On 9/10/09 10:06 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Tim Starling<[email protected]> wrote: > >> I don't know why you're writing this nonsense, you obviously haven't >> looked at the code at all. >> > This paragraph is unnecessary. > Seriously! Please read things aloud before clicking send. You will hopefully then be able to better detect when it's time to take a break, eat some fruit and take it down a notch. >> The language variant system that we have could easily convert between >> US and UK English. In fact it already does convert between a language >> pair with a far more complex relationship, that is Simplified and >> Traditional Chinese. >> >> The language conversion system is very simple, it's just a table of >> translated pairs, where the longest match takes precedence. The >> translation table in one direction (e.g. UK -> US) can be different to >> the table in the other direction (US -> UK). You would not list "ize >> -> ise", you would list every word in the dictionary with an -ize >> ending that can be translated to -ise without controversy. The current >> software could handle 50k pairs or so without serious performance >> problems, and it could be extended and optimised to allow millions of >> pairs if there was a need for that. >> >> It's possible to handle any pair of languages which are separated only >> by vocabulary, and transliteration or spelling. It's only differences >> in grammar, such as word order, that would give it trouble. >> > Is there any reason nobody's tried adding such support for us/uk > English? It would resolve some long-standing tension on enwiki. > Would anons have to be given one variant or the other, or would they > get untransformed text or what? Does the variant transformation apply > to the edit page as well? > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > The variant system seems poorly understood by most people (including me) which often tends to cause something (like it for instance) to also be under-utilized...
Perhaps we need more information on what it intends to provide the user. All I find in Google on this topic are blurbs about configuration variables and lots of people confused as to what language variants even are... Is there some awesome documentation somewhere I have yet to find? - Trevor _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
