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Haec est taberna Vicipaediae ubi potes si dubia habes, explanationes quaerere, nuntia ad nos mittere et cetera.
Ut sententias antiquiores legas vide tabernae acta priora.
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MMXXII[fontem recensere]

Spectaculum pyrotechnicum Suebicum

Annum faustum, felicem, fortunatumque vobis omnibus precor! Legamus, scribamus, gaudeamus! Lesgles (disputatio) 15:44, 1 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fausta omnia tibi ceterisque Vicipaedianis. Proposito tuo subscribo.--Marcus Terentius Bibliophilus (disputatio) 15:53, 1 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Vicipaedia:Pellicula mensis[fontem recensere]

Salvete omnes! Habemus Vicipaedia:Pellicula mensis (gratias @UV: et elegi pelliculas per 2022. Estne bene hoc uti in pagina prima? --JimKillock (disputatio) 17:23, 3 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Cur non? Anno novo quoddam novum faciamus. — Paginae primae columna prima nunc brevissima est, ibi pellicula inseri potest. Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 19:29, 3 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Bene, quis ergo possit paginam primam emendare? @UV: fortasse? --JimKillock (disputatio) 22:52, 5 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nemine contradicente pelliculas mensium in paginam primam inserui. --UV (disputatio) 21:04, 6 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Gratias tibi @UV:! --JimKillock (disputatio) 16:55, 9 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Rogationem de annorum[fontem recensere]

Habemus rogationem de hoc commons:TimedText:Uruk,_erste_Metropole_der_Weltgeschichte_(CC_BY_4.0).webm.la.srt: Ibi quattuor milia [annos / annorum?] ante Christum natum prima urbs post hominum memoriam condita est. Utitur annos aut annorum? --JimKillock (disputatio) 16:57, 9 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Post milia annorum melius. Marcus Terentius Bibliophilus (disputatio) 16:05, 10 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The ling formula[fontem recensere]

Should languages named by the ling formula be adverbs or nouns? We notice that in "Lingua Scotica (Gadelica)," editor 2804:1054:3014:fde0:f045:7592:d7f5:8331 has changed {{ling|Scotice|Anglice}} to {{ling|Scotica|Anglica}} overnight. We notice also that the formula is given as {{Ling|Lingua Italiana{{!}}Italiane}} in "Runcus Genuensium." What's the most appropriate way of coding this kind of information? IacobusAmor (disputatio) 13:09, 11 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Paginas de linguis Scotiae nunc semi-protexi. Editor anonymus, linguae Latinae expers, nomina linguarum in paginis de Scotia inutiliter mutat.
Scribimus e.g. de nexu externo monolingui {{Ling|Anglice}}; de nexu bilingui {{Ling|Anglice|Francogallice}}, etc.
UVbot interdum e.g. {{Ling|Anglice}} in {{Ling|Lingua Anglica{{!}}Anglice}} mutat: haec mutatio in facie paginae non videtur. Nobis neque expansionem ab UVbot factam imitare, neque revertere, necesse est. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 21:06, 11 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

De pagina prima[fontem recensere]

When you visit our Vicipaedia:Pagina prima from today on (and you are logged in), you may notice that Vicipaedia now will greet you using your username ;-)

(You might beforehand need to reload the page, shift-reload the page and/or clear your browser cache to see the effect.)

This greeting is a (hopefully pleasant) side-effect of me today adapting the top of our Vicipaedia:Pagina prima to make sure everything will still work in the future: Possibly, the MediaWiki software developers will, within a few weeks or months, add a “Sticky Header” near the top of the page may put some useful controls onto the same line as the article title. For this to work smoothly in the future, I have today removed our custom main page heading and re-enabled the standard one.

Greetings, --UV (disputatio) 21:35, 11 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Great, but the gadget doesn't know the vocative case. Of course, vocative is not needed for all nicknames, but for those that are needed, is it possible to specify a form somewhere? To change the ending -us to -e and -ius to -i. Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 03:15, 12 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Good idea, I have tried to include a manual workaround for the vocative case (see the source code of MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin/vocative) – does it work now? If anyone else prefers a greeting in the vocative case on our pagina prima as well, do tell me and I will add your username to MediaWiki:Mainpage-title-loggedin/vocative. Greetings, --UV (disputatio) 20:18, 12 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Wow! Now it really makes an impression. — It seems to me, also Bis-Taurinus (one of those who often edits — and always corrects errors). And IacobusAmor — what about the space, it's unclear, maybe he will say. Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 22:35, 12 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, thank you, I have added the two. If anyone prefers it some other way, please tell me! --UV (disputatio) 22:42, 12 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

De UVbot[fontem recensere]

Hodie in capsa editoria rei "Percy Liza," 190.237.93.100, editor ignotus, nobis dicit UVbot "is misbehaving or if there is just the slightest suspicion that the bot might be malfunctioning, please block it." Re vera? UVbot indecore se gerit? IacobusAmor (disputatio) 13:20, 22 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

UVbot «non annexa» formulam posuit et recte omnia fecit, nam non annexa est. Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 14:11, 22 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Well, it could indeed happen that (a) I make a mistake while operating UVbot (nobody is perfect) or (b) there is a technical problem that causes UVbot to malfunction. If such a situation occurs, I invite everyone to raise the issue here in the Taberna or on my user talk page; and if the bot is still running and doing more harm, I invite every admin to block UVbot at sight. In the case at hand, I believe that UVbot did neither misbehave nor malfunction. Greetings, --UV (disputatio) 20:06, 22 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed. Noster 190.237.93.100, editor ignotus, appears to be under the impression that the "Pagina non annexa" formula shouldn't be applied to pages lacking an incoming link, or at least to "Percy Liza." IacobusAmor (disputatio) 20:17, 22 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The last of those :) To put it in context, 190.237.93.100 has been spreading this footballer across many Wikipedias. The Latin page was just about acceptable as a start so we didn't delete it. 190.237.93.100 prefers the page not to have any templates on it, and has learned that bots can conveniently be accused of malfunctioning. It's up to us how we deal with such messages, taking due account of their origin.
As for the page, the text is far too short to be useful. If anyone wants to improve it and add an incoming link somewhere, great: if not, I suspect it will eventually be deleted. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 10:20, 23 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Formulae desideratae[fontem recensere]

