Community Wishlist Survey 2020/Wikisource/Vertical display for classical Chinese content

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Vertical display for classical Chinese content

Problem: Most content in Chinese Wikisource is classical Chinese, which has been printed or written in vertical for thousands of years.
Who would benefit: Chinese and Japanese Wikisource. Other Wikimedia projects of languages in vertical display (like Manchu).
Proposed solution: Add vertical support to the Wikimedia software. To the proposer's knowledge, MediaWiki already supports right-to-left display of Arabic and Hebrew.
A switch button on each page and "force" setting in Special:Preferences should be added to allow readers to switch the display mode between traditional vertical text 傳統直寫 and modern horizontal text 新式橫寫. Magic word will be added that allow pages to set its own default display mode.
Hypothetical vertical Chinese Wikisource as follows. (In this picture, some characters are rotated but they should not.)
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Proposer: 維基小霸王 (talk) 13:59, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Traditionally Chinese, Japanese, and Korean would be vertically written from up to down, then from right to left. Yet many younger East Asians are forgetting the history of one row from right to left derived from this traditional vertical writing, like File:重慶大韓民國臨時政府遺跡地-충칭대한민국임(림)시정부-Chungchingdaehanmingukrimsijeongbu-Interim government of the Republic of Korea in Chungking6.jpg. If this is successful, I advise changing column every few characters per user's preference, like 5, 10, or 20 words.--Jusjih (talk) 04:14, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@維基小霸王 and Jusjih: I know that (at least) the incubation of Wikipedia in American Sign Language is written top-down and left-right: incubator:Wp/ase. I don't know exactly how it works but one should look into that. Cheers, VIGNERON * ^discut. 10:14, 5 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Being written top-down then left-right is the same as ancient Mongolian. It will somehow work for vertical classical Chinese when arranging the proper direction.--Jusjih (talk) 04:26, 6 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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