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To Anatoli T.: Sorry but I have already given my explanation. I am not familiar with Traditional Chinese Characters and have to leave the task to others who are willing to complete it.Huhu9001 (talk) 18:25, 21 August 2016 (UTC)Reply
to Wyang: Why, with both being /*rlaː/? 了 is thought to be from 來 because 來 is still used in some dialects where 了 occupied in MSM. This conclusion was drawn from The Sino-Tibetan Languages by G. Thurgood and R. LaPolla, page 92.Huhu9001 (talk) 05:19, 18 November 2016 (UTC)Reply
to Wyang: Not mentioning the reconstructions of OCH itself is far from being accurate, only several possible pronunciations are given rather than a single "correct" one. Instead a more reliable clue comes from the rule of vowel shifts /a/ to /u/ in OCH.Huhu9001 (talk) 05:25, 18 November 2016 (UTC)Reply
/*rlaː/ generates Middle Chinese /ɖˠa/, which gives cha2. All the developments were regular. However, the tu2 pronunciation of 荼 is from Old Chinese /*l'aː/, and is hence not valid as a word comparandum obeying regular sound changes. The reference in Thurgood is not convincing; compare the passages on 了 and 來 in Schuessler (2007) "ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese" - 來 is evidently not a contraction of 了 + 也, which is what is claimed in Thurgood. The etymologies need to be backed up with references, and when multiple references exist, by consensus amongst them. Wyang (talk) 05:55, 18 November 2016 (UTC)Reply
Let's look at this in more detail. I was able to find the following references which had analysed the use of 了 in medieval literature and commented on the origin or development of this particle.
The consensus in the literature is that the sentence-final 了 had developed from the perfective marker 了 via either one of the following sequences:
V + O + 了 > V + 了 + O (aspect particle) > V + 了 > sentence-final modal particle
V + O + 了 > V + 了 (aspect particle) > V + 了 + O > sentence-final modal particle
In this process, the last step may have involved the fusion with sentence-final 也 in certain northern Mandarin dialects, resulting in distinct pronunciations of the two particle uses of 了.
This is very far from what you had added in 了, which says 了 is derived from 來 without any other context given. Before it can be demonstrated by a thorough review of the literature supporting one's hypothesis that 了 is derived from 來, this is an unsubstantiated view which is inconsistent with the consensus on the origin of the modal particle 了 in the literature. Wyang (talk) 09:59, 18 November 2016 (UTC)Reply
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Hi. In {{ar-personal_pronouns}} you wrote: "Furthermore, -ū of the masculine sound plural is assimilated to -ī before ـيَ (-ya) (presumably, -aw of masculine defective -an plurals is similarly assimilated to -ay)." It is difficult to understand without examples. Specifically, these two phrases: -ū of the masculine sound plural, and -aw of masculine defective -an plurals is similarly assimilated to -ay. Someone is asking for clarification at Talk:هم. —Stephen(Talk)04:11, 21 January 2017 (UTC)Reply
You left out a lot of text from w:Arabic grammar#Personal pronouns, leaving {{ar-personal_pronouns}} incomprehensible. For example, in the sentence that you added that begins with "Specifically", you left out the words that precede that, and those words are necessary. Without them, what you added makes no sense at all. Do you know Arabic? If you don't know Arabic, you should just revert your edits to {{ar-personal_pronouns}}. If you know Arabic as well as English, then you should revisit your edits to {{ar-personal_pronouns}} and fix it. —Stephen(Talk)19:37, 25 January 2017 (UTC)Reply
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I have reverted your changes to these entries as homophones (in Mandarin) are already listed in the pronunciation box. Please refrain from such edits in the future. Thank you. ---> Tooironic (talk) 06:32, 4 July 2018 (UTC)Reply
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Hi there. Please note that we haven't used that formatting across 1,000s of Chinese 词 entries for synonyms and antonyms. Instead, we have kept that data and the definitions separate to each other. This still allows us to specify which sense is being referred to. Please help us maintain consistency. ---> Tooironic (talk) 03:26, 17 February 2019 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for bringing that vote my attention. I wasn't aware of it. If I had known about it I would have voted against it, but it seems like the majority of the community support it anyway. Mixing the definitions space with synonyms and antonyms information looks bad and makes it harder for users to find definitions, quotations and usage examples. It also suppresses important information like pinyin and qualifiers. It's true we have to manually add a sense gloss, but that's a very small task that takes only a couple of seconds to complete. ---> Tooironic (talk) 08:51, 17 February 2019 (UTC)Reply
