Reminder: This talk is starting in 35 min On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Rachel Farrand <[email protected]> wrote:
> Please join for the following tech talk: > > *Tech Talk**:* Nothing Left but Always Right: The Twisted Road to RTL > Support > *Presenter:* Moriel Schottlender > *Date:* November 02, 2015 > *Time: *20:00 UTC > <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Tech+Talk%3A+Nothing+Left+but+Always+Right%3A+The+Twisted+Road+to+RTL+Support&iso=20151102T20&p1=%3A&ah=1> > > Link to live YouTube stream <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmLdHuFRGgM> > *IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office > Google+ page > <https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/events/ck5ibgn8l2t056h5rii90fv6ne4>, > another > place for questions > > *Summary: *There are roughly 500 million speakers of Right-to-Left > languages all over the world, and 16 RTL Wikipedias, but support of > right-to-left languages on the Web in general is so abysmal that it is hard > to find a single piece of software that properly supports all the necessary > behaviors. And yet, that's exactly what we're committed on doing for > Wikipedia's right-to-left users. > This talk will demonstrate the challenges that the web poses for Right to > Left languages, some of the solutions that are available, and some of the > work we've been doing to make RTL users' experience better. > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
