Hi Gerard, Thanks (belatedly) for this update. Actually you've been a great help in passing on information to us over the 2+ years this list has been running....
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Dec 2, 2008 8:59 am
Hoi, On the Foundation list I have started a thread about usability of the MediaWiki software. Central in this are extensions created by UNICEF. These ...
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Oliver Stegen
babatabita
Dec 2, 2008 9:56 am
Hoi Gerard, I'm sorry to tell you that, even as a Western European (although having lived in East Africa for the last 12 years), I'm not computer-savvy enough...
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Martin Benjamin
piperzen
Dec 2, 2008 9:56 am
Gerard, translating those 8 messages is just too easy! I did it for Swahili in less than 10 minutes - they are really short. Can people on this list complete...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Dec 14, 2008 4:05 pm
Hoi, I blogged about the Luganda main page.. What do you think of it ? http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2008/12/wikipedia-main-page-with-twist.html Thanks, ...
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Martin Benjamin
piperzen
Dec 17, 2008 9:32 am
Ian Gilfillan posted an overview of the current state of Afrophone Wikipedias, particularly focused on the languages of South Africa: ...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Dec 17, 2008 9:56 am
Hoi, Luckily you do not have to create extensions. This is something that is done by programmers. What you can do is translate the eight messages for your ...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Dec 17, 2008 9:57 am
Hoi, Every month I post a message on the Wikipedias informing them on the status of their localisation. This time I have added a sentence if the localisation ...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Dec 18, 2008 11:25 am
Hoi, I have written about supporting Lingala in MediaWiki on my blog. The ɔ́ character showed properly while I was editing it and did not once I published my...
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renaud gaudin
kunnafoni
Dec 18, 2008 12:02 pm
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Gerard Meijssen ... Also, I've been reporting for ages that the interface should use the same font as text so that "buttons"...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Dec 18, 2008 1:46 pm
Hi Gerard, Thanks for your efforts on promoting the extensions and in publicizing the Luganda Wikipedia. These are important efforts that I'll highlight...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Dec 18, 2008 1:54 pm
Hi Martin, Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I put a link to Ian's blog on the AfrophoneWikis group site at ...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Dec 18, 2008 2:24 pm
Hi Gerard, Renaud. Thanks for bringing this issue up. There are ongoing problems in the field with Latin-based orthographies that I call category 3 (have...
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renaud gaudin
kunnafoni
Dec 18, 2008 3:01 pm
... It still partly is. ... Too bad me missed ; I'm not surprised ; _nobody_ outside language education-related NGOs are using such materials here. ... Well,...
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Don Osborn
bisharat_dot...
Dec 18, 2008 5:26 pm
Hi Renaud, Responses in text... ... Tried to connect with Geekcorps there - Dwayne Bailey was also in town as we were meeting with ACALAN (and others) - but no...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Dec 18, 2008 5:49 pm
Hoi, I have opened a bug in Bugzilla. I am interested in learning what will happen. What you can do is "vote" for this bug and or follow what happens with this...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Dec 18, 2008 5:50 pm
Hoi, I have created some screen prints on Meta and added it to the bug report. I learned that the ɔ́ shows properly in final form but not in the edit mode. ...
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renaud gaudin
kunnafoni
Dec 18, 2008 6:25 pm
... Hum.. Last may I was contracted by Geekcorps ; I should have been told ; nervermind. ... Well, I was only talking about Mali. I've seen very different use...
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Andrew Cunningham
andj_c
Dec 18, 2008 9:26 pm
There is no problem with Unicode per se and African languages. There are problems with: 1) operating system support for languages 2) application support for...
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Andrew Cunningham
andj_c
Dec 18, 2008 9:38 pm
Hi Don although this is to some degree a design issue in yahoo groups. One important aspect of web internationalisation is the need for styling to be language...
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Andrew Cunningham
andj_c
Dec 18, 2008 10:03 pm
From an end user perspective, You need to ensure appropriate fonts are available, but you also need to ensure that appropriate rendering/text layout...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Dec 19, 2008 12:31 am
Hoi, I have spend more time on understanding the issue. I produced some screen shots and Brion did some more testing.. I quote him: ...
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Andrew Cunningham
andj_c
Dec 19, 2008 4:59 am
End user needs: 1) font rendering / text layout service that supports combining diacritics with Latin script 2) appropriate fonts that also support combining...
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Andrew Cunningham
andj_c
Dec 19, 2008 5:00 am
The mention of characters displaying as boxes reminds me of an important aspect of all this. How wbe browsers behave. What fonts a web browser will attempt to...
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Andrew Cunningham
andj_c
Dec 19, 2008 10:45 am
Hi Gerard, The editing environment is a question of what fonts are being used by the browser in the edit window. Could you do another test instead of using...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Dec 19, 2008 10:55 am
Hoi, When it came to the testing, I did the "simple" thing. I took one word of the main page of the ln.wikipedia and i copied it accross. I do not know how to...
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Andrew Cunningham
andj_c
Dec 19, 2008 11:47 am
Hi Gerard It is a two step process. 1) test your browsers and operating system configuration with a file that should display correctly. 2) test the web service...
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Andrew Cunningham
andj_c
Dec 19, 2008 11:58 am
There are a few issues that really do need resolving, partly around education and training and partly around resourcing: 1) web developers need to undertsand...
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Andrew Cunningham
andj_c
Dec 19, 2008 12:10 pm
I've added a screenshot using IE7 on Windows XP (Service Pack 3). Available at http://www.openroad.net.au/dev/test/lingala-test.png With the right fonts and...
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Gerard Meijssen
meijg
Dec 19, 2008 4:32 pm
Hoi, Andrew on my system the Safari is obviously superior. What I want to see is that the edit mode of Wikipedia is as good as the read mode. THIS is what we ...
