User talk:Gertjan R./Archive 1

Why is this wikipedia not in Nauri? bastard

This wiki IS in Nauruan, bastard! But you're speaking English! The menus and Wikipedia-terms and the discussions are in English. But ALL THE ARTICLES are in Nauruan!!!!!! User:Belgian man 19:18, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC) Do yoú speak Nauruan? I think you doesn't.

"el welcomi gua" IS NOT Nauri, neither is the rest of the articles! Deadinimara ikùba!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe you don't know what "Nauruan" means, it means "the national language of Nauru", not some stupid language you invented. "xiao", "suaong", "langue", etc. are NOT NAURI WORDS!!!!! DEADINIMARA IKÙBA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU, A BELGIUM, STEAL THIS WIKIPEDIA FROM REAL NAURUAN PEOPLES, FOR USE IN YOUR OWN NOBODY UNDERSTAND LANGUAGE????????? WHY!?!?! WHY YOU DO THIS!?!!?? DEADINIMARA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear anonymous visitor,

PLEASE translate into proper Nauruan/Nauri everything you think is not Nauruan/Nauri in all of the articles. None of us "foreigners" have any wish to steal "your" Wikipedia. We want to help you. You can tell us what's right when we do something wrong. Merely telling us it is wrong does not help your Wikipedia.

Kind regards. Robin Patterson 02:26, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

EXACT User:Belgian man

You be quiet, this is your fault, you have made these pages.

Dear Mr Patterson,

It has not been you who has been making these articles in false Nauruan, I accuse you of nothing. However edit history will show that "Belgian man" used loads of words, knowing they were not Nauruan, such as "langue", "xiao", "suaong", "nasion", "welcomi", and even the name of the language - "Nauroese" instead of "Nauri"!

This whole Wikipedia already has content that isn't in Nauruan, how do I fix it?

Whoever this anonymous user is: there is no such language as Nauri - at least not one spoken on Nauru. And for your further information - the official and national language of Nauru is English. It is used in government, parliament, education and business on Nauru. The 'de facto' national language is Nauruan - which we call dorerin Naoero - not Nauri. And i agree with the other users - cool it. This is supposed to help Nauruans, if in no other way than to develop a body of literature in Nauruan. So back off. Auwe dukerang oa eken?

Anonymous visitor, I have not introduced these words here. I do not!!! I introduce only words which I know they are Nauruan. Now, be cool! If you know Nauruan, correct these words please. We need the help of real Nauruans hard. Be cool, I say it yet a time. I haven't introduced these words you have mentioned. But if you are a real nauruan speaker, we need your help!!! So log in, make your name en correct the names. Than, we listen all to you because your are the only Nauruan speaker here (I think). Belgian man 16:00, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC) I am a fan of Nauru and its language and its people. So I work here. Do you know how do you say "car" and "cars"? A Nauru - fan 16:14, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

If you are so much a fan of Nauru, why do you use words which are not Nauruan, but pretend they are? "langue", "xiao", "suaong", and even "Nauroese"! It is better if you had made it just a page that says "Please help start a Nauri Wikipedia" then messing it up with bogus words.

Do you like Wikipedia:Tekawa ewak? Are there any false words? Belgian man 17:11, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)

There are no false words, but why is only this page like this but all the other pages are not Nauruan? Isn't this supposed to be a Wikipedia in Nauri?

Dear anonymous visitor, I do really not have put all these false words here. It was user:Nauru, who is not active anymore here. I am really happy because the Ewak is correct. I shall all the pages rewrite in (correct ?) Nauruan. I use the dictionary of Philip Delaporte (English-Nauruan-German) but I think there are archaisms and I don't know something about the grammar, there is nothing about the grammar on the internet. I said, log in, you are wanted here! Correct the false words, like me. User:Belgian man

Hi Belgian Man, I am sorry I did not realise it weren't you. I will maybe come back in future but now I am too busy. Sorry.

As I know, there is no orthography in the Nauruan language (it seems to be called "Nauri" in Nauruan language). I purchased an old grammar about nauruan language in Australia, written by Rev. Alois Kayser in 1936. When I got it I may be able to check the grammar of the articles here. A question: What's the meaning of "deden dorum"? "rule room"? -- CdaMVvWgS 21:51, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Mm, it means something like community portal, community house, community room, community place. I don't know whether it is completely correct (the title). And all the words in italics should be replaced by a word in Nauruan, if you know one, replace it, there are many words in italics. The parts below of the deden dorum will I do. Belgian man 18:26, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

We three registered members are in agreement. We did not mean to upset anyone. We all hope the anonymous person who knows the language will fix any pages he or she wishes to. IT IS EASY - just "Edit" - in the same way as you did to write here. Kia ora! Aloha! Best wishes!
Robin Patterson 05:52, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

By the way: "to say good-bye" or just "Bye bye" means in Nauruan "Tarawong ka". "Greetings" means "Ekamwawir Omo". And that is not wrong! We all should use these words at the end of our comments, alright. Thank you and Ekamwawir Omo -- CdaMVvWgS 16:48, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

==> And the Wikipedia:Tekawa ewak means "house of the village". It is the Nauruan village pump, the Nauruan de kroeg, the Nauruan Ich brauche hilfe, the Nauruan le bistro, the Nauruan taberna. Belgian man 18:29, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC) Here I see the combination of the two words like a place were people can see everyone and talk, drink a glass. Maybe it is too strange for this meaning. Than we must replace the title. Ekamwawir omo, Belgian man 18:30, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

There is another special word for such a place: The nauruan word "Domaneab" means "meeting house" or "place of meeting". Maybe it is better...?! Ekamwawir Omo -- CdaMVvWgS 20:12, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Talk is welcome

If you want talk, have a problem, idea or question, go to the "Edit" button, make a title with "==Title==" at the bottom of the edit box, and say your message. Add name and date with four tildes (~) Belgian man 18:33, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Administrator

Hello, you are now a temporary administrator here. This will last two weeks if there are no complaints. You can also ask for permanent adminship if you would like that role and the community would support you. Please create a page for this wiki explaining what administrators are, and list yourself there. Perhaps the page could include a "requests for adminship" section for the community here to discuss future applications.

There are instructions on how to use your administrator powers in the administrators' how-to guide on the English Wikipedia.

If you have any problems, let me know on my talk page, or leave a note on meta:Requests for permissions. Good luck dealing with the problems that this wiki has had. Angela 20:33, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Deletion; country names; month-/day names

Hello Belgian man,

I'm glad that someone now has the "power" to delete the false articles. Thank you. There was just one mistake: "Uirope" is a nauruan word and is a very rare word in the Nauruan language, because countries and place names outside Nauru are lexical gaps in the nauruan language, so they just fill in the english word for it. So, The translation for "Australia" is nothing else but "Australia". The same rule is for day names (Thursday, Sunday, Monday, ...) and for month names (January, February). As I currently know there are just two place names which can be translated into proper nauruan: Naoero (for Nauru), and Uirope (for Europe).

Perhaps, we might be able to "nauruanize" some place names (i.e. Switzerland: in nauruan there exists no "tz". possible solution: Switserland. Or Venezuela: in nauruan there exists no "v" and no "zw" (additionally, "z" is very rare) and since reforms by en:Timothy Detudamo, no "ue". possible solution: Weneswela.) I got all this data from my "Nauru Grammar", written by en:Alois Kayser. It might allow me to "nauruanize" such country names. Ekamwawir Omo -- CdaMVvWgS 19:26, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

PS: The guy who wrote you above and who seems to speak Nauruan doesn't do so. He just copied some data from Delaporte's. And the word "Nauri" also doesn't exist. The only correct translation for "Nauruan" or "Nauruan language" is Ekakairũ Naoero (the diacritical marks in Delaporte's are false, the only one is the tilde. See also the note on the main page). Ekamwawir Omo -- CdaMVvWgS 19:32, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Hi CdaMVvWgS, thank you for the nice note. You or I can make a table on my or your userpage or sub-userpage with all names. It should be handy. I'll delete Nauri. And if you can also know how you say "Pages for deletion" or simply "To delete", you may say it me, we need a page for the deletions, now I cannot ask for it. Belgian man 13:53, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I began a list on my userpage. "Delete" may be tranlated by "ijababa" (to demolish). -- CdaMVvWgS 16:51, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Thanks, it seems good. Belgian man 13:48, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Another way to help contributors to write letters with tildes

Ekamwawir Omo - Hello again. Doing a good job, I see! I think you should be a permanent Administrator.

I noticed your Template:U. In case you do not know how to add a table of those below your edit box (so people can copy and paste instead of using brackets), here is a slightly edited version of what User:Angela told me for the Maori version (and it worked perfectly):

• To add macronned characters below the edit box, edit MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning. See de:MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning (and now mi:MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning ) for examples. Angela 20:42, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Only an Admin can do it - that's you!! Tarawong ka. Robin Patterson 08:24, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thanks - I'll think about it but it seems rather intricate. Belgian man 13:48, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Category typo

Hi Belgian man,

I saw you created some categories. That's nice, but you made a mistake: It's not "Rupublik Engame China", but "Republik Engame China". Additionally, please don't create any more country pages or categories, because I have to review my translations several times to check some mistakes or else. The already created categories and pages or OK, but currently please don't create any more.

