Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Miscellaneous/Vertical writing support

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Vertical writing support

Problem: Scripts that are written vertically are not supported by Wikipedia interface.
Who would benefit:
Users of language with vertically written script, include:
1. American Sign Language SignWriting users and the ASL test wiki on incubator. The vertical writing support will also allow the ASL wikipedia to be actually created.
2. Traditional Mongolian Script users, including general Mongolian user in Inner Mongolia as well as various different situation the could be used by usersin Republic of Mongolia.
3. Historical scripts like Manchu, Tangut, Meroitic Monumental Hieroglyphic are also vertically written, supporting vertical writing will allow them to be more easily inputted into wikisource.
4. Some Chinese/Japanese users might also prefer reading content in vertical writing direction.
Proposed solution: Support vertical writing direction in Mediawiki.
More comments: See also mw:Requests for comment/Vertical writing support.
The ASL incubator wiki have already implemented their own custom way to try to display vertical writing onto their site.

Some Traditional Mongolian script users for Mongolian language have also started their own mediawiki site that have already implemented their own method to support vertical writing onto their site.
Phabricator tickets: phab:T353, phab:T11436
Proposer: C933103 (talk) 06:56, 7 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Translations: none yet

Discussion[edit]

I endorse this demand which is clearly a must have for the global goal of our community. --Psychoslave (talk) 11:01, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I am not sure if I am allowed to call myself a member of "the community", but I fully endorse this idea 💡. Personally I created a similar idea for only vertical reading but this one would be a lot better, in fact I find it somewhat odd that the Classical Chinese Wikipedia 🏛 isn't written this way as there are no ancient texts written "left-to-right and up-to-down. --Donald Trung (Talk 🤳🏻) (My global lock 😒🌏🔒) (My global unlock 😄🌏🔓) 11:19, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I have archived the other proposal as a duplicate. Please feel free to copy over your comments here in the discussion MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 19:22, 10 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Voting[edit]

Support Needed ASAP NMaia (talk) 23:59, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Mahir256 (talk) 08:40, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 13:09, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jc86035 (talk) 14:18, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 19:43, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Essential for sign language support. Chico Venancio (talk) 20:13, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thomas Obermair 4 (talk) 21:59, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Shizhao (talk) 03:05, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 04:57, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sebastian Wallroth (talk) 07:31, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yes, this would be great, especially for Classical Chinese. Donald Trung (Talk 🤳🏻) (My global lock 🔒) (My global unlock 🔓) 10:16, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vertical writing mode is essential for some forms of written sign language. -Slevinski (talk) 17:16, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Would be awesome. 燃灯 (talk) 17:52, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Venca24 (talk) 20:27, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ermahgerd9 (talk) 21:10, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kusurija (talk) 22:13, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Yair rand (talk) 22:14, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Zhangj1079 ^talk 01:43, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Vachovec1 (talk) 17:52, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Barcelona (talk) 00:36, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 03:15, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Icemandeaf (talk) 20:37, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Superchilum^{(talk to me!)} 20:48, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support ~Cybularny ^Speak? 12:23, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support → «« Man77 »» ^[de] 14:03, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 14:55, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Maitake (talk) 16:29, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Termininja (talk) 17:06, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Tacsipacsi (talk) 17:51, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support NessieVL (talk) 18:57, 5 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Micru (talk) 20:21, 6 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support the wub "?!" 00:43, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support PamD (talk) 10:29, 7 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support X:: black ::X (talk) 13:26, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ruslik (talk) 18:16, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Perrak (talk) 21:00, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Le Loy 22:48, 10 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Psychoslave (talk) 08:09, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support. We will not cover the sum of all human knowledge without this — NickK (talk) 17:04, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]