QuartierLatin1968

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Translation of the week

Currently we have started a project on meta.wikipedia to get an article translated in as many wikipedias as possible every week. The article will be about a subject that usually gets rarely translated and has a lot of links to other subjects. Currently we have no-one to translate in your language. If someone is interested to participate please see: meta:Translation of the week You can also submit articles from your own languages there that you think deserve translation, but have a small chance of it. The articles must not be to short and not to long and have lots of links to possible other articles! en:user:Waerth

Westcountry Brythonic

Ker QuartierLatin1968,

I note that you have contributed to a number of articles about celtic identities.

I should point out that there is currently a VfD debate on the "English" version of Wikipedia about the subject "Westcountry Brythonic" (ie the early Celtic language of south west Britain). This has been called into question because some (handfull) of people do not think it real or sufficiently important.

The current vote may delete this subject from wikipedia (because those [personal opinion] "pompous arses"" does not like it. If you wish you can help retain it on Wikipedia (I know you have contributed to its current form) by voting against its deletion.

I would rather have all modify whatever the current contents are to reach an acceptable compromise than have a handful of twits delete it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Westcountry_Brythonic

I can see you have contribued to this issue in the past. Do you wish to assist this time?

I wish I could say this in Westcountry Brythonic but sadly I am not fluent enough.

Fatla genough-why!

Simon

Deunansek 10:09, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

LocalSettings.php

Hello. LocalSettings.php is not accessible through the wiki. Only people with access to the servers can do this, so you would need to request any changes to it at MediaZilla:. Angela 01:15, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Gwlásow amerycanek

How Quartier! I am learning Cornish and decided I'd love to help as much as I possibly could with the Kernewek Wikipedia. I recently am working on the Yyrgynya Wést page and was wondering if you could give me some feedback on it. Like I said, I'm still at the primary level. Let me know if there is anything else I can do to help contribute! --Caponer 02:53, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Owen, I feel terribly bad for that awful translation of mine. While I'm trying to learn Cornish on my own, I've been using the translator as a crutch but now I realize how faulty of a decision that is. I was attempting to translate parts of the English West Virginia article at [1]. Once again, I apologize and will try to master Cornish on my own without the aid of that sham Cornish translator. I didn't mean to come off as some vandal, I've learned my lesson not to use the translating software as an aid. Thanks for the welcome. --Caponer 18:18, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

How Owen, until I attain that elusive "good working grasp of Cornish grammar", which won't be for awhile :), I would most definitely love to work on translating templates and stubs for states, provinces, etc. Let me know if there are any other tasks I could work on when they arise. I created a Cornish prototype for the Template:US state by "borrowing" and translating the beautiful light-blue French infobox for the Canadian provinces ;) I was unsure of the Cornish words for "Governor" and "US Senators". If you feel and the other Kernewek editors feel it's sufficient and grammatically correct, I'll go ahead and fill in the information for US state stubs. I really appreciate your acceptance and patience with me! I grew bored of English Wikipedia and have been wanting to help the Celtic versions reach the 100,000 article mark!! --Caponer 01:45, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

I have that tendency to do so ;) I was running into some confusion concerning the term "Senedh", but I agree that Mr. George's equivalent for Congress (Kuntelles) will do. I decided to go ahead and go with Vyrjynia over Pow an Werhes and Pow an Wyrghes as I felt the full literal "Land of the Virgin" would be a bit much (and it made me chuckle). Pow am Wyrghes West is also a mouthful :P Gwlas could still describe West Virginia as it is semi-autonomous nestled in the "hollers" of Appalachia :P I am currently working on an article for English Wikipedia on the current use of Elizabethan English in some mountain communities of West Virginia. Who knows, maybe there a few mountaineer Cornish speakers hiding in the hills as well. --Caponer 07:58, 9 February 2006 (UTC) AIM: MapnitNGA

