ວິກິພີເດຍ:ສະພາກາແຟ/ລວບລວມ 1

Improving the translation support for Lao Wikipedia

Hello!

Apologies as this message is not in your native language, Please help translate to your language.

Content translation has been successful in supporting the translation process on many Wikipedia communities, and we want to help additional wikis with the potential to grow using translation as part of a new initiative.


Content translation facilitates the creation of Wikipedia articles by translating content from other languages. It has been used already to create more than half a million articles. In addition, the tool provides mechanisms to encourage the creation of good quality content, preventing the publication of lightly edited machine translations. In general, our analysis shows that the translations produced are less likely to be deleted than the articles started from scratch.


Lao Wikipedia editors have used Content translation to create more than eight hundred articles. Given the size of the editing community, we think that there is potential to use translation to create more articles, expand existing ones, and attract new editors that learn how to make productive edits. Translation can help the community to reduce the language gap with other languages and grow the number of editors in a sustainable way. In order to achieve this goal, we want to collaborate with you to make Content translation more visible in the Lao Wikipedia and support new ways to translate.


As a first step, during the next weeks, we plan to enable Content translation by default on Lao Wikipedia. That will make it easy for users to discover the tool through several entry points. However, users not interested in translation will still be able to disable it from their preferences.


Please feel free to share any comment in this conversation thread.


Thanks!

UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) ໒໐:໐໒, ໗ ເມສາ ໒໐໒໑ (UTC)

connectivity project

Hallo, my name is Anastasiya Lvova, I'm "duty" in Connectivity project. The essence of the "Connectivity" project is to study and enhance the coherence of Wikipedia, or, in other words, to improve hypertext navigation between articles. The project deals with deadends, isolated articles, non-categorized articles, transitivity of the category tree, etc.

We want to work with your language version, but we need configured MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage for it (with direct links to template namespace pages, for example, ru:MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage/de:MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage/fr:MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage). Is it possible to set it up for our usage?

thanks in advance, Lvova ໑໘:໔໖, ໑໒ ມີຖຸນາ ໒໐໑໐ (UTC)

Dear Lvova,
Please have a look at lo:MediaWiki:Disambiguationspage. Will this do? Best regards. Tuinui ໐໓:໒໒, ໑໓ ມີຖຸນາ ໒໐໑໐ (UTC)
Please, add there [[ ... ]]! We need a link to template, not only it's name. Lvova ໐໗:໑໘, ໑໓ ມີຖຸນາ ໒໐໑໐ (UTC)
So what do I put for the ... ? Tuinui ໐໒:໐໘, ໑໔ ມີຖຸນາ ໒໐໑໐ (UTC)
Wikified list of the templates that marks disambigations pages in your wiki. If it's template:disambig only. then [[template:disambig]]. Lvova ໐໘:໒໕, ໑໔ ມີຖຸນາ ໒໐໑໐ (UTC)
Thank you for the clarification. I understand that someone need to mark disambigation pages first, so please give me sometime to proceed. Tuinui ໐໑:໔໐, ໑໕ ມີຖຸນາ ໒໐໑໐ (UTC)
And how're you now? :) Lvova ໑໐:໐໙, ໒໐ ກຸມພາ ໒໐໑໑ (UTC)

Bot flag requests

Hello! I ask for permission to run my interwiki bot PipepBot here, and to get a bot flag for it.

  • Operator: it:User:Pipep
  • Purpose: Interwiki
  • Software: Pywikipedia
  • Has bot flag at: als, am, an, ar, arc, ast, az, bat-smg, be, be-x-old, bn, bpy, bs, ca, ce, ceb, co, cs, cu, cv, da, de, eml, en, eo, et, fo, fr, frp, fur, fy, ga, gd, hr, ht, hy, id, ie, ilo, io, is, ja, ka, ksh, ku, kw, la, lb, li, lij, ln, lv, mi, mk, ml, ms, nap, nds, nds-nl, nn, no, oc, pms, rm, rmy, ro, roa-tara, ru-sib, sc, scn, sh, simple, sl, sq, sr, su, sv, te, th, tl, udm, uk, vec, vls, vo, wa, wo, wuu, zea, zh-classical, zh-yue
  • Details: Interwiki using Pywikipediabot. It mostly runs manually assisted. May run automatically in some cases.

Thank you! --it:User:Pipep ໑໓:໒໖, ໒໕ ສິງຫາ ໒໐໐໗ (UTC)

Done. Pathoschild ໑໙:໑໘, ໑໒ ກັນຍາ ໒໐໐໗ (UTC)
Thank you! it:User:Pipep ໒໓:໐໘, ໑໒ ກັນຍາ ໒໐໐໗ (UTC)

Hi, i request a bot bit for BotMultichill.

  • Botmaster : Multichill
  • Bot's name : BotMultichill
  • List of botflags on others wikipedias: about 100+ atm (see meta:User:Multichill for the current list)
  • Purpose: Interwiki (pywikipedia)
  • Technical details : BotMultichill is an interwiki bot starting at the Dutch wikipedia. The bot uses the pywikipedia framework and runs day and night in autonomous mode. Sometimes the bot will run in manual assisted mode to solve interwiki conflicts. Multichill ໑໔:໓໗, ໖ ກັນຍາ ໒໐໐໗ (UTC)
Already done. —Pathoschild ໑໘:໐໙:໕໕, ໒໒ ມີນາ ໒໐໐໙ (UTC)

Hi, i request a bot flag for AlleborgoBot

  • Operator: Alleborgo
  • Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, in "-autonomous" mode. Sometimes the bot will run in manual assisted mode to solve interwiki conflicts.
  • Programming Language(s): Pywikipedia framework daily updated to the last SVN version
  • Function Summary: interwiki
  • Already has a bot flag in: ar, am, an, ast, az, bar, bat-smg, bg, br, bn, bpy, bs, ca, ceb, cs, cv, da, de, el, en, eo, es, et, eu, fa, fi, fiu-vro, fr, frp, fy, ga, gl, he, hr, hsb, ht, hu, hy, id, is, it, iu, ja, jv, ka, kk, ksh, ku, lb, li, lmo, ln, lt, lv, mk, mi, ml, mr, ms, mt, nap, nds, nds-nl, nl, nn, no, pl, pms, ps, pt, ro, roa-tara, ru, sco, sh, sk, simple, sl, sq, sr, su, sv, ta, tg, th, to, tr, tt, udm, uk, ur, vec, vi, vls, vo, zh, zh-classical, zh-min-nan, zh-yue. On it.wiki has done more than 65000 edit.

Thanks --AlleborgoBot ໒໐:໐໓, ໓ ພະຈິກ ໒໐໐໗ (UTC)

AlleborgoBot has the flag now, thank you. --AlleborgoBot ໑໙:໒໓, ໒໘ ພະຈິກ ໒໐໐໗ (UTC)

Hi, I'd like to request a bot flag for Purbo_T (contribs)

Thank you! --Purodha Blissenbach ໒໑:໔໔, ໓ ກຸມພາ ໒໐໐໘ (UTC)

Already done. —Pathoschild ໑໘:໑໐:໒໔, ໒໒ ມີນາ ໒໐໐໙ (UTC)

Hi, i request a bot bit for User:Idioma-bot.

  • Botmaster : lt:User:Hugo.arg
  • List of botflags on others wikipedias: about 100+ atm (en, es, fr, pt, de, ja, ru, pl, vi, id...)
  • Purpose: Interwiki (pywikipedia)
  • Technical details : works manually and automtatic with daily SVN updates

lt:User:Hugo.arg ໐໙:໕໒, ໒ ມີນາ ໒໐໐໘ (UTC)

The bot flag has been set --Dungodung ໒໐:໔໘, ໒໕ ມີນາ ໒໐໐໘ (UTC)

I request a bot flag for User:TuinuiBot.

  • Botmaster : lo:User:Tuinui
  • List of botflags on others wikipedias: None
  • Purpose: Adding interwiki, categories, new pages(mostly stub-styled)
  • Technical details : operate manually, semi-automatatically and automatically (under strict control) using PyWikipediaBot

Thank you.(Tuinui ໑໕:໕໔, ໕ ພຶດສະພາ ໒໐໐໘ (UTC))

Already done. —Pathoschild ໑໘:໑໑:໒໕, ໒໒ ມີນາ ໒໐໐໙ (UTC)

Hi, I request a bot bit for SieBot.

  • Botmaster : Siebrand
  • Bot's name : SieBot
  • List of botflags on others Wikipedias: Almost every Wikipedia (some 25 missing). See current list of user status and edits
  • Purpose: Interwiki (pywikipedia)
  • Technical details : SieBot is an interwiki bot starting at any Wikipedia. The bot uses the pywikipedia framework and runs day and night in autonomous mode. Sometimes the bot will run in manual assisted mode to solve interwiki conflicts. It has made over 5 million edits since it started. Siebrand ໒໒:໒໐, ໒໖ ມີຖຸນາ ໒໐໐໘ (UTC)
Not done; a local bot flag is no longer needed. This is a global bot, and this wiki recently enabled global bots. —Pathoschild ໑໘:໑໒:໑໗, ໒໒ ມີນາ ໒໐໐໙ (UTC)

Dear all, this is to request a bot flag for Synthebot. Its technical information is summarized below.

  • Operator: Julian Mendez
  • Automatic or Manually Assisted: mostly automatic in autonomous mode; sometimes manually assisted to solve interwiki conflicts
  • Programming Language(s): pywikipedia (source code)
  • Function Summary: interwiki links
  • Already has a bot flag on: global bot running on more than 200 wikipedias.

