Last modified: 2013-12-17 22:40:35 UTC
Beta features have icons to represent them at Special:Preferences. They usually show a schematic representation of a MediaWiki page with a logo in the top left corner, and this of course means that they should be flipped for RTL languages. Some of them are trivial - just a horizontal flip. Some of them are less trivial - for example, in the one for the VisualEditor formula editing I flipped the image and then flipped the Sigma icon inside it so it would still look like Σ and not flipped. Some of them are even less trivial, for example the icons for the font style experiments. It shows the Latin letter A, and it's weird to show a Latin letter in the beginning of a right-to-left text. Luckily, there are only two major right-to-left scripts, so I made one icon for Hebrew and one for Arabic. Some relevant sample commits by myself, already merged: * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/94379/ * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/94269/ * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/94423/ On this commit Jon and Juliusz complained that the image should be re-saved with a smaller size and less metadata: * https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/98159/ The SVGs from the previous merged commits may have to be re-done as well. Any future beta features should have RTL-compatible icons from the start, preferably done by professional designers. See some more details here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Design_best_practices#Right-to-left_languages
Done by Amir. In future, it's the PM's job (i.e. my job for now) to make sure this is done before deployment.
