[Foundation-l] Right to left support for Mobile MediaWiki

Wed Feb 24 18:39:05 UTC 2010

Thanks for sharing the announcement and explanation Gerard, that's very good
news!

Steven Walling
http://enwp.org/User:Steven_Walling

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hoi,
> http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Wikimedia_mobile is the project
> page at translatewiki.net When all messages are localised, the message
> saying that we do not have a localisation will go away.
>
> A mobile main page needs to be created. Configurations like this need to be
> entered by one of the admins, the localisations go life once a week,
> sometimes more often. So yes, bugzilla is a good idea :)
>
> The mobile interface will work without a main page, without a localisation
> but it will not make our readers happy. It is either too sparse or it looks
> like not ready for use.. It turned me off the first time I saw this.
> Thanks,
>     GerardM
>
> On 24 February 2010 14:46, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il
> >wrote:
>
> > Thanks!
> >
> > So, let me get this straight:
> >
> > 1. http://he.m.wikipedia.org/ already exists, but says "Homepage Not Yet
> > Configured"
> > 2. If i translate 25 messages to Hebrew, it will just work? Or do i need
> to
> > open a Bugzilla ticket?
> > 3. If it's just a matter of translating of translating 25 messages to
> > Hebrew, where do i start?
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 15:42, Gerard Meijssen <
> gerard.meijssen at gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Hoi,
> > > I am really happy to have learned that mobile support for Right To Left
> > > languages, think Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Hebrew has been implemented. When
> > > people start to find their way to their Wikipedia on their mobile, we
> > stand
> > > to gain many readers.
> > >
> > > Did you know:
> > >
> > >   - That it takes only 25 messages to localise the Mobile interface in
> > your
> > >   language completely
> > >   - That this software is written in Ruby
> > >   - That hcatlin and thedj are doing much of the work on this software
> > >   - That the mobile interface can be found at
> http://xx.m.wikipedia.org
> > (xx
> > >   is your language code)
> > >   - That we need a main page for mobile Wikipedia
> > >   - That for Mobile Wiktionary still points to Wikipedia
> > >
> > > As always, we need your help to help people find their way to Wikipedia
> > it
> > > does not take much to improve things for the mobile..
> > > Thanks,
> > >     GerardM
> > >
> > > PS languages like Malayalam, Swahili and Bengali shine with their newly
> > > localised interface
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> > --
> > אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
> > Amir Elisha Aharoni
> >
> > http://aharoni.wordpress.com
> >
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