Further technical information is available on its main page. Thank you in advance. Regards, --Julian ໑໖:໐໒, ໒໙ ພະຈິກ ໒໐໐໘ (UTC)

Not done; a local bot flag is no longer needed. This is a global bot, and this wiki recently enabled global bots. —Pathoschild ໑໘:໑໓:໑໒, ໒໒ ມີນາ ໒໐໐໙ (UTC)
  • Bot  : HiW-Bot
  • Operator  : Hedwig in Washington
  • Automatic or Manually Assisted : automatic
  • Programming Language(s)  : Python (pywikipedia), daily update
  • Function Summary  : Interwiki
  • Already has a bot flag (Y/N)  : Yes, please see here
  • Function Details  : just using the standard interwiki.py

I humbly request bot status on this wiki in order to maintain Interwiki. Thank you --Hedwig in Washington ໑໓:໐໙, ໒໔ ຕຸລາ ໒໐໑໑ (UTC)

Legoktm (talk) ໑໔:໑໖, ໒໖ ກຸມພາ ໒໐໑໓ (UTC)

Yes, please! Mabdul (talk) ໑໘:໕໓, ໒໖ ກຸມພາ ໒໐໑໓ (UTC)

JS transliteration

We have recently enabled Devnagari using this code. If you are interested, you can create a similar code for this script and incorporate it into Monobook.js as in this page. Hope you find this information useful. Thank you.--Eukesh ໐໕:໔໗, ໑໖ December ໒໐໐໖ (UTC) [[Image:Media:Example.jpg ]]

Bot policy

Hello. To facilitate steward granting of bot access, I'd like to implement the standard bot policy on this wiki. This will involve creating a redirect to this page from Project:Bot policy, and adding a line at the top noting that it is used here. In particular, this policy allows automatic acceptance of known interlanguage linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable), which form the vast majority of such requests.

Please read the text at m:Bot policy before commenting. If you object, please say so; it will be implemented 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. Pathoschild ໑໙:໑໖, ໑໒ ກັນຍາ ໒໐໐໗ (UTC)

Implemented. —Pathoschild ໑໘:໐໘:໑໑, ໒໒ ມີນາ ໒໐໐໙ (UTC)

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 over 1,700 messages in the core of MediaWiki, 485 messages have been translated. Betawiki also supports the translation of messages for well over 100 extensions, with over 1,550 messages. Translators for over 70 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 would 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! Cheers! Siebrand@Betawiki ໑໗:໓໒, ໑໓ ທັນວາ ໒໐໐໗ (UTC)

  • Currently 35.84% of the MediaWiki messages and 9.21% 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 ໑໐:໐໑, ໒໗ ພຶດສະພາ ໒໐໐໘ (UTC)
  • Currently 35.06% of the MediaWiki messages and 8.28% 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 ໐໖:໓໕, ໗ ກໍລະກົດ ໒໐໐໘ (UTC)
  • Currently 34.72% of the MediaWiki messages and 10.23% 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 ໑໓:໔໕, ໖ ສິງຫາ ໒໐໐໘ (UTC)
  • Currently 31.95% of the MediaWiki messages and 8.96% 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 ໑໒:໓໘, ໙ ກັນຍາ ໒໐໐໘ (UTC)
  • Currently 30.75% of the MediaWiki messages and 8.49% 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 ໐໘:໐໗, ໑໔ ຕຸລາ ໒໐໐໘ (UTC)
  • Currently 30.58% of the MediaWiki messages and 6.51% 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 ໑໒:໐໖, ໑໐ ພະຈິກ ໒໐໐໘ (UTC)
  • Currently 30.14% of the MediaWiki messages and 6.40% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ໑໖:໐໙, ໑໔ ທັນວາ ໒໐໐໘ (UTC)
  • Currently 29.67% of the MediaWiki messages and 6.36% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ໑໓:໕໓, ໑໐ ມັງກອນ ໒໐໐໙ (UTC)
PS Please help us complete the most wanted messages..

Purbo T malfunctioning in (lo:) Laos Wikipedia

Purbo T created Category:User languages on Laos Wikipedia which is not acceptable because we already have Category:ຜູ້ໃຊ້ແບ່ງຕາມພາສາ. Please change the target and please stop Purbo T from inserting interwiki on that category. The category:User languages will be deleted soon and will left only Category:ຜູ້ໃຊ້ແບ່ງຕາມພາສາ. Thank you. --125.24.213.179 02:54, 9. Feb 2008 (CET)

This is not real malfunctioning. lo:User languages happened to be found in another Wikipedias interwiki links. The bot could not 'know' :-) that User languages should rather be ຜູ້ໃຊ້ແບ່ງຕາມພາສາ. As a human who operates the bot, I did suspect User languages to be short lived, of course. Since I could not find, with the necessary certainty, what to use instead, I let the bot collect interwiki links in the page lo:category:User languages for the time being, so that these links were available to humans to later be moved to the correctly named category page. (By the way, the bot found about 5 english named user languages categories in non-english Wikipedias) I believe that these interwiki links could safely be copied to lo:Category:ຜູ້ໃຊ້ແບ່ງຕາມພາສາ. -- As I see it, that has already been done. The bot will now automatically adjust the interwiki links from every other wikipedia pointing to the Laos Wikipedia, so that they point to the right category page, soon. Thank you for the hint, anyways, I was certainly not expecting to have to re-run the bot on that category so soon! --Purodha Blissenbach (talk) 11:36, 9. Feb 2008 (CET)

