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<div class="plainlinks" style="text-align:right; float:right; ">«[http://www.marillion.com/music/lyrics/brave.htm#made Made Again]»<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marillion Marillion]</div> |
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== A belated welcome :) == |
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Like a bright new morning <br> |
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Like a bright new day <br> |
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[[Image:Green and white machine.jpg|right|150px]] |
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I woke up from a deep sleep <br> |
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Welcome to the One Laptop per Child wiki. Please make yourself at home; read through the [[Table of Contents]] and [[OLPC FAQ|FAQ]], and take a look around. |
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I woke up from a bad dream <br> |
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To a brand new morning <br> |
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Other pages of interest: |
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To a brand new day <br> |
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* [[Pictures]] |
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Like the whole world has been made again<br> |
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* [[Ask OLPC a Question]] |
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* [[OS images for emulation]] |
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* [[Rollout and community building ideas]] |
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'''New beginning...''' clean talk page! |
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Don't worry, '''all''' your posts have been preserved in [[User talk:Xavi/Archive|my archive]]. The only thing that I changed there is that I tried to group the posts by subject area: [[User talk:Xavi/Archive#Translation|translations]], the [[User talk:Xavi/Archive#Wiki|wiki]], and [[User talk:Xavi/Archive#Social & others|others]]. They've also been ''chronologically reversed'', so in each area, the oldest are at the bottom. |
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Feel free to leave me a note on my [[User talk:Sj|talk page]] if you have further questions or need help finding your way around. |
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That said: welcome to my talk page! Please feel free to post in english, spanish or french — portuñol I may be able to decipher, maybe some italiano (sorry, no asian languages in my bag) — on whatever subject :) [[User:Xavi|Xavi]] 01:16, 17 September 2007 (EDT) |
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Cheers, [[User:Sj|Sj]] |
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== It's about time :) just joking. == |
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I just couldn't resist being the first to post something on your '''Clean''' page <br>:) --[[User:Chief Mike|Chief Mike]] 08:04, 17 September 2007 (EDT) |
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¿ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marillion ? |
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: thanks! and oops! wikipedia.org vs. .com ... much better! [[User:Xavi|Xavi]] |
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<gallery> |
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Image:Pinoy's_have_first_XO-1.JPG|Filipino Children have first XO-1 |
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Image:OLPC-PH_provincial_Board-Room.JPG|Newly constructed<br>OLPCPH Provincial Board-Room |
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Image:OLPCPH_BoardRoom.JPG|Newly constructed<br>OLPCPH Provincial Board-Room |
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Image:MathLab_plus_XO-1.JPG|Math lab At Principals home |
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</gallery> Hi,<br> |
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Been too long of a time since last x-change of comms sorry I've been very busy promoting here in the Rural:Philippines :)<br> PS:? I tried to create a Pootle account a while back without success :(<br> --[[User:Chief Mike|Chief Mike]] 10:50, 8 April 2008 (EDT) |
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== [[Benjamin Mako Hill]] == |
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As you can perhaps see from history of [[Benjamin Mako Hill|the page in question]], I did not create that page. It is a biographical page about me because of my involvement with the project. I have a user page which I have created. |
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If you don't think the main namespace should exist, please go ahead and delete it. It does not bother me. —<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b> 00:35, 20 September 2007 (EDT) |
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== RE: Status of Measure in OBX template == |
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''follow-up to [[User talk:Xavi#Status of Measure in OBX template]] |
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: Oops! yes you're right. And yes, 'bundled' seems fine. The categorization is still not totally defined (that's why they are red/missing), so any suggestions & feedback are more than welcome. |
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: I haven't removed the old {{tl|Status box}} as I want to make sure there are no objections, and that the OBXes are helpful. Comments? :) --[[User:Xavi|Xavi]] 11:20, 22 September 2007 (EDT) |
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::I love the OBXes! They concisely convey all the most important things a new user might want to know about any activity. Although, I cannot think of any now, I would let you know of any suggestions for additional fields in the OBXes. Great work on the OBXes! --[[User:Arjs|Arjs]] 11:53, 22 September 2007 (EDT) |
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== RE: Talk:Greece_Test_Reports not in english == |
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It seems that I keep stumbling across some of your past requests :) and wish you had added a Category:Needs Translation to english or ??? <br>Said page has been Translated: I opened two tabs of edit the page, translated first with babel fish, and cut / pasted line for line after the Δεδομένα (''Data'') into the second tabbed page. This only works good for me on short pages. |
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For many languages not available at google translate try Yahoo! BabelFish. I don't know if it could work as a parser function template though? |
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http://babelfish.yahoo.com/free_trans_service |
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--[[User:Chief Mike|Chief Mike]] 04:09, 24 September 2007 (EDT) "'''This User edits using Firefox-2'''" :) |
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== Maintain the PO files. == |
