On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 17:31, Gutza gutza@moongate.ro wrote:
On 13-Oct-10 18:25, Milos Rancic wrote:
That sounds reasonably to me. I have to check what do other LangCom members think about it.
What is it exactly that sounds reasonable to you? I haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about. I don't know how the Chinese/Serbian engine works -- you're moving ahead with incomplete data.
Conversion engines for Chinese and Serbian Wikipedias (and I think at least one more) work in both ways.
However, the most important thing is community consensus around the rules. In the case of Chinese Wikipedia, I think that they are using both scripts (Traditional and Simplified) inside of the same text (as both scripts share some characters and as it is not a big deal; however, I just think that it works like that). In the case of Serbian Wikipedia, the rule is that the text which has been started in one script, should be written in the same script.
The both ways are products of the consensus inside of the communities and doesn't have anything with the software implementation. Thus, you can say that all texts have to be written in Latin script and just shown in Cyrillic.
There are also some rewrite rules. For example, the default (based on amount of texts written in Cyrillic; however, script-neutral) of Serbian Wikipedia is Cyrillic. If you go to http://sr.wikipedia.org/ -- you will find the page in Cyrillic. However, if you go to http://sr.wikipedia.org/sr-el/ -- you'll find the same page in Latin script.
Present and not so perfect solution for Serbian Wikipedia -- but very elegant for Romanian -- is the method for choosing scripts at the page. If you go to the default version of Serbian Wikipedia, you'll see "Чланак" ("Read"), "Разговор" ("Discussion") and the arrow after them. If you scroll over the arrow, you'll see the options "Ћирлица" ("Cyrillic") and "Latinica" ("Latin").
In other words, you'll have two variants for reading: Latin (default) and Cyrillic (if explicitly asked).
Options for writing, as I said above, are completely up to your community. If you decide not to have any article written in Cyrillic, it'll be so, as it is just up to you.