On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Praveen Prakash <me.praveen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I haven't seen any communication in any open
platform with Malayalam
Community members about this matter. A few weeks before I had a brief
discussion with Santhosh about webfonts. But it was nothing about webfonts'
rendering bugs. Infact, popular (and beautiful) Malayalam fonts are open
licensed, but there are other rendering bugs. Issue I raised was about an
unnessessory char code change doing by webfonts which I felt a propaganda
pushing in favor of his idea about some characters, and which need
additional scripts on both client (= additional bandwidth) and server. But
Santhosh quit the thread claiming my concerns are my pure imaginations. :)
Naturally thread died.
Praveen Do you mean this bug ?
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29005
The bug speaks itself .
From a quick reading I felt what you were asking is to
use not
properly forked font projects in webfonts, when santhosh took a stand
to use fonts them from upstream.
On Normalization of characters, it is an optional feature, for
visibility of some chillus , that can be disabled in user settings if
needed.
It perfectly makes sense for me, since dual encoding is an issue in
Malayalam , and the fix need to be on Unicode . The Webfonts hack is
just a positive step and optional fix to ensure, people will not be
missed from accessing knowledge in wikipedia , based on browser
restrictions.
Anivar
I know Malayalam Wikimedian 'Vssun' tried to have an open conversation on
Gerard's talk page, after Gerard's notice, but didn't see any development.
As far as now I know no one, who was sure about webfonts deployment on ml
projects.
I certainly do not want webfonts in its current form in any of the Malayalam
Wikiprojects. But I want to know why Malayalam is excluded from this
deployment and I want to know why such a code deployed on many other wikies.
I personally don't like Santhosh's enthusiasm to fly his scripts on
wikimedia servers, based on his "I am correct, I am correct, I am the only
correct" attitude.
If webfonts is too bad for your language, I urge you to file a bug for
removing it.
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
<parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If you want to test something new, either make it opt in, or don't do
it live. Not on Tamil, not on Hindi, not on any Wikipedia for that
matter.
On 12/14/11, Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Srikanth
Lakshmanan
<srik.lak(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
I dont think its appropriate to be a bit more
experimental. You are
seeing
the scale in absolute sense, we are seeing it in relative sense. Tamil
Wikipedia is 7th most-viewed Tamil site.
+1. Similar stats can be observed for most of the Indic language Wiki
projects with sizable content as they are the only / major source of
reference online for the respective languages.
Ravi
--
Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
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