MediaWiki

Ian Weller ianweller at gmail.com
Tue May 20 17:06:20 UTC 2008


On Tue, 20 May 2008, Oron Peled wrote:

> I'm the Hebrew translation team coordinator
> (http://translate.fedoraproject.org/teams/he) and after reading
> your call (http://ianweller.org/2008/05/19/hello-mediawiki.html)
> tried to test the new MediaWiki infrastructure.
>
Thanks!

> 1. I didn't see any explicit language selection box.
>   Is localized support gone or should it be auto-selected
>   according the the browser language preferences?
>   I tested the later option with my FF set to (he,es,en).
>   Since I got back English I assume there is no automatic
>   language selection.
>
>   The best (IMO) could be automatic language by browser
>   preference, with an override option on the pages (like in fp.o)
>
> 2. Because of (1.) above, I couldn't check if the wiki has
>   localized controls. The existing wiki have partial Hebrew
>   control/navigation (done by upstream). Wikipedia has full
>   localized navigation. What would we get in Fedora deployment
>   of MediaWiki?
>
I'm being told that this will be stage 2, but it is high on our plans
for that particular stage.  The current stress is on syntax and pages
actually looking like they are supposed to before we deploy next
Tuesday.  However, i18n will come very soon :)

> 3. Another important topic is Hebrew content. Since Hebrew is
>   an RTL (Right-to-Left) language (like Arabic, Farsi and some
>   others) there need to be specific support for this.
>
>   MediaWiki have the required infrastructure (as can be seen
>   in the wikipedia link above). Is it correctly installed/configured
>   in Fedora?
I think the issue is that we have one install that we're working with;
Wikipedia (and all the WikiMedia projects) use a different wiki
instance for each language.  We'll have a solution for this along with
the rest of the i18n stuff.

> Unrelated issue: I cannot login to the test server. Tried
> both my FAS login and the old wiki login. Both fail (which
> would hamper further testing).
>
We've also got a server setup at
http://publictest2.fedoraproject.org/wiki/, which is hooked into the FAS
system for logins.  publictest1 has a single administrator login which
is not public.  I'm working today on moving all the new stuff from pt1.

Thanks for your interest!  I'll be sure to make i18n a high priority for
myself. -- ian




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