User talk:Marnen

Hallo, ich grüße Dich, ich brauche eine Übersetzung meines Artikels vom deutsche ins englische! Ich würde mich sehr freuen, wenn du dich bei so schnell wie möglich meldest.

Viele Liebe Grüße! --Veden11 (talk) 08:21, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please post new messages to the bottom of my talk page. Please use headlines when starting new talk topics. Thank you.

This is my general user talk page. Please put Pickypedia-related comments here.

Welcome!

Hello there Marnen, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you ever need editing help visit Wikipedia:How does one edit a page or how to format them visit our manual of style. Experiment at Wikipedia:Sandbox. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Wikipedia:Naming conventions. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Wikipedia:Help or add a question to the Village pump.

Good comments on the project page for classical music. That issue of languages used in titling works has been a thorny one. Personally, I tend to like titles in the foreign language but many others on Wikipedia don't. Anyway--welcome to Wikipedia from a fellow composer. There's a lot of stuff to be written; we have a small but dedicated group of editors here, and it's always good to see someone new around. Best wishes, Antandrus 21:49, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks (and brownie points for bothering to look at my site)! I've been cleaning stuff up so far, notably the article on Carl Maria von Weber...hopefully I'll contribute more actual content sometime in the future. --Marnen Laibow-Koser 22:07, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Triad

Noticed this one that you marked for cleanup. Started doing a bit of work on this page, but don't know anything about the subject. A lot of it seems to need rewriting from scratch, and/or some severe deleting re-ordering. Jcsutton 01:23, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Looks good. Thanks! --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 16:19, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Question about the origin of Yiddish word schmuck

Doesn't the word actually come from the word for jewel, and is used as a euphemism? Jayjg ^(talk) 19:27, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Yes, rather like English "family jewels". --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 19:50, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Return of the Untagged Image project

You were kind enough to contribute to the Wikipedia:Untagged images project; I beg to draw your attention to part 2 of the project - there are about 12,000 more images in need of tagging. Any assistance you could provide would be most welcome. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk)

Did a few, will do more as time permits. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 18:40, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Advice

Thanks for the advice. Am trying mediation first.--SqueakBox 21:17, Mar 14, 2005 (UTC)

You're welcome. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 21:22, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

DC trip

Please list all your available dates in the table at Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedians of the East Coast field trip#Date. Thanks. --brian0918  18:42, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Done. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 19:12, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

DC Meetup will be May 7/8

The DC Meetup date has been finalized to May 7/8. Even if you can only come one of the days, that's still fine. Please watch this page for new details, which will be posted in the next couple days: Wikipedia:Meetup/Wikipedians of the East Coast field trip --brian0918  16:12, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Jesus

Care to check out the brewing revert war on Jesus concerning BC/AD -- and the stubborn comments by Arcturus and Rangerdude on Talk:Jesus? I think your input would be valuable. Slrubenstein | Talk 20:40, 8 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I looked at the edit history and talk page. I think I'd do more harm than good coming out of nowhere to support a controversial edit. However, you may feel free to quote anything I said elsewhere in support of BCE/CE.

BTW, if you're interested in a proposal for a Wikipedia-like project where this sort of thing would be drastically reduced, please check out user:Marnen/Pickypedia. I'd welcome your input. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 23:13, 8 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Mind Benders

Hello! I've noticed your past interest in Wikipedia:Mind Benders and wanted to share the following announcement with you! I've taken over the responsibilities of Mind Benders, and the page will now be regularly updated. Right now, the pre-round is open (it's more of a creative artistic competition), and round one will open soon (the questions are done, we just need to wait for the pre-round to begin/finish)! So why not check it out? I'll keep you updated! Thanks, Flcelloguy | A note? | Desk 01:43, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

P.S. Feel free to pass this news on to other Wikipedians.

IPA style

I'm working on IPA-related stuff and noticed in passing that you have a reference to {{IPA fonts}} in your CSS files (here and here). This is no longer necessary now that this situation is handled in mediawiki:common.css and it adds a no-longer-necessary link to this template which I'm hoping to get rid of. Maybe you'd like to take a look at how my CSS adds a little colour to the proceedings (down at the bottom :-). HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 16:56, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Commented out. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 17:43, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup Taskforce

I have passed this article (taskforce request Wikipedia:Cleanup Taskforce/Algebraic syntax) for cleanup on to you, because you state that you have some expertise in the field of linguistics. A preliminary search for references has come up blank. This from RJFJR:

This one is a problem because we basically need an expert. If you know about linguistics take a look. Or just look at it for style and value. ...I think I'll go and look at it again and see if should just be AFDed. Let me know if you have an opinion on this one.

Good luck... haz _(user talk)^e 18:14, 23 February 2006

OK. I'll have a look at the article and see what I can do. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) (desk) 21:25, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Translations

You wouldn't happen to be interested in the author that shaped most Germans' view of America more than any other? I'm talking of Karl May and since his works are no longer copyrighted I have started a translation. You can find what I have so far here. My problem is that I'm not a native speaker of English. I can comfortably switch to English with a second's notice, but when I have a German text in front of me and try to translate it to English I often commit germanisms. Your input in this project would be really appreciated...

Hello, would you please help me for my translation from german to english? Sorry for my very bad english. Best Regards --Veden11 (talk) 14:26, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tibetan script

I noticed your comments about Tibetan script in the article about the Tibetan language. I am a specialist in Tibetan linguistics --- which doesn't mean I have time to examine and correct everything relevant to that (I did just correct a few things in the phonological history section, though), but I have noticed in general that Tibetan script never displays correctly in any of the Wikipedia articles: in many places, the letters need to stack vertically, but they don't, even if you are using something like Arial Unicode MS, which contains a Tibetan range. The problem is, you must, in a Windows environment, use a font with OpenType coding, such as the freely available "Tibetan Machine Uni", but then Wikipedia's editing language and/or the browser, must be able to interpret the OpenType info in the same way that MS Word does. So, what is the solution? I don't know how to even specify a certain font in Wikiedit (just signalling that it is Unicode won't get you the OpenType features you need), let alone worrying about the browser....Jakob37 06:59, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's been a while since I did anything with Tibetan, but my recollection of the situation is something like this. Specifying a specific font (in general a bad idea) won't do a bit of good, since the problem is that even with a properly designed Tibetan font, some Web browsers will not interpret the OpenType or AAT information correctly. For example, I recall viewing Tibetan text in TextEdit on Mac OS X, then looking at the same text -- in the same font -- in Safari. TextEdit stacked letters properly; Safari did not.

So really all you can do is to encode the Tibetan properly (perhaps specifying particular fonts, which I believe you'd do with CSS properties), and just hope for the best in the browser. I know it sucks, but there's nothing else possible AFAIK. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) (desk) 05:33, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nyotaimori

Thanks for your comments on Talk:Nyotaimori. I added a link to the pictures to the nyotaimori article. I'm glad you liked the pictures - as a matter of fact, I've later met both of the models (clothed this time). I must say, you have a very unusual first name. A Google search for it resulted in only links about you. How common or uncommon exactly is it? JIP | Talk 19:06, 7 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nearly unique. There are a few others out there, but the more common spelling (which is still quite rare) is Marnin, which is closer to the original Hebrew. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) (desk) 15:17, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, would you please translate my artikel on wiki from german to english? Please contact me thank you--Veden11 (talk) 14:28, 4 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Help

Dear Marnen We have found your name in the list of translators. Could you please help us to translate and upload on Esperanto Wikipedia this page ? Thanks a lot--Aeron10 (talk) 18:58, 15 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Language-population update project

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) 02:39, 4 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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