Thank you very much for your assistance and Ekamwawir Omo. -- CdaMVvWgS 21:34, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for the note, CdaMVvWgS. But I don't see the difference between "Republik Engame China" and "Republik Engame China" (see above). I think you've made here a little mistake too. OK, I'll not make any categories now. Greets, Belgian man 11:34, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

But you wrote "Rupublik Engame China", and it should be "Republik Engame China"... Ekamwawir Omo -- CdaMVvWgS 13:44, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

OK mwijinga. Belgian man 13:46, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

meaning of "eb"

Hi Belgian man,
I discovered a significant typo: The word eb or eab doesn't mean "land" in the meaning of "country, state, nation". In fact eb/eab means "island". So, please correct the few country articles which already exist by replacing "eb" with "land" (I'll check out a translation for "nation/state/country", if there's any). If there's no translation, we can let "land". The meaning of "world" is correct, we can let this. Ekamawir omo -- CdaMVvWgS 13:48, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Oops, and now I discovered that "land, country" is correct for "eb". "island" means "oe". That must be a misinterpretation of the Yale university. So, you can let everything it is now. -- CdaMVvWgS 19:38, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

oe means 'inland' not 'island'. To speak of 'oe'is to speak of the centre of the island. Eb is good for land, island, country. Some people say eben oning to mean pacific islands.

OK... Thanks for the information, Meibitobure. I've also a little question to you: If you want, you can make a userpage and use our Babel-templates (it is no problem to import new templates from other editions, or it is possible to make completely new templates for languages who are not on one edition)! If you don't know something about our "wiki-system", please ask it! I'll help you with pleasure. Ta'arawong, Belgian man 10:26, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Move protected page

Hi Belgian man, I've got again a message for you: Could you please move the page Wikipedia:Recentchanges to MediaWiki:Recentchangestext. If I were an admin, I had already done this by myself. Thank you, ekamawir omo and a happy new year 2005! -- CdaMVvWgS 23:14, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Sorry CdaMVvWgS, but for the moment I am not an admin anymore. en:User:Andre Engels removed my adminship. In a few day I'll ask the adminship back. I am busy for the moment with project on the Dutch Wikibooks and the Dutch wikipedia. But I try to visit na:wiki daily. Belgian man 13:44, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Hello, I saw you tried to unprotect the page, but it still doesn't work. Anyway, you'll have to try it again (or just copy the text from Wikipedia:Recentchanges to MediaWiki:Recentchangestext. And please see my new note on my user page about country articles. Best wishes and Ekamawir Omo -- CdaMVvWgS 21:36, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Please don't create articles about unimportant subjects

Dear belgian man,

it's good that you create articles about countries, but it's not of basical need that you create articles about some cars or some villages in Andorra. That's currently absolutely not needed. Needed are articles about more important cities and cities which are particularly relevant for Nauru. Per example Sydney, London, Canberra, Melbourne, Auckland, Paris, ...

And please stop creating articles about cars, that's really unimportant, although it seems to be your hobby, but please stop doing it and let those car articles be deleted, because they are not needed in this Wikipedia consisting of less than 50 articles. Please!

Thank you for reading my post and please think about doing what I wrote above! -- 83.76.88.3 22:00, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I think you're a well-known user of another wikimedia-project. Please make your account, so I can consider such difficult requests. It is absolutely not forbidden to make articles about a subject you like. See interwikis on, for example, La Massana, Drongen, Bugatti EB110, Echmiadzin (2,5 interwikis on average)! Belgian man 21:17, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Help:Contents

Vandalised page, can you delete it? Jon Harald Søby (talk, contrib) 10:50, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

OK, there seems to be a vandal. I block him. Greets, Belgian man 20:57, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Modèles Babel-x

Bonjour. Comme tu es « bureaucrate » sur le Wikipedia nauruan, j'ajoute mon message ici, même si je ne sais pas si c'est le wiki où tu te trouves le plus souvent. J'ai ajouté les modèles Babel-x, d'abord pour mon propre usage, mais bien évidemment aussi pour celui des autres. Je m'étais limité à Babel-6 sur les quelques wikis où je les ai rapatriés, mais ici, il faut bien que je monte jusqu'à Babel-8... :o) Hégésippe | ±Θ± 11:39, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

OK, merci bien pour ton travail. Salutations, Belgian man 11:48, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

PS: Je suis aussi 'Cars en travel', 'C&T' ou 'S.V.E.T.' en autres projets de Wikimédia. Belgian man 11:54, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

New user fooling around

Ekamwawir Omo, Belgian Man! I've just reverted two recent pieces of silly talk by a new registered user. The new person may be a good potential contributor but needs to be requested to make serious factual contributions, not silly ones. You can probably tell that person using some Nauruan words. Robin Patterson 01:04, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

OK, I see what I can do, thanks Robin. Ekamwawir omo, Belgian man 17:57, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

100

Let's celebrate, na: now has 100+ articles! Jon Harald Søby (talk, contrib) 15:23, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Yes! Belgian man 08:02, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Greetings!