@Tooironic: Because you don't know whether some neological sense will be add in the future. Also you failed to distinguish the physical sense and the psychological sense in 升華. I hope you read an entry carefully before editing it. -- Huhu9001 (talk) 09:24, 17 February 2019 (UTC)Reply
Like I said earlier, separating the syn/ant information from the definitions allows us to include pinyin and qualifiers which is useful to users. And we are, after all, a dictionary first and foremost and not a thesaurus. So why put them together? What benefit does that provide? In the thousands of Chinese entries - plus tens of thousands of English entries - we use the original formatting. Why not maintain consistency? ---> Tooironic (talk) 10:37, 17 February 2019 (UTC)Reply
@Tooironic: Also if you are referring to traditional dictionaries, I would like to say that traditional dictionaries, when providing "see also" (including Syms/Ants) information, usually only give a bare entry name for readers to look up. They put pinyin or any other things in the main entries rather than give them beside the "see also" information. -- Huhu9001 (talk) 10:52, 17 February 2019 (UTC)Reply
As we often say, we are not a paper dictionary, so we don't have to worry about too much information on the page. The pinyin information does not require additional input by editors - it displays automatically - so I don't see what the benefit would be of turning that feature off. ---> Tooironic (talk) 10:59, 17 February 2019 (UTC)Reply
Admin User:Wyang accused me of "Adding copious amount of incorrect translations and other content": No evidence given. In fact I almost merely copy from Japanese dictionaries recently.
If possible, I would like to call for the removal of this user from administrators for his constant abusing of power. Having him remaining in his place is quite harmful to Wiktionary. -- Huhu9001 (talk) 10:49, 24 July 2019 (UTC)Reply
I'm having trouble understanding what this is all about: on the one hand, I see corrections by others on only two of your edits this month, which doesn't look like what I would expect from a repeat egregiously bad editor. On the other hand, I see corrections by others on only two of your edits this month, which doesn't begin to justify your angry outburst on Wyang's talk page.
As for "I almost merely copy from Japanese dictionaries recently": Wyang isn't commenting on your Japanese, but on your English. Unless you're copying word-for-word, which would be copyright violation and/or plagiarism, the phrasing of your definitions is your work- and your responsibility. The phrasing of that sentence doesn't show the best command of English, so that may be the kind of thing he was referring to. I don't have time right now to go through your edits to see if Wyang has a point regarding content (if it's even the kind of thing I'm qualified to judge), but as far as his characterization of your attitude, I have to agree with him. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:04, 24 July 2019 (UTC)Reply
@Chuck Entz: Because this admin has harassed me before in 彈頭 and as far as I see he has been always ill-attituded towards who dissents him. In fact I have tried my best to avoid him for quite a period of time as I hate to engage in a conflict with such an admin, but still he and the trouble came for me, which was the thing that really frustrated me. -- Huhu9001 (talk) 14:34, 24 July 2019 (UTC)Reply
@Chuck Entz: More. I am interested in neither the bureaucratic things of Wiktionary, nor Wyrang himself, but I did observe him once playing some tricks like blocking himself in order to earn sympathy of the community (chiefly other admins I guess) and to get rid of the then accusation of abusing admin rights over some other users. I don't know what you think of it but I would take this as hypocritic performance and it would be quite a dismay to think about having to endure such a person, who I must admit is quite good at reinforcing his own position and power by this kind of performance, when participating in Wiktionary in the foreseeable future. This is another reason of my angry outburst. -- Huhu9001 (talk) 15:02, 24 July 2019 (UTC)Reply
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@Justinrleung: I have a question. Is there any possibility to have class="collapsable" (the HTML class that caused the trouble this time) to function on the mobile site? I noticed there are still other Chinese templates using it like {{zh-dial}} and {{zh-x|collapsed=y}}. Are we supposed to wait for future improvement of this class or just abandon it altogether in these templates? -- Huhu9001 (talk) 04:19, 5 November 2019 (UTC)Reply
We can't really do anything because it's a Wikimedia problem. I think there's a Phabricator issue for this, but I don't see it being fixed in the near future. If I remember correctly, the issue is that there's a bunch of code that's not in the mobile site to reduce the download size for mobile users. — justin(r)leung{ (t...) | c=› }04:25, 5 November 2019 (UTC)Reply
Your edit removes useful information from the entry that is not easily found elsewhere.
