Ginu,
It isn't that I don't believe you.
Please understand: nobody has anything to make a good decision here.
You are telling people, "the Malayalam Wikipedia is wrong". But none of us knows Malayalam. So we cannot decide whether you are correct.
The people already at the Malayalam Wikipedia seem to have no problem. They are all Malayalees, so they are not using machine translation because it is their native language. There are at least 3 of them.
This is not to say that you are wrong -- you might be right. But, do you have anything you might convince people with? To simply say, "I am right, and everybody else is wrong" does not help -- no change will be made based on that alone. But if you have something more, that a grammarian or a PhD in Malayalam language or some such expert agrees with you, or have citations from a book for your corrections, then there may be room for changes.
Again, though, I think the best avenue for sorting this out is for you to discuss it on the Malayalam Wikipedia. Remember, Wikipedia is freely editable by anybody, so you may add comments on discussion pages and invite feedback from the existing community.
Also, Google localisation is by no means a prior qualification -- anybody can translate the user interface for Google, no matter what their knowledge, it is a largely open system, and there are others working on Malayalam localisation for Google as well (in fact, I have e-mailed with some of them before).
I'm also thinking a bit that this may be a font problem. It seems recently somebody made changes to the Malayalam Wikipedia which was due to a bad font, instead of real spelling errors. Please see http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E... -- if you are using certain fonts, it will appear with "spelling mistakes", but this is because of the font. You need a better font, to fix the apparent errors.
Mark
On 20/08/05, Ginu Gmail ginu.george@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Mark,
For Google am doing the localization. Now am correcting their main page in Malayalam. They told it will take some time to correct that in the main page. And using machine translation for Malayalam will not be good, I can show that through so many examples.
If 1 against 3 is for the right thing, I believe I have to go ahead. As a journalist I am always putting that. If you feel the 3 is right then skip my mails. Carry on the wrong thing in wikipedia if u like.
If u need I can make the same comment from 100's. Don't thing bad in my mail. I am always writing straight
Regards
Ginu George
-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Mark Williamson Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 9:46 AM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: Spell checking in MediaWiki
While Walter's advice about checking spelling with the Google toolbar can be useful for some languages (I believe it works for English, German, Spanish, French, and Swedish, maybe I missed one?), it won't be useful for everybody else -- what is a Hindi Wikipedian or a Xhosa Wikipedian to do for spellchecking?
Certainly, ispell libraries are a much more appealing option because they support a huge list of languages, and it's not extremely difficult to add more.
Mark
On 19/08/05, Jeffrey McGee jeffamcgee@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/19/05, Niklas Laxström niklas.laxstrom@gmail.com wrote:
On 19/08/05, Walter Vermeir walter@wikipedia.be wrote:
This function can be useful. But now whit the google toolbar for
Firefox
you can do very easy spell checking. For IE is there also a version.
The
need is reduced.
In my understanding google toolbar supports only English. Does pspell support other languages? And there is people who don't want to install google toolbar anyway.
Niklas Laxström
Pspell (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pspell.php) uses the GNU Aspell library and Aspell claims to support quite a few languages: http://aspell.sourceforge.net/man-html/Supported.html
I have tested my prototype a little with Spanish: http://66.205.125.240/spell/index.php/User_talk:192.168.1.101 But you won't be able to test it since you can't change $wgLanguageCode.
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