Nikerabbit (Niklas Laxström)
Engineering Manager, Language team · i18n and translation expert

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User Since: Oct 7 2014, 5:29 AM (478 w, 1 d)
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IRC Nick: nikerabbit
LDAP User: Nikerabbit
MediaWiki User: Nikerabbit [ Global Accounts ]

I am Wikimedian since 2004. I am the founder and maintainer of translatewiki.net. I mainly work on language support (internationalization, localisation and translation tools).

Examples of projects I where I have significant contributions:

MediaWiki core, especially i18n MediaWiki-Internationalization
Translate extension MediaWiki-extensions-Translate
Universal Language Selector extension UniversalLanguageSelector
Invite Signup extension MediaWiki-extensions-InviteSignup
User Option Statistics extension
CLDR extension MediaWiki-extensions-CLDR
Clean Changes extension MediaWiki-extensions-CleanChanges

My personal board is User-Nikerabbit.

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Nikerabbit added a project to T275747: When transcluded page is deleted, parent page does not update: Unplanned-Sprint-Work.

Tue, Dec 5, 8:52 AM · Unplanned-Sprint-Work, Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.7; 2023-11-28), MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Radar), MediaWiki-Core-HTTP-Cache, MediaWiki-Page-deletion

Nikerabbit renamed T352620: Failure to start new translations (item.dispose is not a function) from Failure to start new translations to Failure to start new translations (item.dispose is not a function).

Tue, Dec 5, 8:43 AM · CX-cxserver, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December)

Nikerabbit added a parent task for T345566: error.log is not rotated in beta: T352734: Translation pages are not being created on Beta Meta-Wiki.

Tue, Dec 5, 8:09 AM · Beta-Cluster-Infrastructure

Nikerabbit added a subtask for T352734: Translation pages are not being created on Beta Meta-Wiki: T345566: error.log is not rotated in beta.

Tue, Dec 5, 8:09 AM · MediaWiki-extensions-Translate, Beta-Cluster-reproducible

Nikerabbit changed the status of T352734: Translation pages are not being created on Beta Meta-Wiki from Open to Stalled.

Unable to debug this without logs which are broken due to T345566: error.log is not rotated in beta

Tue, Dec 5, 8:09 AM · MediaWiki-extensions-Translate, Beta-Cluster-reproducible

Mon, Dec 4

Nikerabbit closed T210350: Reorganize Language team's stats dashboards scripts as Declined.

We're no longer using these dashboard.

Mon, Dec 4, 1:18 PM · ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit closed T210350: Reorganize Language team's stats dashboards scripts, a subtask of T210135: Adjust MT graph to clarify the presented concepts, as Declined.

Mon, Dec 4, 1:18 PM · Language-Team (Language-2019-January-March), CX-analytics

Nikerabbit triaged T351911: Compress cx_corpora.cxc_content as High priority.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:56 AM · Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit attached a referenced file: F41531921: grafik.png.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:55 AM · Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit lowered the priority of T208197: ContentTranslation relies on recommendation-api running on Cloud VPS from High to Medium.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:54 AM · Language-Team (Language-2020-July-September), MW-1.35-notes (1.35.0-wmf.40; 2020-07-07), ContentSecurityPolicy, Privacy Engineering, Recommendation-API, ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit merged T208300: Drag and drop of citations/references causes JavaScript error into T205429: CX2: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'element' of null at VeCeCXTransclusionInlineNode.ve.ce.View.initialize (ve.ce.View.js?9c8a2:109).

Mon, Dec 4, 11:48 AM · Language-Team (Language-2019-July-September), ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit merged task T208300: Drag and drop of citations/references causes JavaScript error into T205429: CX2: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'element' of null at VeCeCXTransclusionInlineNode.ve.ce.View.initialize (ve.ce.View.js?9c8a2:109).

Mon, Dec 4, 11:47 AM · ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit closed T208363: [wmf.2] Translation to chy gives 'Machine translation failed' error with default source text translation option as Resolved.

Assuming fixed after 5 years.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:46 AM · ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit triaged T210350: Reorganize Language team's stats dashboards scripts as Low priority.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:45 AM · ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit moved T210607: [Open question] How to best capture user feedback for recommender systems output from Needs Triage to Upstream/Other teams on the ContentTranslation board.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:43 AM · Recommendation-API, Research-Freezer, Services (watching), Platform Team Legacy (Watching / External), WikiEditor, ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit updated the task description for T352654: 'wiki.cx_translations.translation_last_updated_timestamp' isn't in GROUP BY (ContentTranslation\Translation::getTrendByStatus).

