BiDi workgroup

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The Wikimedia Foundation operates more projects (wiki's) where the content language is using either a RTL script or both LTR and RTL scripts in parallel. At the moment the Foundation is running projects in the following languages:

w: (wikipedia:) ar: CSV: L M MW | arc: CSV: L M MW | dv: CSV: L M MW | fa: CSV: L M MW | (ha: MW) | he: CSV: L M MW | ks: CSV: L M MW | (ku: CSV: L M MW) | (lad: MW) | (pa: CSV: L M MW) | ps: CSV: L M MW | sd: CSV: L M MW | (tk: MW) | ug: CSV: L M MW | ur: CSV: L M MW | yi: CSV: L M MW – www – (en: MW)
CVS /languages/ : Language.php Messages.php LanguageUtf8.php, LanguageConverter.php

Everybody is Welcome here regardles if you come to solve your problems, if you bring some knowledge about CSS, Java, XML etc., if you are a MediaWiki developer, if you make documentation, if you are involved in testing, if you operate a bot, if you manualy insert interlanguage links or if you are reverting vandalism at all kind of projects.

The workgroup has it's own IRC channel at irc://irc.freenode.net/wikipedia-BiDi where participants meet together and visitors can address issues related to RTL or BiDi topics.

todos: wee need somebody to set it up

Current events

reducing the number of BiDi projects without sysop

Major goals

Common collaboration amongst the RTL and BiDi projects, sharing knowledge about wiki configuration, finding workarounds for known problems
Maintaining projects with low activities, reverting vandalism at these wikies
Providing mutual help to generate unified patches for the BiDi projects
Providing support for other projects: Multilingual MediaWiki
Verifying BiDi complience for templates from commons (bugzilla:04547)
Reporting and confirming fault reports at bugzilla: and other browser dependend bug tracking systems
Making compliance tests with different operating systems, browsers; identifying common base alternatives to achieve the same result
Creating documentation (understandable for newbies, providing reference links)
Creating test cases at meta: and at the existing projects
Requesting a http://test-rtl.wikipedia.org/ RTL test wiki to "simulate" special pages
Finding someone who operates a BiDi bot and registering this bot
– to be continued –