Moreover, some of the information you removed is sourced, while the information you added is not. This kind of edit is discouraged, especially without discussion.
→ Do you have any source clearly indicating that the Japanese term came from Chinese? Or perhaps a source showing the Chinese term 抛物線 in use in Chinese before the 1880s? If so, please add the source. When doing so, please do not remove the mention of the first date of appearance in Japanese.
Furthermore, some of the information you removed is information that you yourself have advocated for addition (the mention of 代用字).
→ Could you explain why you removed {{ja-daiyouji}}?
@Eirikr: "introduced redundancy"? Come on. Are you kidding me? I have left the etymology section just because I had not determined whether to remove it altogether. But now I think I should have done so. Do you just copy the etymology section from economics to œconomics and say it is "useful information from the entry that is not easily found elsewhere"?
(This term, 抛物線, is an alternative kanji spelling of 放物線.)
We have two instances of "see [this other entry]". That's redundancy right there on the page. I'm not sure what's confusing about that for you? (Serious question, no snark.)
@Eirikr: Don't you think it is ridiculous to have t:ja-see and all those stuffs to get all contents moved to the lemma entry, but then on the other hand manually have some of them moved back? In other words, the entry looks redundant after my edit, just because it has already been redundant before my edit. In fact I had tried to remove redundancy and my biggest mistake is having not removed them entirely so that I can prevent these stupid accusations. -- Huhu9001 (talk) 18:05, 22 November 2019 (UTC)Reply
@Eirikr: "Redundancy" does not only includes "repeating itself", but also "repeating other pages". If this is still not clear enough, I don't know how to explain that for you any further. -- Huhu9001 (talk) 02:50, 23 November 2019 (UTC)Reply
Yes, as I mentioned separately over at Talk:放物線 in this edit, I came to realize that you were probably intending such redundancy between entries, rather than just within a single entry (as was my initial understanding and focus). FWIW, my primary perspective is often usability for readers -- is the relevant and necessary information for this entry easily available and clearly understandable to the reader? As such, my focus is more on how the page renders, rather than where the data lives. I don't care so much about data duplication, so long as the site is usable for readers. If there is an approach that addresses both usability and data-deduplication, such as @Dine2016's development of {{ja-see}} and {{ja-see-kango}}, I'm all for it. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig02:38, 25 November 2019 (UTC)Reply
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Curious about this edit. Do you have any source stating as much? Japanese sources like the KDJ instead just describe this as related to the ancient kingdoms of Wu and Han, which seems to fit with the dialectal pronunciation information we have for Middle Chinese and descendants. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig22:04, 2 December 2019 (UTC)Reply
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I would guess that at least half of the 40 entries currently in CAT:E are there because of your edit. I have no clue whether your edit is wrong, the entries are wrong or it's some combination, but this needs to be addressed. Thanks! Chuck Entz (talk) 21:44, 17 January 2020 (UTC)Reply
Possibly also MOD:ja-headword. Have these edits been discussed anywhere? I don't think the formatting of the headword templates should be changed radically without consensus. A major problem I see is that the ruby aren't aligned properly for many cases. — justin(r)leung{ (t...) | c=› }21:51, 17 January 2020 (UTC)Reply
As I said before: "I have no clue whether your edit is wrong, the entries are wrong or it's some combination, but this needs to be addressed". My purpose wasn't to criticize your coding skills, but to point out an instance where something that was working last week stopped working after your edits, so you could deal with it. I fix a lot of obvious minor errors (I had no clue how to fix this particular one, though), but when there's a possibility that there may be larger issues, I bring it to the attention of the person most likely to need to understand that there's a problem. In this case, it looked like you were unaware that this was related to your module edits, and it might be something you needed to know about. Chuck Entz (talk) 15:00, 10 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
@Chuck Entz: Thank you. I had already been fully aware of that error and its cause before you told it to me. But I had been thinking I was not supposed to edit someone else's comment. -- Huhu9001 (talk) 15:17, 10 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
Letting a module error sit there isn't good practice: the added clutter in CAT:E makes it harder to spot new errors.
If you think about it, the change in the module had already modified the comment- for the worse. Deleting a single space to make it display pretty much exactly as it originally did is more like restoring the translation (not really a comment, strictly speaking) than changing it. You have to ask yourself whether @Atitarev would have felt you were putting words in his mouth or second-guessing his formatting choices. Also, if you're polite about it and make it clear through an edit comment what you're doing and why you're doing it, you're unlikely to offend anyone- even if they disagree with your edit.
If you still don't feel comfortable making the change, the other option is to let the person know about the problem and either ask permission to make the change or ask them to make it. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:24, 11 February 2020 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Huhu9001, in your recent revert, you unfortunately reintroduced various issues that I'd been trying to fix, including outdated formatting, unclear text, grammatical errors, and mistaken headers.
Reading your edits and edit comments, I confess that I'm uncertain what your main concern is. Your current text now says that kun'yomi is:
a kind of Japanese kanji readings that is not based on the kanji's original pronunciation borrowed from Chinese
This description would include 慣用音(kan'yōon), which are much more commonly treated as a type of 音読み(on'yomi).
I've had another go at the entry, fixing the formatting and grammatical issues, and adding a usage note to address the exceptions that you mentioned in your edit comment. To expand upon my own earlier edit comment, the key distinction between on and kun seems to be whether the word as pronounced is regarded as originally Chinese (on), or as natively Japanese, also including nativized terms (kun).
@Eirikr: On means "sound" and Kun means "meaning". That's good enough. I don't know why you just keep inventing a however still inaccurate definition stating it is "native". -- Huhu9001 (talk) 22:12, 17 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
Native, or nativized, as opposed to borrowed from Chinese. This is essentially what it says at w:ja:訓読み; I'm not inventing anything. Why the accusation?
@Eirikr: "nativized" is obviously an invention. It is absurd. What is "nativizedness"? Is it how long the word had been in the language? Then I would definitely say 非道 is more "nativized" than 酷い, let alone 莨. -- Huhu9001 (talk) 22:24, 17 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
@Eirikr: For the ja.wiki article, I would suppose the definition written there is that kind of typical "traditional grammar school teachings". It is flawful. It even contradicts the contents written in the same page. But people do not really have a motive to change it because it is the status quo, and its problem is rather trivial for practical use. -- Huhu9001 (talk) 22:37, 17 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
@Eirikr: As for the revert, I only tried to revert the definition. I was just copying the source from an older version when I clicked the submit button on the wrong page. Sorry for that. I have no words on those outdated formatting, mistaken headers or whatever. -- Huhu9001 (talk) 22:17, 17 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
Re: nativization, I am surprised by your apparent vehemence and upset. I certainly mean no offense.
"Nativization" it is an admittedly broad term with various dimensions. The core sense that I intended for "nativized" is "regarded and treated as a native term, subject to native sound shifts and inflection patterns". This use of the terms "native" and "nativize" (and derivatives) is not uncommon in discussions of loanwords. See also this post on the Linguistics Stack Exchange, discussing the terminology to describe the process whereby foreign words are brought into a language.
Nativization is something of a continuum, or matter of degree; while a Japanese speaker would never call bed a Japanese term, they might call ベッド(beddo) a Japanese term of foreign origin. Meanwhile, they would probably recognize 非道(hidō) as a Chinese-derived Japanese term, but at the same time, they might not even be aware that 酷い(hidoi) originates from a Chinese term.
For some examples in English, most speakers are not aware that arrest is from French, while mousse is more commonly thought of as a loanword. Another fully nativized borrowing is aspirin, originally from German.
@Eirikr: Sorry, I had been upset for something else. But "nativized" is still a term too vague for a definition. As you have stated, it even depends on the might-be ignorance of individual speakers. Such phrasing should be avoided. -- Huhu9001 (talk) 00:12, 18 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
Actually, now that I look again at the entry, I'm not sure which portion you're describing as "encyclopedic". Perhaps the usage notes? I am loath to force users to click through to other pages to get information about the term, and right now, the ap:Japanese glossary#kun'yomi entry doesn't have information about exceptions. If you're very concerned about the size of the 訓読み page, I suppose I could be convinced to move the exceptions info to the glossary entry, and link to that from the usage notes section. I'll hold off on editing the entry for now since I'm not sure what would be best. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig17:56, 18 June 2020 (UTC)Reply
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Hello Huhu9001, after seeing your recent edit at 閑古鳥 to fold away the etymology details, I found myself agreeing with your apparent move to visually streamline the entry, but also unhappy with the columnar formatting currently enforced by {{rel-top}}.
Idiom glosses are a separate issue, no? In the Grease Pit thread, I'm talking specifically about folding away the etymology details in a collapsible section.
About the idiom glosses specifically, I generally haven't felt comfortable building out full entries for these, in large part because of past community confusion over the years about whether we should even include such entries, and if so, what part of speech to use, what formatting to use, etc. I found it easier to just have the idiom and gloss + explanation under sub-headings of other entries, rather than building out full entries when those might just get deleted again later. This confusion seems to be coming to a head again, prompting the thread over at [[Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/2021/March#Formatting_of_foreign_language_proverbs]]. I am hopeful that this latest round of discussion might arrive at a working consensus. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig23:00, 16 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Huhu9001: Thanks for doing that so quickly, and I appreciate the suggestion. Do you know if there are general requirements to become a template editor on Wiktionary? I didn't really see much mention of the matter. I feel that I have a decent amount of editing history and am moderately comfortable with programming in general but I don't have as much experience with editing templates specifically. Thanks, ChromeGames (talk) 05:45, 24 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
@Huhu9001: Thanks for the information, I appreciate it. I have posted a request at the beer parlor so I hope it goes through, or at the least receives some helpful feedback or comments. ChromeGames (talk) 19:17, 25 March 2022 (UTC)Reply
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The way you are behaving is genuinely unacceptable, because it is disruptive, mean-spirited and bad faith. Please stop. It just makes life harder for everyone - including you. Go cool off, and come back tomorrow. Theknightwho (talk) 09:37, 23 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
This block happened when I initiated a Grease pit discussion (Wiktionary:Grease_pit#Question_on_mod:string_utilities) over the usage of some functions in mod:string utilities created by User:Theknightwho. Unfortunately, User:Theknightwho has a long history of being largely emotional, uncooperative and ready to resort to personal attacks. This user soon took this personally and began to attack me. I even have to beg him to stop when I am posting the results of some my own tests. This user cursed me using the word "arsehole".
While I absolutely admit the profound technical contributions this user has made on Wiktionary. I sincerely question the necessity of posing this user as an admin, since this user is generally unstable and confrontative. As we know editing modules or templates does not need admin rights and this user will do more benefit and less harm to the community if this user were to contribute as a normal user.
This is a completely unreasonable request. You were being vindictive, and now you're being dishonest and manipulative. If anything, this is likely to result in your block length being increased. Calling me "unstable" borders on abusive. Theknightwho (talk) 09:58, 23 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
Please reconsider your stance on this admin whether supporting this user or not. I believe this user's administration has become a substantial unstable facter to the community. This user can still make good contributions to Wiktionary without admin rights and I think it is also for this user's own good. -- Huhu9001 (talk) 10:21, 23 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
To clarify - I think Huhu was definitely the worst instigator and escalator and should have backed down several times - knight could have handled the conversation differently, but I think even this massive wall Huhu has written is a bit of an overreaction. Vininn126 (talk) 11:19, 23 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
I would prefer that I not be pinged for issues like this, and mass-pinging folks for this when it doesn't look good on you either... does not help your case at all. I agree with Vininn & Surjection, and to be frank, I've been frustrated with Theknightwho too with changes to the language modules as Korean & Jeju have been broken for weeks on end (still broken at 값(gap) !), and wish that he'd add more documentation, but that does not excuse the language/attitude that you've used as well. AG202 (talk) 12:45, 23 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
@AG202 I will just say that the issue of 값(gap) is a nontrivial problem! I have actually spent quite a large amount of time on that particular issue, because it's a symptom of a much more significant underlying problem. Theknightwho (talk) 12:56, 23 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Theknightwho I am aware of this, but as I've said before, I wish that you had documented and tested the changes that went in beforehand. The entries weren't broken for years before your changes and now they've been broken for almost a month. The breakage was caused by you, and while I emphasize with the fact that they aren't easy to fix, it is a problem that you yourself brought about. It's not a symptom of some third-party breakage that just happened to happen. If this is not fixed soon, I'd push for some reverts because this is starting to get out of hand. I've been patient, but I can only be so patient. (CC: @Benwing2) AG202 (talk) 13:34, 23 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
@AG202 I can do a fix that specifically works for Korean and Jeju, but I want to emphasise that this situation isn't anything to do with not testing: it's the fact that I made the (as it turns out incorrect) assumption that transliterations for bolded text would never be affected by the surrounding text. It's not something I could find anywhere (and I did look!), and it's not something that comes up very often.
I had been hoping to find some way of fixing the underlying problem without needing a sticking plaster, but I don't think it's possible. In any event, we've been over this before. Theknightwho (talk) 13:49, 23 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
I still think TKW needs to hold back from using admin tools in disputes he's involved in, but for what it's worth I don't really disagree with him about your attitude in that discussion (especially vs. Benwing) and drumming up a crusade over a one-day ban comes off as puerile. Sorry. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 13:47, 23 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, in a case like this, where the behaviour Huhu was blocked for was clearly seen by other admins who were not involved in the dispute (happening on a page a lot of other admins clearly watch and edit), and where AFAIK Huhu has not been long-term problematic (am I mistaken? perhaps he mainly edits areas I don't), I don't think the one admin who was involved in the dispute should've issued a block. Where possible, admins should avoid issuing blocks about disputes they're involved in; it's better to just step back and let other admins decide whether anything blockworthy has happened. (Perhaps the best thing would've been to walk away and hope other editors weighed in on the substantive question of whether X or Y change to the module was a net positive or negative, but it doesn't seem like many other technically-adept editors have time or inclination to weigh in.) - -sche(discuss)20:51, 23 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
I agree with the other admins, as an admin involved in a dispute you should not initiate a block of the other party unless there's an exceptional reason. Benwing2 (talk) 21:27, 23 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
For the record, Huhu9001 has removed two comments which were particularly critical, supposedly on the basis of "vulgarity". However, this does not apply to much of the material removed. This appears to be yet another instance of dishonesty. Theknightwho (talk) 02:10, 26 March 2023 (UTC)Reply
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Hi Huhu9001. I am seeing "Lua error in Module:languages at line 791: The function getByCode expects a string as its first argument, but received a table." when I use template:prefix. You appear to have edited modules here recently, so I hope you can fix this problem!