Would you happen to know the Cornish terms for Co-Prince and Episcopal for the stub on the Prynseth Andorra? I was also unsure of Cornish for "regent" in the Liechtenstein infobox so I used the German term by default. --Caponer 20:05, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Your thoughts on these states' names before I create stubs and infoboxes: Template:USPoliticalDivisions? ;) --Caponer 21:40, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Planets

How Owen, I just crafted a stub for Mergher with a template. Were you looking for a Cornish translation of one of the English planet templates or for me to duplicate the templates for Dor ha Meurth? I also wanted to thank you for assisting me with the US Political Divisions template!! Do you think Colorado and Connecticut would translate into Kolorado and Konnektykut (or something similar)? I was also curious if there was another Cornish term for Hampshire? I was going to finish the stubs for US states as well and wanted to be sure before I attempted them. Let me know about these and the planets and I'll get right on 'em! --Caponer 20:18, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Developer

Est ce que tu sais quel dévéloppeur a dévéloppé le wiki pour le cornique ? Nous cherchons un dévéloppeur depuis fort longtemps pour déplacer notre wiki à wikipedia.orgWikignecht 17:39, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Stub request

Greetings QuartierLatin1968, could you help me create a stub for this article? - It is based on the English article. 3-5 lines would be sufficient enough. Please. Your help would be gratefully appreciated. (I do not know what the correct title should be). Thanks -- Jose77, 2 March 2006

Thanks for your help QuartierLatin1968! May God bless you and may Cornish wikipedia prosper! -- Jose77, 3 March 2006

You're very welcome. Blessed be. ☮ yn-medh Owen. 16:28, 3 Meurth 2006 (UTC)

I'm back

I apologize for the delay in my response Owen, I got busy with English Wikipedia and then with my "real life" ;) I have neither at the moment but I'm attempting to order Williams' Gerlyver Sawsnek-Kernowek. I know that a lot of languages adopt the names of places rather than "translate" those names into their own language, but I find it more interesting to cornicize :) If the names of some of these places make certain Cornish speakers scratch their heads, it may just force them to contribute. --Caponer 21:29, 6 Meurth 2006 (UTC)

Fabulous job with the Eglos Wir Yesu article btw. ;) --Caponer 21:30, 6 Meurth 2006 (UTC)

Templates

Let me know what you think. The colors are debatable, I was thinking of corn and potatoes ;) --Caponer 21:02, 7 Meurth 2006 (UTC)

Re: Amerika ha Bejedh an dhevnydhyoryon

I was just merely compensating for the time that I was away from Cornish Wikipedia ;) I had to make it up. (Once you transcribe one page, you tend to want to do another, and another...etc). It's especially gratifying when you see the number of articles grow. My Williams' should be here shortly! Any color requests for the Caribbean?

As per the other thing, I love all of the changes you made to the various commands and I can't see anything else at this moment that needs fixin', but if something catches my eye I'll be sure to let you know (although it will probably catch yours first). I can survive for now without the Cyrillic...Greek characters would be nice though ;) --Caponer 18:23, 8 Meurth 2006 (UTC)

ccTLD

How Owen, for some odd reason I'm in the mood to create articles like this for Cornish Wikipedia and a Cornish version of the English template. I've started one in progress here. I was wondering if you would take a look see and share with me what you feel would be the appropriate translations for these and then I will started cranking them out. --Caponer 17:55, 9 Meurth 2006 (UTC)

Projects

Any new projects for me? --Caponer 23:14, 19 Meurth 2006 (UTC)

Popes

I was playing around in my Sandbox with ideas for a list of popes. Is this too much? --Caponer 06:12, 22 Meurth 2006 (UTC)

Norman

Thanks for the reply on nrm:! Man vyi

More from the Jade Knight

Hey, noticing that you're a Sysop, mind if I ask a question? How do we get the Wikipedia to recognize native words for "Category", "Wikipedia", and "Template"? (ie, the Norman equivalents, instead of the English—so I can make a stub template named "Patron:Choutchette" rather than "Template:Choutchette"). We're absolutely brand new, and I don't know how a lot of this works. 208.187.181.2 09:42, 28 Meurth 2006 (UTC) =nrm:User:C'valyi d'Jade

