The Wikimedia Language Engineering team is pleased to announce the
first release of the MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle. The bundle
is a collection of selected MediaWiki extensions needed by any wiki
which desires to be multilingual.
This first bundle release (2012.11) is compatible with MediaWiki 1.19,
1.20 and 1.21alpha.
Get it from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB
The Universal Language Selector is a must have, because it provides an
essential functionality for any user regardless on the number of
languages he/she speaks: language selection, font support for
displaying scripts badly supported by operating systems and input
methods for typing languages that don't use Latin (a-z) alphabet.
Maintaining multilingual content in a wiki is a mess without the
Translate extension, which is used by Wikimedia, KDE and
translatewiki.net, where hundreds of pieces of documentation and
interface translations are updated every day; with Localisation Update
your users will always have the latest translations freshly out of the
oven. The Clean Changes extension keeps your recent changes page
uncluttered from translation activity and other distractions.
Don't miss the chance to practice your rusty language skills and use
the Babel extension to mark the languages you speak and to find other
speakers of the same language in your wiki. And finally the cldr
extension is a database of language and country translations.
We are aiming to make new releases every month, so that you can easily
stay on the cutting edge with the constantly improving language
support. The bundle comes with clear installation and upgrade
installations. The bundle is tested against MediaWiki release
versions, so you can avoid most of the temporary breaks that would
happen if you were using the latest development versions instead.
Because this is our first release, there can be some rough edges.
Please provide us a lot of feedback so that we can improve for the
next release.
-Niklas
--
Niklas Laxström
Adam Baso, 28/10/2014 21:26:
> Hi, just wanted to give people a heads up about language-sensitive
> redirects on the m.wikipedia.org/ <http://m.wikipedia.org/> (and
> zero.wikipedia.org/ <http://zero.wikipedia.org/>) webroot:
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero/Accept-Language_Aware_Redirec…
>
> Dan Foy, Maryana, and I spoke on this stuff, and we thought it would be
> best to see how this works in Wikipedia Zero land, and then if it works
> well, continue dialog for the mobile web Wikipedia webroot afterward for
> the non-Wikipedia Zero use case.
>
> Usually we don't like to vary the cache on Accept-Language, but this is
> one place where we're exploring the concept. It's possible to try to
> figure out the language prefix in Varnish, but for now we're trying this
> as a pure MediaWiki thing.
Cc mediawiki-i18n. As for MediaWiki, this is UniversalLanguageSelector
domain; outside MediaWiki, do note the project portals
(<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals>) sorely need to be
made language-aware at some point, and probably have several orders of
magnitudes more visitors than the "mdot webroots".
Nemo
Hello all,
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension
Bundle 2014.10. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.23.x and
MediaWiki 1.22.x releases.
* Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.10.tar…
* sha256sum: 49707823ec19d9eed1c21c37550a3b0a2c81ff83855aea2706287a5169e90468
Quick links:
* Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB
* Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n
* Report bugs to: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org
* Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode
Release notes for each extension are below.
-- Kartik Mistry
== Babel, CLDR and LocalisationUpdate ==
* Only localisation updates.
== CleanChanges ==
* Localisation updates.
* Added support for ULS in language filter selector.
== Translate ==
* New feature: Remove any page from translation with two clicks from
Special:PageTranslation. Previously, translate tags had to be removed
manually first.
* Special:PageTranslation also has prettier warning and error notifications.
* The user group translate-proofr is no longer created by default. If
you were using it, you can add it back with following code in your
LocalSettings.php:
$wgGroupPermissions['translate-proofr']['translate-messagereview'] = true;
$wgAddGroups['translate-proofr'] = array( 'translate-proofr' );
* Removed $wgTranslatePageMigration (enabled by default),
$wgTranslateUseTux (no longer in use) and translate-proofr group
(needs sysadmin action if in use).
* Bug 48672: When marking page for translation, show a note before
submit if there are no differences.
* Added support for page status indicators. This alters very slightly
the way help icons are displayed on some special pages.
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
=== Input Methods ===
* Fixed bug in Burmese (my-xkb) keyboard.
Thanks!
--
Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_
{kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com
Hi,
Is it useful to use {{ns:project}} in messages? Isn't it simpler to write
simply "Project:"? Doesn't that work in all projects and all languages?
