2010/7/3 Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se>se>:
Let me start from another angle: Does anybody have
experience from teaching beginners how to contribute
to Wikisource? What are the hardest concepts to explain?
I think we should compile and rank the current obstacles
to the growth of Wikisource.
There's a serious and overlooked problem that makes both contributing
and reading hard for many people: a considerable number of texts use
special characters which aren't supported in regular fonts. This is
not a matter of pure aesthetics like Arial-vs.-Helvetica, but complete
omission of characters or even scripts.
For example, there are several grammar books in the English Wikisource
(see
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Category:Grammar ). Among them are
Hebrew, Burmese and Sanskrit. Without manually installing proper fonts
it's impossible to view any of them properly on Windows XP; the
situation with GNU/Linux and Windows 7 is somewhat better, but still
not perfect.
Bug 2361 (
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2361 ) could
possibly solve it, at least partly, but there hasn't been any activity
in it for a long time/
--
אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
Amir Elisha Aharoni
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
"We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace." - T. Moore