Just my take on the matter: I find the 'pronunciation respelling key' next to impossible to read, and IPA fairly simple (apart from some of the rarer symbols or diacritics...)
On 21 April 2010 18:45, stevertigo <[email protected]> wrote: > (Crossposted to wikien and foundation:) > > Some points about IPA on all language wikis. > > 1) As a rule, all language wikis should use International Phonetic > Alphabet as their standard pronunciation scheme. Very few appear to > actually do. > 2) All language wikis should attempt to use IPA to pronounce the > endonym of a foreign word, not the exonymic re-pronunciation (ie. Iraq > = /iːˈrɑːk/ not /ɪˈræk/). > 3) With rare exceptions, IPA should be the default phonemic > transcription scheme, and > alternate schemes such as [[Wikipedia:Pronunciation respelling key]] > should be avoided or deprecated. > 4) Feedback from languages about IPA should be useful. IPA is actually > quite flexible about exactness, while still being phonetically > precise. If there are flaws in IPA itself, the Wikipedia community can > help raise them for the Internation Phonetic Association. > 5) Ambiguity about how it is supposed to be used is a cross-project > issue should be dealt with at the Foundation level (ie. global not > just inter-wiki policy). > > -Stevertigo > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