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Really nice job of you.Awesome! Thanks for your co-operative activities. |
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One thing i would like to acknowledge you ,it would be more effective if we maintain the po files |
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much more generic.Since some string or sentences has been frequently repeated in different po files,so if |
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we resolve this redundancy in each po file it would more efficient to work. |
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: Thanks [[User:Nirmal|Nirmal]], I'm just trying to help :) |
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: As for making more effective the POs (or rather the POTs) that depends (mostly? exclusively?) on the developers, afaik. BTW, I agree totally with you as I've seen lots of replicated strings (specially in [[TamTam]] files). I'm not an expert on the subject, but some tools do provide things like 'memory' so you will actually be reusing the translated strings associated to previous translations, saving you the effort. BTW, the in-wiki solution is not really optimal as the tools can't be used, but at least it address some issues we are having :) [[User:Xavi|Xavi]] 09:40, 29 September 2007 (EDT) |
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:: ticket updated... [[User:Sj|Sj]] [[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]] |
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== deleting popular pages == |
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dont forget that it is more than just the in'wiki linksthat break when a page i deleted rather than left asa redirect. for pages that have become popular over months, or even a few very prominent weeks, including any page that was linked rom the main page, it is good to leave the original page title and have it redirect [once] to the nerw page. at the same time, fix doubleredirects by removing anything that is onwiki and points to the old page title... |
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finally ,in addition to keeping links on the web and in blog posts from breaking, you want people who are typing a url by handto go somewhere expected...even if it is no longer the page title, ifsomeone might guess it, better to save them from having to search. that said, nice celanup job :) andthx for helping finishthe demo notes title moves [[User:Sj|Sj]] [[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]] 22:05, 3 October 2007 (EDT) |
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== re: wiki admin? == |
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It looks like someone tagged me as admin, because I have a whole lot more tabs now. Thanks, Xavi! —[[User:Leejc|Joe]] 19:50, 9 October 2007 (EDT) |
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== opentasks! == |
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Please start using and updating [[:Template:Opentasks]] ... [[User:Sj|Sj]] [[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]] 01:30, 14 October 2007 (EDT) |
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== blocks == |
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try 3 months blocks for the gibberish-spammers; they come back. [[User:Sj|Sj]] [[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]] 09:47, 14 October 2007 (EDT) |
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== Bulgaria Translation == |
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Hey, thanks for moving the pages. However, I had left them outside the naming convention, because they were not done. In a way, I created the new pages as my temporary working place. So, please, next time ask me before you make serious changes. Again, I appreciate your help! --[[User:Cryout|Cryout]] 14:46, 16 October 2007 (EDT) |
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== time for commons-style multilingual guidelines? == |
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[[Cang_Jie_imes]] is my favorite new page in a while. It looks like we'll need some standard way to help people find all of the pages in their language; and to have short messages in many languages on a single talk page... have you looked at some of the multilingual extensions wikimedia commons uses? They manage to keep lots of languages together on a single page. we also need a proper water cooler where community members can share questions and ideas less formally than creating new pages for the mor added them to 'olpc lists' and FAQ... [[User:Sj|Sj]] [[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]] 05:07, 17 October 2007 (EDT) |
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== Portuguese changes == |
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Hi Xavi... FYI: Someone changed a Portuguese language template in a way that is similar to the vandalbots, but not identical: [[Template:Translation/changes/lang-pt]]. I'm not sure if this is actually vandalism, so I reverted my rollback; perhaps you are more familiar with the language? —[[User:Leejc|Joe]] 21:29, 28 October 2007 (EDT) |
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== Publishing translation on the laptop.org website == |
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Hi, Xavi, |
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== Thanks == |
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I am now almost down with the Bulgrian translation of laptop.org and I don't know how to close the project. What is the process for getting the translation live? Currently I enlisted a few people to make corrections, so I am doing some quality control. What is next? Thanks a lot. --[[User:Cryout|Cryout]] 10:47, 4 November 2007 (EST) |
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: Thank you for directing me to Walter. I wrote to him and will be waiting for his answer. About recruiting more translators, I am in the process at the moment. A name was suggested to me from a Bulgarian Linus-translating community and I am now trying to get in contact. --[[User:Cryout|Cryout]] 10:31, 5 November 2007 (EST) |
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== [[OLPC_Brasil/Porto_Alegre]] (A pilot School?) == |
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=== [http://olpc.tv OLPC TV] === |
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Hi, I translated this from Portuguese-English but, ¿is it truly a '''Pilot school''' located there as you marked/tagged it? <br>:) [[User:Chief Mike|Chief Mike]] 05:04, 8 November 2007 (EST) |
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Hello, I just registered http://olpc.tv , a place to list and release OLPC related videos. I wonder if you would be interested and if you would have time to join me on that site as a moderator. You can email me at <tt><charbax AT/EN charbax PUNTO/DOT com></tt> if you are interested. I plan not only to have all the videos listed at [[Video of the OLPC]] (which I think I mostly have been updating and that page which I created about a year ago on this wiki), I plan to also regularly search youtube and Google Video for new OLPC related videos, also ask OLPC staff to produce more videos, and have a feature where any user can submit videos which a group of moderators can check and release on the video feed. [[User:Charbax|Charbaax]] posted this. |
