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*[[Trachóni (lungsod)]]. If I am not wrong, the article is about the village in [[Eparchía Lefkosías]] (north Cyprus). But, the Wikidata item [[:d:Q7831340]] is about the village in [[Eparchía Lemesoú]]. Can anyone check to see if I am correct? (Althougt some informations in the article, like population, are for the village in Eparchía Lemesoú). The item for the village in Eparchía Lefkosías is [[:d:Q7831343]].
*[[Trachóni (lungsod)]]. If I am not wrong, the article is about the village in [[Eparchía Lefkosías]] (north Cyprus). But, the Wikidata item [[:d:Q7831340]] is about the village in [[Eparchía Lemesoú]]. Can anyone check to see if I am correct? (Although some informations in the article, like population, are for the village in Eparchía Lemesoú). The item for the village in Eparchía Lefkosías is [[:d:Q7831343]].


In [[Trachóni]] I have noticed that are listed two villages for Eparchía Lefkosías with the name Trachóni. But they are the same village. You have to replace the red one with the village in Eparchía Lemesoú. I have tried to find Trachoni of Eparchía Lemesoú but I guess there are no article in ceb.wikipedia.
In [[Trachóni]] I have noticed that are listed two villages for Eparchía Lefkosías with the name Trachóni. But they are the same village. You have to replace the red one with the village in Eparchía Lemesoú. I have tried to find Trachoni of Eparchía Lemesoú but I guess there are no article in ceb.wikipedia.

Rebisyon niadtong 21:30, 30 Hunyo 2018

Non-Cebuano-speakers, please visit our Embassy.
Para sa mga hindi nakakapag-Sebwano, maaari lamang tumungo sa aming Pasuguan.
Si non parli cebuano, per favore, visita nostra Ambasciata.
Si no hable cebuano, por favor, visite nuestra Embajada.
수그부아논 또는 세부어(세부아노)를 모르면, 우리의 대사관에 방문하십시요.
Palihog pagbilin og bag-ong mensahe.
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Maayong pag-abot sa atong tubaan! Kining maong panid gitagana alang sa komunikasyon sa mga miyembro ning atong katilingban sa Wikipedyang Sinugboanon.

Mahimo kang motabang sa paghimo sa Wikipedya ngadto sa usa ka ikapadayeg nga ensiklopedya pinaagi sa pag-usab sa mga nasulat na nga mga artikulo ug pagsulat og mga bag-ong artikulo. Kon maghimo ka og akawnt mangalan kanimo ang imong mga sinulat.


Bot-inflated NUMBEROFARTICLES

Looking at the "List of Wikipedias" on meta.wiki, you will get the impression that Cebuano is more popular than Swedish or German. This is not the case; a Cebuano fanboy has (inspired by an user on the Volapuk wiki) written a bot to artificially increase the NUMBEROFARTICLES. I propose that all articles created by User:Lsjbot be deleted, and that its creator be globally locked. KATMAKROFAN (talk) 15:01, 23 Septiyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Pagtangtang sa mga artikulong nahimo ni Lsjbot

Maayong adlaw sa tanan.
Panahon na nga limpyohan na nato ang atong Binisayang Wikipedya. Hapit na ta mahimong kinadak-ang wikipedya, lupigan pa ang Iningles nga wikipedya. Pero sa nakit-an nako pulos bot ang nagahimo'g artikulo dinhi. Mas maayo nga tawo na lang ang magmugna og mga bag-ong artikulo. Ang artikulong de kaledad ang labaw nga mas maayong basehan kumpara sa kantidad. Mahimo lang kini nga tarong kun pagamyan nato ang atong Wikipedya.
Ato na tangtangon ang mga atikulo nahimo ni Lsjbot.
Usa pa, Lsjbot mura'g wa man nato mahisgotan o nauyonan dinhi sa tubaan nga imo himoan og mga artikulo ang tanang lugar sa kalibotan. Jordz (talk) 10:30, 9 Oktubre 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Dunay mga artikulo ni Lsjbot nga doble sa artikulo nga naa na kining Wikipedia pananglitan ang duplicate nga artikulo sa mga lungsod ug dakbayan sa Pilipinas. Diha ta pagsugod —Harvzs (talk) 14:26, 3 Nobiyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]
OK Harvzs, dedlayn na ni karon kay usa na ka buwan ang akong post, ipadayon ko na ang pagtangtang sa mga artikulo. Jordz (talk) 08:53, 9 Nobiyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Hinaot dili ang tanan nga sinulat ni @Lsjbot: ang tangtangon. Halos 100 na bayay akong nahan-ay ato nila karon lang buwana. Gahapon ang ikagatosan nakong pangsahi. --Gzosef walay Hanaw
If you are planning to delete duplicates and erroneous articles, I have no objection. I have already deleted thousands of such articles, and I have more of them marked for checkup -- see e.g. Kategoriya:Kaduhaduhaan mga lanaw paghimo ni bot. But your original post above can be interpreted as proposing the bulk deletion of all Lsjbot articles, something which I strongly oppose. I see no consensus for such a radical move, especially when several people are already engaged in improving the articles and proposing changes in the words and grammar, changes which can be fixed by bot. Lsj (talk) 09:57, 9 Nobiyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Si Gumagami:Lsjbot wala na manugang og artikulo, igo na lang siya nang-edit. Pero naay laing nagapanugang nga daw pud bot. Si Gumagami:Qu0404, kiwaw kaayo ang han-ay sa iyang Binisaya. Unsaon man nato ni? Josefwintzent Libot (talk) 18:21, 10 Nobiyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]

