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The Universal Language Picker

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Guillaume Paumier

Have you ever had a hard time finding your language in a web interface? The Universal language picker aims to solve this problem by accepting any valid input from the user and associating it with the language value stored in the software. Continue reading →

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State of the language selection in MediaWiki and Wikipedia

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Guillaume Paumier

This article is meant as an introduction to my next article, about language selectors, which is the one I originally intended to write. As it was growing longer and longer, I decided to split this review into a dedicated post. There are two main use cases for language selection across Wikimedia projects: the language of the content, and the language of the interface. In this article, I am reviewing a few examples of tools related to language selection on MediaWiki websites, and particularly on Wikimedia wikis. Continue reading →

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