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Transliteration of "chomolingma"

I'm from the english wikipedia. I was wondering if ཞུམུལང྄མ is the correct transliteration of zhumulongma. It's for en:Mount Everest. "ཇོ་མོ་གླིང་མ།"རེད། "ཞུམུལདྲ" ཟེར་བ་ཞིག་ཐོས་མ་མྱོང་རེད། --ཨ་མའི་ལོ་ལོ། ༠༩:༠༩, ༢༩ March ༢༠༠༧ (UTC)

"zhumulongma/珠穆朗玛" ནི་རྒྱ་སྐད་རེད། དེའི་སྒྲ་བོད་སྐད་ནང་ཀྲུའུ་མོ་གླུང་མ་འདྲ་བོ་རེད། སྒྲ་དེ་ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ་ཞེས་པ་དེ་རྒྱ་སྐད་ནང་འདོན་མ་ཤེས་པར་བྱུང་བ་རེད། ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ་ནི་བོད་སྐད་གཙང་མ་རེད། དེར་བརྟེན་ཡང་དག་པ་ནི་ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ་རེད།

དེ་ནི་སུ་ཞིག་གིས་བྲིས་པ་རེད་དམ། དངོས་གནས་ཡ་མཚན་ཞིག་འདུག

འདི་ལྟ་བུ་དངོས་གནས་ཡག་པོ་འདུག ཝེ་ཁེ་རིག་མཛོད་ནང་ང་ཚོས་ཡིག་རིགས་གཞན་དག་གི་དྲྭ་ངོས་ནང་བཞིན་ང་ཚོ་བོད་རང་གི་རྒྱུན་ཤེས་དག་བཀོད་ཐུབ་ན་དངོས་གནས་དཔེ་རེད་ཤག ད་ལྟ་བོད་ནང་གི་བོད་མི་མང་པོ་ཞིག་གིས་གནས་འདི་ཕལ་ཆེར་ཧ་གོ་གི་མེད་པ་འདྲ། འདིའི་ནང་གི་འཐུས་མིར་ཆགས་པའི་བོད་མི་ཚོས་ང་ཚོ་བོད་མི་གཞན་ལ་ངོ་སྤྲོད་ཡག་པོ་ཞིག་བྱུང་ན་དགའ་བ་ལའང་། དག་པར་བཀླགས་ན། ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ་རེད། ངོ་མ་ཡག་པོ་ཞིག་བྲིས་འདུག

ལགས། ཁྱེད་རྣམ་པས་ཀློག་དག་པ་བྱེད་པའི་དུས་སུ་ཡི་གེའང་དག་པོ་འབྲི་རོགས་གནོངས་དང་། གཏམ་བདེན་པ་ཡིན་པས་དགོངས་འགལ་མེད་པར་ཞུ།

ང་ནི་བོད་ལྗོངས་ལྷ་ས་ནས་ཡིན། དེའི་ནང་ཡོང་ནས་དུས་ཡུན་ཡང་རིང་པོ་ཕྱིན་སོང་། དེ་བས་ད་ལྟ་དུང་དཀར་ཚིག་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ་འདིའི་ནང་གི་མིང་ཚན་ཡོད་ཚད་ཝེ་ཁེ་རིག་མཛོད་འཇོག་པའི་ལས་གཞི་ཆེན་པོ་ཞིག་ཡོད། དུང་དཀར་ཚིག་མཛོད་ཆེན་མོ་ང་ཚོས་གློག་གླད་ནང་བླུགས་ཚར་གྲབས་ཡོད། བྱས་ཙང་ད་ལྟ་བོད་ཡིག་ཝེ་ཁེ་རིག་མཛོད་དེ་མི་སུ་ཞིག་གིས་དོ་དམ་བྱེད་ཀྱི་ཡོད་པ་ཤེས་འདོད་ཆེན་པོ་འདུག་ལ། རང་ཉིད་ཀྱང་དོ་དམ་པ་ཞིག་ཆགས་འདོད་ཡོད། གལ་ཏེ་དེའི་ཐད་གནས་ཚུལ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་ཡོད་ན་ང་ལ་འབྲེལ་བ་ནང་རོགས།

དེ་ལྟ་བུའི་ཕྱག་ལས་གནང་ཐུབ་ན་དངོས་གནས་ཡག་པོ་རེད། བོད་སྤྱི་བར་ཕན་ཐོགས་པའི་ཕྱག་ལས་རེད། མུ་མཐུད་དུ་འདིའི་སྒང་ལ་ཐུགས་བསམ་གནང་ནས་ཕྱག་ལས་དོན་ཐོག་ལ་འཁྱོངས་པ་ཞིག་གནང་རོགས།

Message from Nepal Bhasa Wikipedia

Nepal Bhasa (Newar) wikipedia has recently started developing here . We would like to increase co-ordination between the two wikipedia, share resources as well as to learn from this version. If someone is interested, please visit Nepal Bhasa Embassy. Thank you. --Eukesh ༡༩:༢༣, ༥ November ༢༠༠༦ (UTC) Bumpa ༠༩:༠༡, ༢༢ ཟླ་བདུན་པ། ༢༠༠༩ (UTC)

JS transliteration

We have recently enabled Devnagari using this code. If you are interested, you can create a similar code for this script and incorporate it into Monobook.js as in this page. Hope you find this information useful. Thank you.--Eukesh ༠༥:༤༡, ༡༦ December ༢༠༠༦ (UTC)

Bot request for User:Byrialbot

Hello! Sorry for not speaking Tibetan. I ask for a bot flag for my interwiki bot Byrialbot so it will not fill the recent changes page with interwiki updates.

• Bot account: User:Byrialbot (contributions)
• Botmaster: User:Byrial
• Botmaster's home project: da:User:Byrial
• List of botflags on other wikipedias: als:, am:, an:, ang: ar:, arc:, ast:, az:, bat-smg:, be:, be-x-old:, bg:, bm:, bn:, bs:, bpy:, ca:, cdo:, ce:, ceb:, co:, cs:, cv:, cy:, da:, de:, el:, en:, eo:, es:, et:, fa:, ff:, fi:, fo:, fr:, frp:, fur:, fy:, ga:, gd:, gl:, he:, hi:, hr:, hsb:, hu:, hy:, id:, ie:, ig:, ilo:, io:, is:, it:, iu:, ja:, jv:, ka:, kl:, kn:, ksh:, ku:, kw:, la:, lb:, li:, ln:, lt:, lv:, mi:, mk:, ml:, mr:, ms:, nap:, nds:, nds-nl:, nl:, nn:, no:, nov:, nrm:, os:, pam:, pdc:, pms:, pt:, qu:, ro:, ru:, ru-sib: scn:, sco:, sh:, simple:, sk:, sl:, sm:, sq:, sr:, su:, sv:, sw:, ta:, te:, tg:, th:, tk:, tl:, tt:, uk:, ur:, uz:, vec:, vls:, vo:, war:, wo:, zea:, zh-classical:, zh-min-nan:, zh-yue:
• Purpose: Interwiki
• Technical details: Interwiki using Pywikipediabot (constantly updated with svn) normally starting from da:, nn:, no: and sv:. It mostly runs manually assisted and I try to solve found interwiki conflicts when I can.

I know that you have no bureaucrats here who can grant bot flags, but I need consensus from the local community before I can ask for the flag at the Meta-Wiki. So please tell your opinion. Thank you! Byrial ༡༩:༢༨, ༢༧ ཟླ་བདུན་པ། ༢༠༠༧ (UTC)

Already done. Jafeluv ༠༧:༢༩, ༡༧ ཟླ་དྲུག་པ། ༢༠༡༡ (UTC)

Bot bit request SieBot

Please give a bot bit to SieBot, so it will not flood your RC as it adds interwiki links using pywikipedia's interwiki.py. SieBot is active on about 160 Wikipedias. See the user page of the bot for more details, or check a complete overview of its activities here. Cheers! Siebrand (talk) ༠༨:༥༩, ༡༧ ཟླ་བརྒྱད་པ། ༢༠༠༧ (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild ༡༩:༣༣, ༢ ཟླ་དགུ་བ། ༢༠༠༧ (UTC)

Bot status for PipepBot

Hello! I ask for permission to run my interwiki bot PipepBot here, and to get a bot flag for it.

• Operator: it:User:Pipep
• Purpose: Interwiki
• Software: Pywikipedia
• Has bot flag at: als, am, an, ar, arc, ast, az, bat-smg, be, be-x-old, bn, bpy, bs, ca, ce, ceb, co, cs, cu, cv, da, de, eml, en, eo, et, fo, fr, frp, fur, fy, ga, gd, hr, ht, hy, id, ie, ilo, io, is, ja, ka, ksh, ku, kw, la, lb, li, lij, ln, lv, mi, mk, ml, ms, nap, nds, nds-nl, nn, no, oc, pms, rm, rmy, ro, roa-tara, ru-sib, sc, scn, sh, simple, sl, sq, sr, su, sv, te, th, tl, udm, uk, vec, vls, vo, wa, wo, wuu, zea, zh-classical, zh-yue
• Details: Interwiki using Pywikipediabot. It mostly runs manually assisted. May run automatically in some cases.