Fortasse noster Usor:Klein Muçi or some other kind programmer would like to make the formulas printing nakedly in red under "De nominibus hodiernis" here work. IacobusAmor (disputatio) 13:08, 23 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@IacobusAmor, LaWiki was completely lacking technical foreign language support. I found myself in a rabbit hole where each module required 10 other modules to be imported so it worked. After 87 imports of modules and templates (my hands literally hurt :P ), the situation should be better. Unfortunately that is not the complete list of templates (the complete list requires +200 other templates to cover almost all the languages and scripts of the world) and some of the already imported templates may require further fine-tuning to be translated in Latin (that's actually easy to do) but I did what was needed to solve the current, immediate, problem I believe. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 14:14, 23 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Macte! Multas gratias tibi ago! Such labor! Who knew? Bravo! IacobusAmor (disputatio) 14:38, 23 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
But the name of the language must be Latin, "Graece" and not "Greek" etc.; "romanized" — "litteris Latinis"? "Listen" — "audias" etc. Or is it easier to rewrite a paragraph without formulas. Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 14:31, 23 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, that's what I do. I don't know what benefit the templates offer. But all praise to Klein Muçi for doing the work. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 15:08, 23 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Demetrius Talpa, please, take a look at Module:Lang/data. You'll see a long list in red. The right part (the one in quotation marks, after the equals mark) is the part that needs to be translated for 90% of those cases you're referring to. Can you do that for me? I'll take care for the remaining ones in the end or fix any errors that might arise.
@Andrew Dalby, to put it very simply, some computers are dumb when you offer them different languages or different scripts and they don't know how to render them and they may end up rendering question marks or other similar symbols instead. The work I did gives them metadata (data/information about the data they're reading) so they know what they're reading and therefore how to render them. That + some templates so they (computers) know how to render the IPA symbols. The problem is that, as I said, there are many languages and scripts in the world and each have their own templates so, of course, there are a lot lacking currently. I only imported the basic ones needed for the system to work and the ones that were needed in that specific article.
How much IPA is needed here... That does require a discussion on its own. My vague idea is that given that IPA is universal per se, can be utilized everywhere but I'm not an expert on linguistics, let alone phonology. If you say that it is not needed, we can remove some templates related to IPA while keeping the other ones that help computers render text better. Even though I'd propose to wait a bit before acting, maybe that proves useful.
Thanks to everyone for the good words! :)) - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 15:41, 23 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the explanation, Klein Muçi. I agree with you about IPA: it is international and acceptable, it is sometimes useful, but (since our focus is written Latin) IPA pronunciations of foreign names may not be truly useful in every case. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 15:55, 23 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
As for editing the list of languages — I don't know, I'm not sure that these templates will be used; maybe one day.
And about the display of rare alphabets — now almost everything is displayed almost everywhere (thank you, Unicode), and when squares or question marks are visible, then the problem is in the user's device, and not in the template; I recently had a case with the Avestan alphabet — on one machine you can see even without a template, and on the other, and through the [undefined] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: no text (help) template, it's still squares. Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 16:19, 23 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Demetrius Talpa, the template you mentioned didn't exist in here. Just imported it. (You'll see that now it generates an error because it has no text defined, just the template itself.) Can you tell me more about the case you were talking about in there? Not an expert on this subject as I said (I've only dealt with this phenomenon briefly in the past) but maybe I'm able to help. And well done on the string translations! :) - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 23:20, 23 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I inserted those adverbia that I could; we don’t have articles about the rest and I don’t want to invent on the go. - About Avestan - I was talking about Russian Wikipedia, and the case is the same in in English. Android and Linux shows Avestan even without a template, Windows even with template don't shows. These templates made sense around 2005, now it seems to me that they can (or should) also be eliminated in large wikipedias, they stand by inertia. Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 12:13, 24 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I had the same impression as Demetrius when I looked at the use of these templates on en:wiki a while back and the long discussions about them over there. They surely seemed a good idea when invented but their real value may be small, and the more templates you see in the edit screen, the less you want to edit it. I quote from far above: "is it easier to rewrite a paragraph without formulas?" Yes, it could be. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 16:10, 24 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe user @Trappist the monk can explain us more on the whole subject as the creator of Module:Lang. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 22:33, 24 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
For the record: while I was the writer of Module:Lang, the wikitext templates existed long before I consolidated everything into Module:lang.
I get the impression that editors here don't think that the language templates are important and that while they might have been useful 15 years ago, they are no longer useful. Were that the case, HTML5 (MediaWiki publishes articles in HTML5 markup) would have dropped the lang= attribute. The authors of the html5 standard have not done so; see the standard. Were the {{lang}} template not useful, editors at en.wiki would have long ago abandoned them. They have not done so; Module:lang is in use on more than 1.2 million en.wiki pages. Proper html language markup is important and the {{lang}} templates are intended to make it as easy as possible for wikipedia editors to write text in languages different from the local wikipedia's language.
Here is, I think, a simple example – la.wiki doesn't have {{lang-ar}} so I've fudged this example with a direct call into Module:lang. I grabbed this Arabic text from Lingua Arabica.
  • Lingua Arabica: اللغة العربية الفصحى ← plain text mockup rendered by your browser using the default font
  • Lingua Arabica: اللغة العربية الفصحى ← the same text with your browser choosing a font more appropriate to Arab-script text; the properly formatted html looks like this:
    [[Lingua Arabica]]: <span lang="ar" dir="rtl">اللغة العربية الفصحى</span>
Much easier to use the template. If you are reading this page using a screen reader, the screen reader is more likely to correctly pronounce the Arabic words when they are wrapped in the proper html markup.
Trappist the monk (disputatio) 00:32, 25 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, it slightly enlarges the Arabic font (but it can be enlarged in other ways). - It never occurred to me to look for a program that reads Latin aloud from the screen; maybe it exists. — Engage in templates if you like; I did what was asked of me for this. Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 01:18, 25 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
My overall opinion on that is that it doesn't do any harm to provide that kind of support even if considered a small thing. The only concern is that it may overburden editors but new editors mostly work with VE (Visual Editor) and in there templates aren't really a concern. For the editors who would like to take the extra step and provide that technical support in the articles they're editing, the possibility will be there. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 23:57, 25 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"Any harm" exists, while Georgian: ..., not Georgiane, Abasgice: ..., not Abasgice: ..., etc. Please, if they're already here, don't be harmful. Or delete. Suddenly someone will uses them? (I then immediately redid Pontus Euxinus without them, you can not think about it) Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 15:01, 26 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I don't use visual editor. If it does reduce the clutter effect of templates in the edit screen, that's surely a Very Good Thing.

One of the points often discussed on en:wiki is, what categories of "foreign" text are appropriate for templating? This needs to be clear, and it strongly affects the value of a voiceover. Simple examples:

  • Foreign names for the page title, as part of a list of foreign names (which may be in the first paragraph or in an "etymology" or "toponymy" subsection). This is the case in the example we began with, Pontus Euxinus. I guess these need to be correctly voiced in the foreign language -- though the hearer will have difficulty understanding them, as spoken one by one, unless they are in a language the hearer already knows and spoken in an accent with which the hearer is familiar.
  • Foreign name adopted as our page title because there is no Latin name. I guess this needs to be pronounced with Latin phonemes, as a reasonable Latinist, not knowing the foreign language, would make an attempt at pronouncing it. Because if, every time it occurs in the text, the speaker switches to pure foreign pronunciation, that bit of the sentence will be lost to understanding.

The distinction might relate more-or-less to whether we would use italics or not in written text. Those who have listened in a vehicle to a voiced GPS that is programmed to speak language A but give placenames and road numbers in language B will agree that the question needs thought! Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 10:06, 26 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation is going to be a problem with certain spellings produced by speakers of Latin after late antiquity. For example, we have Pechinum—to Cicero, something perhaps close to /peχinum/—because Ricci and his Italian friends would have pronounced Pecinum more like /pet͡ʃinum/. For Pechinum, many modern Italians would actually say /pekinuma/ or in careful speech even /pekinum:a/ (as did Morgan), because final /m/ is awkward in their native phonology, but that's a different story. And then of course we have /χilia/ for the country spelled as Chilia, but perhaps better (that is, classically) spelled as Tsilia or even Silia. At least we have Sicagum (not Chicagum!) for 'Chicago', though attestations of pertinent adjectives include Chicaginiensis—which in turn, more thoroughly applying the spelling conventions of "church Latin," should have been Chicaghiniensis (with another aitch) IacobusAmor (disputatio) 13:30, 26 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
You're right. Long ago we found consensus for a style of written Latin. How can we select a pronunciation style? Should we? Is it proper for us to choose one? I don't know.
Recte dicis. Stylum scripturae consensu iam diu selegimus; modum pronuntiatus quomodo eligere possumus? An nobis oportet? An re vera licet? Haud scio! Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 13:55, 26 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

One more note about the templates: plain {{lang}} is slightly different from {{lang-ar}}, {{lang-fr}}, etc. I've been using the former, which I think works fine as is for all ISO codes (correct me if I'm wrong). Formula:Lang-ar removes the extra step of having to add "Arabice", but I don't think that's worth the extra effort of creating all the separate templates. For example:

{{lang|grc|μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος}} ⟶ μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος
{{lang|zh|施氏食獅史}} ⟶ 施氏食獅史

