Hi, this is a status update for my WikiHiero rewrite! [1]
I've made a first pass on comparison, based on all hieroglyphic texts on
English Wikipedia: [2]
You can see the difference yourselves, in my opinion the general quality is
considerably better, and far more hieroglyphs are supported. However, a few
problems were identified, mostly related to WikiHiero accidentally allowing
invalid syntax in the past. I'm working on either fixing them in tokenizer,
e.g. converting "ra::" to something like "ra:.:." or making a fallback
to
the old HTML renderer and adding a tracking category for future fixage by
editors. Some of the known problems are listed at [3]. Unfortunately, this
also includes some cases where WikiHiero's hieroglyphs deviated from what
was said in standards, resulting in a mess that needs manual conversion
during a transitional period. These will also fall back on the old renderer
and be tracked.
The code is still being worked on, it can be seen in [4] (Hierator) and [5]
(WikiHiero).
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[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Hierator
[2]
http://staging.wmflabs.org/w/extensions/wikihiero/comparison/
[3]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiHiero/JSesh_migration
[4]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/178970
[5]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/178269
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Best regards,
Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])