Sæll og blessaður! Wow, a thirteen year-old with a huge babel box? Auguri! Muhamedmesic 09:50, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Anch'io vorrei averne un sacco di tempo libero... But it just doesn't seem to work. That's why I'm trying Chinese! Muhamedmesic 18:17, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Mais vale tarde que nunca, þótt kínverska sé ekki flóknara en íslenska :) Muhamedmesic 11:39, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Olá Ciacchi, Eu reparei que está contribuir em artigos relacionados com a lusofonia e gostaria de convidá-lo para participar na Wikipédia em português, actualmente temos mais de 135 mil artigos. Sua ajuda será muito bem vinda. Se por acaso tiver algum problema ou dúvida deixe uma mensagem na minha página de discussão. Continue com esse bom trabalho, Rei-artur 22:04, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for all your work on Iceland(ic)-related topics. Concerning the use of [ð] and [θ] versus [ð̠] and [θ̠] in the IPA transcription of Icelandic words, I wanted to note that while there certainly is research which shows that these fricatives are slighly further back in the mouth than the term 'dental' suggests, it is a very fine detail so it seems unneccesary to use the more complicated characters with underscores. Please see Wikipedia:Reference desk/Language#Icelandic þ and ð (repost with more info) where I raised this question. I should have noted this before I removed the marks from Icelandic alphabet.

I also went through the IPA you put in on List of common phrases in various languages for Icelandic. You did a good work, I made only small changes, [g̊ b̥] are techincally the same as [k p], the latter is just a simpler notation; in the middle of a word there can be pre-aspiration but not post-aspiration and the 'hv'-question words have an aspirated stop [kʰ] initially. If you have any question, please ask, and if I answer incorrectly usually someone comes along shortly to correct me.

Finally, I am a litte out of my depth to answer your question at Talk:Great Vowel Shift. Stefán Ingi 19:46, 2 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. I noticed your edits to Portuguese alphabet. It's a good addition, but you probably did not notice that the pronunciation of the letters in Portuguese was already discussed at Portuguese orthography. A previous version of "Portuguese alphabet" also discussed pronunciation, but, after taking a look at other articles on language alphabets, I thought it was best to address only typographic issues there. While you don't have to share this opinion, I ask that you take a look at "Portuguese alphabet" and some of the other language alphabet articles, and consider moving your contributions to the other page. Regards. FilipeS

Hi There! Can you translate my name in what language you know please, and then post it Here. I would be very grateful if you do (if you know another language apart from English and the ones on my userpage please feel free to post it on) P.S. all th translations are in alpahbetical order so when you add one please put it in alpahbetical order according to the language. Thanks!!! Abdullah Geelah 16:46, 5 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Ciacchi, in this edit, you removed an image from article Fermat's Last Theorem, indicating that it was duplicated. I have just readded it; if you look more closely, you'll see that the two images are actually different, and both are of historical interest. Cheers, Schutz 11:53, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, Ciacchi. Recently CyborgTosser and I discussed and came up with proposed style guidelines for all the individual consonant and vowel pages wherein the Occurrence section would have a table rather than a bulleted list. You can see the discussion here. So far nobody else has commented on the proposed guidelines and I believe it's safer to get a solid consensus before undergoing the work to change so many pages. If you could comment on what has been proposed, even if it's a simple yay or nay, this would help us out quite a bit. Thank you very much. Ƶ§œš¹ _{[aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi]} 06:45, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello WikiProject Metal member.
WikiProject Metal music is important in expanding encyclopedic coverage of the metal. It brings attention to the lesser-known bands, and significantly improves the quality of the famous ones. Five Featured articles and two formers is proof of that.
This is the stuff I wish to achieve with the somewhat recently resurrected WikiProject Rock music. I hope to also attract attention to rock music articles of all sorts, and hopefully change some to GA or FA status. I invite you to come join us, and embrace the links between metal and rock music in general.
Rock on.
-- Reaper X 04:48, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Vikings and Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Scandinavia both appear to be defunct at this point. I would like to set up a new Wikiproject to oversee articles on ancient and medieval Scandinavian and Nordic history that would cover what these inactive projects used to. There are literally hundreds of great articles on obscure sagas, historical figures and the like (largely through the efforts of such users as User:Berig and User:Wiglaf). Since you have edited many Norse-themed articles in the past, I would be interested in your thoughts on how best to proceed. --Briangotts (Talk) (Contrib) 21:36, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