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
MediaWiki is upgrading its plural rules to match CLDR version 26. The
updates include incompatible changes for plural forms in Russian,
Prussian, Tagalog, Manx and several languages that fall back to
Russian. In addition there are minor changes for other languages.
In January 2014, CLDR 24 had introduced several changes in the plural
forms for some of these languages, including Russian, and we had
updated MediaWiki's plural rules to comply with the CLDR standard.
Some of these changes are now being reverted. Below is a detailed
explanation of the changes.
For the migration period, from Monday, 27th October 2014 to Thursday
6th November 2014, we have disabled LocalisationUpdate at Wikimedia
wikis to reduce the chance of ungrammatical translations being
displayed in the interface. Translators are requested to review
translations at translatewiki.net.
Further updates will be posted on
https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/Plural_rule_changes_for_many_…
== Russian and language using Russian as fallback ==
Languages affected: Russian (ru), Abkhaz (ab), Avaric (av), Bashkir
(ba), Buryat (bxr), Chechen (ce), Crimean Tatar (crh-cyrl), Chuvash
(cv), Inguish (inh), Komi-Permyak (koi), Karachay-Balkar (krc), Komi
(kv), Lak (lbe), Lezghian (lez), Eastern Mari (mhr), Western Mari
(mrj), Yakut (sah), Tatar (tt), Tatar-Cyrillic (tt-cyrl), Tuvinian
(tyv), Udmurt (udm), Kalmyk (xal).
CLDR 24 plural forms for Russian were:
* Form 1: @integer 1, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61, 71, 81, 101, 1001, …
* Form 2: @integer 0, 5~19, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000, 1000000, …
* Form 3: @integer 2~4, 22~24, 32~34, 42~44, 52~54, 62, 102, 1002, …
@decimal 0.0~1.5, 10.0, 100.0, 1000.0, 10000.0, 100000.0, 1000000.0, …
This has been changed to :
* Form 1: @integer 1, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61, 71, 81, 101, 1001, …
* Form 2: @integer 2~4, 22~24, 32~34, 42~44, 52~54, 62, 102, 1002, …
* Form 3: @integer 0, 5~19, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000, 1000000, …
* Form 4: @decimal 0.0~1.5, 10.0, 100.0, 1000.0, 10000.0, 100000.0, 1000000.0, …
Plurals in translations for affected languages have been updated
automatically where possible. Translators are requested to check all
messages containing plurals, starting from those which have been
marked as outdated.
== Prussian ==
Prussian (prg) now follows the same rules as Latvian (lv):
* Form 1: @integer 0, 10~20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000,
1000000, … @decimal 0.0, 10.0, 11.0, 12.0, 13.0, 14.0, 15.0, 16.0,
100.0, 1000.0, 10000.0, 100000.0, 1000000.0, …
* Form 2: @integer 1, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61, 71, 81, 101, 1001, …
@decimal 0.1, 1.0, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1, 100.1,
1000.1, …
* Form 3: @integer 2~9, 22~29, 102, 1002, … @decimal 0.2~0.9, 1.2~1.9,
10.2, 100.2, 1000.2, …
Translators are requested to update all translations containing plural
rules. Those translations have been marked as outdated.
== Tagalog ==
Tagalog (tl) has new rules as follows:
* Form 1: @integer 0~3, 5, 7, 8, 10~13, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 100, 1000,
10000, 100000, 1000000, … @decimal 0.0~0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.8, 1.0~1.3,
1.5, 1.7, 1.8, 2.0, 2.1, 10.0, 100.0, 1000.0, 10000.0, 100000.0,
1000000.0, …
* Form 2: @integer 4, 6, 9, 14, 16, 19, 24, 26, 104, 1004, … @decimal
0.4, 0.6, 0.9, 1.4, 1.6, 1.9, 2.4, 2.6, 10.4, 100.4, 1000.4, …
Translators are requested to update all translations containing plural
rules. Those translations have been marked as outdated.
