Hello All,
Almost all the Indian language wiki projects use a
transliteration program (a javacript) for typing
text in the respective language/script. For Monobook, many wikis placed a
check box near the search box to switch ON/OFF the
transliteration script. For example, see this image,
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/usability/6/62/Monobook.png
Recently when
wikis switched over to Vector skin, this control box/check box is disappeared.
NOTE: The default skin of all the wiki projects (including all the Indian Language
wiki projects) moved from the Monobook skin to the new Vector skin
on 2010 September 1. Few Indian language wikipedias (Malayalam, Telugu,
and Bengali) moved to Vector interface little earlier (2010 June 30).
After
Malayalam Wikipedia switched over to new interface (vector), many
Indian language wikipedians (especially Hindi, Bhojpuri, Marathi) have
asked us about fixing this issue so that check box will appear in Vector
skin also. But till today we were unable to find a solution.
Finally today, one Malayalam Wikipedian, Sadik Khaid is able to fix this issue and the check box problem is solved for the Vector skin. The code to add check box (to control the transliteration script) near the Search box is available in Sadik's test wiki at http://lab.dhudhu.com/index.php?title=Mediawiki:TranslitPatch.js
Copy the code displayed there and paste it inside Mediawiki:Common.js page of your wiki. You need to place inside the addTextEvent() function code. Following customization need to be done before placing it inside Mediawiki:Common.js
Part One
linktohelp.title= "To Enable or Disable xx language, Shrotcut: add shortcut here";
You need to change the message according to your requirement. In Malayalam wiki we changed this line to linktohelp.title= "മലയാളത്തിലെഴുതുവാൻ ഈ ഉപധി സ്വീകരിക്കുക, കുറുക്കുവഴി: Ctrl + M";
Ctrl + M is the shortcut key that we use in malayalam wiki to control
the tranlieration script. In some wikis it is Ctrl + G and in some
others it is ESC key.
Part Two
linktohelp.appendChild( document.createTextNode('Translit xx language') );
In Malayalam wiki, we changed this line to linktohelp.appendChild( document.createTextNode('മലയാളത്തിലെഴുതുക') );
This is the message that will appear near the search box. In Malayalam Wiki it is മലയാളത്തിലെഴുതുക In wikis that use Devanagri it might be देवनागरी.
Please let Sadik know in case you are facing some issue to fix this. His email id is sadik.khalid@gmail.com
Thanks
Shiju Alex
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