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If you cannot edit in a mature fashion, you will merely end up getting blocked again. That means you need to engage in discussion, instead of passive-aggression. Theknightwho (talk) 06:06, 9 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
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Hello. I found this page Module:User:Huhu9001/000 and this is 'kind of' something I was looking for to implement our current tables on the pt.wikt (e.g. pt:Predefinição:conj.ja.gu). My plans for my home wikt is to create a more complete table and then automatically create the conjugation pages with my bot there. Well, my question is: is this table complete or in process? And, is it being used somewhere on the en.wikt or is there a plan? Jesielt (user talk) 06:35, 26 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Jesielt: Thank you for your recognition. This thing is only half-made and I do wish to finish it in the future. However I have met with many difficulties, mainly objections regarding some of its styles from the en.wikt community, so I am very uncertain about when I can finish it. It is not used anywhere on the en.wikt now. -- Huhu9001 (talk) 07:21, 26 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
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See the original question at Module_talk:Jpan-sortkey.
Modification you did on the Module does not make sense to me and it does throw errors when executed (outside of MediaWiki servers, so the Scribunto like environment may not produce the same result, I cannot know as I have not access to MediWiki errors).
Nevertheless as the code cannot be understood by a reasonable dev, it should be changed (at least for maintainability reasons), even if, by miracle it produces the expected result for an unknown reason.
Please explain me the intended result, and I'll see how to fix this. Dodecaplex (talk) 07:37, 28 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Dodecaplex: I replied your question. I want to add a few more here:
MediaWiki modules are not responsible for errors outside MediaWiki.
Your question can be easily answered by yourself if you do a bit test in some sandbox pages, or use mw.log()ormw.logObject() to do some debugs and see what the actual output is, instead of just guessing.
I don't know what you meant by saying "have not access to MediWiki errors" ("have no access to MediWiki errors" or "have not accessed MediWiki errors"?). Anyway this is not a valid excuse. Scribunto errors are visible to everyone in cat:E.
2&3 show that you are not "a reasonable dev" as you have claimed. Try to be less hasty when running to a conclusion next time.
Oh boy. This admin locked mod:Jpan-sortkey to prevent me from editing it. But now all of a sudden he commands me to "just fix the code". I can't tell whether he is poking fun at me or just not thinking straight. -- Huhu9001 (talk) 12:32, 28 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
1. I know and I don't ask you to produce something that will work in my setting, just to explain me what you intend to do with this program (so that I can decide on a correct course of action)
2. Easily seems to be a very relative term. The behaviour you are relying on is not documented anywhere and the semantics of the Mediawiki and Scribunto does not support this usage which is entirely implementation specific.
3. I don't have time nor willing to become a specialist of all the arcanes of MediaWiki or English wiktionary, I work with 23 languages editions, hence 23 differing usages and traditions... and I only have one lifetime.
4. Maybe I was too harsh in my wording, as the question did not get any answer after several days, but I can assure you that this code could certainly win the "will sooner or later blow in your face" award. And I maintain that nobody can understand this without a very deep knowledge or long experience of the intricacies of current MediaWiki implementation.
