2013/1/30 Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org:
I just uploaded a new version at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How_to_hack_on_Wikipedia.pdf
Still working on details & credits. Your feedback is welcome!
Very, very nice.
A few comments:
* I'm happy to see translatewiki.net mentioned. Consider also mentioning: 1. The number of languages into which the software is translated - over 300, probably more than any other piece of software. 2. A lot of unique internationalization features that we support thanks to being so massively multilingual - plural, gender, custom grammar rules, mostly automatic RTL adjustment, script conversion for Chinese, Serbian and some other languages, web fonts, web-based keyboard layouts and then some.
* Page 8 - JavaScript is usually spelled in CamelCase. Also on JavaScript - ResourceLoader is probably worth mentioning, even though it's not so new.
* Page 9 - Consider mentioning Firefox OS in addition to Android and iOS. Brion and Patrick already poked in that direction. (And well, it's a FLOSS conference, but since you mention iOS, consider mentioning the Windows Mobile app too.)
* Page 11 - some other programming languages lurk in extensions, too, like OCaml (Math), Perl (EasyTimeline) and Lua (Scribunto). There are people who are quite passionate about each of them - they'll be happy to hear them mentioned and may want to join the development because of this.
* Page 12 - I suspect that the LOC count includes translations :)
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