Hey guys,
Sitting in Serbia Open GLAM conference, we had a similar discussion with
Adrienne about small language wikipedias/projects. Those guys are looking
at small languages in French territories and their numbers are of course
really really small. Konkani by that scale is quite big.
I was just
Developing each dialect is too complex. It doesn't look feasible.
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Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.
As the old military expression goes, the impossible just takes a little
longer. Choose one script/dialect combination (organically, not by diktat),
develop it to a starting point, and I venture to suggest that enthusiasts
will come forward to support developing the variants.
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012
(offtopic) The correct military adage of the [[Indian Army Corps of
Engineers]] is - The difficult we do immediately, for the impossible we
need a little notice. :)
Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Vickram
Probable offtopic: i read once that konkani use atleast 3 scripts
(devanagiri, kannada, malayalam). If webfonts can switch appropriate
font according to a user, while keeping one encoding as base
(devanagiri?) , may help new generation people, who are now part of
other states, and living under
It's not so much a matter of WebFonts, as of script conversion.
MediaWiki already supports this for for several languages, most
notably Chinese and Serbian.
We at the WMF L10n team can probably add support for Konkani, too, but
we'll need a specification of requirements from an expert on that
One does not even know how to begin helping out. For one, there are so many
dialects, hardly any Konkani speaks the same dialect as the next Konkani
guy he meets. The Gomantak variety is sufficiently different from the other
versions to justify forks. And we have only just begun!
Warm regards,
