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I am a French physicist, photographer & Wikimedian, currently living in Toulouse, France, where I work for the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that runs Wikipedia.
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Category Archives: Wikimedia Technology
Wikimedia Commons gets user galleries
A long-awaited feature added by volunteer developer Bryan Tong Minh. Continue reading
The Universal Language Picker
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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Tagged language, multilingualism, universal language picker
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Wikimedia at KDE Akademy 2010
Three weeks ago, I attended the KDE Akademy 2010 conference in Tampere, Finland. Beside the talk Parul and I gave to share experience about User experience, I also took this opportunity to meet with the KDE community and discuss collaboration opportunities. Continue reading
State of the language selection in MediaWiki and Wikipedia
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
Posted in Featured, Wikimedia Technology
Tagged language, language selection, MediaWiki, multilingualism
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