User talk:Guaka

Administrator

Hello, you are now an administrator. If you have any problems, let me know on my talk page, or leave a note on meta:Requests for permissions. Good luck. Angela 13:23, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Logo

Hi Guaka,

I've created the logo: File:Wiki.png. Now you should probably file a bug request to get it changed, or ask a developer personally. --Node ue 13:44, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

That's fast! :) And, I hadn't thought of Wikipedia itself, but it probably makes sense to spell it Wikipeediya (like in Wolof). Could you also do the Bambara Wikipedia logo? And, I don't want to ask too much, but the font for the subtitle of this logo might be a tad bit too small..? Guaka 18:58, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hi Guaka, I monitor recent changes on all inactive Wikipedias, so as soon as I noticed the site subtitle was translated I created a logo :) Unfortunately, the subtitle can't be made any bigger or there will be rendering problems in some browsers (the logo needs to be kept at 180x155 px, which often means a smaller font size...) --Node ue 15:31, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Admin

Hi Guaka. If you come back, there are some spam pages to get rid of.

Thanks for the maintenance here! I just confirmed my email address. So next time you can send me a message from here. Guaka 21:55, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Fulfulde

You asked me, "You don't speak Fulfulde by any chance?" No, I don't. My interest in this wiki is mainly to track article counts, but on occasion I might also be able to fix obvious wiki errors if I come across them. - dcljr 04:19, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hi Guaka,

I reverted the vandalism by the user and reverted his page moves, too. Unfortunately, it was not possible to move every page back because he sometimes edite the redirecting pages. But you can now simply go through ff:Category:Candidates for speedy deletion and follow the eventual instruction on the pages I have proposed to be deleted, just like "delete, then move AAAAAAAAAAA to here" (and delete the obsolete redirecting pages). It should be ok then. Greetings, Pill 10:01, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Les caractères spéciaux du fulfulde

Bonjour, Guaka! Comme administrateur, est-ce que vous pourriez modifier la liste des caractères spéciaux au dessous de la boîte de modification? Il y manque quelques lettres utilisées en peul/fulfulde et il y en a quelques-unes qui n'y sont pas utilisées du tout. Donc, voici la liste des caractères essentiels pour l'orthographe d'un ou plusieurs dialectes peuls:

ɓ Ɓ ɗ Ɗ ƴ Ƴ ŋ Ŋ ñ Ñ ɲ Ɲ

Quant aux autres caractères, je dirais que seulement ceux qui sont utilisés en français ou en anglais devraient être gardés. Les locuteurs natifs du fulfulde écrivent d'autres langues très très rarement (si ce n'est pas l'arabe, dont tout l'alphabet est différent). Alors, on peut effacer au moins les suivants: ā ḍ ē ī ō ṅ ṇ ś ṣ ṭ ū. En revanche, on pourrait peut-être y ajouter les caractères français manquants: Â â Ë ë Î î Ï ï Ô ô Ü ü. De l'autre côté, ce n'est pas la Wikipédia francophone, donc faites ce qui vous semble bon. Merci beaucoup! Malhonen 19:39, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

C'est fait! Merci pour l'attention! Guaka 13:55, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Ok, merci. J'ai remarqué que vous avez pourtant enlevé même des caractères bien utilisés en français (ce qui n'était pas mon intention). Donc, voici la liste complète regroupée en trois parties (fulfulde, français, ponctuation):

ɓ Ɓ ɗ Ɗ ƴ Ƴ ŋ Ŋ ñ Ñ ɲ Ɲ · à À â  ç Ç é É è È ê Ê ë Ë î Î ï Ï ô Ô œ Œ ù Ù û Û ü Ü · « » “ ” — – ’

Malhonen 14:27, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Forms of Fulfulde

I do know something about the different forms of Fulfulde/Pulaar but probably nothing more than what the Ethnologue would tell you. I can read and write Pulaar of Fuuta Tooro (fuutaŋkoore, language of the Toucouleur, ISO 639-3 fuc) to some extent and differentiate it from Pulaar of Fulacunda (fulakundaare in Casamance, also fuc) and Pular of Fuuta Jallon (in Guinea, ISO 639-3 fuf), but that's where my knowledge ends. Hopefully some day I will be able to write articles in Pulaar myself, but at the moment my skills are too meager for that, so I'm restricted to pretty insignificant stuff like templates etc. I have seen AfrophoneWikis, it seems pretty interesting. Malhonen 14:27, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

About small translations

Greetings Guaka!

Sorry to bother you.

I know that you had specified on you userpage that you do not prefer people bothering to get translations into small language Wikipedias; especially if the people being asked for translation help do not speak the language at all. However this time I believe that User:Amkoullel is a native speaker and that there is at least a 1% chance that he/she will be able to help me.

Yours Sincerely, --Jose77 02:20, 12 June 2007 (UTC)