Wikimedia Language engineering/Other activities

A record of interesting stuff that the Wikimedia Language Engineering team do, besides their every day work.

2013-10-21

 * Amir: i18n bugs in Wikibase:
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55961
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55962


 * 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:
 * https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/626
 * https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/627
 * https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/628
 * commented on https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/601

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

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
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/85711/
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/85942/


 * 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

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:
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80707/
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80708/
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80717/


 * 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/

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:
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76705
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76532
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76703
 * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76704


 * 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:
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51851
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51852


 * 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:
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51797
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51805


 * 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/