Hi Shiju. Will work on a Firefox addon soon. Is support only for Firefox 4.0+ fine?
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Shiju Alex <shijualexonl...@gmail.com>wrote: > Yuvi, > It would be great if you develop a firefox extension also for this. > > Unfortunately google Chrome's performance is bad with Indic scripts. There > are couple of issues with wiki editing also. Due to this many of us prefer > firefox over chrome. > > Shiju > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Yuvi Panda <yuvipa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've fixed the UI in the Options, and made a newer release ( >> https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gpoogepkjnjfmpijnpaocncdjbedaeeo/ >> ). >> >> Feedback? In particular, I've listed 20 Indic languages as buttons on the >> options page, and I don't have enough knowledge to check if they are all >> correct! So if someone could check, I'd be grateful :) >> >> Suggestions? What should I prioritize next? I'll monitor this thread, or >> you can file issues (https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/issues). >> >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Yuvi Panda <yuvipa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Srikanth (too many Srikanths!). Right now, you can use only one >>> language at a time. Would links to multiple language wikis be useful? >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < >>> rsrikant...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Yuvi, >>>> Is this for one laguage at a time only, or any language, any time? >>>> --Regards, >>>> Srikanth R. >>>> >>>> On 14 April 2011 11:18, Vickram Crishna <vvcris...@radiophony.com>wrote: >>>> >>>>> I'm forwarding this to an acquaintance in Google, with a request to >>>>> include multilingual results as a link in regular searches. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan < >>>>> srik....@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Great!! What more, this comes on Tamil New year !! >>>>>> >>>>>> Agree with Sundar that Google must push this from server side. Instead >>>>>> of spending huge money on translations etc, these efforts actually help >>>>>> Indic / regional language Wikipedia's >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards >>>>>> Srikanth.L >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:58, BalaSundaraRaman < >>>>>> sundarbe...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Great, Yuvi. Let's all use this feature ourselves and hopefully >>>>>>> Google will take not of it and promote the other language wiki pages in >>>>>>> their search results themselves. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> - Sundar >>>>>>> >>>>>>> "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a >>>>>>> medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." >>>>>>> - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture >>>>>>> >>>>>>> --- On *Thu, 4/14/11, Yuvi Panda <yuvipa...@gmail.com>* wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> From: Yuvi Panda <yuvipa...@gmail.com> >>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Language Wiki Results in Google >>>>>>> (With a Chrome Extension) >>>>>>> To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." < >>>>>>> wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >>>>>>> Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011, 12:31 AM >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Update: I've now added ability to change language. Just go to >>>>>>> 'Options' (from the extensions page) and enter your language code (hi >>>>>>> for hindi, etc). Needs a big UX liftup though. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Yuvi Panda >>>>>>> <yuvipa...@gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=yuvipa...@gmail.com>> >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> > I've been working for a few hours on a Chrome extension to add >>>>>>> links >>>>>>> > to Indic Language Wiki pages when searching in Google. It hooks >>>>>>> into >>>>>>> > Google's search results, and if it finds an enwiki article (to >>>>>>> which a >>>>>>> > tawiki interwiki link also exists), it'll display it side by side. >>>>>>> > Screenshot here: http://min.us/mbmIeeUOb8y00p#1 >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > You can test the extension by installing it from here: >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gpoogepkjnjfmpijnpaocncdjbedaeeo/ >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > It is open source, and the code is available here: >>>>>>> > https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/. You can file issues >>>>>>> here >>>>>>> > https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/issues/. >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > Known issues: >>>>>>> > 1. Doesn't work when Google Instant is turned on (turn it off) >>>>>>> > 2. Doesn't work for some country specific subdomains (which don't >>>>>>> have >>>>>>> > /search url part. Current solution: use google.com :P) >>>>>>> > 3. Currently hardcoded to display links to tawiki only (Will have >>>>>>> to >>>>>>> > build an options dialog to support other languages) >>>>>>> > 4. Needs a better logo (Help in this department would be highly >>>>>>> appreciated :) ) >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > I think this is one step forward in fixing the search issue - >>>>>>> > discovering content in Indic Language wikis is now easier. >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > Thanks to Srikanth Lakshmanan for alpha testing. >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > Feedback welcome :) >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > P.S. I'm also working on a Firefox version of this addon. 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