Thanks for the response! Unfortunately, I can't seem to edit those templates (only "view source"). Currently, we have no admins or Sysops on the Norman wikipedia. Can Admins edit them, or only Sysops? How do we go about acquiring such? 208.187.181.2 19:26, 28 Meurth 2006 (UTC) =nrm:User:C'valyi d'Jade

Template:Stokk-dor

Hey Owen, would you like me to go ahead and affix this to all of the country stub articles, replacing the little pick axe? --Caponer 17:59, 28 Meurth 2006 (UTC)

• I went ahead and finished inserting the stubs for the remaining years of the 20th century ;) When you get a chance, could you do me a favor and start a "List of popes" article so that I may place my pope chart in it? I wasn't sure what to name it or how the introduction should read. I started a chart of Popes with Cornish names in my sandbox and will slowly keep adding to it little by little until I work my way back to Sen Peder. Let me know what you think of the pope chart and if any of the columns should be hacked off! :) --Caponer 22:05, 28 Meurth 2006 (UTC)

Papal names

If only their regnal names hadn't ever deviated from Jowann and Pawl ;) I went ahead and made some of the fixes you suggested on the talk page, but was curious how names like Honorius and Hadrianus were treated (and any other name where H precedes a vowel). I assigned Adrian to Hadrianus and Honori temporarily to Honorius, but would it be Kosher Kemmyn to assign it Onori, instead? --Caponer 21:02, 1 Ebryl 2006 (UTC)

1000th article

Have you decided what the 1000th article will be!? ;) --Caponer 22:52, 6 Ebryl 2006 (UTC)

• Konteth Cheshire. --Caponer 17:01, 8 Ebryl 2006 (UTC)

Star

It's my pleasure to serve you! ;) --Caponer 22:55, 14 Ebryl 2006 (UTC)

Cornish Language

Hello QuartierLatin, I'm quite new to the Cornish language version of Wikipedia, although I have contributed to the English language version. I have noticed that you seem to be the major contributor to the Cornish language version, and I would like to be able to help. Unfortunately I am unable to speak Cornish, and I am contacting you to see if you would be able to help me with learning. Although I grew up in Cornwall, my knowledge of the language is limited to the few phrases known by most Cornishmen ('onen hag oll' and 'kernow bys vyken!' for example). I moved away from Cornwall to study in Cardiff, Wales, so I am reasonably familiar with the Welsh language style, which I understand is supposed to be related to Cornish. As Cornish langauge classes are a rarity outside of Cornwall and London, would you be able to recommend any books/websites to help me learn? Any info you can give would be great, I was wondering if the pronunciation of certain letters is similar/same as Welsh letters (e.g the 'dd' sound). Just out of interest, are you based in Cornwall, or Cornish youself, and how did you manage to learn the language?

Thank you for any help, you can contact me through my talk page

Alex

Alexstep uk 16:11, 13 Me 2006 (UTC)

Hello Owen!

Thank you for your reply, its obvious that you certainly know what you're talking about! I intend to buy some books (right after uni exams!), and have looked at those websites - most helpful. I look forward to learning the lingo of my ancestors, and hopefully in the not-too-distant future, I'll be a fluent, regular contributor to the Kernewek Wikipedia!

