Re: [Wikimedia-l] Τι σας κάνει ευτυχισμένη αυτήν την εβδομάδα? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 22 April 2018)

2018-04-30 Thread Alexandros Kosiaris 
Aside from the actual content (it's nice to see the legal case in
Greece ending), seeing the subject in Greek was one more reason I
became happy. But I think a small correction is in place. A more
appropriate way of saying "What's making you happy this week?" would
be "Τι σας κάνει ευτυχείς αυτήν την εβδομάδα;", where "ευτυχείς" (an
adjective) would be the plural form of happy, which is used both when
addressing groups of people and when being polite. Alternatively
"ευτυχισμένους", could be used, with exact same meaning, just using
the participle form (and in the appropriate conjugation) instead of
the adjective. "Xαρούμενους" (again a participle, just of a different
verb) would also be valid with the same meaning for most people,
although if one wants to be pedantic, "χαρά" is closer to "joy" than
"happiness".

Regards,

-- 
Alexandros Kosiaris 

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Τι σας κάνει ευτυχισμένη αυτήν την εβδομάδα? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 22 April 2018)

2018-04-23 Thread Gerard Meijssen 
Hoi,
Regularly there are awards conferred by stellar organisations like Amnesty
International or Creative Commons. In the last week I was able to add their
2018 winners.. The good news is that increasingly the awards are complete
except for the latest. My hope / expectation for the future is that I will
find nothing to do. :) It already happens occasionally.
Thanks,
   GerardM

On 22 April 2018 at 04:02, Pine W  wrote:

> *"To be, or not to be"*
>
> A phrase from Shakespeare's *Hamlet 
> *is
> "To be, or not to be, that is the question"*.*
>
> Chris Koerner from WMF Discovery published some interesting information
> about the verb "to be", and how on-wiki search deals with it, in this issue
> 
> of
> the *Discovery Weekly Update*:
>
> "The English verb "to be" is kind of weird—the infinitive "be" and
> participles "being, been" start with "b-", while the preterite forms
> "was, were" start with "w-", and the present forms "am, is, are" start
> with vowels. The conjugations originally come from three or four
> different verbs! Why "three or four"? Wiktionary disagrees with itself
> a bit, listing four on the etymology of "is" [5] and three on the
> etymology of "be". [6] The conflation goes back at least to
> Proto-Germanic, [7] so German is similarly weird. [8] Dutch has a
> greatly simplified paradigm, but still shows some trace of the
> multiple sources. [9] Other languages, including ASL, Arabic, Bengali,
> Hawaiian, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, and
> Ukrainian at least partly avoid this mess by having a zero copula.
> [10] For search on-wiki, we deal with this problem in part with
> stemming [11] and stop words. [12]
>
> "[5] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/is#Etymology_1
> [6] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/be#Etymology
> [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language
> [8] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sein#Conjugation
> [9] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zijn#Inflection
> [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_copula
> [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming
> [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words;
>
>
>
>
>
> *Legal case ends well for Greek Wikipedia administrator*From the Wikimedia
> Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/18/greece-legal-case-ended/
>
>
>
>
> *Photos from the 2018 Wikimedia Conference in Germany*
> Some photos of the 2018 Wikimedia Conference are available on Commons
> .
> Here are a few:
>
> * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_
> Conference_2018,_Group_photo.jpg
> * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_
> Conference_2018_by_ZUFAr_01.jpg
> * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMCON18_Sweets_Table_1.jpg
> *
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMCON18_by_Rehman_-_
> Posters_(2).jpg
> *
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_
> Conference_2018_%E2%80%93_091.jpg
>
>
> What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any
> language.
>
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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[Wikimedia-l] Τι σας κάνει ευτυχισμένη αυτήν την εβδομάδα? / What's making you happy this week? (Week of 22 April 2018)

2018-04-21 Thread Pine W 
*"To be, or not to be"*

A phrase from Shakespeare's *Hamlet  *is
"To be, or not to be, that is the question"*.*

Chris Koerner from WMF Discovery published some interesting information
about the verb "to be", and how on-wiki search deals with it, in this issue
 of
the *Discovery Weekly Update*:

"The English verb "to be" is kind of weird—the infinitive "be" and
participles "being, been" start with "b-", while the preterite forms
"was, were" start with "w-", and the present forms "am, is, are" start
with vowels. The conjugations originally come from three or four
different verbs! Why "three or four"? Wiktionary disagrees with itself
a bit, listing four on the etymology of "is" [5] and three on the
etymology of "be". [6] The conflation goes back at least to
Proto-Germanic, [7] so German is similarly weird. [8] Dutch has a
greatly simplified paradigm, but still shows some trace of the
multiple sources. [9] Other languages, including ASL, Arabic, Bengali,
Hawaiian, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, and
Ukrainian at least partly avoid this mess by having a zero copula.
[10] For search on-wiki, we deal with this problem in part with
stemming [11] and stop words. [12]

"[5] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/is#Etymology_1
[6] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/be#Etymology
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language
[8] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sein#Conjugation
[9] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zijn#Inflection
[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_copula
[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming
[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_words;





*Legal case ends well for Greek Wikipedia administrator*From the Wikimedia
Blog: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/18/greece-legal-case-ended/




*Photos from the 2018 Wikimedia Conference in Germany*
Some photos of the 2018 Wikimedia Conference are available on Commons
.
Here are a few:

* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_
Conference_2018,_Group_photo.jpg
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_
Conference_2018_by_ZUFAr_01.jpg
* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMCON18_Sweets_Table_1.jpg
*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMCON18_by_Rehman_-_Posters_(2).jpg
*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Conference_2018_%E2%80%93_091.jpg


What's making you happy this week? You are welcome to comment in any
language.


Pine
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