The Language Engineering team is in the process of redesigning the Translate
extension <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate>.
The Translate extension turns MediaWiki into a localisation platform, and
it is used in Meta-Wiki, mediawiki.org and a few other Wikimedia wikis, as
well as other opensource projects, to make them available in multiple
languages.
We are planning to do a walkthrough for the latest revision of the designs
tomorrow.
Since the extension is used by many different projects and users, we want
to make this meeting open to get feedback from anyone interested.
So we welcome you to join us in the discussion:
*When.* Wednesday 27 of February at 8:30 PST (San Francisco), 16:30 UTC
(UK), 17:30 CET (most of Europe), and 22:00 IST (India).
*What.* During the meeting we'll discuss information from our design
specification<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Translate-workflow-spec.pdf>
and the current implementation available at
translatewiki.net<http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&tux=1>.
Feel free to take a look to the docs or try the new UI before the event.
*How* to participate. The event will be broadcasted using Google Hangouts
On Air, so that it can be seen live or accessed later. We'll share the URL
as the event approaches. The #mediawiki-i18n IRC channel will be used to
get questions from the audience.
If you are interested in entering the hangout for a face-to-face
participation, you can ping me and I'll send an invite as long as there are
free seats remaining.
Pau
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Pau Giner
Interaction Designer
Wikimedia Foundation
Pencil <http://pencil.evolus.vn/> is a Firefox-based tool to create
clickable prototypes.
It has several templates to export the prototypes as an interactive HTML
prototype, but none was suitable for testing with users. That forced me to
tweak the generated CSS to remove extra navigation elements and adjust the
layout.
Finally I refactored those adjustments as a Pencil template that others can
use. For those interested, the template is available for
download<https://github.com/pauginer/pencil-showcase-template/raw/master/pencil-show…>and
the project
is hosted at GitHub <https://github.com/pauginer/pencil-showcase-template>.
Pau
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Pau Giner
Interaction Designer
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi, fyi.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Proposal: name and logo for Amsterdam Hackathon
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:37:42 -0800
From: Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org>
To: Organisation list for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2013
<hackathon-org(a)lists.wmnederland.nl>
Hi, as promised in the meeting today:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013#Proposal_for_n…
Looking forward to your opinions.
I will forward this to Erik, Jay, Design mailing list and the MediaWiki
Group Promotion to see if there is more feedback, asking anybody to
reply in that thread.
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Quim Gil
Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil
http://openitp.org/?q=openitp_first_round_of_2013_project_funding_now_open_…
OpenITP's first round of 2013 project funding is now open for proposals!
Deadline: 31 March 2013
"OpenITP project grants are meant to support specific technical efforts
to improve users' ability to circumvent censorship and surveillance on
the Internet. "Technical" doesn't have to mean software or hardware --
for example, we also consider efforts to improve user experience through
translation, testing, projects to improve documentation, meetings that
get developers together in person to solve specific problems, etc. The
main thing we're looking for is that your proposed project is finite
(e.g. has a deadline, is scoped) and contributes to OpenITP's core
mission of enabling freedom of communication on the Internet.
We're interested in all good proposals, but note we're especially
receptive to proposals that improve user experience (UX) and in
translation (of both software and documentation). Don't take that as a
filter, though: if you have a good proposal that's not about UX or
translation, we still want to receive it.
While our grants don't have a hard limit, they tend to be in the
$5k-$30k USD range: enough to fund a specific piece of work, or to
provide seed funding for a new idea, but not enough to be a primary
long-term funding source. Therefore we try not to burden applicants with
a lot of bureaucratic overhead and paperwork to apply for a grant. It's
enough to send us a brief description of what you have in mind, and
point to public URLs for further details. Since we only fund open source
work, we expect that most proposals we receive will already have been
discussed in publicly-archived forums anyway, and perhaps written up on
a public web page -- though there may be exceptions, such as projects
that are becoming open source but aren't all the way there yet. In any
case, we're comfortable clicking on links and reading stuff on the Web.
You're not required to package everything up in one PDF to make a
proposal. Just tell us what you want to do, make it easy for us to find
what we need to find, and we'll take it from there. We'll ask you
questions as we have them."
The page also includes examples of things OpenITP funded in their last
round. Please take a look! It would be *amazing* if someone could use
this opportunity to help people read and contribute to Wikimedia safely.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
