Excellent case study of collaboration between different language Wikipedia communities. Great going, folks !
Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 6:37 AM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonl...@gmail.com>wrote: > What is the nature of the effort involved say to >> > extend this to Telugu, kannada, Hindi etc. >> > > Junaid has already (partially)* extended* this solution to Hindi, Marathi, > Sanskrit, and Bhojpuri wikipedias. You can see the respective wikipedias to > see the Transliteration solution developed by Junaid working there. > > Among these Sanskrit wikipedia (http://sa.wikipedia.org) has the best > Devanagri transliteration solution since many people cooperated with Junaid > for its testing. > > But currently *only Transliteration* solution is available in those > wikipedias. Rest of the solutions (for example, inscript) need to developed. > Junaid is working on it. > > A transliteration solution is already available in *Kannada* and > *Telugu*wikipedias. But it is not advanced as the one developed by Junaid. If > the > respective language communities cooperate with the testing (of the > respective script) we can easily extend it to other Indian languages. > > Thanks > Shiju > > > > > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Nagarjuna G <nagar...@gnowgi.org> wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Ravishankar <ravidre...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > We are glad to inform that inbuilt Tamil typing tool has been added in >> Tamil >> > Wikipedia and Tamil WikiNews. After some testing, we will add it in >> other >> > Wikimedia projects and release the code for use in all sites using >> > MediaWiki. >> > >> > We hope that this will help many first time editors and increase Tamil >> word >> > searches in the site search box. >> > >> > This was possible as a follow up of the recent Chennai Wikimedia meetup >> when >> > Malayalam Wikimedia user Shiju Alex urged us to have this tool. Then >> > Malayalam Wikimedia user Junaid. P. V. joined the team to transfer the >> code >> > from Malayalam Wiki and modified it for Tamil needs. All work done in a >> week >> > and three cheers for the interwiki collaborative spirit of Malayalam >> > Wikipedians. >> > >> >> It is natural to go greedy! Can we extend this to other Indian >> languages as well. What is the nature of the effort involved say to >> extend this to Telugu, kannada, Hindi etc. >> >> -- >> GN >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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