Hoi, I am really happy to have learned that mobile support for Right To Left languages, think Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Hebrew has been implemented. When people start to find their way to their Wikipedia on their mobile, we stand to gain many readers.
Did you know:
- That it takes only 25 messages to localise the Mobile interface in your language completely - That this software is written in Ruby - That hcatlin and thedj are doing much of the work on this software - That the mobile interface can be found at http://xx.m.wikipedia.org (xx is your language code) - That we need a main page for mobile Wikipedia - That for Mobile Wiktionary still points to Wikipedia
As always, we need your help to help people find their way to Wikipedia it does not take much to improve things for the mobile.. Thanks, GerardM
PS languages like Malayalam, Swahili and Bengali shine with their newly localised interface
Thanks!
So, let me get this straight:
1. http://he.m.wikipedia.org/ already exists, but says "Homepage Not Yet Configured" 2. If i translate 25 messages to Hebrew, it will just work? Or do i need to open a Bugzilla ticket? 3. If it's just a matter of translating of translating 25 messages to Hebrew, where do i start?
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 15:42, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.comwrote:
Hoi, I am really happy to have learned that mobile support for Right To Left languages, think Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Hebrew has been implemented. When people start to find their way to their Wikipedia on their mobile, we stand to gain many readers.
Did you know:
- That it takes only 25 messages to localise the Mobile interface in your
language completely
- That this software is written in Ruby
- That hcatlin and thedj are doing much of the work on this software
- That the mobile interface can be found at http://xx.m.wikipedia.org(xx
is your language code)
- That we need a main page for mobile Wikipedia
- That for Mobile Wiktionary still points to Wikipedia
As always, we need your help to help people find their way to Wikipedia it does not take much to improve things for the mobile.. Thanks, GerardM
PS languages like Malayalam, Swahili and Bengali shine with their newly localised interface _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
Hoi, http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Wikimedia_mobile is the project page at translatewiki.net When all messages are localised, the message saying that we do not have a localisation will go away.
A mobile main page needs to be created. Configurations like this need to be entered by one of the admins, the localisations go life once a week, sometimes more often. So yes, bugzilla is a good idea :)
The mobile interface will work without a main page, without a localisation but it will not make our readers happy. It is either too sparse or it looks like not ready for use.. It turned me off the first time I saw this. Thanks, GerardM
On 24 February 2010 14:46, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.ilwrote:
Thanks!
So, let me get this straight:
- http://he.m.wikipedia.org/ already exists, but says "Homepage Not Yet
Configured" 2. If i translate 25 messages to Hebrew, it will just work? Or do i need to open a Bugzilla ticket? 3. If it's just a matter of translating of translating 25 messages to Hebrew, where do i start?
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 15:42, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi, I am really happy to have learned that mobile support for Right To Left languages, think Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Hebrew has been implemented. When people start to find their way to their Wikipedia on their mobile, we
stand
to gain many readers.
Did you know:
- That it takes only 25 messages to localise the Mobile interface in
your
language completely
- That this software is written in Ruby
- That hcatlin and thedj are doing much of the work on this software
- That the mobile interface can be found at http://xx.m.wikipedia.org
(xx
is your language code)
- That we need a main page for mobile Wikipedia
- That for Mobile Wiktionary still points to Wikipedia
As always, we need your help to help people find their way to Wikipedia
it
does not take much to improve things for the mobile.. Thanks, GerardM
PS languages like Malayalam, Swahili and Bengali shine with their newly localised interface _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
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Thanks for sharing the announcement and explanation Gerard, that's very good news!
Steven Walling http://enwp.org/User:Steven_Walling
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.comwrote:
Hoi, http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Wikimedia_mobile is the project page at translatewiki.net When all messages are localised, the message saying that we do not have a localisation will go away.
A mobile main page needs to be created. Configurations like this need to be entered by one of the admins, the localisations go life once a week, sometimes more often. So yes, bugzilla is a good idea :)
The mobile interface will work without a main page, without a localisation but it will not make our readers happy. It is either too sparse or it looks like not ready for use.. It turned me off the first time I saw this. Thanks, GerardM
On 24 February 2010 14:46, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il
wrote:
Thanks!
So, let me get this straight:
- http://he.m.wikipedia.org/ already exists, but says "Homepage Not Yet
Configured" 2. If i translate 25 messages to Hebrew, it will just work? Or do i need
to
open a Bugzilla ticket? 3. If it's just a matter of translating of translating 25 messages to Hebrew, where do i start?
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 15:42, Gerard Meijssen <
gerard.meijssen@gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi, I am really happy to have learned that mobile support for Right To Left languages, think Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Hebrew has been implemented. When people start to find their way to their Wikipedia on their mobile, we
stand
to gain many readers.
Did you know:
- That it takes only 25 messages to localise the Mobile interface in
your
language completely
- That this software is written in Ruby
- That hcatlin and thedj are doing much of the work on this software
- That the mobile interface can be found at
(xx
is your language code)
- That we need a main page for mobile Wikipedia
- That for Mobile Wiktionary still points to Wikipedia
As always, we need your help to help people find their way to Wikipedia
it
does not take much to improve things for the mobile.. Thanks, GerardM
PS languages like Malayalam, Swahili and Bengali shine with their newly localised interface _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
- http://he.m.wikipedia.org/ already exists,
A mobile interface for every single Wikipedia we have exists already, yes. (But some do not have real homepages, some are in English, etc.)
but says "Homepage Not Yet Configured"
The "homepage" bit shows up when we have a translation of the interface, but no defined home page. There are two ways to set up that home page, and Hampton explained them here: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22637#c1
- If i translate 25 messages to Hebrew, it will just work? Or do i need to
open a Bugzilla ticket?
Nope, I think Hampton updates the translations every week or so. (He does this automatically, a bugzilla ticket isn't needed.)
- If it's just a matter of translating of translating 25 messages to
Hebrew, where do i start?
Gerard already linked to this, but it's http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Wikimedia_mobile
Gerard, we really should have some page on Meta-Wiki outlining all of this... a step-by-step guide: "How do I set up a mobile site for my project?" There's already something here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile, I'll work on expanding that.
I finally took a look at this: it is most excellent.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
As always, we need your help to help people find their way to Wikipedia it does not take much to improve things for the mobile.. Thanks, GerardM
PS languages like Malayalam, Swahili and Bengali shine with their newly localised interface
Yes indeed.
SJ
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