On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
2011/2/11 Rob Lanphier robla@wikimedia.org:
First window This first deployment window will be to a limited set of wikis:
http://simple.wikipedia.org/ (simplewiki) http://simple.wiktionary.org/ (simplewiktionary) http://usability.wikimedia.org/ (usabilitywiki)
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How were these selected?
None of them is RTL (right-to-left). I would very much like to test it in an actual RTL wiki, not just a prototype. During the first 1.17 upgrade attempt there were some minor RTL issues in he.wikipedia. Not terrible, but it would be nice to prevent them.
Can one of the lower traffic RTL wikis be included in the first window, for example he.wikinews or he.wikisource?
[ /me Running to ask the he.wikisource community whether they will actually agree to this. :) ]
Hi Amir,
Sorry about not responding quickly to this. I think this is something we can consider if the deployment is going well, and the community is ready for a change. Also, we'd need you (or someone) to be an ambassador for this and willing to be on IRC with us (#wikimedia-tech). Is he.wikisource.org ready?
Our choice of wikis was based on our confidence in the ability to communicate with the various communities if we were having problems, hence our heavy bias toward English-language sites (plus Dutch since we've got at least a couple people on the team that speak Dutch, and that gives us a moderately large wiki to deploy to).
Rob