Wiktionary:Grease pit/2014/March

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Projectlinks

Something's gone wrong with the display of Template:projectlinks: it's showing some module invocation code instead of the correct link text. This, that and the other (talk) 10:31, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Fixed, seemingly by Kephir. This, that and the other (talk) 09:19, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

quotations JS

At eye#Noun, I noticed that the JS that suppresses the display of quotations makes the "quotations" display control appear nicely at the end of each definition, unless there is a usage example (whether or not {{usex}} is used) immediately after the definition, in which case it appears on a separate line. A better appearance results from placing all the quotations for a definition immediately after the definition with the usage example after the quotations.

Would it be possible to amend the JS so that the little blue "quotations" display control always appeared on the definition line? DCDuring TALK 01:41, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Done. --Yair rand (talk) 11:14, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks. That looks much better. I hope we don't discover any bad side-effects. DCDuring TALK 11:34, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

Accelerating Template:ast-adj

Hi. Kenny was kind enough to ACCELerate Template:ast-adj, but apparently it isn't yet fully ACCELerated. He says to do that, the "rules" need to be changed. I have a request at User talk:Conrad.Irwin/creationrules.js, and would appreciate it if an admin could make the necessary changes as explained there. Thanks in advance. --Back on the list (talk) 13:12, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Done. —CodeCat 13:59, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Thanks kitty! Love you! --Back on the list (talk) 14:42, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

Pronunciation Recording

Dear Wiktionary community!

About me

My name is Rainer Rillke, and I have been volunteering at Wikimedia Commons for 3 years now, gathering experience around media files. I've been always interested in how things work and how one could improve them.

The idea

One idea that appeared last Summer was allowing the recording of small chunks of speech, uploading that to Wikimedia Commons in the background and including this into a Wiktionary entry without having the hassle doing everything by hand or installing additional software. That idea led to the foundation MediaWiki extension during the Google Summer of Code. However, this was not completed; instead development is stale for over 5 months now.

My proposal

To make this going to work, so Wiktionary has an immediate benefit of this feature, I would like to provide the work done so far as a gadget and add some more work in regard to usability. You can see my plan at m:Grants:IEG/Finish Pronunciation Recording. And more importantly, you can give me a hand, if you are interested.

Looking for volunteers and 2 consultants

Often, software projects that are not aligned to the community's needs produce vapourware. Recently, that happened to a $ 15,000 grant. I don't want to write vapourware, I need your advice! Without community support, I cannot and will not continue this project. So here is what I am looking for:

• Comments at the proposal's talk section. Don't be shy! Ask what you want to know. Comment about what you concerns. No activity means no one is interested.
• A community consultant, having at least one year experience at Wiktionary, dealing with pronunciation, willing to provide full legal name and address to the Wikimedia Foundation (in case you would like to receive some compensation for your work), having a clue about what JavaScript does, willing to create reports, communicate development status to the community and summarize community's interests. If you are interested Please let me know on the proposal's talk page, or if you are bold, just throw your name into the box directly, as Consultant 1.
• A second community consultant, having at least one year experience at Wiktionary and interested in testing the new software. If you are interested Please let me know on the proposal's talk page, or if you are bold, just throw your name into the box directly, as Consultant 2.
• Volunteers! Testing and providing us with feedback.

Don't forget to comment. Thanks and kind regards -- Rillke (talk) 18:28, 6 March 2014 (UTC)