Lesgles (disputatio) 22:36, 27 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Lesgles, the ideal approach, if you ask me personally, would be that everyone who decides to use the lang templates cared to use the correct one and, if one didn't exist, the said user imported it. Eventually the majority would have been imported and there would come a user that would import the remaining part, consolidating the system and fine tune its details. This would be the best way to share work in a non-tiring, organic manner. But that's just my opinion. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 01:04, 28 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
What to do with those that are already imported and do not work correctly (displaying titles in another language with, of course, broken links)? The user is not obliged to guess that the tool offered to him is (yet) harmful (Greek pronunciation: [...]}, IPA: [...], Avestane: ..., Neograece: ..., Ucrainice: ..., Turcice: ..., Russian: ..., Dacoromanice: ..., Mingrelice: ..., Georgian: ..., Tatarice Taurice: ..., Bulgarice: ..., Armenice: ..., Adygeice: ..., Chinese: ..., Serbocroatice: ..., Abasgice: ...). Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 01:24, 28 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Demetrius Talpa, Rome wasn't built in a day. Progression takes time. What we currently have is more or less what I did in a frenzied hurry in less than 30 minutes some days ago. Assuming we're not going to delete everything really soon, I (and hopefully other editors) will continue to help fixing the problems, which I stopped after this discussion started happening about them. Given how template works, you need only to fix one and you'll immediately solve the problems in wherever that template is used, whatever those problems may be. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 01:35, 28 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
To put it shortly, if we greenlight the use, I'll try to help fixing the problems. I just stopped for the discussion to conclude first because I didn't want to dedicate more time to something that might be deleted soon.
(Thanks for reporting the problematic cases!) - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 01:38, 28 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
We need to fix these 17 without waiting for the thousand years that Rome was built (or we need to prevent the possibility of their accidental use before the construction of Rome). Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 01:46, 28 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, of course. I'll get to it in a few hours. I would have finished since that day to be honest but, as I said twice now, I stopped to wait and see the discussion's conclusion before so I'd be a bit more sure I wasn't working for nothing. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 01:53, 28 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Klein Muçi, it's just not clear to me that those templates add anything that {{lang}} doesn't already provide. Do they do anything besides adding a link to the name of the language? Lesgles (disputatio) 16:48, 28 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Lesgles, I believe not. @Trappist the monk can tell us more in that regard.
@Demetrius Talpa, apparently Module:Lang/data had to be updated with a different list which then had to be translated. I have done so, imported your translations and added some more. Can you please take a look and see if I've made any mistake or if you can add some more languages? I believe that will solve all the problems with templates in English. If you find any other problems, please do report here so we can try solving them. :) - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 11:49, 1 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Demetrius Talpa, also, can you translate the different kinds of Greek language here: Formula:IPA-el? The more, the merrier. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 12:01, 1 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
{{lang}} at la.wiki is an old wikitext template and is not the same as {{lang}} at en.wiki. The {{lang-??}} templates are the same as the en.wiki templates. The essential difference between the Module:Lang-supported {{lang-??}} templates and {{lang}} is that {{lang}} only marks-up the text (italics when appropriate and html); {{lang-??}} provides a language name prefix linked to the local article about that language and also has support for romanization and translation.
Trappist the monk (disputatio) 12:53, 1 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Trappist the monk, {{lang}} is the same as its homologue now. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 13:04, 1 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes, I did as much as I could (that is, how many articles about languages we have - I must say, there are almost all of this list). - It is necessary that the word "language" not be added - now it does not work because of this (Ucrainice: ...). (Note: we usually have a redirection from an adverb like Anglice to Lingua Anglica, but in some cases this redirection has been forgotten; I should have made a list of these while I was looking at the titles, but I didn't figure it out in time. In general, the missing redirects - there are not so many of them - will have to be created one day) — About IPA-el - I don’t understand how it is used, why there are links to dialects. But I translated them so that they lead to articles that are. — P.S. These categories, which early template now automatically adds to the end of the article, e.g. Categoria:Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text, must either be translated (but this is not me) and sent to hidden, or make that they are not added (it is possible without category to check which articles contain the template). Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 21:37, 1 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
As I expect you already know, Demetri, the categories demanding to be created are listed at Categoriae desideratae. If the categories are unnecessary, it might be better to revise the templates so that they don't demand categories, as you suggest in your last sentence. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 14:36, 2 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oh God, there are almost a hundred of them and they spoil two or three thousand articles ... At the beginning of the discussion, one was spoiled - Pontus Euxinus, and now almost three thousand. @Klein Muçi, all this should be turned off or deleted, it's a very big harm. (And for new ones, make that "langugage" is not added, or also delete it.) Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 19:36, 3 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I repeat that it was kind of Klein Muçi to respond immediately to Iacobus's request. But it was very unwise to embark on a big series of changes like this so hastily. Vicipaedia is a small wiki. Let's admit it, Latin is a minority interest. To attract and retain a readership we need our pages to read well and look good, and there are not many of us doing the work. Templates that don't function at all, or don't give a correct result in a Latin context, damage our pages and are bad for us. In my opinion, modules and templates that will need continuing work should not be introduced here at all unless discussion shows that the effort will be repaid by strong advantages. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 20:23, 3 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Notice my test-edit of Formula:Polytonic, which takes it out of this system: it thus reduces the number of pages currently demanding a badly-named category by about 2,000. The edit is easily reverted when anyone wishes to do so :) Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 21:07, 3 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Demetrius Talpa, hello! First I would ask you to relax. In Wikipedia nothing ever loses and every change can be undone with literally a click of a button if considered harmful, sometimes by many people. I do understand that seeing something not right and not knowing how to fix it can be alarming but I do repeat that even the wrongdoings of the biggest vandal in the world are 1 click away from being removed.
Now, in regard to the categories: They are all added because of them being present in one of the templates/modules. When working with the localization (that is, translation of the terms used in them) categories were left to be translated in the end. We have been working for quite some days now and you've helped me personally in that quest. We can't just do everything in the same day not only because the whole volunteering setting doesn't work like that in general but even if the work was paid and it was our only job, it still wouldn't make a difference because it takes time to develop a good product.
I'll go and deal with the categories now. I'll also look after the "language" part. We'll solve each problem as it comes and if we can't, we'll just revert back to its latest most stable state.
@Andrew Dalby, personally I'm really grateful for the existence of this place as it allows me to easily read ever-evolving texts in Latin apart from the classical literature. Even if it may not show much because of me always typing in English and not being involved much in editing articles per se, I do spend quite some time reading them using the "random article" feature. What I imported lately mostly worked in the background, by doing overall rather minor changes, as it can be evidenced by some users having it hard to see the provided change itself. If deemed harmful, everything can be reverted. But, as you may know from some changes that we've done together in the past, it takes some time to fully localize a module and in this case, we're still in that process. Demetrius maybe got a bit rightfully alarmed because he thought that that was the final product or that maybe I'd disappear and leave the work in half but none of those options are true in this case. It's just that beside everyday real life issues, beside LaWiki, I also deal with SqWiki, SqQuote, EnWiki, some minor Mediawiki code changes and occasionally try to fight vandalism in other small wikis and I try to dedicate each project a fair share amount of time (EnWiki and Mediawiki less time given that those are bigger projects in which my absence would be felt less). - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 11:29, 4 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
One of 2 categories was translated. (The other will soon join.) Please check one of the articles that was already showing this category in English and see if the provided translation works correctly. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 11:37, 4 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Klein Muçi, you do indeed do a lot of work for Vicipaedia -- I am very glad that you are also reading some Latin while you're here :) It's true, everyone is a volunteer and we should not be impatient about work that must necessarily take some time to complete. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 14:15, 4 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Wow! All those redlink categories seem to have disappeared ... If I didn't know someone was working away at this behind the scenes, I would say it was magic! OK, they have been replaced by others, which are still in mixed language, but perhaps easy to correct. For "Articles containing X" (where X is a language-name adverb) the Latin category name could be "Continetur textus X scriptus" (literally "text written in X is included"). For "Ancient Greek (to 1453)" all we need in Latin is "Graece". If languages change their names at a specific date -- which we may doubt -- there is no better date than 1453 for the change from Graece ("in Greek") to Neograece ("in modern Greek"). Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 14:23, 4 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Andrew Dalby, yes. Can you please show me one or two articles where these categories appear? It would make fine-tuning the translation easier.
Also can you help me by translating the last template which is still in English from the templates that were imported lately? Template:IPA-all It has only 3 words which should be translated, the parts after the equal signs. "Local pronunciation", "locally" and "pronounced". I can provide more context if so needed. :) - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 00:34, 5 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
My pleasure! I happened to look at the page Bitolia. As you will see, it contains several examples. Incidentally, when the example "Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)" is fully changed to "Continetur textus Graece scriptus", then it would be sensible to revert my edit to Formula:Polytonic: I think its 2000 pages will then show a nice Latin category name. As you may know, ancient Greek and Latin had a sort of symbiotic relationship over a very long period. This helps to explain why so many of our pages contain words or phrases in ancient Greek. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 09:45, 5 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Klein Muçi, okay, everything is fine, the development process is underway. But, for example, on an article, while the development process is underway, you can hang {{in progressu}}, or hide the unfinished stuff through <!--- ... --->, and it will not be displayed; in general, an article can be written and tested in a draft in a personal space. I just don't know how to similarly secure templates, that are under development and require testing (so that they don't generate foreign language categories or require articles like Ucrainice language). - And I fully support the translation "textus (adverbium) scriptus continetur". Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 12:35, 5 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
With templates under revision, there is often no way to avoid temporary display errors. We just have to say to ourselves "Vicipaedia perficienda est" (Wikipedia is a work in progress). Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 14:03, 5 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Andrew Dalby, these are the current changes that I've done:
  • Category:Articles containing <language>-language text → Category:Continetur textus <language>
  • Category:Articles with text in <language> languages → Category:Articuli continentes textum <language>
Correct me if I'm wrong.
There is also one last category left of which I'd like your help:
  • Articles containing explicitly cited Latin-language text
This is formed by adding the string we've used above (Continetur textus) + a translated string for "explicitly cited", which you'll need to give me.
And thank you for the already provided translations in the IPA template! :)
@Demetrius Talpa, we can actually create "surrogate templates" that have all the code of the template that we want to create but a different name used just for testing purposes and use it on a draft article (a surrogate article) but it does require more than double the effort and personally I use that method only for templates that make substantial changes to the articles. In our case I considered the changes to be of a minor type and we had to import over 80 templates and modules to begin with, a number which would made the described method almost impossible to utilize. As I've said above, I wouldn't want to upset anyone around here, let alone bring harm to the current articles. If you remember my first ever discussion here, I asked to help around in technical matters just because I was happy for what I found here. I'll try to be even faster in future cases in localizing processes so you won't see much of the development. That will make the transition be way more subtle. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 00:53, 6 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Τhey need to be moved in any case to "Categoriae celatae", in the second line Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 01:56, 6 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Demetrius Talpa, yes. After the categories get created, they should be hidden as most (if not all) maintenance categories in most projects are. I'm just waiting to get a comment from user Andrew about the correct form of them so he won't need to delete them again to fix my mistakes. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 02:14, 6 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Will a category "Articles containing explicitly cited Latin-language text" ever be useful to anybody? This is Vicipaedia! we talk about the Latin name of something on every page that extends for more then a sentence or two. Show me where such a category is used on another Wikipedia and I might grasp it better.
