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] Date Posted: 17:51:50 11/12/04 Fri I've decided to create a new thread to keep track of the changes at Wikipedia, since most people would probably prefer to read them here rather than on Wiki's talk pages, and the other thread is more about advertising and so forth. This one could please be kept specifically to the Wikipage please. Our page at Wikipedia Work is progressing on the article; I've beefed up the introduction with some more details and sections regarding the capital, name, and economics have been added. I've also added redirects to our page from the Federal_Commonwealth and United_Realms_of_the_Commonwealth pages at Wiki. What really needs doing is extra detail being inserted on each section. Could somone do that? I know that a couple of extra people have been helping out. Also, we need a picture or two; if someone could provide a link to a high quality picture in someway related - the maps for example - I'll upload it to Wiki; HOWEVER, on uploading it to Wiki the author must agree to its distribution. Then we should be well on our way to the front page. ;-) [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Andrew [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 18:24:29 11/12/04 Fri * The title reads "republicism", where it should be republicanism. * Tribal or indigenous peoples is a more neutral term than "first nations" (a name only used in Canada anyway). * Currency? NAFTA? NATO? US domination? [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> Subject: We now have ten sections and over 50 edits! | |
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Author: Roberdin [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 18:21:45 11/13/04 Sat I've just added a section on the Armed Forces. If you have a spare minute, take a look and add anything more that you can think of to it. It's already looking very informative and useful, in my opinion. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 13:49:05 11/14/04 Sun "the FCS is not a radicalist or imperialist group" don't you mean "racialist"? [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> Subject: Everyone makes mistakes... | |
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Author: Roberdin [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 13:51:43 11/14/04 Sun Change it if you like... [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> Subject: I almost did, I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't missing the point | |
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Author: Ian [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 14:04:48 11/14/04 Sun [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> Subject: No problem, it's nice to work on such a collabaration | |
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Author: Roberdin [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 14:13:56 11/14/04 Sun [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: I made some more changes | |
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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:20:05 11/15/04 Mon changed the order of a few things, reworded some bits and added a paragraph about free trade and free movement of CANZUK citizens on the Australia-New Zealand model [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Looks good. The article is progressing well. | |
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Author: Roberdin [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:19:46 11/15/04 Mon [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Roberdin [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 13:52:51 11/14/04 Sun It's quite humourous really, it appears that the new author spent some time 'adjusting' our article, and all it took was three clicks to put it back. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Roberdin [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 20:47:22 11/15/04 Mon Could I please request permission from the author of the image with the URL 'http://www.fcscanada.com/PastPresentFuture.jpg' to upload it to Wikipedia for use within the article with the following disclaimer: 'This work is copyrighted. The individual who uploaded this work and first used it in an article, and subsequent persons who place it into articles, assert that this qualifies as fair use of the material under United States copyright law.' May I also add that the FCS World pages are exceedingly slow to load - and this is with broadband. For a start, you use images to represent words, which are 100 times as heavy on the user. It really is not necessary. Could you please try to optimise your images in future? It is usually possible to lose 9/10ths of the file size without a considerable degredation of quality. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: I created that image and you have my full permission to use it and upload it | |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 14:19:59 11/16/04 Tue [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> Subject: Up it goes | |
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Author: Roberdin [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:22:49 11/16/04 Tue [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: John [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:30:12 11/16/04 Tue You know, someone created a French-language page on Wikipedia about the FCS. Here's the link: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Commonwealth_Society Is there any way to link it on the English site, where they put the list of languages up on the side? It's possible for other entries, you see, so it might be good to do it for this one. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: I think it's there because I have French pages on the FCS Canada site | |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:58:21 11/16/04 Tue [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: Languages... | |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 17:37:15 11/16/04 Tue Any thoughts on having other native languages of the Commonwealth? Maori, Welsh, Gaelic, an important Aboriginal dialect? I'm afraid I only have 3 words of Gaelic, two of Welsh and one of Maori, so can't do much translation myself... but perhaps, if anyone else can, it might be a good idea. Shows that we're inclusive. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> Subject: It would be hard to choose an Aboriginal language | |
