Saddex baa rag u liita; Ma toshe, ma tashade iyo ma tashiishe *** Saddex ayaa jirta Lixdan jir lex jeclo ha la wadaagin; afartan jir ha la garramin; labaatan jirna ha la legdemin.
Saddex markaan bartaan ka gaboobay: Dab ollolintiis, carruur aamusinteed, iyo awr carraabintiis. *** Saddex Ilaah waa karaa, mase suurowdo: Ilaahow guursan maayee wiil i sii; Ilaahow shaqaysan maayee xoolo i sii; iyo Ilaahow ku caabudi maayee jannada i gee.
Your only adminMaax has not edited since 2013,Category:Delete is quite full. How do you feel about your situation? Do you think help from outside the community is necessary? Is there someone who could take over the administrator job?Made4me maybe, as regular editor? Sincerely,Man77 (talk)20:15, 8 Oktoobar 2015 (UTC)Reply
DearMan77, it is true that our "only" admin is been inactive for sometime, and we need someone to take care of daily changes, like deal with vandalism and delete unwanted pages. As a regular editor, if granted permission, I can takecare of most of the vandalism and most of necessary daily basis duties.. But I believe there are others who are more suitable as a Somali admin includingismail4all andabshirdheere. If there is no one else, I am ready.Note: an active Somali speaking admin is really very important for this Wikipedia. Thanks.Made4me (talk)01:12, 9 Oktoobar 2015 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for your response. I have taken a look on the ongoings here every now and then for half a year and I am quite shocked how you are left alone in your situation, which is why I want to try do change it.
Could you start a discussion in a place, where you usually discuss things and where most of the community members would participate? I mean: Ask who is willing to do the job and (once you know who is willing) have some kind of poll? If one or two of you is/are able to get five others to support him (or her), I think and hope you will be granted a new admin.
I, however, think it will be better if these next steps are made by a Somali speaker, by someone who knows this wiki. As mentioned, I am not, and my Arabic is also way too bad to write sentences like these. If you need my support, feel free to ask at any time. Once you have your candidate(s) I for sure will advocate for you on meta wiki. Good luck, شكرا مرة أخرى,Man77 (talk)08:15, 9 Oktoobar 2015 (UTC)Reply
ASCMade4me,Man77 thank you for your concern in Somali Wikipedia. For the last six months, there were a lot of vandalism and abusive pages here.. i personally have marked deletion for most of them, unfortunately there were no one to finish the job. That is why i want to run for admin.Made4me,Man77 can i please get your support and guidance? i have already started a discussion and request page:Wikipedia:Codsiga maamulka/Oktoobar 2015. Thank you very much.Ismail Suge (talk)17:10, 10 Oktoobar 2015 (UTC)Reply
SalaamMan77, andIsmail Suge, thank you for your contribution and continued support here in Somali Wikipedia. It is very urgent matter to get admin in here, and I already said I fully support you and will keep working with you now and then. I have seen your request and voted for you. I don't know who is deciding your admin status.Man77 is a fellow Wikipedian and will help you too. Good luck and let me know what happens next.Made4me (talk)03:03, 11 Oktoobar 2015 (UTC)Reply
Ismail4all: Thanks for your candidacy. The decision will finally be made by Wikimediastewards after a request is placedhere. The request should include a link to a community approval, which is why I recommend to wait until you have five supporting votes (not counting mine as I do not consider myself part of the Somali Wikipedia community) or until at least ten days have passed since the start of the poll. Good luck,Man77 (talk)19:14, 13 Oktoobar 2015 (UTC)Reply
HiMan77, thank you for helpful info, i have already submitted the request and it is on hold - i think it is because of waiting for the ten days or so. Thank you very much for all the support.Ismail Suge (talk)14:35, 14 Oktoobar 2015 (UTC)Reply
Hello everyone,My name is Marc Miquel and I am a researcher from Barcelona (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). While I was doing my PhD I studied whether an identity-based motivation could be important for editor participation and I analyzed content representing the editors' cultural context in 40 Wikipedia language editions. Few months later, I propose creating the Wikipedia Cultural Diversity Observatory in order to raise awareness on Wikipedia’s current state of cultural diversity, providing datasets, visualizations and statistics, and pointing out solutions to improve intercultural coverage.
I am presenting this project to a grant and I expect that the site becomes a useful tool to help communities create more multicultural encyclopaedias and bridge the content culture gap that exists across language editions (one particular type of systemic bias). For instance, this would help spreading cultural content local to Somali Wikipedia into the rest of Wikipedia language editions, and viceversa, make Somali Wikipedia much more multicultural.Here is the link of the project proposal:https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikipedia_Cultural_Diversity_Observatory_(WCDO)
I am searching for a volunteer in each language community: I still need one for the Somali Wikipedia. If you feel like it, you can contact me at: marcmiquel *at* gmail.com I need a contact in your every community who can (1) check the quality of the cultural context article list I generate to be imported-exported to other language editions, (2) test the interface/data visualizations in their language, and (3) communicate the existance of the tool/site when ready to the language community and especially to those editors involved in projects which could use it or be aligned with it. Communicating it might not be a lot of work, but it will surely have a greater impact if done in native language! :).If you like the project, I'd ask you to endorse it in the page I provided. In any case, I will appreciate any feedback, comments,... Thanks in advance for your time! Best regards, --Marcmiquel (talk)15:30, 10 Oktoobar 2017 (UTC) Universitat Pompeu Fabra, BarcelonaReply
Due to the hundreds of pages being created that are machine translated from the English Wikipedia, I request temporary (48-72 hour) admin permissions to delete the pages in question. Thanks,Vermont (talk)20:52, 4 Nofeembar 2018 (UTC)Reply
I have been askedon SRM to request adminship to deal with the continuing abuse of Episilon212 and their sockpuppets, uploading copyright violations. As the abuse is likely to continue with more accounts, as it has since my initial report and blocking of the master in November, I request temporary adminship to monitor and deal with the issue. Thank you,Vermont (talk)11:09, 5 Febraayo 2019 (UTC)Reply
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"Media": The current translations are "wararka" and "saxaafada". Do you think that "warbaahin" is better? Note that this must not mena "journalism" or "press", but "multimedia files, such as images, sounds, and videos".
