A better table sorting

Some languages, such as French, German, Spanish, and many others use diacritics: é, í, ü, etc.

The normal sort function available in Javascript considers that any letter with a diacritic should be sorted after z. It was a bit annoying when using the French interface because the language names were not sorted as expected: "gaélique écossais" after "gallois", "géorgien" after "grec", and "hébreu" after "hongrois".

As can be seen on the following screenshot, this has been corrected (red dots identify languages which are now correctly sorted).

The combobox does not ignore you

If you have edited OmegaWiki, you probably know about this annoying little bug where you want to select a language, type in some letters, but the list of languages that appears ignores the letters that you typed. This happened particularly when the server is busy. The "solution" was then to either add an extra letter, or remove one and put it back to make the system aware that you typed something.

Well, this bug has just been solved!

Now, when the combobox has finished displaying its list, it compares it with what is now typed in the field, and if something new has been typed, it refreshes the list consequently; and you get less annoyed.

As an experimental experiment, I have also changed the delay between when you type and when the list is generated to 100ms instead of 500ms.

Feedbacks welcome.

Random expression

The link to show a random expression is now working as expected.

You can try it on the website (left panel) or with the link below:

Random expression from OmegaWiki

I got bugenwilla , it even has an image :-)

Example sentences can be long

For some reason, the text annotations - contrary to definitions - were limited to 256 characters. This was too limiting for example sentences, in particular when these examples are citations where you need to extract a long sentence and add the title of the book, the author, etc.

This limit has just been extended. From now on, text annotations can be as long as definitions.

Other text annotations include IPA, hyphenation and other language specific annotations such as pinyin for Mandarin. At the moment, you can access the annotations by clicking on the link "Annotation »" in the last column of the translation table. We are still working on a way of making the annotations more visible for the word that is being consulted.

E-Mail functionality now working again

I have just noticed today that OmegaWiki was not sending any E-Mail. For example when you forget your password, you couldn't have it e-mailed to you.

This is probably due to the server change in March last year.

I've just repaired the functionality.

Thanks,
Kipcool.

Support for Telugu in #OmegaWiki

When Veeven added the Telugu numeral, I was really pleased as I had been trying for some time to elevate the number of Telugu expressions over the 500.

I was really surprised when the labels did not change to Telugu. Happily Kipcool found that the "Wikimedia key" was missing and now everything works as designed for Telugu.
Thanks,
     GerardM

Malafaya had an itch

OmegaWiki suffered for quite some time from a missing functionality. Its annotations had gone away. This was really frustrating. Especially because nobody was looking after the maintenance of the OmegaWiki mark I database. This annoyance became too much and Malafaya started to look into the code. He found and fixed the problem.

Apparently it felt really good, and as there was this other annoyance, he had another look at the code. The trick will be to get the code in SVN. Once it is in SVN, updating OmegaWiki should not be a problem.
Thanks,
GerardM