5 million plus articles for a very small Wikipedia community such as ours is obviously very unsustainable and unmanageable. There are multiple reasons why Lsjbot-created articles should be deleted. Here's one: There was no request by you Lsj and your Lsjbot to create articles on every geographic feature of this planet. But you just went on deciding on your own to import places and geo features from a database, an endeavor that is indeed akin to the Great Flood. That was no small feat, and now you ask for consensus when you didn't ask one before? This is blatant abuse on your part. I was on leave, entrusting you Lsj to act in good faith as an admin of our wiki. With this, let's wait for the fate of cebwp from the decision of metawiki, and after that if our wikipedia remains open, I'll immediately delete those articles.
@Jordz, your decision is no different from that of Lsjbot if you proceed deleting them all even those that are being improved. That is not the constructive way to do it. Rather than delete, we should rather find effective ways of improving it. --Josefwintzent Libot (talk) 09:48, 11 Nobiyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Jordz:. I did ask the community before deciding to create geography articles. See [1] and [2]. The community did not answer, but I did ask. You could have voiced your concerns at that time. Lsj (talk) 10:43, 11 Nobiyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Lsj, you should have practiced restraint. Anyway, moving forward, you know the inherent manageability issue of the sheer number of articles in the millions. You know quite well the technical side of this, like updating constantly changing data and info. It will take so much time and resources not only on your part but the whole contributors of wikipedia the world over. That's why I said that this is not sustainable. Again we are a very small online community and updating/editing/improving all those articles would be painstakingly cumbersome and slow, we're talking years or decades even. Unless we want a wikipedia that is trivial and dated or just a mirror repository of the contents of a geo database. Also, page creators/vandals and spammers will be so hard to catch hidden among the millions of pages.
Secondly, for everyone's guidance and this is of paramount importance of what a wikipedia is - Notability. It simply means that an article should be notable to deserve a page entry on its own. Remember that our target audience/reader and contributors are the Cebuano-speaking people. Clicking on the random article button, will a reader be contented and amazed to spend time reading about a hill somewhere? As a contributor will you be proud of the content and the quality?
I'm not for deletion of all Lsjbot-articles per se, notable geo features should be retained. But due to technical aspects, as I see it, this is quite tedious. My estimate is there are less than a million notable articles from the 4-million plus. But yes if Lsj can do something, to selectively choose geo entries, then no need for mass deletion. Btw, deletion of an article is not like it will be lost in wikispace forever, it's still there and can be undone with all its form (provided our wiki wont be closed). Thanks! :) Jordz (talk) 07:56, 12 Nobiyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Vandalism. That can actually be detected by the article author.
Re: Random search. That is not the common nor the proper way to use wiki. People actually search by name.
Re: What must be done.
  • First, correct the grammar of these articles into proper Cebuano so that reading them is enjoyable. Format properly if necessary.
  • Create a page/articles where the related geonames, species and whatever can be grouped together and use these Lsjbot created article as link. In that way cebwiki will become interesting to read.
--Josefwintzent Libot (talk) 08:32, 12 Nobiyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Jordz:, thank you for a thoughtful post where you raise some valid concerns.
  • Concerning notability, I considered this when planning the project, and programmed the bot to do a fair bit of filtering. The 4 million articles are selected from around 10 million items in the Geonames database. I tightened the filters a couple of times during the project. Both the original filtering, and the eventual tightening, were done after consensus on Swedish wikipedia. We may well discuss here as well where the threshold for notability should lie on cebwp, and if we do reach a consensus about further filtering, Lsjbot can probably help. But we should keep in mind the global perspective that is one aspect of NPOV - a place doesn't become less notable just because it's far away from Cebu. And we should also keep in mind that Cebuano-speakers travel all over the world in search of work or love. For a guy in Cebu considering a job as a seaman on a ferry going to a small island in Canada, or a lady in Dipolog chatting with a guy in a small village in Norway, it is valuable to have articles in their native language about that island and that village, even if those places are not globally famous. And we don't know in advance which village will be relevant for some Cebuana, so we better cover them all. Given the widespread diaspora from Philippines, I believe we should be generous with geographic notability.
  • Concerning vandalism and spamming, the main parameter here is not number of articles, but number of daily edits. As long as Recent Changes remains a short list and we have at least one sysop who is reasonably active, keeping after vandals is a manageable problem. I'm going through all cebwp edits on a near-daily basis, checking all that might be suspect.
  • Concerning maintenance and updating, bot-created articles actually have an advantage. They can be updated with a bot, whereas hand-written articles typically need to be updated by hand. In any case, I believe the maintenance of basic data like population figures should be migrated to Wikidata within the near future, and maintained there, with articles automatically picking facts from Wikidata.
  • Concerning random articles, I agree with Josefwintzent that this is not the purpose of wikipedia. But when the same issue was raised on Swedish wikipedia, some clever guy found a technical solution. There are now two different random-article options on Swedish wikipedia, one normal and one that only selects among handwritten articles. We could borrow that solution, if we wish.
Lsj (talk) 10:23, 12 Nobiyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Ang mga heyograpikal nga mga artikulo sa Lsjbot sa Sugbo sa kinatibuk-an naglangkob sa sama nga kasayuran sama niadtong anaa sa Swedish wikipedia. Ang usa ka sistematikong pagkontrol sa kalidad nga akong gihimo mahitungod sa ilang Lsjbot nakamugna og mga artikulo sa Nicaragua busa mahimong may kalabutan sa imong panaghisgutan. Pinaagi sa paggamit sa opisyal nga mga estatistikanhong istorya ug opisyal nga mga mapa gikan sa Nicaragua, usa ka summary:
  • Mga Kabukiran sa Nicaragua: Usa ka aberids nga 2.1 ka mga sayup matag artikulo. 89% adunay sayop nga gitas, kini usahay sobra sa 100 metros nga sayup.
  • Mga lungsod sa Nicaragua: Usa ka aberids nga 1.5 ka mga sayup sa kada artikulo. 93% adunay sayop nga gidaghanon sa populasyon, ug kini usahay sobra sa 100% nga sayup.
Ang rason alang niini nga mga sayop dili Lsjbot kada se, apan ang daghang mga sayop nga anaa sa Geonames database nga gigamit sa Lsjbot. Nahadlok ko nga ang gidaghanon sa mga sayup susama sa mga artikulo bahin sa mga bahin sa geograpiya sa ubang mga nasud. Ang akong kasinatian mao nga ang mga biological nga mga artikulo nga gibuhat sa Lsjbot adunay mas taas nga kalidad. Martinogk (talk) 18:48, 16 Nobiyembre 2017 (UTC) (uban ang pasaylo sa akong gisulat nga Cebuano)[reply]

