Internationalization and localization tools/status

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 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.