Wikimedia blog CLDR, the Common Locale Data Repository project from the Unicode Consortium, provides translated locale-specific information like language names, country names, currency, date/time etc. that can be used in various applications. This library, used across several platforms, is particularly useful in maintaining parity of locale information in internationalized applications. In MediaWiki,…
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Updates in MediaWiki internationalization reflect changes from CLDR
0 Comments BY Runa Bhattacharjee ON November 4th, 2014
Announcing the second version of the Content Translation tool
0 Comments BY Runa Bhattacharjee ON November 3rd, 2014
A few months back, the Language Engineering team of the Wikimedia Foundation announced the availability of the first version of the Content Translation tool, with machine translation support from Spanish to Catalan. The response from the Catalan Wikipedia editors was overwhelming and nearly 200 articles have already been created using…
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Structured Commons project launches in Berlin
0 Comments BY Fabrice Florin, Keegan Peterzell and Gilles Dubuc ON October 27th, 2014
How can we make multimedia data easier to use on Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia and sister sites? Today, information about media files on Wikimedia sites is stored in unstructured formats that cause a range of issues: for example, file information is hard to search, some of it is only available in…
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Do you know what’s around you? Let Wikipedia tell you!
4 Comments BY Monte Hurd and Dmitry Brant ON October 23rd, 2014
The Wikimedia App team has just added the first native “Nearby” functionality to the new Android and iOS Wikipedia apps. Using this feature, you’ll be able to retrieve a list of Wikipedia articles near your current location and see their relative distance to you. [...]
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Wikimedia engineering report, August 2014
0 Comments BY Guillaume Paumier ON October 18th, 2014
Major news in August includes: the Wikimania 2014 conference in London, and the associated hackathon; a statement on Wikipedia Zero and net neutrality; progress on the new content translation tool and its passing the milestone of 100 translated articles.
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Protecting users against POODLE by removing SSL 3.0 support
5 Comments BY Mark Bergsma ON October 17th, 2014
Round-table with editors from the Catalan Wikipedia
0 Comments BY Runa Bhattacharjee ON September 29th, 2014
On September 5, 2014 the Language Engineering team hosted an online round-table with editors of the Catalan Wikipedia to discuss the Content Translation tool.
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New FOSS Outreach Program internships for female technical contributors
0 Comments BY Quim Gil ON September 18th, 2014
The Free and Open Source Software Outreach Program for Women offers paid internships to developers and other technical contributors working on projects together with free software organizations. [...]
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Content Translation: 100 published articles, and more to come!
0 Comments BY Runa Bhattacharjee and Amir E. Aharoni ON August 26th, 2014
On July 17, 2014, the Wikimedia Language Engineering team announced the deployment of the ContentTranslation extension in Wikimedia Labs. This first deployment was targeted primarily for translation from Spanish to Catalan. Since then, users have expressed generally positive feedback about the tool. Most of the initial discussion took place in…
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Wikimedia engineering report, July 2014
1 Comment BY Guillaume Paumier ON August 26th, 2014
Major news in July include: a recap of how the Operations team collaborated with the RIPE NCC to measure the delivery of Wikimedia sites to users in Asia and elsewhere; an analysis of the impact of the San Francisco data center on the speed of Wikimedia sites; the launch of…
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