Arctic.gnome

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PS - Thanks for all the work so far on Canadian English. We need more of that, but you probably noticed that from the woefully underpopulated category.

toon

Hello there I'd also like to reiterate Encylopety's comments above, I too often enter colloquial/dialectal English here (Geordie) but in the instance of toon please could you use the Edit Summary when removing content so we know why it has been editted in that fashion. Strickly speaking we would usually go throught he requests for verification process first before removing something - but since your Canadian there's no real point hence using Edit Summaries helps admins like myself determine if good faith edits have been made. Keep up the good work your contributions a much appreciated.--Williamsayers79 14:53, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikimedia Canada

To begin I must apologize for not have responded earlier to your message of Nov. 5, but the fact is that I didn't see it until now. Had I not needed to visit Wiktionary to look up something I might still have not seen it. These days I spend most of my time in Wikisource, and there are also several other better ways to contact me on this.

I didn't really make any change to the draft of the Wikimedia Canada by-laws except in the heading to say that it was still an option to be considered. In August I made a number of comments on the talk page to the Steering Committee's draft, but they have not seen fit to respond to any of these comments. It seems as though the committee is no longer operational.

I would like to see WM-Canada go ahead, and I did respond to an offlist message from Geoff Plourde a couple weeks ago when he asked a similar question. He did make a few comments to the steering committee draft, but I have heard nothing further from him.

You mentioned getting closer to Foundation approval. Have there been developments about this? I haven't seen anything on the WMC meta pages, which I do check from time to time. Eclecticology 09:44, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Initialism header

Hi. Please see [1] and preferably enter this kind of thing as a proper noun instead. Thanks! Equinox ◑ 19:24, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

Formatting

Hi, I hope you can see why entries like diff are problematic. You've forgotten the header and the language name is not the canonical one (there's no language under the name "Wiliideh" recorded on wiktionary (is it Chipewylyan or Dogrib? I'm not sure myself, and that's the problem). A reference would also be helpful for other users. If you've any questions, feel free to ping me. Thadh (talk) 07:16, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

@Thadh:: Wiliideh is a language in the Na-Dene family. It only has a few hundred speakers today, so I'm not surprised that it isn't in Wiktionary's list of languages. I don't speak it myself, but the stop signs in my city are in the language, so I figured I'd add the word here. What is the purpose of the header you added? It looks like you just repeated the page's title, which feels redundant to me. --Arctic.gnome (talk) 19:16, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

According to the YDFN website, Wiliideh is a divergent dialect of Dogrib, which makes sense and is also supported by the the corresponding Wikipedia article.

Headers are essential for categorisation: Different lemmas are categorised into different categories (CAT:Dogrib nouns, CAT:Inuktitut verbs...). Seeing as you've quite a lot of Inuktitut edits under the belt (using the header template), I assumed you knew that, sorry. If you go to nı̨̀ı̨̀kè now, you'll see the categories at the bottom!

Also, some languages (not Dogrib or English, but for example Afar, Arabic or Russian) use the header to display diacritics not part of the orthography (pitch marks, tone marks, vowel indications and stress marks, to name a few). This can vary between lemmas (compare awka), so it's important to repeat the entry name for each section. Moreover, it's often used to link to component words within a compound (compare food truck).

Hope that makes it clear! Thadh (talk) 19:48, 23 August 2021 (UTC)