Hi Amir, Thanks for this new development. I will be sharing this information with the Yoruba Wikipedia community shortly.
Regards, Isaac On Dec 14, 2018 10:29 AM, "Asaf Bartov" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 The Fon keyboard was originally made by Mahuton Possoupe at the Barcelona 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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