presenting the project Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory and asking for a vounteer in Cebuano Wikipedia

Hello everyone, My name is Marc Miquel and I am a researcher from Barcelona (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). While I was doing my PhD I studied whether an identity-based motivation could be important for editor participation and I analyzed content representing the editors' cultural context in 40 Wikipedia language editions. Few months later, I propose creating the Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory in order to raise awareness on Wikipedia’s current state of cultural diversity, providing datasets, visualizations and statistics, and pointing out solutions to improve intercultural coverage.

I am presenting this project to a grant and I expect that the site becomes a useful tool to help communities create more multicultural encyclopaedias and bridge the content culture gap that exists across language editions (one particular type of systemic bias). For instance, this would help spreading cultural content local to Cebuano Wikipedia into the rest of Wikipedia language editions, and viceversa, make Cebuano Wikipedia much more multicultural. Here is the link of the project proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikipedia_Cultural_Diversity_Observatory_(WCDO)

I am searching for a volunteer in each language community: I still need one for the Cebuano Wikipedia. If you feel like it, you can contact me at: marcmiquel *at* gmail.com I need a contact in your every community who can (1) check the quality of the cultural context article list I generate to be imported-exported to other language editions, (2) test the interface/data visualizations in their language, and (3) communicate the existance of the tool/site when ready to the language community and especially to those editors involved in projects which could use it or be aligned with it. Communicating it might not be a lot of work, but it will surely have a greater impact if done in native language! :). If you like the project, I'd ask you to endorse it in the page I provided. In any case, I will appreciate any feedback, comments,... Thanks in advance for your time! Best regards, --Marcmiquel (talk) 14:07, 10 Oktubre 2017 (UTC) Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona[reply]

I can represent Cebuano Wikipedia if no other guy has stepped forward yet. Hopefully you can instruct me what is to be done. What I only caught up so far is this project is about preserving/protecting the cultural diversity of the world and finding ways that this diversity will be represented in the internet as well as to allow access to knowledge that are culture and region based and therefore are inaccessible to people outside these regions/culture. I am hoping for a response. --Josefwintzent (talk)

Proposal to close this wiki

I am proposing that this project be moved to Incubator, due to the LSJbot and the poor quality of the articles. KATMAKROFAN (talk) 20:26, 23 Oktubre 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please clarify what makes e.g. the handwritten article Cairo so infinitely superior to a bot-written article about the same city, that it motivates such drastic measures? Lsj (talk) 06:15, 24 Oktubre 2017 (UTC)[reply]
"Grodno Oblast mopakigbahin sa usa ka utlanan sa Brest Oblast, Vitebsk Oblast, Minsk Oblast, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Alytus, ug 維爾紐斯縣". KATMAKROFAN (talk) 02:02, 29 Oktubre 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Additionally, a number of Victoria Parks are nonsense, because they aren't really existing in Australia. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 06:25, 4 Nobiyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]
If occasional errors were sufficient reason to close down a wiki, no manually written wiki would survive for long. Lsj (talk) 10:24, 4 Nobiyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not close this wiki. Otherwise our effort would be wasted. Please do not listen to envy of some people due to the increase in the number of articles.

