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Translating Central Notices easily, and other Language engineering news
The Language Engineering team at the Wikimedia Foundation works on a new set of tasks every two weeks. The following describes the work we have done over the past month. Language Engineering Team: We...
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Designing for the multilingual web
User testing is essential for designing multilingual interfaces, even though it can be a time-consuming process: it ensures that the community of users are part of the design process. In this article,...
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OpenSource Language Summit
The Wikimedia Foundation and Red Hat co-organized an Open Source Language Summit in Pune, India on November 6-7, 2012. The summit focused on language tools and technology development to support...
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Report from the Spring 2013 Open Source Language Summit
Fortuna i forti aiuta, e i timidi rifiuta — an Italian proverb The Wikimedia Foundation and Red Hat jointly organized the Second Open Source Language Summit on February 12th and 13th, 2013. The summit...
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Language Engineering Sprint Update: Translation User Experience improvements,...
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team completed its recent development sprints with a focus on feature completeness of ‘Translate User eXperience’ or ‘TUX’ for deployment and also made preparations...
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A new translation home page, the Maven Program and other updates from...
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team continued to develop additional features for Translate UX (TUX) and to fix bugs, including a number of critical bugs that affected Microsoft Internet Explorer....
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Join the Language Mavens!
Among the Wikimedia projects, Wikipedia has the highest number of individual language projects — 285. The Language Engineering team focuses on building language tools and assets that improve the...
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Apply for an internship with the Language engineering team
Quim Gil, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Technical Contributor Coordinator, recently wrote about internship programs that the Wikimedia tech community participates in. These programs provide a valuable...
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Updates from Language engineering: changes to the Language Selector, new...
In the recently concluded development sprint, the Wikimedia Language Engineering team made a new release of the Mediawiki Language Extension Bundle (MLEB), fixed bugs related to the Page Translation...
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Getting ready for ULS everywhere
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team recently completed their latest development sprint, with a special focus on preparing for the upcoming deployment of the Universal Language Selector (ULS)...
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Language Engineering Development Updates and Events
In the recently concluded development sprint, the Wikimedia Language Engineering team fixed critical bugs for the Universal Language Selector, participated in several events around the world and also...
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Universal Language Selector coming to all wikis
The Universal Language Selector (ULS) provides a flexible way to configure and deliver language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings). It combines the features...
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Universal Language Selector (ULS) deployed on more than 150 wikis
The Universal Language Selector (ULS), a MediaWiki extension to configure language settings, has now been deployed on more than 150 Wikimedia wikis. Deployment started with the first phase on June 11,...
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Updates from the Language Engineering Google Summer of Code projects
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2013 is well underway on the coding phase. Four projects this year are related to various aspects of MediaWiki and Wikimedia internationalization initiatives. On completion...
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Join the Language Engineering team at Wikimania in Hong Kong next week!
Wikimania 2013 Hong Kong Wikimania, the largest gathering of the Wikimedia world, is just around the corner. In less than a week, hundreds of volunteers will be gathering in Hong Kong to share stories...
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Restoring the forgotten Javanese script through Wikimedia
There are several confusing and surprising things about the Javanese language. First, a lot of people confuse it with Japanese, or with Java, a programming language. Also, with over eighty million...
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Get introduced to Internationalization engineering through the MediaWiki...
The MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle (MLEB) is a collection of MediaWiki extensions for various internationalization features. These extensions and the Bundle are maintained by the Wikimedia...
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The Autonym Font for Language Names
When an article on Wikipedia is available in multiple languages, we see the list of those languages in a column on the side of the page. The language names in the list are written in the script that...
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Language Engineering Events – Language Summit, Fall 2013
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team, along with Red Hat, organised the Fall edition of the Open Source Language Summit in Pune, India on November 18 and 19, 2013. Members from the Language...
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Webfonts: Making Wikimedia projects readable for everyone
Wikimedia wikis are available in nearly 300 languages, with some of them having pages with mixed-script content. An example is the page on the writing systems of India on the English Wikipedia. We...
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