Wikimedia Developer Summit/2016/T113002

T113002, T114662, T114640 - This is the session pad for Language: Let's discuss LanguageConverter/per-language URLs/getTargetLanguage, slated to begin at 11:30am on January 5, 2016.

Purpose

Discuss T114662: RFC: per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis.
Discuss T114640: RFC: make Parser::getTargetLanguage aware of multilingual wikis
Discuss plans for long-term support of wikis with language/script variants. T113002

Agenda

20 minutes - introductory presentation (phab:T113002)
20 minutes - discussion of phab:T114662, phab:T114640
40 minutes - discussion of LanguageConverter/ContentTranslation

Minutes

Etherpad

etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikiDev16-T113002

Goals

Agree on plan for reflecting language in URLs
Narrow options for long-term support of wikis with language/script variants.

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