Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages
Just to let you know that Google has quietly added several layouts before deprecating the whole Virtual keyboard API.( These will continue to work). I have updated my app and feel it can be used in wiki academies or where you want to focus on searching wikis, Do try and share your feedback. http://gyanpad.appspot.com Cheers Arjun On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:58 AM, arjuna rao chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: I added a comment on google issue. http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/detail?id=454q=virtual%20keyboardcolspec=ID%20Type%20Stars%20Status%20Modified%20Summary%20APIType%20Opened Request your help to support the same, so that it gets Google attention. Regards Arjun On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 7:35 AM, arjuna rao chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: I am happy to share a tiny web application to help people get started with using Indian languages on Computers in public places, using wiki sites. Check it out http://gyanpad.appspot.com/ 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: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages
I added a comment on google issue. http://code.google.com/p/google-ajax-apis/issues/detail?id=454q=virtual%20keyboardcolspec=ID%20Type%20Stars%20Status%20Modified%20Summary%20APIType%20Opened Request your help to support the same, so that it gets Google attention. Regards Arjun On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 7:35 AM, arjuna rao chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: I am happy to share a tiny web application to help people get started with using Indian languages on Computers in public places, using wiki sites. Check it out http://gyanpad.appspot.com/ 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: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 07:35, arjuna rao chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: I am happy to share a tiny web application to help people get started with using Indian languages on Computers in public places, using wiki sites. Check it out http://gyanpad.appspot.com/ Cheers Arjun Hi Arjuna, Great stuff. One more suggestion i could think of is to support google transliteration in addition to phonetic input. Just to qoute an example in the difference, phonetic gives டமில் for tamil where the same in google transliterate gives the correct word தமிழ். Google i think has a memory on its transliteration labs as well. Pardon my ignorance of not knowing any other indic language other than tamil. Is the code open somewhere? -- Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ 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: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Hi Arjuna, Great stuff. One more suggestion i could think of is to support google transliteration in addition to phonetic input. Just to qoute an example in the difference, phonetic gives டமில் for tamil where the same in google transliterate gives the correct word தமிழ். Google i think has a memory on its transliteration labs as well. Pardon my ignorance of not knowing any other indic language other than tamil. Is the code open somewhere? Thanks. With transliteration you just need to live with English keypad , you will see the text in native language only after you type space following all the english spelling of the native language word. I ran into problem s adding other google search features like suggested search words based on the history, when I tried to integrate virtual keyboard and search for this application. Code is tiny and not of very good quality. It is just the html pages that you can look at using view source in your browser once the page loads. Feel free to check out. 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: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages
(copying my response from another list) Good work, Arjuna. (Though not a fan of phonetic keyboards that rely on English alphabet sounds due to long term negative impact,) I tried Tamil and Malayalam and they both work very well. One suggestion would be to handle backspace to erase the original input. For example, if I've typed aa in Malayalam, and press backspace, it should retain 'a', no? - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture From: arjuna rao chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Fri, September 17, 2010 7:35:56 AM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages I am happy to share a tiny web application to help people get started with using Indian languages on Computers in public places, using wiki sites. Check it out http://gyanpad.appspot.com/ 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: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote: We have to wait for Google to provide inscript keyboards for other languages or make inscript/alphabetic keyboards ourselves. :) Why wait for Google? We have lot of programmers among us. Let us form a team and start working on it. Since Google has already done one, it will be much easier for them to repeat it for other languages, as it is just one mapping file. It will offer consistent quality. Else we have to struggle with consistency in look/programing etc. ___ 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: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages
I see. - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture From: arjuna rao chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Fri, September 17, 2010 8:51:27 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:07 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote: (copying my response from another list) Good work, Arjuna. (Though not a fan of phonetic keyboards that rely on English alphabet sounds due to long term negative impact,) I agree. May be some people are comfortable with that. We have to wait for Google to provide inscript keyboards for other languages or make inscript/alphabetic keyboards ourselves. I tried Tamil and Malayalam and they both work very well. One suggestion would be to handle backspace to erase the original input. For example, if I've typed aa in Malayalam, and press backspace, it should retain 'a', no? The backspace works on the converted unicode characters. If you type ra, backspace will delete the whole unicode letter. If you type raa to reflect long vowel, one backspace will make it equivalent to ra. If you are starting the word with aa, it becomes a single unicode character corresponding to long vowel (A). Regards Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
