I18n

Browsers provide an option to choose the preferred language a website to be shown, often named as “Accept language“. [][2]Firefox accept language preference These preference values allows websites to deliver a suitable language version to the user. For the developers, to read this value, the existing options is to check the Accept-Language http header value. It works and many websites use it already. But this value was never exposed at client side. [Read More]

I will be speaking at the upcoming W3C workshop at Madrid. The workshop is on 7-8 May 2014 and the theme is “New Horizons for the Multilingual Web”. I will be co-presenting with Pau Giner, David Chan from Wikimedia Foundation Language engineering team on best practices of translation at wikipedia. It will cover the design (from both technical and user experience perspectives) of the translation tools, and their expected impact on Wikipedia and the Web as a whole. [Read More]

Mediawiki is moving from PHP array based localisation file format to json format.

This is based on the RFC: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Localisation_format

A lot of extensions were also migrated to the new localisation format, thanks to Siebrand Mazeland