https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30743
--- Comment #11 from reza1615 <[email protected]> 2011-09-18 22:46:38 UTC --- In fa.wiki amirbot made 30,000 redirect pages for redirecting Arabic alphabet to Farsi alphabet so if any one search with Arabic alphabet he doesn't have any problem to find articles but the only problem is we can not make redirect for Alias name.so making these aliases doesn't decrease the rate of compliance to the standards of Persian characters! also we have to make redirect every month for our titles that they have ی and ک and ZWNJ Another point, I suggested this bug only for Fa.wiki not Arabic! we have many PC users that they are not wiki editor and the need to read our article and they don't have Persian keyboard or they don't use ZWNJ .what should we do for them? (In reply to comment #10) > The last comment by Reza is in the opposite direction: it requests the search > feature to be modified to replace the correct letter (used in the correct > namespaces) with the wrong (but more frequently available on Arabic-friendly > mobile devices) letter. > > As for what you suggest, I'm still a little skeptic, because it promotes the > use of incorrect (i.e. non-standard) letters in the Wiki. Right now, if you > type [[كاربر:Huji]] (which starts with non-standard ك character), you get a > redlink, and then you will learn to use the standard letter. If those aliases > are added, the link will become a blue link, and the rate of compliance to the > standards of Persian characters will decrease. > > This is why, in my belief, the solution to a mobile-only problem should only > affect mobile users. I think it is Wikimedia Mobile extension that has to be > modified, not the MediaWiki itself. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
