[Wikipedia-l] New language proposal: Wikipedia...

[Francis Tyers]

Cool :)

We're always looking for more languages, a caveat, there is no Unicode
support at the moment, but we're working on it, and it should be
finished in a few months time. 

If any of them have any questions, feel free to direct them towards me,
or another member of the team.

Fran

PS. If your group is involved with localisation, I can imagine this
software could greatly speed up the process! :)

On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 14:40 +0530, Frederick "FN" Noronha wrote:
> Thanks Fran, this is going to be helpful. Maybe a technical fix could
> help reduce some of the misunderstanding that creeps in due to script
> and dialectical differences. The problem is that most literary people
> aren't too tech-oriented, and vice-versa. I belong to neither camps,
> being a journalists writing on technology :-) FN
> PS: Your link is useful, I'll post it to our local GNU/Linux users'
> group and see how people respond. We have people use or knowing
> different scripts there.
> 
> On 28/08/06, Francis Tyers <spectre at ivixor.net> wrote:
> > If there are only small dialect differences, it might be worth looking
> > at Apertium (http://apertium.sourceforge.net). Free software machine
> > translation for closely related languages. I think having just different
> > scripts is about as closely related as you get :)
> >
> > Fran
> >
> > On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 15:06 +0530, Frederick "FN" Noronha wrote:
> > > That doesn't seem possible at this point of time. Each script tends to
> > > have some small but significant dialectal variations. So, simply using
> > > some form of mechanical transalation/transiteration might render the
> > > output quite unreadable.
> > >
> > > It would be preferable to have human-created pages.
> > >
> > > Even if done in different scripts, I don't think this would cause any
> > > problems as such. Teams would work at differing paces, as per their
> > > own abilities and convenience. And work by one team might spur on
> > > others to catch up too.
> > >
> > > The issue we're shifting to is a much wider question, which has been
> > > causing worry for those keen about the Konkani language. As far as
> > > Wikipedia goes, what do you see as the suitable solution?
> > >
> > > We have two options -- a common Konkani Wikipedia, or separate ones
> > > (set up according to interest shown and activity levels initiated). FN
> > >
> > > PS: Have just been working on a portal for Goa at
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Goa  You can see some Konkani
> > > descriptions (in English there). Since I'm not a techie, have been
> > > struggling a bit to control the templates and code!
> > >
> > > On 27/08/06, Berto <albertoserra at ukr.net> wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > >a script-neutral Wikipedia, or multi Wikipedias to deal
> > > > > with the diverse scripts of Konkani (even if with differening levels
> > > > > of activity).
> > > >
> > > > Is there any way to make an automatic coverter among the 5 scripts? It would
> > > > save you a lot of trouble.
> > > >
> > > > Bèrto
> > > >
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