Mon, Dec 4, 11:42 AM · ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit assigned T352654: 'wiki.cx_translations.translation_last_updated_timestamp' isn't in GROUP BY (ContentTranslation\Translation::getTrendByStatus) to ngkountas.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:42 AM · ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit created T352654: 'wiki.cx_translations.translation_last_updated_timestamp' isn't in GROUP BY (ContentTranslation\Translation::getTrendByStatus).

Mon, Dec 4, 11:40 AM · ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit assigned T211174: list=contenttranslationtrend sometimes uses invalid query to ngkountas.

Did not find this error in Logstash for past 2 months, but it would only happen on wikis without any CX translations so hard to tell.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:40 AM · ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit closed T211465: New translation: Suggestions do not include a valid article title as Resolved.

This works now:

Mon, Dec 4, 11:32 AM · ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit closed T211820: [wmf.8] CX2 - Infobox person template displays red links in source panel as Resolved.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:30 AM · ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit added a comment to T211820: [wmf.8] CX2 - Infobox person template displays red links in source panel.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:30 AM · ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit moved T211820: [wmf.8] CX2 - Infobox person template displays red links in source panel from Needs Triage to Bugs on the ContentTranslation board.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:30 AM · ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit closed T212336: Unnecessary codes in articles translated by Content translation tool in Arabic Wikipedia as Resolved.

CX2 shouldn't have this problem and CX1 is no longer available.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:28 AM · ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit triaged T213033: CX2: 'Start with an empty paragraph' does not transfer images to target panel as Low priority.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:25 AM · ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit updated the task description for T213033: CX2: 'Start with an empty paragraph' does not transfer images to target panel .

Mon, Dec 4, 11:24 AM · ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit assigned T213237: [testwiki wmf.12] Long Reference list produces "Automatic translation failed" to ngkountas.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:22 AM · ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit moved T335466: ga.wikipedia - change content translation tools to be enabled for Extended Confirmed users only from Needs Triage to Check & Move on the ContentTranslation board.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:20 AM · ContentTranslation, Patch-For-Review, Wikimedia-Site-requests

Nikerabbit triaged T345728: Alternative destination and settings to change the default destination for each user type as Medium priority.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:17 AM · ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit moved T345728: Alternative destination and settings to change the default destination for each user type from Needs Triage to Enhancements on the ContentTranslation board.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:17 AM · ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit moved T351999: Slow CX Queries from RecentTranslationEntryPoint from Needs Triage to Enhancements on the ContentTranslation board.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:14 AM · Patch-For-Review, Wikimedia-production-error, Unplanned-Sprint-Work, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit moved T352209: CX: When starting a new translation for an already translated article, the published contents load in the editor from Needs Triage to Enhancements on the ContentTranslation board.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:13 AM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.9; 2023-12-12), ContentTranslation, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December)

Nikerabbit triaged T352222: CX: translation progress lost on dewiki as High priority.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:13 AM · ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit assigned T352222: CX: translation progress lost on dewiki to ngkountas.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:12 AM · ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit moved T352391: Consider reordering of words in the calculations for the machine translation limit system from Needs Triage to Enhancements on the ContentTranslation board.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:11 AM · Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit closed T349992: Error message while using the content translation tool: Unable to fetch draft information as Resolved.

Thanks for reporting! I'm closing this again.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:10 AM · Regression, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit moved T352620: Failure to start new translations (item.dispose is not a function) from Backlog to Article loading on the CX-cxserver board.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:09 AM · CX-cxserver, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December)

Nikerabbit edited projects for T352620: Failure to start new translations (item.dispose is not a function), added: CX-cxserver; removed ContentTranslation.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:07 AM · CX-cxserver, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December)

Nikerabbit moved T351882: Enable Section translation on Wikipedias with Content Translation available as default from Backlog to Outreach on the SectionTranslation board.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:05 AM · Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), SectionTranslation

Nikerabbit triaged T349989: Phabricator and translatewiki disagree over how to indent JSON files as Low priority.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:04 AM · translatewiki.net, Phabricator

Nikerabbit triaged T350001: Reduce translatewiki local patches as Medium priority.

Mon, Dec 4, 11:02 AM · translatewiki.net

Sun, Dec 3

Nikerabbit added projects to T352620: Failure to start new translations (item.dispose is not a function): ContentTranslation, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December).

Sun, Dec 3, 4:36 PM · CX-cxserver, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December)

Nikerabbit added a comment to T349992: Error message while using the content translation tool: Unable to fetch draft information.

Hello Ranveig. Opening old tasks without sufficient info is not helpful. Please create a new task with 1) steps to reproduce (e.g. what article from which language to which language) 2) errors from the JavaScript console (if any) 3) errors from the failing API request in the network view (if any and you can find it) so that we can investigate the issue.

