User talk:Diroma Elias
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Be more active brother! change Fuula Dura and add more stoff on Fulaa Dura.
Or you can give me the tools.
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[edit] your question
Hi, sorry for the delay, I've been offline for some days. I did not quite get what you were trying to ask me. Could you point me to which pages you tried to categorise? --Johannes Rohr 14:03, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
- Hi there, are you still having issues with using categories? I looked at some of those which you reported and at least in one case the reason was as simple as this: you wrote [[category:Africa]] instead of [[category:Afrikaa]]. You should always use the native name for a category. (in the long run, even the word "category" should be localised, but since this requires full MediaWiki localisation, this can be postponed for now. )
- The other point is that assigning a page to category:some fancy category name does not magically spring the page category:some fancy category name into existence. However, this is a minor issue. At present, most categories do not have their own pages, see the many red links in Special:Categories.
- However, when you are bored, it would certainly be a good thing to create those missing pages, mostly because each category should be assigned to a parent category. e.g. a category:Ethiopia should be in Category:Afrikaa, or maybe something more extact like "African state", which in turn should be assigned to a category "States" (for all of the above, please substitute Oromo translations!) Categories are assigned to parent categories in the same way as articles are assigned to categories.
- Another thing to know is that moving a category page does not change the categorisation of the individual articles. When you would rename the page Category:Afrikaa to Category:African state, the individual articles still remain members of Category:Afrikaa, until you fix the [[Category:...]] lines in the articles themselves.
Hope, this was not too confusing, after all. BTW, if you continue to have issues, you can also phone or skype me. I'll give you the details if you e-mail me. --Johannes Rohr 12:12, 13 Waaxabajjii 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Kurów
Could you please write a stub http://om.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kur%C3%B3w – just a few sentences based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kur%C3%B3w ? Only 3-5 sentences enough. Please.
PS. Article about Kurów is already on 194 languages nad dialects. If you do that, please put interwiki link into English version. If your village/town/city isn't yet on PL wiki, I can do article about it. (I'm first author of requests) Pietras1988 TALK 23:05, 4 Waaxabajjii 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Oromo Dictionary - Copyright violation
Hi there, the contents of Oromo Dictionary are verbatim copy and paste from http://www.shenpres.org/FellowshipICare/Oromifa.htm
This is a clear copyright violation, in breech of Wikipedia's principles (unless the creator of the original work has given his/her permission and licensed the text under the GNU Free Documentation License). Therefore I would like to ask you to delete this page. I will flag it for deletion. --Johannes Rohr 21:07, 10 Waaxabajjii 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Double brackets
Hi there, the double brackets are used to include templates. (see en:Help:Template). Technically, a template is simply a wiki page, residing in the template: namespace. So, if you write {{white elephant}}, the system looks for a page template:white elephant and includes it into the page, if it exists, thereby expanding any variables contained in it. So, when you write {{continuum mechanics}}, the system looks for Template:Continuum mechanics, which does not exist, unless you or someone else has created it. You can, of course copy it over from en:Template:Continuum mechanics (and translate it).
When you write, that you are "not satisfied", regarding my answer to the categorization questions, I'd like to know, what is still unclear. I'd really like to be helpful, if I can... Greetings, --Johannes Rohr 20:56, 18 Waaxabajjii 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Categories
Hi there,
if my explanations were unclear, please have a look at m:Help:Category. Maybe that makes it clearer.
Just to answer your question: Categorization is not happening automatically. There are not "category bots", as we have interwiki bots.
You have to categorise pages yourself. And you should definitely not give up on that, as categories are one of the central means to keep a wikipedia edition organised. Without them, everything becomes a mess.
Again:
- Assigning a page to a category is as simple as writing
- [[category:category name]]
- into the body.
- The results can be inspected by visiting the page category:category name.
- If the page category:category name does not yet exist, it has to be created.
Finally, if you have specific issues, that you are fighting with, please be specific in your questions. Please tell me exactly which page you were editing and what the expected results would have been. Without that, I can only guess. --Johannes Rohr 09:15, 23 Waaxabajjii 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Translating the logo
Can you give me an Oromo translation of the phrase
"Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia" ?
This is for creating a localised version of the Wikipedia logo in the upper left corner. See m:Logo#Localisation for more info...
When translating the word "free" , try to take into account that in this case "free" refers to "freedom" rather than to "free of charge". It is certainly best if you find a translation that covers both meanings. --Johannes Rohr 18:18, 28 Waaxabajjii 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks. I've requested the logo, see en:User_talk:Nohat#Oromo_Wikipedia_logo --Johannes Rohr 22:27, 29 Waaxabajjii 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Translation Request
Greetings Diroma Elias,
Can you please help me translate this article and this article into the Oromoo language?
Your help would be gratefully appreciated, Thankyou. --Jose77 03:28, 3 Adooleessa 2007 (UTC)