"Special": The current translations are "qaas", "khaas", and "gaar". Are you sure that "golakataag" is better? I cannot even find it anywhere online.
Talk: The word used for "talk" in the current translations is "wadahadal", which is one of the words you suggested, so let's use that consistently. Can you please rewrite all the translations that have "talk" to use "wadahadal"?
User: You didn't suggest a specific word for just "user". The word that I see in the current translations are "adeegsade" and "isticmaale".
Template: The current translations use the word "tusmo". Are you sure that "jaangoyn" is better?
Help: The current translations use the word "Caawinaad". Are you sure that "hiil" is better?
Category: The current translations use the word "qeybta". Are you sure that "dabaqad" is better?
Please check all of these carefully. Changing them later is a bit hard, so it's important to write the as correctly as possible. If you are sure that the words you suggested are better, please update the translations on translatewiki.net, too.Amir E. Aharoni (wadahadal)21:03, 8 Luuliyo ama Luulyo 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Amire80. The only reasons I gave these suggestions is because I assumed nobody replied to you or you didn't have any input. If as you say there's a whole dictionary (I had no idea about translatewiki.net) then thats fine, but I don't really have the time to sign up + become a translator (at least for now). I checked your alternative translations and those are fine too; Somali is a vocabulary-rich language:
saxaafada + wararka are good
"khaas" / "gaar" are better than qaas; golakataag also means "unique" so perhaps thats off
I agree with wadahadal; also I'd like to stress I typically don't usually do mass translations.
adeegsade and isticmaale are good translations for "user"; another Somali synonym is "gudagale".
Tusmo is fine
"Caawinaad" is a good translation understood in all dialects (each area has a dialect)
"qeyb" is correct but doubles in meaning with "part"; OTOH, dabaqad doubles in meaning with English "class"
Oh, I'm really sorry! I should have explained about translatewiki.net properly.
https://translatewiki.net is a website where the user interface of the software that runs Wikipedia is translated. There are already quite a lot of translations into Somali there, although it is far from complete. If you do find time to create an account and contribute translations there, it would be very nice. I'll give you technical support if you need any.
When I say "current translations", I mean that somebody already translated user interface strings into Somali on that website. Maybe those translations are good and maybe not, because people sometimes make mistakes, but if I understand correctly, the current words are mostly OK according to you.
The namespaces, about which I'm asking here, are not yet properly translated. For example, if you look at the pageBoeing, you'll see "Qeybta" at the list of categories at the bottom, and you'll see "Wadahadal" at the top of the page as the link to the talk page (note: I'm talking about how it looks on a desktop computer; it looks differently on mobile phones). These links were translated on translatewiki, so they appear here in Somali. However, if you click the "Teknooloji" link that appears next to "Qeybta", you'll see that the title of the page is "Category:Teknooloji", and if you click the "Wadahadal" link at the top of the page, you'll see that the title of the page "Talk:Boeing". That's because the words "Category" and "Talk" in the page titles are names of namespaces, and they haven't been translated yet.
The namespaces are a special part of the user interface, which cannot be translated on translatewiki for technical reasons. However, the words that are used in namespaces, are also used elsewhere in the translations on translatewiki, so they should be consistent. So if "Qeyb" is correct when it appears at the list of categories bottom of the page, then the same word should also appear in the title of the category page. It should be "Qeyb:Teknooloji", or maybe "Qeybta:Teknooloji", but definitely not "Talk:Teknooloji". Please tell me which one is correct. Similarly, if the link that leads to the talk page is "Wadahadal" the title of the talk page should probably be "Wadahadal:Boeing".
The "Talk" namespace is for talk pages about encyclopedic articles. Other namespaces with the word "Talk" in their names are for pages in other namespaces. For example,User talk:Girligaanshub is your user talk page, where other users can send questions directly to you. The pageCategory talk:Jaamacadaha Soomaaliya is the page for discussingCategory:Jaamacadaha Soomaaliya. To make the titles of all these pages fully written in the Somali language, all the namespace names have to be translated.
So, now that you know this information, it will be great if you can send me the list again, using the correct words that are consistent with the other translations. After you send the list, I'll submit the translations to the software, and a few days after that, you'll see those page titles fully writte in Somali.
@Amire80, some questions on if I decide to translate on translatewiki; can you do so without an email? if I sign up, do I subsequently have to choose Mediawiki as the prject to translate? Roughly how long will it take to translate all of it? a day? a month? how many translations? If its a hefty undertaking, will it be possible to get a single payment? As for the list:
Media = saxaafada
Special = golakataag (yes, its better than khaas / gaar)
Talk = wadahadal (mutual talk)
User = gudagale
User talk = wadahadal gudagale
Wikipeda talk = hadal Wikipedia
File = Fayl
File talk = wadahadal fayl
media-wiki = mediawiki
media-wiki talk = wadahadal mediawiki
template = jaangoyn is better than tusmo ("tus" = show; + "mo" suffix for making uncountable nouns, so in English literally "shower")
template talk = wadahadal jaangoyn
help = Caawinaad
help talk = wadahadal caawinaad
category = qeyb (qeybta is the equivalent of "the category")
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