Feb 20, 2018
🕑 39 minutes
Niklas Laxström is the creator and co-maintainer of translatewiki.net, the site where MediaWiki and most of its extensions (along with other software, like OpenStreetMap) gets translated into hundreds of languages. Niklas also works for the Wikimedia Foundation as part of the Language team, where he helps to develop code related to translation and internationalization, most notably the Translate extension.
Links for some of the topics discussed:
- Niklas Laxström user page on translatewiki.net
- Niklas's blog
- translatewiki.net
- Translate extension
- MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle
- Project Milkshake
- Tieteen Termipankki (Finnish terminology wiki)
- Elävä perintö (Finnish culture heritage wiki)
- "Multilingual Semantic MediaWiki for Finno-Ugric dictionaries" paper (see also Niklas's complete set of publications)
- "VisualEditor plugin for Translate" task