Cleachdaiche:Susan.nls/Luchd-tòiseachaidh

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Fàilte gu oisean an luchd-tòiseachaidh / Welcome to the learners' corner

Dòigh eile ann airson a ràdh ‘daoine nach eil làn comasach sgrìobhaidh’?

The aim of this page is to help those who are not yet proficient in reading and writing Scottish Gaelic to make a contribution to the Uicipeid, within the limitations. Please discuss in the talk page any changes or additions that would be useful.

Tasks for learners / Obair an luchd-tòiseachaidh

Obviously most of the work in writing an encyclopedia in Scottish Gaelic has to be done by people who are proficient in writing Scottish Gaelic. However, not every task requires the ability to compose whole paragraphs of fluent text. The list below contains suggestions of tasks where you can usefully help while your writing skills or your knowledge of Gaelic improves.

If you speak Gaelic fluently, but aren’t familiar with reading and writing it, Uicipeid can be a place for you to develop your skills; getting familiar with reading and trying out writing a few words at a time. Each registered editor also has their own ‘raon-cluiche’ or play area where you can try things out then have a more experienced editor check your writing over before it goes onto the main Wiki pages.

The same generally applies if you are at the intermediate stages of learning the language. Even if you are at the early stages, learning how Wikicommons works to upload images can help us build Uicipeid.

If you can identify specific tasks where learners of the language can usefully help, then please list them here. Please also update the list as the status of these tasks develops.

Most learners of Gaelic also have English, but if you think a version of this page in another language would be useful, please suggest it in the talk page.

Beginner stages of language learning

• Adding infoboxes to place and biographical pages. See this page for a current list of pages that need this work and here for English instructions on how to use the baile templates.
• Adding photographs [add links to Wikicommons tutorial, how to add photos guide]
• Updating country infoboxes, e.g. national leaders
• Fixing broken image links, see Roinn-seòrsa:Duilleagan sa bheil ceanglaichean faidhle a tha briste
• Fixing or removing red links in articles
• Adding references to reliable sources written in any language
• Adding external links (Ceanglaichean a-mach) to relevant third-party content in Gaelic

Getting familiar with reading and writing

• Updating country infoboxes, e.g. national leaders
• Checking correct inter-wiki linking for new articles [How to]
• Adding categories to uncategorized articles, templates and files
• Adding pronunciation files or making spoken articles
• Adding external links (Ceanglaichean a-mach) to relevant third-party content in Gaelic

Resources for learners

• English instructions for the baile templates.