[WikiEN-l] IPA issues

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Just my take on the matter: I find the 'pronunciation respelling key' next
to impossible to read, and IPA fairly simple (apart from some of the rarer
symbols or diacritics...)

On 21 April 2010 18:45, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:

> (Crossposted to wikien and foundation:)
>
> Some points about IPA on all language wikis.
>
> 1) As a rule, all language wikis should use International Phonetic
> Alphabet as their standard pronunciation scheme. Very few appear to
> actually do.
> 2) All language wikis should attempt to use IPA to pronounce the
> endonym of a foreign word, not the exonymic re-pronunciation (ie. Iraq
> = /iːˈrɑːk/ not /ɪˈræk/).
> 3) With rare exceptions, IPA should be the default phonemic
> transcription scheme, and
> alternate schemes such as [[Wikipedia:Pronunciation respelling key]]
> should be avoided or deprecated.
> 4) Feedback from languages about IPA should be useful. IPA is actually
> quite flexible about exactness, while still being phonetically
> precise. If there are flaws in IPA itself, the Wikipedia community can
> help raise them for the Internation Phonetic Association.
> 5) Ambiguity about how it is supposed to be used is a cross-project
> issue should be dealt with at the Foundation level (ie. global not
> just inter-wiki policy).
>
> -Stevertigo
>
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