[Wikipedia-l] New language proposal: Wikipedia...

[Brianna Laugher]

I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but there is a Chinese
'converter' between mainland (simplified), Taiwan (traditional), Hong
Kong (traditional) & Singapore (simplified) scripts/dialects (??), as
well as a default plain 'Chinese' which may be a mixture I guess.

Maybe a goal could be to develop a similar item for these scripts. No
idea how realistic that is, just throwing it out there. :)

cheers
Brianna

On 28/08/06, Frederick FN Noronha <fredericknoronha at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Fran, this is going to be helpful. Maybe a technical fix could
> help reduce some of the misunderstanding that creeps in due to script
> and dialectical differences. The problem is that most literary people
> aren't too tech-oriented, and vice-versa. I belong to neither camps,
> being a journalists writing on technology :-) FN
> PS: Your link is useful, I'll post it to our local GNU/Linux users'
> group and see how people respond. We have people use or knowing
> different scripts there.
>
> On 28/08/06, Francis Tyers <spectre at ivixor.net> wrote:
> > If there are only small dialect differences, it might be worth looking
> > at Apertium (http://apertium.sourceforge.net). Free software machine
> > translation for closely related languages. I think having just different
> > scripts is about as closely related as you get :)
> >
> > Fran
> >
> > On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 15:06 +0530, Frederick "FN" Noronha wrote:
> > > That doesn't seem possible at this point of time. Each script tends to
> > > have some small but significant dialectal variations. So, simply using
> > > some form of mechanical transalation/transiteration might render the
> > > output quite unreadable.
> > >
> > > It would be preferable to have human-created pages.
> > >
> > > Even if done in different scripts, I don't think this would cause any
> > > problems as such. Teams would work at differing paces, as per their
> > > own abilities and convenience. And work by one team might spur on
> > > others to catch up too.
> > >
> > > The issue we're shifting to is a much wider question, which has been
> > > causing worry for those keen about the Konkani language. As far as
> > > Wikipedia goes, what do you see as the suitable solution?
> > >
> > > We have two options -- a common Konkani Wikipedia, or separate ones
> > > (set up according to interest shown and activity levels initiated). FN
> > >
> > > PS: Have just been working on a portal for Goa at
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Goa  You can see some Konkani
> > > descriptions (in English there). Since I'm not a techie, have been
> > > struggling a bit to control the templates and code!
> > >
> > > On 27/08/06, Berto <albertoserra at ukr.net> wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > >a script-neutral Wikipedia, or multi Wikipedias to deal
> > > > > with the diverse scripts of Konkani (even if with differening levels
> > > > > of activity).
> > > >
> > > > Is there any way to make an automatic coverter among the 5 scripts? It would
> > > > save you a lot of trouble.
> > > >
> > > > Bèrto
> > > >
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