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== Thanks for restoring me == |
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Hi, thanks for re-creating me and the other users who were maliciously deleted 11/21/07. So sorry we live in a world where that task is necessary..... ~ [[User:Hexagonal|Hexagonal]] |
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Xavi, thank you for all of your input and wiki organization. To answer some of your implicit questions: subpages just create backlinks to their parent pages up top. And yes, we need to turn on interwiki links.... [[User:Sj|Sj]] [[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]] |
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:Thanks! I just hope that my signal:noise ratio is within the accepted limits :) So any feedback (go, stop, deviate, focus here, forget that, etc.) will be more than appreciated!! We all have our perks and personal interests... we just have to find the best way for the project! |
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:One thing I would like about interwiki linking is to have an icon (similar to the offsite link) that would denote to which wiki that'll take you. |
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:Another thing, would be the capability of including images from external (wikipedia's mostly) sites. That is to avoid having to upload them to this site (although I don't know what policies would apply to 'divert' traffic to external repositories). Cheers. --[[User:Xavi|Xavi]] 11:59, 27 December 2006 (EST) |
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:: And again, thanks for your oversight of newbie contributions. External images... I'll look into that. Better -- and safer from a standpoint of imagers not breaking in future -- is still to upload them here. |
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== [[Translation terms]]: to delete or not to delete == |
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== OLPC Colombia == |
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Hi I just noticed that you tagged [[Translation terms]] which I started to use yesterday as a page to be deleted. I know about Pootle translation project, but there are a couple of reasons why I wanted to have an en-ru translation glossary page. First of all we came across a situation when one term (Activity, to be exact) may be translated differently in different contexts. Then in some cases we feel a need to discuss the best translation for each case before it is finalized, and it is better to do it in an open way rather than in private correspondence. So this page was created as a draft page for translation terms before they go to Pootle. I asked a question about it on the discussion page, but nobody seemed to respond :-) --[[User:Biarm|Biarm]] 23:05, 28 November 2007 (EST) |
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Xavi, thanks a lot for helping me complement OLPC Colombia, i think that we have to help each other like latinoamericans in this proyect.--[[User:RafaelOrtiz|RafaelOrtiz]] 21:05, 29 December 2006 (EST) |
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: Hi Xavi. I would appreciate any technically sound solution that will allow to suggest variants of translations and discuss them. If it is possible to arrange that as a part of Pootle's terminology project, it is fine with me. I just think that PTP is something more advanced. And my concern is about volunteer translators who come to localize various wiki pages and need some easy to handle wiki glossary to play with the translation template and have some initial practice. It is just to early to redirect those people to the Pootle server. (This is exactly the situation that we have with Russian translations). So my suggestion would be to keep a draft glossary wiki page somewhere (to me [[Translation terms]] serves this purpose well and, as soon as a term is finalized, transfer it to the Pootle glossary. Does that make sense? :-) --[[User:Biarm|Biarm]] 09:42, 30 November 2007 (EST) |
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:Un placer! Creo que hay un montón de cosas sobre las cuales podemos trabajar juntos. Lo mio (por el momento) son estadisticas y otros aspectos no-informáticos. Una posible veta para explorar es ver a latinoamérica en su conjunto, no solo como países aislados... te prendes? |
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:I'm assuming from your name and working area in the wiki that you're colombian (thus a native spanish speaker) if that's not the case, please let me know, and I'll swap languages! :) --[[User:Xavi|Xavi]] 21:17, 29 December 2006 (EST) |
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== Thanks for the gallery markup on the Simplified user guide == |
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Great edits on the user guide, I really appreciate it. Makes for much easier scrolling. And I wouldn't have known about the markup for layout so I appreciate it - teaching me wikitext, awesome. |
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--[[User:Annegentle|annegentle]] 08:58, 30 November 2007 (EST) |
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==Getting started in Pootle==1/ |
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Xavi me le pego de una vez, todo lo que pueda hacer lo hare, deberiamos crear una pagina especial para latinoamerica, con links de noticias y proyectos...?, ademas tambien me gustaria ayudar a organizar las paginas de paises como nepal y laos asi como nuevos paises que esten iniciando en el proyecto.--[[User:RafaelOrtiz|RafaelOrtiz]] 11:48, 30 December 2006 (EST) |
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hi..I've signed up to Pootle as my girlfriend might be able to translate some sections into Turkish, but when I go here https://dev.laptop.org/translate/tr/ there are no entries... How do I get started? --[[User:Tomhannen|Tomhannen]] 10:13, 9 December 2007 (EST) |
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== In Argentina in January == |
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:Rafael, estoy totalmente de acuerdo con la 'zona latinoamericana'... y ya hubiera generado la página inicial, pero me cuesta encontrar el nombre correcto... |
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Xavi! I'm traveling to Argentina for a wedding in January. I'll be in BA |
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:*OLPC Latin America - incluye a Brasil, que ya tiene suficiente coherencia interna como país, y la idea es (para mí) integrar a los países de habla castellana en el continente americano (todo bien con Brasil :) |
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1/10 and 1/11, in Mendoza 1/12 through 1/14, and back in BA from 1/15 to 1/17. Where are you? And will you be around? --[[User:Lauren|Lauren]] 12:06, 13 December 2007 (EST) |
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:*OLPC LA - son demasiadas letras (y nunca falta el que piense en Los Angeles ;) |
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:*OLPC Hispanic America - por motivos 'ideológicos' no me gusta... :( aunque en cierto modo, creo que es el más 'correcto' |
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:Tambien habia pensado en 'OLPC Sudaca' - que si bien para algunos es despectivo, también otorga identidad (aunque algo rebelde e irreverente... ;) |
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:Por el momento voy a arrancar con [[OLPC Spanish America]] (cualquier cosa despues la movemos). Sugerencias o ideas? --[[User:Xavi|Xavi]] 07:17, 31 December 2006 (EST) |
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== interwiki linking == |
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* El nombre Spanish america me parece acertado, lastima lo de Brasil pero entiendo las razones y no hay lio, podriamos poner un mapa en la pagina con los paises involucrados o que tengan algun proceso en cuanto a este proyecto, tal vez un link a country status por ejemplo... |
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Por otro lado no se si tenemos soporte interwiki.. tu sabes si hay o lo has utilizado..? --[[User:RafaelOrtiz|RafaelOrtiz]] 03:50, 6 January 2007 (EST) |
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Xavi: |
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Here's my [[User:BlankVerse/test|page]] testing interwiki links. It looks like most of the common MediaWiki interwiki links are enabled. It's just the one to the English-language Wikipedia that doesn't work (e.g. [[WikiPedia:User:BlankVerse]] or [[WikiPedia:Argentina]]). I left a message on [[User:sj]]'s [[User talk:sj#Interwiki|talk page]], since he is as close as I've found to a MediaWiki expert on the OLPC wiki. ''[[User:BlankVerse|<font color="green">Blank</font>]][[User talk:BlankVerse|<font color="#F88017">Verse</font>]]'' 19:59, 28 December 2007 (EST) |
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== adminship == |
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Xavi, I've made you a wiki admin; please use your newfound [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrator#Powers power] for good -- be careful in banning users, and in protecting or deleting pages. [[User:Sj|Sj]] [[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]] 17:58, 9 January 2007 (EST) |
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== Hola! == |
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:I'm flattered. Thanks! I'll use the new powers carefully. |
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:BTW, is there a page (besides [[OLPCWiki:Community Portal]] and some other notes here and there) for admins to flock around and coordinate things? |
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:I guess my days as careless contributor are over... now I'll have to watch over myself! :) --[[User:Xavi|Xavi]] 08:51, 10 January 2007 (EST) |
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Welcome back. Lauren should be there for another few days. I believe she is in Uruguay now and then coming back through Arg... email may be the best way to reach her. And Tomeu is here in Boston for a week and says 'hello!'. --[[User:Sj|Sj]] [[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9" style="font-size:70%">leave me a message</font>]] 21:04, 14 January 2008 (EST) |
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=wixi?= |
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: ps -- there was some recent korean spam here, reminding me we should check up on our friend [[user:php5|php5]]... --[[User:Sj|Sj]] [[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9" style="font-size:70%">leave me a message</font>]] |
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Xavi, thanks for categorizing [[language methods]].. please check [[wixi]] which wants to replace [[twext]].. todo bien? gracias |
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.. pd.. me puedes responder en mi [[User_talk:Duke|talk]] page and feel free de borrar este pregunta.. |
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== Xoxo/Statistics == |
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==Country Tables== |
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'Afternoon, Xavi. Please email me at abrandi@laptop.org, I have some questions about the country reference tables you use for articles like [[OLPC Nigeria]] and [[Libya]]. Thanks :) |
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Xavi, |
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== Skype much? == |
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Hi Xavi, are you on skype? If so, drop me a line : metasj |
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Saw your cool stats pages, in [[Xoxo/Statistics]]. I'm guessing that those pages were auto-generated. And I'd be interested in seeing them continue (But maybe not in the main user space... maybe 'OLPC:Statistics' ??? |
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Cheers, [[User:Sj|Sj]] |
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Also, I don't know if you have heard, but a bunch of the recent new users (myself included) are interesting in starting up a regular online [[Weekly_zine|'XO Laptop 'zine ']]. With a little background search, I discovered that you and several others tried to do something similar 3 to 4 months ago. |
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==Writing to learn== |
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Thanks for adding the category to [[Writing to learn]], I was about to do it... Good luck, I will be back sometimes on this website ! [[User:Astirmays|Astirmays]] 18:39, 30 January 2007 (EST) |
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Would you be interested in helping us out, or chipping in ... in someway? Lots of chatter about it on irc #olpc-support-gang .... |
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== seti at home et al. == |
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Thanks, --[[User:IainDavidson|IainD]] |
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Firstly, the reference to Seti at home and other screensavers was inserted in an inappropriate place and the educational use of such things was not explained. It was ADVERTISING. |
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: In fact, we will need our own chan for it soon. Let's talk about how to get these translated -- I really want the first ed. to be in 3 languages. --[[User:Sj|Sj]] [[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9" style="font-size:70%">leave me a message</font>]] 09:01, 17 January 2008 (EST) |
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Sj, |
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I believe that Seth is working on putting the pieces together. (Which reminds me, I'll need to get my part done soon! :) |
