On 27 January 2015 at 10:49, C. Scott Ananian <canan...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Well, I'll give James the opposite answer then: > > Language Variants are not *just* a social and cultural issue, either. > There are real technical issues to address, having to do with how we manage > "slightly forked" wikis, how we maintain code which is not used by enwiki, > and the technical limitations of the three basic approaches which have been > attempted to date (Content Translation tools, Language Converter, forked > wikis with manual synchronization). > > So, let's talk about the technical issues at the Developer summit. I'll > show you the code to support LanguageConverter in Parsoid, let's talk about > what it would take to make this work in Visual Editor and/or for HTML page > views (targeting mobile performance). > > And then we can discuss the highly technical RFC regarding "Glossary" > support in core mediawiki: > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Scoped_language_converter > > I think there is plenty of technical content to discuss. And non-technical > issues to keep in mind, and should inform the technical discussion. > Absolutely. I didn't say anything about the technical issues, which do need some serious discussion (though I think that an ad-hoc session might be too short notice). > But if you don't think it's worth discussing, then don't come. ;) There > are three other different talks at the same time... > I think it's totally worth discussing, but indeed, unfortunately I committed to another session. :-( J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
