Last modified: 2010-08-07 22:35:29 UTC
Hello, I'm user from Wikipedia in Serbian. Serbian language has two different writing systems — Cyrillic alphabet (ћирилица) and Latin alphabet (latinica). Wikipedia in Serbian use both — clicking on tab "ћирилица" (sr-ec) or "latinica" (sr-el) a reader can choose one or another. They are pretty much convertible, but in some cases simple conversion isn't enough. For example an article Queen (албум) has English word which should stay unconverted when you click on "ћирилица". Simple conversion would give Qуеен (албум) which is unacceptable. On the other hand, when you click on "latinica" it should change a word "албум" into "album" — Queen (album). In that cases we use a certain template like this -{T|sr-ec:Queen (албум);sr-el:Queen (album)}- which solves that problem. But this template doesn't work anymore. I think that the bug occurred during the recent global reprogramming of Wikipedia. Can you do something about it? Regards, Loshmi P. S. I don't know if you're working on the new Wikipedia vector skin, which sooner or latter will become default for all Wikipedias. Current beta on Serbian Wikipedia, doesn't show tabs "ћирилица" and "latinica" in visible way. You have to click on hidden toolbar to switch from one writing system to another. All Serbian sites which has this option put them in some visible place. It's very important for those tabs to be seen by the default, as they are in the current default skin. Otherwise, it would be confusing for the readers, because they might not be aware of them.
Is anyone going to check out this problem?
(In reply to comment #0) > I don't know if you're working on the new Wikipedia vector skin, which sooner > or latter will become default for all Wikipedias. Current beta on Serbian > Wikipedia, doesn't show tabs "ћирилица" and "latinica" in visible way. You have > to click on hidden toolbar to switch from one writing system to another. All > Serbian sites which has this option put them in some visible place. It's very > important for those tabs to be seen by the default, as they are in the current > default skin. Otherwise, it would be confusing for the readers, because they > might not be aware of them. Can you please create a separate bug for this? The first part of your bug will be handled by certain people, and the second part of your bug (the part that I snipped and you can see right above) needs to handled by the Usability Team. It should be possible to do this, because they have something similar setup on zhwiki: <http://zh.wikipedia.org/?useskin=vector>
No problem, I can make two separate bugs, but I've just posted this second part on Meta (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_Wikimedia_design_and_feature_change/Bug_reports#Problem_with_tabs_on_Serbian_Wikipedia) Should I post it here again as well?
(In reply to comment #3) > No problem, I can make two separate bugs, but I've just posted this second part > on Meta > (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2010_Wikimedia_design_and_feature_change/Bug_reports#Problem_with_tabs_on_Serbian_Wikipedia) > Should I post it here again as well? Posting it there should be fine as well. :-)
Ok. Thank you :)
This bug has been fixed on r69080. It doesn't work only because the patch hasn't been deployed to wmf. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 24072 ***
