Hi one and all,
This is my first post on this list and I deserve a warm hi ;-)
I might have met some of you in real life, but to begin my first post let
me tell you why I am posting this mail here. I am a wikipedian and
contribute primarily on Odia (/Oriya) Wikipedia. I work for Centre for
Internet and Society, a grantee of Wikimedia Foundation for India which
focuses all Wikimedia activities in India.
Recently YuviPanda visited us during his vacation along with John and Rob
from WMF. Yuvi spent a week with us and I got a chance to explain how
problematic it is for a mobile user to type in Indic languages though most
smartphones have sound font support and rendering. I explained him what an
end user would like to have (A simple interface and easy navigation,
options to switch typing schemes/languages (Indic ↔ English) and readable
Indic font size). Based on the jQuery.ime for Indic languages Yuvi created
a prototype (
http://goo.gl/jH3TO).
In rounds of testing and bug fixing finally it is here:
http://yuvi.in/indic-typing/index.html
Right now it works online for most smartphones having Indic and rendering
support. Someone can use it online from the same link above. The offline
version works fro iPhone and Yuvi is working on fixing bugs for Android.
The offline app will soon be available for Android. Once it works perfectly
with Android it will be made available for free in Android market. We are
still to test this for Symbian, Blackberry and Windows, 3 other market
leaders. Please test and give us feedback and report bugs on
Meta<http://goo.gl/sBiaF>
(
http://goo.gl/sBiaF).
I am still in the pipeline to persuade to add a feature for searching on
Indic wikipedias from this app. Please join me clapping for Yuvi for this
amazing tool and persuading him for adding the search option for Indic
wikipedias which will enable a user to search in a respective language
wikipedia by typing a particular word in this tool!
*Quick links:*
*-> Link to the tool:*
http://bitly.com/indictyping
*-> Tutorial to use it online and offline (For iPhone):*
http://goo.gl/HdVJW
*-> Quick links:*
- Source code:
https://github.com/yuvipanda/indic-typing-tool
- Test the app and report the bugs directly on
GitHub<https://github.com/yuvipanda/indic-typing-tool/issues> or
on Meta <http://goo.gl/sBiaF>.
- App credits: YuviPanda <http://yuvi.in/>, Subhashish
Panigrahi<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Psubhashish>
, Santhosh
Thottingal<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Santhosh.thottingal>
->* Blog post about the
tool<http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/typing-in-indic-languages-from-m…
*: (
http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/typing-in-indic-languages-from-mobiles)
--
Best!
Subhashish Panigrahi
Centre for Internet and Society
New Delhi, India