Milkshake/status

Last update on: 2012-09-monthly

2012-07
Development started.

2012-08-monthly
Development on Project Milkshake continued at a lower priority due to the focus on the Universal Language Selector this month. We are getting some basic blocks together in our GitHub repositories.

2012-09-monthly
The Universal Language Selector is now mostly complete, and talks are underway with Wikimedia operations to plan the first deployments of it on (very) small Wikimedia wikis. The reason for a very careful deployment is that there are very valid concerns for so-called "cache fragmentation", having to store multiple versions of a content page, each with a different user language, to be served to anonymous users with different browser language settings, compared to the current caching strategy of serving all anonymous users with the same single cached version.

The Language Engineering team has made presentations about the project Milkshake components at San Francisco State University, Twitter, Google and Change.org.