Thank you! --it:User:Pipep ༡༣:༤༢, ༢༥ ཟླ་བརྒྱད་པ། ༢༠༠༧ (UTC)

Done. —Pathoschild ༡༨:༤༥, ༧ ཟླ་དགུ་བ། ༢༠༠༧ (UTC)

Thank you! it:User:Pipep ༠༤:༡༩, ༨ ཟླ་དགུ་བ། ༢༠༠༧ (UTC)

BotMultichill

Hi, i request a bot bit for BotMultichill.

• Botmaster : Multichill
• Bot's name : BotMultichill
• List of botflags on others wikipedias: about 100+ atm (see meta:User:Multichill for the current list)
• Purpose: Interwiki (pywikipedia)
• Technical details : BotMultichill is an interwiki bot starting at the Dutch wikipedia. The bot uses the pywikipedia framework and runs day and night in autonomous mode. Sometimes the bot will run in manual assisted mode to solve interwiki conflicts. Multichill ༠༨:༡༧, ༥ ཟླ་དགུ་བ། ༢༠༠༧ (UTC)

Already done. Jafeluv ༠༧:༣༧, ༡༧ ཟླ་དྲུག་པ། ༢༠༡༡ (UTC)

Betawiki: better support for your language in MediaWiki

Dear community. I am writing to you to promote a special wiki called Betawiki. This wiki facilitates the localisation (l10n) of the MediaWiki interface. You may have changed many messages here on Wikipedia to use your language for your language profile, but if you would log in to for example the English language Wiktionary, you would not be able to use the interface as well translated as here. Infact, of the 1792 messages in the core of MediaWiki, ༠ messages have been translated. Betawiki also supports the translation of messages of over 75 extensions, with 981 messages.

If you wish to contribute to better support of your language in MediaWiki, as well as for many MediaWiki extensions, please visit Betawiki, create an account and request translator priviledges. You can see the current status of localisation of your language on meta and do not forget to get in touch with others that may already be working on your language on Betawiki.

If you have any further questions, please let me know on my talk page on Betawiki. We will try and assist you as much as possible, for example by importing all messages from a local wiki for you to start with, if you so desire.

You can also find us on the Freenode IRC network in the channel #mediawiki-i18n where we would be happy to help you get started.

Thank you very much for your attention and I do hope to see some of you on Betawiki soon! Cheers! Siebrand@Betawiki ༠༩:༥༩, ༢༠ ཟླ་དགུ་བ། ༢༠༠༧ (UTC)

• Currently 8.24% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.15% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ༡༢:༠༨, ༡ ཟླ་ལྔ་བ། ༢༠༠༨ (UTC)
• Currently 8.29% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.00% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ༡༤:༡༧, ༨ ཟླ་དྲུག་པ། ༢༠༠༨ (UTC)
• Currently 8.24% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.15% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ༠༩:༠༠, ༢ ཟླ་བརྒྱད་པ། ༢༠༠༨ (UTC)
• Currently 7.85% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.13% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ༡༢:༢༥, ༣ ཟླ་དགུ་བ། ༢༠༠༨ (UTC)
• Currently 7.52% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.13% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ༠༨:༤༠, ༡༢ ཟླ་བཅུ་བ། ༢༠༠༨ (UTC)
• Currently 7.54% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.10% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ༢༢:༡༥, ༩ ཟླ་བཅུ་གཅིག་པ། ༢༠༠༨ (UTC)
• Currently 7.41% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.09% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ༠༩:༥༤, ༡༤ ཟླ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ། ༢༠༠༨ (UTC)
• Currently 7.36% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.09% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at Betawiki. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ༡༠:༡༨, ༡༠ ཟླ་དང་པོ། ༢༠༠༩ (UTC)

PS Please help us complete the most wanted messages..

