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Add multi-language support to Primerpedia
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Primerpedia was built as a simple demo, so it was hardcoded to load articles from English Wikipedia.

The goal of this task is to implement support for fetching content from other language Wikipedias.

Note: This task was part of the "Primerpedia improvements" project, carried out during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2019. Project poster:

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This task was originally reported at the GitHub repo, as issue #9.

Event Timeline

waldyrious triaged this task as Medium priority.May 19 2019, 8:07 PM
waldyrious added a project: I18n.
waldyrious updated the task description. (Show Details)

This is now done, with the merge of PR #60.

The feature was implemented mostly by Witia1 (User:Witia?); my participation was primarily in technical discussions about design and implementation, code review, and minor tweaks to the code.