On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
When you get around to it, please ask Language Engineering - we'd love to
help making not only readable, but easier to translate as well.
I'm curious - what's the normal process for that in Foundation software? i.e., whose responsibility is it, when is the best time to start thinking about that, etc.? It is not something Legal has been involved in much in the past, so I don't know much about the process (though I've been involved with it for other open source projects for many years, so I am familiar with many of the concepts).
The related guide at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation is extremely comprehensive. The TL;DR: answer is it's ultimately the responsibility of the developers and product managers on a team to make sure localization is possible/easy. The Language Engineering team largely assists directly through advice and code review, not to mention maintaining/supporting translatewiki.net.