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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 17:54:37 11/16/04 Tue Yolngu would be an option for the Top End of the Northern Territory, and Pitjintjatjara or Warlpiri for the Centre, but the parts of the country where Aboriginal languages are going strong are also the parts where there is little internet access. These languages also barely exist in written form, and, of course, I don't speak any of them. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> Subject: languages and french page | |
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Author: Joel (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 18:54:31 11/16/04 Tue I think some of the languages you mention are probably not catered for by wiki. That doesn't stop us making our own pages with them. Also: shouldn't the french page be called something in french? not 'federal commonwealth society' i suggest copy everyting in french to a new page: la_societe_du_commonwealth_federale and make the current french page and other similar name automatically redirect to it. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> Subject: all the languages on wiki | |
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Author: Joel (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 19:44:17 11/16/04 Tue I was wrong......there are loads of languages. 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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 21:11:07 11/16/04 Tue I haven't even heard of some of those languages, and quite a few of them are dead ones: Latin, Aramaic, Anglo-Saxon... There also seem to be 47 articles in Klingon, I suspect for American math students. And what on Earth might "Interlingua" be? [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Anyone can ask to setup a language there... | |
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Author: Roberdin [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 21:33:23 11/16/04 Tue [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> Subject: We already have a French page on the FCS Canada site. It's called SCF Canada. | |
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Author: Jim (Canada) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 19:59:40 11/16/04 Tue [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> Subject: french page | |
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Author: Joel (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 21:51:23 11/16/04 Tue I know there is a page for SCF Canada on your site. What I'm saying is do a copy of everything that is on the english wiki page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Commonwealth_Society and translate it all into french and put it in the french language section of wiki. Someone has already done so but used an english address so I suggested that we copy it to be under a title in french in the french section. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/ is the French bit me thinks | |
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Author: Roberdin [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 22:08:00 11/16/04 Tue [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Joel (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 22:25:19 11/16/04 Tue I know what the french section is. Someone (I don't know who) started a page at the link below. They had copied one of the versions from the English page and translated it. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Commonwealth_Society Then I created the page below: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Societe_Du_Commonwealth_Federale Then I created the page below; copying all the stuff from the first page to this latest one. I then set the first two pages to automatically redirect anyone who uses the first two URLs to the page below which has the accents used by Jim on his website. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Société_Du_Commonwealth_Fédérale now we need keep pace with significant changes to the English version (e.g. the new pictures). [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: I've linked the two pages together. On the left, you will see a link to "In other languages..." | |
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Author: Roberdin [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 22:45:23 11/16/04 Tue [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: new french pages | |
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Author: Joel (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 09:16:04 11/17/04 Wed someone has updated the content of the french page - good. they have also started a new page. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Société_Fédérale_du_Commonwealth That's OK but now the earlier don't all redirect properly.I've fiddled but now I have to go out. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
| [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: There are now Italian, Dutch, and Portugese versions | |
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Author: Roberdin [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 16:17:16 11/17/04 Wed [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: John [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 23:39:57 11/16/04 Tue http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Commonwealth_Society [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 21:08:53 11/17/04 Wed That horrifying mixture of bad portuguese and words untranslated from the English looks like it was done by a machine. Please note: machines cannot translate. They produce nonsense. I have uploaded a page in actual Portuguese, as used by human beings. (To show what I mean, I used the site "That the mixture horrifying of the bad Portuguese and words untranslated of the English looks as it estêve made by a machine. Please note: the machines cannot translate. They produce the nonsense.") [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: John [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 23:42:43 11/16/04 Tue http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Commonwealth_Society [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: John [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 23:45:21 11/16/04 Tue http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Commonwealth_Society [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 00:20:34 11/17/04 Wed I would suggest "fra i Reami del Commonwealth" and "che vengono perduti": the former because I think that "tra" is misused here, and the latter because it gives a better sense of present immediacy - our ties are still being lost, as well as having been systematically squandered in the past. What do you think? [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 00:25:47 11/17/04 Wed ... it should be "ed e' fiera" because Societa' is feminine. Perhaps "accettiamo e siamo fieri della natura" etc.? [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |