Girgit

This is a proposal for a new WMF sister project.
Girgit Transliteration Tool
Status of the proposal
Status	stalled (see here how to re-open it)
Reason	Inactive since 2017. * Pppery * it has begun 20:07, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
Details of the proposal
Project description	Girgit, a tool for transliteration between the Indian scripts has been released under the GPL. It is worth investigating whether it can be integrated to the Konkani and Sanskrit Wikipedias, which have multiple writing scripts. The word Girgit means Chameleon in Hindi.
Is it a multilingual wiki?	gom, sa, others as necessary
Potential number of languages	Multiple
New features to require	Girgit seems to be written in Java based on the Git archive at Google Code. I don't know how well this will integrate into MediaWiki software, so another user will have to evaluate this.
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Girgit, a tool for transliteration between the Indian scripts has been released under the GPL. It is worth investigating whether it can be integrated to the Konkani and Sanskrit Wikipedias, which have multiple writing scripts.^[3]^[4] The word Girgit means Chameleon in Hindi.

Proposed byEdit

RaviC

Alternative namesEdit

Indian script transliteration tool

Related projects/proposalsEdit

Wikipedias in multiple writing systems - many tools currently in use including Chinese (Simp/Trad) and Latin/Cyrillic transliteration tools.

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Mailing list linksEdit

DiscussionEdit

@RaviC: You may want to propose this as a ticket at Phab:--what you want to do is change how some of the software works rather than propose a new project. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:46, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Perfect. Will do! --RaviC (talk) 15:34, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

DemosEdit

A website formerly existed (web archive) but site is no longer operational.

People interestedEdit

i would love to contributeSamadheeDsilva (talk) 06:11, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

[1] ttp://www.literatureindia.com/2009/10/16/the-source-code-of-girgit-is-now-freely-available/

[2] ttps://code.google.com/archive/p/girgit/source#svn%2Ftrunk%2FGirgit%2Fsrc%2Fin%2Fchitthajagat%2Fgirgit%2Fserver

[3] ttp://www.literatureindia.com/2009/10/16/the-source-code-of-girgit-is-now-freely-available/

[4] ttps://code.google.com/archive/p/girgit/source#svn%2Ftrunk%2FGirgit%2Fsrc%2Fin%2Fchitthajagat%2Fgirgit%2Fserver

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