Wikimedia Language engineering/Other activities

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

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
 * please provide links or clarification, too vague imho
 * 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/