Closure no, clean-up yes... Jordz (talk) 08:18, 9 Nobiyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The proposal was closed as unsuccessful, so the wiki will remain open. LangCom does recommend that this community tighten its quality control, and that may include tighter supervision of bots. But it's the community's decision as to how to do this, not LangCom's. StevenJ81 (talk) (clerk to LangCom) 14:36, 8 Pebrero 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Lsjbot

Palihog ko og usab sa mga artikulo nga susama sa

https://ceb.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmīpuram_Channel

ug isuon ana nga han-ay.

Puyde pud tudloan ko nimo unsaon pag-usab sa bot aron ako na lay usab.

How much programming experience do you have? The bot software for creating new articles is available at my Github page. Software for fixing specific errors in a set of articles is also there. Feel free to use and modify the software as you wish, and feel free to ask me at Hisgot sa gumagamit:Lsj if you have questions. If you are looking for other articles about mga kanal, see Kategoriya:Mga kanal sa nasud. Lsj (talk) 18:37, 6 Nobiyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately my programming skill is primitive. I only have basic knowledge of C++ but can automate a report in paragraph form and mimic like written by a human simulated with human idiosyncrasies using ms excel. So the data formatting part might already been covered. It is on the syntaxis of the programming language that will be a big problem though. --Josefwintzent Libot

Nominasyon nga mahimong Tigdumala o Admin si Josefwintzent_Libot

Ginominar ko si User:Josefwintzent_Libot nga mahimong "Admin" o Tigdumala dinhi sa Wikipedia. Palihug paghisgot ug pag-voto sa nominasyon sa panid nga Wikipedia:Tigdumala/Josefwintzent_Libot. Kining panid gihimo sumala sa karong proseso sa pagnominar sa mga admin sa Wikipedia:Mga_hangyo_nga_mahimong_tigdumala.

Lsjbot priority list

It has become clear from the discussion on Facebook:Cebuano Wikipedia Initiative and elsewhere that there is much to be improved in the articles created by Lsjbot. The bot is currently running at full speed doing such improvement tasks. But there are many tasks to be done, and I would like community input in setting priorities. I have a created a table here with a list of tasks: Gumagamit:Lsjbot/Priorities. I would appreciate your input in what should be done in which order. Please feel free to add tasks and change priorities. Lsj (talk) 16:31, 17 Nobiyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Ideas for manual article creation

For those who wish to contribute new articles to cebwp, but are unsure of what to write about, I would like to call attention to the following two lists:

Lsj (talk) 16:45, 17 Nobiyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]

See also the recently created wish list: Wikipedya:Gikinahanglan nga mga artikulo. Lsj (talk) 13:31, 25 Marso 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

The Readers web team will be deploying a new feature this week to make it easier to download PDF versions of articles on the mobile website.

Providing better offline functionality was one of the highlighted areas from the research done by the New Readers team in Mexico, Nigeria, and India. The teams created a prototype for mobile PDFs which was evaluated by user research and community feedback. The prototype evaluation received positive feedback and results, so development continued.

For the initial deployment, the feature will be available to Google Chrome browsers on Android. Support for other mobile browsers to come in the future. For Chrome, the feature will use the native Android print functionality. Users can choose to download a webpage as a PDF. Mobile print styles will be used for these PDFs to ensure optimal readability for smaller screens.

The feature is available starting Wednesday, Nov 15. For more information, see the project page on MediaWiki.org.

Thank you!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:07, 20 Nobiyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]


Please rate the quality of Sebuan translations

As part of the international competition for writing articles devoted to the Don region of Russia, the participant of the competition was written over 150 articles in Sebu language - the bulk of the articles here. Upon completion of the competition it became clear that the participant does not speak the language, which affected the quality of translations.

The question is, to the speakers of the Sebuan language and at the same time to the wikipedists, how to consider the participant's contribution to Wikipedia in the Sibu language, as constructive, but demanding to be worked out, or how destructive? JukoFF (talk) 13:10, 11 Disyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I am not a native speaker either, but I noticed the activities of Qweadsqwe while it was going on. I checked most of the articles for general wiki-ness and accuracy, and apart from language which I am not qualified to judge, they are generally constructive contributions. Some items may be of marginal relevance, but they generally have interwiki to at least ruwp. The user was also responsive, at first he did not add categories and interwikis, but after I did it for him a few times he started doing it on his own. Lsj (talk) 13:20, 11 Disyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Call for Wikimania 2018 Scholarships

Hi all,

We wanted to inform you that scholarship applications for Wikimania 2018 which is being held in Cape Town, South Africa on July 18–22, 2018 are now being accepted. Applications are open until Monday, 22 January 2018 23:59 UTC.

Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and shared accommodation. Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, who will determine which applications are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2018 scholarships, please visit: wm2018:Scholarships.

To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on: https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply

It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page and the associated FAQ before submitting an application. If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org or leave a message at: wm2018:Talk:Scholarships. Please help us spread the word and translate pages!