== Manx ==
Manx (gv) has a new (fourth) form for decimals. New rules are as follows:
* Form 1: @integer 1, 11, 21, 31, 41, 51, 61, 71, 101, 1001, …
* Form 2: @integer 2, 12, 22, 32, 42, 52, 62, 72, 102, 1002, …
* Form 3: @integer 0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 1000, 10000,
100000, 1000000, …
* Form 4: @decimal 0.0~1.5, 10.0, 100.0, 1000.0, 10000.0, 100000.0, 1000000.0, …
* Form 5: @integer 3~10, 13~19, 23, 103, 1003, …
Translators are requested to update all translations containing plural
rules. Those translations have been marked as outdated.
== Other languages ==
* In Mirandese (mwl), Portuguese (pt) and Brazilian Portuguese
(pt-br), the first form now also includes zero.
* In Uyghur (ug), Lower Sorbian (dsb) and Upper Sorbian (hsb), support
for decimals was added.
* In Asturian (ast) and Western Frisian (fy), the first form is no
longer used for decimals.
Translators are encouraged to review translations with plural forms
and update them where necessary. Because the changes have been minor,
we have not marked those translations as outdated.
-Niklas
Hello,
A reminder that Language Engineering's monthly office hour is happening in
a few hours (1700 UTC) on #wikimedia-office. Please see below for the
original announcement, including local time and agenda.
The original mail was inadvertently not sent to Wikimedia-l. My apologies
for that.
Thanks
Runa
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==================
# Date: October 15, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141015T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Project updates and plans
2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:31 PM
Subject: [x-post] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on October 15, 2014
(Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
To: MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello,
Please join us for the next monthly IRC office hour of the Wikimedia
Language Engineering team on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 at 1700 UTC on
#wikimedia-office.
We will be taking questions and discussing about our ongoing projects, and
upcoming plans.
Please see below for event details and local time.
Thank you.
Runa
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==================
# Date: October 15, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141015T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Project updates and plans
2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event)
--
Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Hi,
The question of date formats came up on the India mailing list [1] and this
made me think: Currently, how does a MediaWiki instance decide what is its
default date format? CLDR, PHP or something internal?
[1]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2014-October/011806.…
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
And it's over! We reached our immediate goal, "closing" all the lost
PediaPress tickets (80 before the bug day); and about 40 new bugzilla
reports were filed, including some tricky ones about language support.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/201410 has a dump
from the etherpad and will be updated with more precise information.
Give a look at the bugzilla reports!
Thanks to all the participants: Andre Klapper, Anomie, Azitrex, bawolff,
Helder, John Vandenberg, Kelson, Nemo, Raymond, Reedy, Rupert, saper,
Steinsplitter, csteipp, ebraminio, jem, josu, kepper, valhallasw`cloud.
(And probably someone else in bugzilla at the same time.)
Nemo
Federico Leva (Nemo), 08/10/2014 15:33:
> We start in 30 min from now :)
>
> Federico Leva (Nemo), 29/09/2014 19:51:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please join us on the next Wikimedia bug day:
>>
>> **2014-10-08, 14:00–22:00 UTC** [1] in #wikimedia-tech on Freenode
>> IRC.[2]
>>
>> We will be triaging bug reports for the Collection extension (Book tool)
>> in general and PDF export in particular, which were just switched to a
>> new backend (OCG).[3] We have two immediate goals:
>> 1) recover 100 % of the relevant reports from the defunct PediaPress
>> tracker;[4]
>> 2) get a clean list of known PDF issues that the new backend didn't fix.
>>
>> Everyone is welcome to join any time these weeks, and no technical
>> knowledge is needed! It's an easy way to get involved or to give
>> something back.
>> We encourage you to record your activity on the etherpad [4].
>>
>> This information and more can be found here:
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/201410
>>
>> For more information on triaging in general, check out
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage
>>
>> I look forward to seeing you there. Please distribute further by email,
>> talk pages etc. (Collection is used on almost 2 thousands wikis!)
>> Sorry for the crossposting,
>> Nemo
>>
>> [1] Timezone converter: http://everytimezone.com/#2014-10-08,120,5x1
>> [2] See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC for more info on IRC chat
>> [3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-July/077867.html
>> [4] https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-Collection
Hello,
Please join us for the next monthly IRC office hour of the Wikimedia
Language Engineering team on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 at 1700 UTC on
#wikimedia-office.
We will be taking questions and discussing about our ongoing projects, and
upcoming plans.
Please see below for event details and local time.
Thank you.
Runa
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==================
# Date: October 15, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141015T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Project updates and plans
2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event)
--
Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation