Hey Isaac,
Would you be willing to either write an article about using the Yoruba
keyboard. Particularly what it takes to learn to use it and if/how you use
other software? It would deserve a place on the Wikimedia blog because the
keyboard effort deserves much more attention :)
Thanks,
GerardM
On Sat, 25 May 2019 at 11:28, Isaac Olatunde <reachout2is...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello Amir,
>
> Thank you for this great work. I have been enjoying the Yoruba keyboard you
> designed for me over over three years ago. I am proud to say that in have
> translated over 250 articles from English Wikipedia to Yoruba Wikipedia
> using the keyboards and I have trained others on now to use it and they
> have also translated over 200 articles to Yoruba Wikipedia. Without, this
> keyboard it's usually uninteresting for native speakers to contribute to
> Yoruba Wikipedia but that problem has now been mitigated by your work.
>
> Again, thank you so much on behalf of the Yoruba Wikipedia community.
>
> Regards,
>
> Isaac
>
> (Apology for mistakenly posting with the indaba email connected to my
> device)
>
> On Sat, May 25, 2019, 8:29 AM WikiIndaba 2019 Nigeria <
> wikiindaba2019scholars...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hello Amir,
> >
> > Thank you for this great work. I have been enjoying the Yoruba keyboard
> > you designed for me over over three years ago. I am proud to say that in
> > have translated over 250 articles from English Wikipedia to Yoruba
> > Wikipedia using the keyboards and I have trained others on now to use it
> > and they have also translated over 200 articles to Yoruba Wikipedia.
> > Without, this keyboard it's usually uninteresting for native speakers to
> > contribute to Yoruba Wikipedia but that problem has now been mitigated by
> > your work.
> >
> > Again, thank you so much on behalf of the Yoruba Wikipedia community.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Isaac
> >
> > On Sat, May 25, 2019, 8:20 AM Amir E. Aharoni <
> > amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
> >
> >> Hello, and happy Africa day!
> >>
> >> [ crossposted to African Wikimedians list, general Wikimedia list, and
> >> mediawiki-i18n ]
> >>
> >> To celebrate this, I am announcing the completion of a little pet
> project
> >> that I started a year ago: it is now easy to type in all the languages
> of
> >> Africa in which there is a Wikipedia or an active Incubator.
> >>
> >> This is available in all Wikimedia projects and in translatewiki.net.
> >> This release is intended for desktop and laptop computers. For mobile
> >> phones and tablets, I strongly recommend trying apps such as Gboard,
> >> SwiftKey, or African Keyboard.
> >>
> >> For full details and project description see this blog post:
> >>
> >>
> https://aharoni.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/happy-africa-day-keyboards-for-all-african-wikipedia-languages/
> >>
> >> Or jump straight into the (easy!!!) technical documentation here:
> >>
> >>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/Africa
> >>
> >> These keyboards were tested by myself, and some of them were also tested
> >> by a few other people who speak these languages, and as far as I know
> they
> >> are easy to enable and disable and the work correctly. However, it's
> >> possible that some things are missing: I could have missed some
> letters, I
> >> could have made mistakes in documentation, I could have missed some
> >> languages. Please contact me if you find any problems.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> --
> >> Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
> >> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
> >> “We're living in pieces,
> >> I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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