Re: [Wikitech-l] Language variants

2009-09-09 Thread Helder Geovane Gomes de Lima
Nice! ;-) Do you think tables like these http://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikcionário:Versões da língua portuguesa/Tabela http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Versões da língua portuguesa/tabela could be a start point to a similar conversion system for pt <-> pt-br? Meanwhile, I was also trying to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Language variants

2009-09-09 Thread Tim Starling
Roan Kattouw wrote: > That's the alphabet variant thing I mentioned earlier. If the majority > of the differences between pt and pt-br can be summed up with simple > rules that a computer can handle, we might be able to work something > out. However, that's usually not the case; I don't know Portug

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Foundation-l] Do we have a complete set of WMF projects?

2009-09-09 Thread David Gerard
As Erik points out, at a certain point we have to actually write new code to support new ideas. Else "projects we could do at Wikimedia" becomes "projects we can do with a wiki engine." e.g. OpenStreetMap would have been a natural for WMF, but it would have required a whole new software infrastruc

[Wikitech-l] LanguageSelector on strategy wiki

2009-09-09 Thread Tisza Gergő
The LanguageSelector extension [1] can automatically set the interface language based on browser settings, which is nowadays the norm for every serious multilanguage web page. It is not used on WMF wikis, because it would interfere with caching. The strategic planning wiki [2] has, however, relativ

Re: [Wikitech-l] Language variants

2009-09-09 Thread David Gerard
2009/9/9 Roan Kattouw : > 2009/9/9 Helder Geovane Gomes de Lima : >> So, I would like to know if there is currently any feature which could >> help us to avoid the problem of having a divided community of users >> ('pt' x 'pt-br') "fighting" with each other ad infinitum... (and to >> avoid proposa

Re: [Wikitech-l] Language variants

2009-09-09 Thread Roan Kattouw
2009/9/9 Helder Geovane Gomes de Lima : > Hello! > > I noticed at sr.wikipedia there is an option "Variant" under > "Internationalization" at the preferences. How is that different from > the 'sr', 'sr-ec' and 'sr-el' which are shown at "Language" option > (also under "Internationalization")? > > I

[Wikitech-l] Language variants

2009-09-09 Thread Helder Geovane Gomes de Lima
Hello! I noticed at sr.wikipedia there is an option "Variant" under "Internationalization" at the preferences. How is that different from the 'sr', 'sr-ec' and 'sr-el' which are shown at "Language" option (also under "Internationalization")? I'm interested in this because there are some differenc