Dear list subscribers,
Apologies for the late invitation - this meeting is in less than 24 hours.
It somehow fell off my todo list.
You are invited to the Localisation team development demo on Tuesday 29 May
2012 at 15:00 UTC (other time zones: 08:00 PDT, 17:00 CEST, 20:30 IST).
This meeting will take 40 minutes at most. In this meeting
the Localisation team will present its progress made during sprint 16[1].
We hope you can attend, and please invite any other colleagues or friends
you think would appreciate being present!
This meeting will be held using WebEx. Please ensure that you log in a few
minutes before the meeting starts, so that you have time to install any
required plug-ins or software. Connection details can be found below the
signature.
[1]
https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/internationalization/cards/708
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Siebrand Mazeland
Product Manager Localisation
Wikimedia Foundation
M: +31 6 50 69 1239
Skype: siebrand
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
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Hi everone,
Forwarding an e-mail that Pau sent to wikitech, mediawiki-i18n and a
few other mailing lists (as he's not subscribed to translators-l and
wikitech-ambassadors).
Cheers!
Siebrand
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From: Pau Giner <pginer(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:44 AM
Subject: [Engineering] Introducing: Designs for the Universal Language Selector
Today we are announcing the designs and interactive prototypes for the
Universal Language Selector.
Wikipedia is available in 285 languages, and MediaWiki has been
translated to almost 400 languages.
Several language-related tools are available to support the
consumption and contribution of content in different languages.
These tools allow users to type text in a language for which their
keyboard is not prepared, download appropriate web fonts to display
non-Latin scripts properly and choose the language of their user
interface.
The Universal Language Selector is a tool that will allow users to
select a language and configure its support in an easy way.
When the number of languages in a list approaches 400, ease of use
becomes both a need and a challenge.
The design process for the selector started with the analysis of user
needs and the definition of representative scenarios to support.
Then, we explored different ideas in the form of sketches and
wire-frames through different iterations.
Finally, we have created interactive prototypes to test whether our
ideas work with real users, and we want to share them with the
community.
More information about the designs has been recently published at the
Wikimedia Foundation blog:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/21/introducing-designs-for-the-universal-…
We are announcing the availability of the Universal Language Selector
designs to gather feedback on the proposed solutions, and ask for
volunteers to test our prototypes.
If you want more details on the designs or want to have ideas for
improvement or criticism on the designs, feel free to do so on the
talk page for the Universal Language Selector:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector#Proposed_design
If you are a speaker of Arabic, Dutch, Hebrew or Hindi, you can also
request participation for the usability tests at http://goo.gl/QpWmu
In less than 30 minutes you can participate in the tests and
experience whether our proposed solutions work in practice for your
specific language community and context.
Pau
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Pau Giner
Interaction Designer
Wikimedia Foundation
Dear list subscribers,
You are invited to the Localisation team development demo on Tuesday
15 May 2012 at 15:00 UTC (other time zones: 08:00 PDT, 17:00 CEST,
20:30 IST). This meeting will take 40 minutes at most. In this meeting
the Localisation team will present its progress made during sprint
15[1].
We hope you can attend, and please invite any other colleagues or
friends you think would appreciate being present!
This meeting will be held using WebEx. Please ensure that you log in a
few minutes before the meeting starts, so that you have time to
install any required plug-ins or software. Connection details can be
found below the signature.
[1] https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/internationalization/cards/707
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Siebrand Mazeland
Product Manager Localisation
Wikimedia Foundation
M: +31 6 50 69 1239
Skype: siebrand
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
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4. Click "Join".
What: Meta and mediawiki.org translation tools bug triage
When: Wednesday, May 9, 16:00UTC
Time zone conversion: http://hexm.de/ir
Where: #mediawiki-i18n on freenode
Use http://webchat.freenode.net/ if you don't have an IRC
client
You are invited to a bug triage on Meta and mediawiki.org translation
tools hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation Localisation team. This will
be a one hour meeting. The intended audience is very broad:
translators, translation administrators, and developers. We will
discuss the current state of translation tools on Meta-Wiki and
mediawiki.org, and with your input we will try to map out which
features and issues will be most helpful to streamline the translation
process for things like documentation, policies, sitenotices,
fundraiser messaging and appeals, and other non-"primary project
content"* material that benefits from being available in as many
languages as possible.
Please forward this e-mail to anyone who may be interested. They are
most welcome to join in.
* Translating main namespace articles for Wikipedia and other projects
is still out of scope for now.
Cheers!
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Siebrand Mazeland
Product Manager Localisation
Wikimedia Foundation
M: +31 6 50 69 1239
Skype: siebrand
Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate