there is also a local version: http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Conversiontable/zh-hans http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Conversiontable/zh-hant http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Conversiontable/zh-cn http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Conversiontable/zh-sg http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Conversiontable/zh-tw http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Conversiontable/zh-hk (thus assuming that Malaysia uses the same as Singapore, and Macau uses the same as Hong Kong) These are obviously far more complete. I think it might be a good idea to have a bot which can find conversion markers in all articles, tally them, and then have someone decide which might be good to add to the conversion table. A proper name such as the one mentioned here is not a one-time conversion, it obviously needs to be converted in every article where that person is mentioned. It makes sense to gather those things that are being converted by manual editing and see whether we might add them to the list. Mark On 20/12/2007, howard chen <howachen(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Refije dirije lanm�� yo paske nou posede pw��p bato.

Why just zh-hk? On 21/12/2007, howard chen <howachen(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Refije dirije lanmè yo paske nou posede pwòp bato.

On Dec 21, 2007 3:41 AM, howard chen <howachen(a)gmail.com> wrote: 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.

howard chen <howachen@...> writes: hk&action=history 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_… itional_Chinese * http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Problems_with_server- side_Chinese_to_Chinese_translation_in_MediaWiki

howard chen <howachen@...> writes: cn/zh- For this kind of the conversion, for my opinion, I think it is not supposed to be added in the primary matter, especially sourced on *one* wiki site (for example from the Chinese Wikipedia). And the MediaWiki software is not only used for the Wikipedia website. Any changes on the repo would make the changes on the whole MediaWiki based sites (if their version are updated/upgraded). Please see also http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E5%85%B3%E4%BA%8E%E6% 94%B9%E9%9D%A9%E5%AD%97%E4%BD%93%E3%80%81%E5%9C%B0%E5%8C%BA%E8%AF%8D%E8%BD%AC% E6%8D%A2%E5%8A%9F%E8%83%BD%E7%9A%84%E8%B0%83%E6%9F%A5 on the Chinese Wikipedia website.

On Dec 25, 2007 10:10 AM, Mark Williamson &lt;node.ue(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: yes! this is one of my concern, we should have a centralized database for conversions! howard