User talk:Mathonius

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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 11:29, 15 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Mathonius (talk) 11:53, 15 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Afrikaans plurals[edit]

Just so you know, I just set up accelerated entry creation for Afrikaans plurals, so now green links should be created which you can click on if you have the option enabled at WT:PREFS. If you have any questions or find any bugs, don't hesitate to tell me. Thanks! —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 03:49, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Metaknowledge, that's really cool! :) Thank you! Mathonius (talk) 03:59, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Any time, just ask. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 04:19, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I also found the clock feature useful to me. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 05:15, 22 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Can I request that you clean up Afrikaans Januarie? Also, if you could create or clean up the rest of the months, that would be awesome. Dank je wel! —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 07:21, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've added the plural form of Januarie and I've created entries for the other months. I can verify that Januarie is the Afrikaans translation of January: my pocket dictionary (→ISBN) says it is. Is there anything else that should be done? Mathonius (talk) 08:51, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
No, that's great. Thanks! I removed the attention. But what about July? —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 20:03, 25 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I forgot about July, but I've now added that month too. Mathonius (talk) 05:28, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Looks good. I appreciate the help. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 15:14, 26 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Lang= parameters[edit]

Thank you for taking the time to add this parameter to entries. These entries are being tracked via a category, though: Category:Language code missing/hyphenation. With tracking categories, it's much easier to let a bot script fix all the entries automatically, as bots can fix thousands of entries in a single day. So while your efforts are appreciated, they're also a bit... wasteful? —CodeCat 22:26, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi CodeCat, thanks for your explanation. I understand, but running through these articles often gives me inspiration to do other edits as well, and I don't think there are that many articles missing this language code. Mathonius (talk) 22:36, 10 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]