On 16/12/2011, Anivar Aravind <
anivar.aravind@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Praveen Prakash <
me.praveen@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@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@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan
>>> > <
srik.lak@gmail.com>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
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
>>> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th.
>>>
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
>>>
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