Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easyinterface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages

2010-09-17 Thread Shiju Alex 
> 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
*ISM
*.

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 wrote:
>
>> 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
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easyinterface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages

2010-09-17 Thread arjuna rao chavala 
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Anirudh Bhati wrote:

> 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
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easyinterface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages

2010-09-16 Thread Anirudh Bhati 
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.

Yours sincerely,

Anirudh Singh Bhati
B.Com, LL.B. (Hons.), Gujarat National Law University,
Gandhinagar, India.

Handphone: +919328712208
Skype: anirudhsbh

If this email were legal advice, it would be followed by a bill.


On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:43 AM, arjuna rao chavala <
arjunar...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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 wrote:
>
>> 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,  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 
>>> Sender: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
>>> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:35:56
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easyinterface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages

2010-09-16 Thread arjuna rao chavala 
Arun,

Thanks for your feedback. I would like to expand the scope of search to
Government and other Non profit institutions as mentioned in the blog link
from the site. Also, I want people to experience the clicking of characters
on the next page.

Cheers
Arjun

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:08 AM,  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-
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> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:35:56
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easyinterface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages

2010-09-16 Thread arjuna rao chavala 
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 wrote:

> 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,  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 
>> Sender: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
>> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:35:56
>> To: 
>> 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
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easyinterface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages

2010-09-16 Thread Shiju Alex 
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,  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 
> Sender: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org
> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:35:56
> To: 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easyinterface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages

2010-09-16 Thread arunram25 
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

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