I cannot be at wikimana. I would sincerely want to understand the language converter. An
attempt to understand it by reading the code some three years ago failed. So, if you do
something like that during wikimania, I suggest to have the session recorded or written
down.
Purodha
"C. Scott Ananian" <cananian(a)wikimedia.org> writes:
The LanguageConverter is a poorly-understood part of
mediawiki among
mediawiki engineers.
Is there any chance that we could organize a set of presentations or
talks by the various communities who use it, in order to lay the
ground work for an informed discussion of its future and/or
replacement?
In particular,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedias_in_Multi-writing_System
lists 30-40 different wikis who either are using LanguageConverter
functionality or who would like to use it. I have a reasonable grasp
on the linguistic background of (generously speaking) 4 of them. How
can we better understand the issues and communities involved?
Perhaps something could be arranged at Wikimania this year? Do we
know if a decent cross-section of variant-using wiki users will be
present?