Optimised Malagasy Keyboard (version 3.0)
This blog post is the follow-up post about this older post from 2016: Finding an optimised keyboard for Malagasy I wrote that post back in November 2016 about how inefficient…
On the state of things
Malagasy culture/history on Malagasy Wikipedia Unlike English, French or Chinese, Malagasy is practically unused as a medium of international communication. And those foreigners who have a good command of Malagasy…
Using GPT-2 for Malagasy
Long ago I became interested in natural language processing. From 2010 until 2014 I had been actively developing various programs to increase content coverage of the Malagasy Wiktionary. The result…
Finding an optimised keyboard layout for Malagasy
In the 21st century, people type. They type a lot. Office workers and the Jane Doe’s and John Doe’s from all over the world, speaking various languages, type on electronic…
Five ways to enrich Wiktionary
Since 2010, I’ve been contributing to the Malagasy Wiktionary. It has become a habit now: every month, every week, every day, and almost every morning and evening, I turn on…
Google translate now available in Malagasy
Good news, if it can be said, for my fellow Malagasy citizens: Since 6th of December 2014, Google Translate has been allowing them to see almost any web page in…
Switching to Linux: good or bad choice?
Last updated on July 13, 2014 Do you want to switch to Linux? Before doing so, I invite you to reconsider all implied consequences of a switching to another operating…
African language Wikimedia projects summary
A few months ago I wrote an article which summarises my history on the Malagasy Wiktionary, and more generally my history on Malagasy language Wikimedia projects. I am back here…
My story on the Malagasy Wiktionary
It’s been a while since I posted on this blog. This article is about the mass adding content on the Malagasy Wiktionary. The object of this post is to provide…
The End of a World : 21 December 2012
Well, it is a quite current subject, as I can find many things about it just through making a search on Google. So after having been captivated by this date…