Hello all!
Tomorrow's office hours will feature Naoko Komura and the User Interface
team, who will be discussing the Vector interface and the changes the
new interface will bring. If you don't know Naoko you can read about
about her at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Naoko_Komura.
Office
On 04/19/2010 10:46 AM, Nathan wrote:
I wonder if there might be a subtle bias playing into these reviews.
Perhaps if reviewers begin with the assumption that the article was
written by amateur hobbyists, that influences the outcome. If Lindsey
went back to them and let them know that the
Hoi,
A lot of so called IPA out there is created by Americans for Americans and
expect that certain sounds can be expressed by the ordinary Latin
characters. The consequence is that such polution makes the whole of IPA
hard to use.
Consequently I argue that in order to save the usefulness of IPA
I think it's better that Wikipedia be usable to laypeople, and not be
in academic savior mode.
Emily
On Apr 21, 2010, at 6:19 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi,
A lot of so called IPA out there is created by Americans for
Americans and
expect that certain sounds can be expressed by the
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
What's the point of using a phonetic alphabet that 95% of our
readership can't interpret? If the idea is to help readers understand
how a word is pronounced in English, it should actually be useful to
the majority of readers and
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
A lot of so called IPA out there is created by Americans for Americans and
expect that certain sounds can be expressed by the ordinary Latin
characters. The consequence is that such polution makes the whole
Of course, this requires people actually learn the IPA. This is more
difficult for some than others; neuroatypicalities can make it harder
or easier, and polyglots can probably learn a lot easier. I don't know
if it translates well into braille. I wish I did.
I'm concerned that those who
As the page banners say, it's a recurring question. These are some of
the relevant links:
Discussions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:IPA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:International_Phonetic_Alphabet
The templates:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:IPA-en
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
What's the point of using a phonetic alphabet that 95% of our
readership can't interpret? If the idea is to help readers understand
how a word is pronounced in English, it should actually be useful to
the majority of readers and
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:04 PM, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote:
The idea behind IPA is, that there be a single standard alphabet that
everyone can use which can help us all communicate a bit better when
speaking a new language or just using a term from another language.
It's basic and
Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
We ought to have a speech synthesizer that extension that provides
clickable audio playback for marked up IPA.
Great idea. Is there still some hangup about needing to transcribe IPA
to ASCII, or can these things be done in UTF-8 now?
-Stevertigo
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:45:27 -0700, stevertigo wrote:
1) As a rule, all language wikis should use International Phonetic
Alphabet as their standard pronunciation scheme. Very few appear to
actually do.
2) All language wikis should attempt to use IPA to pronounce the
endonym of a foreign
Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote:
I have a hard time understanding this claim that using IPA improves
communication. Surely a device intended to facilitate communication
should make accessibility its first priority?
OK, its not about communication per se, its just a transcription
system for
On Wednesday 21 April 2010, Nathan wrote:
What's the point of using a phonetic alphabet that 95% of our
readership can't interpret?
I've never been able to. I always hoped that the theory was that from the IPA,
you could translate it into some scheme that would make sense in different
How is this going to work out? Will it slow down loading for a lot of
people? Is there any other reason somebody can think of why there
isn't more devices that support IPA?
Emily
On Apr 21, 2010, at 7:48 PM, stevertigo wrote:
Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote:
We ought to have a
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