I added a word to na-Wikt. Robin Patterson 06:44, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

OK, :-) Belgian man 08:33, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Bydgoszcz changed, pls translate sth ;)

Howgh! I've just started to learn Nauruan so now I can only write sentences in English in my articles. So please expand my Nauri knowledge with those ones ;)

• "Rat egade ion imagen katholik in rom ecclesia" - R.e.i. image catholic in roman church ?
• "Ekaw" - maybe sth like "sculpture" ?

Ekaw = "river". Belgian man 15:04, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Rat egade ion imagen katholik in rom ecclesia = "jesuitic church", or something. Belgian man 14:59, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Enuawen = "over". Belgian man 15:06, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thx for those translations ;) and sorry again for not-signed message, I've forgotten this then... --Artur Lion 21:13, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

OK, no problem.

Sov, Tox... ;)

Howgh again ;) I see You have 2 more langs in Your Babel but... I haven't found any sov or tox on the all Wikis list so I've searched Ethnologue and... I have some questions...

• Have You ever been to somewhere on Pacific? To Nauru? To Tuvalu? To Palau?
• Are You some kind of linguistic ... zum Beruf... How's it in English? "by work" ? ;P I see that Sonsorol and Tobian ARE NOT very popular. I must say... THEY ARE NEARLY EXTINCTED...
• Are You SIL member? ;)

Sonsorol A language of Palau ISO/DIS 639-3: sov Population 600 in Palau (1981 Wurm and Hattori). Approximately 60 on the outer islands: Sonsoral 29, Pulo Anna 25, Merir 5. The number of outer islanders resident on the main island of Palau is unclear from the 1990 census. Region Pulo Anna, Merir, Helen, and Sonsorol islands. Also spoken in Northern Mariana Islands. Alternate names Sonsorolese Dialects Sonsorolese, Pulo Anna. There are significant linguistic differences between the Tobian variety and Sonsorolese; similar to or greater than differences between, e.g., Puluwat and Namonuito. 50% intelligibility of Woleaian, less of the remainder of the Trukic continuum. Lexical similarity 69% with Ulithi. Classification Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, Micronesian, Micronesian Proper, Ponapeic-Trukic, Trukic Language use Official language in state of Sonsorol. Reported to be completely bilingual in Palauan. Language development Grammar.

Tobian A language of Palau ISO/DIS 639-3: tox Population 22 (1995 SIL). Region Tobi (Hatohobei) Island and near the capitol. Alternate names Tobi, Hatohobei Dialects There are significant linguistic differences between Tobian and Sonsorolese, although they are often treated as one language. Classification Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Central-Eastern, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central-Eastern Oceanic, Remote Oceanic, Micronesian, Micronesian Proper, Ponapeic-Trukic, Trukic Language use Official language in state of Tobi. Reported to be highly bilingual in Palauan and bicultural. Comments Nearly extinct.

That isn't your problem, is it? I am not a linguist neither a SIL member. Please sign your talk, I thought it was an anonymous user here. Belgian man 15:04, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Oh my... Sorry, I've forgotten to sign the message... And sorry to "spam" Your talk with cite from Ethnologue, You can now erase it if You want ;) Sorry again for no-sign ;/ --Artur Lion 21:19, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

OK, no problem. Belgian man 11:53, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, but... Hehe, please let me know... WHY Tobian and Sonsorol. Those are VERY VERY exotic languages, no Wiki for them. Have You been somewhere to Pacific? I've been to Tahiti, New Caledonia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea but I'd like to visit more beautiful places there but it's a very expensive to get to the another hemisphere... ;/ --Artur Lion 14:03, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Because I'm fond of Palau. No, I haven't been in Pacific yet, but I've planned some trips - it is indeed rather expensive, and I pay a lot for cars and European trips... Belgian man 11:19, 29 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Interwiki

When making country articles (and other articles), could you not add all language interwikis? Just go to the English Wikipedia (use the English one, for it is normally the one with most interwikis), and just copy the interwikis plus adding the [[en:Article name]] here. If you don't, there's a lot of cleaning up to do afterwards. Jon Harald Søby (talk, contrib) 15:53, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