Sun, Dec 3, 2:19 PM · Regression, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), ContentTranslation

Thu, Nov 30

Nikerabbit added a subtask for T329046: Improve page translation progress indicators: T351563: Colour code translation statuses.

Thu, Nov 30, 2:23 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.9; 2023-12-12), Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Design, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Nikerabbit added a parent task for T351563: Colour code translation statuses: T329046: Improve page translation progress indicators.

Thu, Nov 30, 2:23 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Nikerabbit added a comment to T329046: Improve page translation progress indicators.

I have filed the remaining TODOs as subtasks so that we can proceed to close this one.

Thu, Nov 30, 2:22 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.9; 2023-12-12), Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Design, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Nikerabbit added a subtask for T329046: Improve page translation progress indicators: T352425: Put translatable page progress indicators on the other side in the ULS language selector.

Thu, Nov 30, 2:22 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.9; 2023-12-12), Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Design, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Nikerabbit added a parent task for T352425: Put translatable page progress indicators on the other side in the ULS language selector: T329046: Improve page translation progress indicators.

Thu, Nov 30, 2:22 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Nikerabbit attached a referenced file: F41533650: Language_Selector_Designs.pdf.jpg.

Thu, Nov 30, 2:21 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Nikerabbit attached a referenced file: F41533545: en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Moon(Wiki Tablet).png.

Thu, Nov 30, 2:21 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Nikerabbit attached a referenced file: F41533603: translatewiki.net_wiki_Help_us(Wiki Tablet).png.

Thu, Nov 30, 2:21 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Nikerabbit created T352425: Put translatable page progress indicators on the other side in the ULS language selector.

Thu, Nov 30, 2:21 PM · MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Nikerabbit added a subtask for T329046: Improve page translation progress indicators: T352423: Inconsistent spacing for translatable page indicators in the <languages> tag.

Thu, Nov 30, 2:17 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.9; 2023-12-12), Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Design, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Nikerabbit added a parent task for T352423: Inconsistent spacing for translatable page indicators in the <languages> tag: T329046: Improve page translation progress indicators.

Thu, Nov 30, 2:17 PM · Patch-For-Review, MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.9; 2023-12-12), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Nikerabbit created T352423: Inconsistent spacing for translatable page indicators in the <languages> tag.

Nikerabbit updated the task description for T352416: Make UnicodePluralValidator more strict.

Thu, Nov 30, 12:44 PM · Patch-For-Review, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), Unplanned-Sprint-Work, Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Nikerabbit triaged T352416: Make UnicodePluralValidator more strict as Low priority.

Thu, Nov 30, 12:42 PM · Patch-For-Review, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), Unplanned-Sprint-Work, Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Nikerabbit created T352416: Make UnicodePluralValidator more strict.

Thu, Nov 30, 12:40 PM · Patch-For-Review, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), Unplanned-Sprint-Work, Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Nikerabbit moved T346973: The license for user translations from Priority: Translation to Done on the Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December) board.

Thu, Nov 30, 12:15 PM · Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), ContentTranslation

Nikerabbit moved T332863: Support continuing translations started on a different device from Needs QA to Done on the Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December) board.

Thu, Nov 30, 12:13 PM · Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.25; 2023-09-05), Patch-For-Review, SectionTranslation

Nikerabbit changed the status of T352209: CX: When starting a new translation for an already translated article, the published contents load in the editor from Open to In Progress.

Thu, Nov 30, 12:13 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.9; 2023-12-12), ContentTranslation, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December)

Nikerabbit moved T351866: Fix $wgPageTranslationLanguageList = 'sidebar-fallback' from In Review to Check after deployment on the Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December) board.

Thu, Nov 30, 12:05 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.9; 2023-12-12), MediaWiki-extensions-Translate, Unplanned-Sprint-Work, Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December)

Nikerabbit moved T344725: Update requireLogin() for temp users on TranslationNotifications extension from In Review to Check after deployment on the Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December) board.

Thu, Nov 30, 12:05 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.9; 2023-12-12), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Unplanned-Sprint-Work, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), TranslationNotifications, Temporary accounts

Nikerabbit moved T352015: PHP Notice: Array to string conversion in Special:TranslationStats from In Review to Check after deployment on the Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December) board.

Thu, Nov 30, 12:05 PM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.9; 2023-12-12), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Nikerabbit moved T352136: Increase quota to create large instance for MinT from Quarter Backlog to Blocked on the Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December) board.

