Hiya,
This is to inform you that Bishakha and I had a meeting
with the team at the
Akshara Centre (http://www.aksharacentre.org/),
a Mumbai based NGO that works on womans rights and
Hi all,
Please read the blogpost[1] by GerardM on the need to cleanup mediawiki
namespace on Indic wikis. Doing this will mean Wiki projects will get
updated translations from LocalizationUpdates when they are translated in
translatewiki and not be overshadowed by old (incorrect/outdated) local
Probable offtopic: i read once that konkani use atleast 3 scripts
(devanagiri, kannada, malayalam). If webfonts can switch appropriate
font according to a user, while keeping one encoding as base
(devanagiri?) , may help new generation people, who are now part of
other states, and living under
It's not so much a matter of WebFonts, as of script conversion.
MediaWiki already supports this for for several languages, most
notably Chinese and Serbian.
We at the WMF L10n team can probably add support for Konkani, too, but
we'll need a specification of requirements from an expert on that
One does not even know how to begin helping out. For one, there are so many
dialects, hardly any Konkani speaks the same dialect as the next Konkani
guy he meets. The Gomantak variety is sufficiently different from the other
versions to justify forks. And we have only just begun!
Warm regards,
