Re: [Wikimedia-l] Happy Africa Day: keyboards for all the languages of Africa

[Shlomi Fish]

On Sat, 25 May 2019 10:19:45 +0300
"Amir E. Aharoni"  wrote:

> Hello, and happy Africa day!
> 
> [ crossposted to African Wikimedians list, general Wikimedia list, and
> mediawiki-i18n ]
> 
> To celebrate this, I am announcing the completion of a little pet project
> that I started a year ago: it is now easy to type in all the languages of
> Africa in which there is a Wikipedia or an active Incubator.
> 
> This is available in all Wikimedia projects and in translatewiki.net. This
> release is intended for desktop and laptop computers. For mobile phones and
> tablets, I strongly recommend trying apps such as Gboard, SwiftKey, or
> African Keyboard.
> 
> For full details and project description see this blog post:
> https://aharoni.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/happy-africa-day-keyboards-for-all-african-wikipedia-languages/
> 
> Or jump straight into the (easy!!!) technical documentation here:
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/Africa
> 
> These keyboards were tested by myself, and some of them were also tested by
> a few other people who speak these languages, and as far as I know they are
> easy to enable and disable and the work correctly. However, it's possible
> that some things are missing: I could have missed some letters, I could
> have made mistakes in documentation, I could have missed some languages.
> Please contact me if you find any problems.
> 

Thanks for your work.

> Thanks!
> 
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[Wikimedia-l] Happy Africa Day: keyboards for all the languages of Africa

[Amir E. Aharoni]

Hello, and happy Africa day!

[ crossposted to African Wikimedians list, general Wikimedia list, and
mediawiki-i18n ]

To celebrate this, I am announcing the completion of a little pet project
that I started a year ago: it is now easy to type in all the languages of
Africa in which there is a Wikipedia or an active Incubator.

This is available in all Wikimedia projects and in translatewiki.net. This
release is intended for desktop and laptop computers. For mobile phones and
tablets, I strongly recommend trying apps such as Gboard, SwiftKey, or
African Keyboard.

For full details and project description see this blog post:
https://aharoni.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/happy-africa-day-keyboards-for-all-african-wikipedia-languages/

Or jump straight into the (easy!!!) technical documentation here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/Africa

These keyboards were tested by myself, and some of them were also tested by
a few other people who speak these languages, and as far as I know they are
easy to enable and disable and the work correctly. However, it's possible
that some things are missing: I could have missed some letters, I could
have made mistakes in documentation, I could have missed some languages.
Please contact me if you find any problems.

Thanks!

--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
‪“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬
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