[Foundation-l] Please delete mo. wikipedia: Coherent proposal
Marcus Buck
me at marcusbuck.org
Wed Oct 13 17:28:16 UTC 2010
I created a small test script at
<http://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruker:Slomox/vector2.js>. Works well to
Cyrillize nds.wp ;-) (or any other wiki). It only supports reading so
far, editing will be harder. The problem will be cases like a Romanian
article written in Latin script and containing Cyrillic characters on
purpose (like <http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscova>). The word "Москва́
" in the first line would be latinized when a Cyrillic user edits it.
Hard to fix it without escaping (which is done with -{ ... }- syntax in
conversion wikis like zh or sr). But with escaping we are again at
imposing stuff on ro.wp. Cyrillic users could escape strings in the edit
window which would be removed on save, but that of course means escaping
on every edit. On the other hand Javascript-based escaping could lead to
increased revert quotas if Cyrillic users forget to Javascript-escape
strings. Well, that's all theory as long as there are no active
Transnistrians editors...
Marcus Buck
User:Slomox
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