I User:Stevertigo formally request sysop/admin/developer level access to the Arabic Wikipedia. Among the first issues would be to deal with the encoding there. UTF-8 or 1256 are canditates, but it would require some proper testing. My Arabic is very limited, though, and hopefully some changes ought give some life and perhaps credibility to the Ar.Wikipedia.
I User:Stevertigo formally request sysop/admin developer level access to the Simple Enlgish Wikpedia. Among the first issues would be to deal with finding a use for the simple. Wikipedia -- among my proposals ( http://simple.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?SEnpl_For_Translation ) is the possiblitly of using simple English as a base for translating the vast catalog of English articles to other languages. By allowing the Simple Wikipedia to act as a kind of firewall, sandbox, embassy... any problems arising from the perception that non-English speakers and English speakers have of each other, will be mitigated.
If interested, please see the recent changes made to the Simple.wikipedia -- http://simple.wikipedia.com
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What exactly are you asking for?
steve vertigo wrote:
I User:Stevertigo formally request sysop/admin/developer level access to the Arabic Wikipedia. Among the first issues would be to deal with the encoding there. UTF-8 or 1256 are canditates, but it would require some proper testing. My Arabic is very limited, though, and hopefully some changes ought give some life and perhaps credibility to the Ar.Wikipedia.
I User:Stevertigo formally request sysop/admin developer level access to the Simple Enlgish Wikpedia. Among the first issues would be to deal with finding a use for the simple. Wikipedia -- among my proposals ( http://simple.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?SEnpl_For_Translation ) is the possiblitly of using simple English as a base for translating the vast catalog of English articles to other languages. By allowing the Simple Wikipedia to act as a kind of firewall, sandbox, embassy... any problems arising from the perception that non-English speakers and English speakers have of each other, will be mitigated.
If interested, please see the recent changes made to the Simple.wikipedia -- http://simple.wikipedia.com
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What exactly are you asking for?
Im not sure, really -- to deal with each of these at a software level would require some low-level access -- something Im pretty sure a sysop cant do. On the other hand, Im not interested in becoming a full developer on any of these projects - I dont have the necessary skills frankly. But my perception is that the Dev condintgent is overworked and the less someone has to ask them for something the better. Perhaps all Im asking is for some light to shine on the Ar.wiki for a couple weeks to get the sw running.
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steve vertigo wrote: [snip]
Perhaps all Im asking is for some light to shine on the Ar.wiki for a couple weeks to get the sw running.
I set up a he.wikipedia.org stub last night, and ar.wikipedia.org just now. They're UTF-8 encoded, but don't (yet) have any special code for explicitly handling right-to-left text beyond sticking a "dir=RTL" on the HTML. It may be difficult to test this stuff properly until there's some localized user interface text!
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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