< Wikimedia Language engineering
A record of interesting stuff that the Wikimedia Language Engineering team do, besides their every day work.
December 2013
2013-12-16
- Amir: i18n fix in Flow: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/101947/
2013-12-14
- Amir: RTL testing of the new Android mobile app: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/101492/
2013-12-05
- Amir: and even more gender and RTL support in Flow:
- Amir: merged RTL patches in ArticleFeedbackv5:
2013-12-03
- Amir: more gender support in Flow: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/98769/
2013-12-02
- Amir: i18n and rtl fixes in Flow (over the last week):
- Amir: i18n fixes in the core Installer
- Amir: rtl fixes in Translate:
November 2013
2013-11-20
- Amir: review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/96200/
- Amir: i18n fixes and bug reports in ArticleFeedback5:
2013-11-18
- Amir: fix i18n in MobileFrontend: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/95980/
2013-11-11
- Amir: i18n fixes in the OAuth extension
2013-11-10
- Amir: i18n fixes in CentralNotice:
2013-11-08
- Amir: Reported RTL bugs in VE:
2013-11-07
- Amir: i18n review and RTL fix in the new Extension:MultimediaViewer:
2013-11-06
- Amir: fixed an RTL bug in BetaFeatures: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/93992/
2013-11-05
- Amir: improved BetaFeatures i18n messages
- i18n review for Flow: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Talk:Flow_Portal/i18n_review .
2013-11-04
- Amir: RTL bugfixes in Wikibase:
October 2013
2013-10-21
- Amir: i18n bugs in Wikibase:
- Amir: A little RTL fix for Echo: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/90934/1/wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php
- Amir: RTL fixes for Wikibase: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/90944/
- Amir: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/90500/
2013-10-20
- Amir: MobileFrontend i18n review (lead to https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/91095/ )
2013-10-19
- Amir: reported RTL bug in Wikibase: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55922
2013-10-17
- Amir: Testing RTL support in MathJax (upstream), reported bugs:
2013-10-16
- Amir: Found a critical RTL bug in production, fixed by Jon: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55779
2013-10-09
- Contacted Wikimedia Spain about the adoption of translated articles from Duolingo
September 2013
2013-09-25
- Amir: Fixed number conversion in MobileFrontend - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/86027/
2013-09-24
- Amir: Resolving more i18n issues in Echo in the Persian Wikipedia with Benny and Ebraminio
- Amir: helping Moritz (GSoC student) to understand Indic fonts rendering problems in math formulas
2013-09-23
- Amir: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/85267/ , to discover a need to refactor some things in the handling of messages in VE, which resulted in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/85786/
- Niklas's pets
- Insertables
- MathJax for twn
- RadixTree implementation in PHP
2013-09-17
- Amir: Fixed RTL bugs in Notifications (Echo) with Benny Situ in the office
2013-09-09
- Niklas: Closed and replied https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/53947
- Niklas: Replid to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/53872
2013-09-07
- Amir: Got VisualEditor feedback pages for Persian and Arabic created
- Amir: Fixed an RTL message issue in Persian in core
2013-09-06
- Niklas: Merged wikihiero commit https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/63363/
- Niklas: Reviewed Flow commit https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/59804/
2013-09-04
- Niklas: Found a performance issue in Translate: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53748
2013-09-03
- Pau: Provide graphic assets for the Wikidata mobile app.
