Cool. It sounds like you invested a lot of effort into the translation, and
I'm glad that it paid off.
Pine
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 1:55 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
OK, so something amazing just happened: A Hebrew
Wikipedia editor told me
that he uses the translated API Sandbox.
This probably sounds cryptic, so let me explain why is this significant.
The "API Sandbox" is a technical part of the MediaWiki software that shows
all the actions that are available for developers of extensions, bots,
scripts, etc. There are hundreds of such actions, and there are thousands
of English strings that document each action. You can see the API Sandbox
in English here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox
In the past these documentation strings could only be written in English,
but in 2014 it became possible to translate them. So now it's possible to
see the API Sandbox in French, for example:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox
I do my best to keep the translation of MediaWiki into Hebrew at 100%, so I
translated them all for the sake of completeness, but I was sure that
nobody will ever use it, because programmers usually know English.
So now I have proof that it's _usually_, but not _always_. A developer of
gadgets in the Hebrew Wikipedia found it more comfortable to use the API
Sandbox in Hebrew than in English. And he's probably not alone. There are
probably a lot of people who would be good programmers if they had more
documentation in their language.
And this makes me happy because:
1. This translation actually enables more people to develop more useful
technical tools for Wikimedia projects.
2. More philosophically, this makes the gap between people who know English
and people who don't a little bit smaller. This gap is huge, but hard to
notice for people who know English (even for me).
3. More personally, now I know that the time I invested in translating
these strings was not wasted :)
Moral of the story: Localization is awesome, nobody should assume that
everyone knows English, and everything should be translatable.
Thanks to Brad Jorsch (User:Anomie) for making the API documentation
translatable!
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2017-05-08 9:06 GMT+03:00 Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>om>:
I was happy to see the final WMF list of GSoC
2017 and Outreachy Round 14
projects.
What's making you happy this week?
Pine
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Hello,
Please join me in welcoming Wikimedia's accepted candidates for Google
Summer of Code 2017 and Outreachy Round 14!
Google Summer of Code 2017
1.
Alexander Jones, Texas, United States, Implement Thanks support in
Pywikibot <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161426> - John Mark
Vandenberg
2.
Amrit Sreekumar, Kerela, India, Improvements to ProofreadPage
Extension
and Wikisource
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161111> - Yann
Forget, Tpt
3.
Feroz Ahmad, New Delhi, India, Add a "hierarchy" type to the Cargo
extension <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161609> - Yaron Koren,
Nischayn22
4.
Harjot Singh Bhatia, New Delhi, India, Adding Data storage feature and
upgrading Quiz extension <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160257>
-
Marielle Volz, Sam Reed
5.
Harsh Shah, India, Build a similar to @NYPLEmoji bot for Commons
images
- Dereckson, Ariel
6.
Keerthana S, India, Automatic editing suggestions and feedbacks for
articles in Wiki Ed Dashboard <https://phabricator.
wikimedia.org/T160840>
- Sage Ross, Jonathan Morgan
7.
Sejal Khatri, India, Provide enhanced usability for Wikimedia
Programs &
Events Dashboard managed by Wiki Education
foundation <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161929> - Sage Ross, Jonathan
Morgan
8.
Siddhartha Sarkar, India, Single Image Batch Upload <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161670> - Basvb
Outreachy Round 14
1.
Ela Opper, Tel Aviv, Israel, "Remind me of this article in X days"
MediaWiki notification <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161823> -
Matthew Flaschen and Moriel Schottlender
2.
Medha Bansal, New Delhi, India, WikiEduDashboard: Allow Programs &
Events Dashboard to make automatic edits on connected wikis <
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161568>- Jonathan Morgan, Sage
Ross
3.
Sonali Gupta, Rajasthan, India, Document process for creating new
Zotero
translator and getting it live in production
<
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161191> - Marielle Volz
We would like to encourage accepted candidates to introduce themselves on
this thread, share with us where they are coming from and give a brief
overview of the project they will be working on.
We’re so proud of the contributions they have made so far to our
community,
and we look forward to having a wonderful time
working with them over the
summer! Also, a huge shout-out to the project mentors for their
enthusiasm
and commitment!
Thank you to Sumit and Anna for coordinating this round along with me!
Best,
Srishti
--
Srishti Sethi
Developer Advocate
Technical Collaboration team
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SSethi_(WMF) <javascript:void(0)>
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