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Proposal to change our voting policy

Hello,

A while ago I made a proposal to change our policy about the 4 votes requirement during a rfa, the last week(s) there has been a discussion on the talkpage and now I believe its time to go to the village pump.

Please raise any comments, objections or questions on the talkpage and I hope to implent it without any big objections in 2 weeks or so.

The proposal can be found here:

• User:Abigor/Vote proposal

Best regards, Huib talk 16:33, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

Translation request

Would someone mind translating the English in the images located this category into Arabic: Category:Ben Gurion International Airport ? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 07:05, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

It's shown in the document. you mean you need it typed! if so, here is the Arabic text: إدارة هيوستون التعليمية المستقلة .. Sorry, I cant write it in Urdu! .. If you are asking about how to copy or edit a PDF file or document, it's a deffrent issue! Regards

Sorry! I was trying to comment on the question below this!

• Thanks anyway :) - The names have been found WhisperToMe (talk) 22:41, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Name question

In regards to: http://www.houstonisd.org/HISDConnectEnglish/Images/PDF/howmaywehelpyou.pdf

I'm trying to get the name of the Category:Houston Independent School District in Arabic and Urdu from this text, but I cannot directly copy and paste from the document. What are the names of the district in Arabic and Urdu? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 19:15, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

• The request has been fulfilled. WhisperToMe (talk) 19:03, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

RTL support in Vector

Salaam,

There were a few problems with the support of right-to-left languages in the Vector skin, which will be applied by default from today. Most of them were fixed by Slomox, Eran, The Evil IP address and Yuval Y.

We tested it in Hebrew. Please test it in your language. Consider translating the missing templates and system messages - this will surely make it look even better. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 03:05, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Translation request

Hi! I posted images of the Middle East Airlines and Syrian Arab Airlines offices in Paris: File:MEAofficeParis.JPG and File:SyrianArabAirlinesofficeParis.JPG - Would someone mind translating them? Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 22:42, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

And there are more - With the Afriqiyah incident, there are several images that need Arabic:

• File:Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771.jpg
• File:Vliegtuigcrash_tripoli.jpg

In addition User:Raboe001/licence needs an Arabic translation as well WhisperToMe (talk) 19:02, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Terms of Use update

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Announcing Wikipedia 1.19 beta

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Arabic translations

I believe that File:Sharm el Sheikh map.png (Clear version: File:Sharm el Sheikh map clear.png) needs an Arabic version - Adam Bishop posted translations at: Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Language#Arabic_help

Would someone mind checking the ones that Adam Bishop is unsure about?

"Ras Nasrani: رأس نصراني

Airport: مطار

Naama Bay: خليج نعمة

Old Sharm: Not sure about this, since "Sharm el-Sheik" already means "Old Sharm", but presumably this is the old part of the city, which seems to be "شرم القديم"

Marina: مارينا

Sulphur Springs: I'm not sure if this is a proper name, but I guess "عين كبريتية" would be the name of a generic sulphur spring

Gulf of Suez: خليج السويس

Ras Mohammed National Park: محمية رأس محمد

Ras Mohammed: رأس محمد

Strait of Tiran: مضيق_تيران

Red Sea: البحر الأحمر

Tiran Island: جزيرة تيران

Mediterranean Sea: البحر الأبيض المتوسط

Cairo: القاهرة

Suez Canal: قناة السويس

Port Said: بورسعيد

Ismailia: الإسماعيلية

Suez: السويس

Sinai: سيناء

Egypt: مصر

St Catherine: سانت كاترين

El-Tor: الطور

area of Map: Not 100% sure, but I think it's "مساحة الخريطة"

Taba: طابا

Nuweiba: نويبع

Dahab: دهب

Israel: إسرائيل

Jordan: الأردن

Saudi Arabia: العربية السعودية"

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 00:33, 29 February 2012 (UTC)