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 2015.02. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.23.8 and
MediaWiki 1.24.1 releases.
* Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2015.02.tar…
* sha256sum: 536cf86e7080d8293a02cb59f99d96328c7009c8239e818556b28b77b02ff88d
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, CleanChanges and LocalisationUpdate ==
* Only localisation updates.
== Translate ==
* Improvements in Special:PagePreparation:
** T69591: Added 'Cancel' button.
** T68880: Categories kept as a part of page template.
* T87503: Validate and normalize input file encoding in FFS.
* T54728: Split language details to subpage on Special:SupportedLanguages.
* Performance improvements by removing unneeded queries.
* T53410: Performance improvements in Special:MessageGroupStats and
Special:LanguageStats
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
* Restore compatibility with IE8. If you still have any issue, please report it!
* Magnifying glass icon is now clickable!
* Localisation updates.
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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
thats happening later today at 1300 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
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 7:47 PM
Subject: [x-post] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on 18 February 2015
(Wednesday) at 1300 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>, "Wikimedia & GLAM
collaboration [Public]" <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
[X-posted announcement]
Hello,
The next monthly IRC office hour of the WMF Language Engineering team will
be on February 18, 2015 (Wednesday) at 1300 UTC on #wikimedia-office.
Please note that for this instance the session has been set to a much
earlier hour.
We will be taking questions and discussing about our ongoing projects,
particularly the recent activation of Content Translation as a beta feature
on several Wikipedias[1]. We’d love to hear comments, suggestions and any
feedback that will help us make this tool better.
Please see below to check local time and event details. Logs from our
earlier office hours are available at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Language_Engineering
Thanks
Runa
[1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/20/try-content-translation/
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==================
# Date: February 18, 2015 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1300 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150218T1300)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Ongoing projects - 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,
The next monthly IRC office hour of the WMF Language Engineering team will
be on February 18, 2015 (Wednesday) at 1300 UTC on #wikimedia-office.
Please note that for this instance the session has been set to a much
earlier hour.
We will be taking questions and discussing about our ongoing projects,
particularly the recent activation of Content Translation as a beta feature
on several Wikipedias[1]. We’d love to hear comments, suggestions and any
feedback that will help us make this tool better.
Please see below to check local time and event details. Logs from our
earlier office hours are available at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Language_Engineering
Thanks
Runa
[1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/01/20/try-content-translation/
Monthly IRC Office Hour:
==================
# Date: February 18, 2015 (Wednesday)
# Time: 1300 UTC (Check local time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150218T1300)
# IRC channel: #wikimedia-office
# Agenda:
1. Ongoing projects - 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
At the Monthly Metrics meeting Asaf gave the example of Ukrainian speakers
getting Google results for Russian wikipedia articles even though there are
good articles on uk.wikipedia.org.
Can the list of language links be aware of these situations and present
likely wiki versions of interest higher up?
I tried this with the ru version of the Ukranian language page,
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0…
, and it seems the link to the uk wiki article is starred (yay), but is way
way down a long list, I had to scroll down six screens. Maybe it's ranked
higher if your language is ru or uk.
Cheers,
--
=S Page WMF Tech writer