Hoi,
I have a few questions
- do you support other scripts used by languages like Malayalam (ml),
Persian (fa), Chinese (zh) Russian (ru) ??
- when you do, do you have examples for these languages ?
- are the messages not localised or are they also not internationalised ?
- are support for other scripts and proper internationalisation and
localisation blockers for deployment ?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 18 January 2014 03:42, Matthew Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> All,
>
> We've just finished our second sprint on the new PDF renderer. A
> significant chunk of renderer development time this cycle was on non latin
> script support, as well as puppetization and packaging for deployment. We
> have a work in progress pipeline up and running in labs which I encourage
> everyone to go try and break. You can use the following featured articles
> just to see what our current output is:
> * http://ocg-collection-alpha.wmflabs.org/index.php/Alexis_Bachelot
> *
> http://ocg-collection-alpha.wmflabs.org/index.php/Atlantis:_The_Lost_Empire
>
> Some other articles imported on that test wiki:
> * http://ur1.ca/gg0bw
>
> Please note that some of these will fail due to known issues noted below.
>
> You can render any page in the new renderer by clicking the sidebar link
> "Download as WMF PDF"; if you "Download as PDF" you'll be using the old
> renderer (useful for comparison.) Additionally, you can create full books
> via Special:Book -- our renderer is "RDF to Latex (PDF)" and the old
> renderer is "e-book (PDF)". You can also try out the "RDF to Text (TXT)"
> renderer, but that's not on the critical path. As of right now we do not
> have a bugzilla project entry so reply to this email, or email me directly
> -- we'll need one of: the name of the page, the name of the collection, or
> the collection_id parameter from the URL to debug.
>
> There are some code bits that we know are still missing that we will have
> to address in the coming weeks or in another sprint.
> * Attribution for images and text. The APIs are done, but we still need
> to massage that information into the document.
> * Message translation -- right now all internal messages are in English
> which is not so helpful to non English speakers.
> * Things using the <cite> tag and the Cite extension are not currently
> supported (meaning you won't get nice references.)
> * Tables may not render at all, or may break the renderer.
> * Caching needs to be greatly improved.
>
> Looking longer term into deployment on wiki, my plans right now are to get
> this into beta labs for general testing and connect test.wikipedia.org up
> to our QA hardware for load testing. The major blocker there is acceptance
> of the Node.JS 0.10, and TexLive 2012 packages into reprap, our internal
> aptitude package source. This is not quite as easy as it sounds, we already
> use TexLive 2009 in production for the Math extension and we must apply
> thorough tests to ensure we do not introduce any regressions when we update
> to the 2012 package. I'm not sure what actual dates for those migrations /
> testing will be because it greatly depends on when Ops has time. In the
> meantime, our existing PDF cluster based on mwlib will continue to serve
> our offline needs. Once our solution is deployed and tested, mwlib
> (pdf[1-3]) will be retired here at the WMF and print on demand services
> will be provided directly by PediaPress servers.
>
> For the technically curious; we're approximately following the parsoid
> deployment model -- using trebuchet to push out a source repository
> (services/ocg-collection) that has the configuration and node dependencies
> built on tin along with git submodules containing the actual service code.
>
> It may not look like it on the surface, but we've come a long way and it
> wouldn't have been possible without the (probably exasperated) help from
> Jeff Green, Faidon, and Ori. Also big thanks to Brad and Max for their
> work, and Gabriel for some head thunking. C. Scott and I are not quite off
> the hook yet, as indicated by the list above, but hopefully soon enough
> we'll be enjoying the cake and cookies from another new product launch.
> (And yes, even if you're remote if I promised you cookies as bribes I'll
> ship them to you :p)
>
> ~Matt Walker
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