Re: [Foundation-l] Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-12-08 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 22:23:55 +, Béria Lima wrote: > Not very friendly to go with your first message. But let's try again in a > more polite way: > > We have bot articles? Yes we have, several bots create most of citys of > France and some of Spain, German and Russia in Portuguese Wikipédia. b

Re: [Foundation-l] Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-12-07 Thread Béria Lima
Not very friendly to go with your first message. But let's try again in a more polite way: We have bot articles? Yes we have, several bots create most of citys of France and some of Spain, German and Russia in Portuguese Wikipédia. but no one of those bots works anymore since 2007-2008. From now o

Re: [Foundation-l] Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-12-07 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 21:46:48 +, Béria Lima wrote: > Since you not speak portuguese and do not know our countries (in plural > because of Brazil / Angola / Portugal / Cape Verde / etc... ) and culture, > i > would be glad if you keep your opinion for you. > > The reputation of pt.wiki is our p

Re: [Foundation-l] Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-12-07 Thread Béria Lima
Since you not speak portuguese and do not know our countries (in plural because of Brazil / Angola / Portugal / Cape Verde / etc... ) and culture, i would be glad if you keep your opinion for you. The reputation of pt.wiki is our problem, and the problem of the "little articles" is a question who

Re: [Foundation-l] Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-12-07 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 21:25:22 +, Béria Lima wrote: > Well, let's not make that a question of "my Wikipédia is better / bigger / > prettier that your", please > _ > Béria Lima (Beh) > Wikimedia Portugal > > This is a reputation question. If you have the community decision to have such rep

Re: [Foundation-l] Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-12-07 Thread Béria Lima
Well, let's not make that a question of "my Wikipédia is better / bigger / prettier that your", please _ Béria Lima (Beh) Wikimedia Portugal 2010/12/7 Yaroslav M. Blanter > > > You may check my user page too, on the Brazilian Portuguese > > Wikipedia. It's a barrel of laughs. Sorry you'll h

Re: [Foundation-l] Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-12-07 Thread Yaroslav M. Blanter
> You may check my user page too, on the Brazilian Portuguese > Wikipedia. It's a barrel of laughs. Sorry you'll have to check the > history. :-) > Well, as far as I am concerned creation of articles like this http://pt.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=29663_1998_WH23&redirect=no or like this ht

Re: [Foundation-l] Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-12-07 Thread John Vandenberg
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:11 PM, wrote: > Is this like the difference between "colour" in Great Britain and "color" > in the U.S. ? no. -- John Vandenberg ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikime

Re: [Foundation-l] Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-12-07 Thread WJhonson
Is this like the difference between "colour" in Great Britain and "color" in the U.S. ? ___ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l

Re: [Foundation-l] Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-12-07 Thread M. Williamson
> Before signing off, and before I forget, let me > ask another trivial question. It has been a long, > long time since you have opened a grammar of any > language, hasn't it? That's an easy guess, Watch the personal attacks. I read grammars every day, it's part of my work. Just last week I had a

Re: [Foundation-l] Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-12-06 Thread Virgilio A. P. Machado
Nathan, So what? If he does, he didn't show it as far as Portuguese is concerned. Any six year old child has a basic grasp of Portuguese grammar (spelled that right...) even before they enter elementary school. Basic grasp of any other 16 languages is not required. :-) I don't think Mark has a

Re: [Foundation-l] Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-12-06 Thread Virgilio A. P. Machado
John, I should have guessed. You sound like a good humored pal. I bet that if we would get together for a good meal and plenty of wine or beer, by the end of the evening we would agree about everything. Shame you're so far away, but you do honor the reputation of your mates. That picture on yo

Re: [Foundation-l] Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-12-06 Thread Nathan
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote: > > Before signing off, and before I forget, let me > ask another trivial question. It has been a long, > long time since you have opened a grammar of any > language, hasn't it? That's an easy guess, > considering what a grammar is > (

[Foundation-l] Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-12-06 Thread Virgilio A. P. Machado
John, Not a bad article. I'm not a linguist, so I can't do a knowledgeable evaluation, but again from the little that I know about he subject it looks pretty good. I only stumbled on "The adoption of the new orthography will cause changes in the spelling of about 1.6% of the words in the Eur

Re: [Foundation-l] Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-12-06 Thread John Vandenberg
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Virgilio A. P. Machado wrote: > M., > > And your point is? > > My statement: > >  > ... gramatical mistakes. > > See any mistakes or anything wrong in that statement? gramatical is spelled wrong. and 'mistakes' is only true if you consider the Portuguese Language

[Foundation-l] Brazilian Portuguese Wikipedia

2010-12-06 Thread Virgilio A. P. Machado
M., And your point is? My statement: >the uncontroversial truth > is that a small group of 16 editors decided that all titles of > articles and titles and content of Wikipedia pages would be > "translated" into Brazilian Portuguese starting January 1, 2009. > Since that time there is no lon