[Wikimediaindia-l] Transliteration tool for Sanskrit wiki

[Shiju Alex]

As Srikanth mentioned, Sanskrit wiki projects (http://sa.wikipedia.org) is
one of the first Indic language wiki (along with tamil and Malayalam) to
implement the integrated typing tool. So the feature Harish asked is already
there in Sanskrit wiki projects.

Should we run site notices with these screenshots on these communities to
> increase awareness.
>

I assume it is a good idea to run site notices. But before that we need to
implement the tool (Narayam) in most Indic language wikis. As of now it is
implemented only in Tamil, Malayalam, and Sanskrit. And the Assamese wiki
community is in talk with developers to implement Narayam in Assamese wiki.
For all other Indic languages (Odia, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Bengali,
Telugu, Gujarati, Pujnabi....) the tool need to be implemented. Some of the
above communities are using the old tool developed by Junaid, but that need
to be replaced. And for that support from respective community is most
required. For languages like Punjabi the community need to help developers
to develop transliteration scheme itself. For the rest of the languages the
current tool need to be upgraded to Narayam.

We shall run site notices once we finish few more languages. Or we shall run
site notices in those wikis where tool is already implemented, may be after
the wiki conference  (we have so many site notices these days :) )


Please write to me off-list at shiju at wikimedia.org, if any language
communities need assitance regarding this.


Shiju







On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 20:27, Harish <mgharish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sanskrit Wikipedia is not having transliteration tool as in most other
>> Indian languages. Since the script is Devanagari, the same code used in
>> Hindi wiki can be reused. Can anybody please enable it?
>
>
>  Infact Sanskrit was one of the early communities to adopt Narayam (before
> Tamil). Please see the below screenshots for Tamil, you similarly have
> "Input Method" dropdown at top of page near Username / Login link. Please
> hover over it, you would get a dropdown to choose the transliteration
> option. (Control-M) is the keyboard shortcut to turn it off / on.
>
> Gerard / Santhosh / Junaid / Shiju,
>
> Should we run site notices with these screenshots on these communities to
> increase awareness. Tamil wiki projects have a link to typing help on
> sitenotice and that page contains relevant help. I think it would be better
> if you ask bug filers to make sure they run sitenotices on wiki post
> enabling Narayam to spread awareness.
>
> http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tamiltyping1.JPG
> http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Tamiltyping2.JPG
>
> --
> Regards
> Srikanth.L
>
>
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