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The Wikimedia Foundation Internationalization and Localization engineering team is responsible for providing standards based internationalization and localization tools support for Wikimedia sites on the Web and mobile platforms. The group is managed by Alolita Sharma and is part of the larger Wikimedia Engineering team.

You can access the full list of the team's todos for this sprint (two weeks period) on Mingle.

More about: Localization (L10n) and Internationalization (i18n)

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The Wikimedia Foundation Language Engineering team have a combined working knowledge of more than 15 languages. Also see the details for individual roles and responsibilities.

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More than 300 languages are provided with internationalization support at various levels across Wikimedia projects, of which the Wikipedias are the largest, with 287 languages. The tools created and maintained by the WMF Language Engineering Team are continually updated to increase the number of languages these tools cover. The goal is to prepare all languages to provide the same level of functionalities to be used just as well as English.

Projects[edit | edit source]

  • Content translation – The content translation tool is a computer-assisted translation (CAT) tool aimed at making the translation of Wikipedia articles easier and better. The tool targets users who know two or more languages, and will provide value for different kinds of users. For new users, the tool will provide a new way of contributing that is easier than creating a new page from scratch. For experienced editors, the tool will simplify the process of translating content. This extension is currently in development. Read more
  • Universal Language Selector – Universal Language Selector (ULS) provides a flexible method of selecting and configuring a language to use in the user interface. It provides options to select fonts and input method. Languages can be searched using the ISO language code, with language names written in current user interface language or in its own script(autonym). Depending upon the user's location or the browser/operating system's language, the user interface language will be suggested. Cross-language searches – using any script – can also be done. Read more
  • Translate – Translate extension is a feature-rich extension that lets users translate software strings and pages in their browser. For both software and page translation, it supports translation memory, statistics by group and language, advanced grammar support for multiple languages, and more.
  • Project Milkshake – Project Milkshake aims to make generic jQuery components for commonly needed internationalization feature components that have been developed for use through MediaWiki in Wikimedia projects. These include input methods, web-fonts, and grammatical rules for languages. For easy participation and wider adoption, the source-code repositories are hosted on GitHub and the components have been dual-licensed as GPL and MIT.
    • jQuery.ime – More than 150 input methods in various languages are provided through jQuery.ime; many of these methods have been contributed by the Wikimedia community. See Demo.
    • jQuery.i18n – This library provides internationalization elements to support grammatical rules for languages, including rules for plural forms and gender. See Prototype.
    • jQuery.webfonts – jQuery.webfonts uses the WebFonts technology to allow usage of fonts from a font repository. This eliminates dependency on system fonts while viewing pages in those languages. Read more about webfonts

Current status[edit | edit source]

Activity Information
Language tools Internationalization and Localization tools to enable use of Wikimedia projects in various languages. [edit] Team [edit]: Alolita Sharma (Director of Engineering i18n/L10n), Siebrand Mazeland (Product Manager), Niklas Laxström (dev), Santhosh Thottingal (dev), Amir Aharoni (dev), Pau Giner (design), Runa Bhattacharjee (QA and communications)
  • CLDR version 26 updates that affected plural rules for MediaWiki i18n have been integrated. Affected messages have been updated and translators have been informed.
  • Translate Extension
    • As part of regular maintenance, many unused configuration variables have been removed and Special:Translate now works better with custom skins.
    • Niklas fixed a major regression in a refactoring which broke the message group selector.
(status as of 2014-10-monthly) [edit] [add new]
Milkshake Create generic i18n tools in jQuery [edit] Team [edit]: Alolita Sharma (Engineering Director), Siebrand Mazeland (Product Manager), Development team - Niklas Laxström (dev), Santhosh Thottingal (dev), Amir Aharoni (dev), Pau Giner (design), Runa Bhattacharjee (QA and communications)
Webfonts were enabled on the English Wikisource and Divehi wikis, following requests from the respective communities.
(status as of 2014-08-monthly) [edit] [add new]
Language Engineering Communications and Outreach News about Language Engineering activities and Outreach programs [edit] Team [edit]: Alolita Sharma (Engineering Director), Siebrand Mazeland (Product Manager), Development team - Niklas Laxström (dev), Santhosh Thottingal (dev), Amir Aharoni (dev), Pau Giner (design), Runa Bhattacharjee (QA and communications)
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Content translation Content translation of Wikipedia pages [edit] Team [edit]: Amir Aharoni (Interim PO), Development team - Amir Aharoni, David Chan, Joel Sahleen Kartik Mistry, Niklas Laxstrom, Pau Giner, Runa Bhattacharjee, Santhosh Thottingal
  • Category adaptation was added
  • Development of translation dashboard started
  • Development of 3rd version started
  • Deployment of 2nd version completed
    • Kartik worked with the Operations team and upstream developers of Apertium to prepare requisite packages for the machine translation service.
  • Language support extended. Bi-directional machine translation support between Catalan, Portuguese and Spanish.
  • First draft of the graduating language support specification completed. This specification will guide selection of further language pairs to be supported through the Content Translation tool.
(status as of 2014-10-monthly) [edit] [add new]

Roadmap[edit | edit source]

See Language Engineering Roadmap 2014-15.

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