Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Echo/Archive 2008-2010

We need to stop recommending foreign language FAs for the English Wikipedia
Articles which are featured on foreign language versions of Wikipedia are listed as possible help to users of the English language Wikipedia. Unfortunately, foreign language Wikipedias have lower standards for FA inclusion, and often don't cite their sources. That means that, when someone translates material from a foreign language Wiki, it ultimately saddles the article with highly specific material with no listed sources and no available sources in English.  Serendi pod ous  20:40, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * You probably mean that some foreign language Wikipedias have lower standards for FA inclusion. For example many Featured Articles in English were translated for their inclusion to the Spanish Wikipedia and failed their FA nomination because of they did not comply with the standards given in es:WP:QEUAD. Best regards, Alpertron (talk) 03:06, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Could there be established a symbol or template to attach to translated articles warning the reader that they come from foreign languages Wikis and may not conform to the English language Wikipedia's so-called standards? Robert Greer (talk) 00:10, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I wanted to improve the Group 4 element and I looked at articles in other languages and found a FA star with Lumbaart, I had no clue which country or people is connected to Lumbaart and I had a look and I found something hilarious. Go and have a look. Grupp 4 de la taula periòdica. I hope you also have fun with the page. I had a lot of help with the article on vanadium where the echo gave me a hint to look for improvment in the german article. As stated above foreign language Wikipedias have lower standards for FA inclusion I only have to add the word some and the statement is correct! Thanks for the project it helps, although it is not perfect, but this is wiki and if we only would allow perfect stuff we would have less than 2000 articles not 2.5 mions.--Stone (talk) 16:18, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Stop being randem - How we do it in the Hebrew Wikipedia
This project page says: "Look around (through categories, by hitting the random page button, etc) until you find a page that is not linked to the English Wikipedia."

We cant stop this!

This does have to be random! In the Hebrew Wikipedia we have tools to improve the process of searching for pages that should be linked to other languages.

See: he:User:Amire80/Interlanguage links

I really want to share our experience about this so all Wikipedias will benefit from it.

Any comments are welcome! --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 14:56, 5 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I think the following link is better for English language speakers: . Best regards, Alpertron (talk) 03:06, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Donald Duck
Donald Duck is now a foreign featured article on the French Wikipedia.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Duck

Please add the template to the english discussion page.

Regards, JTBX (talk) 21:43, 9 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Done! Great job with the Fr. article!  It is already noted at the En. talk page, that the Swedish language article on the topic is FA, by the way.  I verified the star is still there. doncram (talk) 16:36, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

New relevant template
Hi. Please see Interwiki-expand. Thanks. ~ A H  1 (TCU) 17:44, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Looking for your assistance
Hi there. I have noticed a template on ru: that seems better than the en: version, but with it not being a featured article, and with me being new to this particular system, I thought I'd just explain the situation to you here and leave those of you who know more about this project than I do to move or copy my request to a relevant place. Anyway, ru:Шаблон:Колоды и масти seems much more detailed than Template:Card suits, and so I thought that en: might like to add the additional information available at ru:. Thank you for your assistance. It Is Me Here (talk) 10:49, 7 September 2008 (UTC)

Featured article in Swedish
FYI: Sleep (non-human) is a featured article in Swedish. It has a few dozen references. --Hordaland (talk) 09:49, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

