Frequently Asked Questions
How do I add a question to the FAQ?
You send a pm to the admin with your question and if it does turn out to be frequent (that's what the 'F' stands for!) it'll be added.
Last modified: 2009-08-29 18:10:29.453154
How do I get a new password?
If you stored your email-address you can reset your password.
If you didn't store your email-address you have a problem. Send a message to kaleissin, on twitter, identi.ca, delicious, flickr, irc (ircnet), en.wikipedia, zbb etc. etc., twitter and irc is checked the most often.
Last modified: 2009-08-29 17:57:00.974096
How do I report a bug?
A new bugtracker is being looked for/planned, in the meantime, if you're logged in try to send a message to admin, explaining the problem. Remember telling what page you were on! If you can't log in, see How do I get a new password?.
Last modified: 2009-09-07 14:48:29.966205
I made a user/language/translation by mistake, how do I get rid of it?
As long as a user has never added anything else here, like a pm or language or a translation, send a message to admin as that user, and ask for the user to be removed.
It's the same procedure for languages and translations. Send a message as the user that added the translation or added or manages the language, include the url to the page it is in, and ask for its removal. If somebody else manages or edits a language it cannot be removed.
Last modified: 2009-10-08 07:06:23.576682
Is the symbol "●" in the badges really supposed to look like that?
It's a glyph in UNICODE, ● 0x25CF BLACK CIRCLE, recently changed from ⚫ 0x26AB MEDIUM BLACK CIRCLE. It looks like a filled disc. If it instead looks like for instance a hollow square, or a square with numbers (and maybe letters ABCDEF) in it, or a question-mark, then all of the below holds:
- The font you are using lacks that glyph.
- The browser and/or OS you are using is incapable of fetching that glyph from some other font on your system that do have the glyph, so called font/character substitution.
Fixing either point above, by using a font that do have the glyph (fixing point 1), or by using a different browser/OS (fixing point 2), will show the correct glyph.
The developer uses an OS that does point 2 above very well (though several different fonts are used to show tricky passages of the IPA), so the problem can't even be triggered.
Fonts that are known to have this glyph:
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Known affected systems are:
- Nintendo DSi: lacks glyph in font
Last modified: 2009-09-25 21:12:43.030302
What are the Leipzig Glossing Rules?
The Leipzig Glossing Rules is basically a collection of conventions for interlinear morpheme-by-morpheme glosses.
Currently, if there is the same number of tokens/words in the original text as on the gloss-lines, the interlinear can be formatted according to the "Leipzig Glossing Rules" interlinear format. Such an interlinear will reflow (try resizing the browser-window until it it is very narrow) while keeping the columns intact.
The optional rule 2a in the Leipzig Glossing Rules cannot currently be used here since with 2a, there need not be the same number of tokens per line.
Last modified: 2009-09-25 21:34:34.018089
What's the badges for?
The badges show how active a conlanger has been here. You are much more likely to get an answer to a private message from a be-badged person than one without, for instance.
Last modified: 2009-09-11 08:57:16.174942
Who's this mysterious "countach" that keeps reappearing?
Countach and its siblings countach2, countach3, countach4 etc. are test-users, for when it is necessary to check that making new users works as it should. These users get deleted with no notice.
Test-languages have names starting with "testarossa".
Yes, the admin likes (dreaming about) certain fast, pretty, Italian and ridiculously priced cars.
Last modified: 2009-10-11 20:31:46.582302
