(JR) Posted November 29, 2005 at 10:25 PM Report Share Posted November 29, 2005 at 10:25 PM what's the latest word on Traditional characters? I see the character check has been completed, but the alpha version is still, well, pretty alpha-ish. anything that can be done to help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevelyan Posted December 6, 2005 at 05:41 PM Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 at 05:41 PM Have been ironing out the details for the last week or so, so things should be pretty much taken care of by now. The two real issues I know of that remain are: (1) some GB2312 characters don't have traditional UTF equivalents, so if anyone copies and pastes GB2312 text into the textbox, some of the odder punctuation marks (such as the elipse) will not identify correctly. (2) any additions people make to the database will not be added in traditional form until the next review process, so will appear missing in traditional annotations until then. Those aside, if people can let me know of any problems they run into, that is probably the best way to help at this stage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dribble15 Posted April 25, 2006 at 05:01 PM Report Share Posted April 25, 2006 at 05:01 PM Hi, Just stumbled onto this site in the last few days (love it). I also did some searching around for answers to my questions, but couldn't find much -- with exception of this older thread. So, my question is, what's the status of a traditional version of the website www.newsinchinese.com? Is there an equivalent out there that I'm unaware of? If so, can you point me in the right direction? Thank you very much for any help you can provide! BTW -- great site, and forum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevelyan Posted April 29, 2006 at 09:38 AM Report Share Posted April 29, 2006 at 09:38 AM NewsinChinese feeds off the Xinhua RSS, so everything on the site is simplified. Am planning to update the site in the near future, though, to integrate it with something that will allow people to manually annotate/correct errors and store texts long term.If anyone knows any good sources for syndicated RSS feeds with traditional news we can add traditional articles too. The Adso engine can handle traditional Chinese that's encoded in UTF8. So in the meantime you can always try either submitting the content to the annotation engine or using the Firefox plugin while viewing online traditional texts: http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/7087-firefox-plugin-chinese-text-annotation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevelyan Posted April 29, 2006 at 09:41 AM Report Share Posted April 29, 2006 at 09:41 AM It would actually be a cool idea to let people automatically switch between viewing simplified and traditional characters on NIC regardless of source.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony_barker Posted May 9, 2006 at 08:12 PM Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 at 08:12 PM Would love a traditional version. Why not just grab the feeds from yahoo taiwan? Cheers and thanks for all the great sites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevelyan Posted May 15, 2006 at 02:11 PM Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 at 02:11 PM Server is in mainland China.... so accessing anything hosted Taiwan can be an issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughitt1 Posted May 22, 2006 at 01:49 PM Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 at 01:49 PM Xinhua has started offering their Big5 newsfeeds in rss as well: http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/www.xinhuanet.com/rss.htm Also, how did you setup newsinchinese to grab entire articles? rss feeds normally only contain some basic descriptive information, and then a link to the full article. If i could get a hold of the full articles for other rss feeds similar to how you have at newinchinese, then it would not be difficult to setup a server to mirror other banned server's news feeds. Keith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted May 22, 2006 at 01:59 PM Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 at 01:59 PM The full articles don't come via RSS - the whole page is called, and then the non-article bits discarded (can't remember exactly how, but it's something like spotting and and keeping the bit between. Xinhua doesn't make it THAT easy, but you get the drift. It fails sometimes and then you see the newsinchinese page get messed up royally. If you wanted, you could do something similar for banned websites, but running a simple proxy (disguise the urls, btw, that's what I found important when setting up a bbc mirror) is probably easier. Full article calls only happen on user request, so it doesn't happen for every article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughitt1 Posted May 22, 2006 at 03:30 PM Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 at 03:30 PM If you wanted, you could do something similar for banned websites, but running a simple proxy (...) is probably easier. Do you mean running a mirror server? I'm in the states currently, so accessing banned sites is not a problem. I was just thinking of ways to provide the news feeds so that they could potentially be used on newinchinese. (although if you were to do that, you would have to be careful not to get your own server banned). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hughitt1 Posted May 22, 2006 at 03:33 PM Report Share Posted May 22, 2006 at 03:33 PM on a side note, it probably wouldn't be too terrible a task to write up a script to grab news from other servers.. just taking a glace at 聯合報, they have unique "FONT" tags in front of the title of the article, and a second in front of the body of the article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trevelyan Posted May 26, 2006 at 05:12 PM Report Share Posted May 26, 2006 at 05:12 PM Will take a look at UPN then. In the process of moving newsinchinese to a new CMS. Should make it easier to add new content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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