User:Nike

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I am Niklas Laxström, the founder of this wiki. I live in Finland. I was born in Vaasa, but nowadays I live in Helsinki. Despite my name, my native language is Finnish and I've learned Swedish in school.

I have a M.A. in language technology with minors in CS, Finnish and East Asian studies (of Japan). I've finished my master's thesis in July 2011, then I've submitted it in its final form and I've officially graduated on the 20th March 2012.

I'm an experienced MediaWiki developer and a big fan of open source and open content. I have participated in many open source projects, mostly as a translator. My development computer is currently a ThinkPad X200s which is running Fedora and KDE. I develop MediaWiki with the Kate text editor, but Kdevelop with PHP support looks very promising.

I like walking and cycling outside – usually also gathering data for OpenStreetMap at the same time. I read books when I have time, which lately is not often. The truth is I spend most of my free time in front of my laptop programming, reading interesting stuff (like lwn.net), following MediaWiki development and so on. Sometimes I also take the time to relax and play some computer games. Some things I'd like to do:

  • Improve my cooking skills
  • Exercise more
  • Read all the unread books and magazines which have piled up
  • Get a real pet rabbit
  • See translatewiki.net get even bigger!

In 2008, I participated in Summer of Code Finland with a project to improve the Translate extension which is the core of this site. Main deliverable in that project were framework for supporting different translation file formats, base work for wiki page translation feature and better statistics about translation activity.

In 2009, I participated in Google Summer of Code to again improve the Translate extension. During that project I improved administration tools, fixed known performance and scalability bottlenecks and implement new AJAX enhanced translation interface.

In 2010, the wiki page translation feature got huge boost in bug fixes and features when KDE UserBase started using it.

More information and networking links:

  • E-mail: Use the e-mail this user page
  • Skype: nikerabbit
  • Facebook: [1]
  • Ohloh: [2]
  • LinkedIn [3]
  • Steam: Nikerabbit
  • My oldish homepage [4]
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Short history of translatewiki.net

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 a new address, translatewiki.net. Since then, it has been maintained by Siebrand and I. See above for the summer of code projects in which I participated to improve this site. In fall 2010 we switched to the Vector skin. In 2011 we celebrated our sixth birthday along with a very successful translation rally.

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