If you missed this talk and would like to view the recording, here is the
link: *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmLdHuFRGgM
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmLdHuFRGgM>*
It has been released under a creative commons license.
If you have any questions please get in touch with Moriel <
mschottlender(a)wikimedia.org <slaporte(a)wikimedia.org>>
You can check out past tech talk recordings at the MediaWiki YouTube page
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On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Rachel Farrand <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Please join for the following tech talk:
*Tech Talk**:* Nothing Left but Always Right: The Twisted Road to RTL
Support
*Presenter:* Moriel Schottlender
*Date:* November 02, 2015
*Time: *20:00 UTC
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+Nothing+Left+but+Always+Right%3A+The+Twisted+Road+to+RTL+Support&iso=20151102T20&p1=%3A&ah=1>
Link to live YouTube stream <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmLdHuFRGgM>
*IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office
Google+ page
<https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/events/ck5ibgn8l2t056h5rii90fv6ne4>,
another
place for questions
*Summary: *There are roughly 500 million speakers of Right-to-Left
languages all over the world, and 16 RTL Wikipedias, but support of
right-to-left languages on the Web in general is so abysmal that it is hard
to find a single piece of software that properly supports all the necessary
behaviors. And yet, that's exactly what we're committed on doing for
Wikipedia's right-to-left users.
This talk will demonstrate the challenges that the web poses for Right to
Left languages, some of the solutions that are available, and some of the
work we've been doing to make RTL users' experience better.