Mediawiki-i18n August 2016

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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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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2016.08 release
by Kartik Mistry 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

Hello all, I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2016.08. 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-2016.08.tar… * sha256sum: aba09ead5f2c646e5960ce2aecc36866ee092079f51598d0aab461c7655410da 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 == * Translate extension now requires Elastica extension for ElasticSearch support. Wikimedia search plugin needs to be installed for ElasticSearch 2.x series. * Special:Translate now has a summary field. * Special:Translate is much more robust thanks to improved error handling and to many small bugs having been fixed. * Page translation is much more robust. * The sandbox feature of Translate extension requires MediaWiki 1.27 or newer. * Translate's export functionality is now on separate special page called Special:ExportTranslations * The style of ULS's dialogs have been updated and polished to be more streamlined. * The default geoip service for Universal Language Selector is changed because the old service is discontinued. * Major update on webfont formats: woff2 format added, eot and svg formats dropped. == Babel == * Ricordisamoa changed language categories to be formatted consistently following the BCP47 standard. == CLDR == * Thiemo Mättig changed "Multiple Languages" and "Unknown Language" to "multiple languages" and "unknown languages" in English. == CleanChanges == * Niklas Laxström fixed a JavaScript error in Special:WatchList. T138702 * Brian Wolff improved the way we invoke JavaScript for click handlers. == LocalisationUpdate == * Maintenance updates only. == Translate == * Kunal Grover's patch to update translation pages upon deletion of translation units was merged with the help of Glaisher. * David Causse made translation memory and translation search work with new ElasticSearch version. * Pratik Lahoti's improvements to the user interface of Special:PageMigration was merged with help of Federico Leva. * Glaisher fulfilled a long requested feature to have summary field on Special:Translate. * Glaisher fixed bugs and improved stability of the page translation feature. * Glaisher added a log subtype selector for the page translation log on Special:Log. * Glaisher fixed false warnings about bad translation in Special:Translate when the source text contained discouraged html or had smileys. * Glaisher moved export functionality from Special:Translate to Special:ExportTranslations. * Niklas Laxström improved message group selector on Special:Translate. * Niklas Laxström improved display of Special:Translate for small screens. * Niklas Laxström fixed flash of unstyled content on many of Translate's special pages. * Niklas Laxström changed JSON file format handler to always output a metadata section. T118205 * Niklas Laxström fixed multiple issues related to statsbar updates on Special:Translate. T62949 * Niklas Laxström improved the refresh-translatable-pages.php maintenance script so that it creates missing source language pages. * Niklas Laxström updated Translate's sandbox feature to use AuthManager. T111486 * Federico Leva made characterEditStats.php to able to scan history further than the recent changes table. T64833 == UniversalLanguageSelector == * Compact language links feature is much improved, and can now be enabled without being a beta feature. * Santhosh Thottingal added support for browser provided language preferences for compact language links. * Lots of styling updates. * Niklas Laxström did cleanups to language name search which might affect search results. * Niklas Laxström fixed style issues for input method listing. * Niklas Laxström updated the default geoip provider. * Fonts: ** Santhosh Thottingal added support for WOFF2 format for web fonts. Niklas Laxström dropped support for EOT and SVG formats. ** Kartik Mistry updated Skiers II font for Gothic language. T124785 * Input Methods: ** Added Khmer NiDA standard Unicode keyboard. ** Added Akan language keyboard. ** Added Enhanced Ol Chiki InScript and Sarjom Baha phonetic keyboards for Santali language. ** Various fixes for Punjabi, Urdu keyboards. -- Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_ {kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com

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Localisation fallback between Slovak and Czech languages
by Sébastien Santoro 21 Aug '16