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Secondly, Seti At Home and other screensavers don't work on computers that have no Internet connection. They also don't work on slow computers like OLPC laptops and they don't work on computers that are regularly shut down or put to sleep. |
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Looks like we have several espanol people on the gang list. Which three languages are you thinking of ? The rest of the languages we could do a 'lazy translate' with Google/langauge. What do you mean by 'own chan' ?? --[[User:IainD|iainD]] 07:56, 18 January 2008 (EST) |
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== Help out a new translator? == |
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Thirdly, this background calculation software is in direct conflict with the OLPC's goal of low and controlled power consumption. Engineers have put a lot of effort into making the OLPC laptops consume less electricity than a commercial laptop. |
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I have a translator, [[User:Wing]], who can do traditional and some simplified Chinese, but doesn't really understand how the translation templates work. I haven't done anything with them, so I don't have a lot of background in it. Right now he is just translating blocks of text from http://laptop.org and storing them as .doc files with the original text included, so he is getting work done, but at some point he will need to put this into a template. Help? |
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== OLPCities == |
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--[[User:Nlee|Nikki]] 13:58, 23 January 2008 (EST) |
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Hi Xavi, |
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== How can I help with Spanish for Update-1? == |
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I just left a message on his talk page, but didn't ask him before diving in. I'm planning to delete some of those (now redirect) pages, because they really gum up the main namespace. Pages like [[keyboard]] and [[interface]] should not be about this random javascript nonsense, but rather about the actual laptop keyboard, and interface. |
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I'm es-4, not native, but email me using the wiki if you have a specific translating task for me - I'm 100% confident I can review/test an activity, 95% confident I can do a new activity from scratch, and only about 80% confident with big chunks of text like mmm-lessonplans (me salen bien legibles, pero no sin errores. De hecho, haber aprendido a leer en ingles primero es una ventaja en lo que respeta la ortografía, la única ventaja de tener un idioma tan ilógico...). I'm not interested in doing the wiki, just the device. Thanks! [[User:Homunq|Homunq]] 14:21, 4 February 2008 (EST) |
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Over the next few days/weeks, I'm going to be trying to do a massive cleanup and reorganization of the wiki, deleting or merging lots of pages, and trying to put relevant information where regular people can find it. I have to talk to SJ and Nia about this a bit more, but I'll definitely be glad to hear your thoughts on what the organization should look like, etc. You've done an amazing job tending this wiki. Lord knows it needs a lot more serious attention than even one or two people can give. |
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== More [[translators]] like you == |
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--[[User:Jacobolus|Jacobolus]] 20:46, 13 February 2007 (EST) |
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We need more people like you to help with the translators community... where do you recommend we look? --[[User:Sj|Sj]] [[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]] 09:53, 19 February 2008 (EST) |
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: Totally agree on the redirects and the gumming up on the namespace. I was basically postponing it, afraid of messing up somebody's vision (especially after so much effort by [[User:Adamascj]]). But yes, the wiki needs a lot of work... again, a bit of a chicken myself to 'edit boldly' as the wiki-user-manual says... |
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: Check out some of Homunq's new work on the translation template... --[[User:Sj|Sj]] [[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]] 22:13, 26 February 2008 (EST) |
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:: ''Well, with some authority from SJ, Nia, and Walter, I'm going to hopefully be very bold in the next few days/weeks.'' |
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: Some approaches I tried with more or less success / consistency were |
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:* homogeneous structure (particularly I tried with some languages, alphabets and countries) |
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:*: ''Yes, and here the goal is going to be to *really* homogenize things as much as possible, including aligning wiki pages with a re-organized main website, and merging lots of individual wiki pages together'' |
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:* the FAQ needs better organization and content (I doubt the reorganization into ''Ask OLPC ... about XXX'' by itself made a dent in the barrage of questions) |
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:*: ''No argument there. I'm not even going to worry about the FAQ at first though. I think once both laptop.org and the wiki have made useful content easy to find, a lot of the questions will be answered.'' |
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: Areas that need plenty of work (imho) is content and related academic stuff... I find it hard to determine either structure or usability of some content. Not to mention the multi-language issues. Needless to say that I'm all ears to give a hand! :) --[[User:Xavi|Xavi]] 21:43, 13 February 2007 (EST) |
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:: ''Yes, and hopefully SJ knows about that stuff, being the "director of content". Hopefully laptop.org itself can get a "content" section as well.'' --[[User:Jacobolus|Jacobolus]] 21:58, 13 February 2007 (EST) |
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==Pedagogical Ideas== |
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See my comment at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Translated_pages --[[User:Dupuy|@alex]] 00:53, 28 March 2008 (EDT) |
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Hi Xavi ! As you are the only person who was contact me, you are the only person that I think to ask a question. :-) |
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Do you know if there is a person or a team is particulary interested in pedagogical ideas, educational ideas, etc. (all subjects about education) in OlpcWiki ? I would present him, her or them the [[OlpcProject:Educational ideas]] to take their commentaries. (Could you give me your commentaries ?) I would more implicate me but I would connect to ideas are already in this wiki and respect them. |
