Wikimedia Language engineering/Communications and outreach/status

Last update on: 2014-03-monthly

2013-04-monthly
Highlights of this month's communications and outreach activities by the team include UX testing with community members for ULS changes by Pau Giner, blog posts on team programs including the Language Mavens, translatewiki.net home page, translation UX improvements. The team also held office hours with the community as well as a successful bug triage focused on translate bugs.

2013-05-monthly
The Language Mavens met and discussed areas they can contribute to for Language tools. As part of GSoC 2013, all developers on the team are set to mentor 4 Language Engineering projects supporting jQuery.IME, Language Coverage Matrix, RTL support for Visual Editor and Translate mobile app. Monthly office hours and bug triage were held. The team continued to report and blog on its activities. Hackathon organization and participation at Amsterdam and Tel Aviv were very successful.

2014-01-monthly
The team continued their collaborative projects with Google, Twitter, Microsoft internationalization and MT teams on webfonts, input tools and machine translation.

2014-02-monthly
Runa Bhattacharjee is setting up a Test Case Management System, to facilitate manual testing inside the team and helping volunteer translators test new versions of language tools and report the results.

2014-03-monthly
Runa Bhattacharjee and Kartik Mistry set up a Test Case Management System to facilitate the manual testing of the components developed by the team. The purpose of the is to organize manual testing by volunteers better.