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Santhosh Thottingal
@santhoshtr
Internationalize your web applications using Wikimedia i18n libraries
Submitted Aug 30, 2012
Section:
Zen of JavaScript
Technical level:
Intermediate
Session type:
Tutorial
To introduce javascript internationalization libraries by Wikimedia foundation and a short tutorial on how to use them to internationalize your multi lingual web applications
Outline
Wikimedia projects mainly Wikipedia is present in more than 280 languages, and internationalization is a key feature of these projects. Recently a lot of javascript liraries used in Mediawiki is getting released as mediawiki independent generic javascript libraries to the community. This includes,
a) jquery.i18n A jquery based internationalization framework with plural, gender, grammar, number system support
b) jquery.webfonts - A general webfonts framework supporting many fonts from non-latin scripts
c) jquery.ime - A jQuery library for adding support for inputting in non latin scripts
d) jquery.uls- Universal language selector for selecting a language and configuring the settings
The projects are available at https://github.com/wikimedia/
Note: i18n stands for Internationalization- Making your application ready for supporting any language. l10n stands for Localization- Translating a i18n-ed application to a language.
Speaker bio
I work at Wikimedia Foundation’s Internationalization team, and provide tools for supporting near 300 languages with Wikimedia projects including Wikipedia, Wikisource, Commons etc. I am specialized in internationalization and language engineering particularly Indic languages.
Blog: http://thottingal.in/blog
github: https://github.com/santhoshtr
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