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
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Niklas Laxström
Hello all,
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension
Bundle 2015.01. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.23.8 and
MediaWiki 1.24.1 releases.
* Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2015.01.tar…
* sha256sum: 7a53ed826ae14ffe279fc4231cc47d367f668723a5843ad62c13a8f17d339744
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, CLDR and CleanChanges ==
* Localisation updates only.
== LocalisationUpdate ==
* T69154: Added support for updating skins.
== Translate ==
* T44162: Patrol footer will not appear on translation pages now.
* T76731: Added Content Translation Machine Translation backend support.
* T86000: Message group configurations are now optionally validated.
* Make 'fuzzy' as a default action for changes in source language in
Special:ManageMessageGroups.
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
* This version has compatibility issues with Internet Explorer 8.
Support will be restored in the next MLEB release.
=== Input Methods ===
* Corrected names of Punjabi input methods.
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Hello,
A reminder that the Language Engineering office hour will be happening
later today at 1600UTC on #wikimedia-office. The original announcement can
be found in the section below. We will be posting the logs at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Office_hour_logs
Thanks
Runa
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:48 AM
Subject: [x-post] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on 14 January 2015
(Wednesday) at 1600 UTC
To: MediaWiki internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing
List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration
[Public]" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
Language Engineering team of the Wikimedia Foundation is hosting the next
IRC office hour on January 14, 2015 (Wednesday) at 1600 UTC on
#wikimedia-office . We will be taking questions and discussing about our
ongoing projects. You may have also read our recent announcement about
making Content Translation available very soon as a beta feature[1] on a
few Wikipedias. We will be happy to address questions you may have about
this.
Please see below to check local time and event details
Thanks
Runa
[1]
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/10/content-translation-beta-coming-soon
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/10/content-translation-beta-coming-soon/>
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==================
# Date: January 14, 2015 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1600 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150114T1600 )
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Content Translation beta feature
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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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
[x-posted announcement]
Hello,
Language Engineering team of the Wikimedia Foundation is hosting the next
IRC office hour on January 14, 2015 (Wednesday) at 1600 UTC on
#wikimedia-office . We will be taking questions and discussing about our
ongoing projects. You may have also read our recent announcement about
making Content Translation available very soon as a beta feature[1] on a
few Wikipedias. We will be happy to address questions you may have about
this.
Please see below to check local time and event details
Thanks
Runa
[1]
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/10/content-translation-beta-coming-soon
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/10/content-translation-beta-coming-soon/>
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==================
# Date: January 14, 2015 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1600 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150114T1600 )
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Content Translation beta feature
2. Q & A (Questions can be sent to me ahead of the event)
--
Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
To the right list, if not done yet.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bjoern Hassler <bjohas+mw(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 6:44 PM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Chat about MLEB
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello,
(2nd attempt to post, sorry if this is a duplicate.)
We're starting to use the translate extension on our wiki (
http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk). Is this the right list to post a question on?
My question is: If you are going from one translated page (e.g. base page
in en, translated page in fr) to another page (in en) that has a
translation for the same language (fr), can you automatically stay in this
language? I.e. if you on [[A/fr]] you click on [[B]], can are you
automatically taken to [[B/fr]]? There seems to be some provisions for
this, but it's not clear to me.
Also, is it possible to add "languages" - for us it's not so much different
languages, but we're creating localised versions of a teacher education
resource for different contexts (which are mainly English-speaking), which
involves replacing things like "Zambia" with "Rwanda", but also more
complex adaptations.
Our resource is quite complex (e.g. extensive use of templates, and
semantic mediawiki) see
http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/wiki/OER4Schools - would somebody with MLEB
experience be happy to have a chat to see whether MLEB is the right tool?
Thanks!
Bjoern
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Hey all WMF Language Engineers,
Is the timeline for CX deployed as a Beta Feature firm yet? This page
says Jan 8th:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/Deployment_Plan#Timeline
Is that right?
Greg
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