User:MSchottlender-WMF

Moriel Schottlender

Principal Systems Architect, Architecture team, Wikimedia Foundation

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About me

I'm a Physicist-turned-Computer Scientist, originally from Israel, and I speak and think right to left.

My work

I work for the Architecture team, where we think and design how the future system of our products look like. You can see our work in our Architecture repository.

In the past, I led Community Tech and Anti Harassment tools, and worked for the Collaboration team in the Wikimedia Foundation.

I do a lot of work supporting right-to-left languages and thinking about RTL interfaces.

I started working with the VisualEditor team as part of a Google Summer of Code 2013 project. After the summer's end, I joined the team to continue working on internationalization, media and images and RTL support.

Disclaimer: I work for or provide services to the Wikimedia Foundation, and this is the account I try to use for edits or statements I make in that role. However, the Foundation does not vet all my activity, so edits, statements, or other contributions made by this account may not reflect the views of the Foundation.

Contact me

• E-mail: morielwikimedia.org
• IRC: mooeypoo on libera.chat #mediawiki-collaboration and #mediawiki-visualeditor
• Location: San Francisco

User language
he-N משתמשת זו דוברת עברית כשפת אם. en-5 This user has professional knowledge of English. es-1 Esta usuaria tiene un conocimiento básico del español.
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Blog posts

I wrote a couple of blogs posts explaining some of the challenges of finding proper support for right-to-left languages in VisualEditor:

• The issue of coordinate systems
• Element positioning: css('left') vs .position().left()
• The language double-take: dealing with bidirectional text online
• GSoC2013 Summary