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Why, over at Meta, did Vicipaedia recently—in the computation done on 6 March 2021—lose points for (allegedly) not having this article? In previous months, Meta recognized no such problem. Indeed, [[ovis aries|the article]] existed and still exists. [[Usor:IacobusAmor|IacobusAmor]] ([[Disputatio Usoris:IacobusAmor|disputatio]]) 00:18, 13 Martii 2021 (UTC)
Why, over at Meta, did Vicipaedia recently—in the computation done on 6 March 2021—lose points for (allegedly) not having this article? In previous months, Meta recognized no such problem. Indeed, [[ovis aries|the article]] existed and still exists. [[Usor:IacobusAmor|IacobusAmor]] ([[Disputatio Usoris:IacobusAmor|disputatio]]) 00:18, 13 Martii 2021 (UTC)
:It's a change in Wikidata. Everything is always, always, always driven by Wikidata. I noticed this a few days ago but haven't had time to fix it. The easy way would be to make a redirect from "ovis" to [[Ovis aries]] and link the redirect page to the "sheep" Wikidata item; this isn't really right because redirects aren't supposed to have Wikidata links of their own. The right way would be to have a second page, except for the fact that that makes ''no'' sense at all. If there's a general preference for "easy but wrong" or for "right but content-free," say so. [[Usor:Amahoney|A. Mahoney]] ([[Disputatio Usoris:Amahoney|disputatio]]) 16:58, 13 Martii 2021 (UTC)

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Vicipaedia:Taberna/Tabularium 31/Praefatio

Greges cultivarietatum (cultivar groups)

Brought back from the archive The concept of group (distinct from subspecies) is official in botany, and Vicipaedia has a few articles (and categories) that need regularizing to accommodate it. An example of the prescribed pattern is given and parenthetically explained in Wikipedia thus:

Brassica oleracea Capitata Group (the group of cultivars including all typical cabbages)

(Cabbages are "headed" plants of Brassica oleracea, while kales, the "headless" ones, are of the Acephala Group.) The officially required form involves italics for the genus & species, the word Group (translated into any language) roman & capitalized, the name of the group roman & capitalized, and word order flexible (Group + Name ~ Name + Group).

A curiosity for Vicipaedia here is that the gender of the name of the group must agree with the gender of the genus & species, while the Latin word grex ('group') is masculine, thus giving us

Brassica oleracea Grex Capitata

not

Brassica oleracea Grex Capitatus

Is the difference of genders a problem? Perhaps the neatest way to finesse it would be to put grex in the ablative, with the assumed meaning of 'by group' or 'with regard to group(ing)':

Brassica oleracea Grege Capitata

But maybe that's unnecessary. (The official standards, or at least their version in English, don't say.) What to do?

In any case (literally?), the formula for taxoboxes apparently needs to have a new taxonomic line for grex, just below the line for species or subspecies. Maybe some kind programmer would like to add it in? IacobusAmor (disputatio) 18:25, 27 Decembris 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The command line "trinomial" works, as you see in Brassica oleracea var. capitata, one of the articles in question. Maybe a new line for "grex" would then be superfluous?—except that "Brassica oleracea Grex Capitata" isn't exactly a trinomial. IacobusAmor (disputatio) 18:31, 27 Decembris 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Genus gregis non mutatur, cf. Alchemilla gr. alpina et Rubus gr. fruticosus. — De capsis nescio, var. et gr. paene idem est. Demetrius Talpa (disputatio) 21:09, 27 Decembris 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Eheu, Internationalis Nominum Plantarum Cultarum Codex notiones cultigenarum, cultivarietatum, gregum (botanicorum), et varietatum rite et subtiliter distinguit ac regulas scribendi nobis praescribit. IacobusAmor (disputatio) 21:51, 27 Decembris 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I hope someone will explain the grex == group issue to the ISHS itself. It's a bit of a surprise that they'd break the ability to name things in Latin in this way, they should offer a solution surely. JimKillock (disputatio) 21:22, 1 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]
In general, if an official body uses Latin and fixes names, we accept their names and work with their usage. What better authority could we have? Thank the Gods that official bodies do use Latin, demonstrating to an admiring world that Latin is flourishing.
I don't think this is a problem. The Code aims for acceptable Latin and I don't doubt it also aims to make names as simple as possible for non-Latinists to understand. We do this already with species: an adjective in the name of the species agrees in gender with its genus name, not with the word "species", and we don't put "species" in the ablative to make that work. Ergo the species name is nominalized (just like the many species names that already are nouns) and stands in apposition to the word "species". Similarly with "grex" and "varietas": the adjectives (which are often species names in older and alternative classifications) agree with their grammatical context when the word "grex" has not been added. "Grex" is added, the adjective becomes nominalized and stands in apposition to "grex". That's magic. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 09:44, 2 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I could be completely misunderstanding the situation here, but I think the confusion is about their use of English (with no Latin equivalent). The schema is here (PDF) and the relevant parts appear to be Article 22: Names of Groups page 35 Article 23: Names of grexes page 37. On my very cursory understanding, a "Group" is not a "Grex", that is something else, and a "Group" has no official Latin term given. Thus a "Group" cannot be called a "grex" (this would be very confusing) however no guidance is given to what a "Group" ought to be called in Latin. The assumption is that "Group" or another local language word be used.
We could of course make something up ourselves, but that is also not great. I think best would be to ask for official guidance, and make some suggestions if we wish? JimKillock (disputatio) 16:17, 2 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe we could have Grupus. But why should it be capitalized, when subsp. and var. are not? IacobusAmor (disputatio) 17:32, 2 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps Group (or any Latin word for it) should be considered an insertion that syntactically stands apart from the name. We have the familiar example of Daucus carota subsp. sativus—not sativa to agree with subspecies (and carota there looks feminine, but would appear to be an indeclinable noun, so the accusative would be Daucum carota, not Daucum carotam). IacobusAmor (disputatio) 17:40, 2 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]
"Carota" (substantivum origine Graecum) e lingua Latina culinaria antiqua mutuatur. Secundum fontes lexicographicos ad primam declinationem femininam -a -ae pertinet. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 11:17, 26 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Maps and Latin names

