http://glottopedia.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Martin+Haase&feedformat=atomGlottopedia - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T14:43:15ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.34.2http://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=Help:Basics&diff=8867Help:Basics2009-02-28T14:08:52Z<p>Martin Haase: /* How to format text */ external link</p>
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Glottopedia is a web-based free-content encyclopedia of linguistics that any linguist can contribute to. If you are logged in, you can edit nearly every article just by clicking on the '''Edit''' button at the top of the page.<br />
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== Getting started ==<br />
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Don’t be afraid of using and editing Glottopedia. You cannot make any serious mistakes, and your contributions will be valuable to other linguists. If you have '''questions''', please ask in our [[Glottopedia:Forum|Forum]]. The [[Special:Listusers|Glottopedia community]] will help you.<br />
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If you want to join, please click on '''log-in/create account''' right at the very top of the page and follow the instructions. Please do not use a pseudonym as account name. Your user name should be '''your real name''' or very similar to it, as we want readers to be able to see quickly who created the articles.<br />
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Once you are logged in, you will see your personal links at the very top of the page. The first one is a link to your '''user page'''. At the beginning this link is red. This means that the page does not exist yet. For identification purposes, you should '''create this user page''' and include in it your academic background (your current or past academic affiliation). You don't have to be a professor or have a current affiliation: Students and independent scholars are very welcome. But you should have some '''academic background''', i.e. you should have been enrolled in a linguistics programme at some point in the past. You can also say what your linguistic interests are, which languages you speak or understand, and so on. (This could help others to find specialists to answer particular questions.)<br />
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The second link “my talk” leads you to your '''personal talk page'''. Every user and every article has such a talk page (or discussion page). If you contribute there you are asked to always [[Glottopedia:Signature|sign]] your posts by <nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki>. The software will substitute the four tildes by your personal signature, adding a time&date stamp. This will help others to follow the discussion.<br />
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The fifth link '''my contributions''' leads you to another log page. There you can see what you have done so far. Please note that deleted edits, thus edits on pages that have been deleted meanwhile, are not shown on this list. You will find a list of deleted files [[Special:log/delete|here]].<br />
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=== How to find an article ===<br />
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=== Links ===<br />
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In most articles, you find some blue and some red words. The blue words lead you to other existing articles explaining the appropriate word (or name). The red words indicate that the corresponding article does not exist yet. '''You can write it and thereby contribute to Glottopedia!''' Sometimes you will find words in a light blue color. These are also links but lead you outside Glottopedia into the world wide web.<br />
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=== Categories ===<br />
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In all articles and Glottopedia pages you will find a bottom line named "Category:" or "Categories:". The categories tell you which language an article is written in, what kind of article type it belongs to, and which area of linguistics the article it falls into. This page is an article explaining features of Glottopedia (a "project page"), thus it is in the category "Glottopedia", and it is in English, so it has the category "En". If you click on a category name, you will find the other articles belonging to the category.<br />
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== Editing ==<br />
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Glottopedia is an internet encyclopedia that every logged-in linguist can contribute to. Every article has an underlying source code where it is possible to format text, tables, boxes, etc. or to include internal and external links, headlines, and later even pictures (not allowed yet). One of the tabs at the upper edge of any Glottopedia page (an article or a project page), is the "edit" button. Some pages are blocked from editing by non-sysops. Those pages do not have the "edit" button, but a button named "view source". After clicking on these buttons, you see the source code of the corresponding page in both cases. If the page is free for editing, you may change the source code. <br />
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Editing a page implies the following steps:<br />
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# Click on the "edit" button.<br />
# Change what you want to change, but be careful not to delete useful information.<br />
# Write into the "Summary" field (below the copyright warning) what you have done (in a few words).<br />
# Press "show preview" to see if your changes work as you want. If you included new categories you will find them below the edit part of the page at the bottom. '''Note that the page is not yet saved when you are in the preview mode!'''<br />
# Scroll down again and press "Save page" to store your changes in the database.<br />
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=== How to format text ===<br />
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As you see in many articles, text can be formated in different ways. The simplest tools are the buttons above the edit window. Once you are more experienced you may find it more practical to write the formating signs manually.<br />
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| italic text || <code><nowiki>''Lorem ipsum''</nowiki></code> || ''Lorem ipsum''<br />
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| bold text || <code><nowiki>'''Lorem ipsum'''</nowiki></code> || '''Lorem ipsum'''<br />
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| internal link || <code><nowiki>[[Lorem ipsum]]</nowiki></code> || [[Lorem ipsum]]<br />
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| internal link<br/>with different content || <code><nowiki>[[Linguipedia:Forum|Lorem ipsum]]</nowiki></code> || [[Linguipedia:Forum|Lorem ipsum]]<br />
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| external link || <code><nowiki>http://lorem.ipsum</nowiki></code> || http://lorem.ipsum<br />
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| external link<br/>with referrer || <code><nowiki>[http://lorem.ipsum]</nowiki></code> || [http://lorem.ipsum]<br />
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| external link<br/>with different content || <code><nowiki>[http://lorem.ipsum Lorem ipsum]</nowiki></code> || [http://lorem.ipsum Lorem ipsum]<br />
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| headline level 3 || <code><nowiki>====Lorem ipsum====</nowiki></code> || <br />
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| headline level 4 || <code><nowiki>=====Lorem ipsum=====</nowiki></code> || <br />
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| underlined text || <code><nowiki><u>Lorem ipsum</u></nowiki></code> || <u>Lorem ipsum</u><br />
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| deleted text || <code><nowiki><strike>Lorem ipsum</strike></nowiki></code> || <strike>Lorem ipsum</strike><br />
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| subscribed text || <code><nowiki>Lorem <sub>ipsum</sub></nowiki></code> || Lorem <sub>ipsum</sub><br />
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| superscribed text || <code><nowiki>Lorem <sup>ipsum</sup></nowiki></code> || Lorem <sup>ipsum</sup><br />
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'''Please do <u>not</u> use formated text excessively within the articles.'''<br />
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=== How to implement an advanced auto-numbering function ===<br />
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Now it is possible to use the extension GlossCnt for implementing independent counters for an entire article. See more <br />
[http://urts120.uni-trier.de/glottopedia/index.php/User:Hans-Jörg_Bibiko/GlossCnt here].<br />
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[[Category:Glottopedia]]</div>Martin Haasehttp://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=User:Martin_Haase&diff=6848User:Martin Haase2008-10-11T07:46:34Z<p>Martin Haase: Links</p>
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<div>== Links ==<br />
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*[http://www.martinhaase.de/ Homepage]<br />
*[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Haase Wikipedia article]</div>Martin Haasehttp://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=User:Martin_Haase&diff=6847User:Martin Haase2008-10-11T07:43:14Z<p>Martin Haase: +link</p>
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<div>[http://www.martinhaase.de/ Martin Haase]</div>Martin Haasehttp://glottopedia.org/index.php?title=Glottopedia:Forum/Archive_01&diff=4034Glottopedia:Forum/Archive 012007-10-10T22:49:50Z<p>Martin Haase: /* License: CC vs. GFDL */</p>
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<big>'''Welcome to the Glottopedia Forum'''</big><br/><br/><br />
This is the place where you can ask questions about Glottopedia itself, and also about linguistic topics in general.<br/><br />
'''Click [http://urts120.uni-trier.de/glottopedia/index.php?title=Glottopedia:Forum&action=edit&section=new here] to add a new question. (Forum in German:[[Glottopedia:Diskussionsforum]])<br />
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==Unicode==<br />
Why is Glottopedia in ISO-8859-1 and not in Unicode? Wikipedia is in Unicode (UTF-8). --[[User:David Marjanović|David Marjanović]] 01:56, 28 June 2007 (CEST)<br />
