On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Trevor Parscal <tparscal(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
Some nice thoughts; I definitely like having a more compact trigger at the
top of the page (see page 4 of the annotated PDF).
Another thing to consider is making input methods available separately from
content or UI language: we have a lot of mixed-language wikis, and not
everybody's going to want to switch their preferences (or figure out
'uselang=' URL magic) just to type a little bit. Even for single-language
wikis like the Wikipedias, you might want to say type a name in a language
you know, on a wiki that's in another language you know.
This could be a case for a user preference, like enabling of additional
input methods in full-blown operating systems: usually if you're typing in a
language that doesn't use input methods, they'll never get in your way but
you can select some languages and now you get a status bar icon or such
where you can pick from your options. Would benefit from global preferences,
too!
While we're in there, I've added Esperanto conversion rules to Narayam
(trunk r85504) -- it seems to work really nice! I'd strongly consider
dropping the old server-side conversion system for this if it's ready to
roll by 1.18.
(Making quick notes on bugs 3615 and 21781 to this effect.)
-- brion