විකිපීඩියා සාකච්ඡාව:ප්‍රජා ද්වාරය/2008

Lets keep english/bad redirects for now

Normally, if someone makes a good article with an English title or a title with bad coding, I usually move the page to the appropriate name and delete the bad redirect. But I guess we should leave the redirect in place temporerily for the user who created the page to find it.

I suggest we leave a warning template on the page that it has been moved, and will be deleted after a given amount of time. Maybe something like

This article's title contained bad coding/was in English and has been moved to xxx, please update your bookmarks. This redirect page will be deleted in 21 days.

(in Sinhalese of course) Opinions? --snowolfD4 ^{( talk / @ )} 03:39, 5 දෙසැම්බර් 2007 (UTC)

It'd be easier to make it "This redirect page will be deleted on some date." instead of the example, but since there was a language name issue in the first place, you might want that message in both Sinhalese and English both. (Better late than never?) Kylu (speak!) 17:05, 9 අගෝස්තු 2008 (UTC)

Gadgets

I know, more stuff to translate eventually... this stuff isn't too terribly critical though.

There's a bunch of "Gadgets" available at Special:Gadgets, which you can activate by going into "my preferences" and the "gadget" tab. You may find these useful. If not, feel free to ignore them.

If you use IE, Opera, or Safari, please be sure to enable the JSL gadget along with others you may wish to use.

If you use the "Modern" skin, please select the "Modern skin thunks" gadget.

Thanks. :) Kylu (speak!) 05:46, 10 මාර්තු 2008 (UTC)

Global bots

Hello. The standard bot policy was updated to allow global bots, which are now technically possible. These are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots (the local policy or request page must explicitly allow them, or they won't get access on this wiki). The current requirements for global bots are:

• a global bot must only maintain interlanguage links or fix double-redirects;
• a global bot must have already been active on several wikis, with long-term contributions demonstrating its trustworthiness.

Does anyone object to allowing global bots on this wiki? I'll update the local policy in a week if there are no objections. Thanks. —Pathoschild 16:57:42, 28 ජූලි 2008 (UTC)

S'fine with me. Kylu (speak!) 17:08, 9 අගෝස්තු 2008 (UTC)

Fine with me too. --Lee 03:28, 10 අගෝස්තු 2008 (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild 14:19:31, 23 සැප්තැම්බර් 2008 (UTC)

Betawiki update

• Currently 11.49% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.29% 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 14:08, 9 අගෝස්තු 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 10.93% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.26% 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 07:56, 11 සැප්තැම්බර් 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm sure the UOC people will see this and work on it. :) Kylu (speak!) 20:36, 11 සැප්තැම්බර් 2008 (UTC)

• Currently 53.52% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.65% 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, 09:36, 18 ඔක්තෝබර් 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 99.86% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.48% 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 09:09, 11 නොවැම්බර් 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 98.06% of the MediaWiki messages and 33.40% 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 11:32, 15 දෙසැම්බර් 2008 (UTC)
• Currently 98.94% of the MediaWiki messages and 33.08% 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 20:43, 12 ජනවාරි 2009 (UTC)

PS Please help us complete the most wanted messages..

What happened to these articles

Could someone please show me what happened to these missing pages... ප්‍රභාශ්වර | Prabashvara බුදුරුවගල | Buduruvagala

විශ්ව කුමාර 14:07, 1 ඔක්තෝබර් 2008 (UTC)

Hi විශ්ව කුමාර, can you please explain what do you mean by missing pages? Did you create these pages and now you can't find them? --Lee 14:41, 6 ඔක්තෝබර් 2008 (UTC)

A good glossary for sinhala technical words

සිංහල තාක්ෂණය වචන මාලාවක් [[1]] වල ඇත. එසෙම, එ තැන්නට සමාන තව තැනක් :

[[2]]

For example:

ට්‍රාන්සිස්ටර = sampaalakaya

MOSFET = loha oxide ardha sangnayana kshe~thrapala sangpaalakaya etc. The glossary of technical terms contains words for computer science, nanotechnology and quantum physics. It may already be known to some of you.

please check it out 99.241.93.251 04:45, 21 නොවැම්බර් 2008 (UTC)