AlleborgoBot

Hi, i request a bot flag for AlleborgoBot

• Operator: Alleborgo
• Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic, in "-autonomous" mode. Sometimes the bot will run in manual assisted mode to solve interwiki conflicts.
• Programming Language(s): Pywikipedia framework daily updated to the last SVN version
• Function Summary: interwiki
• Already has a bot flag in: ar, am, an, ast, az, bar, bat-smg, bg, br, bn, bpy, bs, ca, ceb, cs, cv, da, de, el, en, eo, es, et, eu, fa, fi, fiu-vro, fr, frp, fy, ga, gl, he, hr, hsb, ht, hu, hy, id, is, it, iu, ja, jv, ka, kk, ksh, ku, lb, li, lmo, ln, lt, lv, mk, mi, ml, mr, ms, mt, nap, nds, nds-nl, nl, nn, no, pl, pms, ps, pt, ro, roa-tara, ru, sco, sh, sk, simple, sl, sq, sr, su, sv, ta, tg, th, to, tr, tt, uk, ur, vec, vi, vls, vo, zh, zh-classical, zh-min-nan, zh-yue. On it.wiki has done more than 65000 edit.

Thanks --AlleborgoBot ༡༥:༠༢, ༢ ཟླ་བཅུ་གཅིག་པ། ༢༠༠༧ (UTC)

Already done. Jafeluv ༠༧:༣༠, ༡༧ ཟླ་དྲུག་པ། ༢༠༡༡ (UTC)

Purbo_T

Hi, I'd like to request a bot flag for Purbo_T (contrib)

• Operator: User:Purodha = ksh:User:Purodha (b'crat @ ksh)
• Function: interwiki
• Operation: manually-assisted, occasionally in automatic or autonomous mode, starting mostly from the Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages
• Software: pywikipediabot framework updated daily from svn to latest version
• Already has bot flag on: am, ar, be-x-old, bn, cdo, co, dsb, hr, hsb, ig, ksh, ku, ml, mr, nds, simple, sv, tg, vo, more pending, recent data

Thank you! --Purodha ༢༠:༠༢, ༢༤ ཟླ་དང་པོ། ༢༠༠༨ (UTC)

Already done. Jafeluv ༠༧:༣༡, ༡༧ ཟླ་དྲུག་པ། ༢༠༡༡ (UTC)

Idioma-bot

Hi, I'd like to request a bot flag for Idioma-bot (contrib)

• Operator: lt:User:Hugo.arg
• Function: interwiki
• Operation: manually-assisted, automatic or autonomous mode
• Software: pywikipediabot framework updated daily from svn to latest version
• Already has bot flag on: about 100 wikies (en, pt, zh, fr, de, ru..)

Thank you! lt:User:Hugo.arg༢༢:༠༡, ༡༤ ཟླ་གསུམ། ༢༠༠༨ (UTC)

Done --Dungodung ༢༠:༤༢, ༢༥ ཟླ་གསུམ། ༢༠༠༨ (UTC)

Request bot flag for Alexbot

I request the bot flag for Alexbot:

Operator:zh:User:Alexsh

Programming Language:Pywikipedia SVN

Functions:Interwiki(+autonomous), double redirect fix, featured article interwiki link.

Other languages:All statistics in here

Thank you--Alexsh ༡༣:༤༤, ༣ ཟླ་བཞི་བ། ༢༠༠༨ (UTC)

Not done. This is a global bot, so no local flag is needed. Jafeluv ༠༧:༣༣, ༡༧ ཟླ་དྲུག་པ། ༢༠༡༡ (UTC)

Request bot flag for ViskonBot

Please support my interwiki bot :)

Operator:User:Viskonsas

Programming Language:Pywikipedia

Functions:Interwiki(+autonomous)

Other languages:lt, en (in other 6 wikipedias without flags)

Thank you --Viskonsas ༡༢:༠༢, ༡༢ ཟླ་ལྔ་བ། ༢༠༠༨ (UTC)

Support

i support --dobum ༠༠:༥༣, ༡༣ ཟླ་ལྔ་བ། ༢༠༠༨ (UTC)

Comments

Already done. Jafeluv ༠༧:༣༣, ༡༧ ཟླ་དྲུག་པ། ༢༠༡༡ (UTC)

BodhisattvaBot

Hi, I'd like to request a bot flag for BodhisattvaBot

• Operator: Dalibor Bosits
• Purpose: Interwiki, auto and manually mode, from hr Wiki, daily
• Software: Pywikipedia framework
• Bot flagged on: bg, bn, bs, ca, ceb, cs, cy, da, de, el, en, eo, es, et, eu, fr, gl, hr, hu, id, io, is, ja, ku, la, lv, ms, nap, nds, new, nl, nn, no, pl, pt, ro, roa-tara, ru, scn, sh, simple, sk, sl, sr, su, sv, sw, uk, ta, te, th, tl, tr, vo and some others

thank you --Dalibor Bosits ༡༧:༤༩, ༢༢ ཟླ་ལྔ་བ། ༢༠༠༨ (UTC)

Already done. Jafeluv ༠༧:༣༧, ༡༧ ཟླ་དྲུག་པ། ༢༠༡༡ (UTC)

CarsracBot

Hi, I'd like to request a bot flag for CarsracBot

• Operator: Carsrac
• Purpose: Interwiki, auto and manually mode, from small Wiki's including this one
• Software: Pywikipedia framework
• Bot flagged on: a lot of wikipedia's see user:CarsracBot for a link to an uptodate list.

