User:Nike

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fi-N Tämä käyttäjä puhuu suomea äidinkielenään. en-3 This user has advanced knowledge of English. ru-2 Этот участник владеет русским языком на среднем уровне. sv-2 Den här användaren har medelgoda kunskaper i svenska. nl-1 Deze gebruiker heeft elementaire kennis van het Nederlands. ta-1 இந்தப் பயனர் தமிழில் அடிப்படை அறிவைக் கொண்டவர். de-1 Dieser Benutzer beherrscht Deutsch auf grundlegendem Niveau. ja-1 この利用者は初級の日本語ができます。 This user helps translating MediaWiki. This user helps translating FreeCol. This user helps translating OpenStreetMap. This user helps translating Shapado. This user helps translating MantisBT. This user helps translating OpenLayers. This user helps translating iHRIS.

I am Niklas Laxström, founder of this wiki. I live in Helsinki, Finland and study in University of Helsinki. I'm doing my major in language technology and candidates for minor include CS, linguistics, Finnish and East Asian studies (of Japan). I'm experienced MediaWiki developer and a big fan of open source and open content.

In 2008 I participated in Summer of Code Finland with a project to improve the software that runs here. In 2009 I participated in Google Summer of Code to make this software even better.

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• E-mail: Use the e-mail this user page
• Facebook: [1]
• Ohloh: [2]
• LinkedIn [3]

[modificar] Short history of {{SITENAME}}

I started by participating in Finnish Wikipedia around summer 2004. Soon I became sysop there and started participating in development of MediaWiki, first by translating it to Finnish. Since then I've made myself comfortable with most of the code base and coded some small fixes and so-called deletion conflict, for example. My contributions have been biased to i18n in many ways. Somewhere in 2006 (?) I started to develop i18n tool in this testwiki. I have to thank Gangleri for testing and attracting translators back then. From summer (fall) 2006 I was six months doing my military service. In summer/fall 2007 this wiki got more active again thanks to Siebrand. The tool was now pretty mature and stand alone extension. Currently there is talk about moving MediaWiki translation to under Wikimedia Foundation's Incubator project. No concrete steps have been taken yet. This wiki also supports localization of FreeCol, open source game resembling Colonization programmed in Java. It hasn't been overly active, but it has contributed few translations to FreeCol. Currently there is no planned changes for it.

On Friday 9th of November 2007 this wiki moved to virtual server hosting and got new address translatewiki.net. Since then it has been maintained by Me and Siebrand.