Hi there, I noticed that the new maps are showing rather less Latin than they might, given that a lot of the Latin names we use are linked by Wikidata IDs to OpenStreetMap onbjects so could be easily applied to Wikimedia maps. I've raised a Phabricator ticket to see whether this is something that would need to be built, or a bug. I also note that Maptiler.com does this already (applies wikidata names to OSM places via Wikidata IDs that have been added to them). JimKillock (disputatio) 23:15, 9 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Which are the "new maps"? Can you link to an example?
I'm not sure if this is relevant, but there is a timelag, potentially endless, between the move of a Vicipaedia geographical page to a verified placename (which normally happens as soon as the name is corrected and sourced) and the change of the Latin label at Wikidata (which is not done by bots, and depends purely on whether anyone decides to update it). The Wikidata label could go on showing an incorrect or ungrammatical or vandalized name for a long time. Anyone taking information from Wikidata should not rely on the Latin label, but on the Vicipaedia pagename. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 09:42, 10 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]
By new, I mean post 2017 maps which are now based on Open Street Map ;) For instance, Villa Sancti Albani has a map linked from the Wikidata panel on the right. This shows "St Albans" while the Wikidata item has "Fanum Sancti Albani". Contrast Maptiler which shows "Fanum Sancti Albani", derived from Wikidata. Zoom out and you will see "Londinium", that name is recorded on OSM directly I presume. The Wikidata item for St Albans does need updating (and could be vandalised), I don't think the page name can be easily used tho, as that could include other information, such as the county or country for disambiguation purposes. Also, many if not all of the names on OSM have been tagged with the Wikidata ID, so linking the Wikidata language name across all languages to the OSM map object or place is trivial to automate, whereas extracting them from page names would not be easy to do at all (it would be a case of Latin exceptionalism at least - I don't think they would be keen). So I think we are stuck with Wikidata language names as a source. JimKillock (disputatio) 12:03, 10 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry I didn't respond till now. I think, then, that it requires someone with the time and enthusiasm to update Wikidata Latin labels for place names. I sometimes do it, when I happen to move a page and can see no justification for the existing label to continue in place; but I sometimes leave it, because, after all, others may decide otherwise about the best pagename, and editing Wikidata labels takes time. I did once try to edit a placename on OSN directly, but found the process so unbearably slow that I never managed to complete it. Some other Vicipaedians do edit Wikidata; others won't touch it.
So, if OSN placenames depend on Wikidata labels, to me that's just one more reason never to trust an online map. They are useful but deceptive. However, someone else may well want to work on this! Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 15:00, 21 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Quod supra dicitur Latine vertere possum si necesse sit. Rem principalem hic compendiose enuntio: si quis, Vicidatorum amator, sigilla Latina (Latin labels) paginarum topographicarum apud Vicidata renovare vel corrigere vel e novo inserere velit, optime erit, quia Formae Urbium Apertae (Open Street Maps) nomina Latina locorum e sigillis Vicidatorum deprehendunt. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 09:34, 22 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Overnight

