Fredg82

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Again, welcome! Wyang (talk) 22:04, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi ! Thanks for the intro, I'll do my best. And also a big thanks for all the Chinese entries sorting ! ~ Fredg82 (talk) 08:55, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

Min Nan pronunciation notes

Hi, I just wanted to explain why there are both slashes and commas. Slashes (/) separate dialectal differences (used in the same context), while commas (,) separate different pronunciations within the same dialect (used in different contexts). For example, 明 is pronounced as bîn in 明仔日 (bîn-á-ji̍t), but as miâ in 清明 (chhiⁿ-miâ). Anyway, welcome to Wiktionary! — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 22:12, 5 September 2017 (UTC)

Hi ! Sorry about that, I thought it was some kind of typos... I changed several pages, I will revert them later today. By the way, I might change quite a few Min nan entries soon, is there some general guideline how to do it ? I'm using wiktionary for a project (a little illegal yet, cannot share publicly...), which actually complement it very nicely to have more accurate entries. Fredg82 (talk) 08:50, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

(@Justinrleung: Is this documented somewhere? I wasn't aware of this either... —suzukaze (t・c) 09:03, 6 September 2017 (UTC))

Fredg82, I would recommend WT:EL as a general guideline for all entries and WT:AZH for Chinese entries.

@Suzukaze-c: I haven't documented this anywhere and probably should. Where should this be documented? At {{zh-pron}}? — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 12:27, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

(@Justinrleung: also, if you know about a script to convert the old Mandarin/Cantonese/... page layout to the unified Chinese one, I would be happy to use it. Otherwise I'd just spend more time on some page.Fredg82 (talk) 13:12, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

There isn't a script, but you could use {{subst:zh-new}}, which automatically retrieves Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka and Min Nan (Hokkien) pronunciations. — justin(r)leung _{{ (t...) | c=› }} 20:41, 6 September 2017 (UTC)