2013-09-02
- Pau: RFC for Grid system on MediaWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Grid_system
- Pau: UI review for Mobile translate app http://translatewiki.net/wiki/IOSApp
2013-09-01
- Niklas: Reviewed and merged multiple i18n patched by Nemo_bis
- Niklas: Answered to some questions on translatewiki.net support page
- Niklas: Fixed bug in ruby yaml file format support for translatewiki.net: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/82115
August 2013
2013-08-30
- Pau: Reported bug on ULS https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53591
- Kartik: Merged https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime/pull/269
2013-08-29
- Pau: Replied to Swedish translators interested in Content translation
- Niklas: Filed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/53527
2013-08-28
- Team: Right-To-Left issues bug triage in #mediawiki-i18n
- Niklas: Restored corrupted database at translatewiki.net
- Niklas: Merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/81475
2013-08-26
- Amir: proposed webfonts for IPA in the English Wikipedia. No replies yet, so I'll probably just do it. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Common.css#IPA_font )
- Santhosh: CR https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80786/
- Santhosh: CR https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80954
- Santhosh: Autonym Font updates
2013-08-24
- Amir: committed RTL fixes for CodeEditor, which should be deployed with Thursday's CodeEditor update:
- Niklas: Updated translatewiki.net shell scripts: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/80712
2013-08-22
- Amir: Commit https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80492/ to fix an RTL bug
- Amir: Commit https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80490/ to fix an RTL bug
- Niklas: Merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80322/
- Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/80090
2013-08-20
- Runa: Provided inputs to the Notifications/Echo team on rollouts to the Indic Wikis
- Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/78356
- Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/78312/
- Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/77898
- Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76330/
- Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/77076 and merge
- Niklas: Merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/78511
- Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/78504
- Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76632
- Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/30756
- Niklas: Merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/79326
2013-08-19
- Niklas. https://github.com/pauginer/agora-grid/pull/1
- Niklas: Review and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/79333
- Niklas: Review and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/79063
- Niklas: Filed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/53016 from translatewiki.net error log
2013-08-18
- Niklas: Merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/78649/
- Niklas: Merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79281/
2013-08-17
- Amir: filed bugs for missing web fonts for languages in which there are Wikimedia projects - Sinhala, Yi, Lao
- Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/78647/
- Niklas: Review and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/78650/
- Niklas: Review and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/78652/ and filed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/52961 and review and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79462/
- Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/78649/
- Niklas: Review and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/78391/ and filed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/52960
- Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79059/
- Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79281/
- Niklas: Review and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/59159/
2013-08-16
- Amir: commit a fix to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52321
- Amir: enable VisualEditor in the Tuvan Wikipedia - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79321/
2013-08-15
- Amir: Merge github pull requests for jquery.ime.
- Niklas: Lots of things lost in the etherpad upgrades
2013-08-07
Team: DevCamp in Hong Kong
2013-08-01
- Niklas: Comment https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/77052/
July 2013
2013-07-31
- Santhosh: Code review of GSOC project for SMC (I am backup mentor)
- Amir: reported https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52321
2013-07-30
- Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/69661/
- Amir: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76763
- Niklas: Helping YuviPanda on #wikimedia-dev about namespace localisation
- Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76503/
- Niklas: Submitted https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76712
- Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76306/
- Amir: Commit Russian grammar forms https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76709/
- Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76663/
- Niklas: Commented https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/75507/
- Niklas: Commented https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/52245
- Niklas: Commented https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76611/
- Niklas: Submitted a couple of patches to fix unit tests:
- Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74170/
- Niklas: Submitted https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76697
- Niklas: Submitted a patch for https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/51593
2013-07-29
- Niklas: Helping mwalker and GorillaWarfare on #wikimedia-dev about overriding namespace names
- Niklas: Merged https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74659/
- Niklas: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76477/
- Nilkas: Commented on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/52220
- Niklas: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73991/
- Niklas: Commented on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/51662
- Niklas: Review and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76345/
- Niklas: Helping sane on #mediawiki about mass offline translation of wiki pages
- Niklas: Commented on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/51797
- https://github.com/behaafarid/shapour_font/pull/1 cleaned up the Pahlavi font a bit
2013-07-27
- Santhosh: Helped https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76349/ with more font compression and review
- Santhosh: Human friendly relative timestamps, added tests and fixed functionality https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/45499/
- Amir: Review and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/75844/.
2013-07-26
- Pau: Drafted idea for ULS blog post as requested by Andre, Matthew ad Sumana
- Santhosh: Code clean up for Annotator extension https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76063/
- Santhosh: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/75872/
2013-07-25
- Santhosh: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/75813/
- Amir: Review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/75844/
2013-07-24
- Amir: little fixes in the Cucumber testing environment, to make running tests easier for everybody.
- Amir: reported https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51978
2013-07-23
- Pau: CSS comments on bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51104
- Pau: Design comments on bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35946
- Pau: Explained design rationale for https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51102
- Santhosh: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/75144/
- Amir: reported RTL bugs in VE:
- Amir: VE i18n improvement https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/75306/
- Amir: triaged urgent RTL VE bugs to be fixed before wider deployment on he.wiki.
2013-07-22
- Pau: Review designs for Language tagging on Visual Editor
- Santhosh: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74820
- Santhosh: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74830/
- Santhosh: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/75057/
- Santhosh: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/75061/
- Santhosh: Fixed Bug 44029 - Add linktrail for Malayalam
- Amir: reported VE bugs related to Translate:
- Amir: Tested the fix for https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50490 and closed it.
- Amir: Reported an RTL bug in VE: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51819 .
