Driving force: The urge to propagate Tagalog/Filipino language usage as a complementary learning tool.
Notes
2008
Joined Betawiki (old name of Translatewiki.net) on November 7, 2008
Did first batch of translations here on Betawiki on November 9, 2008
Started MediaWiki bulk translations, including MediaWiki extensions (per project list), from English into Tagalog on December 16, 2008, which enabled a MediaWiki 1.14 release on January 13, 2009, which has a full Tagalog localisation ... all other message translations completed on February 6, 2009
Betawiki UI messages were done sometime after December 16, 2008 while also doing some early translations of the projects above and those below