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Last update on: 2012-11-monthly

2012-11-monthly
In November 2012, the Language Engineering team travelled to India for 10 days together with the Mobile team for 6 events in total: The two day [|Language Summit] at the Red Hat offices in Pune, A Language Engineering Community Meetup in Pune, the three day DevCamp 2012 Bangalore, a Language Engineering Community Meetup in Bangalore, a presentation By Erik Moeller on the current state of tech in the Wikimedia Foundation and Coffee with Arky, a meetup of Mozilla users.

The rest of the month, development time was spent on completing the Universal Language Selector, and getting it to a state where it could be put in maintenance mode for a few months, until phase two of the ULS, adding content language selection, will start in April 2013.

The Language Engineering designers completed the design for the [Translation_UX|Translation UX]] project, for which development has commenced end of November 2012, and which will continue for 8 sprints of a fortnight, until mid-March 2013.

Recent publications:
 * Bugs fixed in Universal Language Selector, and a new IPA keyboard layout
 * Wikipedia Engineering DevCamp sees a lot of energy and contributions in Bangalore
 * Writing Malayalam on Wikipedia, just like with pen and paper
 * OpenSource Language Summit
 * Translate Wikidata’s user interface and open it to the world
 * Universal Language Selector now has Input Methods.