Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Gaeilge

Welcome to the Gaeilge task force of WikiProject Ireland.

Scope
The Gaeilge task force covers:
 * Providing Irish-language versions for Irish place names
 * Providing English-language translations for Irish-language versions of Irish place names
 * Providing similar support for Irish people, events, institutions, etc. where appropriate according to the manual of style

Participants
To join the Gaeilge task force, just add your name to the list below, and maybe drop a line onto the talk page introducing yourself. Ideas for things to get stuck into are in the sections below.



To-do items for members of Gaeilge task force

 * Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here.
 * Develop manual of style for translation of Irish-language phrases
 * Integrate best practice into the WP:IMOS
 * Forge links with Scottish/Manx (and Welsh/Cornish/Breton?) cousins
 * Update articles in Category:Untranslated Irish place names with  (as per updated Irish place name and Gaeltacht place name) to clear up blockages

To-do items for anyone


Tagging and assessment
Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with the project banners of WikiProject Ireland. You may also find WikiProjectBanners useful. To each of these banners, you should add  as this will automatically put the page in the appropriate categories, such as Category:Gaeilge task force articles.

Categories

 * All articles awaiting Irish translations - populated by pages marked with gaeilge
 * Untranslated Irish place names - automatically populated by Irish place name and Gaeltacht place name

Templates
For main project templates, see the main project page for WikiProject Ireland and WikiProject Northern Ireland.


 * gaeilge - requests an Irish-language version of a English-language word or phrase

Place names

 * Irish place name - suitable for providing Irish-language versions of English-language place names
 * Irish language place name - suitable for providing English-language translations of places with only an Irish-language name
 * Gaeltacht place name - suitable for providing English-language versions of an Irish-language place name

Place name notices

 * ipn notice - warning notice for talk pages when a place name is not translated by a local or from a published source

Userbox template
 

Resources

 * Placenames Database of Ireland maintained by the Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs and FIONTAR, Dublin City University, should be cited for the Irish version of placenames. See Coachford for an example.
 * Manual of Style for Ireland-related articles