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Can you help me ? |
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Thanks -- [[User:Zyacat|Zyacat]] 17:51, 15 February 2007 (EST) |
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It's a fine thing to add low-level projects to [[software projects]] (including bios- and firmware-related projects) -- some fall under more than one category. We should also have [[hardware projects]], though there aren't many yet [the laptop design itself, firmware and mmx-specific projects perhaps, hand-chargers, school server design]. [[User:Sj|Sj]] [[User talk:Sj|<font color="fc9"><small>talk</small></font>]] 16:27, 21 February 2007 (EST) |
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Just doing some wiki-cleanup and while I was looking through the orphaned pages, I noticed about 40 pages you made of type Xoxo/Statistics. . . Are they worth keeping for historical reasons? I notice most of them have very low view counts (about 15-20). [[User:Cjl|Cjl]] 16:38, 14 April 2008 (EDT) |
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== API Links == |
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: These are still very popular, by the way! --[[User:Sj|Sj]] [[User talk:Sj|<font style="color:#f70; font-size:70%">talk</font>]] 01:53, 27 February 2010 (UTC) |
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Xavi, |
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As you can see, I'm trying to figure out the Sugar API by tracing my way through the code. Can I help you by adding API links to the HIG? Thanks, -[[User:Jcfrench|Jeff]] 16:51, 5 March 2007 (EST) |
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== Cambodia == |
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== Translation to brazilian portuguese == |
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Hi Xavi, I'm a former OLPC employee at the OLPC EU HQ in Brussels, preparing a trip to visit my wife's family in Cambodia. Preparing to meet the Minister of Education of Cambodia. Saw you on http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=OLPC_Cambodia&action=history ... do you have any special interest to Cambodia in particular? Can you team-up / coach me? Thx--[[User:SvenAERTS|SvenAERTS]] 05:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC) |
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== Metrics and Evaluation == |
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Dear Xavi I'm building upon your 2006 writings http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_talk:Mission#Metrics .This has lead me to create the following categories, which are the most efficient way to pull together pages that have usefull info on this topic and where people might be interested in further reading on the topics of Category:Metrics , Category:Metrics , Feeback and Evaluation, Category:Evaluation |
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[[Category:Metrics, Feedback and Evaluation]] |
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Thanks for you message about the portuguese translation of HIG. The structure you created for tranlations of documents is very nice. It makes my life much easyer when tranlating a document. I got the idea of how it works in a few minutes and started the translation of the HIG. Maybe could be a good idea to write a Guide to Translators article in the Community portal. Thanks for the help --Juliano |
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Latest revision as of 13:26, 3 August 2013
Like a bright new morning
Like a bright new day
I woke up from a deep sleep
I woke up from a bad dream
To a brand new morning
To a brand new day
Like the whole world has been made again
New beginning... clean talk page!
Don't worry, all your posts have been preserved in my archive. The only thing that I changed there is that I tried to group the posts by subject area: translations, the wiki, and others. They've also been chronologically reversed, so in each area, the oldest are at the bottom.
That said: welcome to my talk page! Please feel free to post in english, spanish or french — portuñol I may be able to decipher, maybe some italiano (sorry, no asian languages in my bag) — on whatever subject :) Xavi 01:16, 17 September 2007 (EDT)
It's about time :) just joking.
I just couldn't resist being the first to post something on your Clean page
:) --Chief Mike 08:04, 17 September 2007 (EDT)
¿ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marillion ?
- thanks! and oops! wikipedia.org vs. .com ... much better! Xavi
Filipino Children have first XO-1
Newly constructed
OLPCPH Provincial Board-Room
Newly constructed
OLPCPH Provincial Board-Room
Math lab At Principals home
Hi,
Been too long of a time since last x-change of comms sorry I've been very busy promoting here in the Rural:Philippines :)
PS:? I tried to create a Pootle account a while back without success :(
--Chief Mike 10:50, 8 April 2008 (EDT)
Benjamin Mako Hill
As you can perhaps see from history of the page in question, I did not create that page. It is a biographical page about me because of my involvement with the project. I have a user page which I have created.
If you don't think the main namespace should exist, please go ahead and delete it. It does not bother me. —mako๛ 00:35, 20 September 2007 (EDT)
RE: Status of Measure in OBX template
follow-up to User talk:Xavi#Status of Measure in OBX template
- Oops! yes you're right. And yes, 'bundled' seems fine. The categorization is still not totally defined (that's why they are red/missing), so any suggestions & feedback are more than welcome.
- I haven't removed the old {{Status box}} as I want to make sure there are no objections, and that the OBXes are helpful. Comments? :) --Xavi 11:20, 22 September 2007 (EDT)
- I love the OBXes! They concisely convey all the most important things a new user might want to know about any activity. Although, I cannot think of any now, I would let you know of any suggestions for additional fields in the OBXes. Great work on the OBXes! --Arjs 11:53, 22 September 2007 (EDT)
RE: Talk:Greece_Test_Reports not in english
It seems that I keep stumbling across some of your past requests :) and wish you had added a Category:Needs Translation to english or ???
Said page has been Translated: I opened two tabs of edit the page, translated first with babel fish, and cut / pasted line for line after the Δεδομένα (Data) into the second tabbed page. This only works good for me on short pages.
For many languages not available at google translate try Yahoo! BabelFish. I don't know if it could work as a parser function template though?
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/free_trans_service --Chief Mike 04:09, 24 September 2007 (EDT) "This User edits using Firefox-2" :)
Maintain the PO files.
Really nice job of you.Awesome! Thanks for your co-operative activities.
One thing i would like to acknowledge you ,it would be more effective if we maintain the po files much more generic.Since some string or sentences has been frequently repeated in different po files,so if we resolve this redundancy in each po file it would more efficient to work.
