[Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Technically it is easier to transliterate from Cyrillic. So when
transliteration works in a round robin fashion, it does not really matter in
what script people edit. It will only be stored in one script. The choice
for a script can be based on a user setting or on the method access to the
information was sought.
Thanks,
       GerardM

On 6 October 2010 02:03, M. Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:

> Marcus, thank you for the test. I don't think anybody doubts or
> doubted that this is possible - of course a few more rules need to be
> added, for example ea is almost always converted to cyrillic Ya, with
> special exceptions, and several other minor mistakes, but that isn't
> anything to do with the actual technical feasibility.
>
> The only problem I have with this is: why should it be read-only? I
> have mentioned it before and I will say again, it is not fair. It
> violates the Wiki principle of "anyone can edit". Having a Wiki that
> is read-only and that Cyrillic editors cannot edit in Cyrillic is, in
> my opinion, never ok.
>
> -m.
>
> 2010/10/5 Marcus Buck <me at marcusbuck.org>:
> >  Have a look at <http://www.marcusbuck.org/ro/>. It's a quick demo of
> > ro.wp content converted to Cyrillic. It's just a tiny extract of about
> > 50 ro.wp articles (I wanted to import the full dump, but I have a
> > limited bandwidth connection and the dump upload failed at 90% of the
> > 1GB file). The conversion isn't perfect yet, some special cases are
> > missing, but nothing that cannot be fixed relatively easily. It took me
> > about 30 min to get this result.
> >
> > The demo doesn't support Commons images, interwiki links, templates etc.
> > but all this would work on a real Wikimedia wiki.
> >
> > Things that won't work without syntactical support in the ro.wp source
> > (and ro.wp won't agree to put -{...}- syntactical markers into their
> > articles):
> > - foreign names will be converted even when inappropiate
> > - Roman numbers will be converted (a conversion exception could be added
> > for Roman numbers, but that can also affect strings that just look like
> > Roman numbers)
> >
> > Apart from the mentioned issues most of the converted articles look okay
> > to me. I wish to emphasize the word "look". I don't speak a word
> > Romanian and even less so when it's written in Cyrillic.
> >
> > So if Wikimedia wanted to support a read-only Romanian in Cyrillic wiki
> > at ro-cyrl.wikipedia.org it could easily go live in one day. From a
> > technical point of view it's not hard.
> >
> > Marcus Buck
> > User:Slomox
> >
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