The most often used MediaWiki messages

Hoi, the most often used MediaWiki messages (less than 25% of all MediaWiki messages) are the most visible messages. They help our readers and editors the most. We are aiming to get these messages localised for as many languages as possible by the end of the year. Please help us and yourself and localise these messages. Thanks, GerardM ໑໓:໔໓, ໑໙ ພະຈິກ ໒໐໐໘ (UTC)

Bot policy

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 ໑໔:໕໕, ໑ ມີນາ ໒໐໐໙ (UTC)

Moved from ວິກິພີເດຍ:ປະຕູສູ່ຊຸມຊົນ. —Pathoschild ໐໓:໓໔:໓໑, ໑໒ ມີນາ ໒໐໐໙ (UTC)
There are no objection within more one week. So the policy is activated. Carsrac ໑໖:໔໕, ໒໒ ມີນາ ໒໐໐໙ (UTC)
If those that would be automatically flag are limited to trusted interlanguage linking bots, I see no problem for implementing the standard bot policy here as well. Best regards. Tuinui ໐໗:໕໐, ໖ ເມສາ ໒໐໐໙ (UTC)

The LocalisationUpdate extension has gone live

The LocalisationUpdate extension is now enabled for all Wikimedia projects. From now on new localisations that become available in SVN will become available to your project within 24 hours. Your localisations get into SVN from translatewiki.net typically within a day and at worst in two days. This is a huge improvement from the old practice where the localisations became available with new software. This could take weeks, even months.

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

What this means for you

Local messages have an impact on the performance of our system. It is best when messages are as much as possible part of the system messages. In order to remove unnecessary duplication, all the messages that have a local localisation and are exactly the same as the system message will be removed. What we ask you to do is to compare and proof read the messages in translatewiki.net and the local messages. You can then either remove local messages when the translatewiki.net message is to be preferred or, you can update the message at translatewiki.net.

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.

Why localise at translatewiki.net

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.

GerardM ໑໑:໓໘, ໓໐ ກັນຍາ ໒໐໐໙ (UTC) (unsigned)

Translatewiki.net update

  • Currently 27.68% of the MediaWiki messages and 2.51% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ໑໑:໓໘, ໓໐ ກັນຍາ ໒໐໐໙ (UTC)
  • Currently 27.33% of the MediaWiki messages and 2.40% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ໑໓:໐໑, ໑ ພະຈິກ ໒໐໐໙ (UTC)
  • Currently 27.85% of the MediaWiki messages and 2.53% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ໑໖:໑໒, ໗ ທັນວາ ໒໐໐໙ (UTC)
  • Currently 27.78% of the MediaWiki messages and 2.46% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ໑໔:໐໗, ໑໑ ມັງກອນ ໒໐໑໐ (UTC)

How can we improve the usability for your language

We expect that with the implementation of LocalisationUpdate the usability of MediaWiki for your language will improve. We are now ready to look at other aspects of usability for your language as well. There are two questions we would like you to answer: Are there issues with the new functionality of the Usability Initiative Does MediaWiki support your language properly

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 ໑໑:໓໘, ໓໐ ກັນຍາ ໒໐໐໙ (UTC)

In the new Usability update, Wikipedia uses the Vector skin, as you have already seen on en: and other projects. With the new skin, there is a drop down menu for special characters, which includes characters for many languages, but not Lao. I am proposing a layout for how to add Lao to the menu, please see my subpage: no:Bruker:V85/Alphabets#Lao. Any and all comments are to this layout are welcome on my discussion page. V85 ໒໑:໐໙, ໑໕ ກໍລະກົດ ໒໐໑໐ (UTC)
Dear V85. I have made some changes to your proposal as below. 'ສ' needs to be just before 'ຊ' for certain. For historical reason 'ຣ' is mostly put after 'ຮ'. Tuinui ໐໕:໒໓, ໒໐ ກໍລະກົດ ໒໐໑໐ (UTC)
  • 'ກ', 'ຂ', 'ຄ', 'ງ', 'ຈ', 'ສ', 'ຊ', 'ຍ', 'ດ', 'ຕ', 'ຖ', 'ທ', 'ນ', 'ບ', 'ປ', 'ຜ', 'ຝ', 'ພ', 'ຟ', 'ມ', 'ຢ', 'ລ', 'ວ', 'ຫ', 'ອ', 'ຮ', 'ຣ','ໜ', 'ໝ', 'ຼ', 'ຽ',
  • 'ະ', 'ັ', 'າ', 'ຳ', 'ິ', 'ີ', 'ຶ', 'ື', 'ຸ', 'ູ', 'ົ', 'ເ', 'ແ', 'ໂ', 'ໃ', 'ໄ', '່', '້', '໊', '໋', '໌', 'ໍ',
  • '໐', '໑', '໒', '໓', '໔', '໕', '໖', '໗', '໘', '໙',
  • '₭', 'ໆ', 'ຯ'
ຂອບໃຈ I have now updated the chart. I copied the order from the Unicode chart, and the Unicode order is based on Thai. V85 ໐໗:໕໔, ໒໐ ກໍລະກົດ ໒໐໑໐ (UTC)

