Fantastic news! Let's all make sure speakers of these languages hear of this and incorporate it into their work and their trainings.
A. On Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 12:37 Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected] wrote: > Hi! > > I'm very happy to announce that the keyboard support for five languages of > Africa has improved! > > The languages are Ewe, Fon, Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba. The improved typing > support is usable on any desktop computer with a browser with JavaScript > enabled. It is installed in Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia projects, and > also on translatewiki.net. > > These typing tools don't require the installation of any software on your > computers, or using any key combinations (like Alt or Ctrl). Most special > characters are typed on these keyboards by typing the tilde (~) character > before the special letter. > > See the full documentation here: > > * Ewe: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/ee-tilde > * Fon: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/fon-tilde > * Hausa: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/ha-tilde > * Igbo: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/ig-tilde > * Yoruba: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/yo-tilde > > Some thanks and credits: > The Fon keyboard was originally made by Mahuton Possoupe at the Barcelona > Hackathon. This week I updated it with some more necessary characters by > Mahuton's request. > The Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba keyboards were requested by User:HandsomeBoy > at > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Editing/Add_key_mapping_for_Yoruba,_Igbo,_and_Hausa_to_ULS > . > The keyboard for Ewe was requested by Felix Nartey. > Kartik Mistry was very helpful with reviewing the code for the keyboards, > and of course I thank all the developers of jquery.ime ( > https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime/ ), the underlying technology > that was used to make them. > > If you have any questions about these keyboards, or if you want to request > keyboard support for more languages, please reach out to me or leave a note > at the talk page: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians >
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