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
Hello all,
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension
Bundle 2014.12. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.23.8 and
MediaWiki 1.24.1 releases.
* Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.12.tar…
* sha256sum: 5a0e00d27e2a81b896de4015a8f0933f24ea3409e554b0ba7f2e3c27ec27430f
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://phabricator.wikimedia.org/
* Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode
Release notes for each extension are below.
-- Kartik Mistry
== Babel, CleanChanges and LocalisationUpdate ==
* Localisation updates only.
== CLDR ==
* Fixed incorrect version.
== Translate ==
* Due to MediaWiki core plural rule changes, Translate extension
contains interface translations which are not compatible with any
released version of MediaWiki. If you are using Translate in the
affected languages, (See
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/04/updates-in-mediawiki-internationaliza…
for more details and list of affected languages) you might want to
consider using MLEB 2014.09 instead. The issue manifests as incorrect
plural forms used in the interface for certain numbers.
* T76184: Improvements in ElasticSearch TTM. Query results are now
more reliable and consistent.
* T49044: Fixed issue with button with long text in Special:Translate.
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
* As a part of refactoring ULS design, world map from ULS has been
removed. You can track progress of task at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85519
* Removed support for MediaWiki <= 1.21.
=== Fonts ===
* Removed ComicNeue font for non-supported languages.
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Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_
{kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com
Hello,
A quick reminder about Language Engineering team's monthly IRC office hour
later today at 1700 UTC on #wikimedia-office. Please see below for the
original announcement, local time, and agenda. We will post logs on
metawiki[1] after the event.
Thanks
Runa
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Office_hour_logs
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
=======================
# Date: December 10, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141210T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Updates from the Content Translation project
2. Q & A/Discussions
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:26 AM
Subject: [x-post] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on December 10, 2014
(Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
To: MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
Please save the date for the monthly IRC office hour of the Wikimedia
Language Engineering team on Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 1700 UTC
on #wikimedia-office. Project updates will include information about
the new version of Content Translation[1] and plans for the next
release.
Please see below for event details and local time.
Thanks
Runa
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Announcement-November2014
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
=======================
# Date: December 10, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141210T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Updates from the Content Translation project
2. Q & A/Discussions
--
Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
I noticed that clicks to the hamburger menu icon in the top left
corner and the languages icon at the bottom of the page were very
similar [1], so I thus thought it would be interested to look at both
of these elements on a per project level.
I took a sample day and constructed this table comparing clicks to the
language button compared to the languages button.
I then divide clicks to hamburger by clicks to languages.
My hypothesis is that if clicks to the language icon are considerably
higher than clicks to the hamburger icon the less recognisable the
hamburger icon is in that language.
I filtered out wikis where the clicks to languages were less than 50,
as I decided the data set for those were too small.
Interestingly for enwiki the score is close to 1 (0.9625941071), a
language I would expect this icon to translate well.
For azwiki (Azerbaijani language) the language button has
considerably more clicks - 1366 compared to 487 (0.3565153734)
Other WIkipedias where the hamburger icon might not be translating
well (where score is less than 0.5):
Bosnian, Polish, Japanese, Korean.
I've shared my data on a public URL, feel free to explore, analyse, comment [1].
As a next step it would be interesting to pick a project e.g.
Japanese, monitor clicks to hamburger vs language and see how these
values change with a different value.
[1] http://mobile-reportcard.wmflabs.org/#graph-limn225 ui daily graph
[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aCddwCiTCrDdKivLIYFujef69k-uB0DtsqJ…
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
Please save the date for the monthly IRC office hour of the Wikimedia
Language Engineering team on Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at 1700 UTC
on #wikimedia-office. Project updates will include information about
the new version of Content Translation[1] and plans for the next
release.
Please see below for event details and local time.
Thanks
Runa
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Announcement-November2014
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
=======================
# Date: December 10, 2014 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1700 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141210T1700)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Updates from the Content Translation project
2. Q & A/Discussions
--
Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
2014-12-01 8:41 GMT+02:00 David Chamberlain <david(a)alaskawiki.org>:
> I run 5 wikis for a total of 6,000 pages and still use solr in 6 languages.
Thanks for the information, David. We will keep the code for Solr backend.
-Niklas