Add Ethiopian alphabet to "Special characters" tab (to be able to transcribe a book on Wikisource)
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	Hsarrazin
	May 6 2021, 4:34 PM

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Hi,
on frwikisource, some contributors would like to transcribe a book by Antoine d'Abbadie, who was a linguist who worked in Ethiopia. In his works, there are a lot of Ethiopian characters.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_des_caract%C3%A8res_Unicode/U1200
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_des_caract%C3%A8res_Unicode/U1380
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_des_caract%C3%A8res_Unicode/U2D80
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_des_caract%C3%A8res_Unicode/UAB00

The contributors would like that Ethiopian alphabet was added to the "Special characters" tab in the edit pages, to be easily accessed.

How can this be done ?

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Hsarrazin created this task.May 6 2021, 4:34 PM

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The project concerns the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, CNRS and wikipedia contributers. The Notebooks of Antoine d'Abbadie are held by the BNF (there are 25 of them, about 4000 pages, all manuscript with many pages written with ethipean characters. The idea is to transcribe them with WikiSource and for this we need the unuicode characters available in the menu special characters. ~~~~

Hi, technically speaking, this would require changes to the file https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki/browse/master/resources/src/mediawiki.language/specialcharacters.json
If you are interested in writing and proposing such a software change, please follow https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_site_requests and see "Add additional letters to the special characters toolbar". Thanks!

Hi, It looks fairly simple to do, as I have all the unicodes. I will try
and do the changes in the next week or so with a friend who is more
experieced with Wikimedia.

Thanks for the information

William Ellison

Le 07/05/2021 à 10:19, Aklapper a écrit :

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Hi, technically speaking, this would require changes to the file
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki/browse/master/resources/src/mediawiki.language/specialcharacters.json
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki/browse/master/resources/src/mediawiki.language/specialcharacters.json

If you are interested in writing and proposing such a software change,
please follow
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_site_requests
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_site_requests and see
"Add additional letters to the special characters toolbar". Thanks!

*TASK DETAIL*
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282163
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282163

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*Cc: *William_Ellison, Aklapper, Hsarrazin, MJL, DannyS712,
Cindylee124, Amorymeltzer, Mahir256, Bodhisattwa, Samwilson, jayvdb,
Shizhao, Billinghurst, Jdforrester-WMF, jayantanth, Ltrlg, Krenair

@William_Ellison: Any luck with that? :) (Please also strip unneeded fullquotes when replying via email, to keep things more readable - thanks!)

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