Last modified: 2012-03-19 05:34:01 UTC
Many new users are unable to register on Kn and other Indic language wiki's due to Narayam. Please turn this feature off by default. Its a very important and critical issue. We recently started outreach activities and hearing complaints about not being able to type in english during registration. For those who can't reach us, might not turn back to wiki. Quick action would be much appreciated. Thanks [[User:Omshivaprakash]] kn: en:
Is this a site request for configuration changes, or a feature request to change the extension itself? That is, is what you're requesting possible with the extension or does the extension need to be changed?
Extension preference which is on Kannada Wiki needs to changed. By default the language on Narayam is set to Kannada kn-In it has to be turned off.
Ok thanks for the info. I'll update the bug so it gets to the right people, but you need to provide us a link to a community discussion on your local wiki indicating that this change is desired by the wider community. If such a discussion has already taken place, OK, otherwise when it has concluded, reopen this bug.
(In reply to comment #0) > Many new users are unable to register on Kn and other Indic language wiki's due > to Narayam. Please turn this feature off by default. Its a very important and > critical issue. Could you please explain what problem faced by new users while registering in kn wiki due to Narayam?
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #0) > > Many new users are unable to register on Kn and other Indic language wiki's due > > to Narayam. Please turn this feature off by default. Its a very important and > > critical issue. > > > Could you please explain what problem faced by new users while registering in > kn wiki due to Narayam? Santhosh, the user registering freshly on Kn wiki see Kannada characters. Most people want to register the username in English. Can we turn this feature off for those who're on registration page atleast.
I hope you know that pressing control+m change the input method to English. or The icon on the top of page that looks like pen offers an option to disable it or select another language(see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Narayam). Was it not at all obvious or difficult to figure out to the extent that people not able to register in English user name at all? If so, this should be a serious input to the UI design of the tool.
This is due to bug 34591 which asked to enable it by default. More serious thing might be people might not know how to enter the captcha text, even if they are okay with usernames in Kannada and hence shying away from signups. Account creation is done by newbies, whom we cant expect to notice the Narayam menu / help. Adding a note on http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Fancycaptcha-createaccount about disabling narayam might help. kn.wiki can discuss if Narayam should be enabled by default not and update here