May 2007
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May 2007
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June 2007
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Hi. I found you in categories of users who can contribute in English and Portuguese. I myself am a native speaker of English, but I'm well on my way to learning Portuguese. Just check out my user page and talk page, and join in any of the discussions. To keep updated, you can even put a watch on my user page, which will automatically watch my talk page. :-) learnportuguese (talk) 20:21, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The Rock music WikiProject Newsletter Issue 9 - October 2008

"As long as my face is on page one, I don't care what they say about me on page seventeen."- Mick Jagger Project news The project has a total of 106 GAs and 91 Featured Articles and Lists put together. We collaborated on Soul Bomb. Help us select good versions of WP:ROCK articles for inclusion on the Wikipedia 0.7 release! Find out more about Wikipedia 0.7 selection on the project talk page and add your thoughts to the discussion. If you are personally responsible for a Featured or Good Article listed here, please the select a version to include in Wikipedia 0.7 on that page if you haven't already. Page versions must be selected by October 20. The genres in infobox fields have been removed cause of the discussion found here Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music#Time to remove genre section on info box?. You can provide any opinions you may have about this. This month's "Recommended Rock Album" is Soundgarden - Superunknown (1994).

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Thanks for creating this article. It's been tagged for notability for 5 years now. Could you look it over, see if you think it meets WP:NOTABILITY and see if you can improve it? Best wishes, Boleyn (talk) 20:37, 1 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. The 18th edition of Ethnologue just came out, and if we divide up our language articles among us, it won't take long to update them. I would appreciate it if you could help out, even if it's just a few articles (5,000 articles is a lot for just me), but I won't be insulted if you delete this request.

A largely complete list of articles to be updated is at Category:Language articles citing Ethnologue 17. The priority articles are in Category:Language articles with old Ethnologue 17 speaker data. These are the 10% that have population figures at least 25 years old.

Probably 90% of the time, Ethnologue has not changed their figures between the 17th and 18th editions, so all we need to do is change "e17" to "e18" in the reference (ref) field of the language info box. That will change the citation for the artcle to the current edition. Please put the data in the proper fields, or the info box will flag it as needing editorial review. The other relevant fields are "speakers" (the number of native speakers in all countries), "date" (the date of the reference or census that Ethnologue uses, not the date of Ethnologue!), and sometimes "speakers2". Our convention has been to enter e.g. "1990 census" when a census is used, as other data can be much older than the publication date. Sometimes a citation elsewhere in the article depends on the e17 entry, in which case you will need to change "name=e17" to "name=e18" in the reference tag (assuming the 18th edition still supports the cited claim).

Remember, we want the *total* number of native speakers, which is often not the first figure given by Ethnologue. Sometimes the data is too incompatible to add together (e.g. a figure from the 1950s for one country, and a figure from 2006 for another), in which case it should be presented that way. That's one use for the "speakers2" field. If you're not sure, just ask, or skip that article.

Data should not be displayed with more than two, or at most three, significant figures. Sometimes it should be rounded off to just one significant figure, e.g. when some of the component data used by Ethnologue has been approximated with one figure (200,000, 3 million, etc.) and the other data has greater precision. For example, a figure of 200,000 for one country and 4,230 for another is really just 200,000 in total, as the 4,230 is within the margin of rounding off in the 200,000. If you want to retain the spurious precision of the number in Ethnologue, you might want to use the ((sigfig)) template. (First parameter in this template is for the data, second is for the number of figures to round it off to.)

Dates will often need to be a range of all the country data in the Ethnologue article. When entering the date range, I often ignore dates from countries that have only a few percent of the population, as often 10% or so of the population isn't even separately listed by Ethnologue and so is undated anyway.

If Ethnologue does not provide a date for the bulk of the population, just enter "no date" in the date field. But if the population figure is undated, and hasn't changed between the 17th & 18th editions of Ethnologue, please leave the ref field set to "e17", and maybe add a comment to keep it so that other editors don't change it. In cases like this, the edition of Ethnologue that the data first appeared in may be our only indication of how old it is. We still cite the 14th edition in a couple dozen articles, so our readers can see that the data is getting old.

The articles in the categories linked above are over 90% of the job. There are probably also articles that do not currently cite Ethnologue, but which we might want to update with the 18th edition. I'll need to generate another category to capture those, probably after most of the Ethnologue 17 citations are taken care of.

Jump in at the WP:LANG talk page if you have any comments or concerns. Thanks for any help you can give!

— kwami (talk) 02:45, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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