Multilingual Challenge

Please help: replace this red text with a translation of the English message below. Thank you!
Announcing the Derby Multilingual Challenge

This is the first multilingual Wikipedia collaboration. All Wikipedians can take part, in any Wikipedia language. The challenge runs from 1 May until 3 September 2011.
Sign up now!
" Wikipedia is particularly pleased to see that Derby Museums are encouraging the creation of articles in languages other than English." (Jimmy Wales, 14 January 2011)

Andrew Dalby ໑໓:໐໑, ໒ ພຶດສະພາ ໒໐໑໑ (UTC)

สบายดี

สวัสดี ฉันมาจากประเทศไทย ฉันสามารถสื่อสารเป็นภาษาไทยตามที่ฉันถนัด ที่วิกิพีเดียภาษาลาวได้ไหม --Octahedron80 ໐໕:໕໗, ໓ ມີຖຸນາ ໒໐໑໑ (UTC)

Language support group for Laotian

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.

This language support team will be asked to provide us with information about their language. Such information may need to be provided either to us or on a website that we will indicate to you. Another activity will be to test software that will likely have an effect on the running of the MediaWiki software. We are looking for people who clearly identify their ability. Formal knowledge is definitely appreciated.

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.
Thanks, Gmeijssen ໑໙:໓໒, ໒໐ ມັງກອນ ໒໐໑໒ (UTC)

Importer Rights

Hello Community,
I'm cleaning up many pages, reverting vandalism, help with templates and so on.

For importing templates it is better to have importer rights. Many other actions can easily be done by globals admins, but the importer rights would help to import the templates more easily and to fulfill the CC-BY-SA license. Has anyone objections that I would get the right? Mabdul (talk) ໑໐:໓໒, ໑໕ ກຸມພາ ໒໐໑໓ (UTC)

Lao article needed for Lao Airlines Flight 301

Since en:Lao Airlines Flight 301 crashed we need an article in Lao for Lao Airlines Flight 301. Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) ໑໕:໕໒, ໑໖ ຕຸລາ ໒໐໑໓ (UTC)

Catalan Culture Challenge

I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.

The Catalan-speaking world... Want to find out more? From March 16 to April 15 we will organise the Catalan Culture Challenge, a Wikipedia editing contest in which victory will go to those who start and improve the greatest number of articles about 50 key figures of Catalan culture. You can take part by creating or expanding articles on these people in your native language (or any other one you speak). It would be lovely to have you on board. :-)

We look forward to seeing you!

Amical Wikimedia--Kippelboy (talk) ໐໕:໔໓, ໑໖ ມີນາ ໒໐໑໔ (UTC)

No one needs free knowledge in Esperanto

There is a current discussion on German Wikipedia on a decision of Asaf Bartov, Head of WMF Grants and Global South Partnerships, Wikimedia Foundation, who rejected a request for funding a proposal from wikipedians from eowiki one year ago with the explanation the existence, cultivation, and growth of the Esperanto Wikipedia does not advance our educational mission. No one needs free knowledge in Esperanto. On meta there has also started a discussion about that decision. --Holder (talk) ໑໐:໓໕, ໕ ພຶດສະພາ ໒໐໑໔ (UTC)

Help for translate

Hello and sorry for writing in English. Can anyone help me translate a small article (2 paragraphs) from English to your language and create the article in your wiki? Please, fell free to answer in my talk page in your wiki anytime. Thanks! Xaris333 (talk) ໐໑:໐໘, ໑໓ ສິງຫາ ໒໐໑໔ (UTC)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

Hello. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was recently adopted by global community consensus (your community received a notice about the discussion). According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on smaller wikis. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the new admin activity review here.

We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):

  1. Waerth (administrator)

These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, Rschen7754 ໐໔:໕໖, ໑໕ ສິງຫາ ໒໐໑໔ (UTC)

Monuments of Spain Challenge

Excuse me for not speaking Lao yet.

Wikimedia España invites you to join the Monuments of Spain Challenge. And what’s that? It’s a contest. You have to edit, translate or expand articles about the Spanish monuments and you will be granted points. So you’re not just writing about wonderful buildings: you can get prizes!

The time of the contest will include all October and any information you may need is right here.

Join in and good luck!

PS: We would be grateful if you could translate this note into Lao.

B25es on behalf of Wikimedia España.

