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 2016.10. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki
1.26 and 1.27 or above and requires PHP 5.5.9 or above.
Next MLEB is expected to be released in 3 months. If there are major
changes or important bug fixes, we will do intermediate release.
Please give us your feedback at
[[Talk:MLEB|https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB]].
* Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2016.10.tar…
* sha256sum: f82ac16b1a71433d68066c684c2e67379d3c435d1938044a9f0f0582cb6549b3
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
== Highlights and upgrade notes ==
* Easy way to access wikitext editor from Special:Translate. T48955
* Special:Translate now works with MobileFrontend. T102922
* Special:Translate now works better in mobile devices. T146134
* WebAPI module to query user's babel languages.
* The style of ULS's dialogs have been updated and polished to be more
streamlined (for real this time, was incorrectly claimed to be
included in 2016.08).
== Babel ==
* Kunal Mehta made is possible to store babel languages in the
database for efficient querying if a configuration option is enabled.
* Kunal Mehta added an WebAPI module to query user's babel languages.
* Kunal Mehta made it possible to read user's babel languages from a
central wiki if a configuration option is enabled. T95877
* Ricordisamoa added a configuration option that can be used to set
namespace limits to restrict for which pages are automatically
categorized to babel categories. T69334
* Niklas Laxström removed references to non-existing configuration
option BabelPreferISO639_3.
* Kunal Mehta made the new babel database table to start populating
automatically if it exists.
* Kunal Mehta changed the main babel category no longer include users
who set the skill level to zero. T146909
== CLDR and LocalisationUpdate ==
* Maintenance and localisation updates only.
== CleanChanges ==
* Niklas Laxström fixed a minor issue causing unnecessary code to load
on certain configurations. T146476
== Translate ==
* Glaisher improved how Translate checks and enforces restrictions for
non-translatable languages.
* C0nnex taught Translate to support new authentication method for
Microsoft Translate API. T46679
* Niklas Laxström removed the broken new line handling from Microsoft
Translate API support. T60121
* Jon Robson and Niklas Laxström made Special:Translate work with
Mobile Frontend. T102922
* Niklas Laxström polished Special:Translate to work better in mobile
devices. T146134
* Glaisher added way to access wikitext editor from Special:Translate. T48955
* Federico Leva and Niklas Laxström made "hide own translations"
button in Special:Translate only appear when relevant. T50972
* Erik Moeller added support for explicitly chosen namespace constant
in wfAddNamespace.
* Niklas Laxström fixed an issue causing email confirmation emails to
be sent twice for sandbox users. T147570
* Erik Moeller added support for CLDR-style plural keywords to JSON
file format support.
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
* Amir Aharoni changed "Language search" to "Search for a language". T138235
* New design implemented by Niklas Laxström was imported from jquery.uls.
* Niklas Laxström improved language change tooltip positioning. T145483
* Amir Aharoni documented available hooks and added one new hook. T145755
* Fomafix improved and simplified the way the CSS is loaded for ULS
triggers to avoid flash.
* Ed Sanders updated beta feature image to use proper layout and
colours. T144428
* Niklas Laxström fixed an issue that caused unparsed plural syntax
appear in the compact language links. T148117
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Srishti Sethi
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Hello!
The Wikimedia Developer Summit is the annual meeting to push the evolution
of MediaWiki and other technologies supporting the Wikimedia movement. *The
next edition will be held in San Francisco on January 9-11, 2017*.
We welcome all Wikimedia technical contributors, third party developers,
and users of MediaWiki and the Wikimedia APIs. We specifically want to
increase the participation of volunteer developers and other contributors
dealing with extensions, apps, tools, bots, gadgets, and templates.
Important deadlines:
- Monday, October 24: This is the last day to request travel
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the topics you care about!
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