User talk:Liloleme

Welcome

Hello, Liloleme, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you are stuck, and looking for help, please come to the New contributors' help page, where experienced Wikipedians can answer any queries you have! Or, you can just type {{helpme}} and your question on your user talk page, and someone will show up shortly to answer. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Hopefully a big orange bar lit up to say you had mail. This page is where you can receive messages from other editors. Your userpage, User:Liloleme is your space to do with as you wish. You might find it useful drafting space... WJBscribe 00:27, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, to keep our conversation together, reply here rather than on my page. WJBscribe 00:27, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I guess the first question if you want to work on a translation is: What article do you want to translate? WJBscribe 00:29, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

how about this one?
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89gouts_de_Paris
Liloleme 01:04, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good

I suggest you start writing it on your userpage or if you prefer, click on this link to work on it in a separate subpage:

User:Liloleme/Draft

The guides to editing I've linked to above should help. A few tips:

to turn a work into a link to an article put it in square brackets. e.g. [[Cat]] would link to Cat.
to make write in bold, use the following format: '''cat''' to make Cat
Headings are created though ==Cat==
Subheadings require ===Cat===

Those seem like the obvious bits of formating you'll need to do looking at the original article. I'll have a look tomorrow to see how you've gotten on and offer pointers if need be. Feel free to ask any questions you have as you go along either here or on my talkpage. If I'm not still around I'll answer tomorrow. Best of luck, WJBscribe 01:18, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Getting the hang of it, sort of...

the article I had found does indeed exist in English despite the absence of a link on the french page. So I began to look in French pages for articles that don't exist in English and can't seem to find any for the moment.
I'll try again tomorrow.
Again, thanks. Liloleme 02:03, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure the article is already on English Wikipedia? The closest I can find is Paris Sewer Museum, which only covers the museum. If you have found the corresponding article, can you let me know what its called so I can make sure its properly linked to both here and on French Wikipedia? WJBscribe 17:19, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I found a better one

i found one on the list of requested translations on the notion of game "Jeu" - the French version is fascinating.
So how do I go about starting the translation?
thanks
Greg

On translation

The purpose of Wikipedia is to make it better. If you have better info, by all means copy it over. While its understandable you would feel worried about deleting someone else's work, its a wiki, that's what its there for. Unless you're entirely gutting the article, make the changes and be bold! Dåvid Fuchs ^{(talk / frog blast the vent core!)} 00:51, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re:Game

I only suggested posting on your talk page to start things off simply. Do post to mine if you want to make sure you get my attention :-).

As to the translation. Its a great start and very accurate. French Wikipedia has a beautiful linguistic ideosincracy that, as you identifed, works less well in an English language encyclopedia article. I think you captured the spirit of what you translated. You may want to have a go at making it a little more formal. Or you can let other editors do that. As you like...

Dunno, if you saw my question above, but why did you give up on your fr:Egouts de Paris project? I still haven't managed to find the equivalent page here on English Wikipedia. WjBscribe 03:57, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]