Praveen Prakash +1
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 09:46, Praveen Prakash <me.praveen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There is lot to say. But i don't want to derail
this thread. Pls start
a new thread.
On 16/12/2011, Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Praveen Prakash
<me.praveen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> I haven't seen any communication in any open platform with Malayalam
> Community members about this matter. A few weeks before I had a brief
> discussion with Santhosh about webfonts. But it was nothing about
> webfonts'
> rendering bugs. Infact, popular (and beautiful) Malayalam fonts are open
> licensed, but there are other rendering bugs. Issue I raised was about
an
> unnessessory char code change doing by
webfonts which I felt a
propaganda
> pushing in favor of his idea about some
characters, and which need
> additional scripts on both client (= additional bandwidth) and server.
But
> Santhosh quit the thread claiming my concerns
are my pure imaginations.
:)
Naturally
thread died.
Praveen Do you mean this bug ?
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29005
The bug speaks itself .
From a quick reading I felt what you were asking is to use not
properly forked font projects in webfonts, when santhosh took a stand
to use fonts them from upstream.
On Normalization of characters, it is an optional feature, for
visibility of some chillus , that can be disabled in user settings if
needed.
It perfectly makes sense for me, since dual encoding is an issue in
Malayalam , and the fix need to be on Unicode . The Webfonts hack is
just a positive step and optional fix to ensure, people will not be
missed from accessing knowledge in wikipedia , based on browser
restrictions.
Anivar
>
> I know Malayalam Wikimedian 'Vssun' tried to have an open conversation
on
> Gerard's talk page, after Gerard's
notice, but didn't see any
development.
> As far as now I know no one, who was sure
about webfonts deployment on
ml
> projects.
>
> I certainly do not want webfonts in its current form in any of the
> Malayalam
> Wikiprojects. But I want to know why Malayalam is excluded from this
> deployment and I want to know why such a code deployed on many other
> wikies.
>
> I personally don't like Santhosh's enthusiasm to fly his scripts on
> wikimedia servers, based on his "I am correct, I am correct, I am the
only
> correct" attitude.
>
> If webfonts is too bad for your language, I urge you to file a bug for
> removing it.
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
> <parakara.ghoda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If you want to test something new, either make it opt in, or don't do
>> it live. Not on Tamil, not on Hindi, not on any Wikipedia for that
>> matter.
>>
>> On 12/14/11, Ravishankar <ravidreams(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan
>> > <srik.lak(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
>> >
>> >> I dont think its appropriate to be a bit more experimental. You are
>> >> seeing
>> >> the scale in absolute sense, we are seeing it in relative sense.
Tamil
>> Wikipedia is 7th most-viewed Tamil site.
>
>
> +1. Similar stats can be observed for most of the Indic language Wiki
> projects with sizable content as they are the only / major source of
> reference online for the respective languages.
>
> Ravi
>
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Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
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