- Thanks Nirmal, I'm just trying to help :)
- As for making more effective the POs (or rather the POTs) that depends (mostly? exclusively?) on the developers, afaik. BTW, I agree totally with you as I've seen lots of replicated strings (specially in TamTam files). I'm not an expert on the subject, but some tools do provide things like 'memory' so you will actually be reusing the translated strings associated to previous translations, saving you the effort. BTW, the in-wiki solution is not really optimal as the tools can't be used, but at least it address some issues we are having :) Xavi 09:40, 29 September 2007 (EDT)
deleting popular pages
dont forget that it is more than just the in'wiki linksthat break when a page i deleted rather than left asa redirect. for pages that have become popular over months, or even a few very prominent weeks, including any page that was linked rom the main page, it is good to leave the original page title and have it redirect [once] to the nerw page. at the same time, fix doubleredirects by removing anything that is onwiki and points to the old page title...
finally ,in addition to keeping links on the web and in blog posts from breaking, you want people who are typing a url by handto go somewhere expected...even if it is no longer the page title, ifsomeone might guess it, better to save them from having to search. that said, nice celanup job :) andthx for helping finishthe demo notes title moves Sj talk 22:05, 3 October 2007 (EDT)
re: wiki admin?
It looks like someone tagged me as admin, because I have a whole lot more tabs now. Thanks, Xavi! —Joe 19:50, 9 October 2007 (EDT)
opentasks!
Please start using and updating Template:Opentasks ... Sj talk 01:30, 14 October 2007 (EDT)
blocks
try 3 months blocks for the gibberish-spammers; they come back. Sj talk 09:47, 14 October 2007 (EDT)
Bulgaria Translation
Hey, thanks for moving the pages. However, I had left them outside the naming convention, because they were not done. In a way, I created the new pages as my temporary working place. So, please, next time ask me before you make serious changes. Again, I appreciate your help! --Cryout 14:46, 16 October 2007 (EDT)
time for commons-style multilingual guidelines?
Cang_Jie_imes is my favorite new page in a while. It looks like we'll need some standard way to help people find all of the pages in their language; and to have short messages in many languages on a single talk page... have you looked at some of the multilingual extensions wikimedia commons uses? They manage to keep lots of languages together on a single page. we also need a proper water cooler where community members can share questions and ideas less formally than creating new pages for the mor added them to 'olpc lists' and FAQ... Sj talk 05:07, 17 October 2007 (EDT)
Portuguese changes
Hi Xavi... FYI: Someone changed a Portuguese language template in a way that is similar to the vandalbots, but not identical: Template:Translation/changes/lang-pt. I'm not sure if this is actually vandalism, so I reverted my rollback; perhaps you are more familiar with the language? —Joe 21:29, 28 October 2007 (EDT)
Publishing translation on the laptop.org website
Hi, Xavi, I am now almost down with the Bulgrian translation of laptop.org and I don't know how to close the project. What is the process for getting the translation live? Currently I enlisted a few people to make corrections, so I am doing some quality control. What is next? Thanks a lot. --Cryout 10:47, 4 November 2007 (EST)
- Thank you for directing me to Walter. I wrote to him and will be waiting for his answer. About recruiting more translators, I am in the process at the moment. A name was suggested to me from a Bulgarian Linus-translating community and I am now trying to get in contact. --Cryout 10:31, 5 November 2007 (EST)
OLPC_Brasil/Porto_Alegre (A pilot School?)
Hi, I translated this from Portuguese-English but, ¿is it truly a Pilot school located there as you marked/tagged it?
:) Chief Mike 05:04, 8 November 2007 (EST)
Thanks for restoring me
Hi, thanks for re-creating me and the other users who were maliciously deleted 11/21/07. So sorry we live in a world where that task is necessary..... ~ Hexagonal
Translation terms: to delete or not to delete
Hi I just noticed that you tagged Translation terms which I started to use yesterday as a page to be deleted. I know about Pootle translation project, but there are a couple of reasons why I wanted to have an en-ru translation glossary page. First of all we came across a situation when one term (Activity, to be exact) may be translated differently in different contexts. Then in some cases we feel a need to discuss the best translation for each case before it is finalized, and it is better to do it in an open way rather than in private correspondence. So this page was created as a draft page for translation terms before they go to Pootle. I asked a question about it on the discussion page, but nobody seemed to respond :-) --Biarm 23:05, 28 November 2007 (EST)
- Hi Xavi. I would appreciate any technically sound solution that will allow to suggest variants of translations and discuss them. If it is possible to arrange that as a part of Pootle's terminology project, it is fine with me. I just think that PTP is something more advanced. And my concern is about volunteer translators who come to localize various wiki pages and need some easy to handle wiki glossary to play with the translation template and have some initial practice. It is just to early to redirect those people to the Pootle server. (This is exactly the situation that we have with Russian translations). So my suggestion would be to keep a draft glossary wiki page somewhere (to me Translation terms serves this purpose well and, as soon as a term is finalized, transfer it to the Pootle glossary. Does that make sense? :-) --Biarm 09:42, 30 November 2007 (EST)
Thanks for the gallery markup on the Simplified user guide
Great edits on the user guide, I really appreciate it. Makes for much easier scrolling. And I wouldn't have known about the markup for layout so I appreciate it - teaching me wikitext, awesome. --annegentle 08:58, 30 November 2007 (EST)
==Getting started in Pootle==1/ hi..I've signed up to Pootle as my girlfriend might be able to translate some sections into Turkish, but when I go here https://dev.laptop.org/translate/tr/ there are no entries... How do I get started? --Tomhannen 10:13, 9 December 2007 (EST)
In Argentina in January
Xavi! I'm traveling to Argentina for a wedding in January. I'll be in BA 1/10 and 1/11, in Mendoza 1/12 through 1/14, and back in BA from 1/15 to 1/17. Where are you? And will you be around? --Lauren 12:06, 13 December 2007 (EST)
interwiki linking
Xavi:
Here's my page testing interwiki links. It looks like most of the common MediaWiki interwiki links are enabled. It's just the one to the English-language Wikipedia that doesn't work (e.g. WikiPedia:User:BlankVerse or WikiPedia:Argentina). I left a message on User:sj's talk page, since he is as close as I've found to a MediaWiki expert on the OLPC wiki. BlankVerse 19:59, 28 December 2007 (EST)
Hola!