OK, on the other questions above, how do the two category groups differ from one another? Show me a case where the first text "Continetur textus ..." will not be appropriate for members of the second group.
About the name for the first category group: it seems to me very itchy Latin to terminate the whole name with a language adverb. Try to wrap the language adverb inside "Continetur textus [Anglice] scriptus". If anyone thinks I'm fussing unnecessarily about this, please say so! There may eventually be a lot of cases, so it's worth getting it right.
Nomen "Categoria:Continetur textus [Anglice]" mihi barbare sonat. Nomen "Categoria:Continetur textus [Anglice] scriptus" vehementer urgeo! An alii consentiunt? Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 10:17, 6 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Ita! Sic! Certe! Vero! Continetur textus [Anglice] scriptus nobis melius sonat. Sed fortasse Continetur textus [Anglicus] optime sonabit? IacobusAmor (disputatio) 15:48, 6 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Ita, optime! Sed, si hac locutione utimur, necesse erit novam enumerationem nominum linguarum exscribere ... Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 20:31, 6 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I must agree Iacobus's version is better still ... but it will need a new list of language names based on the masculine form of the adjective. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 20:31, 6 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe @Trappist the monk can be far more useful than me for providing context for the categories in this case, sparing me some detective work on EnWiki. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 12:59, 7 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
At en.wiki, Module:Lang links to three category types (ignoring error categories):
  • for individual and macrolanguages (most ISO 639-1, -2-, -3 language tags are associated with individual languages; some ISO 639-3 languages are macrolanguages):
    [[Category:Articles containing <language-name>-language text]]
  • for ISO 639-1, 2 collective languages (these names in the standard all have the form: <language-name> languages – an rfc decided on this form):
    [[Category:Articles with text in <language-name> languages]]
  • for English (this category exists because, in general, it is inappropriate to markup English text at en.wiki which is already marked up as English text; there are good reasons to markup English text so that is why this is not an error category):
    [[Category:Articles containing explicitly cited English-language text]]
Trappist the monk (disputatio) 14:39, 7 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I understand. Thanks very much, Trappist. Can do. But let's decide how we're dealing with the main group (note also Demetrius's comment below) and then a form of words can be devised for these (very rare) cases also. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 19:41, 7 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Trappist the monk, so, should Latin also mark up Latin text?
Also, for my personal and maybe other's curiosity here, what exactly is meant with "macrolanguages" and "collective languages"? Because that's what seems to be the main difference between the 2 aforementioned categories. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 15:34, 7 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
As at en.wiki, generally no, so the category catches improper use of {{lang|la|...}}. But, there are occasions when such use is appropriate, for example, Latin text within text from another language.—Trappist the monk (disputatio) 15:55, 7 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I never thought of that! I can imagine it! As above, when we know which style we're using for the whole group of categories, we can add a name for this one too. No problem. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 19:32, 7 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
See en:ISO 639-2#Collective language codes and en:ISO 639 macrolanguage.—Trappist the monk (disputatio) 15:55, 7 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Another list of languages (with a masculine form, not with an adverb) is not a problem, I'll make it from the existing one - I just don't know where to insert it. (the existing one still cannot be removed, it is for the text of articles, not for categories). Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 15:36, 7 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Andrew Dalby, so do we have a translation for the last category now? (Or even better translations for the first 2 I translated?) - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 12:39, 8 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It has become a little complicated. Questions to answer in sequence:
  • Is it possible to build in a second list of language names, this time in the form of masculine adjectives ("Latinus", "Anglicus" etc. = X2)
If Yes, best of all: Demetrius [says above that he] will make list X2, and the category name (as suggested by Iacobus) will be "Continetur textus X2". Go ahead with that.
  • If No, OK then, is it possible to wrap the category name around the language name?
If Yes to this, second best: the category names can have the form "Continetur textus X1 scriptus" (as I already suggested above, and using the existing list of language names X1). Go ahead with that.
  • If No, OK then, third best, the category names had better be in the form "X1 citatur", meaning, with super-Tacitean compression, "There is a citation in X1". Not so readily understood, but it will be a hidden category after all ...
Right, then, the the names of categories for macrolanguages and language groups can be based directly on the names of the pages -- or future pages -- about these groups. I think a list, X3, will still be wanted, to ensure that they are in a standard plural form e.g. "linguae Italicae". The category names will be "X3 citantur" meaning e.g. "Italic languages are cited".
Finally, if a text in Latin is marked up, the category name can be "Lingua Latina intra textum citatur", meaning "There is a citation in Latin inside a/the text". The ambiguity "a/the" is useful here. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 14:41, 8 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Andrew Dalby:
  1. This second list of language names is assumed to replace the first one, no?
  2. I believe we can make the category's syntax however we want as long as it is not very dynamic (there aren't different words appearing and disappearing in different cases)
  3. We can deal in the end with this special case. But here you mention a third list. Again, if we're meaning to replace the existing ones, that's easy enough. If we want different lists for different cases, I believe that would require substantial technical reworks that go beyond my technical capabilities.
Maybe you can have a clearer idea if you take a look at the code we're talking about yourself: Click here and you'll see the documentation for the 3 categories. Then below that, you'll see the 2 categories that I've already translated and a part of the third which should be translated (the third one is created by using parts of the existing ones above + that). Then you go and compare everything with the original code in EnWiki and you'll understand what I've changed and why. There are literally only 3 lines I've changed so it should be easy enough. That will make the bigger picture clearer maybe. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 00:04, 10 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your patience! I understand about the difficulty of incorporating two lists of language names. Extra construction work of that kind for just one Wikipedia is not really desirable. So we move to the second best option. No problem. I am busy with life till late today but as soon as I can I will have a look at the code and either correct it, or tell you how to correct it. OK? Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 09:26, 10 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Andrew Dalby, of course. Thanks for your fast response! :)) - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 13:00, 10 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
You make it seem easy, Klein Muçi! Yes, I have edited those lines of the module. I hope they work. There is no need in Latin to distinguish the macrolanguage and group categorues from the others: it will just be necessary, in the list of languages, to write the names of language groups in the ablative, because an adverb does not work, e.g. "linguis Italicis". This is likely to be a rare case, anyway. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 20:43, 10 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, great, it's gotten a lot better. - But there is still Continetur_textus_Ancient_Greek_(to_1453)_scriptus left (231 pages)? ...textus Graece (ante 1453)... I would do it myself, I don't know where. Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 05:51, 11 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
As I said far above, there's no need for the 1453. The reason for its presence is that it is contradictory in English to claim that all Greek until 1453 is "Ancient" but they want to say it anyway. However, it's not contradictory for us to say that all Greek is "Graece" until we begin to say "Neograece". Those terms are easily defined: no need for a semi-fictional date in parentheses.
But no, I can't find it either! Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 09:24, 11 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I'll try to find it now. Meanwhile, speaking of Greek, @Andrew Dalby, can you translate the first lines and the last ones in this template {{IPA-el}}? There are words like "locally" "pronunciation", "pronounced", "modern" etc. that are left in English. Saw it now while I was searching for the template causing that. The translation will be similar to what you did with the general IPA template some days ago. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 11:57, 11 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Trappist the monk, {{lang|el|word}} works as intended, while {{lang|grc|word}} gives category Continetur textus Ancient Greek (to 1453) scriptus. I can't see any code for that beside Module:Lang/data#L-373 but it's not in the localizations table. Is that a kind of English fallback? Anyway we can remap it? - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 12:08, 11 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Ancient Greek (to 1453) comes from Module:Lang/data from Module:Language/data/iana languages from IANA language-subtag-registry file from ISO639-3. It is not something made up by the editors at en.wiki.
Module:Lang does not strip parenthetical disambiguators from category names so that different languages with the same name (for example: Ainu aib China; Ainu ain Japan) will be categorized separately.
Module:Lang/data exists to override the names provided by IANA. Create an entry there for whatever flavor of grc you want.
Trappist the monk (disputatio) 13:04, 11 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Trappist the monk, thank you! I was afraid of using THAT list of overrides because of the code name being the only one in 3 letters. It worked fine.
@Andrew Dalby, check this diff. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 13:13, 11 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Well done, @Klein Muçi! We may well need to override some other parenthetical insertions in category names, but thanks to @Trappist the monk we now know how to do it.
Since this category name now looks good, I can revert my edit to Formula:Polytonic and I may as well go ahead and create the category. It has more than 2000 members. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 13:33, 11 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Optime; now with the categories that the old templates suddenly began to generate, by common efforts (almost) everything is OK. The word "language" remains in the new templates (Avestane: ..., Neograece: ..., Ucrainice: ..., Turcice: ..., Russian: ..., Dacoromanice: ..., Mingrelice: ..., Georgian: ..., Tatarice Taurice: ..., Bulgarice: ..., Armenice: ..., Adygeice: ..., Chinese: ..., Serbocroatice: ..., Abasgice: ...) - where does it turn off? Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 05:20, 12 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Trappist the monk, I'm sorry but I'll have to ask you again on this. I can't find anything on Lang/data for that specifically. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 11:34, 12 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
At en.wiki Module:Lang links to language articles through <language-name> language redirects. This avoids ambiguity and allows the Module to output a consistent link format that does not require fixing with every update of the IANA language-subtag-registry file. Redirects are free and MediaWiki handles them efficiently. Use redirects.
The language names in Module:Lang/data should be names only: Slavica ecclesiastica, not lingua Slavica ecclesiastica, etc. Use redirects.
Trappist the monk (disputatio) 12:56, 12 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
[Just for context, in case it's useful:] "Slavica ecclesiastica", like "Latina", is not a language name. Those words are just adjectives. "Latina", without other context, means "a woman from Lazio"; "Slavica ecclesiastica", without context, means "a Slav woman who is a church member".
If we have a language adverb available, like "Latine", that makes it easy. "Latine" means "in a Latin way", and the most usual context for such an expression is linguistic, so any reader will understand "Latine" as "with Latin speech" or "in the Latin tongue". That fits the context of these categories nicely. If we don't have an adverb we can use, the correct way to substitute for it is with a phrase in the ablative, "lingua Twi" (singular) or "linguis Akan" (plural): "in the Twi tongue", "in the Akan tongues". Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 14:00, 12 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I haven't understood the problem that Demetrius mentions: can someone link to a page on which one of these redlinks to XXX language appears? Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 15:08, 12 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
These new templates ({{Lang-xx|...}}), which link to an article about a language, take the name of the language from the list (we have edited it and, in any case, it is clear how to edit it) and add the English word "language" to it, and therefore the link does not work; for example Turcice: ... (click on it) requires Turcice language instead of Turcice, and all the others above. — And if they cannot be configured, these 15 must be deleted or, at least, somehow removed to a safe place, to some test space, so that the person, who copied the text with them from another wiki, does not fall into this trap. Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 16:34, 12 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I get it now. Thank you for explaining, Demetri. Now I understand better the point raised by Lesgles above. So, if none of these new "lang-" templates is currently in use (I have just verified that), and {{Lang|...}} can be used in their place, and no one (not even Klein Muçi) can quite see how to configure them, it seems to me also that it would be wise to delete the "lang-" templates quickly and move on. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 18:29, 12 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Trappist the monk, maybe I haven't understood you correctly but I'm finding the courage to press on this one more time: The problem is the "language" part, (the language "suffix"). Can we twist Module:Lang in such a way that instead of "language" it uses "lingua"? (Or maybe remove it altogether, if so needed?) - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 00:04, 13 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
There is an adverb in the templates that matches our redirects, no need to add "lingua" to it (it will be absurd again, the same as with "language"). It is necessary that nothing be added to it (neither "lingua" nor "language"), it will work. Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 05:07, 13 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I agree: no added word is what we need. Incidentally, there are other languages in which the naming of languages is handled in a similar way to Latin. Greek would be an example. So a solution to this issue would help the transfer of these templates to other wikis. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 09:50, 13 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There seems to be another challenge with the {{Lang|…}} template: {{lang|grc|μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος}} gives

μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος,

and {{lang|zh|施氏食獅史}} gives

施氏食獅史,

but when I hover my mouse over the foreign-language text, a tooltip "Graece-language text"/"Sinice-language text" is displayed, which is a horrible and ungrammatical mixture between a Latin language adverb and English words. We should discuss how this should read (I would propose "textus Graece scriptus"/"textus Sinice scriptus", but maybe there are better suggestions), and it would be good if someone would find out where to change this tooltip text – I would consider it a bad idea to keep it as it reads now. Greetings, --UV (disputatio) 23:53, 13 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It is possible to write simply "Graece scriptum", "Sinice scriptum" (but simply "Graece", "Sinice" is too lapidary). Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 15:27, 14 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Well observed, UV! I agree that we have to change this. Either your phrase or Demetrius' phrase would suit us, in my opinion. For brevity, perhaps "Graece scriptum" is better. But can we make the change? Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 19:24, 14 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Some other wikis that use the "lang" template series don't show any tooltips. We could accept that as a solution, I think :) Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 20:19, 14 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I'll check the tooltip part soon. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 10:59, 17 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@UV, @Demetrius Talpa, @Andrew Dalby, you can modify that part to your wish here. There are 4 lines for different cases. Modify the parts in red. Be careful to respect the spaces and hyphen parts. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 11:04, 21 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, it's off. - I did the minimum: now the tool tip is just "Graece". I tried to write "scriptum", but the grace of the gods was no longer enough for this. Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 15:09, 21 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe I have achieved "... scriptum". If I caused any error, Demetri, please revert my edit. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 16:21, 21 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Alexander Carbonarius[fontem recensere]

(quaestio nova fortuite in tabularium inserta est, huc moveo, — Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 13:15, 26 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC))
Da ich leider nicht weiß, wo ich sonst fragen kann, versuche ich es hier mal wieder. Von Gregor von Nyssa habe ich einen Text in Alt-Griechisch gefunden. Mit Hilfe des Internets konnte ich keine Übersetzung finden. Vielleicht hier?[reply]

Der Text ist von hier: http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/04z/z_0330-0395__Gregorius_Nyssenus__De_vita_Gregorii_Thaumaturgi__MGR.pdf.html Es geht mir ausschließlich um drei Zeilen:

Zeilen: [00360] Καὶ τίς οὗτος, φησὶν, ὁ Ἀλέξανδρος, οὗ τὴν µνήµην πεποίησθε;

[00361] Εἶτά τινος τῶν συµπαρόντων ἐν γέλωτι παραγαγόντος εἰς µέσον τὸν µνηµονευθέντα, ῥακίοις πιναροῖς ἠµφιεσµένον, οὐδὲ ὅλῳ τῷ σώµατι, καὶ ἅµα δεικνύντα τῷ φαινοµένῳ τὴν ἐργασίαν χερσί τε καὶ προσώπῳ, καὶ τῷ λοιπῷ σώµατι κατεῤῥυπωµένον τῇ ἐργασίᾳ τῶν ἀνθράκων, τοῖς µὲν λοιποῖς γέλωτος ἦν ὑπόθεσις, ἐν µέ σοις τοιοῦτος ἑστὼς ὁ Ἀλέξανδρος, τῷ δὲ διορατικῷ ἐκείνῳ ὀφθαλµῷ πολλὴν παρεῖχεν ἔκπληξιν τὸ γινόµενόν τε καὶ ὁρώµενον·

[00378] Πάντων δὲ πρὸς τὸν νέον ἱερέα ἀποβλεπόντων, προτραπείς τινα πρὸς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν λόγον ποιήσασθαι, ἔδειξεν εὐθὺς ἐν προοιµίοις τῆς ἀρχῆς ὁ Ἀλέξανδρος ἄψευστον ἐπ' αὐτῷ τοῦ µεγάλου Γρηγορίου τὴν κρίσιν

Da wird was über Alexander, dem Köhler/Alexander Carbonarius (Heiliger und Bischof) erzählt? Ich weiß, hier geht es um Latein, aber ich habe die Hoffnung, dass hier auch viele Alt-Griechisch können. Kennt jemand evtl. einen Link zu einer deutschen Übersetzung, oder kann auf die Schnelle(!) grob(!) sagen, worum es in den drei Zeilen geht? Danke

Qwertzu111111 (disputatio) 16:10, 24 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • (This page is already archived, you probably made a mistake, it is better to move the question to the current tabernа.) — Sorry, I am not fit to make a translation into German or English, but it tells how St. Gregory Thaumaturgus chose Alexander as bishop, a simple coal-burner, in tatters and completely black from coal (colorfully described), and all the people gathered in the church looked at him with bewilderment, but Alexander immediately turned to them with such a speech that everyone understood that Gregory was wonderfully perspicacious. Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 22:11, 24 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
thanks for your quick and kind response. Yes, I made a mistake. sorry for that. It sounds like the content is that: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01295c.htm? Qwertzu111111 (disputatio) 22:23, 24 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Categoria:Genera animalium[fontem recensere]

I thought we'd finished applying this category (and similar categories in the set) to all appropriate articles, but several spiders not so marked just turned up. Do other such articles exist? Would it be possible for someone to construct a program that would list any articles that have, say, the word Animalia in a taxobox but not the category "..... animalium" (where "....." can be species or genera or tribus and so forth)? ¶ And then of course with plants (having Plantae in a taxobox). IacobusAmor (disputatio) 15:31, 26 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You're right: much was done, but it was not a job that could be completed 100% manually.
We still have some survivals of a very ancient kind of taxobox, and not all the articles concerned have taxoboxes at all -- they don't have anything predictable in common, not even that -- but nearly all of them do, and your solution, if it can be applied, would pick up all of those. The aim would be to list all the articles (a) with Animalia or Plantae in a taxobox (b) currently lacking any category that is a subcategory of Categoria:Taxa gradu digesta. Yes, it seems a good idea to me. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 09:51, 27 Ianuarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Default location & size of images[fontem recensere]

If memory serves, the default in Vicipaedia is that fasciculi print flush right at a size of 250px (or upright=1); therefore, the word right and an indication of size don't need to be written into the code. However, in "Monumentum Nationale Marinum Papahānaumokuākea," if the word right is omitted from the code, the first image, a map, prints flush left. Also, if an indication of size (either via px or via "upright') is omitted there, the image prints extra-large, all the way across the screen. Do we have bugs in the system? or do these irregularities come from something particular to that image? ~~

The word thumb was missing. I added it and now everything works as usual ;-) --UV (disputatio) 22:56, 3 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Well I'll be darned. But that raises another point: evidently "thumb" isn't needed if "right" and an indication of size are present. In other words, only two of those criteria are required. (I'd always thought "thumb" was obligatory.) IacobusAmor (disputatio) 00:02, 4 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
We should generally use thumb. Omitting thumb and adding right|250px produces a different result: an image without the gray frame that usually holds the image caption (in fact, in this case the image caption is usually invisible):
Preferred: With thumb
This image caption is displayed on the screen.
Should generally not be used: Without thumb, using right|250px. Note that the image caption is usually not visible on the screen.
This image caption is usually not visible on the screen.
--UV (disputatio) 00:20, 4 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! Good to know! I've always tried to use "thumb" myself anyway, since it's more efficient—because, by permitting "right" and an indication of size to be omitted, it reduces the potential number of octeti that constitute an article. (I do, however, reduce the size of most images that appear on the left, and of some subsidiary images on the right; furthermore, some kinds of images, especially those on the left, like flags & simple symbols, can profitably be minimized, down to "upright=0.5" or even smaller.) IacobusAmor (disputatio) 12:08, 4 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Formula: Ludus[fontem recensere]

Salve! I stumbled upon the aforementioned template. It appears to be an old template which has been replaced with {{Capsa ludi electronici}} in 2013. However 2 articles remain that still use it: Specialis:Nexus_ad_paginam/Formula:Ludus. I'd suggest someone edited the said articles to use the new template and then delete the old one. {{Ludus}} is rendered in gigantic proportions ruining overall article formatting.

Pinging user @UV given that he's been the last editor to deal with {{Capsa ludi electronici}}. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 03:38, 5 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

{{Ludus}} and {{Capsa ludi electronici}} are identical in the sense that {{Ludus}} redirects to {{Capsa ludi electronici}}. There are only three articles that use this template ([1]). Generally, I am not too fond of infoboxes (with the exception of those infoboxes that get their content exclusively from Wikidata, see the Capsa xyz Vicidata templates at Categoria:Formulae Vicidata). I prefer an article text with complete Latin sentences to "pieces of information" in an infobox, see e.g. this old discussion here: Disputatio Formulae:Capsa hominis/draft. If I remember correctly, a consensus formed several years ago not to add any new infoboxes that would require local content, only Vicidata infoboxes that get their content from Wikidata only. That said, I would not object if someone wants to remove the infobox from those three articles. Afterwards, {{Capsa ludi electronici}} (and its corresponding redirect, {{Ludus}}) could be deleted. --UV (disputatio) 21:49, 5 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@UV, I was searching for a Wikidata template but I wasn't able to find one for this case. {{Capsa ludi electronici}} is better than {{Ludus}} in formatting aspects so the hope was for someone to make those 2 articles (
World of Warcraft and Baldur's Gate) use the first ones instead of the later one as an immediate solution and then decide what a better absolute solution would be for articles about electronic games in general. Those 2 articles are currently very hard to read because of {{Ludus}}. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 01:01, 6 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I repeat that {{Ludus}} redirects to {{Capsa ludi electronici}}. It does so since 2013. The way an article is displayed to the reader will therefore not change (or improve) if {{Ludus}} is being changed to {{Capsa ludi electronici}}. --UV (disputatio) 17:04, 6 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@UV, I know that but the example in {{Capsa ludi electronici}} looks well-formatted, as opposed to the result that we see on articles. So I thought that was coming because they were utilizing {{Ludus}} or were using characters in a bad manner. But most likely it's because {{Capsa ludi electronici}} is outdated itself. So there's no help coming from Wikidata in this case, eh? - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 17:17, 6 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I guess Wikidata is mentioned because of our biographical (etc.) infoboxes that draw data from Wikidata -- am I right? Computer games bore me, I'm sorry to say, but if Klein Muçi or anyone else wanted to adapt an infobox for computer games, they can of course use these designs. They are native to Vicipaedia (drawing on work done here by several editors). Adapting them to more subject areas, e.g. computer games, can be a very easy thing to do -- if the required data is present at Wikidata.
Cur ad Vicidata alludimus? Fortasse propter nostras capsas informationis (biographicas etc.) quae data ex Vicidata extrahunt? De ludis computatralibus laborare nolo (date veniam!), sed si quis designationes Vicipaedicas ad ludos computatrales accommodare vult, aut ad alias disciplinas, certe potest. Facile erit, si data iam apud Vicidata exstant. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 20:54, 6 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Noting UV's observation that very few Vicipaedia pages call for this template, a better use of time, Klein Muçi (or anyone else), might be to adapt an infobox for films on our existing model. We have many pages that require it. That, also, would probably be a quick task. If you try it, you'll soon see how it works and (who knows?) you might conclude that the model could be transferred to other small wikis.
UV recte supra dicit: perpaucae paginae nostrae capsam de ludis electronicis requirunt. Ergo fortasse melius erit hoc tempore, si quis velit, formularium nostrum capsarum informationis ad usum paginarum de pelliculis cinematographicis accommodare. Facile erit (mea mente). Is qui temptet fortasse idem formularium censebit in alias Vicipaedias minores transferendum esse. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 09:26, 7 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Andrew Dalby, I'm a fan of Wikidata but I've never got the chance to utilize its power up until now because the environments (wiki projects) I usually deal with don't give too much freedom in using or creating infoboxes that draw data from out of the project, fearing vandalism issues. Because of that I'd be excited to try and help in what you suggest (the film's infobox). If I have any good results to report, I'll be back here.
In regard to all the {{Ludus}}/{{Capsa ludi electronici}} thing, I was hoping for you to direct me to an already established Wikidata infobox (similar to the one used for bios, etc. as you mention) but apparently it doesn't exist.
And I'd like to really thank you personally for providing the Latin text below your answers. It's an extra step you're taking that's beneficial to many people for many reasons. For me it does help a lot to get better at my Latin reading. I really wish I could reply back in the same language but I lack the courage and the skill to do that. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 13:11, 7 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, there are problems with the data in Vicidata, including occasional vandalism. That is why I named Vicidata, and added the logo, at the head of the infobox. It's not our data. However, in the great majority of cases, it is a useful supplement to our pages.
Recte dicis: errores exstant et vandalismus accidit apud Vicidata. Hac ratione nomen et emblema Vicidatorum ad caput capsarum posui, ut qui diceret "Haec data non sunt nostra". Sed plurimis casibus hae capsae res utiles paginis nostris addunt. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 21:20, 10 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Andrew Dalby, I tried dealing with this (studied some Wikidata templates in other wikis) but I couldn't, I'm sorry. Creating a Wikidata template from scratch was a bit too hard for me. - Klein Muçi (disputatio) 03:02, 12 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I should have explained more fully: the general layout for all these infoboxes is given by Formula:Capsa Vicidata; the details specific to each topic area -- mainly, the fields at Wikidata from which we draw our data, the way we place it in the box, and the Latin text with which we label it -- are given in a formula for each topic area, for example, Formula:Capsa urbis Vicidata. Did you see that? But if you prefer I'll have a go at the films myself in a couple of days. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 14:27, 12 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Novus articulus[fontem recensere]

Salvete, novum articulum scripsi, sed nescio ubi eum submittere, ut revisionatus sit a expertibus et publicari posset. Gratias ago.
Llaaww (Disputatio) 06:57, 12 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Vicipaedia, ut in centum miliis commentariorum iam editorum facillime videtur, numeris Romanis annisque A.U.C. non utitur. IacobusAmor (disputatio) 12:57, 12 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Multas gratias ago! Articulus creavi. --Llaaww (disputatio) 17:26, 12 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Egregiously missing articles[fontem recensere]

