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I'm Niklas Laxström, owner 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 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 make 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.