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Silver Member |
Greetings Everyone,
The Interface messages of Gikuyu Wikipedia Interface need to be translated into the Gikuyu language. I know how to translate the interface and would like to help out. Can someone please give me the Gikuyu translation equivalents for the following words: *Main Page = ? *Community portal = ? *Current events = ? *Current revision = ? *Recent changes = ? *Random page = ? *Help = ? *Donations = ? *Navigation = ? *Search = ? *Go = ? *January *February *March *April *May *June *July *August *September *October *November *December *Sunday *Monday *Tuesday *Wednesday *Thursday *Friday *Saturday *Toolbox = ? *What links here = ? *Related changes = ? *Upload file = ? *Special pages = ? *Printable version = ? *Permanent link = ? *Cite this article = ? *In other languages = ? *Article = ? *Discussion = ? *Edit = ? *History = ? *Delete = ? *Protect = ? *Log in = ? *Create Account = ? *Create an account = ? *Create article = *Log out = ? *Not logged in = ? *Move = ? *Move page = ? *Move this page = ? *moved to = *[[$1]] moved to [[$2]] = *Reason = *Watch = ? *My Watchlist = ? *My talk = ? *My preferences = ? *My contributions = ? *Summary = ? *This is a minor edit = ? *Watch this page = ? *Save page = ? *Show preview = ? *Show changes = ? *Cancel = ? *Editing Help = ? *User page = ? *Username = ? *Password = ? *Re-type password = ? *E-mail = ? *System messages = ? *Remember my login on this computer = ? *User:Contributions = ? *Login required to edit = ? *View source = ? *Message *new messages = ? *You have new messages on $1 = ? *You have $1 ($2). *== Welcome, $1! == Your account has been created. Don't forget to change your Wikipedia preferences. = ? Thankyou very much. Yours Sincerely, From Joseph. (For those who do not yet know what Wikipedia is, Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia which has millions of articles and can be edited by anyone at any time at any location. All the contributors do not need to pay money to edit the pages; neither are they paid for editing articles. Wikipedia currently exists in 253 different language editions which also includes the Gikuyu language edition. However, the interface on Gikuyu Wikipedia needs to be translated from English to Gikuyu so that is why I need your help). |
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"Jeneti Ndari" Silver Member |
Contact Professor John Mugane at Harvard. He is a Gikuyu linguist who can give you all that and more.
Phone: 617.496.6196 Email: mugane@fas.harvard.edu Also, nice to see that you are calling it Gikuyu Wikipedia and not 'Kikuyu Wikipedia'. ~ Twí Hamwe ~ |
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"Ithe wa Nyambura na Wambui" Platinum Member  |
Wa Mugwanja,
Do you mean that Mugane has the name of these words? I doubt. Unless he already has a template, I do not think it would be wise to get all these words from a signle source. Lets face it, computer technology and terminologies are English, so the majority of computer literate people are also well versed in English. The kikuyu computer vocabulary should not try to be too ambitious to an extent that it becomes tedious and innaplicable, fortcing peopel to revert to English. Unless something is very obvious (i.e. one to one translation works) then I guess we should look at English and Swahili for inspiration. And Nyumba, who said we cannot be trendsetters? Suggesting names and trying to agree on them. Maybe 'Boss' can set templates for voting on the most naturally soounding names for most of these words. Emotions are the greatest enemy of rational arguments |
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Sajini,i support you, sounds like a nice mind exercise and also lots aof fun, but we need to stick to the words.. one by one, if we agree we move to the next untill we have a nice translation.. Joseph you need to contribute otherwise.... ndakanoke cukuru ringi atari na ucuwe
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