Going wrong with MyWikipedia
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Joined: Apr 2, 2008
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Even before Myanmar Wikipedia pass 1000 entries, a private company starts marketing as MyWikipedia. MyMyanmar sells Unicode 5.1 font in bundle with MyEverything brand colonizing the user system. The release has series of error however.(See attach)
The newly appointed Wikipedia admin, Htoo Myint Naung, has already seized the opportunity by changing his commercial font as first choice followed by suboptimal selection in Myanmar Wikipedia. body {font-family: Anawrahta, "Anawrahta [mymm]", "MyMyanmar Unicode", Padauk, Myanmar2, Code2000, Arial;} A regular in Myanmar IT Pros will know that there are three free open license fonts: Parabaik, Myanmar3 and Padauk. I already suggested in the wikipedia discussion that the font should be selected in that order because my render result showed it is the best ordering. Since Padauk retains few rendering error, putting it upfront of the css selection is undesirable. The official Myanmar NLP font, Myanmar3, has consciously been forgotten. In addition, the company has started fake new Unicode project (Anawrahta) addressing false information featured by The Myanmar Time magazine. The marketing news has fail to inform important of user contributed content in Wikipedia. Considering monopoly practice of the company, fake project, immature software product and false information, further development on the project will not only waste the public funding but also add cost to end user by purchasing bundled commercial font software. Reply by author of the Unicode, Standard Michael Everson, and internationalisation expert, Andrew Cunningham can be found in Myanmar IT Pros forum http://www.myanmaritpros.com/forum/topic/show... |
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