OK. Belgian man 19:05, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

We have to find a way

Hello! We have to find a way and I can teach you to do so. We have to find the same way as the Japanese people have found already 500 years ago. The best ways of finding a way are vandalizing Wikipedia, speaking bad English and dying of fever. Vandalizing Wikipedia is very easy. Everyone, who can access to Internet can do so. Speaking bad English is also quite easy, if you only imitate me. Dying of fever is not very nice way of learning a way; when you are dead, you can find a way not anymore. I recommend, that you try finding a way by vandalizing Wikipedia. Tomorrow you can go and fool around at Wikipedia, ok? No, I was joking. If you haven't already noticed that I'm a fool, you are a real freak. Bye, --213.138.128.13 15:42, 4 August 2005 (UTC). P.S. If you really want to find a way, you can leave a message to my talk page. --213.138.128.13 15:48, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Stubs

I do agree with Node that most of the articles here are stubs, so removing the marking shouldn't be done without discussion. Another note, to revert edits, just view the diff page and press "rollback". Jon Harald Søby (talk, contrib) 15:48, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

As I have said on User talk:Node ue, I use the usage of the Dutch wiki... Thanks for the tip. Belgian man 15:50, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

On stubs, I think in the following way: An article of more than two lines (with an image counting as one line, a title as a half and a part of an enumeration as a half too) isn't a stub anymore. Belgian man 15:53, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

I still think it's too small. I think that an articles should have at least, say, 50 words not to be a stub. Images is an upside, but they should not count when it comes to the article being a stub or not. Jon Harald Søby (talk, contrib) 15:57, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

I have to agree with this -- a stub classification isn't nessecarily bad. It just means that a page badly needs improvement. And, with any article shorter than 50 characters (of course not counting interwikis, and I think not counting images), the most likely fact is that it is not of a good quality and needs a lot of improvement. --Node ue 04:58, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

OK, I stop here with removing stub-templates but I see this as an EXCEPTION. I thought it wasn't wished, a stub-template on something like Poland. Belgian man 16:01, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

You need help? 13-08 9:45 GMT

Hello Belgian man,

My name is Marco and I want to help you with your site. I have an own site to, that I want translate to Nauruan, so I'm study the langue at the moment. I don't kwow all words, but around 150 words. I learned that words in 3 weeks. A half year ago I begun with study Nauru. About land, people, districts, special things. Maybe you want my E-Mail to talk at MSN/E-Mail???? Sorry for the bad English, but I hope you can read it.

Have a nice absent time. (15-08 . 25-08)

Kamawirei,

Marco

You can log in and make and account and then you've the possibility to mail me... Note that this is the last day I can be online... I can be on line back on 26-08. It would be very interesting if you have any knowledge about grammar, this is the only problem here but is is a VERY BIG. Thanks and greets, Belgian man 11:31, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Nauruan Grammar - Do You know how to make Plural forms? For example I see "eb" or "tekawa" as "country/city" oraz "countries/cities"... Is it... ekhem... "temporary" till we don't know the correct form? ;)--Artur Lion 01:59, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Yes it is. This is the only problem (but it is of course a BIG, BIG PROBLEM) of this Wikipedia Edition. Belgian man 10:35, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Elk => Ełk

I see You've changed it with Polish diacratic sign/letter "ł". If You want, I can change all Polish letters in Poland's articles. I didn't know should I write those names with Polish signs but now I see Wikipedia is really multilinguistic. Please let me know if I'm right and... I'll start to change those a few dozens of names ;) --Artur Lion 22:03, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

It is your choice... I don't know which names are the correct ones in Nauruan. But if you do it, please change the word in black also. Greets, Belgian man 13:31, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Ijuw or Iyuw?

I see You've changed it in the "zloty" article. In the Delaporte's "Nauruan language bible" ;P [1] for 'more' we have 'ijuw', not 'iyuw' - is it some mistake? I've started to make a XLS dictionary of the nauruan language. Firstly I've copied whole Delaporte's into it, changed those diacritical marks from above (^ -> ~ || ` -> Ø || ñ -> ng) and... I'll try to implent quite more that I find. If You want to see it, I can send it to You ([2]). Maybe it will be helpful to all of us to have good, "easy searchable" Nauruan dictionary ;) --Artur Lion 19:43, 4 September 2005 (UTC)

Yes, it would be interesting... You can also add words who are not in the Delaporte's dictionary (countries, ...) (if you want this, of course). But "ijuw" is old spelling. It must be "iyuw". This is also a rule, I think, for other words with "j". Belgian man 17:08, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

http://na.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Artur_Lion/NAOERO_DICTIONARY then ;) --Artur Lion 20:24, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

OK :-) Belgian man 16:52, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

"Random page"

