User talk:MK~enwiktionary

Useful links
Here are some Wiktionary links that you may find useful. —Stephen 15:52, 7 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Category:Articles which need Arabic script
 * Category:Translations to be checked (Arabic)
 * Category:Arabic nouns lacking gender
 * Appendix:Abjad numerals
 * Appendix:Arabic script
 * Appendix:The 99 names of Allah
 * Index:Arabic
 * Wiktionary:Requested articles:Arabic
 * About Arabic


 * Thanks. BTW, I noticed someone (82.103.131.31) who wrote you a message on your talk page (after mine). I just wanted to say that I'm not the same person. --MK 22:04, 7 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, I know. It’s not an uncommon response, unfortunately. —Stephen 11:59, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

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Arabic vowels
Please note that you cannot use double vowel points in Arabic here in Wiktionary. The reason is a technical problem with the wiki software concerning normalization. When you type two Arabic vowel points, such as shadda fatha and then save it, the wiki software changes it to fatha shadda, which is in the wrong order. Some fonts are able to display both orders correct, with the fatha above the shadda, but most fonts, at least those used in the West, can only handle shadda fatha correctly, and the opposite order either puts the fatha in the middle of the shadda like a crossthough, or it puts the fatha below the shadda, which looks like shadda kasra. The developers have been aware of this problem for over a year but have not been able to correct it. For this reason, you can put shadda or fatha/kasra/dhamma, but not both. The same applies to all combinations of Arabic pointing, and they will be improperly reversed if you put them.
 * An example of shadda + fatha:


 * . —Stephen 15:50, 23 January 2007 (UTC)


 * This looks like a font bug rather than a Mediawiki bug. So using these combinations will not give wrong strings, but they might be poorly rendered depending on what fonts and font shaper the user has. --Moyogo 12:27, 2 April 2007 (UTC)


 * No, it is not a font bug. It does not matter what font you use, with one exception. There are a small number of fonts (such as "Arabic Typesetting", which I have) which have been designed to display compound vowels correctly regardless of which way they are typed. Very few fonts are made that way, and the reason is that shadda ALWAYS precedes fatha, kasra, dhamma. The only reason a small number of fonts are designed to allow either order is to avoid problems due to typos. —Stephen 22:41, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed
Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called MK. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name MK~enwiktionary that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours, Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation 23:58, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed
 This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can |log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: . -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 07:15, 21 April 2015 (UTC)