Gothic wikipedia has a bad transliteration system

[GothicSpeaker]

Hello there,

I 'm active at the Gothic Wikipedia and currently we have a transliteration system which isn't very user-friendly. Also, typing in Gothic is not really possible without special tools outside of wikipedia. An example can be seen here:
https://got.wikipedia.org/wiki/%F0%90%8D%85%F0%90%8C%B0%F0%90%8C%BC%F0%90%8C%B1%F0%90%8C%B0
Articles are written both in Gothic and Latin script, but the Latin script is added manually by the user, which takes a lot of extra work and the Latin script can only be added by surrounding the Latin text with: {{𐌻𐌰𐍄𐌹𐌽𐍃𐌺𐌰 𐌼𐌴𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃}}
{{𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰}}, as you can understand, this involves a lot of copy-pasting, which isn't really necessary. It's also the reason why a lot of articles in fact lack a Latin transliteration or in fact don't have the Gothic alphabet, but just a Latin version.

Instead, I would propose to use the same system like the Aenglisc wikipedia has, with a converter:
https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia
Like you can see, above the text there is a: [ gw ] [ ȝƿ ] [ ᚱᚢᚾ ]? , with which you can change the script. As nobody has done it before, I have written a gothic keyboard converter, following the instructions from #mediawiki-i18n for this issue. It can be found here: https://got.wikipedia.org/wiki/%F0%90%8C%BD%F0%90%8C%B9%F0%90%8C%BF%F0%90%8D%84%F0%90%8C%B0%F0%90%8C%BD%F0%90%8C%B3%F0%90%8D%83:Bokareis/got.js

I wonder if it is possible to resolve this issue, as it is one of the reasons why this Wikipedia is not very user-friendly in it's use. I have transliterated a lot of articles with the system of this Wikipedia, while I think that the transliteration of the Old English wikipedia saves us a lot of work.

Kind regards,

Gothicspeaker (Wikipedia username: bokareis)

[santhoshtr]

Hello, The input method rules inside jquery.ime is written and contributed by people like you. So we can happily add gothic language also to our collection. The got.js file you wrote looks good to me(technically). Can you create a pull request by completing the following steps?

1. Add got.js to rules/got folder
2. Follow the documentation at https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime (see "Developers" section)
3. Add a few automated tests as explained there

From there, we can review and add this to jquery.ime. Then it lands in wikipedia.

[GothicSpeaker]

Hi,
I added Gothic to the rules, but it hasn't appeared yet. When will it appear?
roel

Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 19:29:17 -0800
From: [email protected]
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Subject: Re: [jquery.ime] Gothic wikipedia has a bad transliteration system (#375)

Hello, The input method rules inside jquery.ime is written and contributed by people like you. So we can happily add gothic language also to our collection. The got.js file you wrote looks good to me(technically). Can you create a pull request by completing the following steps?

1. Add got.js to rules/got folder
2. Follow the documentation at https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime (see "Developers" section)
3. Add a few automated tests as explained there

From there, we can review and add this to jquery.ime. Then it lands in wikipedia.

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[nemobis]

Thanks for the PR! #376