Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easyinterface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Arjuna, Thank you, Arjuna. This is the good stuff. I would recommend increasing the size of the text-box for input after the selection of the language and script. Also, most users at public kiosks are more likely to use phonetic input rather than inscript. Thanks for your feedback. Suppose we go to village fair, we will have people who will be comfortable with inscript. It will be even better to have alphabetic ordered on screen keyboard. Cheers Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easyinterface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages
Suppose we go to village fair, we will have people who will be comfortable with inscript. This is very much true. There are many computer users who are conformable only with inscript typing while typing in their mother tongue. And most of them doesn't like to use transliteration. And most of them call inscript as *ISMhttp://pune.cdac.in/html/gist/faq/ism_f.asp *. Shiju On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:32 PM, arjuna rao chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Arjuna, Thank you, Arjuna. This is the good stuff. I would recommend increasing the size of the text-box for input after the selection of the language and script. Also, most users at public kiosks are more likely to use phonetic input rather than inscript. Thanks for your feedback. Suppose we go to village fair, we will have people who will be comfortable with inscript. It will be even better to have alphabetic ordered on screen keyboard. Cheers Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easyinterface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages
Shiju, Thanks for the excellent feedback. I just came up with this as I have not actively worked hands on for a long long time. Looking for people to collaborate and take this further. Cheers Arjun On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote: Arjuna, This is good. Thanks for this. . Hope the devide will be devoid of all rendering issues especially for the languages like Oriya. I have few suggestions 1. Support for languages like Assamese/Punjabi is very much required. 2. The inscript keyboard option should be there for all the languages. 3. Let the user select the language name first, the keyboad option can be given (phonetic/inscript) in the next screen. 4. A better user interface can be provided for the homepage. Hope soon someone will develop a device for this. Supporting all the Indian language scripts without any rendering issues will be a challenge. May be we may need to try the web font embedding technology. Shiju On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:08 AM, arunra...@gmail.com wrote: Arjuna, Just test drove the site. I think this is a great beginning in letting people access sites and query wikimedia content in Indian languages without having to worry about having to configure a language specific keyboard on a given PC. It would be great if you could also link to all the Wikimedia sites in that language after the screen key board is chosen. regards Arun Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel -Original Message- From: arjuna rao chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com Sender: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:35:56 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Reply-To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
