I remember Hari Prasad Nadig presenting on this at Wikimania Haifa in 2011, and found it fascinating.
http://www.epw.in/web-exclusives/konkani-script-controversy.html
Best Bishakha
Yes Bishakha. Konkani is one of the few languages in India that has the Script controversy. In fact it also makes it a huge challenge to develop Konkani Wikipedia.
We have discussed some of these aspects in our Konkani Wikipedia work-plan [1]. Also recently during our (CISA2K) visit to Goa almost everyone wanted to know how Wikipedia could address this issue? For instance, see the Herald - Goa newspaper on Konkani Wikipedia [2]. On the same list a while ago, Santhosh Thottingal pointed to a very useful solution, Automatic conversion in Konkani Language, that he proposed sometime ago [3].
We are hoping to build a Konkani Wikipedia community first in the coming months, who could then arrive at a solution and work with the WMF Language Engineering Team. It will be a fascinating cultural-historical problem to look at how it gets addressed on an Open Knowledge platform like the Wikipedia.
Best, Vishnu
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_201...
[2] http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=10085&boxid=173254781&u...
[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Automatic_conversion_in_Konkani_language
On 31 July 2013 09:51, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.com wrote:
I remember Hari Prasad Nadig presenting on this at Wikimania Haifa in 2011, and found it fascinating.
http://www.epw.in/web-exclusives/konkani-script-controversy.html
Best Bishakha
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Unlike what developers believe, I think this is where webfonts can be applicable.
On Wednesday 31 July 2013 11:54 AM, Vishnu t wrote:
Yes Bishakha. Konkani is one of the few languages in India that has the Script controversy. In fact it also makes it a huge challenge to develop Konkani Wikipedia.
We have discussed some of these aspects in our Konkani Wikipedia work-plan [1]. Also recently during our (CISA2K) visit to Goa almost everyone wanted to know how Wikipedia could address this issue? For instance, see the Herald - Goa newspaper on Konkani Wikipedia [2]. On the same list a while ago, Santhosh Thottingal pointed to a very useful solution, Automatic conversion in Konkani Language, that he proposed sometime ago [3].
We are hoping to build a Konkani Wikipedia community first in the coming months, who could then arrive at a solution and work with the WMF Language Engineering Team. It will be a fascinating cultural-historical problem to look at how it gets addressed on an Open Knowledge platform like the Wikipedia.
Best, Vishnu
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Work_plan_April_201...
[2] http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=10085&boxid=173254781&u...
[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Automatic_conversion_in_Konkani_language
On 31 July 2013 09:51, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta@gmail.com mailto:bishakhadatta@gmail.com> wrote:
I remember Hari Prasad Nadig presenting on this at Wikimania Haifa in 2011, and found it fascinating. http://www.epw.in/web-exclusives/konkani-script-controversy.html Best Bishakha _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Vishnu t visdaviva@gmail.com wrote:
We are hoping to build a Konkani Wikipedia community first in the coming months, who could then arrive at a solution and work with the WMF Language Engineering Team. It will be a fascinating cultural-historical problem to look at how it gets addressed on an Open Knowledge platform like the Wikipedia.
The way forward on this would not only impact WMF but distributions and platforms as well. And, a "Wikipedia community" would need to be broad based in terms of skills and understanding of the problem space at hand to be able to scope out a solution.
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