Any idea on my topic https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Xq0fmgvy9o6ykd8d&topic_showPostId=xq0fmgvy9s50sh6l#flow-post-xq0fmgvy9s50sh6l Tanks -- Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 09:14, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
Talk:Wikimedia Language engineering
Matma Rex’s patch demo is a nice way to try out work-in-progress patches without having to install MediaWiki and extensions and checking out the patch from Gerrit on one’s own computer (which is good not only to lazy developers, but also non-devs, who couldn’t otherwise get the patch working). Unfortunately, it doesn’t contain the Translate extension. Is anyone against including it?
I'd be happy to include it if someone submits a patch with all the configuration needed to get it working in a way that is convenient for testing.
I wanted to hear some feedback from the Language engineering team, but apparently no one noticed, and it was done in the meantime in pull request #322.
I think that inputs from members of this team are required, since these languages might also be our i18n challange-ups?
I believe that we need a translation lexicon in the translation program. The current translation program only displays the translations already done when the phrases hit almost 100%, but when there is one or two problematic words in a paragraph, the current program cannot do anything. I suggest a simple box in the upper right corner where the translator can add more difficult words that he translated and recap these same words suggested by himself or by others.
Could someone please take a look at this thread and see the possibility of Quiddity's suggestion ? Thanks.
I have created a list of unrecognised languages, using w:List of languages by number of native speakers for 5 million+, and a few others I know of in the 1 million+ range. It would be good if someone closer to the code can double check it. I think we should link the ISO codes to the relevant translatewiki page, like translatewiki:Portal:ban, as that provides stats and a list of translator usernames.
Hi guys, can I ask why you don't consider Russian language to be world language, in contrast to Portuguese. I mean his status in wiki language menu. Thanks
Back when we were creating the list in 2012, we gave "Worldwide" to languages that are artificial and don't belong to any particular country (like Esperanto and a few others), and to languages that are spoken on many continents. Portuguese is spoken in Europe, America (Brazil), Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau), and Asia (East Timor, Macau, Goa), and Russian is only Europe and Asia.
Frankly, I don't think that the choice of aforementioned criteria was a wise decision. Territory when Russian is used is much vaster than Portuguese-speaking territory. Russian is the second most widespread language on the Internet with more L1+L2 speakers than Portuguese or French. I wouldn't call Chinese and Hindi worldwide language, because they are restricted to one specific region, virtually to one country. But I think that we cannot say that Russian is somehow "restricted", given the immensity of the area. For me it is definitely world language, alongside with Arabic. And let's faced it, globally much influential and significant than Portuguese (official language of UN etc.). Anyway, if you like it, leave it as it is. Thanks for your answer. Bye.
On Sindhi Wikipedia the default fonts are Tahoma but these unattractive and does not suit our language. I request the concerned ones to kindly provide us with the fonts as the ones being provided on Sindhi Wiktionary.
User:Purodha has changed User:Pginer's name to "Paul", but everywhere else I see he's being referred to as "Pau", a Catalan given name.
Fixed.