Hello, Dear wikipedians. I invite you to edit and improve this article and to add information about your and other country.--Kaiyr (talk) ໑໒:໒໑, ໓໑ ຕຸລາ ໒໐໑໔ (UTC)

I want to become admin

Laos wikipedia not have neatness because have troll has editing many article in laos wikipedia and not have admin for manager problem, i think new laos wikipedia might make laos people can take knowledge, please appoint me to admin, thank you--Laomonarchrestore (talk) ໐໕:໒໒, ໑໗ ພຶດສະພາ ໒໐໑໕ (UTC)

With all due respect judging on your name and the bias posted on your userpage I do not think you would be a neutral admin. Nor do I think you would be a neutral contributor. The only advantage you have is that you speak the Lao language. So I am against. Please also post your request in Lao btw!! Waerth (talk) ໑໐:໐໐, ໒໔ ພຶດສະພາ ໒໐໑໕ (UTC)
Don't decide me from my userpage, i can speaking laos because i'm laos, ຢ່າຕັດສິນຂ້າພະເຈົ້າທີ່ໜ້າເພຈ ຂ້າພະເຈົ້າເວົ້າພາສາລາວໄດ້ເດີ--Laomonarchrestore (talk) ໐໕:໕໗, ໒໔ ພຶດສະພາ ໒໐໑໕ (UTC)
Yes I understand that. But the name is a slight problem. I cannot read Lao personally. I do understand there is a vandalism problem. Put your request in Laotian as well btw. For now there is another way. If you can link to vandalism we can ask the stewards to clean it. Waerth (talk) ໑໐:໐໐, ໒໔ ພຶດສະພາ ໒໐໑໕ (UTC)

Lao is missing

Lao is missing from this page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/There_is_also_a_Wikipedia_in_your_language
More than 100 languages are now listed.
Thank you, Varlaam (talk) ໒໐:໔໒, ໒໐ ມັງກອນ ໒໐໑໖ (UTC)

IMPORTANT: Admin activity review

Hello. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc) was adopted by global community consensus in 2013. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on smaller wikis. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the admin activity review.

We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for more than 2 years):

  1. Tuinui (administrator)

These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.

However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the stewards on Meta-Wiki so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks, Rschen7754 ໒໑:໐໓, ໑໖ ກໍລະກົດ ໒໐໑໖ (UTC)

Hi, you are invited to participate in the discussion on the proposal to make a banner through m: centralnotice to inform more people around the world about what the Turkish government has done about Wikipedia, ie all the language versions of Wikipedia are You are obscured, so in Turkey it is impossible to view the * .wikipedia.org site. To hope that the Turkish government will remove the block, it is necessary to raise awareness of this fact around the world because it is important to succeed in this mission because Wikipedia can not be seen in Turkey. With this message also for those interested, I invite him to sign the Wikimedian appeal.

If you have any questions or questions do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks best regards. --Samuele2002 (Talk!) ໑໗:໑໘, ໓ ມີຖຸນາ ໒໐໑໗ (UTC)

Greetings!

Dear Laotian Wikipedians! I hope you are all doing well. Over the course of the next few weeks, I intend to organize a Wikipedia workshop in Vientiane. I was hoping if you would be able to support me in the organization of these (mainly English language oriented) events in your city by volunteering your time and helping me connect with potential venues (preferably educational/training institutions) that would be able to support the organization of these events? I am currently working on a rapid grant proposal in this regard and would appreciate your feedback on meta:Grants:Project/Rapid/GMRC/Project CLV. Thanks! Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington (talk) ໐໘:໕໒, ໒໔ ພະຈິກ ໒໐໑໗ (UTC)

Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) ໒໑:໓໘, ໒໔ ເມສາ ໒໐໑໘ (UTC)

Enabling a helpful feature for Template editors

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) ໒໑:໒໘, ໖ ສິງຫາ ໒໐໑໘ (UTC)

Wikidata Bridge: edit Wikidata’s data from Wikipedia infoboxes

Wikipedia Asian Month 2019

Please help translate to your language

 

Wikipedia Asian Month is back! We wish you all the best of luck for the contest. The basic guidelines of the contest can be found on your local page of Wikipedia Asian Month. For more information, refer to our Meta page for organizers.

Looking forward to meet the next ambassadors for Wikipedia Asian Month 2019!

For additional support for organizing offline event, contact our international team on wiki or on email. We would appreciate the translation of this message in the local language by volunteer translators. Thank you!

Wikipedia Asian Month International Team.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) ໑໖:໕໗, ໓໑ ຕຸລາ ໒໐໑໙ (UTC)

Extension of Wikipedia Asian Month contest

In consideration of a week-long internet block in Iran, Wikipedia Asian Month 2019 contest has been extended for a week past November. The articles submitted till 7th December 2019, 23:59 UTC will be accepted by the fountain tools of the participating wikis.

Please help us translate and spread this message in your local language.

Wikipedia Asian Month International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) ໑໔:໑໖, ໒໗ ພະຈິກ ໒໐໑໙ (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore

 

Hello Folks,

Wiki Loves Love is back again in 2020 iteration as Wiki Loves Folklore from 1 February, 2020 - 29 February, 2020. Join us to celebrate the local cultural heritage of your region with the theme of folklore in the international photography contest at Wikimedia Commons. Images, videos and audios representing different forms of folk cultures and new forms of heritage that haven’t otherwise been documented so far are welcome submissions in Wiki Loves Folklore. Learn more about the contest at Meta-Wiki and Commons.