I reverted your edit on MediaWiki:Randompage, because the word "peij" is a loan word from the English word "page". Have a look again on this explanation by Meibitobure as an IP about the "j"/"ts" matter. every Nauruan word containing a letter to be spelled like an English "j", either native or loan word, has to be written with "j"; i.e. "peij" (page) Exception:if after the letter spelled like an English "j" is followed by an "i", the word has to be written with "ts"; i.e. "Tsiene" (China), "itsi" (frigate bird), "putsi" (pussy), "entsikropidiya" (encyclopedia). I hope I understand the comment by Meibitobure correctly. If not, he'll correct me hopefully. By the way, Meibitobure wrote that "dorerin Naoero" is the modern word for "Nauruan language". I'll contact a developper to change "Ekakairu Naoero" into "Dorerin Naoero", ok? Ekamawir omo :) -- CdaMVvWgS 19:26, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

OK, good work. I'll change it also in the "User na" and "User na-" templates. I think I understand Meibitobure's comments for the rest. And I've tried to contact Ali Baba, native Nauruan and good speaker of Kiribatian, in the Kiribatian language because it is easier to speak Kiribatian then Nauruan for me (there is a great dictionary on the internet); but the grammar isn't correct... I hope he comes on line for one time so he can see my question. I said that I speak a bit Kiribatian and that he can help with this Wikipedia Edition if he communicates with me in Kiribatese and I asked wether he could control the "User gil" and "User gil-" templates on grammar and vocabulary errors. Ekamawir omo, Belgian man 14:41, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

Nauruan word "the" "and" "it" "word"

Hello,

Could somebody tell me what the words "the" "and" "it" and "word" in Nauruan is.

I think that "and" ---> "Ma" in Nauruan means

Well, hope that somebody can help me.

Bye,

Martin

19-09-2005 9.23 AM

• the = [does probably not exist]

'The' doesn't really exist. We have bita (that), bitune (this), bituno (that (distant)).

• and = me

• it = [?]

'eiy' as in 'eiy ngea' - that's it.

• word = [?]

dorer or ekaid.

• User:Meibitobure and User:Ali Baba know more
• User:Artur Lion and User:CdaMVvWgS maybe know more
• Belgian man 17:45, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Meibitobure 02:59, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

We have to find a way

We have to find a way. WE HAVE TO FIND A WAY! --213.138.128.13 07:52, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

What do you mean? In my opinion we found the way, if you meant the Nauruan Wikipedia. But we still need to find a way for the Wiktionary...! Ekamawir omo -- CdaMVvWgS 13:57, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Cool, I have my own stalker ;-) Belgian man 17:25, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Country pages

Hi there, Belgian man,
please wait rewriting and moving country articles, until we have included them in an article called "List of countries", o.k.? I informed Meibitobure of some things to be fixed. When we have fixed them, we can put them in an "official" list and then rewrite and move all the pages. But please have a bit more patience; when we have the list, there's nothing to stop us ;) Ekamawir omo -- CdaMVvWgS 17:53, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

OK, good to know that... But now, there are many errors. Belgian man 17:54, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Well, I used the general rule of replacing letters: "f" becomes "p" or "b", "z" becomes "d" or "ts", "s" becomes "t" or "ts", "l" becomes "r". Those letters don't exist in Nauruan. We'll have to wait for Meibitobure's comments. Ekamawir omo -- CdaMVvWgS 18:13, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Ok. Belgian man 18:42, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

Another thing, the old names should be redirects to the new ones for a couple of months, so that bots get the change for interwiki. / Jon Harald Søby 18:47, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

OK, I've forgotten that. Belgian man 17:45, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Naoero

Doreraki puunu meduwa aiquen takj entsimen? --213.138.128.13 05:53, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

We have to find a way

We have to find a way and I can teach you to do so. PS. What do you think about Coca-Cola? --213.138.128.13 05:53, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

(warned) Belgian man 13:58, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

C&T deze gebruiker komt hoogst waarschijnlijk uit Nederland. Ik heb zijn ip nagetrokken en die komt uit Amsterdam volgens de tracker. Geograaf a.k.a. Netherlands girl 19:40, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Dank je voor de info :-) Ik zal hem in het vervolg in het Nederlands waarschuwen :-) Belgian man 13:00, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Op [3] staat trouwens nu dat ie van finland komt. Terwijl die een paar dagen geleden op een andere website claimde dat die vanuit Amsterdam kwam. Geograaf a.k.a. Netherlands girl 17:37, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Okay, dan toch maar in het Engels... Mijn Fins is niet zo best. Als er op Wikipedia één ding makkelijk is is het wel afrekenen met anoniemen :-) Belgian man 19:27, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Merk op dat VI HAR TILL FINNA EN VÄG / HAISTAKAA de samenvatting was. Ik begrijp het echter niet... En op nl: zijn geen gebruikers met Finse Babelsjabloontjes. Dit toont echter wel aan dat de anoniem hoogstwaarschijnlijk van Finse origine is. Belgian man 21:33, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Het was overigens hij die, in dezelfde edit, de pseudo-Nauruaanstalige nonsensvraag hierboven stelde. Ik stuurde een mailtje naar Meibitobure (dat is de enige gebruiker (en moderator) uit Nauru (enige moedertaalspreker Nauruaans die Wikimedia bekend is (we hebben ook nog Ali maar die is onbereikbaar en heeft nooit iets gedaan)! voor deze editie is Meibitobure al het geld van de wereld waard :-) ), momenteel is hij nogal inactief want hij is (in Fiji denk ik) aan het studeren, weldra komt hij echter terug) en hij wist me te vertellen dat Doreraki puunu meduwa aiquen takj entsimen? weldegelijk zever is. Belgian man 15:29, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

