Hello, Amiu, and thank you for pointing this out! This is indeed something we should look into before making a final approval. The fact that there is an existing open-source converter looks promising, and hopefully we can adapt this to MediaWiki quite easily. I'll reach out to the Sylheti community to ask for their input as well.
tor. 15. juni 2023 kl. 07:58 skrev MF-Warburg <[email protected]>: > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > Von: Ami Keu <[email protected]> > Date: Mi., 14. Juni 2023 um 23:21 Uhr > Subject: Fwd: A problem of Sylheti Wikipedia and possible soultions > To: <[email protected]> > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Ami Keu <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 14 June, 2023 at 10:05 PM > Subject: A problem of Sylheti Wikipedia and possible soultions > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > > > Hi Jon, > I don't know if this is the correct email to write this. > > Thank you for initiating approval for Sylheti Wikipedia > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/TKDRS64F5NW2BQBCT4LNNKYV3GMSPVRH/ > > I would like to point out one thing. Langcom should be aware that Sylheti > wikipedia uses sylheti nagri script. And not many sylheti people can > actually read or write this script. Most sylheti uses Bengali alphabet to > write sylheti (also see > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Sylhetis#Sylheti_nagri_script ) > > I can see there is a discussion about this on sylheti wikipedia: > https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wp/syl/ꠝꠥꠟ_ꠚꠣꠔꠣ#আমার_সামান্য_এক_পর্যবেক্ষণ_(ꠝꠞ_ꠔꠥꠞꠣ_ꠇꠤꠀꠟ) > where a sylheti pointed out that there is an organization did a survey and > found out only 12-25 thousands people can actually write or read this > script. > > There are c. 10.3 millions sylheti, which means sylheti wikipedia will be > un-accessible for vast majority of sylheti. > > There is also pointed out that possible solutions would be lang converter > like some wiki has. I would request langcom to create or ask developer to > create a lang converter for sylheti wikipedia. Mapping already exists, see > https://github.com/mayeenulislam/nagri-bangla > > Thank you. > _______________________________________________ > Langcom mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > -- mvh Jon Harald Søby
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