Kind regards,
Wiki Loves Folklore International Team
— Tulsi Bhagat (contribs | talk)
sent using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) ໐໖:໑໔, ໑໘ ມັງກອນ ໒໐໒໐ (UTC)

Global bot policy proposal: invitation to a Meta discussion

Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is back!

Please help translate to your language

 

You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.

You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.

Please support us in translating the project page and a banner message to help us spread the word in your native language.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) ໑໓:໒໕, ໖ ກຸມພາ ໒໐໒໑ (UTC)

Proposal: Set two-letter project shortcuts as alias to project namespace globally

Please help translate to your language

Hello everyone,

I apologize for posting in English. I would like to inform everyone that I created a new global request for comment (GRFC) at Meta Wiki, which may affect your project: m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.

In this GRFC, I propose that two-project shortcuts for project names will become a default alias for the project namespace. For instance, on all Wikipedias, WP will be an alias to the Wikipedia: namespace (and similar for other projects). Full list is available in the GRFC.

This is already the case for Wikivoyages, and many individual projects asked for this alias to be implemented. I believe this makes it easier to access the materials in the project namespace, as well as creating shortcuts like WP:NPOV, as well as helps new projects to use this feature, without having to figure out how to request site configuration changes first.

As far as I can see, ວິກິພີເດຍ currently does not have such an alias set. This means that such an alias will be set for you, if the GRFC is accepted by the global community.

I would like to ask all community members to participate in the request for comment at Meta-Wiki, see m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.

Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions about this proposal.

Best regards,
--Martin Urbanec (talk) ໑໔:໑໒, ໑໘ ກຸມພາ ໒໐໒໑ (UTC)

Global bot policy changes

Global ban proposal for Musée Annam

Apologies for writing in English. Please help translate to your language There is an on-going discussion about a proposal that Musée Annam be globally banned from editing all Wikimedia projects. You are invited to participate at Requests for comment/Global ban for Musée Annam on Meta-Wiki. Thank you! NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh (ສົນທະນາ) ໑໔:໒໒, ໒໗ ທັນວາ ໒໐໒໑ (UTC)

Wiki Loves Folklore is back!

Please help translate to your language

 

You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.

You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.

You can also organize a local contest in your country and support us in translating the project pages to help us spread the word in your native language.

Feel free to contact us on our project Talk page if you need any assistance.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) ໑໓:໑໕, ໙ ມັງກອນ ໒໐໒໒ (UTC)

ຂໍຄວນເຫັນ

ຊະນະນີ້ໄດ້ມີກາຮສະເໜີຊື່ຊາວວິກິພີເດຍໃຫ້ເປັນຜູ້ດູແລລະບົບທິ່ ວິກິພີເດຍ:ສະເໜີຊື່ໃຫ້ເປັນຜູ້ດູແລລະບົບ#Lookruk ທຸກທັນສາມາດລົງຄະແນນໄດ້ນັບຕັ້ງແຕ່ເວລານີ້ເປັນຕົ້ນໄປ --Lookruk (talk) ໐໖:໕໑, ໔ ຕຸລາ ໒໐໒໒ (UTC)

Enabling Section Translation: a new mobile translation experience

Hello Lao Wikipedians!

Apologies as this message is not in your language, Please help translate to your language.

The WMF Language team is pleased to let you know that we will like to enable the Section translation tool in Lao Wikipedia. For this, our team will love you to read about the tool and test it so you can:

  • Give us your feedback
  • Ask us questions
  • Tell us how to improve it.

Below is background information about Section translation, why we have chosen your community, and how to test it.

Background information

Content Translation has been a successful tool for editors to create content in their language. More than one million articles have been created across all languages since the tool was released in 2015. The Wikimedia Foundation Language team has improved the translation experience further with the Section Translation. The WMF Language team enabled the early version of the tool in February 2021 in Bengali Wikipedia. Through their feedback, the tool was improved and ready for your community to test and provide feedback to make it better.

Section Translation extends the capabilities of Content Translation to support mobile devices. On mobile, the tool will:

  • Guide you to translate one section at a time in order to expand existing articles or create new ones.
  • Make it easy to transfer knowledge across languages anytime from your mobile device.

Lao Wikipedia seems an ideal candidate to enjoy this new tool since it has Content Translation tool enabled by default.

We plan to enable the tool in the coming weeks if there are no objections from your community. After it is enabled, we’ll monitor the content created with the tool and process all the feedback. In any case, feel free to raise any concerns or questions you may already have in any of the following formats:

Try the tool

Before the enablement, you can try the current implementation of the tool in our testing instance. Once it is enabled on Lao Wikipedia, you’ll have access to https://lo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ContentTranslation with your mobile device. You can select an article to translate, and machine translation will be provided as a starting point for editors to improve.

Provide feedback

Please provide feedback about Section translation in any of the formats you are most comfortable with. We want to hear about your impressions on:

  • The tool
  • What you think about our plans to enable it
  • Your ideas for improving the tool.

Thanks, and we look forward to your feedback.

UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) ໒໒:໐໒, ໑໗ ພະຈິກ ໒໐໒໒ (UTC) On behalf of the WMF Language team

Section Translation tool enabled in Lao Wikipedia

Hello Friends!

The WMF Language team is pleased to let you know that the Section Translation tool is now enabled in Lao Wikipedia. It means you can translate content one section at a time using your mobile devices with ease.

Now you can also start translating an article on your mobile device right when you notice it is missing in Lao. From a Wikipedia article in any language, switch languages and search for ລາວ. If the article does not exist, an option to translate it will appear, as shown in the image below.

 
Image of the entry point

Content created with the tool will be marked with the “sectiontranslation” tag for the community to review. We’ll monitor the content created, but we are very interested in hearing about your experience using the tool and reviewing the content created with it.

So, enjoy the tool and provide feedback on improving it.

Thank you!

UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) ໐໐:໕໓, ໑໓ ທັນວາ ໒໐໒໒ (UTC)

Inactive bot

ການອະທິບາຍດ້ານລຸ່ມນີ້ປິດແລ້ວ ກະລຸນາຢ່າດັດແກ້ ຖ້າຫາກຕ້ອງການອອກຄວາມເຫັນພາຍຫຼັງ ຄວນໃຊ້ສ່ວນໃໝ່

ຄວາມຫຍໍ້ຂອງບົດສະຫຼຸບທີ່ບັນລຸມີດັ່ງນີ້

  ຮຽບຮ້ອຍ --Lookruk 💬 (ສົນທະນາ) ໐໗:໔໕, ໗ ທັນວາ ໒໐໒໒ (UTC)

This is a list of inactive bot: AlleborgoBot, BotMultichill, Idioma-bot, PipepBot, Purbo T, TechBot, TuinuiBot, Vagobot and YurikBot. and Maintenance script. I was remove the bot flag. Thanks. --Lookruk | 💬 (ສົນທະນາ) ໐໗:໓໗, ໑ ທັນວາ ໒໐໒໒ (UTC)

Comment: User:Maintenance script is a Wikimedia Foundation bot which may find usage in the future. See m:User:Maintenance_script and mw:Manual:Maintenance_scripts en:Special:Contributions/Maintenance_script for more info. --Bebiezaza (talk) ໐໘:໓໑, ໕ ທັນວາ ໒໐໒໒ (UTC)
Thanks for comment. --Lookruk | 💬 (ສົນທະນາ) ໒໓:໒໔, ໕ ທັນວາ ໒໐໒໒ (UTC)

ການອະທິບາຍດ້ານເທິງນີ້ຮັກສາໄວ້ເປັນລວບລວມ ກະລຸນາຢ່າດັດແກ້ ຖ້າຫາກຕ້ອງການອອກຄວາມເຫັນພາຍຫຼັງ ຄວນໃຊ້ສ່ວນໃໝ່


Please help translate to your language
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Global ban for PlanespotterA320/RespectCE

Per the Global bans policy, I'm informing the project of this request for comment: m:Requests for comment/Global ban for PlanespotterA320 (2) about banning a member from your community. Thank you.--Lemonaka (talk) 21:40, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

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ສະບາຍດີ ເພື່ອເປັນປະໂຫຍດຕໍ່ການໃຊ້ງານໃນອະນາຄົດ ດັ່ງນັ້ນ ຈຶ່ງສະເໜີໃຫ້ດັດແກ້ຄ່າກຳໜົດຂອງວິກິພີເດຍພາສາລາວຕໍ່ໄປນີ້

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ໃນປະຈຸບັນວິກິພີເດຍພາສາລາວມີການສະແດງໂຕເລກໃນອິນເຕີເຟສເປັນໂຕເລກລາວ (໐໑໒໓໔໕໖໗໘໙) ຂ້ອຍເຫັນວ່າມັນເບິ່ງຂ້ອນຂ້າງຍາກ ຈຶ່ງສະເໜີໃຫ້ປ່ຽນເປັນໂຕເລກຮິນດູ-ອາຣະບິກ (0123456789) ຄືກັນກັບວິກິພີເດຍພາສາອື່ນ ໆ ເຊັ່ນ ວິກິພີເດຍພາສາໄທ ກໍ່ບໍ່ໃຊ້ເລກໄທ ຂອບໃຈ

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  1.   ເຫັນດີ ສະບາຍດີ ຂ້ອຍ​ຍອມ​ຮັບ Azoma (talk) ໑໑:໒໒, ໗ ທັນວາ ໒໐໒໒ (UTC)
  2.   ເຫັນດີ --Minarin (talk) ໑໓:໓໐, ໘ ທັນວາ ໒໐໒໒ (UTC)