howard chen <howachen@...> writes:
On Dec 22, 2007 12:50 AM, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikilist@...> wrote:
On Dec 21, 2007 3:41 AM, howard chen <howachen@...> wrote:
I think at least, say,
http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Conversiontable/zh-hk
should be in sync with the mapping
includes\zhtable\toHK.manual
All this needs is someone to volunteer to maintain it -- presumably a Chinese speaker -- and be given commit access. Shinjiman already has commit access and does some Mandarin localization (although more Cantonese than Mandarin, I think), so perhaps he would be willing. Otherwise just find someone (say, you?) who's willing to put in the time, and have them ask for commit access so they can keep the main copy in the software updated.
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Hello,
I think the point is not who should maintain these conversion tables in mediawiki, rather, the data is already self maintained at, such as: http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Conversiontable/zh-
hk&action=history
i think the build script under ztable should include auto downloading the tables from http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Conversiontable/zh-hk etc, just like the build script currently download various sources and auto transform them to make the zhconversion.php.
howard.
My opinion on the Chinese conversion system is, the local conversion (zh-cn/zh- hk/zh-sg/zh-tw et al) is not the primary objective to maintaining for the conversion table. However the most important point to maintaining the conversion table is to dealing of the problematic conversions on the ZhConversion.php file.
Please see also:
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Automatic_conversion_between_simplified_and_t... itional_Chinese
* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Problems_with_server- side_Chinese_to_Chinese_translation_in_MediaWiki