of optional messages before we get a sea of redundant translations? Thanks in advance! —Tacsipacsi (talk) 13:46, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done.

Feel free to send a patch like this one next time. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 22:43, 24 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please add Jju language

Hi, please help add Jju language (ISO Code: kaj) for translation. I intend to lead a translation process for this language closely related to the Tyap language, beginning from September 2024. Thanks! Kambai Akau (talk) 00:58, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the request, we'll do it soon. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 14:36, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My pleasure! Thanks, too!! Kambai Akau (talk) 18:49, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Phabricator task for tracking: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373928 Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 19:28, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done

This is now enabled. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 13:26, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User name change

I would like to change my user name to Mohanad. Thx in advance --Mohanad Kh (talk) 12:46, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 19:17, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[zmi] Request to add new language: Negeri Sembilan Malay - 'Baso Nismilan'

The purpose of the request is to have Negeri Sembilan Malay interface in Wikimedia projects especially multilingual projects like Wikidata.

English name: Negeri Sembilan Malay
Native name: Baso Nismilan
ISO 639-3 code: zmi
Directionality: LTR
Script: Latin

~ Thank you - Zahirulnukman (talk) 15:11, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the request!

Other than Wikipedia, are there perhaps any other places where the name "Baso Nismilan" appears, such as a dictionary or another website? Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 02:45, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, I couldn't find it academically. Nismilan is short form for Negeri Sembilan.

But, the Malaysian authority (National Archive of Malaysia) use "Bahaso Nogori" for this language in a formal and academic event, which appeared in this Instagram post. For informal way, many use "Loghat Nogori". So, maybe can use "Bahaso Nogori" instead. - Zahirulnukman (talk) 03:03, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done This is now enabled. I recommend using the list called "Links for Negeri Sembilan Malay" on your user page to translate. Thank you and good luck! --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 13:26, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed changes for [crh-ro] Dobrujan Tatar

There needs to be some changes for [crh-ro] Dobrujan Tatar

The background language Romanian is better to be removed (confusing and orthography problem)
And, as requested actually, Cyrillic script needs to added

→ code: crh-cyrl-ro

→ native name: татарша

→ name: Dobrujan Tatar (Cyrillic script)

Thank you --Zolgoyo (talk) 15:02, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Vicuña Uploader

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Vicu%C3%B1aUploader points to https://github.com/exander77/vicuna rather than https://github.com/yarl/vicuna and also says `This branch is 21 commits ahead of, 89 commits behind yarl/vicuna:master.`

Oct 31, 2021 is the last commit to the canonical, May 3, 2022 for the fork.

It does seem it still works, but does seem somewhat abandoned on both upstreams... Reedy (talk) 23:48, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

RE: Hinglish as a new language or variant

(Really sorry for abandoning the topic. I may have dismissed the notification and then forgotten about it.)

Replying to @Amire80:

> Why is it necessary for Hindi? I realize that it is hard for some people to type in Devanagari, but is it hard to read?
The answer is yes. In fact, Devanagari being hard to read is probably one of the major factors driving users away from using Hindi as their locale.

Also, since hi-hinglish was disqualified for not having a valid ISO code among others, the next best alternative is hi-Latn which is listed on Unicode CLDR. My understanding is that only the language variant policies would apply to it, in which case it satisfies the first condition. ~Saur man dal 20:59 15:29, 10 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Are there any other websites that have full user interface or edited content in Hindi in the Latin alphabet? (I know that it's frequently used for informal messaging, but that's something different.) Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 12:37, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fully translated websites? I don't think so. But as stated in my original request, the Indian Google Pay app has functioning Hinglish locale. I understand the need for an existing precedent because it's not commonly seen localised into, but Hinglish is so rarely used outside of the informal setting (users instead opting for English), it's also just not worth localising into. ~Saur man dal 21:29 15:59, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well, exactly, and that's why I'm not so comfortable about enabling MediaWiki localization into it. MediaWiki is for things that are perhaps not the most formal in the world, but they are still more formal than casual text messages. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 20:40, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay then, I suppose I'll try to get a few things going for it first. ~Saur man dal 11:35 06:05, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Username change

hallo!! ^^

can someone change my username to Əkrəm Cəfər? tia :3 Erayreperit (talk) 17:41, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Əkrəm Cəfər:

Done Jon Harald Søby (talk) 08:57, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This language is disabled

The following page

https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Category:User_tig-N

displays the following message:

This language is disabled: not yet enabled, no longer supported by translatewiki.net, or no longer exported.

Please don’t translate to this language unless you're working to resolve the issues it was disabled for. — Support

Discouraging potential contributors to translate in this language Bbeshir (talk) 14:49, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for reporting this mistake. I've fixed it.

Thank you very much for your translations into Tigre! Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 14:56, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Babel category template

Following up on the discussion right above this one: Is the {{Babel category}} template needed at all? If I understand correctly, those categories are automatically created when languages are added, and a user can go to other numbers by simply navigating the category tree. If this category exists, it has to be added to more category pages as languages are added, manually or by a bot. It would be justified if it was actually useful, but as far I can see, it's not useful, and it should be deleted. Are there other opinions? Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 15:18, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is needed.

The categories are created automatically, and the template is added upon creation by User:Babel AutoCreate (see its latest creations) these days, after I created this and this page locally here on TranslateWiki. Before I did that, the only text in the categories that Babel AutoCreate made was "Users in this category indicate their knowledge of language $1.", with no categorization. (Verdy would usually add the template after the categories were created.)

So the template is beneficial because it automatically categorizes babel categories for us, without any human intervention necessary. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 18:28, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, so it's already automatic? Nice. And does it need that "disabled" notice? I understand why it's useful on the portal pages, but is it useful on those categories? Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 18:58, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Amire80: No, probably not, so I've removed it just now. However, the 'disabled' parameter (that made that notice appear) also enables the categories Category:User disabled languages and Category:User disabled languages without translators. I'm not sure if those categories are useful at all, and marking stuff as disabled or not adds manual maintenance overhead, so I'm inclined to remove that too. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 21:56, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think it's useful. You can get this information through portals. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 21:58, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Nice. I've removed the categorization and deleted those (now-empty) categories just now. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 10:47, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you!

Curiosity: Because of the previous question about these notifications, I added a step to the language adding procedure, to mark that category as not disabled.

Now that you've deleted that parameter, I wanted to remove that step, and discovered an "Unbreak Now!" bug along the way. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 14:03, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

MediaWiki:Babel-template-params-category (all translations)

I just noticed that FuzzyBot added the hash character on that page, This causes the category (and the translations that contain that) to incorrectly change from "Pages using babel with named parameters" to "Category:Pages using", because it does not support that character (although it is curious that the correct category is linked to this user's page even though it shows the wrong one), If not fixed many wikis (including enwiki) will display the category incorrectly and lead to confusions :(. No se (talk) 06:31, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Uh-oh, that's probably my fault. I'll check this ASAP. Thanks for the note. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 15:18, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fix: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Babel/+/1072905

Thank you again for bringing this up! Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 15:24, 15 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Everything should be fixed now. Thanks to @Reedy for getting the patch merged and to @Raymond for auto-fixing the broken translations. Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 11:49, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]