Thu, Nov 30, 12:02 PM · Cloud-VPS (Quota-requests), Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), MinT

Nikerabbit added a comment to T329046: Improve page translation progress indicators.

Other issue I noticed is that the space between red links and blue links is inconsistent:

Thu, Nov 30, 10:06 AM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.9; 2023-12-12), Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Design, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Nikerabbit added a comment to T89947: Move special page alias translations to JSON.

With regards to naming:

"extension" is bad since I think this should work for MediaWiki core as well
"json" does not differentiate from "messages"

Thu, Nov 30, 8:59 AM · Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Patch-For-Review, translatewiki.net, MediaWiki-Internationalization, I18n

Wed, Nov 29

Nikerabbit added a comment to T343509: Buttons appear with an unexpected grey border.

What does it show if you click it? Alternatively, if there are steps to reproduce, I can try to have a look.

Wed, Nov 29, 1:26 PM · Patch-For-Review, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), MW-1.41-notes (1.41.0-wmf.29; 2023-10-03), Regression, SectionTranslation

Tue, Nov 28

Nikerabbit moved T351959: Translate Extension - SpecialPages -TypeError: Illegal offset type from In Progress to Check after deployment on the Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December) board.

Tue, Nov 28, 9:27 AM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.9; 2023-12-12), Unplanned-Sprint-Work, Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Nikerabbit moved T347923: Organize the first language community meeting (November 2023) from Check after deployment to Done on the Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December) board.

Tue, Nov 28, 8:55 AM · Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), Language-Technical Support

Mon, Nov 27

Nikerabbit moved T347923: Organize the first language community meeting (November 2023) from Quarter Backlog to Check after deployment on the Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December) board.

Mon, Nov 27, 2:40 PM · Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), Language-Technical Support

Nikerabbit moved T351949: Add Kiwix for iOS/macOS to translatewiki.net from Backlog to Support (LM) on the Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24 board.

Mon, Nov 27, 1:35 PM · Patch-For-Review, Unplanned-Sprint-Work, Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), affects-Kiwix-and-openZIM, translatewiki.net

Nikerabbit triaged T351949: Add Kiwix for iOS/macOS to translatewiki.net as Medium priority.

Mon, Nov 27, 1:01 PM · Patch-For-Review, Unplanned-Sprint-Work, Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), affects-Kiwix-and-openZIM, translatewiki.net

Nikerabbit closed T349499: Translation updates not merged for Kiwix as Resolved.

Has been resolved after another poke:

kiwix-android: Pull request has been open for 6 d and 23 h.
kiwix-desktop: Opened a new pull request.

Mon, Nov 27, 12:54 PM · Unplanned-Sprint-Work, Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), translatewiki.net

Nikerabbit triaged T352015: PHP Notice: Array to string conversion in Special:TranslationStats as Low priority.

Mon, Nov 27, 11:56 AM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.9; 2023-12-12), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Nikerabbit created T352015: PHP Notice: Array to string conversion in Special:TranslationStats.

Mon, Nov 27, 11:55 AM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.9; 2023-12-12), Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Nikerabbit created T352014: Sessions are disabled for load entry point (DeferredUpdates/ForgeingAPIRepo).

Mon, Nov 27, 11:41 AM · Commons, MediaWiki-General, affects-translatewiki.net, MediaWiki-File-management

Nikerabbit created T352012: Error: Object of class Wikimedia\Message\ScalarParam could not be converted to string (in action=visualeditor).

Mon, Nov 27, 11:33 AM · Editing-team, MediaWiki-REST-API, API Platform, VisualEditor, affects-translatewiki.net

Nikerabbit edited projects for T350503: Improve search for languages on mobile: Does not match all possible translations, added: Web-Team-Backlog; removed UniversalLanguageSelector, Language-Team, MediaWiki-extensions-CLDR.

ULS provides and itself uses the Action API action=languagesearch that provides autocompletion across language names in all languages with typo handling. I don't know what the apps uses, but the mobile language search doesn't seem to use the API.

Mon, Nov 27, 10:59 AM · Web-Team-Backlog (FY2023-24 Q3 Sprint 1), Language codes, MobileFrontend

Nikerabbit moved T351959: Translate Extension - SpecialPages -TypeError: Illegal offset type from Backlog to 2023.07 on the MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle board.

Mon, Nov 27, 9:31 AM · MW-1.42-notes (1.42.0-wmf.9; 2023-12-12), Unplanned-Sprint-Work, Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24, Language-Team (Language-2023-October-December), MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle, MediaWiki-extensions-Translate

Nikerabbit moved T351959: Translate Extension - SpecialPages -TypeError: Illegal offset type from Backlog to Support (LM) on the Localization Infrastructure FY2023-24 board.