O magistrates, in your somnolence, I've made bold to repair the three pages damaged by someone overnight. What are you going to do with that party's IP address? IacobusAmor (disputatio) 10:44, 21 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your wakefulness: you did what was necessary. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 15:08, 21 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Iacobo gratias renovatas agens, Latine dicere debeo: omnibus nobis aequa manu, non magistratibus tantum, vandalismis deletis paginas ad statum angelicum (!) restituere oportet. "Revertere" vel "Abrogare" facile est. Nihil deperditur: historia manet; etiamsi aliquid utile per errorem delemus, ei qui sequuntur errorem corrigere possunt. Denuo si idem IP multos vandalismos efficit, obstruere necesse erit (id quod magistratus soli perficere possunt). Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 09:24, 22 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Salvete Iacobe et Andrea,
gratias tibi, Iacobe, vigilantiae tuae. Mihi quoque, dolendum, paginae non Latine scriptae ac molestiae stultitiis proponderatae perturbant. Tamen moderamen facile vel indisposite delendi et obstruendi potius diligenter adhibere volo, ne dimicationes importunae emanent. Pariter, rear, nos inventoribus paginarum non Latine scriptarum sub Vicipaediae regulas constanter redigere debere. Praeterea tandem tuam veniam tarditudinis mei a te opto, quia mi officia multa, pandemia causa, sunt. Gratias, Iacobe, iterum tibi vigilantiae tuae magis ago. Andreas Raether (disputatio) 10:26, 22 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Latin Wikivoyage

Idk if you are aware of this, but Latin Wikivoyage exists in the incubator, and it hasn’t got any contributions recently. You can see the test project at [1], and the proposal at [2]. -Gifnk dlm 2020 (disputatio) 14:39, 25 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]

According to the tabled statistics, the English version has more than fifty-three times as many users as the next most frequently used version and may therefore be the only version worth paying attention to. Meanwhile, certain of Vicipaedia's Latin articles translated from Esperanto already have a Baedeker-like feel to them. IacobusAmor (disputatio) 15:01, 25 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I sent this post here in order to invite people to contribute to Wikivoyage Latin because it hasn’t got any contributions in months. I would like to edit it myself but I currently don’t know latin so I will have to learn first, so I thought that I sent about it here some people might start contributing now. I’m just worried that if it doesn’t get any edits for a very long time they might consider deleting the test project. -Gifnk dlm 2020 (disputatio) 19:11, 25 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I contributed the majority of edits on that project: several others helped. I think we did it as a bold experiment, which failed: no active community developed. The fact that Wikivoyages in all languages (even English) get low visitor ratings didn't help. Hence we recommended closure, maybe two years ago now. I'm surprised it still exists!
All that having been said, if others now wanted to re-start it, I have absolutely no objection. But it takes several active, enthusiastic and linguistically competent users to get a wiki project going. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 09:59, 26 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]
I agree on the community issue. I think Latin Wikivoyage could have a purpose, but it would need to consider what Latin readers are likely to want from a travel guide. I think that's fairly obvious: if it could concentrate on guides related to antiquity, the Reformation, or anything else that had a particular reason to be written in Latin then there is a niche available. But it does start from the question, who'd write it? And now isn't the right time to ask, as nobody is going anywhere. JimKillock (disputatio)
Well, your last brief sentence could be wrong. I am having a lot of fun just now writing about the history of foods that I can't go to a restaurant and taste, and can't travel and taste. I'm developing my imagination and reviving kitchen Latin (all from reliable sources of course). Others, surely, are writing about travel destinations that they can only imagine. And perhaps there are people who read these pages and imagine the holidays they will one day have and the foods they will one day taste.
Ne desperes! Ego (per exemplum) his diebus historiam scribo alimentorum, quae gustare non possum neque ad popinam profectus neque peregrinationes suscipiens. E fontibus fidei dignis "imaginationes libidinum" (Pl. NH) gastronomicarum evolvo Latinitatemque culinariam restituo. Certe sunt que de locis peregrinationum eodem modo scribunt; fortasse sunt qui de his rebus legentes imaginationes suas tam gastronomicas quam geographicas evolvant. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 10:09, 30 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Tituli operum impressorum

Usor sine nomine apud IP 77.164.133.132 monet: "The title of his main work ends with "historiae", if ever there will be an article on the work, it won't end with "historia" because that's not the title." But is that so? The title of this volume is Aquatilium animalium historiae, liber primus, cum eorumdem formis, aere excusis (vide imaginem), 'Of the story of aquatic animals, the first book, with their likenesses, engraved in copper.' If the title of the work (not just this volume) were truly Aquatilium animalium historiae, then the title as printed on the title page of this volume would begin Aquatilium animalium historiarum, ¿no? IacobusAmor (disputatio) 17:35, 27 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Eureka!!! "His great work, entitled Aquatilium Animalium Historia" (Bushnan 1853: 23). IacobusAmor (disputatio) 18:02, 27 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliographia

 *Bushnan, J. S. 1853. Ichhthyology: Fishes: Particularly their structure and economical uses. In The Naturalist's Library, ed. William Jardine Equite, vol. 135. Edimburgi: W. H. Lizars; et Londinii: Henry G. Bohn. Editio interretialis.

