User talk:Jaspalkaler

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Shahmukhi lessons help
I thought about it I thought I might try to write the lessons myself, but there is one problem: I don't know Punjabi.

This isn't a big problem, I just may need to ask for some Punjabi words to transform into Shahmukhi for examples once in a while.

Thanks for what you wrote on Punjabi/Shahmukhi. It gave me the feeling that I made an important contribution to the book. I'm glad to help out.

YoshiroShin (talk) 23:26, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Dear Mr Jaspal,

I appreciate the work you have done by creating the wikibook. I'm going through it right now, and will contribute to it. I noticed that you never saw through your attempt to add content for Shahmukhi script. I'm willing to help if you can trust me with it (I can even teach you the script). Drop a message on my user page if you decide upon it. It would be helpful if you could slip me your email, where I could send more details that I cannot post here out of privacy concerns.

Regards, Epicurious The Great (discuss • contribs) 10:57, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Do you want me to transform some words?
If you want me to transform some words from Gurmukhi into Shahmukhi for integration into the language lessons, just post a list and I'll try to make them into Shahmukhi.

One thing though: because of the multiple letters for s, h, z, and t, I won't be able to transform words containing ਸ (sussa), ਹ (haha), ਜ (Jujja pair bindi), ਤ (tutta), or ਥ (thutha). Anything else should be fine.

YoshiroShin (talk) 23:52, 2 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, that will be great. Junesun wrote Punjabi/Writing lessons plan for me. This page contains many English words some of which I used in Gurmukhi examples. I suggest that you also follow a similar approach. That will give a sense of consistency to the reader. In due course I will add some Punjabi words to Punjabi/Writing lessons plan which could be used in both Shahmukhi and Gurmukhi.


 * I am very grateful to for the taking the trouble of adding lessons to Shahmukhi.


 * Jaspal Singh 04:07, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

No problem. Oh, for Lesson 1, could you help me out by providing some words containing ਬ, some ending in ਪ, and ਤ?

YoshiroShin (talk) 17:30, 3 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I have added some Punjabi words to Punjabi/Writing lessons plan containing ਬ, ਪ and ਤ some of them ending with ਪ and ਤ.


 * Jaspal Singh 18:11, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

category
Can you please add the pages of your book Punjabi to Category:Punjabi? See an example. Bye! --Ramac (talk) 17:55, 11 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Done it. Thanks for help. Jaspal Singh 10:52, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problems with Image:Gurmukhi Haha Ani.gif

 * Thanks for pointing out. I have added copyright message and removed the delete message. Jaspal Singh 15:59, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Copyright problems with Image:Gurmukhi Urha Ani.gif

 * Thanks for pointing out. I have added copyright message and removed the delete message. Jaspal Singh 15:59, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Hello
Hello. Please remember to include an edit summary. Thank you.--MrIPAddress (talk) (contributions) (email) 18:35, 17 November 2008 (UTC) paji sat sri akal ki hal a tohada mei gurbir gill va amritsar toh

Thanks Mr. Gill. I am doing fine. Best wishes for you too! Jaspal Singh 10:02, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

Template:NavigateVocabulary
You nominated this page for Speedy Deletion but gave no reason. There seems to be no obvious reason for this page to be deleted.--ЗAНИA talk 10:27, 13 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Moreover, the template is still used on a page. It looks as if a newer, souped-up template [page] was created, and that was tagged for speedy deletion as well but the deletion was declined by QU on the grounds it's still used.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 10:43, 13 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Oh, I think I see what's happened here. The old template was replaced in 2009 by a page Punjabi/Navigation panel, located in mainspace but transcluded as a template; then yesterday that page was duplicated in template space as Punjabi/Navigation panel and the older versions marked for deletion.  But the older ones are still in use.


 * We can move the page Punjabi/Navigation panel to Punjabi/Navigation panel for you; and then the pages that use it could be switched over, one at a time, to use the template. Would that work for you?  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 11:01, 13 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Yes, that will work. Finally the book does not need templates NavigateConversation, NavigateGurmukhi and NavigateVocabulary. Of course the functionality of the page 'Punjabi/Navigation panel' has been transferred to the template with same name and needs to be deleted now. Help as suggested above will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in anticipation. Jaspal Singh 15:25, 13 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I've done the earlier stuff. Haven't yet tackled those later three you mention.  --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 04:06, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I've done a couple of others. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 12:59, 14 May 2014 (UTC)


 * What is the status of NavigateShahmukhi? I thought you'd said (on the water cooler) this was still needed; but it's not used anywhere. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 12:59, 14 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Great help, thanks a lot. NavigateShahmukhi is used in a few lessons of Punjabi/Shahmukhi module which is not yet part of main navigation interface. Jaspal Singh 13:20, 14 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Okay. Though the template isn't actually used anywhere atm &mdash; Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:NavigateShahmukhi.


