Hello, and happy Africa day!
[ crossposted to African Wikimedians list, general Wikimedia list, and mediawiki-i18n ]
To celebrate this, I am announcing the completion of a little pet project that I started a year ago: it is now easy to type in all the languages of Africa in which there is a Wikipedia or an active Incubator.
This is available in all Wikimedia projects and in translatewiki.net. This release is intended for desktop and laptop computers. For mobile phones and tablets, I strongly recommend trying apps such as Gboard, SwiftKey, or African Keyboard.
For full details and project description see this blog post: https://aharoni.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/happy-africa-day-keyboards-for-all-...
Or jump straight into the (easy!!!) technical documentation here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Inpu...
These keyboards were tested by myself, and some of them were also tested by a few other people who speak these languages, and as far as I know they are easy to enable and disable and the work correctly. However, it's possible that some things are missing: I could have missed some letters, I could have made mistakes in documentation, I could have missed some languages. Please contact me if you find any problems.
Thanks!
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore