විකිපීඩියා සාකච්ඡාව:ප්‍රජා ද්වාරය/2009

message: මෑතකදී සිට සිංහල විකිපීඩියාවේ ලිපි ගණන සීඝ්‍රයෙන් ඉහළ යමින් පවතින බව නිරීක්‍ෂණය කෙරුමෙන් අමන්දානන්දයට පත් වූයෙමි. මෙම වෙනසට මූලික හේතුව ප්‍රාථමික වශයෙන් පහත දායකත්වයන් බව මාගේ අදහසයි. 
*කොළඹ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයයයෙහි IRQUE ව්‍යාපෘතිය
**සරසවියෙහි පීඨ කිහිපයක විවිධ දැනුම් හා කුසලතා සංකලනයක පැතිකඩක් නිරූපණය කරන සිසු එකමුතුවක වෙර දැරුමකි
*ICTA ව්‍යාපෘතිය
**යම් මඩුල්ලක් විසින් පරිවර්තනය කෙරෙන ලිපි විවිධ විෂය පථ නිරූපණය කෙරෙන ආචාර්යය මණ්ඩලයක අධීක්ෂණයට ලක්ව එළිදැක්වේ
*පරිශීලක Singhalawap
**ස්වීය වෙරදැරුමකි
මෙම ත්‍රිත්වයම ප්‍රශංසනීය කාර්යයක් සිදු කිරීමට වෙර දරතත්, තුන්වැන්නාගේ කටයුතු පිළිබඳ විවේචනය කිරීමට කැමැත්තෙමි. Singhalawap පරිශීලකයා ගේ ක්‍රියාකාරිත්වය මෙසේය:
*IRQUE ව්‍යාපෘතිය හා ICTA ව්‍යාපෘතිය විසින් නිපැයුණු ලිපි වල  සුළු වෙනස් කම් සිදු කිරීම. බොහෝ විට මෙම වෙනස්කම් ලිපියෙහි නම වෙනස් කිරීමකට සීමා වේ.
*නව ප්‍රවර්ග නිමැවීම
*ඉංග්‍රීසි විකිපීඩියාවෙහි ලිපි පරිවර්තනය කිරීම. පරිවර්තනය කිරීම යැයි සඳහන් කරතත් සිංහල නමකට ඉංග්‍රීසි අන්තර්ගතය කැවීම පමණක් බොහෝ විට සිදුවේ. බොහෝ ලිපි වල එකදු ඉංග්‍රීසි අකුරක් හෝ සිංහලට වර නැගූ බවක් නොපෙනේ. ගැමි බසෙන් පවසන පරිදි මෙම ආත බූත කඩා ගෙන යන ගමනේ අරමුණ කුමක් දැයි නොවැටහේ.
මෙයින් සිංහල විකිපීඩියාවට අවැඩක් මිස වැඩක් නොසිදුවන බව නම් මට පෙනේ.
ඔබටත් මෙය පෙනේද? සිංහල විකිපීඩියාව කරවන පරිශීලක මහතුන්ගේ පාණ්ඩුකම්බල ශෛලාසනය උණු වේවා!! -- මහාසෝණ 15:19, 11 අප්‍රේල් 2009 (යූටීසී)
thread_title:  '''සිංහල විකිපීඩියාවේ නූතන අධි-ක්‍රියාකාරිත්වය''' 

message: මෙම ලිපියෙහි ඇති පරිදී වසර 6000 කට පෙර ලංකාව පාලනය කල  රාවණා රජගේ උපන් දිනය ක්‍රි.පූ.5114 ජනවාරි 10 ලෙස දක්වා ඇතත් මිය ගිය දිනය කතුවරයා විසින් දක්වා නොමැති වීම අභාග්‍යයකි. මෙවැනි කෙප්ප ඇද බෑමට ඉඩ දී පරිපාලකයන් පසෙකට වී සිටීමෙන් සිංහල විකිපීඩියාවට යන කල කුමක්ද? --ගෝඨයිම්බර 11:13, 28 අප්‍රේල් 2009 (යූටීසී)
thread_title:  '''[[රාවණා රජ]]''' 