For reference: these are the articles that Meta says are most egregiously missing from Vicipaedia (as of 16 February 2022), linked to their Q-numbers and titles in English. Adding them will improve our score. These and the other 2,592 egregiously missing articles (plus the 7,408 most important articles already present) are found here. IacobusAmor (disputatio) 19:59, 17 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  1. COVID-19 pandemic 0
  2. table salt 0
  3. giraffe 0
  4. orange 0
  5. carrot 0
  6. tool 0
  7. UEFA Champions League 0
  8. political science 0
  9. peanut 0
  10. ampere 0
  11. theory of relativity 0
  12. [magazine 0
  13. Formula One 0
  14. beard 0
  15. oil 0
  16. Mongols 0
  17. engine 0
  18. scientist 0
  19. JavaScript 0
  20. quadrilateral 0
  21. rhombus 0
  22. birth control 0
  23. Tom and Jerry 0
  24. scientific research 0
  25. pertussis 0
  26. International Olympic Committee 0
  27. Premier League 0
  28. Warren Buffett 0
  29. accounting 0
  30. trapezoid 0
  31. plate 0
  32. National Basketball Association 0
  33. momentum 0
  34. nuclear physics 0
  35. Pimpinella anisum 0
  36. atomic mass 0
  37. pillow 0
  38. Mohammad Ali Jinnah 0
  39. marketing 0
  40. lens 0
  41. Ohm's law 0
  42. Willis Tower 0
  43. holiday 0
  44. distance 0
  45. list of chemical elements 0
  46. drama 0
  47. Yuan Empire 0
  48. insurance 0
  49. construction 0
  50. byte 0
  51. Litchi chinensis 0
  52. pumpkin 0
  53. humidity 0
  54. finance 0
  55. pen 0
  56. Shaka Zulu 0
  57. limestone 0
  58. Tenzing Norgay 0
  59. student 0
  60. ohm 0
  61. Soviet–Afghan War 0
  62. Napoleonic Wars 0
  63. Iker Casillas 0
  64. Interpol 0
  65. egg 0
  66. Gestapo 0
  67. Bollywood 0
  68. rock and roll 0
  69. unit of measurement 0
  70. video recording 0
  71. British India 0
  72. caffeine 0
  73. erosion 0
  74. Samuel Finley Breese Morse 0
  75. waste 0
  76. organic compound 0
  77. Ravi Shankar 0
  78. murder 0
  79. Alex Ferguson 0
  80. Renault 0
  81. sea piracy 0
  82. G20 0
  83. Boeing 0
  84. magnetism 0
  85. Newton's law of universal gravitation 0
  86. covalent bond 0
  87. climatology 0
  88. pascal 0
  89. Syrian Civil War 0
  90. Song dynasty 0
  91. Yellowstone National Park 0
  92. UEFA European Championship 0
  93. Zhou dynasty 0
  94. management 0
  95. Mossad 0
  96. Babur 0
  97. Shah Jahan 0
  98. alternating current 0
  99. friction 0
  100. parliamentary system 0
  101. general 0
  102. geophysics 0
  103. chemical substance 0
  104. major depressive disorder 0
  105. game theory 0
  106. CBS 0
  107. Shang dynasty 0
  108. anthrax 0
  109. Myspace 0
  110. Niels Henrik Abel 0
  111. jewelry 0
  112. Aryabhata 0
  113. archery 0
  114. geodesy 0
  115. weed 0
  116. Sahel 0
  117. degree Fahrenheit 0
  118. Tiger Woods 0
  119. Tina Turner 0
  120. totalitarianism 0
  121. German Shepherd dog 0
  122. viola 0
  123. espionage 0
  124. bourgeoisie 0
  125. border 0
  126. NASDAQ 0
  127. biophysics 0
  128. parsec 0
  129. Allies of the Second World War 0
  130. refugee 0
  131. NBC 0
  132. Abdul Hamid II 0
  133. learning 0
  134. B. B. King 0
  135. field hockey 0
  136. jinn 0
  137. fast food 0
  138. atmospheric pressure 0
  139. Rudolf Diesel 0
  140. palace 0
  141. dysentery 0
  142. adult 0
  143. Lesser Sunda Islands 0
  144. Attack on Pearl Harbor 0
  145. Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 0
  146. snooker 0
  147. Ferenc Puskás 0
  148. Maurya Empire 0
  149. famine 0
  150. Latinoamérica 0
  151. Yalta Conference 0
  152. scabies 0
  153. weightlifting 0
  154. celluloseperronation 0
  155. Humphry Davy 0
  156. glove 0
  157. cadaver 0
  158. caliphate 0
  159. geomorphology 0
  160. patriotism 0
  161. drinking water 0
  162. Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 0
  163. cyclone 0
  164. pharmacy 0
  165. Gustav Kirchhoff 0
  166. small calorie 0
  167. candela 0
  168. incest 0
  169. Borobudur 0
  170. Andre Agassi 0
  171. Ayurveda 0
  172. Druze 0
  173. corrosion 0
  174. dharma 0
  175. harmonica 0
  176. immunology 0
  177. infectious disease 0
  178. combustion 0
  179. lie 0
  180. rhythm and blues 0
  181. company 0
  182. direct current 0
  183. Charles Thomson Rees Wilson 0
  184. Age of Discovery 0
  185. Cuban Missile Crisis 0
  186. Kingdom of England 0
  187. Crab Nebula 0
  188. color blindness 0
  189. William Wallace 0
  190. jurisprudence 0
  191. William Shockley 0
  192. binoculars 0
  193. Emmy Award 0
  194. double bass 0
  195. monarch 0
  196. ore 0
  197. Scandinavian Peninsula 0
  198. pond 0
  199. history of Russia 0
  200. Steffi Graf 0
Some of these articles are actually present in Vicipaeda but are prevented from being registered correctly at Meta by curiosities in interwiki linking. For example, Vicipaedia's "Drama (fictio)" is the correct match for the English article "Drama," but it's linked to the English page "Dramatic arts," which vicissim redirects to the English article "Drama." Changing Vicipaedia's link so as to bypass the redirect may or may not help. (I'll try that now, but we may not know until mid-March whether this change solves the problem.) Maybe a kind programmer can discover which other articles are wrongly linked and find a way to fix the process. IacobusAmor (disputatio) 20:10, 17 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I switched "drama (fictio)" on Vicidata, it seems like it really fits. Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 20:42, 17 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Macte! I'll cross it off the list. IacobusAmor (disputatio) 21:55, 17 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Illam enumerationem lingua [Graeco]latina explico: has paginas, a metasymmachis nostris nominatas (quia usque adhuc apud nos necessitantur), nobis oportet creare et augere si lauras nancisci cupimus metacosmicas. Eaedem paginae insuper (quis dubitabit?) utiles erunt lectoribus nostris. Nexus, quos Iacobus supra dedit, ad Vicidata dirigunt, ubi -- quando imam in istam paginam te summersus eris -- indicem paginarum apud alias Vicipaedias iam factarum cito reperire potebis. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 09:25, 18 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Malum Sinense" (orange), moleste apuud Vicidata annexum, inter paginas cognatas restitui et ex hac enumeratione expunxi. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 10:00, 18 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Sequentes stipulas conscripsi: Gestapo 18 Februarii 2022), Caliphatus (18 Februarii 2022) et Mongoli (19 Februarii 2022) et modo Guillelmus Wallaceus--Utilo (disputatio) 11:05, 20 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Now just a minute! Vicipaedia has "Stagnum," and it links to English "Pond" (#198 above), but Meta doesn't know about that. Maybe someone will investigate. IacobusAmor (disputatio) 16:06, 20 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Stagnum nunc correxi. [Dixit Lesgles.]
Similarly, Vicipaedia has the article "Giraffa," and it's linked to English "Giraffe" (#3 above), but Meta doesn't know about it. More investigation warranted? IacobusAmor (disputatio) 15:31, 28 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
"Myrias" includes "Northern giraffe", I switched on wikidata, I hope they don't cancel. Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 17:40, 28 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Theoretical question[fontem recensere]

