Milkshake

Project Milkshakeis a project that aims to make generic jQuery components for commonly needed internationalisation features.The project was conceived by the Wikimedia Locall in July 2012 All initial components are being developed because there is a need for them on Wikimedia Projects through MediaWiki. However it would be shame to not make it easy for anyone to re-use them in any project. Because of this, we chose to (re)develop all components as generic jQuery libraries, using well documented APIs, so that it is relatively easy to implement and use them anywhere. To allow easy participation in the features, the source code repositories are hosted on GitHub. MediaWiki specific implementations re-use the code from the libraries.

Licenses and contributing
Components are dual licensed as GPL and MIT as much as possible to allow wide adoption. New contributions can only be accepted under these two licenses.

Components
Based on research, we found out that no existing freely licensed i18n framework for JavaScript was available that was as flexible and feature rich as MediaWiki's messaging for JavaScript. Currently, work is underway to implement the specification Specification implementation
 * Source code

Language selector

 * Universal Language Selector
 * Source code:jquery.ulsMediaWiki extension
 * in translatewiki.net

Input methods
implementation
 * Source code

Web fonts
Source code implementation

Future developments
Based on feedback by Krinkle, future developments may include the addition of ResourceLoader and removal of the MediaWiki JavaScript i18n framework in favour of Project Milkshake components. See also Globalize.