Mediawiki-i18n August 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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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2014.08 release
by Kartik Mistry 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

Hello all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2014.08. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.23.x and MediaWiki 1.22.x releases. * Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.08.tar… * sha256sum: f4663910facd2b34d4afb1af930f66adad22b2746f9395f7706f07751e633857 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, CleanChanges and LocalisationUpdate == * Only localisation updates. == Translate == === Noteworthy changes === * Breaking change: Dropped support for MediaWiki 1.21 (2014.05 is the latest version of MLEB as a whole which supports 1.21) * Avoid losing translators' edits: improved handling of expired sessions ({{bug|69314}}). ** Status has yellow background if the translation has not been saved. ** Show an alert to the user if session has expired. ** Prevent saving translations as an anonymous user accidentally. * Restore progress icon for the current translation page (regression from MLEB 2014.07). * Update associated translation pages when moving translation units. * Show definition diff for all messages if available, not just for outdated messages. * Special:AggregateGroups: Group selector is now input field with autocompletion instead of combobox. * Special:PageMigration: Don't add the created pages to watchlist. * Special:PagePreparation: This is a new special page to assist in preparing pages for translation == UniversalLanguageSelector == * Change the autonym for Algerian Arabic. * Localisation updates. ==== Input Methods ==== * Tibetian-ewts: Use of unicode NFC instead of NFD. * Fixed description in Bengali Probhat layout. ==== Fonts ==== * Added Comic Neue font. It is available for English and other languages using the latin alphabet. * Updated UnifrakturMaguntia font to the latest version. -- Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_ {kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com

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Bug in JS implementation of plural?
by Jon Robson 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

I think I found a bug and wanted to check if I'm doing it wrong, or if it is indeed a bug and if so if there is somewhere I can track it? {{PLURAL:$1|$3 started this topic|A|0=B|2=C|3=$3}} > mw.msg( "flow-topic-participants", 3 ) > 'A' However {{PLURAL:$1|$3 started this topic|A|0=B|2=C|3=D}} > mw.msg( "flow-topic-participants", 3 ) > 'D' Is there any workaround I can use?

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Sorting json files
by Jon Robson 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

I want to use programatic scripts to work with the i18n files across MediaWiki. I wrote a script to allow me to add messages, and easily update message keys as well as scan for missing qqq codes [1] The problem I am running into is that an object is an unordered set of name/value pairs and in Python (at least to my knowledge) key order varies across Python implementations. So if I programmatically like in my script [1] I want to manipulate the JSON, when re-writing it, I'm struggling to maintain the original order. I wonder if thus it would be useful to sort all our i18n messages in alphabetical order. I feel this would be a good thing as it would encourage naming messages in such a way that they appear in the same order. E.g for an editing interface you might have myeditor-button-save myeditor-button-edit How does translatewiki build the i18n files? Is this just a python problem? [1] https://github.com/jdlrobson/WikimediaMessageDevScript

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