Great job with the Lua program Surya. Very proud of the Tamil wikipedia.
I did the translation using machine and my personal interpretations.
On May 31, 2013 3:55 PM, "Suryaprakash" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you Tausif for the translation. (I wanna know how you did it...
> Machine or help from others?)
>
> By the way, all the issues are fixed.
>
> 1. If the program finds a {{underconstruction}} template, it will skip
> back to previous one (i.e. no changes will be made)
> 2. For months, Tamil uses some Grantha characters in month names (Ja, Joo
> etc.) But, by using it cautiously (A edit help atop the editing box, which
> tells the correct word).
>
> So, as of now, all issues at least one is purely fixed (1st) another one
> is virtually fix.
>
> So, anyone can use the code with credits to authors :)
>
> Note: In Tamil Wiki, picture is updated twice in a week (WED, SUN)
>
> Thanks
>
> Surya Prakash
>
>
> On 30 May 2013 19:52, Tausif Rahmathullah <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Please find the translation of the page (
>> http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Main_page) below. Hope it would be
>> helpful.
>>
>> **beginning of translation**
>>
>> This luva program was created on May 26, 2013 at Chennai Event on weekend
>> events of the Wikimedia, by Tamil wiki user Surya prakash and Wikimedia
>> user Yuvraj Pandian.
>>
>> The purpose of this tool is to automate the updation of the Main Page.
>> For example, the template of a Main Page articles, Did-you-know, featured
>> picture, portal intoduction, user introduction and list introduction, and
>> its contributors are incessantly changing.
>>
>> In a few cases, the contributor at the right time are unable to make the
>> update. This program was written to do exactly that in this difficult
>> situation. The main page of English Wikipedia is being updated through this
>> method. But since we lack enough contributors other wikipedias such as this
>> one(Tamil Wikipedia) is not being updated everyday.(The "Today" section is
>> part of the daily converted by wiki notation).
>>
>> The main page of tamil wikipedia is being update in the following days
>> weekly
>>
>> Articles are update on sundays Did-you-know are update on wednesdays
>> Featured picture are update on wednesdays Portal section are update on once
>> per month Lists section are also being update only once per month.
>>
>> Hence, instead of the contributors updating manually for the frequency of
>> updation, they could do the updation whey they have the time and this
>> program would update it when it is required based on the frequence set. If
>> the updation isn't availabe or not preset by the contributor for the next
>> occurence, the program would look for the previous ones and update them.
>> Therefore, there need not be a fear of "Red
>>
>> Line" in the Main Page.
>>
>> Known Issues As told by Bala,
>>
>> 1. Currently, we have put main page sub-templates as
>> "under-construction". Therefore, when the date arrives they will be ready
>> and will be saved as drafts. For example, If there is a section that was
>> saved draft which is still incomplete and the contributor forgets about it.
>> When the day comes for updation, the program will update the Main page with
>> the incomplete section. We need to avoid this.
>> 2. The template topics are in the name of the month(June vs June. March
>> vs March, etc.). This could be changed to the number corresponding to the
>> month (1-12)
>>
>> Solution
>>
>> 1. Soution to the first problem is a bit difficult. It is possible only
>> by the contricutors and other occasional contributors/helpers. Until the
>> section is complete an "Under construction" template could be added to
>> that. Upon further discussion with Yuvaraj, we might end-up in a better
>> solution. And the manual will be soon processed as soon as possible.
>> 2. Solution to the second issue is quite simpler. The name of the
>> template that is used in MediaWiki shall be used across all.
>>
>> **end of translation**
>>
>> This section was written by Surya Prakash in Tamil. Translated by
>> Me(en:User:Stausifr)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tausif
>> On May 29, 2013 7:52 PM, "Luca Martinelli" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 2013/5/29 Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]>:
>>> [...]
>>> > It looks like people could use this template on a main page to display
>>> a
>>> > featured article, a user, changes from the current month, and so on.
>>> (I
>>> > ran the Tamil documentation through Google Translate and didn't
>>> > understand everything; an English translation would be welcome, as
>>> would
>>> > a TODO list for future options to add.)
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Wow.
>>>
>>> I'm waiting for an English translation too before informing the
>>> Italian community, but at a first glance this looks awesome. This is
>>> yet another giant leap for us, thanks to Lua.
>>>
>>> Kudos to Surya, Yuvi, and all the others who were involved into this! :)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Luca "Sannita" Martinelli
>>> http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita
>>>
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