After a week I will post a request on the meta steward request page. I also want to request to use the standard botrequest policy for small wikipedia without a burocrate. thank you Carsrac ༡༦:༢༡, ༡༧ ཟླ་བདུན་པ། ༢༠༠༨ (UTC)

Not done. This is a global bot, so no local flag is needed. Jafeluv ༠༧:༣༥, ༡༧ ཟླ་དྲུག་པ། ༢༠༡༡ (UTC)

Bot policy

Hello. To facilitate steward granting of bot access, I suggest implementing the standard bot policy on this wiki. This will involve creating a redirect to this page from Project:Bot policy, and adding a line at the top noting that it is used here. In particular, this policy allows automatic acceptance of known interlanguage linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable), which form the vast majority of such requests.

Please read the text at m:Bot policy before commenting. If you object, please say so; it will be implemented in one week if there is no objection, since it is particularly written to streamline bot requests on wikis with little or no community interested in bot access requests. CarsracBot ༠༠:༣༥, ༡༩ ཟླ་བདུན་པ། ༢༠༠༨ (UTC)

Global bots

Hello. The standard bot policy was updated to allow global bots, which are now technically possible. These are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots (the local policy or request page must explicitly allow them, or they won't get access on this wiki). The current requirements for global bots are:

• a global bot must only maintain interlanguage links or fix double-redirects;
• a global bot must have already been active on several wikis, with long-term contributions demonstrating its trustworthiness.

Does anyone object to allowing global bots on this wiki? I'll update the local policy in a week if there are no objections. Thanks. Carsrac ༠༦:༤༤, ༨ ཟླ་བརྒྱད་པ། ༢༠༠༨ (UTC)

Done. Pathoschild

タチコマ robot

Hi, I'd like to request a bot flag for タチコマ robot:

• Operator: commons:User:White Cat
• Purpose: Interwiki, Double redirects, commons delinking
• Software: Pywikipedia, awb
• Bot with Flag: (full list)
• Details: autonomous and supervised.

• If this is the wrong place for this request, please move it to the right location.

Thanks! -- Cat ^chi? ༡༧:༤༤, ༣ ཟླ་དགུ་བ། ༢༠༠༨ (UTC)

Not done due to long inactivity. If the bot becomes active again, please make a request here. Jafeluv ༠༧:༣༨, ༡༧ ཟླ་དྲུག་པ། ༢༠༡༡ (UTC)

The most often used MediaWiki messages

Hoi, the most often used MediaWiki messages (less than 25% of all MediaWiki messages) are the most visible messages. They help our readers and editors the most. We are aiming to get these messages localised for as many languages as possible by the end of the year. Please help us and yourself and localise these messages. Thanks, GerardM ༡༠:༣༠, ༡༧ ཟླ་བཅུ་གཅིག་པ། ༢༠༠༨ (UTC)

Request bot flag for MauritsBot

Operator:nl:User:Maurits

Programming Language:Pywikipedia

Functions:Interwiki and cosmetic changes (the latter only in combination with the first)

Other languages: see this list

Thank you. --Maurits ༡༡:༢༧, ༩ ཟླ་བདུན་པ། ༢༠༠༩ (UTC)

Support

1. STRONG SUPPORT from temporary sysop. --Viskonsas ༡༡:༣༠, ༩ ཟླ་བདུན་པ། ༢༠༠༩ (UTC)
2. I support this request Carsrac ༡༡:༠༢, ༡༦ ཟླ་བདུན་པ། ༢༠༠༩ (UTC)

Comments

Already done. Jafeluv ༠༧:༣༦, ༡༧ ཟླ་དྲུག་པ། ༢༠༡༡ (UTC)

The LocalisationUpdate extension has gone live

The LocalisationUpdate extension is now enabled for all Wikimedia projects. From now on new localisations that become available in SVN will become available to your project within *** hours. Your localisations get into SVN from translatewiki.net typically within a day and at worst in two days. This is a huge improvement from the old practice where the localisations became available with new software. This could take weeks, even months.