: I am sure this will be fixed very soon. Glottopedia should be in UTF-8. --[[User:Sven Siegmund|Sven Siegmund]] 23:19, 6 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:: Now I'm not sure whether this UTF-8 encoding will be fixed soon. Whom shall we as kto do it? Who in Trier is responsible? --[[User:Sven Siegmund|Sven Siegmund]] 23:18, 10 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Edit URL==<br />
Why is the URL of articles in Glottopedia hidden (when I enter via www.glottopedia.org)? It is really practical that one can edit the URL and get directly to some articles, categories, or templates. When I enter Glottopedia via http://urts120.uni-trier.de/glottopedia/index.php I can manipulate the URL as described. But this should be possible via www.glottopedia.org aswell. --[[User:Sven Siegmund|Sven Siegmund]] 23:19, 6 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:There is a detailed description for at least three <span style="background-color:yellow;">solutions how to do this in the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL MediaWiki manual]</span>. It should work even if you don't have a root access to the host server. So please somebody try one of the possibilities to keep the URL short '''and''' editable. --[[User:Sven Siegmund|Sven Siegmund]] 13:05, 14 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==External Links Keep Glottopedia URL!==<br />
When you click on an external link in Glottopedia, the URL in the adress field of your browser remains <nowiki>http://www.glottopedia.org/</nowiki> this should not be. Try this external link to Google: http://www.google.com/ --18:14, 10 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Category names==<br />
What do LIRE and HYPO stand for? These are names of [[Special:Categories|categories]] which I can't guess. --[[User:Sven Siegmund|Sven Siegmund]] 20:43, 10 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:LIRE is no longer used. "HYPO" stands for [[Glottopedia:Dictionary_articles/Hypotheses_and_approaches|hypothesis and approach articles]], although we need to think more about whether we need it and how exactly we apply it. It should be considered preliminary at this point. --[[User:Haspelmath|Haspelmath]] 14:05, 12 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Rename LING to RESEARCH? ==<br />
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I'd rename the ''LING'' article type to ''RESEARCH''. What do you think? --[[User:Sven Siegmund|Sven Siegmund]] 23:11, 10 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:My original proposal was to name these articles "linguistics articles", to which Sven objected that in a way all articles are about linguistics. "Linguistic research articles" is probably better, although not all of them are about research in the narrow sense (basically they are about linguists' activities). Anyway, I like the abbreviation "LING" for "Linguistic research" much better than "LIRE". "RESEARCH" I find too long. But ultimately it's a matter of taste, and if someone else is strongly against "linguistic reaearch/LING", I'll be happy to go along with an alternative proposal.--[[User:Haspelmath|Haspelmath]] 14:09, 12 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::Well, I thought if LINGUIST is not too long a category label, maybe RESEARCH would also be ok. For LING it is not immediately transparent what category it is. Anybody who wants to know what it is has to read it somewhere (where?). One thinks intuitively about "linguist", linguistics in general, but not of current research. I think this RESEARCH (or LING) category we could use for articles about current or recent projects: WALS, Autotyp, Negtyp, ... --[[User:Sven Siegmund|Sven Siegmund]] 21:59, 12 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== About Glottopedia ==<br />
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Currently we have the page two times: [[Glottopedia:About]] and [[Glottopedia:About_Glottopedia]]. One of them should be deleted --[[User:Sven Siegmund|Sven Siegmund]] 23:16, 10 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Link Forum==<br />
Please admins, sysops, link this forum in the navigation bar on the left. --[[User:Sven Siegmund|Sven Siegmund]] 22:19, 12 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Set the system time==<br />
The system time of the wiki-server seems to be 2 hours more than the German time. Please fix it. Everytime I sign some post, I wonder if it is really that late (-: --[[User:Sven Siegmund|Sven Siegmund]] 22:19, 12 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Multilingual categories?==<br />
I'd like to keep categories language-specific. It will get very messy if you see German, English and Russian articles about morphology in that category. We have the language splits almost everywhere, even for this forum, and all administrative pages, Guidelines, Community portal, portals ... so why to lump articles of different languages in one Category? We can handle it like the article names, there can be a category "Syntax", "Syntax (de)", ... --[[User:Sven Siegmund|Sven Siegmund]] 22:24, 12 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