Many Thanks,

Alex

Alexstep uk 15:21, 16 Me 2006 (UTC)

Sysop work :-)

Hi, could you please change MediaWiki:Sharedupload according to en:MediaWiki:Sharedupload so that there are proper links to the Commons? It would also be reasonable IMO to add a template {{NowCommons}} for international users. Thanks --Ü 18:21, 11 Metheven 2006 (UTC)

request - Cornish

Hello. I have got one request for you. I need sentence "sugar in 370 languages" in Cornish (I want to do a logo of my site). So, can you write me what`s called sentence "sugar in 370 languages" in Cornish language? Thank you very much! Szoltys

Departments

Hey Owen, I wanted to work on creating stubs for the departments of Colombia but I was unable to find a Cornish translation of "department" as a governmental entity. Would you happen to know? --Caponer 22:30, 23 Est 2006 (UTC)

Quote from Jimmy Wales: Languages which are "more important than" Cornish

Hi Owen,

I happened to stumble upon this article and was a bit surprised by how Jimbo Wales talked about the Cornish Wikipedia. Sure, it may not have an audience of millions of children in developing nations, but it has been shown many times that linguistic diversity serves a purpose and is of great benefit to the world. I, for one, find it insulting that he would say any Wiki is "more important" than any other one. But then, Jimbo and I have never seen eye-to-eye. He weaseled his way out of his original "Everybody should get an encyclopedia in his/her own language" remark by amending it post ipso facto (like, a couple of years after!) to say that he meant to only include those speakers of languages with over 1 million speakers. Well, Jimmy, 6% of the people on Earth speak a language native to less than 1 million people. A full 1% speak a language native to less than 100 000 people, and there are still over 8 million people who speak a language with less than 10 000 native speakers. His current plan is going to simply leave many people on Earth out of the loop.

I think he's more worried about the idea of having a Wiki in every language on Earth -- a total of somewhere between 3000 and 10000 Wikis. But he doesn't need to worry. By the time somebody gets around to requesting every last one, most of them will probably no longer be spoken -- out of the nearly 7000 languages counted by the Ethnologue, approximately 550 were at last count spoken by less than 100 souls. --Node ue 02:07, 12 Du 2006 (UTC)

Thanks very much for the link; I found the article most interesting. However, I'd rather not get involved in a controversy for or against Jimbo Wales. From what I understood, Wales meant that the Wikipedias that he hoped would reach the 250,000 article mark were those with 1 million speakers; as long as he's not actively proposing to suppress the other Wikipedias, I'm not bothered. The article does make a fair point that African languages are very under-served.... ☮ yn-medh Owen. 13:17, 12 Du 2006 (UTC)

St Neot

Savet zo bet ur penand diwar-benn kêriadenn St Neot war ar Wikipedia e brezhoneg (br:St Neot) ma vez implijet warnañ stumm kerneveurek holl anvioù-lec'h Kernev-Veur dre voas met ne deuan ket a-benn da c'hoût pehini eo stumm kerneveurek al lec'h-mañ. Hag hon sikour a c'hellez? (just in case - could you confirm the Cornish version of the name of this village please?) --Neal (Breton Wiki sysop) 15:45, 20 Kevardhu 2006 (UTC)

Richard Gendall

En "dadhelva" pennad-se em eus skrivet eun troidigezh eus kernewek e brezhonek.

Siwazh, n'em eus ket kavet pep ger en geriadurioù kernewek-saoznek "on-line".

Me skoazell a c'hellez ?

Trugarez braz86.212.156.110 21:57, 13 Genver 2007 (UTC)Luzmael

Cornish templates

Hi QuartierLatin1968, On my userpage I have some userboxes indicating languages I speak, as well as languages I would like to learn. I've used the template {xx-0} for these languages, but there isn't one for Cornish. I was wondering if you could, as someone who seems proficient at Cornish, translate the following for me into Cornish so I can make a template for {kw-0}. This is the text: "This user does not understand Cornish (or understands it with considerable difficulty)."

This would be a real help, I could update each language as I become more proficient.

