Wikimedia Language engineering/Other activities

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

December 2013

2013-12-16

• Amir: i18n fix in Flow: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/101947/

2013-12-14

• Amir: RTL testing of the new Android mobile app: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/101492/

2013-12-05

• Amir: and even more gender and RTL support in Flow:
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/101621/
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/101622/
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/101638/
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/101639/
• Amir: merged RTL patches in ArticleFeedbackv5:
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/62807/
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/62978/

2013-12-03

• Amir: more gender support in Flow: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/98769/

2013-12-02

• Amir: i18n and rtl fixes in Flow (over the last week):
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/98368/
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/98552/
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/98572/
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/98293/
• Amir: i18n fixes in the core Installer
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/98358/
• Amir: rtl fixes in Translate:
  • https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/96205/

November 2013

2013-11-20

• Amir: review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/96200/
• Amir: i18n fixes and bug reports in ArticleFeedback5:

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/96440/
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/96444/
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57284

2013-11-18

• Amir: fix i18n in MobileFrontend: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/95980/

2013-11-11

• Amir: i18n fixes in the OAuth extension

2013-11-10

• Amir: i18n fixes in CentralNotice:

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/94611/
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/94610/

2013-11-08

• Amir: Reported RTL bugs in VE:

• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56779
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56780
• Fixed an RTL bug in VE: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/94379/

2013-11-07

• Amir: i18n review and RTL fix in the new Extension:MultimediaViewer:

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/94269/
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56742

2013-11-06

• Amir: fixed an RTL bug in BetaFeatures: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/93992/

2013-11-05

• Amir: improved BetaFeatures i18n messages

• i18n review for Flow: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Talk:Flow_Portal/i18n_review .

2013-11-04

• Amir: RTL bugfixes in Wikibase:

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/93512/
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/93518/

October 2013

2013-10-21

• Amir: i18n bugs in Wikibase:

• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55961
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55962

• Amir: A little RTL fix for Echo: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/90934/1/wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php
• Amir: RTL fixes for Wikibase: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/90944/
• Amir: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/90500/

2013-10-20

• Amir: MobileFrontend i18n review (lead to https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/91095/ )

2013-10-19

• Amir: reported RTL bug in Wikibase: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55922

2013-10-17

• Amir: Testing RTL support in MathJax (upstream), reported bugs:

• https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/626
• https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/627
• https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/628
• commented on https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax/issues/601

2013-10-16

• Amir: Found a critical RTL bug in production, fixed by Jon: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55779

2013-10-09

• Contacted Wikimedia Spain about the adoption of translated articles from Duolingo

September 2013

2013-09-25

• Amir: Fixed number conversion in MobileFrontend - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/86027/

2013-09-24

• Amir: Resolving more i18n issues in Echo in the Persian Wikipedia with Benny and Ebraminio

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/85711/
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/85942/

• Amir: helping Moritz (GSoC student) to understand Indic fonts rendering problems in math formulas

2013-09-23

• Amir: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/85267/ , to discover a need to refactor some things in the handling of messages in VE, which resulted in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/85786/
• Niklas's pets

• Insertables
• MathJax for twn
• RadixTree implementation in PHP

2013-09-17

• Amir: Fixed RTL bugs in Notifications (Echo) with Benny Situ in the office

2013-09-09

• Niklas: Closed and replied https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/53947
• Niklas: Replid to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/53872

2013-09-07

• Amir: Got VisualEditor feedback pages for Persian and Arabic created
• Amir: Fixed an RTL message issue in Persian in core

2013-09-06

• Niklas: Merged wikihiero commit https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/63363/
• Niklas: Reviewed Flow commit https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/59804/

2013-09-04

• Niklas: Found a performance issue in Translate: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53748

2013-09-03

• Pau: Provide graphic assets for the Wikidata mobile app.

2013-09-02

• Pau: RFC for Grid system on MediaWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Grid_system
• Pau: UI review for Mobile translate app http://translatewiki.net/wiki/IOSApp

2013-09-01

• Niklas: Reviewed and merged multiple i18n patched by Nemo_bis
• Niklas: Answered to some questions on translatewiki.net support page
• Niklas: Fixed bug in ruby yaml file format support for translatewiki.net: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/82115

August 2013

2013-08-30

• Pau: Reported bug on ULS https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53591
• Kartik: Merged https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime/pull/269

2013-08-29

• Pau: Replied to Swedish translators interested in Content translation
• Niklas: Filed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/53527

2013-08-28

• Team: Right-To-Left issues bug triage in #mediawiki-i18n
• Niklas: Restored corrupted database at translatewiki.net
• Niklas: Merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/81475

2013-08-26

• Amir: proposed webfonts for IPA in the English Wikipedia. No replies yet, so I'll probably just do it. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Common.css#IPA_font )
• Santhosh: CR https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80786/
• Santhosh: CR https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80954
• Santhosh: Autonym Font updates

2013-08-24

• Amir: committed RTL fixes for CodeEditor, which should be deployed with Thursday's CodeEditor update:

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80707/
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80708/
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80717/

• Niklas: Updated translatewiki.net shell scripts: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/80712

2013-08-22

• Amir: Commit https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80492/ to fix an RTL bug
• Amir: Commit https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80490/ to fix an RTL bug
• Niklas: Merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80322/
• Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/80090

2013-08-20

• Runa: Provided inputs to the Notifications/Echo team on rollouts to the Indic Wikis
• Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/78356
• Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/78312/
• Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/77898
• Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76330/
• Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/77076 and merge
• Niklas: Merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/78511
• Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/78504
• Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76632
• Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/30756
• Niklas: Merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/79326

2013-08-19

• Niklas. https://github.com/pauginer/agora-grid/pull/1
• Niklas: Review and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/79333
• Niklas: Review and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/79063
• Niklas: Filed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/53016 from translatewiki.net error log

2013-08-18

• Niklas: Merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/78649/
• Niklas: Merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79281/

2013-08-17

• Amir: filed bugs for missing web fonts for languages in which there are Wikimedia projects - Sinhala, Yi, Lao
• Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/78647/
• Niklas: Review and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/78650/
• Niklas: Review and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/78652/ and filed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/52961 and review and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79462/
• Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/78649/
• Niklas: Review and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/78391/ and filed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/52960
• Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79059/
• Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79281/
• Niklas: Review and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/59159/

2013-08-16

• Amir: commit a fix to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52321
• Amir: enable VisualEditor in the Tuvan Wikipedia - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79321/

2013-08-15

• Amir: Merge github pull requests for jquery.ime.
• Niklas: Lots of things lost in the etherpad upgrades

2013-08-07

Team: DevCamp in Hong Kong

2013-08-01

• Niklas: Comment https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/77052/

July 2013

2013-07-31

• Santhosh: Code review of GSOC project for SMC (I am backup mentor)
• Amir: reported https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52321

2013-07-30

• Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/69661/
• Amir: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76763
• Niklas: Helping YuviPanda on #wikimedia-dev about namespace localisation
• Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76503/
• Niklas: Submitted https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76712
• Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76306/
• Amir: Commit Russian grammar forms https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76709/
• Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76663/
• Niklas: Commented https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/75507/
• Niklas: Commented https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/52245
• Niklas: Commented https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76611/
• Niklas: Submitted a couple of patches to fix unit tests:

• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76705
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76532
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76703
• https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76704

• Niklas: Review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74170/
• Niklas: Submitted https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/76697
• Niklas: Submitted a patch for https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/51593

2013-07-29

• Niklas: Helping mwalker and GorillaWarfare on #wikimedia-dev about overriding namespace names
• Niklas: Merged https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74659/
• Niklas: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76477/
• Nilkas: Commented on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/52220
• Niklas: Reviewed https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73991/
• Niklas: Commented on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/51662
• Niklas: Review and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76345/
• Niklas: Helping sane on #mediawiki about mass offline translation of wiki pages
• Niklas: Commented on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/51797
• https://github.com/behaafarid/shapour_font/pull/1 cleaned up the Pahlavi font a bit

2013-07-27

• Santhosh: Helped https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76349/ with more font compression and review
• Santhosh: Human friendly relative timestamps, added tests and fixed functionality https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/45499/
• Amir: Review and merge https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/75844/.

2013-07-26

• Pau: Drafted idea for ULS blog post as requested by Andre, Matthew ad Sumana
• Santhosh: Code clean up for Annotator extension https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76063/
• Santhosh: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/75872/

2013-07-25

• Santhosh: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/75813/
• Amir: Review: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/75844/

2013-07-24

Amir: little fixes in the Cucumber testing environment, to make running tests easier for everybody.

Amir: reported https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51978

2013-07-23

• Pau: CSS comments on bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51104
• Pau: Design comments on bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35946
• Pau: Explained design rationale for https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51102
• Santhosh: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/75144/
• Amir: reported RTL bugs in VE:

• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51851
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51852

• Amir: VE i18n improvement https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/75306/
• Amir: triaged urgent RTL VE bugs to be fixed before wider deployment on he.wiki.

2013-07-22

• Pau: Review designs for Language tagging on Visual Editor
• Santhosh: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74820
• Santhosh: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74830/
• Santhosh: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/75057/
• Santhosh: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/75061/
• Santhosh: Fixed Bug 44029 - Add linktrail for Malayalam
• Amir: reported VE bugs related to Translate:

• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51797
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51805

• Amir: Tested the fix for https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50490 and closed it.
• Amir: Reported an RTL bug in VE: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51819 .

2013-07-21

• Niklas: Patrolled recent changes in translatewiki.net and removed 16 spam pages
• Niklas: Translated https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2013/30/fi
• Santhosh: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74649/
• Santhosh: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74658/
• Amir: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74675/

• follow-up doc: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74950/

• Amir: Code review https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/54484/

2013-07-20

• Niklas: Helping annew from userbase.kde.org with translation import issues

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
  • (Needs for information)
• 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/