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Stroke order

You noticed there : Talk:Stroke_order#Calligraphic_Stroke_Order, that stroke order may change.

I'm sorry to don't have a perfect english, but I wrote this Stroke_order#Read_the_Stroke_order_from_the_graph & Stroke_order#Three_National_stroke_order_schools which may answer to you Yug (talk) 17:07, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Taiwanese Mandarin

Posted on User talk:LDHan 08:36, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing out the distinction between perfect and perfective. I just felt the translation of 你吃了吗? as "did you eat?" is not really idiomatic English. And if the two phrases are not interchangeable, then perhaps they are not a useful illustration of the 有 construction. Please correct if I've made any mistakes. LDHan 10:25, 27 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Replied 00:10, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fix this template

Posted on User talk:Wikimachine 22:07, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Replied 23:19, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm very sorry for messing up the template. I tried to fix it according to a new proposal laid out in WikiProject Korea's discussion page. Thanks for your concern. (Wikimachine 22:54, 7 April 2007 (UTC))[reply]

Stroke order according to each country

~~hello, The article Stroke order now contain data to answer to a previous question : Talk:Stroke order#Calligraphic Stroke Order~~

~~see : Stroke order#Three national schools of stroke order~~
~~and : Which stroke order for each style~~

Other question : do you allow me to archive your question "Talk:Stroke order#Calligraphic Stroke Order" in one week ? Yug (talk) 16:35, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

........... I want archive it exactly for such cases : it's the 2nd time I inform you about this......... Sorry......

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Yug (talk • contribs) 16:38, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Replied on User talk:Yug 17:49, 9 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Noticed. thanks for your answer. ;) Yug 15:22, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Gweilo

Posted on User talk:HenryLi 23:45, 1 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've just restored the deleted. — HenryLi (Talk) 15:40, 2 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Chinese cash

You have previously participated in discussions of the title of the article Chinese wén. If you care, please discuss a resolution of this issue by suggesting your preferred title at Talk:Chinese wén. — AjaxSmack 01:55, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Extremaduran language

Would you can to help me, in the article Extremaduran language? —Preceding unsigned comment added by El estremeñu (talk • contribs) 01:04, 6 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Replied on User talk:El estremeñu 01:11, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You can to help me, correcting ortographics or linguistic errors, please, make it... :::My English is very bad... —Preceding unsigned comment added by El estremeñu (talk • contribs) 01:48, 8 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia_talk:Article_titles#Non-Roman_characters_in_redirects_to_articles

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Your feedback is requested

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Two variants of lowercase G

[1] you were actually wrong at this point, they do: g ɡ. Use some tools to reveal Unicode code points next time, before boldly editing data you are not familiar with. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 22:05, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nobel Laureates in the University Infobox

I noticed you added a "Nobel Laureates" section to MIT's infobox today more than 4 years ago but it is not a part of the university infobox template. I have added a new section to discuss this topic on the Template talk:Infobox university page. I think the wiki community would like to hear what you have to say about this subject, not just as the first person to add it to MIT's infobox, but as a notable wiki contributor. --Triesault (talk) 01:15, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Population update project

Hi. The 18th edition of Ethnologue just came out, and if we divide up our language articles among us, it won't take long to update them. I would appreciate it if you could help out, even if it's just a few articles (5,000 articles is a lot for just me), but I won't be insulted if you delete this request.

A largely complete list of articles to be updated is at Category:Language articles citing Ethnologue 17. The priority articles are in Category:Language articles with old Ethnologue 17 speaker data. These are the 10% that have population figures at least 25 years old.

Probably 90% of the time, Ethnologue has not changed their figures between the 17th and 18th editions, so all we need to do is change "e17" to "e18" in the reference (ref) field of the language info box. That will change the citation for the artcle to the current edition. Please put the data in the proper fields, or the info box will flag it as needing editorial review. The other relevant fields are "speakers" (the number of native speakers in all countries), "date" (the date of the reference or census that Ethnologue uses, not the date of Ethnologue!), and sometimes "speakers2". Our convention has been to enter e.g. "1990 census" when a census is used, as other data can be much older than the publication date. Sometimes a citation elsewhere in the article depends on the e17 entry, in which case you will need to change "name=e17" to "name=e18" in the reference tag (assuming the 18th edition still supports the cited claim).

Remember, we want the *total* number of native speakers, which is often not the first figure given by Ethnologue. Sometimes the data is too incompatible to add together (e.g. a figure from the 1950s for one country, and a figure from 2006 for another), in which case it should be presented that way. That's one use for the "speakers2" field. If you're not sure, just ask, or skip that article.

Data should not be displayed with more than two, or at most three, significant figures. Sometimes it should be rounded off to just one significant figure, e.g. when some of the component data used by Ethnologue has been approximated with one figure (200,000, 3 million, etc.) and the other data has greater precision. For example, a figure of 200,000 for one country and 4,230 for another is really just 200,000 in total, as the 4,230 is within the margin of rounding off in the 200,000. If you want to retain the spurious precision of the number in Ethnologue, you might want to use the {{sigfig}} template. (First parameter in this template is for the data, second is for the number of figures to round it off to.)

Dates will often need to be a range of all the country data in the Ethnologue article. When entering the date range, I often ignore dates from countries that have only a few percent of the population, as often 10% or so of the population isn't even separately listed by Ethnologue and so is undated anyway.

If Ethnologue does not provide a date for the bulk of the population, just enter "no date" in the date field. But if the population figure is undated, and hasn't changed between the 17th & 18th editions of Ethnologue, please leave the ref field set to "e17", and maybe add a comment to keep it so that other editors don't change it. In cases like this, the edition of Ethnologue that the data first appeared in may be our only indication of how old it is. We still cite the 14th edition in a couple dozen articles, so our readers can see that the data is getting old.

The articles in the categories linked above are over 90% of the job. There are probably also articles that do not currently cite Ethnologue, but which we might want to update with the 18th edition. I'll need to generate another category to capture those, probably after most of the Ethnologue 17 citations are taken care of.

Jump in at the WP:LANG talk page if you have any comments or concerns. Thanks for any help you can give!

— kwami (talk) 02:09, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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