I'll take a neutral stand on the issue. A simple vote or survey would
suffice eh?
On 18 February 2010 21:39, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Hoi,
When the icons are internationalised, it means that for me, I am Dutch, I
will find a *V* and a *S*. This suits me fine. When you have a character
that is appropriate for this distinction, you use it for your language.
I post regularly on every Wikipedia and I do not use the local language of
that project.
When you argue that YOU are aware / familiar with what is currently
standard, it does not follow that all the readers for your project share
this expertise.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 18 February 2010 16:50, Shiju Alex <shijualexonline(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have reservations about this enhancement.
Introducing language specific icons for BOLD and ITALIC is not a good
idea. It may make sense for the languages that use Latin script. According
to me, these are some standardized icons accepted by all the language
communities irrespective of the software applications that they use.
A normal computer literate is familiar with the current *B* and *I* icons
available in all the word processors, text editors, and other editing tools.
Most of them are aware about its use also. So changing that to a language
specific icon may remove that edge. We have the tool tips for an icon to
convey its usage. I think that is more than enough.
If we are changing the BOLD and ITALIC icons then we need to consider lot
of other similar icons strike though. Also this move may affect the cross
wiki contributions also.
Shiju Alex
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Gerard Meijssen <
gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi,
Yesterday there were two blogposts about improving support for your
language(s) in MediaWiki ... Parul wrote about technical bits and bobs and I
wrote to ask you all to help her help you..
http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/02/mediawiki-seeks-to-support-your…
Thanks,
GerardM
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