User talk:Soman/Lang-Help-ksh

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Remarks:

1. Language code ksh is for Kölsch, one of the more than 100 Ripuarian languages. There is no Ripuarian macrolanguage, its just a collection of related languages forming a dialect continuum linking Low German, Nederlands, Limburgish, (almost) Luxemburgish and Central German. Until there is a collective ISO code for the Ripuarian languages, Kölsch took the role of a host to its neighbouring languages Wikipediæ. It is fine to post Kölsch in the Wikipedia for the Ripuarian languages.
2. There are several orthographies for Ripuarian languages. Since I do not know how I possibly break a bot accessing the subject page if I put it there, her is the template to be placed in the 1st line of an automatically generated article so as to indicate its dialect and spelling to the reader, and also put it in the appropriate categories.
   {{Atikkel_op|Kölsch||}}
3. Depending on the actual data in an automatically generated article, there would have to be some manual postprocessing (e.g. to get Sandhi and Liaisons right, when needed) and, if party names are in some foreign language, wrap the appropriate {{lang|ISO-CODE|…here goes the text…}}-template around it. To faciltate this, the template:
   {{Template:Shprooch Nohluure}}
   should be placed at the beginning of an article before the language/spelling indicator so as to alert editors.
4. When appropriate, a
   {{Template:stub}}
   should be inserted towards the end of an article stub. Its meaning is identical to the english one.
5. I tried to avoid grammatical form changes as far as possible, thus wording and word order are a bit funny at times. It would have been easier to deal with, had I known in which context or order sentences will finally show up.
6. I included all the wiki-links that we usually have.
7. Repeated identical links should be avoided, if possible.
8. There is no way to get around gender when it comes to proper names of persons. I inserted both, always as female/male form. If you can determine gender and use it, please do so. If you cannot, it will have to be left to post-editors.
9. There is no way to say parliament as generic term with a specific election. You must name it, e.g. say "Bundestag" or "Folketing" or "Duma" or "Knesset" or the like. Not doing so will produce a sentence similar to: "I saw a mister and his female last night and we were having dinner together" when "I met the president and the first lady for dinner last night" might have been more appropriate :-)
10. Similar with magazine - it has to be one of three genders, singular or plural, differentiates between a generic, or specific name. I think that needs editing anyways.

-- Purodha Blissenbach 13:28, 16 August 2006 (UTC)