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 2016.08. 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.
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Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_
{kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com
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.
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Best Regards,
Sébastien Santoro aka Dereckson
-------- 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
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*
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
@cherishsantosh
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
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Бојан Јанкулоски I Bojan Jankuloski
Главен програмски раководител I Chief Program Manager
Споделено знаење I Shared Knowlege
тел. | tel. +38978 282 698
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.