Mailing List Archive: About problematic Chinese language variant support on mobile apps

About problematic Chinese language variant support on mobile apps

Feb 8, 2024, 4:06 AM

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Hi all,

Today when playing around Wikipedia iOS app I'm surprised to find out that the Chinese language variant support is still somewhat broken. There is no zh-cn variant available, only zh-hans (displayed as "Simplified Chinese"). I haven't touched the Android app for a while, but in my last review it mistakenly includes zh-hans and zh-hant variants.

As I mentioned in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305319, the correct list of variants the app should include should be: zh-cn, zh-sg, zh-my, zh-tw, zh-mo, zh-hk. Other zh variants have incomplete conversion, thus should be excluded.

I hope somebody at the relevant team could reach out to me and discuss possible solutions. If you don't understand the reason to do this I can give a detailed explanation. I believe this task should not be triaged as "Low" because it has negative impacts on Chinese readers.

Best regards,
Diskdance

Re: About problematic Chinese language variant support on mobile apps [ In reply to ]

aramadan at wikimedia

Feb 8, 2024, 6:15 AM

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Hello @psnbaot,

This is Amal ramadan, Sr. Community Relations Specialist supporting the mobile apps team in the foundation.
Thank you for writing this message; I understand the importance of having the correct language variants, and that's why I am sending this to the iOS engineer lead to give you a detailed reply, and I will update you as soon as I get an answer.

Thank you.
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Re: About problematic Chinese language variant support on mobile apps [ In reply to ]

aramadan at wikimedia

Feb 8, 2024, 7:00 AM

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Hello again,
I created a Phab. ticket for this issue:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357002
Added you as a subscriber so that you can follow the updates.
An action will be added to this ticket next Tuesday after triaging the tickets with the iOS team.
Please feel free to reach out to me at any time for any issue related to the mobile apps.
Thank you.
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Re: About problematic Chinese language variant support on mobile apps [ In reply to ]

wikitech-l at lists

Feb 9, 2024, 1:00 AM

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Hello Amal,

Thank you for your response. I think https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305319 already describes the exact issue I mentioned, so I closed this task as a duplicate and updated T305319's description to better describe the status quo.

If you think this is wrong please feel free to revert it.

Best regards,
Diskdance

On Thursday, February 8th, 2024 at 11:00 PM, aramadan@wikimedia.org <aramadan@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hello again,
> I created a Phab. ticket for this issue:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357002
> Added you as a subscriber so that you can follow the updates.
> An action will be added to this ticket next Tuesday after triaging the tickets with the iOS team.
> Please feel free to reach out to me at any time for any issue related to the mobile apps.
> Thank you.
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Re: About problematic Chinese language variant support on mobile apps [ In reply to ]

wikitech-l at lists

Feb 13, 2024, 9:52 PM

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Hello,

I would like to ask if there are any updates on this? Thanks.

Best regards,
Diskdance

On Friday, February 9th, 2024 at 5:00 PM, psnbaotg via Wikitech-l <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hello Amal,
>
> Thank you for your response. I think https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305319 already describes the exact issue I mentioned, so I closed this task as a duplicate and updated T305319's description to better describe the status quo.
>
> If you think this is wrong please feel free to revert it.
>
> Best regards,
> Diskdance
>
> On Thursday, February 8th, 2024 at 11:00 PM, aramadan@wikimedia.org aramadan@wikimedia.org wrote:
>
> > Hello again,
> > I created a Phab. ticket for this issue:
> > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357002
> > Added you as a subscriber so that you can follow the updates.
> > An action will be added to this ticket next Tuesday after triaging the tickets with the iOS team.
> > Please feel free to reach out to me at any time for any issue related to the mobile apps.
> > Thank you.
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Re: About problematic Chinese language variant support on mobile apps [ In reply to ]

wikitech-l at lists

Feb 21, 2024, 8:00 PM

Post #6 of 6 (224 views)

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Hello,

Sorry for resending the same message, but it has been a week since the last update. Are there any new progresses on this topic? Thanks.

Best regards,
Diskdance

On Wednesday, February 14th, 2024 at 1:52 PM, psnbaotg via Wikitech-l <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to ask if there are any updates on this? Thanks.
>
> Best regards,
> Diskdance
>
> On Friday, February 9th, 2024 at 5:00 PM, psnbaotg via Wikitech-l wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
>
> > Hello Amal,
> >
> > Thank you for your response. I think https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305319 already describes the exact issue I mentioned, so I closed this task as a duplicate and updated T305319's description to better describe the status quo.
> >
> > If you think this is wrong please feel free to revert it.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Diskdance
> >
> > On Thursday, February 8th, 2024 at 11:00 PM, aramadan@wikimedia.org aramadan@wikimedia.org wrote:
> >
> > > Hello again,
> > > I created a Phab. ticket for this issue:
> > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357002
> > > Added you as a subscriber so that you can follow the updates.
> > > An action will be added to this ticket next Tuesday after triaging the tickets with the iOS team.
> > > Please feel free to reach out to me at any time for any issue related to the mobile apps.
> > > Thank you.
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
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> >
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