cheers!

How do you say "Cheers!", "prost!", "Santé", "skol" in Nauruan? I collect "cheers"es --Wonderfool 23:54, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Well er... I don't know. Sorry Wonderfool. Maybe you can ask Meibitobure, Artur Lion or CdaMVvWgS. Greets, Belgian man 13:56, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

template:Coordinates

Hoi Belgian Man a.k.a C&T. Weet jij waarom het nl:sjabloon:Coordinaten (hier Template:Coordinates niet werkt. In nlwiki staat die boven in het scherm, kijk maar bij nl:Amsterdam maar hier blijft die in de tekst staan. Groet Geograaf a.k.a. Netherlands girl 16:41, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Ik kijk er straks wel even naar. Belgian man 13:00, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Wat denk jij eigenlijk van het hoofdpaginadesign dat ik heb gemaakt? User:Geograaf/mainpagetest. Geograaf a.k.a. Netherlands girl 15:11, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

GEOGRAAF DIE IS ECHT FANTASTISCH!!! Je mag het direct gebruiken als je wil - let erop dat we alle interwiki's op de hoofdpagina nog behouden (we zijn zo ongeveer de enige wiki die interwiki's heeft naar alle bestaande 211 andere edities). En het zou leuk zijn mocht Image:Nauru-logo.png erin kunnen worden verwerkt. Belgian man 18:20, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Ik had zelf een versie gemaakt, waarop Artur Lion zijn betere versie maakte. En nu steekt de jouwe nog eens met kop en schouders boven die van Artur Lion uit... Gefeliciteerd! Belgian man 18:24, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Nauruan language

Hi! I'm really suprised to see somebody in the nauruan wikipedia that learns catalan. I would like to ask you if you can help me with the article on nauruan language for the catalan wikipedia. As I've seen that you are the only person in the wikipedia that knows (a bit) of both languages and that the english and german articles on nauruan are not good enough, I've decided to do a good article on nauruan language, that's why I ask for your help. Ask me what you want and say me if you want to help me. Gangleri2001

(answered on ca:) Belgian man 16:21, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism

Hi! Great job you did today removing vandalism. Darn vandals. / Jon Harald Søby 21:13, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

This was the biggest vandalism I've ever seen, I think. But it's my job to revert it and I do it with pleasure :) Greetings, Belgian man 10:09, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Katowice

Hello. I'm wikipedia redactor from Poland. We do some action for tranlation atricle about one of the biggest polish city simple:Katowice. Could You make some translation into Your native language of this article ? Just a few senteces. Please. There is source article in English: en:Katowice.

Best Regards.

Stimoroll form Poland

We already have Katowice. Belgian man 14:40, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

User:Escarbot

Bonjour,

Oui, je veux bien que User:Escarbot est le statut de robot. Merci pour ton aide.

Escarbot 15:12, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

please see your talk in en.wiki

Hello. Please see your talk in English Wikipedia (here) :) thx very much! Szoltys

request - Nauruan

Hello. I have got one request for you. I need sentence "sugar in 370 languages" in Nauruan (I want to do a logo of my site). So, can you write me what`s called sentence "sugar in 370 languages" in Nauruan language? Thank you very much! Szoltys

Thank you very much! I already have word "sugar" in Palauan :-) Regards, Szoltys

Bot flag request for User:TXiKiBoT

Hello Belgian man. I have seen your message in my talk page in the basque Wikipedia. I'm really interested in getting the bot flag in the Nauruan Wikipedia in order to help you with interwiki links without flooding the recent changes. What should I have to do to get it? Can you set me the bot status, please? Thank you. TXiKi 19:55, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

(answered at eu:) Belgian man 23:54, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

User:JAnDbot

Hello, It will be nice if you can give me bot flag. JAnDbot is doing both standard interwiki (80 languages) and manual solved interwiki (all languages). JAnDbot 23:00, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

(answered at cs:) Belgian man 19:49, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Steward action

Hey, it wasn't a vandal whose page I had deleted, but a cross-wiki spammer. This project was only one of many whose page we was deleting. Unfortunately, in instances like this, checking each and every project to determine whether it has active sysops is a time-eater.

I apologize if you felt this undermined your local authority. If it were a simple vandal on your local wiki, by all means, we would have deferred to your local authority. However, in instances such as this that involve numerous wikis, which are becoming more and more frequent, it is likely that the involved steward will simply take the action to remove the content and move on.

Cheers. Bastique 13:11, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

(answered at commons:) Belgian man 11:13, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

User:VolkovBot

Hello! Thanks for the offer ;-) It would be nice to have a bot flag @ na.wiki. The bot already has flags in all major wiki versions and runs normally starting from ru.wiki. --VolkovBot 23:36, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Botbit

Although the interwiki doesn't match Le Pied-bot, I suppose you are a bot considering your contributions :)

Do you want a botbit? Greetings, Belgian man 19:09, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi ! I have create my bot account User:Le Pied-bot. I will now edit on it. Can I request bot flag for it here. Cordialy, EDUCA33E 03:03, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Fait! Belgian man 17:30, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Merci / Thanks ! EDUCA33E 17:50, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Bot request for Byrialbot

Hello Belgian man! Please know that I made a bot request for my interwiki bot at Wikipedia:Domaneab#Bot request for User:Byrialbot. Thank you! Byrial 19:23, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Pathoschild has granted the status. Sorry for my late reaction... Belgian man 15:20, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Bot status for PipepBot

Hi Belgian man, I'd like to request you to set a bot bit for PipepBot with reference to Wikipedia:Domaneab#Bot_status_for_PipepBot. Thank you. it:User:Pipep 08:14, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Pathoschild has granted the status. Sorry for my late reaction... Belgian man 15:20, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Help

Sorry. Can you translate this onto this language?.

Almazán is a municipality located in the province of Soria, Castile and León, Spain.

Thanks. --Axok 14:55, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, but my knowledge of Nauruan is not sufficient for this. Greetings, Belgian man 15:21, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

bot flag request

Hi! Can you set bot status for my AlleborgoBot? The request is here. Regards. --AlleborgoBot 14:37, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Pathoschild has granted the status. Sorry for my late reaction... Belgian man 15:21, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Vertalen

Hallo Belgian man (ik kom ook van België :p)! Ik zie dat jij hier systeemberichten hebt vertaald. Deze vertalingen zijn alleen beschikbaar op deze plaatselijke Wikipedia. Daarom wil ik je vragen om naar Betawiki te komen om te vertalen. Als je daar vertaalt kunnen de vertalingen op alle MediaWiki-wikis gebruikt worden, dit houdt all Wikimedia-wikis in. Je kan daar ook de naamruimten (User, Talk, Help, ...) en de namen van de special pagina's (Recentchanges, Allpages, ...) vertalen. Dus als je nog wil vertalen, kom aub naar Betawiki! Dank je, SPQRobin@Betawiki 15:25, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Ik zou daar liever nog wat mee wachten. De vertalingen komen van één enkele Nauruaanstalige en niemand, ook geen mensen die geen Nauruaans als moedertaal spreken maar eventueel een kennis van het Nauruaans zouden hebben, heeft tot nu toe ook maar iets bevestigd. Excuses voor mijn late reactie. Belgian man 15:23, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Geen probleem. Maar onthou dat het beter is om op Betawiki te vertalen, dus als er een Nauruaanstalige gebruiker komt opdagen, stuur hem/haar dan door naar Betawiki. Dank u, SPQRobin 15:51, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Japan

It looks like it is nosense. Could you please add some reference to this article. Carsrac 12:29, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Maybe later. The article is correct: Japan is an American village, the country is called Djapan in Nauruan. Greetings, Belgian man 17:16, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Languages question

Hi I have a question regarding a notice written in four languages, probably two of them are nauruan and gilbertese, so maybe you could give me a confirmation, could you take a look there? Regards.--Kimdime69 12:07, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Deleting pages

Hello,

I aswered to you on my talk page. I'll try to remember you message the next time I'll come here.

Regards

--Hercule 18:26, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Rename request

Could you rename the local user per this request? Thank you. MBisanz ^talk 16:54, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

I went ahead and did the rename as it looks like you're inactive here. Please let me know if you object. MBisanz ^talk 16:24, 17 October 2012 (UTC)

Forced user renames coming soon for SUL

Hi, sorry for writing in English. I'm writing to ask you, as a bureaucrat of this wiki, to translate and review the notification that will be sent to all users, also on this wiki, who will be forced to change their user name on May 27 and will probably need your help with renames. You may also want to help with the pages m:Rename practices and m:Global rename policy. Thank you, Nemo 16:54, 3 May 2013 (UTC)