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. Dont 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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