Welcome back. Lauren should be there for another few days. I believe she is in Uruguay now and then coming back through Arg... email may be the best way to reach her. And Tomeu is here in Boston for a week and says 'hello!'. --Sj leave me a message 21:04, 14 January 2008 (EST)
- ps -- there was some recent korean spam here, reminding me we should check up on our friend php5... --Sj leave me a message
Xoxo/Statistics
Xavi,
Saw your cool stats pages, in Xoxo/Statistics. I'm guessing that those pages were auto-generated. And I'd be interested in seeing them continue (But maybe not in the main user space... maybe 'OLPC:Statistics' ???
Also, I don't know if you have heard, but a bunch of the recent new users (myself included) are interesting in starting up a regular online 'XO Laptop 'zine '. With a little background search, I discovered that you and several others tried to do something similar 3 to 4 months ago.
Would you be interested in helping us out, or chipping in ... in someway? Lots of chatter about it on irc #olpc-support-gang ....
Thanks, --IainD
- In fact, we will need our own chan for it soon. Let's talk about how to get these translated -- I really want the first ed. to be in 3 languages. --Sj leave me a message 09:01, 17 January 2008 (EST)
Sj,
I believe that Seth is working on putting the pieces together. (Which reminds me, I'll need to get my part done soon! :) Looks like we have several espanol people on the gang list. Which three languages are you thinking of ? The rest of the languages we could do a 'lazy translate' with Google/langauge. What do you mean by 'own chan' ?? --iainD 07:56, 18 January 2008 (EST)
Help out a new translator?
I have a translator, User:Wing, who can do traditional and some simplified Chinese, but doesn't really understand how the translation templates work. I haven't done anything with them, so I don't have a lot of background in it. Right now he is just translating blocks of text from http://laptop.org and storing them as .doc files with the original text included, so he is getting work done, but at some point he will need to put this into a template. Help?
--Nikki 13:58, 23 January 2008 (EST)
How can I help with Spanish for Update-1?
I'm es-4, not native, but email me using the wiki if you have a specific translating task for me - I'm 100% confident I can review/test an activity, 95% confident I can do a new activity from scratch, and only about 80% confident with big chunks of text like mmm-lessonplans (me salen bien legibles, pero no sin errores. De hecho, haber aprendido a leer en ingles primero es una ventaja en lo que respeta la ortografía, la única ventaja de tener un idioma tan ilógico...). I'm not interested in doing the wiki, just the device. Thanks! Homunq 14:21, 4 February 2008 (EST)
More translators like you
We need more people like you to help with the translators community... where do you recommend we look? --Sj talk 09:53, 19 February 2008 (EST)
- Check out some of Homunq's new work on the translation template... --Sj talk 22:13, 26 February 2008 (EST)
Translated Pages is too large to display
See my comment at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Translated_pages --@alex 00:53, 28 March 2008 (EDT)
Xoxo/Statistics pages
Just doing some wiki-cleanup and while I was looking through the orphaned pages, I noticed about 40 pages you made of type Xoxo/Statistics. . . Are they worth keeping for historical reasons? I notice most of them have very low view counts (about 15-20). Cjl 16:38, 14 April 2008 (EDT)
Cambodia
Hi Xavi, I'm a former OLPC employee at the OLPC EU HQ in Brussels, preparing a trip to visit my wife's family in Cambodia. Preparing to meet the Minister of Education of Cambodia. Saw you on http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=OLPC_Cambodia&action=history ... do you have any special interest to Cambodia in particular? Can you team-up / coach me? Thx--SvenAERTS 05:02, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
Metrics and Evaluation
Dear Xavi I'm building upon your 2006 writings http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_talk:Mission#Metrics .This has lead me to create the following categories, which are the most efficient way to pull together pages that have usefull info on this topic and where people might be interested in further reading on the topics of Category:Metrics , Category:Metrics , Feeback and Evaluation, Category:Evaluation
--SvenAERTS 12:00, 3 August 2013 (UTC)