Wikimedia Developer Summit/2016/T113002

T113002, T114662, T114640 - This is the session pad for Language: Let's discuss LanguageConverter/per-language URLs/getTargetLanguage, slated to begin at 11:30am on January 5, 2016.

Purpose

• Discuss T114662: RFC: per-language URLs for pages of multilingual wikis.
• Discuss T114640: RFC: make Parser::getTargetLanguage aware of multilingual wikis
• Discuss plans for long-term support of wikis with language/script variants. T113002

Agenda

• 20 minutes - introductory presentation (phab:T113002)
• 20 minutes - discussion of phab:T114662, phab:T114640
• 40 minutes - discussion of LanguageConverter/ContentTranslation

Minutes

Etherpad

etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/WikiDev16-T113002

Goals

• Agree on plan for reflecting language in URLs
• Narrow options for long-term support of wikis with language/script variants.

Chronology

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