On 8 March 2011 10:11, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> wrote: > (changing the thread title) > > On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Gerard Meijssen > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have proposed to spend 100,000,- Euro and this will make major >> improvements for the scripts, the fonts and the standards for the languages >> we have a Wikipedia for. This is given the current budget chicken feed. >> Thanks, >> GerardM > > This is not a comment on the amount of money but on the idea of > improvements to scripts/fonts/standards etc. > > I understand there's been discussion about creating a list of problems > for representing various languages on the internet. For example, some > languages have problems being written online because they are not well > supported in Unicode, or some don't have free fonts, etc. etc. > > These are problems for *any* website that wants to support that > particular language. There are also bugs related to how *we* support > particular languages in MediaWiki -- as far as I know these have > mainly been collected in Bugzilla. > > So my questions are: 1) have there ever been any comprehensive lists > made of these language-related bugs (either within MediaWiki or in > general); and, 2) what needs to be done (technically) to support > small(er) languages?
I haven't seen such list for MediaWiki which covers all issues, but a structured list would be great. I could even like doing one when I have time. > > (I know we, & in particular GerardM, have been discussing this for a > long time. But I'm curious what the current state of affairs is, and > if issues for small languages are collected together in one place). There are also issues that affect big languages. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