21 Aug '16

Hello, Until MediaWiki 1.27, any message not translated in Slovak or in Czech is printed in English. For MediaWiki 1.28, we plan to offer a fallback between Slovak and Czech languages, as these languages are easier to understand to contributors than English. The fallback is currently committed on our master branch. Than means any message not translated in Slovak on a MediaWiki installation in Slovak will be printed in Czech and inversely. This change has been prepared by Federico Leva. If you approve this change or has concerns with it, your opinion is welcome at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T143474. If you don't have a Phabricator account, you can use e-mail and I'll forward your opinion. -- Best Regards, Sébastien Santoro aka Dereckson

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Fwd: Grant for Strengthening Indigenous-Language Wikipedias in Latin America
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

-------- Messaggio inoltrato -------- Oggetto: [Languages] Wikimedia Grants Proposal - Strengthening Indigenous-Language Wikipedias in Latin America Data: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 18:13:22 -0400 Mittente: Eddie Avila Hi all - I’m reaching out to this list to those that might be interested in the proposal submitted by Global Voices to the Wikimedia Grants program. We’re very much open to improving the proposal and your feedback is welcome during this community input phase. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Strengthening_Indigenous-Lan… Looking forward to your thoughts on the Discussion Page or by email: eddie [at] globalvoices [dot] org Thanks! Eddie

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Wiki Conference India 2016 (Chandigarh hackathon)
by Santosh Shingare 12 Aug '16

12 Aug '16

Hello all, I am happy to announce, chandigarh hackathon WCI2016, close with 7 application, which is useful to all community. *1)* *WikiSpeak with native language :* (Hindi) (*Web Application* + *Android Mobile application*). *2)* *Edit Tamil Wiktionary **(Tamil community request)** :* - (*Android application*) *3)* *Audio file upload to WikiData (Punjabi community request) :* (*Android application*) *4) Wikipedia articles on google map :* find wikipedia articles on google map (with latitude and longitude) as per city. *5) OCR (Native Application) *: Convert scanned book copy to Indian language text with google doc (Tested for Hindi and Malayalam). *6) Communication platform[WebRTC] (Web Application)* : Community used this to talk or conference (Audio/video web conferencing application) *7) Notification (Event based)* : showing popup on event eg (If recent changes happen, It will show popup which article was updated) Thank you all participant. who participate in hackathon and deliver a big success *Note : I will share code, links and other details very shortly.* Thank you *Santosh Shingare.* *User:cherishsantosh*

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Wiki Conference India 2016 (Chandigarh hackathon)
by Santosh Shingare 11 Aug '16

11 Aug '16

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Sorting order in categories on mk.wiki
by Bojan Jankuloski 07 Aug '16

07 Aug '16

Hello guys, I wonder if someone can help me get to the right place to submit a request regarding the sorting order in categories on mk.wiki. We have had a problem with the Cyrillic Ј <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Je_(Cyrillic)>, (Ј) which belongs after И <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_(Cyrillic)> in Macedonian, but our categories place it as the very first letter, even before А. The sorting order is obvious from the article about the alphabet <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_alphabet>. Is there someone who could help us with this? It goes without saying that you should be careful not to confuse the letters such as Ј, А and others that are same as in the Latin alphabet, but actually have different coding. Thanks a lot, Bojan -- Бојан Јанкулоски I Bojan Jankuloski Главен програмски раководител I Chief Program Manager Споделено знаење I Shared Knowlege тел. | tel. +38978 282 698

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Improve selection of interwiki links in your country
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 02 Aug '16

02 Aug '16

You may have heard that "compact language links" are expanding across the wikis these days:* https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Compact_Language… A crucial piece of this system is data on which languages are most spoken in each country: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ULS/FAQ#language-territory Please look at the CLDR data for the countries you know best; if you see something clearly wrong or missing, please follow the "bug" link to report it, and mention some official source. Nemo (*) Since at least 2010 there was a feature request to make the users see more relevant list of interwiki links/interlanguage links on each article. It takes up to 30 days for all articles on a wiki to be updated to the new display, as the cache slowly expires for unregistered users.

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