Best regards, David Richfield and Martin Rulsch for the Scholarship Committee 19:24, 20 Disyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User group for Military Historians

Greetings,

"Military history" is one of the most important subjects when speak of sum of all human knowledge. To support contributors interested in the area over various language Wikipedias, we intend to form a user group. It also provides a platform to share the best practices between military historians, and various military related projects on Wikipedias. An initial discussion was has been done between the coordinators and members of WikiProject Military History on English Wikipedia. Now this discussion has been taken to Meta-Wiki. Contributors intrested in the area of military history are requested to share their feedback and give suggestions at Talk:Discussion to incubate a user group for Wikipedia Military Historians.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 10:46, 21 Disyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicated bot articles

Hello, there are seriously many (about 2000 or 36% of the total) duplicated articles about municipalities of Brasil created by Lsjbot. A query on Wikidata Query Service shows 7523 municipalities; there are in reality 5570 of them. I checked there (on Wikidata) and the cause is the bot creation of articles in this Wikipedia and respective entries on Wikidata. For example: Abaetetuba (lungsod) and Abaetetuba (munisipyo). I ask here if someone can make the fusion between all those duplicated articles, priorizing the ones with more interwikis (that always include pt Wikipedia). Thank you Ederporto (talk) 23:02, 27 Disyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]

In the example you provide, only Abaetetuba (munisipyo) is about a municipality (en:Administrative division). The other article, Abaetetuba (lungsod), is about the town (en:Human settlement) with the same name. These are distinct types of entities, and so the articles are not duplicates. How many of the 7523 articles that you refer to are actually about municipalities, not settlements? I am aware that settlements and administrative divisions are sometimes conflated in Wikidata, but that is an error in Wikidata, not on cebwp. The item for Abaetetuba is an example of this, it is an instance both of "municipality of Brazil" and of "human settlement". Lsj (talk) 09:33, 28 Disyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the response. The informations on both articles are almost the same. It's very weird that cebwiki and svwiki are the only ones that seemns to do this separation between municipalities and towns. In ptWiki this distinction of articles does not exist at all. Anyway, I agree that the problem is mostly in Wikidata (althought this separation here is the origin of that), made by another bot there. I changed all the entries from those duplicates to "human settlements", because really messes up the integration between Wikidata and the other Wikis. Thanks Ederporto (talk) 08:56, 29 Disyembre 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I as a native speaker of Cebuano and actual user suggest that:
  1. All articles regarding non-Philippine level four administrative division be redirected to and their contents be merged to the article about their respective mother level three administrative division,
  2. All articles regarding non-Philippines geographic features that span only one level three administrative division be redirected to as well and its contents be merged to the article about the respective level three administrative division where the said geographic feature is found,
  3. All articles regarding human settlements be redirected to the level three administrative division where these settlements be found,
  4. If possible Lsjbot be tasked to implement these merging with some help from native speakers when necessary,
  5. After contents were transfered,Lsjbot be tasked to edit all links in other articles to the to be culled article into the link of the section of the article where the to be culled article is content is merged into, and
  6. After every link into the to be culled articles are editted, the said article has to be culled.
Josefwintzent Libot (talk) 08:21, 10 Enero 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I do not agree with any of these points. As a matter of principle, it is a bad idea to merge several different types of entities into a single article. It causes all sorts of Wikidata confusion and messes up the category system as well. As a practical matter, it is very difficult for a bot to recognize whether a feature is fully contained within an area, as the areal extent of the feature is not generally available to the bot. Furthermore, merging a heterogeneous set of articles by bot is far from trivial, and requires a major programming effort. Lsj (talk) 17:28, 17 Enero 2018 (UTC)[reply]

ESEAP Conference 2018

Hello Philippine Wikipedians,

Scholarship applications for ESEAP Conference 2018 is now open!

ESEAP Conference 2018 is a regional conference for Wikimedia communities around the ESEAP regions. ESEAP stands for East, Southeast Asia, and Pacific. Taking place in Bali, Indonesia on 5-6 May 2018, this is the first regional conference for the Wikimedia communities around the regions.

Full scholarships are subject to quotas, maximum two people per country and your country is eligible to apply, visit this page.

We also accept submissions of several formats, including:

  • Workshop & Tutorial: these are presentations with a focus on practical work directed either to acquiring a specific skill or doing a specific task. Sessions are 55 minutes led by the presenters in a classroom space suitable for laptops and work.
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Deadline for submissions and scholarship applications is on 15 March 2018.

Best regards,

Filipinayzd (talk) 16:02, 19 Enero 2018 (UTC)[reply]

First paragraph of bot-written geography articles

A few people have pointed out that the grammar and word order in the bot-written articles is not always natural for native Cebuano. I intend to rectify this, one paragraph at a time. The time will come soon to the first paragraph of the bot-written geography articles.

A typical first paragraph looks like this (from the article Styggvatna, I have separated the sentences for clarity):

Styggvatna maoy lanaw sa Noruwega.

Ang Styggvatna nahimutang sa munisipyo sa Gloppen ug lalawigan sa Sogn og Fjordane Fylke, sa habagatan-kasadpang bahin sa nasod, 300 km sa amihanan-kasadpan sa ulohang dakbayan Oslo. '

Ang gitas-on sa Styggvatna mao ang 980 metros ibabaw sa dagat nga lebel.

Ang dapit sa Styggvatna mao ang 0.26 ka mga kilometro kwadrado.

Ang kinatas-ang punto sa palibot aduna kini 1,238 ka metros ibabaw, 1.5 km sa sidlakan sa Styggvatna.

Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa Styggvatna kay hapit tanan kasagbotan.

Mihatag 0.6 km gikan sa amihanan ngadto sa habagatan, ug 0.6 km gikan sa sidlakan ngadto sa kasadpan.

How should this be modified to be good native-style Cebuano? Lsj (talk) 22:16, 30 Enero 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  • Styggvatna maoy lanaw sa Noruwega.
Lanaw ang Styggvatna sa Noruwega.
(changed to VSO order)
  • Ang Styggvatna nahimutang sa munisipyo sa Gloppen ug lalawigan sa Sogn og Fjordane Fylke, sa habagatan-kasadpang bahin sa nasod, 300 km sa amihanan-kasadpan sa ulohang dakbayan Oslo. '
Nahimutang ni sa lungsod sa Gloppen sa lalawigan sa Sogn ug Fjordane, sa habagatan-kasadpang bahin sa nasod, 300km sa amihan-kasadpan sa Oslo ang ulohan sa nasod.
(changed to VSO order and Cebuanized og and Fylke, Norwegian of 'and' and 'country/province' )
  • Ang gitas-on sa Styggvatna mao ang 980 metros ibabaw sa dagat nga lebel.
980 metros ibabaw sa dagat kahaboga ang nahimutangan sa Styggvatna.
(changed to VSO and removed double pluralization)
  • Ang dapit sa Styggvatna mao ang 0.26 ka mga kilometro kwadrado.
Naglangkob kini og 0.26 ka kilometro kwadrado.
(changed to VSO and removed double pluralization)
  • Ang kinatas-ang punto sa palibot aduna kini 1,238 ka metros ibabaw, 1.5 km sa sidlakan sa Styggvatna.
Ang kinahabogang dapit sa palibot dunay gihabogon nga 1,238 ka metro ug 1.5 km sidlakan sa Styggvatna.
(removed double pluralization and redundant topic/subject)
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa Styggvatna kay hapit tanan kasagbotan.
Hapit tanan kasagbotan ang mga tanom sa palibot sa Styggvatna.
(changed to VSO)
  • Mihatag 0.6 km gikan sa amihanan ngadto sa habagatan, ug 0.6 km gikan sa sidlakan ngadto sa kasadpan.
(This one is complete gibberish, please translate into English so that I can translate back into proper Cebuano.)
Josefwintzent Libot (talk) 23:45, 30 Enero 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for clear and well-structured feedback, just like I need!
The last sentence in English would be "It extends 0.6 km from north to south, and 0.6 km from east to west."
Lsj (talk) 07:27, 31 Enero 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Naglangkob ni og 0.6 km gikan sa amihanan ngadto sa habagatan ug 0.6 km gikan sa sidlakan ngadto sa kasadpan. Josefwintzent Libot (talk) 13:20, 31 Enero 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That was an article about a lake. In other articles, various other phrases are used. Can I ask for help in cleaning up those as well? (In the texts below, XXX, #1, #2 stands for variables, typically either the name of a place or a number.

  • XXX mao ang pinakadako nga lungsod sa maong dapit
  • Ang labing duol nga lungsod mao ang #1
  • Ang labing duol nga mas dako nga lungsod mao ang #1
  • Walay ubang mga lungsod sa palibot niini
  • Walay lungsod sa palibot
  • Ang kinatas-ang punto sa palibot mao ang #1, aduna kini #2 ka metros ibabaw sa dagat nga lebel
  • Mao kani ang dapit nga diyutay ra ang lumulupyo
  • Mao kani ang dapit nga dasok ang lumulupyo
  • Mao kani ang dapit nga dasok kaayo ang lumulupyo
  • Ang dapit palibot sa XXX #1, uban sa #2 mga tawo kada kilometro kwadrado.
  • Ang dapit palibot sa XXX kay hapit walay nagpuyo, uban sa ubos sa 2 molupyo kada kilometro kwadrado.
  • Ang gilapdon sa inila base mao ang #1 ka kilometro

And finally a bunch of phrases about vegetation:

  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan lasang sa mga tanom nga pino.
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan lasang.
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan lasang sa mga tanom nga pino nangadagdag.
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan lasang nangadagdag.
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan nga sinaktan lasang.
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan kalibonan.
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan savanna.
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan kasagbotan.
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan kalapukan.
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan kaumahan.
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan dakbayanon.
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay kaumahan ug kinaiyahan.
  • Sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan yelo.
  • Sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan walay tanom.

Lsj (talk) 18:33, 31 Enero 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Josefwintzent's Translation

  • XXX mao ang pinakadako nga lungsod sa maong dapit
XXX ang kinadak-ang lungsod sa maong dapit
  • Ang labing duol nga lungsod mao ang #1
Ang kinadul-ang lungsod mao ang #1
  • Ang labing duol nga mas dako nga lungsod mao ang #1
Ang kinadul-ang mas dakong lungsod mao ang #1
  • Walay ubang mga lungsod sa palibot niini
Walay laing lungsod sa palibot niini
  • Walay lungsod sa palibot
(sentence is already correct)
  • Ang kinatas-ang punto sa palibot mao ang #1, aduna kini #2 ka metros ibabaw sa dagat nga lebel
Kinahabogang dapit sa palibot ang #1, #2 ka metros ni kahaboga ibabaw sa dagat
  • Mao kani ang dapit nga diyutay ra ang lumulupyo
Diyutay ray lumulupyo ining dapita
  • Mao kani ang dapit nga dasok ang lumulupyo
Dutdot ang lumulupyo ining dapita
  • Mao kani ang dapit nga dasok kaayo ang lumulupyo
Perteng dutdota ang lumulupyo ining dapita
  • Ang dapit palibot sa XXX #1, uban sa #2 mga tawo kada kilometro kwadrado.
Dunay mga #2 ka tawo kada kilometro kwadrado sa palibot sa XXX #1.
  • Ang dapit palibot sa XXX kay hapit walay nagpuyo, uban sa ubos sa 2 molupyo kada kilometro kwadrado.
Kunhod pa sa 2 ka tawo kada kilometro kwadrado sa palibot sa XXX.
  • Ang gilapdon sa inila base mao ang #1 ka kilometro
(I am not sure what you really mean here. May you say it in English so that I can translate back in proper Cebuano.)

Josefwintzent Libot (talk) 14:13, 2 Pebrero 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"Ang gilapdon sa inila base mao ang #1 ka kilometro" is intended to say "The width at the base is #1 km." (referring to a mountain) Lsj (talk) 15:11, 2 Pebrero 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Mga #1 ka kilometro ang gilapdon sa tiilan niini.Josefwintzent Libot (talk) 22:16, 2 Pebrero 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Vegetation translations

  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan lasang sa mga tanom nga pino.
Hapit nalukop sa lasang nga dagomkahoy ang palibot sa XXX. (I am assuming pino means pine trees and related plants.)
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan lasang.
Hapit nalukop sa lasang ang palibot sa XXX.
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan lasang sa mga tanom nga pino nangadagdag.
(I do not really understand what you mean by "pino ngadagdag.)
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan lasang nangadagdag.
Hapit nalukop sa lasang nga tigkapulak ang palibot sa XXX.
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan nga sinaktan lasang.
Hapit nalukop sa lasang nga sagolsagol ang palibot sa XXX.
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan kalibonan.
Hapit nalukop sa kalibonan ang palibot sa XXX.
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan savanna.
Hapit nalukop sa durowan ug kabugangan ang palibot sa XXX.
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan kasagbotan.
Hapit nalukop sa kasagbotan ang palibot sa XXX.
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan kalapukan.
Hapit nalukop sa kalapokan ug kapitaan ang palibot sa XXX.
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan kaumahan.
Hapit nalukop sa kaumahan ang palibot sa XXX.
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan dakbayanon.
Hapit nalukop sa kabalayan ang palibot sa XXX.
  • Ang mga tanom sa palibot sa XXX kay kaumahan ug kinaiyahan.
Banika ug kaumahan ang palibot sa XXX.
  • Sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan yelo.
Hapit nalukop sa hyelo ang palibot sa XXX.
  • Sa palibot sa XXX kay hapit tanan walay tanom.
Hapit nalukop sa desiyerto ug kamingawan ang palibot sa XXX.
Josefwintzent Libot (talk) 00:28, 3 Pebrero 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, "tanom nga pino" is intended to be conifers, pines and their relatives (order Pinales). The "pino nangadagdag" is my attempt to find a word for deciduous conifers like larch trees (Larix genus). Lsj (talk) 10:14, 3 Pebrero 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hapit nalukop sa lasang sa dagomkahaoy nga tigkapulak ang palibot sa XXX.Josefwintzent Libot (talk) 14:08, 3 Pebrero 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Test run

The bot has gone through now about 200 articles in Kategoriya:Paghimo ni bot 2015-09, with corrections as above. Do they look OK? Lsj (talk) 20:58, 3 Pebrero 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I made some changes in Akobo because you encoded
  • gitas-on(which means general lenght) instead of gihabogon(which means elevation or height)
  • kabuganan(which means groins) instead of kabugangan(which means areas where shrub grows)
(The kabuganan mistake though is my fault as I made a typo in the "Vegetation Translation". This is now corrected as well. Good that you posted a test run.) Josefwintzent Libot (talk) 22:33, 3 Pebrero 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. These will be fixed for the next test run. Lsj (talk) 22:44, 3 Pebrero 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Another thing, there is a double sa typo in the articles that often happens before the name of the political unit where the geographical feature is situated. I already editted the one in the article Akwedott ta' Wignacourt. Please correct the other articles.Josefwintzent Libot (talk) 22:55, 3 Pebrero 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Typo indeed. Thank you. Lsj (talk) 09:58, 4 Pebrero 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal to close has been rejected

The proposal to close cebuano wikipedia has now been officially rejected by the Wikimedia language committee. Cebwp survives! Lsj (talk) 08:40, 8 Pebrero 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Atlast. Now let's consider what the LangCom has recommended: "tighten up quality control, which quite possibly includes closer oversight of bot content creation." Thanks all! Jordz (talk)

Editing News #1—2018

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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.

