On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:29:58 -0700
Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
In other words: the argument *does* fall on its face,
but we can make a
totally
different argument: that it would be nice to support RTL better.
Yes, it would be nice to support RTL better.
Thanks Brion for this constructive approach.
There are many places to start, many issues have been reported and many test
have been made but I see no "road map".
One of the bidirectional issues all projects could benefit from is to implement
"fix location lists" for the special pages. Onece you did it one time it is
trivial.
See the three pages sharing identical source code:
http://epov.org/wd-gemet/index.php/Wikidata_M2:Special_pages/%21list#specia…
http://www.anubite.co.uk/mediawiki/head-rtl/index.php/Mw16:Special_pages/%2…
http://www.anubite.co.uk/wikis/test-fpr/index.php/Farsitest:Special_pages/%…
In these lists the position of relevant fields are preserved *regardles* of the
directionality of the content. This is exactly what users would expect from
special pages.
There are two more open requirements which can RTL / BiDi live easier:
Facilitate bidirectional editing / readability via a trailing escape character
(as "\") at the end of line
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=05121
It would be fair to allow multiline syntax in MediaWiki same as all the
MediaWiki software is written.
Magic words (pedefined templates) {{UTF-8DECODE:}} {{UTF-8ENCODE:}} (optional
{{UTF-8ENCODE8:}} {{UTF-8ENCODE16:}})
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5256
This is not a constructed request. The feature can save hours.
Regarding my objections against not supporting table code in the conditional
templates please respect that I tell / write what I think and that I write it
now.
The minimal compromise which would not harm template syntax nor conditional
templates would be be the support / processing of the "trailer" in conditional
templates. This is not banning as mentioned in your email:
However that has nothing to do with banning a
construct that has THE EXACT
SAME
ISSUES AS THE TEMPLATES IT WOULD REPLACE.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]