On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 1:01 PM, billinghurst billinghurst@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Nik,

Thanks for the update, and I look forward to the output.

Some questions.

1. Is this going out independently of the WMF7 update? Or is part of that

update and silent in the detail?

Independently of the update. Technically the code to support it was pushed to the cluster weeks ago and we just had to turn it on. I didn't announce it when the support was pushed because that wouldn't have been interesting. I waited so long to flip the switch because I was away at a conference and would have been unable to jump on issues if any came up. I messed up the communication regarding actually turning it on because I've been excited about it for days. Imagine me thinking about unicode normalization while being bounced around in my little Dash 8. Anyway, my last email was my attempt to fix my communications mistake.

2) This will be in all English language wikis, including the central

wikimedia.org wikis?

Yes, it'll go to all the wikis the think of themselves as English. It'll take a few days I think for them all to soak up the change. The first wikis to get it were actually Hebrew because the analyzer that I was using for them was flaking out. They only got it a few hours ago.

I did just realize I made the mistake of sending it to the en* wikis before the test* and mediawiki.org wikis. I'm not doing well today.... Anyway, it is pushed to the test wikis and mediawiki.org now. As of sending this email it is in all Hebrew wikis, and English wikivoyage, wikiversity, wikisource, wikiquote, wikinews, and wikibooks. English Wiktionary is getting it right now.

3. What is happening with the multilanguage wikis? eg. commons, wikidata

(or are they considered English?)

They are still going to pretend they are in English. They'll get this. Other then that, nothing yet. We have plans to do better but thats lower down the list unfortunately.

Nik