User talk:37ophiuchi

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 14:12, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Description bug

hi there! I've just noticed you had hidden uk-description. Since that time french version appeared, but uk one is still commented. The issue is not solved, it's obvious, but my question is: why do you prefer French desc (neither Dutch nor Polish nor Ukrainian)? --Fessor (talk) 12:28, 7 August 2015 (UTC)

Currently, Commons seems to be suffering from a bug, which causes only one single description to be displayed IF there are more than 3 languages represented. Try it out yourself, remove the comment-marks for the Ukrainian description. Maybe I am doing something wrong... Anyhow, that was the reason, why I simply comment out anything beyond the third description. --37ophiuchi (talk) 20:12, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

German situation in Costa Rica, please put again the square.

Hello, 37ophiuchi, I added that square in northern Costa Rica on the German language map because there are native Costa Rican-German speakers communities, descend of German-Menonites and Germans who immigrate to the country since the 19th century. So, this is the most important German speaker collectivity in Central America and is very important to add a square on the map, because this collectivity has a similar quantity of German speakers than the Argentinian or Mexican communities and there are squares, why not in Costa Rica? Also, there exist a lot of sources, but are in Spanish...I used that sources in the Spanish Wikipedia, so if you want I can send them to you. But, please, but again the square in Costa Rica because is so important to stand out this relevant Costa Rican German speaker community on the map! Thank you --Aleat88 (talk) 06:42, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Okey, I gonna send you the info. Thank you very much! --Aleat88 (talk) 09:06, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Hello, this is the information: SITUACIÓN SOCIOLINGÜÍSTICA DE LAS LENGUAS MINORITARIAS DE COSTA RICA Y CENSOS NACIONALES DE POBLACIÓN 1927-2000: VITALIDAD, DESPLAZAMIENTO Y AUTOAFILIACIÓN ETNOLINGÜÍSTICA (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BgnsHTInqs4J:revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/filyling/article/download/1174/1237+&cd=1&hl=es&ct=clnk) a linguistics study of the Universidad de Costa Rica, with information about the German immigration and and German speakers situation in the Costa Rican society. Also, exists a menonite community of +2500 German Speakers, and around +3000 Germans, +2000 Swiss in the country, specially in the Northern region (where I added the square the last time). You can read about that here http://web.archive.org/web/20101112021015/http://www.diarioextra.com/2010/noviembre/09/espectaculos07.php and https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/69223/1/inmigraci%C3%B3n%20alemana.pdf. Nowadays, around 100k Costa Rican people are German directly descendant, but not all this people are German speakers. Also in Ethnologe exist a Costa Rican linguistics map, and you can see a German square in the northern area of the country. That's all, thank you very much. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aleat88 (talk • contribs) 06:51, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the links! However, I could not find any reference to German speakers numbering 50000+, which is the scope of the map (anything less would result in a clutter of squares, like on the corresponding French language map). I do not know how the squares in Ethnologue are defined. --37ophiuchi (talk) 18:59, 3 January 2017 (UTC)

Oh, well, a German community of +50000 it's so big for a country like Costa Rica, with around 4.500.000 habs. I thought that you want references about the around +10000 German speakers in CR. That represents one of the most important (in %) in Latin America, and of course, in Central America and the Caribbean. Ok, maybe you can make an exception considering this aspects? Anyway, thank you very much! --Aleat88 (talk) 10:02, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

German language in Venezuela

Your map "Legal statuses of German in the world" doesn't show a square which should be located in the north-center area of Venezuela, where there is a couple of towns with German ancestry (such as Colonia Tovar, El Jarillo, Galipan), where they speak a low Alemmanic branch of German called Aleman Coloniero. It's legally recognized as a minority language. --Gabrielsanz (talk) 08:20, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for that info! However, the full article says there are only ~700 speakers left and I cannot find a single clear reference specifically stating that German/Aleman Coloniero is an officially recognized minority language. Perhaps you can assist... my Spanish is pretty crappy. --37ophiuchi (talk) 12:24, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

italophone map

Hi, the informations on this map are wrong. L'italian isn't speak in France in the Alpes-Maritimes department. Cordialy. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italie#/media/File:ItalophoneEuropeMap.png--Jejesga06 (talk) 22:27, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

File:Verbreitungsgebiet der deutschen Sprache.PNG

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E-960 (talk) 15:17, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

Mid-ocean ridge diagram

@37ophiuchi: : Hi. Do you have an English version of this diagram? Or a version I can edit in AI? I might use it on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-ocean_ridge. BrucePL (talk) 19:37, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi BrucePL. I put that, as well as similar graphics for subduction and immature spreading zones, together years ago in a very amateur fashion in PowerPoint ;) Here is the original pptx file (temporary link); feel free to play around with it and create versions in as many languages as you like/can: http://www.drsnet.de/~hannes/mitteloz_r%c3%bccken_schema.pptx --37ophiuchi (talk) 20:40, 29 May 2019 (UTC)

German in Aosta Valley

Hi! Concerning this map, the German language is a minority language in the three municipalities of Gressoney-Saint-Jean, Gressoney-La-Trinité and Issime, in the Aosta Valley, but it is not indicated on this map. May it be added? Tenam (talk) 14:38, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

On that global map the one blue square in northen Italy is representative for all northern Italian areas where German is a minority language. Adding a second square here would make the map too busy at this scale. The Europe-version of the map includes that area properly: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Legal_status_of_German_in_Europe.svg 37ophiuchi (talk) 20:09, 16 February 2023 (UTC)