[Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia

[Shiju Alex]

Rendering of Malayalam script is very bad. Same might be the case with most
of the other Indian scripts. (Devanagari might have reasonable support) So
this site is of not much use to Malayalam as of now, even though we are
regularly updating it.

We cannot expect much as of now since the majority of the software solutions
focuses only on Latin script. Hope situation will improve as the
contribution from the developers working in Indic language computing
increases.


Shiju Alex

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:49 PM, BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Ramesh,
>
> Could you try http://ml.m.wikipedia.org/ from your phone? (Of course,
> it'll still need the fonts.)
> To my knowledge, Malayalam Wikipedia is the only Indian Wikipedia to have a
> mobile interface (I could be wrong).
> For Tamil Wikipedia, only the final steps are pending.
>
> - Sundar
>
> "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium
> for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
> - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
>
>
> *From:* Ramesh N G <rameshng at gmail.com>
>
> *To:* wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> *Sent:* Tue, October 26, 2010 6:30:59 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia
>
> Data charges definitely is coming down and will be coming down more with
> the 3G war in India.
>
> The support for other languages and unicode should be improved in the
> mobiles.
>
> I have tried ml wikipedia in the Nokia E series with MiniOpera browser. It
> was really a bad experience for me. The fonts are not properly displaying.
> Hope to see more improvements especially on the unicode support and fonts in
> the mobile browsers.
>
> regards
> Ramesh ng
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> rsrikanth05 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree with Srikanth on this issue.
>> I have been using Wikipedia on my phone for over a year and a half, and
>> have even edited several articles from my phone.
>>
>> On 26 October 2010 11:30, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:34, Gautam John <gautam at prathambooks.org>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Arjuna makes a good point on language support. As for the data costs,
>>>> don't some providers (I know MTS does) provide access to Wikipedia for
>>>> free?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Have you used MTS free Wikipedia? I overheard they are falsely
>>> advertising but actually it costs something. (like only en.wiki is free and
>>> data charges apply for images  on the article from commons). I am not very
>>> sure on this, anyone who uses MTS can confirm. But i have to disagree with
>>> Arjuna and feel data charges have come down significantly over a period of
>>> time now though may still not be affordable to a common man on the street
>>> when compared to the dead low voice tariff. More and more alternate ways of
>>> consuming Wikipedia on mobile needs to be developed. I particularly find
>>> the Wikipedia layer on Google maps for mobile useful while exploring unknown
>>> territories.
>>>
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