Recent changes

  • The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments. They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing. The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January. Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. More information will be posted at mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
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Let's work together

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20:56, 2 Marso 2018 (UTC)

Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge

Wikipedia:Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge is a public writing competition which will improve improve and translate this list of 15 really important articles into as many languages as possible. Everybody can help in any language to collaborate on writing and/or translating articles related to Galicia. To participate you just need to sign up here. Thank you very much.--Breogan2008 (talk) 13:48, 12 Marso 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to Wales! The Celtic Knot Conference...

I apologise that this invitation is in English; feel free to translate into your own language!


I would like to invite you to the second Wikipedia language conference focusing on supporting Celtic and other small and Indigenous Languages. This year 'Celtic Knot' will be at held on the 5th and 6th of July at the National Library of Wales in Wales' most famous seaside resort of Aberystwyth.

For more information on how you could be part of this great event, pop over to our website where you can also contact Jason Evans, our National Wikimedian and conference organiser. We have many speakers who will talk about what works for them, how we can learn from each other... small is beautiful...

Viva la diversity! Llywelyn2000 (talk) 12:51, 4 Abril 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Same

  • Kalo Chorio
  • Καλό Χωριό must be rename to Kalochori. One word. Not two. The villages of Tsipre must move to the first article. (Pls also check Wikidata)

Xaris333 (talk) 02:36, 15 Abril 2018 (UTC)[reply]

On Greek Wikipedia, Καλό Χωριό is written as two separate words: [6]. Likewise on Wikidata. Do you have sources for writing it as a single word? Lsj (talk) 06:11, 25 Abril 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias

Time to bring embedded maps (‘mapframe’) to most Wikipedias

Please help translate to your language

Mapframe is a feature that enables users to easily display interactive maps right on wiki pages. Currently, most Wikipedias don’t have mapframe. But fifteen Wikipedias, along with all the other Wikimedia projects, are using mapframe today to display maps on thousands of pages.

A little background: over the last few months, the Foundation’s Collaboration team has been working to improve the stability and user experience of the maps service. In addition, a question about long-term support for the maps service was recently settled, and a small team has been assigned for routine maintenance. Given these developments, bringing the benefits of mapframe to Wikipedias that lack the feature seems both safe and supportable. Nine Wikipedias that use a stricter version of Flagged Revisions will not get mapframe in this release.

Maps are a valuable form of visual data that can improve readers’ understanding across a wide range of topics. If you know of any reasons why mapframe shouldn’t be implemented on your Wikipedia, let us know on the project talk page. Unless we hear from you, we plan to release mapframe to most Wikipedias in May, 2018. So, if you foresee an issue, please let us hear from you. Otherwise, happy mapping!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 21:38, 24 Abril 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Is this something we want to add to articles when it's available? It would be a straightforward bot job to add a mapframe to all city articles. Lsj (talk) 06:13, 25 Abril 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Several loop redirects

I looked up Espesyal:DoblengRedirekta and found several loop redirects, most of them are created by Lsjbot.--John123521 (talk) 09:16, 30 Abril 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for noticing this error. Lsj (talk) 13:05, 30 Abril 2018 (UTC)[reply]

AdvancedSearch

From May 8, AdvancedSearch will be available as a beta feature in your wiki. The feature enhances the search page through an advanced parameters form and aims to make existing search options more visible and accessible for everyone. AdvancedSearch is a project by WMDE Technical Wishes. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!

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New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2018)


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Update on page issues on mobile web

Update on page issues on mobile web

Please help translate to your language Hi everyone. The Readers web team has recently begun working on exposing issue templates on the mobile website. Currently, details about issues with page content are generally hidden on the mobile website. This leaves readers unaware of the reliability of the pages they are reading. The goal of this project is to improve awareness of particular issues within an article on the mobile web. We will do this by changing the visual styling of page issues.

So far, we have drafted a proposal on the design and implementation of the project. We were also able to run user testing on the proposed designs. The tests so far have positive results. Here is a quick summary of what we learned:

  • The new treatment increases awareness of page issues among participants. This is true particularly when they are in a more evaluative/critical mode.
  • Page issues make sense to readers and they understand how they work
  • Readers care about page issues and consider them important
  • Readers had overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards Wikipedia associated with learning about page issues

Our next step would be to start implementing these changes. We wanted to reach out to you for any concerns, thoughts, and suggestions you might have before beginning development. Please visit the project page where we have more information and mockups of how this may look. Please leave feedback on the talk page.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:58, 12 Hunyo 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Trachóni

Hello. I am sorry for writing in English but I don't speak your language.

  • Trachóni (lungsod). If I am not wrong, the article is about the village in Eparchía Lefkosías (north Cyprus). But, the Wikidata item d:Q7831340 is about the village in Eparchía Lemesoú. Can anyone check to see if I am correct? (Although some informations in the article, like population, are for the village in Eparchía Lemesoú). The item for the village in Eparchía Lefkosías is d:Q7831343.

In Trachóni I have noticed that are listed two villages for Eparchía Lefkosías with the name Trachóni. But they are the same village. You have to replace the red one with the village in Eparchía Lemesoú. I have tried to find Trachoni of Eparchía Lemesoú but I guess there are no article in ceb.wikipedia.

And you also have a page with the name Τραχώνι. Confusing.

Xaris333 (talk) 21:25, 30 Hunyo 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Gikuha gikan sa "https://ceb.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Tubaan&oldid=23137695"