Thread:User talk:Amire80/Hebrew script in Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) Wikipedia

שלום עליך, Amire80:

Though I don`t really speak Judeo-Spanish (JS), I`m currently an Administrator at ladwiki, trying to focus on infrastructure and mechanical cleanup work. So over the course of what I`ve been doing, a number of questions really specific to issues of language and script in that wiki have come up, and I thought you might be a good person to ask.

As you know, JS was really originally a Hebrew-alphabet language, like Yiddish and most other Jewish languages. Now, most users use one of a number of Latin alphabet transcriptions (we support four). ladwiki is configured as a Latin-script wiki, and nobody argues that it should be changed. But: we also include Hebrew-script JS pages. Some of my questions surround the ability of MediaWiki, and the Wikimedia projects, to support that a little more natively, and a little less in a jury-rigged way.


 * 1) There is no official ISO code for "lad-he" (or, if you want to take that as the original, for "lad-la"). But there are some other things around here that exist notwithstanding the lack of an ISO code, like "simple". So is it possible to create items, here and callable on Wikimedia projects, in "lad-he"?
 * I would see earliest use of such items for such purposes as calling the parser function . If you look at the home page of ladwiki, we have five versions, and among other things each shows the secular and Hebrew date and time. Right now, I output the date and time by using a  function and manually entering Hebrew-script versions. (Today's day of the week is "בֿײרניס".) It would be nice if I could get that through  . (Obviously, if that's the only thing I ever want to do, I can simply accomplish it the way I am now, or by moving that to a template. I'm looking at this approach as a test case for other possibilities, though.)
 * 1) A couple of other administrators (not necessarily me) would like to see a Rashi script font as the default Hebrew (body text) font on the wiki. (This is because JS was traditionally printed with Rashi-script fonts, not square fonts.) I know that at least one open-source Rashi script font exists. Question is: can we get the server to serve a font like that for Hebrew script on ladwiki?
 * 2) I note the "Special characters" box below the editing box. How do I get the Hebrew alphabet into that corresponding section on ladwiki? (It currently includes extended Latin characters as well as Greek, Cyrillic and IPA—but no Hebrew!)
 * 3) How do I learn the fallback language cascade for ladwiki? There are hints that the first fallback is to Spanish, and it should be. But I'm not quite sure how to confirm that.
 * 4) How do I arrange for Babel boxes (using the parser function, rather than local templates) to automatically categorize users by language?

That's probably plenty of questions for now. Thank you for your time and patience in answering. שבת שלום. StevenJ81 (talk) 14:25, 4 September 2015 (UTC)