De hac re vide Disputatio:Hippolytus Salvianus. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 09:37, 30 Ianuarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Aplauso por los trabajadores de la salud
& Clap for our Carers
& Applaudissements aux fenêtres pendant la pandémie de Covid-19--18:30, 5 Februarii 2021 (UTC)

Latein nur europäisch und nicht weltweit?

Ich wundere mich schon lange, dass bei der Suche nach anderen Sprachen in der linksseitigen Leiste jeder Seite Latein nicht unter "Weltweit" sondern nur unter "Europa" aufgeführt wird. Abgesehen davon, dass die Eingruppierung unter "Weltweit" zutreffend wäre, wäre es für Latein-Sucher praktisch, weil sie dann nicht nach unten scrollen müssen. Könnte man das korrigieren? Bis-Taurinus (disputatio) 08:02, 7 Februarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bei mir sehe ich in der linken Spalte unter der Überschrift "In anderen Sprachen" eine Auflistung von gefühlt ca. 200 Sprachen, von Abchasisch bis Zulu, aber nicht die Differenzierung von "Weltweit" und "Europa". --Dioskorides (disputatio) 18:10, 7 Februarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Du sprichst aus, was auch ich schon lange denke. Danke!--Bavarese (disputatio) 18:24, 7 Februarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Id quod dicitis verum est, sed ego (si id vobis utile sit) has classes linguarum "internationalium" et "Europaearum" nunquam video quia statui omnes linguas, ordine alphabetico, ad marginem sinistram paginarum videre. E quibus statim "Latina" inter (e.g.) "Kurdî" et "Lietuvių" reperire soleo. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 22:01, 7 Februarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Ob man die Gesamtliste der Sprachen oder die gruppierte Liste sieht, hängt von der individuellen Benutzereinstellung unter Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering ganz unten bei "Use a compact language list, with languages relevant to you." ab.
Dass die lateinische Sprache nur unter "Europa" und nicht auch unter "Weltweit" steht, können wir nicht selbst hier auf la.wikipedia korrigieren. Technisch wird das von den Einträgen unter https://github.com/wikimedia/language-data/tree/master/data gesteuert, die z. B. meta:User:Amire80 ändern kann. Bevor wir an ihn herantreten, sollten wir uns vielleicht einen kurzen Begründungsabsatz mit ein paar guten allgemein anerkannten Belegen überlegen, warum die lateinische Sprache (so wie die derzeit unter "Weltweit" genannten Sprachen) nicht nur unter "Europa", sondern auch unter "Weltweit" angeführt werden sollte. Herzliche Grüße, --UV (disputatio) 00:16, 8 Februarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Whether you see the exhaustive list of languages or the grouped list depends on your user settings, see Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering near the bottom: "Use a compact language list, with languages relevant to you."
We cannot ourselves add the Latin language to the "Worldwide" group here on la.wikipedia. The language groupings are administered here: https://github.com/wikimedia/language-data/tree/master/data . meta:User:Amire80 is one of the users who can adapt this data. Before we approach him and request the change, it might be wise do compile a short explanation (using generally accepted, credible sources) why we believe that the Latin language ought to be listed among "Worldwide" in addition to "Europe". Greetings, --UV (disputatio) 00:16, 8 Februarii 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sheep?

Why, over at Meta, did Vicipaedia recently—in the computation done on 6 March 2021—lose points for (allegedly) not having this article? In previous months, Meta recognized no such problem. Indeed, the article existed and still exists. IacobusAmor (disputatio) 00:18, 13 Martii 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It's a change in Wikidata. Everything is always, always, always driven by Wikidata. I noticed this a few days ago but haven't had time to fix it. The easy way would be to make a redirect from "ovis" to Ovis aries and link the redirect page to the "sheep" Wikidata item; this isn't really right because redirects aren't supposed to have Wikidata links of their own. The right way would be to have a second page, except for the fact that that makes no sense at all. If there's a general preference for "easy but wrong" or for "right but content-free," say so. A. Mahoney (disputatio) 16:58, 13 Martii 2021 (UTC)[reply]