Mediawiki-i18n May 2014

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle launches
by Niklas Laxström 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

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

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Help translate language names etc. on CLDR's survey tool
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

Sorry for crossposting. CLDR data submission has started this week, we're looking for more translators: so far I have added 23 new translators who made over a thousands translations and seem happy with the system. Instructions are kept up to date at <https://translatewiki.net/wiki/CLDR#Contribute_to_an_existing_locale>. As you know, Wikimedia projects exist in almost 300 languages; supporting them all is a big effort so we partner with other organisations, also via Unicode. One small but visible thing we miss is that many interwiki links in sidebar (among others) don't offer a translation of the language name when hovered. This can be fixed: we're now able to translate 100 more language names in your language.[1] If you're interested, I can create you an account to submit translations on the CLDR web tool (within June 14): please send an email[2] to ask one and I'll follow up with instructions. On CLDR you can translate and tweak many other things, if you desire; your work will impact hundreds of software projects.[3] Nemo [1] <https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/Language_names_not_in_Unicode…> [2] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/Nemo_bis> [3] <http://cldr.unicode.org/index#TOC-Who-uses-CLDR->

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Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] QQQuestion
by Jeremy Baron 31 May '14

31 May '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Monte Hurd" <mhurd(a)wikimedia.org> Date: May 30, 2014 4:55 PM Subject: [WikimediaMobile] QQQuestion To: "mobile-l" <mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Is there a standard way to indicate in a qqq file that a particular translation should try to be as few characters as possible?

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2014.05 release
by Kartik Mistry 31 May '14

31 May '14

Hello all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2014.05. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.22.7 and MediaWiki 1.21.10 releases. * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.05.tar… * sha256sum: f53030ce7e6e0619f9a075877bc85423c0a28f46ffb296dbed5733502683b9b3 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, CleanChanges and LocalisationUpdate == * Only localisation updates == CLDR == * The fallback logic should not merge the time units from languages in fallback chain. It should use time units from a fallback language only when time units are not defined. * Localisation updates. == Translate == === Noteworthy changes === * Add summary to the Special:MessageGroupStats page. * The icon to hide the sidebar on Special:Translate is now clickable in small screen sizes. * When a user is promoted from translator sandbox, it is treated as account creation. Promoted users can now receive NewUserMessage. * When doing action=purge on Special:LanguageStats, the stats were not completely purged until now. == UniversalLanguageSelector == === Noteworthy changes === * Bug 62342: Always display assistant languages in compact language list when defined by user in Translate extension. === Input Methods === * Bug 63895: Updated Sanskrit Transliteration layout as per community request. === Fonts === * Bug 56939: Added 'Hussaini Nastaleeq' font for Urdu. -- Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_ {kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com

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Re: [Mediawiki-i18n] [Wikitech-l] Page Language selector
by Jeremy Baron 23 May '14

23 May '14

On May 23, 2014 11:09 AM, "Kunal Grover" <kunalgrover05(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I am working on developing the Page Content Language selector for core as a > part of my GSoC project. > Me and my mentors had some discussions and came up with these ideas. > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:SPQRobin/Page_language > > I would like to invite everyone give their ideas and/or comments regarding > the same. > You can add your comments here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:SPQRobin/Page_language Adding mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org -Jeremy

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[Reminder] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on May 21, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 21 May '14

21 May '14

Hello This is a reminder that the Language Engineering IRC office hour is happening later today at 1700UTC on #wikimedia-office. Please see below for the original announcement and local time. Thanks Runa Monthly IRC Office Hour: ================== # Date: May 21, 2014 (Wednesday) # Time: 1700 UTC/1000PDT (Check local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140521T1700) # IRC channel: #wikimedia-office # Agenda: 1. Content Translation project updates 2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, May 19, 2014 at 4:11 PM Subject: Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on May 21, 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>, wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org [x-posted] Hello, The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting the next monthly IRC office hour on Wednesday, May 21 2014 at 1700 UTC on #wikimedia-office. The event is delayed this month as the team was traveling. In this office hour we will be discussing about our recent work, which has mostly been around the upcoming first release of the Content Translation tool[1]. We will also be taking questions during the session. Please see below for event details and local time. See you at the office hour. Thanks Runa [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation Monthly IRC Office Hour: ================== # Date: May 21, 2014 (Wednesday) # Time: 1700 UTC/1000PDT (Check local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140521T1700) # IRC channel: #wikimedia-office # Agenda: 1. Content Translation project updates 2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event) -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Specifying source language for a translatable page
by KC Lau 21 May '14

21 May '14

Hi List, I am trying out MediaWiki 1.22.5 / XAMPP with Apache 2.4.7, MySQL 5.5.36, PHP 5.4.25 as a single site supporting multiple languages on my PC. I have problem using the Translate Extension (in MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.03) to translate a page from a native language say French to English. It seems MW defaults the source language of the page to the site language which is defined as English in this case: $wgLanguageCode = "en"; While I can translate a page in French into other languages like Chinese, I cannot translate it into English, as the generated link for English in Other Languages actually displays the original French page. I tried naming the page with /fr suffix but it does not work. Please see these links as examples: <http://61.18.209.180/wpw1/index.php/Ma_deuxi%C3%A8me_page>http://61.18.209.180/wpw1/index.php/Ma_deuxi%C3%A8me_page http://61.18.209.180/wpw1/index.php/Ma_troisi%C3%A8me_page/fr My question is: is there a way to specify the source language for a translatable page when it differs from the site language? I asked this question on the MediaWiki Support Desk and in IRC #mediawiki last night but got no answer yet. I'm not sure if this should be directed to this list or not. Please refer me to the appropriate place if not. Regards, KC Lau.

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Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on May 21, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC
by Runa Bhattacharjee 19 May '14

19 May '14

[x-posted] Hello, The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting the next monthly IRC office hour on Wednesday, May 21 2014 at 1700 UTC on #wikimedia-office. The event is delayed this month as the team was traveling. In this office hour we will be discussing about our recent work, which has mostly been around the upcoming first release of the Content Translation tool[1]. We will also be taking questions during the session. Please see below for event details and local time. See you at the office hour. Thanks Runa [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation Monthly IRC Office Hour: ================== # Date: May 21, 2014 (Wednesday) # Time: 1700 UTC/1000PDT (Check local time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140521T1700) # IRC channel: #wikimedia-office # Agenda: 1. Content Translation project updates 2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event) -- Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation

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Fwd: How to edit translated pages
by Jeph Alapat 15 May '14

15 May '14

Hi All, The grants team & I are trying to build workflow tools to make it easier for people to create grant and interact with it, endorsing it, joining it etc. The first tool we are building is a popup where anyone can endorse a grant and add his/her comment in the popup. Eg: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Heather%27s_test You'll need to add importScript('User:Jeph_paul/endorse.js'); to your common.js on meta. We want users to be able to create grants in the own language too. We were assuming we could edit the translated pages using the API but that does not seem the case. It isn't possible to manually edit the translated page either. We are actually not looking for translation per se, we want users to be able to create pages in different languages in the Grants namespace. Eg: The user should be able to create IEG's<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG>in his/her language. There will be a template which will need translations (The skeleton for a grant), but from then on we wont be needing the ability to translate. The user should be able to go ahead & add content in his language. What would be the best way to achieve this in meta? Looking forward to your comments. Thanks Jeph

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