On 8 March 2011 10:11, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
(changing the thread title)
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
I have proposed to spend 100,000,- Euro and this will make major improvements for the scripts, the fonts and the standards for the languages we have a Wikipedia for. This is given the current budget chicken feed. Thanks, GerardM
This is not a comment on the amount of money but on the idea of improvements to scripts/fonts/standards etc.
I understand there's been discussion about creating a list of problems for representing various languages on the internet. For example, some languages have problems being written online because they are not well supported in Unicode, or some don't have free fonts, etc. etc.
These are problems for *any* website that wants to support that particular language. There are also bugs related to how *we* support particular languages in MediaWiki -- as far as I know these have mainly been collected in Bugzilla.
So my questions are: 1) have there ever been any comprehensive lists made of these language-related bugs (either within MediaWiki or in general); and, 2) what needs to be done (technically) to support small(er) languages?
I haven't seen such list for MediaWiki which covers all issues, but a structured list would be great. I could even like doing one when I have time.
(I know we, & in particular GerardM, have been discussing this for a long time. But I'm curious what the current state of affairs is, and if issues for small languages are collected together in one place).
There are also issues that affect big languages.
-Niklas