Thanks for reading this, Bioarchie1234 14:31, 20 Genver 2007 (UTC)

Viktor Dyk

I found here article Viktor Dyk which is in English. So delete it (or translate it). Thanks, --Tomáš Novotný 20:10, 20 Genver 2007 (UTC)

County stubs in the United States

Owen, in your spare time, would you be able to create a simple Cornish translated county stub page with a West Virginia county (or any county in the United States). I wanted an approved and correct article template to begin duplicating county articles in the USA. --Caponer 23:26, 1 Hwevrer 2007 (UTC)

Auckland Grammar School

Could you please write a stub http://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland_Grammar_School - just a few sentences based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland_Grammar_School? Just 2-5 sentences would be sufficient enough. Please. --Per Angusta 07:10, 23 Metheven 2007 (UTC)

Templat:User de

Hi QuartierLatin1968,

sorry for the misspelled Templat:User de. Could you please delete it?

Kind regards, HeikoEvermann 17:46, 26 Metheven 2007 (UTC)

Bot Flags

How about flagging the bot users as bots, so that they no longer clutter Special:Recentchanges?

Greetings from Germany, HeikoEvermann 18:50, 27 Metheven 2007 (UTC)

Kernow

Dydh da, Owen. Hevlyna y tallethis vy dyski Kernewek (Kemmyn). Ha my ow redya an erthygel "Kernow", y hwelis vy an lavar, "yn deghow yn howlsedhes Breten Veur". Yw henna ewn? Gwell yw genev "yn Soth West Breten Veur". Owhanow

Meur ras, Owen. Ny allav vy skrifa yn ta, mes re amendis vy an erthygel! Owhanow

Re: Bot flag

Hi! To give a bot the flag you have to use the special page: Special:Makebot. Unfortunately only bureaucrats can use that page. At the moment you can write "approved" under my request here and I'll make a request at meta:Requests for bot status. A steward will give me the flag since here on kw.wiki there are no bureaucrats. Regards. --AlleborgoBot 21:47, 15 Hedra 2007 (UTC)

MediaWiki interface for Cornish

Hi QuartierLatin1968. I see you have in the past done some Cornish localisation of the interface of MediaWiki by editing pages in the namespace MediaWiki. I was wondering if you knew that localisation in this local Wikipedia means that only this Wikipedia can benifit of your efforts for the Cornish language.

I am one of the administrators of Betawiki. In this wiki we facilitate localisation of any language for MediaWiki. I was wondering if you were willing to go over there and work on the localisation of Cornish. From there we will add your translations to the source code of MediaWiki, so that anyone can benefit from your efforts (for example on Wikimedia Commons) and those installing MediaWiki outside Wikimedia projects.

Currently about 4.43% of the core messages for MediaWiki are available in Cornish. Most of them were imported from your work here.

If you personally do not want to make the effort, for whichever reason, please do make an effort to try and find 2 or 3 other users that are willing to work on the generic translation for the MediaWiki interface on Betawiki. If you have any questions, please let me know.

Thank you very much for your current and past efforts to put Cornish on the digital map. Cheers! --MF-Warburg 17:13, 5 Du 2007 (UTC)

Deo Volente

Hi QuartierLatin1968, can you help me? Mikhailov Kirow 08:23, 23 Genver 2008 (UTC)

Help

Please, could you translate this article onto Cornish, please? A stub is enough. If you want to translate any article onto Spanish, Catalonian or Galician, tell it to me please. Chabi

Pennfolen redesign

Hi there, I've whipped up a proposal for the Cornish Wikipedia main page, you can see it here. I wanted to contribute to the Cornish Wikipedia and I know actual content would probably be much more useful, but I'm afraid my Cornish is currently limited to a few generic sentences, so I thought I'd help out the best way I can. Of course certain things will need translating etc, but please tell me what you think! Regards, --Joowwww 18:06, 14 Gwyngala 2008 (UTC)