 * I moved Template:PunjabiDictionary to Template:Punjabi/Dictionary (adding the "/"), as that's the naming convention for book-specific templates we've been favoring for a few years now.


 * Would you mind if I moved NavigateShahmukhi to Punjabi/NavigateShahmukhi? --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 13:29, 14 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I shall actually be grateful for the help. Thanks. Jaspal Singh 13:32, 14 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I've moved it, and edited the pages in that section of the book so they use the template.
 * So now, all but one of the pages in Category:Punjabi/Templates starts with "Template:Punjabi/". The one that doesn't, Template:HideNseek, is used in a few pages of other books.
 * Glad I could help. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 14:28, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

IP Talk
Hi Jaspal, Sorry that I tagged the IP with the Vandal warning. Theere are many IP vandals this days, and I was not sure if this was a correct stuff, and I was seeing you doing some good stuffs with the Punjabi Templates. So. Anyways, I now know that that might be your IP if in case it is not shared (I did not notice that). Anyhow, great work with the templates and happy editing. Sasriyakal. :). Vishal Bakhai - Works 08:19, 19 May 2014 (UTC)


 * i was wondering if wikimedia can make NavBox appear in mobile view so one doesn't have to go through the work around. Jaspal Singh 11:14, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Tricks and such
Hi Jaspalkaler

I am the author of the Dutch wikibook (my native tongue). I wrote most of it years ago, but I have returned because in the mean time a lot of audio material has become available, mostly because of WikiWoordenboek the Dutch wiktionary. So, I am revamping the book to make it more attractive and more interactive for the reader. I have been trying various things for that purpose, but I feel like they are pertinent to any language book here. There does not seem to be much of a user group for language book authors here where we share our tricks and ideas and I sometimes feel I may be reinventing wheels. Square ones possibly.

Just to give you an example of waht I mean: I was working on prepositions and their adverbs yesterday and created a number of icons to make them more visually accessible. I added some sound file links as well as shown. The icons are in .svg, so I you would like to substitute the Punjabi equivalents you just need to open them in notepad, use ctrl+f to hunt for the words 'raak' and 'mis' and replace them with their Punjabi equivalents and save the file and upload it to commons. I have a bunch of them now as you can see here.

What I am really after is to have some kind of forum where we can exchange our tricks and experiences, portal for language books perhaps. I'd appreciate your thoughts on the matter.

Jcwf (discuss • contribs) 16:26, 16 May 2015 (UTC)


 * I appreciate the idea. You have probably seen I am still struggling with the issue I posed above quite sometime ago. Forum for language book authors could be of help. Just in case it might interest you I have worked around to produce an abridged menu at the top of most pages of Punjabi. Maybe others struggling with same issue would have made use of that if it had been shared e.g. on such a forum as suggrsted by you. Jaspal Singh (discuss • contribs) 17:10, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

Useful tricks page for language authors
Hi Jaspalkaler,

I have talked to some of you about the need to better pool our resources and ideas about writing good foreign language wikibooks. I noticed that some information was available under Authoring Foreign Language Textbooks, but not so much on what kind of tricks you can use to make your boom more interactive. So I added a page "Useful tricks to it and gave a description of some of the tricks I am using @ Dutch. Hopefully we can use the Useful tricks page and its discussion page for a better exchange of ideas. I still think we need a better venue for that, but it's a start. Jcwf (discuss • contribs) 00:46, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Hello Sir
Hello Sir, i just visited wikibooks because now we are thinking of developing Punjabi wikibooks and i saw that you have created the book on Punjabi. I just wanted to tell you that we have been working on Punjabi Wikipedia in the past which has 20,000 articles as of now. You can write on my talk page or write me an email as well.--Satdeep Gill (discuss • contribs) 11:38, 21 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Thanks dear. You have made a laudable contribution to the development of Punjabi and the plan to develop Punjabi Wikibooks is equally laudable. May I share that I had not included Shahmukhi in the navigation of Punjabi as there isn't enough material in Shahmukhi on Punjabi Wikibook. Jaspal Singh (discuss • contribs) 02:53, 10 January 2016 (UTC)