Hi everyone,

Please join me in welcoming David Chan as software engineer in the Language Engineering team. Most you already know David from his awesome work on the Visual Editor (VE) team integrating language support for the VE. We enjoyed working with David so much that he will be now working full time at WMF helping make the Visual Editor multilingual as well as developing internationalization (i18n) and localization (L10n) tools to support 287 languages on Wikimedia sites.

David is a self-proclaimed i18n nerd with an interest in languages, both major and lesser-resourced. He has been working in language technology development for more than a decade having developed a English Welsh / Welsh English content translation web service for Bangor University as well as Android applications such as Ap Geiriaduron. He's been an open-source enthusiast and contributor since 1997 and has campaigned for patent reform in the UK. He's excited to be joining WMF and contributing to all things language.

David can be reached on email at dchan at wikimedia.org and on our irc channels including #mediawiki, #wikimedia-dev and #mediawiki-i18n.

Welcome David! I am excited to have you on the language engineering team!

Best, Alolita

Alolita Sharma आलोलिता शर्मा Director of Engineering Internationalization / Localization Wikimedia Foundation