The localisations done by our community at translatewiki.net are committed to SVN typically every day. When the system messages in English are the same as the local messages, they will now be inserted in a file and are available for use in all our projects in a timely manner

What this means for you

Local messages have an impact on the performance of our system. It is best when messages are as much as possible part of the system messages. In order to remove unnecessary duplication, all the messages that have a local localisation and are exactly the same as the system message will be removed. What we ask you to do is to compare and proof read the messages in translatewiki.net and the local messages. You can then either remove local messages when the translatewiki.net message is to be preferred or, you can update the message at translatewiki.net.

Messages that are specific to your project will have to stay as they are. You do want to check if the format and the variables of the message are still the same.

Why localise at translatewiki.net

When you localise at translatewiki.net, your messages will be used in all Wikimedia projects and eventually in all MediaWiki based projects. This is how we provide the standard support for your language. When messages change, at translatewiki.net you will be prompted to revisit your translations. Localising is more efficient because we have innovated the process to make you more efficient; there is text explaining about messages and we have applied AJAX technology to reduce the number of clicks you have to make.

Translatewiki.net update

• Currently 6.67% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.04% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ༡༤:༥༠, ༢༨ ཟླ་དགུ་བ། ༢༠༠༩ (UTC)
• Currently 6.63% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.04% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ༠༩:༥༧, ༡ ཟླ་བཅུ་གཅིག་པ། ༢༠༠༩ (UTC)
• Currently 6.77% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.04% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ༡༥:༡༤, ༣༠ ཟླ་བཅུ་གཅིག་པ། ༢༠༠༩ (UTC)
• Currently 6.75% of the MediaWiki messages and 0.04% of the messages of the extensions used by the Wikimedia Foundation projects have been localised. Please help us help your language by localising and proof reading at translatewiki.net. This is the recent localisation activity for your language. Thanks, GerardM ༡༤:༡༥, ༤ ཟླ་དང་པོ། ༢༠༡༠ (UTC)

• PS Please help us complete the most wanted messages..

How can we improve the usability for your language

We expect that with the implementation of LocalisationUpdate the usability of MediaWiki for your language will improve. We are now ready to look at other aspects of usability for your language as well. There are two questions we would like you to answer: Are there issues with the new functionality of the Usability Initiative Does MediaWiki support your language properly

The best way to answer the first question is to visit the translatewiki.net. Change the language to your language, select the “vector” skin and add the advanced tool bar in in the preferences and check out the new functionality. And make some changes in your user page. When there is a need to improve on the localisation, please make the necessary changess . It should update your localisation straight away. We would like you to report each issue individually at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Usability_issues.

When there are problems with the support of MediaWiki for your language, we really want to know about this. It is best to report each issue separately. In this way there will be no large mass of issues to resolve but we can address each issue on its own. Consider issues with the display of characters, the presentation of your script, the position of the side bar, the combination of text with other languages, scripts. It is best to try this in an environment like the prototype wiki as it provides you with a clean, basic and up to date environment. The prototype wiki is available for five languages but you can select any of them, change the preferences to your language and test out MediaWiki for your language.

We would like you to report each issue individually at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language issues. The issues you raise will all be assessed. It is important to keep each issue separate, because this will make it easier to understand the issues and find solutions.

PS This text has been approved by Naoko, Brion and Siebrand. Thanks, GerardM ༡༤:༥༠, ༢༨ ཟླ་དགུ་བ། ༢༠༠༩ (UTC)

New gadget, HotCat

Dear Wikipedians. The first gadget has been installed in this Wikipedia. It makes categorizing much easier (you won't need to press རྩོམ་སྒྲིག everytime you want to add ir remove categories). To use it in your account, go to ངའི་ལེགས་སྒྲིག --> Gadgets and tick "HotCat" option. Then press "Save" and you have one gadget selected in your account. Good luck. --Viskonsas ༡༤:༢༡, ༡༢ ཟླ་བཅུ་བ། ༢༠༠༩ (UTC)

Translating interface

Earlier or later Wikipedia namespaces should be translated into Tibetan. But in order to do so, we need to decide their translations at first. All words in capital letters after "=>" should be translated into Tibetan. You can discuss. /* private */ $wgNamespaceNamesEn = array(