:Using only Glottopedia's default language (English) in categories was a decision we took early on (see [[Glottopedia:Categorization]], second sentence). The idea was that unlike Wikipedia, which has different wikis for each language, Glottopedia has just a single wiki and is thus much more integrated. This is because many users will be multilingual, and will be happy to use articles in multiple languages more or less simulteanously. Of course, it would be necessary to have a search mechanism that allows queries such as "find all morphology articles in German" -- such a mechanism is not standard in Mediawiki and would have to be created as an add-on. I'm not saying that I'm strongly opposed to having the categories in multiple languages as well -- this might also be a good way of organizing Glottopedia, perhaps a better one. In that case, we wouldn't even need the category type "article language", because all categories would be language-specific. I'd like to hear more contributions to this important discussion.--[[User:Haspelmath|Haspelmath]] 09:48, 13 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
::I am perfectly confident with mulitlingual categories as long as one can easily filter them or combine them (Category:Syntax AND Category:De). The question is, how easily this can be implemented and used. If we plan to implement this, we should do it before the categories get too crowded. I see your point, since 99 % of Glottopedia users read German and English, there is no need for strict language separation. Let's give multilingual categories a try. At this time we don't have so many articles, so it is quite easy. '''But we need to update the automatic ABC-zation''' in overwiew of articles in the Category: Look at [[:Category:Syntax]] how the cyrillic characters mess up the layout (third column is longer!) and the "Č" in [[:Category:BIOG]] comes after "Z" rather than after "C". We must fix this somehow --[[User:Sven Siegmund|Sven Siegmund]] 20:45, 13 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== Consistent orthography ==<br />
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I saw Rk's recent renaming of some articles. We should decide how to write the names of the articles. There is sometimes "Quantitative Linguistics" sometimes "quantitative linguistics". I'm not familiar with the English orthography, but I think in the heading all words except for "of" and "the" are written with an initial uppercase letter. The question is how do we do in in Glottopedia. We should decide for one default for english and other orthographical variants should redirect to the default article. --[[User:Sven Siegmund|Sven Siegmund]] 10:58, 14 July 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:I propose using "Sentence case" for article titles in English. - [[User:Francis Tyers|Francis Tyers]] 09:37, 8 October 2007 (CEST)<br />
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== License: CC vs. GFDL ==<br />
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is there any reason why the licence is CC-BY-SA and not GFDL or CC-BY-SA +GFDL? Is it to be deliberately incompatible with Wikipedia? - [[User:Francis Tyers|Francis Tyers]] 09:14, 8 October 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:No, we thought that CC-BY-SA is compatible with Wikipedia, but that it has advantages over GFDL because the latter was really designed for software, not for encyclopedic content. --[[User:Haspelmath|Haspelmath]] 09:25, 8 October 2007 (CEST)<br />
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::The GPL is designed for software, the GFDL designed for documentation, to be honest, the GFDL isn't great, but it is what Wikipedia uses, so if we want to be able to share information with them we should at least dual licence. I've put a notice on my page, but ideally all of the content should be dual-licenced. MediaWiki probably allows this to be done. The CC-BY-SA is iirc not compatible with the GFDL (or so a brief Google search suggests). - [[User:Francis Tyers|Francis Tyers]] 09:33, 8 October 2007 (CEST)<br />
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:No, Glottopedia does not want to be incompatible with Wikipedia. The CC-BY-SA license was chosen, because it is freer than GFDL. I don't know whether you have ever tried to publish something that contains GFDL material. This is only possible, if you include the GFDL license. In all other aspects CC-BY-SA and GFDL are compatible, i.e. you can always reuse CC-BY-SA material under GFDL, but not the other way round. Double licensing is possible, of course. So, if there are good arguments for it, such a solution can be taken into consideration. --[[User:Martin Haase|maha]] 00:49, 11 October 2007 (CEST)<br />
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==Examples==<br />
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While '<nowiki><pre></pre></nowiki>' tags can be used to create fixed space examples, e.g.<br />
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It would be nice to have a plugin which rendered them nicely, like <code>gb4e</code> in LaTeX. Any thoughts or does anyone know of such an example for MediaWiki, I know there is a LaTeX maths renderer, e.g. <math>\sum i+1</math> - [[User:Francis Tyers|Francis Tyers]] 09:58, 10 October 2007 (CEST)</div>Martin Haase