On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> wrote: > Hallo, > > It's my first email on this list, so in case you don't know me: I am > Amir, I'm from Israel, I'm a wikipedian since 2004, I write mostly in > Hebrew and English, I care strongly about language issues in software > in general and about right-to-left support in particular, and I work > in the WMF's localization team. > > Now, about the subject: you probably know that i18n is > "internationalization" and "l10n" is "localization". "m17n" is a less > common term, which means "multilingualization" - making software able > to work in many languages at once. This email is about one of the > easiest and the most important ways to make Wikidata support many > languages on one page everywhere. > > I've been testing the Wikidata demo for a few days now, with the aim > of getting it deployed in the Hebrew Wikipedia very soon. The first > thing that I noticed is that even though everybody understands that > Wikidata is supposed to be massively multilingual, little or no use is > made of the lang and dir attributes in the HTML that Wikidata > generates. The most immediate example is > http://wikidata-test-repo.wikimedia.de/wiki/Data:Q2?uselang=en
Thanks for the reminder, Amir. I'll bring it up. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher Community Communications for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Obentrautstr. 72 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
