Hello,
Due to unavoidable reasons, we have had to move this online session to next
week, on 28th March 2018. The time will be same i.e. 1300 UTC. I will send
a reminder ahead of the session. Meanwhile, please see the original
announcement below for other details.
Thanks, and apologies for this last minute change.
regards
Runa
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:17 AM, Runa Bhattacharjee <
rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> [x-posted announcement]
>
> Hello,
>
> Wikimedia Foundation’s Language team would like to invite you for an
> online office hour session scheduled for Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 at
> 13:00 UTC. This will be an open session to talk about our work, and in
> particular the changes to interlanguage links, which were recently
> rolled-out on the English Wikipedia.
>
> The new option shows a list of up to 9 languages instead of a long list
> that can have more than 200 items, and a panel with all the links that can
> be looked up in any language using a search box. The purpose of this
> feature is to make articles in all languages easier to find. We recently
> published a blog post about this feature and the thoughts behind the
> development:
>
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/08/compact-language-links-launch.
>
> This session is going to be an online discussion over Google
> Hangouts/Youtube with a simultaneous IRC conversation. Due to the
> limitation of Google Hangouts, only a limited number of participation slots
> are available. Hence, do please let us know in advance if you would like to
> join in the Hangout. The IRC channel will be open for interactions during
> the session.
>
> Please read below for the event details, including local time, youtube
> session links and do let us know if you have any questions.
>
> Thank you
> Runa
>
> == Details ==
>
> # Event: Wikimedia Foundation Language office hour session
>
> # When: March 21st, 2018 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180321T1300)
>
> # Where: and on IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) and
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmZcL6zVcTA
>
>
> # Agenda:
> Discussion about Compact Language Links, and Q & A.
>
>
> --
> Engineering Manager, Language (Contributors)
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
>
--
Engineering Manager, Language (Contributors)
Wikimedia Foundation
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
Wikimedia Foundation’s Language team would like to invite you for an online
office hour session scheduled for Wednesday, March 21st, 2018 at 13:00 UTC.
This will be an open session to talk about our work, and in particular the
changes to interlanguage links, which were recently rolled-out on the
English Wikipedia.
The new option shows a list of up to 9 languages instead of a long list
that can have more than 200 items, and a panel with all the links that can
be looked up in any language using a search box. The purpose of this
feature is to make articles in all languages easier to find. We recently
published a blog post about this feature and the thoughts behind the
development:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/08/compact-language-links-launch.
This session is going to be an online discussion over Google
Hangouts/Youtube with a simultaneous IRC conversation. Due to the
limitation of Google Hangouts, only a limited number of participation slots
are available. Hence, do please let us know in advance if you would like to
join in the Hangout. The IRC channel will be open for interactions during
the session.
Please read below for the event details, including local time, youtube
session links and do let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you
Runa
== Details ==
# Event: Wikimedia Foundation Language office hour session
# When: March 21st, 2018 (Wednesday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20180321T1300)
# Where: and on IRC #wikimedia-office (Freenode) and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmZcL6zVcTA
# Agenda:
Discussion about Compact Language Links, and Q & A.
--
Engineering Manager, Language (Contributors)
Wikimedia Foundation
Hello there! I am working on localizing numerical values in some Wikimedia
applications (XTools[0], namely). I've been using
PHP's NumberFormatter[1] and it works great for some languages like Arabic
and Persian.
However Kurdish, specifically ckb (as in ckb.wikipedia.org[2]), is
apparently missing from this PHP library. I've searched the whole internet
over, and can't figure out how I am meant to install it. Evidently it boils
down to what languages are installed on your machine, which I think under a
Unix-like system is "locale -a". Indeed I don't see ckb or any of the other
Kurdish variants like ku, kur, kmr, and sdh. The same is true when I run
this command on Toolfroge/VPS, where my tools are hosted.
Knowing that Kurdish Wikipedia[2] is a thing, and that MediaWiki is built
in PHP, I was hoping someone here would know what needs to be done to
support Kurdish in my application? I have all the Kurdish message
translations, via translatewiki, I just need to localize the numerical
values using the standard PHP NumberFormatter.
[0] https://xtools.wmflabs.org
[1] https://secure.php.net/manual/en/class.numberformatter.php
[2] https://ckb.wikipedia.org
Many thanks for your time,
~MusikAnimal