New subject: [African Wikimedians] Happy Africa Day: keyboards for all the languages of Africa

25 May 2019

Hello Amir,

Thank you for this great work. I have been enjoying the Yoruba keyboard you
designed for me over over three years ago. I am proud to say that in have
translated over 250 articles from English Wikipedia to Yoruba Wikipedia
using the keyboards and I have trained others on now to use it and they
have also translated over 200 articles to Yoruba Wikipedia. Without, this
keyboard it's usually uninteresting for native speakers to contribute to
Yoruba Wikipedia but that problem has now been mitigated by your work.

Again, thank you so much on behalf of the Yoruba Wikipedia community.

Regards,

Isaac

(Apology for mistakenly posting with the indaba email connected to my
device)

On Sat, May 25, 2019, 8:29 AM WikiIndaba 2019 Nigeria <
wikiindaba2019scholarship(a)gmail.com wrote:

...
  Hello Amir,

 Thank you for this great work. I have been enjoying the Yoruba keyboard
 you designed for me over over three years ago. I am proud to say that in
 have translated over 250 articles from English Wikipedia to Yoruba
 Wikipedia using the keyboards and I have trained others on now to use it
 and they have also translated over 200 articles to Yoruba Wikipedia.
 Without, this keyboard it's usually uninteresting for native speakers to
 contribute to Yoruba Wikipedia but that problem has now been mitigated by
 your work.

 Again, thank you so much on behalf of the Yoruba Wikipedia community.

 Regards,

 Isaac

 On Sat, May 25, 2019, 8:20 AM Amir E. Aharoni <
 amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il wrote:

  Hello, and happy Africa day!

 [ crossposted to African Wikimedians list, general Wikimedia list, and
 mediawiki-i18n ]

 To celebrate this, I am announcing the completion of a little pet project
 that I started a year ago: it is now easy to type in all the languages of
 Africa in which there is a Wikipedia or an active Incubator.

 This is available in all Wikimedia projects and in translatewiki.net.
 This release is intended for desktop and laptop computers. For mobile
 phones and tablets, I strongly recommend trying apps such as Gboard,
 SwiftKey, or African Keyboard.

 For full details and project description see this blog post:

https://aharoni.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/happy-africa-day-keyboards-for-all…

 Or jump straight into the (easy!!!) technical documentation here:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Inp…

 These keyboards were tested by myself, and some of them were also tested
 by a few other people who speak these languages, and as far as I know they
 are easy to enable and disable and the work correctly. However, it's
 possible that some things are missing: I could have missed some letters, I
 could have made mistakes in documentation, I could have missed some
 languages. Please contact me if you find any problems.

 Thanks!

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 Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
 http://aharoni.wordpress.com
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