Dear All,
I have forwarded my proposal of creating new Wikipedia with Zawgyi font to Mr Wales. This show our purpose of creating myanmarwikipedia.org as well as imitating Wikipedia theme. I wish he also forward his reply too.
All wikipedia logo from myanmarwikipedia.org will be removed immediately if and only if it is not allow legally.
Best regards, Okisan
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kyaw Tun kyawtuns@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:32 AM Subject: Re: Wikia e-mail To: Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com
Dear Mr Whales,
You can find *Recipe for Myanmar Monhinga* in more than 100 ways just by googling. But you have to use Zawgyi font. Virtually all Myanmar web sites use Zawgyi encoded font. This include all media web site like VOA.
Zawgyi encoding is non-standard and have to be eliminated grandually by Unicode 5.1 encoded font. But for the time being, people don't like other font than Zawgyi.
So I suggest you to make a temporary Zawgyi encoded Myanmar Wikipedia sharing the same database with my.wikipedia.org. So people can happily contribute. You can terminate Zawgyi wikipedia in appriorate time.
We are doing the on-the-fly font conversion of Zawgyi<-->Unicode 5.1 in http://www.myanmarwikipedia.org.
We have such convertor for C++, C#, Python and javascript module. However we don't have PHP, so a bit of problem. Currently we are thing using Python module under mode_proxy, so that Python process is keep alife under PHP process. ICU module http://au2.php.net/intl is also not very application here. We are also doing CSS guideline for Burmese web document herehttp://www.openroad.net.au/dev/wiki/doku.php/css/burmese_language, which is integrated in our Users' Myanmar Wikipediahttp://www.myanmarwikipedia.org/. As you see, we did one year work of my.wikipedia.org in one weeks. We be note our home page do not contain commerical outbound links as you can see home page of my.wikipedia.org. Also please note, active contributors in Users' Myanmar Wikipedia is greater than current my.wikipedia.org. We don't need costly translation Mr Wales, as proposed by Mr Micheal Sverson.
Best regards, Okisan
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Kyaw Tun wrote:
Myanmar contributors are quite strong but very disappointed with Myanmar Wikipedia.
Thank you for your advice!
Can you tell me what is disappointing to the contributors? How can we help?