I would love to go to this but the timing is not good. Like James, already committed to another session.
There seem to be a lot of language-related issues that are being worked on independently by different groups of people who don’t necessarily communicate. Hard for a newbie like me to wrap my head around it all. What could we do to be a bit more coordinated in our efforts? (Seriously, I’m asking.) Joel Sahleen, Software Engineer Language Engineering Wikimedia Foundation jsahl...@wikimedia.org On Jan 27, 2015, at 11:07 AM, James Forrester <jforres...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