message: මාධ්‍යවිකි:Common.js හි කිසිදු අන්තර්ගතයක් නැති බැවින් සමහරක් සැකිලි පිලිබඳ ගැටළු පැන නගීදසනැබළයෝ 09:02, 27 මැයි 2009 (යූටීසී)
replies: text: I imported the common.js from the English wiki. Please check and let me know if things are working correct. --Lee 06:28, 28 මැයි 2009 (යූටීසී)
replies: text: :I noticed the problem when collapsible button in NavBox was not functioning in Sinhala Wikipedia. By correcting the මාධ්‍යවිකි :Common.js you have tried to solve the problem speedily. Yet, the problem persists. I notice that මාධ්‍යවිකි :Common.css too is outdated. There may be some shortcut way for administrators to update all these in one shot I presume. Please consider updating මාධ්‍යවිකි :Common.css too. Thanksදසනැබළයෝ 08:15, 28 මැයි 2009 (යූටීසී)
replies: text: ::I guess that kind of update is possible when setting up things for the first time. As for now we have to settle for update as we see method. I imported the Common.css also. Please check again and let me know if there is anything missing. I’ll import them as well. --Lee 08:34, 28 මැයි 2009 (යූටීසී)
replies: text: :::The NavBox colors and borders are now displaying just fine. Yet, the collapsible button issue is still there. I will do further research and come back. Please allow me to thank you for the prompt attention; you are an administrator indeed ! --දසනැබළයෝ 10:46, 28 මැයි 2009 (යූටීසී)
thread_title:  මාධ්‍යවිකි:Common.js 

message: *:ගොනුව:2009_05_LTTE_d_route.jpg
*:File:Dewala1.jpg 
*:File:Oyster Mushroom2.jpg
*:ගොනුව:කම්.jpg
Uploading of the copyrighted images like these will land Sinhalese wikipedia in trouble. 
It is highly recommended the administrators of Sinhalese wikipedia to go through this list  http://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%92%E0%B7%81%E0%B7%9A%E0%B7%82:%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%96%E0%B6%B4_%E0%B6%BD%E0%B7%90%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%92%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%AD%E0%B7%94%E0%B7%80 and delete all the copyrighted and non-free images. 
A quick browse through the list will display many copy righted images. 
As the administrators of this wikipedia, it is your duty to read, understand, and follow the image use policy of WikiMedia foundation wikies.  --122.167.73.203 17:56, 21 ජූලි 2009 (යූටීසී)
replies: text: I deleted the pointed out images but I think best would be to delete all the images that do not have copyright information. I’ll try to get some help from someone who knows the subject. May be Kylu can help us here. --Lee 14:11, 23 ජූලි 2009 (යූටීසී)
The above images are just examples. It is just the tip of iceberg. It seems like more than 80% of the current images needs to be deleted. Some administrator need to monitor the new image uploads. 
Infact, images are already available in Commons for most of the articles. So no need to upload most of the images, unless the article is too specific about Srilanka or Sinhalese language.  --122.166.152.23 16:48, 23 ජූලි 2009 (යූටීසී)

text: There's a bunch, see also :category:University of Colombo images. If you can identify what all images have issues, I can (probably) get the bot to start deleting them. Kylu (speak!) 00:41, 24 ජූලි 2009 (යූටීසී)
replies: text: : Presently number of  2,618 images belongs to that category. I think this is a massive amount. It is too difficult work to find out owners of those images on web. So, It is best thing is delete those images before comes copyright violation issues from outsiders. And also, I would like to make a suggestion on here,that is, if some one can run a bot here such as en:User:STBotI, then we can inform to users that they are violating copyrights or not at the moment. Because, I say; Some users don't know what licence are here. They don't get it seriously. I think Lee (as a native user) can have good understand and can ability to explain more regrading this issues.--asiri 09:42, 24 ජූලි 2009 (යූටීසී)
replies: text: :: Still, while that one category has a lot, the rest still need to be marked in some fashion. I'm asking around to find a bot program that will allow for mass delinking/deletion of such images. Kylu (speak!) 03:18, 2 අගෝස්තු 2009 (යූටීසී)
Since the administrators in Sinhala wikipedia are still decidec how to tackle this situation, as an outsider, let me suggest you a way to start your cleanup exercise. Start with the images listed through a special page called "unused images/files" . The link to those images is, http://si.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%92%E0%B7%81%E0%B7%9A%E0%B7%82:%E0%B7%84%E0%B7%8F%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%AD%E0%B7%8F_%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%9C%E0%B7%80%E0%B6%B1_%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%96%E0%B6%B4&limit=1000&offset=0 
In the first phase, start deleting these images since they are not used in any articles. There are around 800 images in this category. In the second phase, delete the non-free or copy righted images uploaded by the columbo university. In the third phase, change your attention to other non-free and copy righted images. 
A huge cleanup is required in this wiki before the wiki run into any copyright issues. Copyright issue will give a very bad image to a small wiki llike yours. You need lot of new contributors. This wiki is just waiting for an ample opportunity for the wiki activism and article explosion. But before that, make sure the wiki is free from any copyright issues.    --122.167.74.142 14:12, 3 අගෝස්තු 2009 (යූටීසී)
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