A theoretical question for programmers (in case they're interested): is it possible to figure out why Meta chooses these topics—out of more than 2500—and lists them in this order? Are the choosing and the sorting random? or is Meta trying to tell us something about the relative importance of the items listed? Might we reasonably say that the first topic listed is the most egregiously missing, the second topic listed is the second most egregiously missing, and so forth? Is comparison with other wikis (or one wiki, presumably the English) involved? and if so, how are the comparisons quantified so as to produce a ranked list? IacobusAmor (disputatio) 14:03, 20 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Did you give a link to the page at meta where the above list is provided? If not, please do, because that would be where I'd start looking for your answer! Mind you, I don't self-identify as a programmer :) Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 15:10, 20 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, a link is there, but here it is again! I'm not a programmer either, though I wasn't unfamiliar with BASIC and FORTRAN in antediluvian times. An unasked question is whether it's (somehow) better to do "Giraffe" (#3) next, or "Steffi Graf" (#200), and if so, why. Computationally (quantitatively), the order shouldn't make a difference, but when the wikis are compared, maybe it does? IacobusAmor (disputatio) 16:03, 20 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
No, sorry, there something I don't grasp yet. That link is to a list of Wikipedias (which I know quite well). Where do they provide the list of 200 missing articles that you have just pasted above? That seems to be what you're talking about. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 16:26, 20 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I've got it now. If anyone else wants to find it, the real link is here! Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 16:31, 20 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oh. That list! Well, now you've got it! :) IacobusAmor (disputatio) 17:39, 20 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Right, Iacobe. Your answer is this. For wikis that have all, or nearly all, of the 10,000 articles already, the list shows the 200 shortest of them as they stand on each wiki, in ascending order of size, with a digit showing the number of words in each. Where one or more articles are entirely absent from a wiki, the names of those articles (quite logically) come first in each list, with the digit "0" following, meaning "no words". For wikis that lack more than 200 of the 10,000 articles, the list shows a random 200 names of absent articles, all followed by "0"; there is no rationale behind the selection, and no rationale in the order.
We lack about 2,500 of the articles, so this list of 200 may be of no great value (no, I'm wrong there, because it has persuaded some of us to write new articles!) If anyone disagrees with my diagnosis, please say. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 16:50, 20 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It turns out that the order of items in the list is not random, and there is a rationale behind the selection and the order. This month's list (published today) shows Vicipaedia's still-missing articles in almost exactly the same order as last month's. (That wouldn't happen in a new random selection.) A note on Meta's talk page tells us why (emphasis added): "The absent articles are sorted with the most popular first. So you get the 200 most popular articles that are absent in each Wikipedia. Popularity is here counted by number of languages that have the article." Therefore, it seems that, to improve the project the most, we should concentrate on topics at the start of this list and proceed downward from there. That's not to say that our volunteers shouldn't continue to "do their own thing" with other topics. :) IacobusAmor (disputatio) 18:57, 16 Martii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
This means that right now, the most important of the missing topics are (in descending order of importance):
  1. ampere
  2. UEFA Champions League
  3. political science
  4. magazine
  5. theory of relativity
  6. Formula One
  7. oil
  8. engine
  9. scientist
  10. JavaScript
Of course, adding any of the 2550 missing topics will improve the score. IacobusAmor (disputatio) 19:05, 16 Martii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I'm glad you discovered that. It is heartening to learn that there is a logic to the arrangement :) Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 19:33, 16 Martii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Now that we know how Meta ranks the items in the list, it occurs to me that addressing those items in the order of their descending importance—scilicet in the order of their descending publicity—may help attract more visitors to Vicipaedia from other wikis. IacobusAmor (disputatio) 16:49, 2 Aprilis 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Latine brevissime verto: Iacobus de ratione enumerationis, quam ipse supra inseruit, quaeret. Ego originem enumerationis non sine peripetiis repperi; quo facto perspexi selectionem ordinemque titulorum e nulla ratione humana oriri statui. (Si erravi, s.v.p. dicite!) Nihilominus utile fuit quia persuademur ut paginas novas gravitudine haud minimas creemus.

Enumerationem omnium paginarum desideratissimarum, ab humanis selectarum, hic habemus. Paginarum, quae a Vicipaedia Latina absunt, titulum Anglicum ibi videmus. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 17:03, 20 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Regnum Angliae conscripsi.--Utilo (disputatio) 07:18, 30 Martii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

"Magazina" and "Theoria relativitatis" have been converted from redirects; will Meta understand and give us credit in its rankings? IacobusAmor (disputatio) 14:12, 5 Aprilis 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Motio novi articuli[fontem recensere]

Salvete! Versio articuli de systemate periodico extenso ultra septimum periodum scripsi. Id movi a vetero nomine (harenarium meum) ad novum nomen, sed cum inspicio aliae linguae, mihi dicitur articulum non existere in alias linguas. Sed verum non est! Anglice, articulum nominatur Extended periodic table. Quomodo hoc rectum facere possum?--Llaaww (disputatio) 16:39, 25 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Novam paginam apud Vicidata addere necesse est: id quod nuper feci. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 20:10, 25 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Gratias ago. Vidi latinitatem corrigendam esse: quidne erratum est? Si possum, volo eam corrigere... Llaaww (disputatio) 17:20, 27 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Si rationem nescis, historiam paginae inspice. Quis hanc notitiam imposuit? Ad paginam disputationis illius usoris quaerere potes. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 17:45, 27 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Clarus. Gratias ago. Sed nunc aliam paginam creavi et idem problema habeo. Possum id resolvere solum an auxilium magistrati petere debeo? Nescio quomodo id facere, si a mihi fieri potest, aliquis hoc mihi explicare potest? Multas gratias ago. Llaaww (disputatio) 18:35, 28 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Pagina nova iam creata et servata, i ad paginam de eadem re apud aliam Vicipaediam; e.g. en:Robbert van de Corput. Ad sinistram marginem reperi lineam "Edit links". Imprime. Ad pedem paginae Vicidata rubricam "Vicipaedia" reperi. Imprime "edit". Ad pedem columnae, in spatium vacuum, scribe "lat". Selige "Latine". Fac "Tab". Incipe nomen paginae tuae scribere, "Hardv " ... Selige "Hardvell". Imprime "publish". Omnes, non magistratus tantum, id facere possunt -- sed NB necesse est novam paginam tuam antea creavisse et servavisse. Paginae futurae non accipiuntur. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 19:38, 28 Februarii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Optime! Permultas gratias ago! Llaaww (disputatio) 07:48, 1 Martii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Quando primum facis, difficile esse videtur; postea facile (id spero). Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 08:42, 1 Martii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Dē additiōne linguae graecae[fontem recensere]

Χαίρετε! Magistrātus Vicipaediae graecae sum et volō rogāre sī translātiōnem graecē ubi "Participātiō tua" in pāginā prīmā dicat addere possīmus. Translātiōnem egō sānē faciam. Crēdō, quod linguae latīna et graeca longam et propinquam historiam habent, illam additiōnem bonam fore. (Ignōscite mihi sī latinē bene nōn scrīpsī) --PastelKos (disputatio) 12:14, 13 Martii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Talem paginam Attice versam proponis? Cur non, nihil obstat, ut mihi videtur. Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 14:34, 15 Martii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

the vandal[fontem recensere]

Those of you who sometimes watch recentchanges may over the last few weeks have noticed a vandal adding italic formatting to entire pages. Since the problem has now been recurring for some time, I have earlier today implemented a measure to prevent anonymous users whose IP address starts with 2001:4454:6 from adding italic formatting to pages. They can at this time still create a user account and/or log in (and then add formatting). The logs tell me that just two hours after I implemented this, the vandal arrived, tried five times in vain to add italic formatting to our page Gallia and left again ;-) Greetings, --UV (disputatio) 23:59, 21 Martii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. — Vandals' motives are usually clear, but in this case they are not. What's the point of making the whole page in italics? I even thought it was some kind of lost bot. Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 12:58, 22 Martii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@UV, it's back, under the name of Регистриране. IacobusAmor (disputatio) 12:41, 2 Aprilis 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Doubled number of visitors[fontem recensere]

Just checking the Vicipaedia stats, I see that vistor numbers have doubled in the last 4 months, from around 750,000-1 million views a month, to around 1.4 million; peaking at 1.8m in Feb. (see also wikimedia stats tool; gives a different but similar story of increased traffic.) This looks like something changed in the accessibility of the site from Wikipedia generally - does anyone know what this might relate to? --JimKillock (disputatio) 08:17, 25 Martii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know the real answer, Jim, but I think I have noticed in recent days that searching for Latin on Google brings up fewer pages of imitations and mirrors of Latin Vicipaedia, more pages of the real Latin Vicipaedia. If this is true, possibly the algorithm of Google as applied to "minor" languages has changed a tiny bit.
Responsum haud bene scio, @JimKillock:, sed observavi paginas imitationum speculorumque Vicipaediae Latinae minus, paginas verae Vicipaediae Latinae nostrae plus, quaerentibus apud Google in his diebus monstratas esse. Si id verum sit, fortassse algorithmus Googlensis, linguis "minoribus" applicatus, levissime mutatus est. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 08:56, 27 Martii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Anyone can help me please. edit Mirette El Hariri page correct translate Thanks.[fontem recensere]

https://la.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirette_El_Hariri#curriculo

ALPES aut VALEAMUS[fontem recensere]

Grex novus Metae de linguis antiquis, ALPES, sive Ancient Language Promotion, Education and Support, nomen alterum eget; debet Wicimedianos aut Wicimediae uti. Ergo VALEAMUS proponitur, (anglice Wikimedians for Ancient Language Education Assistance Mutual Undertakings and Support); placet aut non placet vobis? --JimKillock (disputatio) 07:58, 30 Martii 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Mihi placet. --Maria.martelli (disputatio) 18:55, 30 Martii 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Sententia alia? Si non placet vobis, aut non bonum est, dicete quaeso! --JimKillock (disputatio) 15:05, 3 Aprilis 2022 (UTC)[reply]