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Hi again, Spacebirdy. Congratulations on your stewardship and welcome to the Irish Language Wiktionary :) - Alison ^❤ 17:16, 21 Nollaig 2007 (UTC)

Hi and thanks again Alison, :) --éan _{(:> )=|} 22:48, 21 Nollaig 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the latest bot updates. BTW - your sig localisation with "Éan" in it is lovely :) - Alison ^❤ 17:01, 18 Eanáir 2008 (UTC)

You'r welcome, I am glad about Monobis bot because GerardMs is not so active anymore and Volkovs bot surely needs help. Luckily he could sort out how to distinguish between upper and lower case, so this will help the Wiktionaries a lot.

Thanks, I try to use a translation wherever I can :) btw. I saw that is:éan and éan use a different IPA, since I know nearly nothing about IPA and even less about Irish or it's pronunciation I would like to ask You kindly if You could review it (or even add an audiofile), many thanks in advance, --éan _{(:> )=|} 02:23, 19 Eanáir 2008 (UTC)

Hi there. I can't do IPA either :) So here's an audio file -  éan ^{cabhair, comhad} Thanks for adding the Icelandic definitions! - Alison ^❤ 22:02, 23 Eanáir 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot for the audio, that is much better than the IPA :) It sounds pretty, just as I imagined, thanks and best regards, --éan _{(:> )=|} 22:38, 23 Eanáir 2008 (UTC)

language templates in uisce

Many of them do not have a 2 letter code. For the three letter ones see here

Jcwf 01:49, 4 Feabhra 2008 (UTC)

I'd say lot's of them :( many language names are not shown... Sorry but I don't have the delight to go through that list, besides, I can't prove if the translations are correct. :( --éan _{(:> )=|} 01:54, 4 Feabhra 2008 (UTC)

No, that probably requires a mothertongue speaker and even they need to get creative. We had a lot of fun with that on nl(d). I added all the water translations because it is a good point to start that process. I'm not sure I understand ..many language names are not shown.. I think at least the English ones are all shown. If you want to see the Dutch names see nl:water

Jcwf 02:05, 4 Feabhra 2008 (UTC)

What I mean with "many language names are not shown" is that the template for showing the language name simply does not exist, see for example: "Teimpléad:tio" in uisce, besides because Teimpléad:aistr links to the corresponding Wiktionary the three letters, where Wiktionary use 2, make that unfortunatly impossible. ;( --éan _{(:> )=|} 02:09, 4 Feabhra 2008 (UTC)

Yes, the problem is that wikimedia is not switching to ISO639-3. That means that we are creating a hotch-potch of two letter and three letter codes, because there just are not enough two-letter codes around for all languages. The aistr template does not tkae that into account. On nl we dont put the reference to the wiki sites in the same part of the template. I have been changing 3-letter codes back to 2-letter ones by hand, for those I knew and I'll try and revert more back, but as I said: there are not enough 2-letter codes for all languages.

Jcwf 02:32, 4 Feabhra 2008 (UTC)

You are perfectly right but what should we do as long as Wikimedia uses the ones with 2 letters too :( --éan _{(:> )=|} 02:33, 4 Feabhra 2008 (UTC)

I filtered out all languages that have both a 2- and a 3-code and I have reduced all of those back to 2-. All languages with 3-codes at uisce should now be ones that simply dont have a 2-code. Of course many of them do not have a wiktionary either.

Jcwf 03:26, 4 Feabhra 2008 (UTC)

Thanks a lot, --éan _{(:> )=|} 03:35, 4 Feabhra 2008 (UTC)

I think the best thing we can do for now is to use two-letter codes for all languages that have them and only use three-letter codes for the ones that don’t. (started writing that some hours ago before Jcwf did just that) That just avoids having to do extra work on language templates.

It’s a pity that this isn’t all handled at some higher level rather than individual Wikis having to sort it out. I’ve been toying with the idea of just having one generic language heading instead of one for every language and was impressed with how easy it was to get the native language name with {{#language:}} (no doubt only for 2-letter codes), but of course, there’s no mechanism to get the names in a particular language. ☸ Moilleadóir 08:17, 4 Feabhra 2008 (UTC)☏

MediaWiki:Noexactmatch

Y Déanta - what a super idea! The search page may need a little formatting, but that's an excellent idea and is going to save a lot of trouble. Thank you so much for suggesting this! - Alison ^❤ 02:43, 4 Feabhra 2008 (UTC)