Hey folks, That'd be me! I'll follow up with Amir and Isaac directly.
Best, --Ed On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 10:32 AM Isaac Olatunde <reachout2is...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sure, I'd be happy to! This makes a lot of sense. Who is in charge of the > blog at WMF? > > Regards, > > Isaac > > On Sat, May 25, 2019, 11:27 AM Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com > wrote: > > > 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. 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