FAOL template broken?
The template seems to be broken; it is creating redlinks to the English Wikipedia. --Una Smith (talk) 05:44, 30 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Was that problem fixed? I assume it was fixed or went away.  I think the template could be improved, though.  It should more clearly indicate which is the link to the article on the foreign language wikipedia, rather than disguising it as a link to the foreign language.  Does anyone agree? doncram (talk) 16:30, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Inactive?
Hi everyone, is this wikiproject inactive? I have been undertaking an overhaul of wikipedia's translation system, and I think it would be best if all of our (modest) efforts were combined in one place. What would people think of a merge of this and Translation? (Maybe we could rename that a wikiproject if people think we should.) Calliopejen1 (talk) 04:28, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I've proposed that all this project's tags be removed at the Village pump. Please go comment! Calliopejen1 (talk) 01:41, 12 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Okay, i went and opposed the Village Pump proposal. I think it won't be supported.  Calliopejen1, you need to pick one battle here.  Your indiscriminantly ripping out useful categories that promote the idea of translating across wikis, seems antithetical to furthering translation efforts.  Or are you trying to apply reverse psychology?  I prefer more straightforward approaches. doncram (talk) 16:17, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Philippine-American War
The talk page on the Philippine-American War has been tagged with the following:


 * Philippine–American War has been identified by WikiProject Echo as a featured article on the Tagalog Wikipedia. You may be able to improve the article on this project by drawing content, media or references from this article. To get involved with WikiProject Echo or featured articles in other languages, visit the discussion page.

Kindly remove the tag as it is misleading. Just today, I checked the article on Tagalog Wikipedia and saw that it is a rated-B article. The Tagalog article was even tagged for containing original research. Thank you. Micasta (talk) 06:52, 12 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Calliopejen1 removed the tag. I would support a cleanup drive to remove tags where the foreign language version is no longer FA (and to add new tags where new FAs have been designated in the same foreign language). doncram (talk) 16:27, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Banner being removed
FYI, your banner is being removed by User:Calliopejen1 with the edit summary "rm translation request - our article is as good or better". I don't want to revert all of his edits, but I would like to know if he even talked with you guys before doing this. Sample edits: Cheers, — Ed 17  (Talk /  Contribs)  01:55, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
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 * No, he didn't. If you'd like to talk to him, that'd be great. -- Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû 16:01, 18 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Calliopejen1, who is watching i believe, please stop it! I would support a cleanup drive, to be run by speakers of the languages involved.  I doubt that Calliopejen1 speaks both Romanian and Vietnamese.  The edit summary for the 2nd diff above: "rm translation request - our article is as good or better", misses the point.  The En language one might be better overall, but the foreign language one might have material which can be used to improve the En language one. doncram (talk) 16:11, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Zollverein Wikide article
I'm working on the Zollverein article from the German wiki site over the next couple of weeks. The English wiki page is weak, and the German page has a lot of good stuff in it. Plus, I've got a couple of books here I can draw from. Anyone wishing to offer comments, suggestions or other remarks (even peanut gallery style), can leave me a message on my discussion page. --Auntieruth55 (talk) 19:15, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

exporting pages to other languages?
Is there a project or some templates to transwiki non-English articles off English Wikipedia and onto some other language version? 76.66.193.221 (talk) 05:40, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Template:Comp
FYI, Comp has been nominated for deletion. 65.94.253.16 (talk) 06:09, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject multilingual review
Hello Wikipedians, there´s an idea for a new project, I´m pleased to hear your opinions (is this an english phrase? ;) --Hæggis (talk) 09:02, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Medicine and molecular cellular biology Wikiprojects announce collaboration with Google.org
Announcement of the first stages of a project to peer-review, improve and translate medical and biology articles so that material can be transferred from the English Wikipedia to other Wikipedias that are written in languages used in developing world. Tim Vickers (talk) 17:59, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Crich Tramway Station
This is a FA on the Simple English Wikipedia. How hard is it to get this one to FA? Rin tin tin (talk) 21:27, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

The French wikipedia article on "Nombre grammatical" is erroneous.
The French wikipedia article on "Nombre grammatical" is erroneous. It contains a reference to a "quadriel" number. The "Grammatical Number" article on this English-language wiki has been corrected to show that there apparantly is not and probably never has been any "quadral" grammatical number; and includes references to the professional literature discussing that fact. Could someone who speaks and reads and writes French please correct the French-language article? A featured article in another language shouldn't be recommended as a guide if it contains misinformation. --Eldin raigmore (talk) 00:23, 15 June 2010 (UTC)