2013-07-21
- Niklas: Patrolled recent changes in translatewiki.net and removed 16 spam pages
- Niklas: Translated https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2013/30/fi
- Santhosh: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74649/
- Santhosh: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74658/
- Amir: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74675/
- follow-up doc: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74950/
- Amir: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/54484/
2013-07-20
- Niklas: Helping annew from userbase.kde.org with translation import issues
2013-07-16
- Amir: Tested Devanagari typing in VisualEditor and opened two bugs:
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51477 (definitely a blocker)
- https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51472 (probably uncomfortable, but not a blocker)
- Pau: designs for language tagging on VE (GSOC project): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Language_tagging_in_Visual_Editor_designs.pdf
- Niklas: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73918/
2013-07-15
- Pau: talk with Amir and GSoc student to add language selection support ot VE
- Siebrand: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73556/ again (+1)
- Siebrand: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73794/
- Siebrand: Reviewed and updated https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/59405/ (code formatting, partial L10n/i18n review and an email conversation with Dan of Europeana).
- Santhosh: Checked the noto font family of google, created a story https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/internationalization/cards/3621
- Pau: CSS fixes for https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73734/
- Niklas: Patrolled new user pages at translatewiki.net, deleted one spam
- Niklas: review (again) https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73708/
- Niklas: review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73615/
- Santhosh: Reviewed and tested Add LRM and RLM to Hebrew keyboards according to SI 1452 https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime/pull/212
- Santhosh: Reviewed and tested 4 Armenian keyboard layouts and gave comments https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime/pull/210
- Santhosh: Reviewed and merged https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime/pull/211 and https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime/pull/213
- Santhosh: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73506/
- Santhosh: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73152/
- Siebrand: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73708/
- Siebrand: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/72933/
- Siebrand: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73556/
- Siebrand: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73607/
- Runa: Helped Oliver with information about the language codes from LCM that he needs for his own project
2013-07-14
- Niklas: Translated https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2013/29/fi
- Niklas: review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73571/
- Siebrand: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73165/
- Siebrand: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73167/
- Niklas: review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/73519
2013-07-13
- Santhosh: Reported and fixed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51284 - MW core support for js side explicit plural forms
- Santhosh: Completed the patch started by Darkyen for jquery.i18n https://github.com/santhoshtr/jquery.i18n/commit/74147f1eb7
- Amir: reply on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40258
- Amir: Test pages for unicode-bidi: isolate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amire80/lrm
- Amir: Test pages for lrm/rlm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Amire80/lrm
- Amir: translatewiki.net support
- (Needs for information)
- Amir bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51285
2013-07-12
- Pau: opened bug for Language variant selection: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51242
- Pau: replied to Wikidata team about input field options design.
- Santhosh: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/72742
- Pau: replied to Chinese community member about integration of language variants in ULS: Always create a bugzilla issue?
- Santhosh: Updated https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector with instructions on adding new input method
- Pau: Replying to CommaFeed project participant interested in using TUX loading indicator.
- Siebrand: Created issue: Deprecated logging used in OAuth extension - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/51221
- Siebrand: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/67301/
- Siebrand: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/65348/
- Santhosh: GSOC code review at https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime/pull/208 and https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.uls/pull/105
- Siebrand: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73091/
- Siebrand: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73077/
- Siebrand: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73089/
- Siebrand: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/71290/
- Siebrand: Commented on https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/50004/. In review for 4 months, and something needs to happen. Proposed to merge it, as it'll not be deployed to Wikimedia wikis, and the extension author needs some milestone reached to stay motivated.
- Santhosh: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73017
- Santhosh: Replying to Marathi community about input tools at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Universal_Language_Selector
- Santhosh: Code review for javascript engineer candidate assignment
2013-07-11
- Niklas: Helping with message documentation writing with images and templates on #wikimedia-dev
- Niklas: I18n review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73150/
- Siebrand: review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/72340
- Siebrand: review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/72341
- Siebrand: review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/72346
- Siebrand: review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/72345
- Siebrand: review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/72342
- Siebrand: review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/58687
- Niklas: i18n review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/72841/
- Niklas: answering question about wfMessage in #mediawiki
- Nikas: review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/45499/6
- Team: IRC office hours https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2013-07-10
- Niklas: ran maintenance script extensions/Translate/scripts/createMessageIndex.php for Translate on mediawiki.org based on query in #mediawiki-i18n
- Niklas&Pau: answering to question about mobile CSS of jQuery.uls in #mediawiki-i18n
- Amir: re-tested https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45989
- Amir: reply on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40258
- Siebrand: Reviewed and merged https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/72242/
- Siebrand: Reviewed and merged https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/72337/
- Siebrand: "get to know each other" meeting with Jared Zimmerman (WMF Director of User Experience)
- Siebrand: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73160/
- Siebrand: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/72344/
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