@Fenakhay: This is a necessary response to "as the code cannot be understood by a reasonable dev". Normally people do not use themselves as an argument, and I indeed prefer that way. But since User:Dodecaplex has already done it that way, I have no choice because I can not make my case without talking about the person when the other party has already brought it up as an argument. It was that user that made the discussion personal, not me. -- Huhu9001 (talk) 14:18, 28 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Huhu9001 It's a completely reasonable argument: you yourself repeatedly used it when asking (demanding) that I document modules myself. Telling someone else that they must figure it out themselves because it's now your turn to document code is a bit ridiculous. Theknightwho (talk) Theknightwho (talk) 14:50, 28 April 2023 (UTC)Reply
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This term's is never originated from the sense limited only in intelligent disorder. Also physically disabled people and children with multiple disabilities in wheelchairs attending schools for the disabled can be called "ガイジ".
There are some examples which describe the usage of the term that is not limited in mental:
@荒巻モロゾフ: These examples are not conveying meaning. Is there example where this term is actually used against physically disabled person, or figuratively physically weak person or the like? Usage examples I can find exclusively refer to (figuratively) "insane, crazy person". It only makes sense if it is derived from "mentally disabled" sense.
Your edit is inapropriate. shohgaisha.com is managed by one company which is not authoritative organization to decide how terms are used. I presented usage examples by major media and municipality, that is more authorized than one company which don't run news media.
And also "知的" is never "mentally", that is only used to refer "intelligent", mentally disorder is "精神障害" in Japanese. The comprehension you've done is misinterpretation from the beginning, or medically inapropriate. Disorders which make people insane is never limited in intelligence disorder (知的障害 / IQ under 70), also mental disorder (精神障害) and developmental disorder (発達障害 / in narrow sense, not including intelligent disability), and even also personality disorder (人格障害), which is not disability under Japanese law, can make them insane. The sort of disabilities is not fixed form the first. They all can make people who's called "ガイジ", and to fix decidedly from made by one company, which can include misunderstandings, is not good.--荒巻モロゾフ (talk) 23:58, 16 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
@荒巻モロゾフ: Slangs are not subject to "authoritative organization to decide how terms are used". Also pathological discussion is off-topic because the semantic shift of a slang is not so scientific. -- Huhu9001 (talk) 00:39, 17 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
@荒巻モロゾフ: Wiktionary is a descriptive dictionary based on usage, not authoritative sources (see our Criteria for inclusion. That means we go to whatever place has the usage (not the definition- that's a mention, not a use). We also document the way a term is used- even when it's used in harmful or awful ways. We do our best to let our readers know when a term will offend people, be considered wrong, or will be interpreted in certain ways- but we still document it as it's used. Chuck Entz (talk) 00:48, 17 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
I have you on my watchlist, but I make a point of keeping out of most discussions on most of the user talk pages on my watchlist because they're none of my business. I occasionally will weigh in on some kinds of general topics that aren't specific to the user whose page they're on, or in cases where I think I can be of help. In this case I may have misjudged what the discussion was about, exactly. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:19, 17 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
The "Criteria for inclusion" you said says:
“Attested” means verified through
clearly widespread use, or
use in permanently recorded media, conveying meaning, in at least three independent instances spanning at least a year (different requirements apply for certain languages).
My presentation fulfills the criteria above, while his assertion according only one company's website doesn't. Don't you think so?--荒巻モロゾフ (talk) 01:19, 17 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
What do you think about? The part "知的" did never contribute to the shortened term anyway, and that part is also interpreted as "精神", "発達" or "身体" according it.--荒巻モロゾフ (talk) 01:52, 17 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
I said that it is not fixed in "知的" after all even if we accept such type of sources. If you didn't understand Japanese sentences well, I'd like to apologise to you because of my badness of explaining foreign language in English without any translation though...--荒巻モロゾフ (talk) 02:19, 17 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
@荒巻モロゾフ: The first of the 2 alternative etymology theories in ガイジ does not claim it is "fixed in 知的" either. Isn't that agreeing with the source you mentioned?
That is problem of how to display and interpretation. Since that is related to the rule of wiktionary, not only we two's. It's better to ask someone for how to do in this case. Okay?--荒巻モロゾフ (talk) 03:32, 17 July 2023 (UTC)Reply