Wikis, internationalisation and a touch of fame

I’ve been working at Symbian for some time now and have, among other things, become de-facto developer for their heavily-customised Mediawiki installation. In fact it holds about 1,400 content pages and over 30,000 edits at last count.

It’s now available in six major languages as part of the effort to open up Symbian development to the world at large (yes, especially Japan and China at the moment). The functionality was brought in by the Polyglot extension, which we then massively customised (and even fixed a couple of bugs – should probably submit them upstream actually). Most significantly was the edit hook to auto-add articles to an appropriate language category (this is how we solved grouping otherwise unrelated pages by languge in the wiki) if it detected the page was a translation [subpage] of the “root” (English) page.

Turns out Hamish gave me some lovely credits too on the Symbian Blog. How nice!

nick wrote 154 words on Nov. 11, 2009 at 7:39 p.m.

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