Portal talk:Language

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Requested merge

I have requested that the new British language (Celtic) article be merged into the Welsh language article. Contribute at Talk:Welsh language. --Mais oui! 11:03, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Language of the month

I think we should avoid putting up languages that are already FAs here since they've already received plenty of attention. We should focus on articles on languages that are good, but haven't been properly peer reviewed and that could use a general upping of quality. And that would include both major languages like Spanish, smaller ones like Albanian or even extinct languages like Norn.

Peter ^Isotalo 14:30, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

how about a question of the month because i have a question. why does wikepedia allow people to edit things? what if i need information that is accurate, how am i supposed to know if someone really knows what they are talking about whe they edit something. i think this is kind of stupid

Portal watch

Um....is anyone really updating this portal anymore? I picked a featured pic and article for the month about halfway through August, which is somewhat embarassing. From now on, if I see no nominees for any of the sections of this portal I'll just find one. The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 19:18, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Anymore? Did anyone ever? I don't think this portal ever got off the ground. —The preceding signed comment was added by Angr (talk • contribs). 19:58, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Would you, or anyone else reading this talkpage, be willing to help? The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 21:23, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Although I can't help regularly, I made a few suggestions for the section "Did you know?" at Portal:Language/Did you know/Nominate. If you agree, I can update that part of the portal. Ι have created and I am looking after the Portal:Language of the greek wikipedia (under the username "Valentin"). It is a good idea to try to find someone to help regularly with this portal at Wikipedia:WikiProject Linguistics. --Michkalas 16:35, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

OK, I'll add the first three on the nomination list for september. I'm also going to go looking for a good picture, so we can have things ready for September 1. The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 19:18, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

I also have 3 suggestions for images at Portal:Language/Picture of the month/Nominate.--Michkalas 20:04, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

I like them a lot, but I have found one for the month of september (see Portal:Language/Picture of the month/September 2006). Do you think we should replace it with a nominee, or hold the nominees for october and november? The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 20:36, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

The one you have chosen for September is just fine. We can keep the rest for the months following September.--Michkalas 22:48, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

You should probably pick which one of those goes for the month of october, november, et cetrea, considering you found them! The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 19:15, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Done. Nominee images moved to archive.--Michkalas 21:01, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikiversity needs translators

Wikiversity is a new Wikimedia sister project. Wikiversity is establishing versions in several languages and is going to be holding multi-language discussions in order to develop policies. Wikiversity needs participants who can translate documents from one language into another language. Thanks for your help! --JWSchmidt 22:57, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

If I were you, I would take this to the language reference desk, few people ever come here. The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 21:03, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Anyone mind putting a link to Wikiversity's School of Language and Literature on the Portal? The Jade Knight 06:15, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Proposed header image

How's this? I have a globe surrounded by the word "language" in various languages. It's actually bigger, I shrunk it in order to fit here. The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 14:31, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

OK, no comments for three days, so I'm adding it in. The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 00:46, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi! You might be interested in taking a look at the related Czech and German Language Portals. They use sequences of header images. I quite liked the idea (btw, I created the Czech Language Portal that way myself, using the German one as a template). Just a thought, I'm not saying the English portal should look the same. Daniel Šebesta (talk • contribs) 00:52, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Fake language?

Please, can any expert visit Talk:Lutescan_language? I think it is a fake, but I'm not sure --83.44.190.62 14:27, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

It seems that the problem has been since taken care of on the talkpage. The ikiroid (talk·desk·Advise me) 06:07, 9 February 2007 (UTC)