User talk:Ikan

Help:Description

Hi Unite together. I see you make the Help:Description page traslatable, but this proposal was rejected many times. For example read Help talk:Description#Change to translatable page? or Help talk:Description#Make translatable. So, is there a reason why you did it? Thanks β₁₆ - (talk) 07:59, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Yes, indeed there is a reason. For most of the pages, "translatable page" having been working very, very well. This is a fast and convenient way to let more and more users using different languages translate a page into different languages. However, as for this particularly important page, surprisingly we didn’t implement this convenient tool. Whoever wants to translate it has to create a new page from scratch. What’s more, look at the template placed atop the page, most of links are red, showing that the page aren’t available in those languages. Before someone would have interest to create those translations, those red links are nearly of no use. As for the question "each language has its own rules and tradition", it’s perfectly fine to not strictly translate from the original English version, and replace those non-translated texts with more appropriate rules for a particular language. U.T. 08:27, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

So every time the English version is updated, the language-specific part is blanked out. It's a crazy specification. Think a little more critically. Afaz (talk) 14:12, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

Verbes en français

Bonjour Unite together ! Merci pour vos contributions sur les lexèmes en français. Voici quelques conseils pour la suite :

• Lire la documentation pour le français. Il y a notamment une section dédiée aux verbes, avec les caractéristiques grammaticales à utiliser.
• Activer le gadget Lexeme Forms, dans Préférences, section Lexèmes. Quand vous êtes sur la page d'un lexème dont la catégorie lexicale est connue, cela créera automatiquement un lien dans le menu de gauche pour modifier ce lexème avec l'outil Wikidata Lexeme Forms.
• Pour les formes des verbes, utilisez l'outil Wikidata Lexeme Forms précédemment cité. Vous gagnerez énormément de temps et vous éviterez les erreurs sur les caractéristiques grammaticales.

Bonne journée ! — Envlh (talk) 12:23, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

Plase stop adding statements on Codi INE that are incorrect or nonsense

Hi Ikan Please stop adding statements about INE code (P772) that are nonsense or just erroneous. In any case, you should provide a reference - but you have not. Thank you! Quelet (talk) 11:42, 15 May 2025 (UTC)

migrating per WikiProject Deprecate P642

Not good, items lost instance of (P31). In Czech Republic (Q213) I found about 5 affected items, but in world migt be many more. JAn Dudík (talk) 12:49, 22 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi! I'm thrilled to discover someone besides me is trying to use the P642 migration process I created, and I'm eager to figure out what went wrong with your batch edit. Instead of replacing the "of" qualifier, the main property of each statement was replaced, which the scripts should not do. Do you remember what command you ran? Which version of the script did you use (Python or PowerShell), and did you modify it in some way? Thanks!! Swpb (talk) 14:34, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

@Ikan: Sorry to bother (this is the last time I will), but your response to this would help me a lot. Swpb (talk) 16:44, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

Coordinate Me 2025 - congratulations!

Hi Ikan,

Thank you for your contributions to the Wikidata contest Coordinate Me 2025 in May! And congratulations! After calculating the numbers of all the dashboards for the 28 countries and regions that were part of this contest you scored within the 30 top contributors worldwide. You can find the results in detail here: Results and winners.

If you like userboxes you can add one for this contest with {{User CM25}}.

This person participated in the
Wikidata contest Coordinate Me 2025.

We will contact you through e-mail so we can decide how you can receive your prize together.

Best, Manfred Werner (WMAT) (talk) 11:22, 17 July 2025 (UTC)

Toki Pona

I am seeing Toki Pona links showing up. Was the project recently approved and merged in? And if so I would like to try to translate Shinto shrine and Buddhist temple names into Toki Pona, so are there any conventions on Hepburn to Toki Pona? Immanuelle (talk) 00:45, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

That's true. Feel free to translate new articles there, whereas I don't know answer to your question. 🐠 _{formerly U.T.} 00:50, 28 November 2025 (UTC)