       NS_MEDIA            => 'media',སྨྱན་བྱེད།
       NS_SPECIAL          => 'special', དམིགས་བསལ།
       NS_MAIN             => main",གཙོ་བོ།
       NS_TALK             => 'talk', གཏམ། 
       NS_USER             => 'User', བཀོལ་མཁན།
       NS_USER_TALK        => 'User_talk', བཀོལ་མཁན་གྱི་གཏམ།
       NS_WIKIPEDIA        => $wgMetaNamespace, ཝེ་ཁེ་རིག་མཛོད།
       NS_WIKIPEDIA_TALK   => $wgMetaNamespace . '_talk',ཝེ་ཁེ་སྨྱན་བྱེད་དང་གཏམ།
       NS_IMAGE            => 'Image', པར་རིས།
       NS_IMAGE_TALK       => 'Image_talk', པར་རིས་དང་གཏམ།
       NS_MEDIAWIKI        => 'MediaWiki',ཝེ་ཁེའི་སྨྱན་བྱེད།
       NS_MEDIAWIKI_TALK   => 'MediaWiki_talk', ཝེ་ཁེའི་སྨྱན་བྱེད་ཀྱི་གཏམ།
       NS_TEMPLATE         => 'Template', སྒྲོམ་གཞི།
       NS_TEMPLATE_TALK    => 'Template_talk', སྒྲོམ་གཞི་དང་གཏམ།
       NS_HELP             => 'Help', རོགས་པ།
       NS_HELP_TALK        => 'Help_talk', རོགས་པ་དང་གཏམ།
       NS_CATEGORY         => 'Category', རིགས་དབྱེ།
       NS_CATEGORY_TALK    => 'Category_talk' རིགས་དབྱེ་དང་གཏམ།

);

Discussionbo:Wikipedia:ཝི་ཁི་རིག་མཛོད།

Wikimania Scholarships

The call for applications for Wikimania Scholarships to attend Wikimania 2010 in Gdansk, Poland (July 9-11) is now open. The Wikimedia Foundation offers Scholarships to pay for selected individuals' round trip travel, accommodations, and registration at the conference. To apply, visit the Wikimania 2010 scholarships information page, click the secure link available there, and fill out the form to apply. For additional information, please visit the Scholarships information and FAQ pages:

• Scholarships
• Scholarships FAQ

Yours very truly, Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation

Bot flag request for WikitanvirBot

• Operator  : Wikitanvir
• Automatic or Manually Assisted : Automatic
• Programming Language(s)  : Python (pywikipedia)
• Function Summary  : Interwiki
• Edit period(s)  : Daily
• Edit rate requested  : 2/3 edits per minute at most
• Already has a bot flag (Y/N)  : Yes, see here
• Function Details  : Bot will patrol recent changes and new pages, and add, remove, or modify interwiki links in autonomous mode.

Currently doing some test edits. Notify me if there is a problem. — Tanvir • ༠༦:༠༡, ༣ ཟླ་བཅུ་བ། ༢༠༡༠ (UTC)

Not done, global bot implemented. Manuelt15 ༡༧:༥༠, ༢༠ ཟླ་གསུམ། ༢༠༡༡ (UTC)

Bot flag request for Mjbmrbot

• Operator  : Mjbmr
• Automatic or Manually Assisted : Automatic
• Programming Language(s)  : Python (pywikipedia)
• Function Summary  : Interwiki
• Already has a bot flag (Y/N)  : Yes, see here
• Function Details  : Just interwikis, thanks Mjbmr ^Talk ༡༠:༤༡, ༡༧ ཟླ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ། ༢༠༡༠ (UTC)

Not done, global bot implemented. Manuelt15 ༡༧:༤༩, ༢༠ ཟླ་གསུམ། ༢༠༡༡ (UTC)

Translation at Strategywiki

We could use some help figuring out what this post at Strategy Wiki says. Can anyone help? Thanks. Courcelles ༠༣:༢༠, ༢༤ ཟླ་བཞི་བ། ༢༠༡༡ (UTC)

Call for image filter referendum

The Wikimedia Foundation, at the direction of the Board of Trustees, will be holding a vote to determine whether members of the community support the creation and usage of an opt-in personal image filter, which would allow readers to voluntarily screen particular types of images strictly for their own account.

Further details and educational materials will be available shortly. The referendum is scheduled for 12-27 August, 2011, and will be conducted on servers hosted by a neutral third party. Referendum details, officials, voting requirements, and supporting materials will be posted at Meta:Image filter referendum shortly.

Sorry for delivering you a message in English. Please help translate the pages on the referendum on Meta and join the translators mailing list.

For the coordinating committee,
Philippe (WMF)
Cbrown1023
Risker
Mardetanha
PeterSymonds
Robert Harris འདི་ནས་བཟུང་བདག་གིས་རྩོམ་སྒྲིག་བྱ་རྒྱུ་ཡིན།

HiW-Bot

• Operator  : Hedwig in Washington
• Automatic or Manually Assisted : automatic
• Programming Language(s)  : Python (pywikipedia), daily update
• Function Summary  : Interwiki, Internationalization by removing chaos in Babel so it can be used properly and easy. Double redirects will be added shortly
• Already has a bot flag (Y/N)  : Yes, DE, EN, AR, NN and LB, others pending see here
• Function Details  : just using the standard interwiki.py; parameters: -auto -all - log -catr

Language support group for Tibetan

The Wikimedia Foundation has brought together a new team of developers who are dedicated to language support. This team is to support all the languages and consequently it is not realistic to expect that the team members can provide proper support for your language. It is for this reason that we are looking for volunteers who will make up a language support team.

This language support team will be asked to provide us with information about their language. Such information may need to be provided either to us or on a website that we will indicate to you. Another activity will be to test software that will likely have an effect on the running of the MediaWiki software. We are looking for people who clearly identify their ability. Formal knowledge is definitely appreciated.

As much of the activity will be concentrated on translatewiki.net, it will be a plus when team members know how to localise at translatewiki.net. Thanks, Gmeijssen ༡༠:༢༧, ༡༦ ཟླ་བཅུ་བ། ༢༠༡༡ (UTC)

Terms of Use update

I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is discussing changes to its Terms of Use. The discussion can be found at Talk:Terms of use. Everyone is invited to join in. Because the new version of Terms of use is not in final form, we are not able to present official translations of it. Volunteers are welcome to translate it, as German volunteers have done at m:Terms of use/de, but we ask that you note at the top that the translation is unofficial and may become outdated as the English version is changed. The translation request can be found at m:Translation requests/WMF/Terms of Use 2 -- Maggie Dennis, Community Liaison ༠༠:༣༢, ༢༧ ཟླ་བཅུ་བ། ༢༠༡༡ (UTC)

Open Call for 2012 Wikimedia Fellowship Applicants

I apologize that you are receiving this message in English. Please help translate it.

• Do you want to help attract new contributors to Wikimedia projects?
• Do you want to improve retention of our existing editors?
• Do you want to strengthen our community by diversifying its base and increasing the overall number of excellent participants around the world?

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking Community Fellows and project ideas for the Community Fellowship Program. A Fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order to work on a specific project or set of projects. Submissions for 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia projects. If interested, please submit a project idea or apply to be a fellow by January 15, 2012. Please visit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships for more information.

Thanks!

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Community Fellowships, Wikimedia Foundation ༡༢:༤༨, ༢༡ ཟླ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པ། ༢༠༡༡ (UTC)

Distributed via Global message delivery. (Wrong page? Fix here.)

Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta

Wikimedia Foundation is getting ready to push out 1.19 to all the WMF-hosted wikis. As we finish wrapping up our code review, you can test the new version right now on beta.wmflabs.org. For more information, please read the release notes or the start of the final announcement.

The following are the areas that you will probably be most interested in:

• Faster loading of javascript files makes dependency tracking more important.
• New common*.css files usable by skins instead of having to copy piles of generic styles from MonoBook or Vector's css.
• The default user signature now contains a talk link in addition to the user link.
• Searching blocked usernames in block log is now clearer.
• Better timezone recognition in user preferences.
• Improved diff readability for colorblind people.
• The interwiki links table can now be accessed also when the interwiki cache is used (used in the API and the Interwiki extension).
• More gender support (for instance in logs and user lists).
• Language converter improved, e.g. it now works depending on the page content language.
• Time and number-formatting magic words also now depend on the page content language.
• Bidirectional support further improved after 1.18.

Report any problems on the labs beta wiki and we'll work to address them before they software is released to the production wikis.

Note that this cluster does have SUL but it is not integrated with SUL in production, so you'll need to create another account. You should avoid using the same password as you use here. — Global message delivery ༢༣:༥༨, ༡༤ ཟླ་དང་པོ། ༢༠༡༢ (UTC)

MediaWiki 1.19

(Apologies if this message isn't in your language.) The Wikimedia Foundation is planning to upgrade MediaWiki (the software powering this wiki) to its latest version this month. You can help to test it before it is enabled, to avoid disruption and breakage. More information is available in the full announcement. Thank you for your understanding.

Guillaume Paumier, via the Global message delivery system (wrong page? You can fix it.). ༡༤:༥༠, ༡༢ ཟླ་གཉིས་པ། ༢༠༡༢ (UTC)