Hi everyone,
Let me start by apologizing for that title to anyone who reads a language written in Cyrillic. I hope no one sprained their tongue trying to say it out loud.
To learn why it's an almost reasonable thing to write and more about how your keyboard can betray you—and how we can use language identification software to detect your keyboard's inevitable betrayal—head over to the Wikimedia Blog and read all about it:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/08/28/wikipedia-search-phonetic-keyboards/
Questions and comments here or there are welcome!
—Trey
Trey Jones Sr. Software Engineer, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation