Internationalization and localization tools/status

Last update on: 2013-01-monthly

2012-12-monthly
Highlights of the Language Engineering team’s project this month include:

1. Translate extension improvements - Development of the new user interface for translate as well as the translation editor functionality continued at full pace throughout the month of December with iterative feature development and user experience improvements. Santhosh Thottingal and Niklas Laxström are leading development while Pau Giner is focused on optimizing user experience elements.

2. MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle: The latest version of MLEB was released by the team.

3. Universal Language Selector: Increased support for language variants, alternate language codes were added to ULS.

4. L10n/i18n tools collaboration: Alolita Sharma continued to work with Red Hat's L10n and i18n teams to evaluate localization data, translation tools as well as i18n tools and technologies.

5. Community outreach: Pau Giner and Amir Aharoni participated in the Open Tech Chat this month to talk about best practices in multilingual user testing and internationalization. Amir Aharoni also participated in mentoring OPW's candidate Priyanka Nag for the new LevelUp program.

6. Blog posts by the team: a. Translation editor growing snazzier http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/12/31/translation-editor-growing-snazzier/

b. Translation interface makeover in progress http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/12/12/translation-interface-makeover-in-progress/

7. Srikanth Lakshmanan and Arun Ganesh’s tenure ended with the Language Engineering team in December.

8. Milkshake: Added more language input methods contributed by language communities to jquery.ime library. 

2013-01-monthly
Development of the new user interface for Translate, as well as the translation editor functionality, continued throughout the month of January. Focus was on backend work and extending the WebAPI to support the remaining features which are needed to reach feature parity with current editor. MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2013.01 was released. Universal Language Selector was deployed with limited features to selected WMF projects using Translate extension.