It looks really great! But there are probably just not enough users to really sustain a "featured article", "featured picture" or "did you know" section. I tried to start a featured article thing once, but there was no one else voting. I love the look, however! ☮ yn-medh Owen. ☤ 13:42, 25 Gwyngala 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! I did realise that but for some reason I didn't mention it. Perhaps there could be just a few paragraphs on Cornwall where "featured article" goes, a rotating "image of the month" can be set up that would require minimal updating, and the "did you know" section I thought could just be some facts about the Cornish language. It doesn't have to updated very often, if at all, but it just adds some content to the main page. I can start implementing a test page if you like. Regards, --Joowwww 21:16, 25 Gwyngala 2008 (UTC)

hi

As it seesm that you are a abit inactive .would you please keep an eye on this list --Mardetanha 23:58, 13 Kevardhu 2008 (UTC)

Ynysow Predennek

If you have a minute, any chance you could pop over to the en:British Isles page where "Ynysow Predennek" is in danger of being removed from the info-box for want of a reference. Any help would be appreciated. 86.171.117.3 12:52, 20 Genver 2009 (UTC) (a.k.a Endrick)

This reference has now been removed from the English Language page.89.241.189.214 18:01, 7 Ebryl 2009 (UTC)

Afro-Asiatek

Hi QuartierLatin1968! Could you please delete this nonsense article: Afro-Asiatek? Thanks and greetings from Switzerland!--Holder 11:35, 12 Hwevrer 2009 (UTC)

Request for adminship

Hi QuartierLatin1968, at Wikipedia:Porth Kemmynieth I've made a request to become an administrator on the Cornish Wikipedia. If you have no objections I hope you'll support my application. Gromercy dhis, --Moon 13:16, 3 Meurth 2009 (UTC)

Tables

Hey QL, I tried recreating the table from List of tallest buildings in New York City on Cornish Wikipedia at Rol a dhrehevyansow an uhella yn Cita Ebron Nowyth. Why is it not showing up the same? How can I rectify this? Thanks! --Caponer 23:48, 6 Ebryl 2009 (UTC)

It appears that the Common.css file in the Cornish Wikipedia is missing the wikitable class code that appears in Common.css on en.wikipedia. Cornish Wikipedia needs that code to render the table correctly. Could you please use your powers of good to add this code so that Cornish Wikipedia may utilize all wikitables? --Caponer 01:48, 7 Ebryl 2009 (UTC)

Request for translation. Yanka Kupala and Yakub Kolas

Warm greeting from Belarusian Wikipedia! This year we celebrate 130. birthday of Belarusian great poets en:Yanka Kupala and en:Yakub Kolas Could you help us to translate articles into your unique and honourable language? Thank you in advance! --Rymchonak (talk) 06:19, 8 Metheven 2012 (UTC)

Your admin status

Hello. I'm a steward. A new policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, etc.) was adopted by community consensus recently. According to this policy, the stewards are reviewing administrators' activity on wikis with no inactivity policy.

You meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no log actions for 2 years) on kw.wikipedia, where you are an administrator. Since kwwiki does not have its own administrators' rights review process, the global one applies.

If you want to keep your rights, you should inform the community of the wiki about the fact that the stewards have sent you this information about your inactivity. If the community has a discussion about it and then wants you to keep your rights, please contact the stewards at m:Stewards' noticeboard, and link to the discussion of the local community, where they express their wish to continue to maintain the rights, and demonstrate a continued requirement to maintain these rights.

We stewards will evaluate the responses. If there is no response at all after approximately one month, we will proceed to remove your administrative rights. In cases of doubt, we will evaluate the responses and will refer a decision back to the local community for their comment and review. If you have any questions, please contact us on m:Stewards' noticeboard.

Best regards, --MF-Warburg (keskows) 22:22, 24 Ebrel 2014 (UTC)

Admin changes on kw.wikipedia

Hi - I've just been made temp admin on the Cornish wikipedia - since I don't think you're active anymore, I'm removing you from the list of current admins... Just a courtesy note to let you know, and also to thank you for the work you've done that's there. - Oll an gwella 幽Sweorcan (keskows) 11:12, 13 Genver 2015 (UTC)