Hello all,
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension
Bundle 2017.10. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki
1.28 and 1.29 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-2017.10.tar…
* sha256sum: 75eefff3bbf50f1f84232f45ab169d2eedea5f7a18994f85b43237f2145403b1
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 ==
== Babel ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Style updates.
== cldr ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Localisation and maintenance updates only.
== CleanChanges ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Localisation and maintenance updates only.
== LocalisationUpdate ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Localisation and maintenance updates only.
== Translate ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Special:Translate now accepts showMessage URL parameter that allows
linking to specific messages. This will be better accessible in a
future release.
* Special:LanguageStats and Special:MessageGroupStats now show the
total number of shown languages.
* Special:LanguageStats and Special:MessageGroupStats now handle the
sortable parameter correctly.
* Numerious compatibility and stability fixes:
** Translation editor shortcuts were not showing up in recent version
of MediaWiki.
** Compatibility fix for PHP 7.1.
** Compatibility fix for translatable pages and Visual Editor wikitext
editing mode.
** Compatibility fix for Elastica that broke translation memory.
** Compatibility fix for CxserverWebService which changed API.
* Style updates.
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Language searching is improved with new language name data and
better "no results found" view.
* Popup positioning should now work better in various skins.
* Style updates.
--
Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_
{kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com
Google Code-in is an annual contest for 13-17 year old students. It
will take place from Nov28 to Jan17 and is not only about coding tasks.
While we wait whether Wikimedia will get accepted:
* You have small, self-contained bugs you'd like to see fixed?
* Your documentation needs specific improvements?
* Your user interface has small design issues?
* Your Outreachy/Summer of Code project welcomes small tweaks?
* You'd enjoy helping someone port your template to Lua?
* Your gadget code uses some deprecated API calls?
* You have tasks in mind that welcome some research?
Also note that "Beginner tasks" (e.g. "Set up Vagrant" etc) and
"generic" tasks are very welcome (e.g. "Choose & fix 2 PHP7 issues
from the list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120336 ").
Because we will need hundreds of tasks. :)
And we also have more than 400 unassigned open 'easy' tasks listed:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/HCyOonSbFn.z/#R
Would you be willing to mentor some of those in your area?
Please take a moment to find / update [Phabricator etc.] tasks in your
project(s) which would take an experienced contributor 2-3 hours. Check
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors
and please ask if you have any questions!
For some achievements from last round, see
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/02/03/google-code-in/
Thanks!,
andre
--
Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
The language engineering monthly report for August 2017 is ready.
**Highlights for this month**
Language database is now an independent project to make reuse easier. It
used to be part of jquery.uls library. It contains over 500 entries
detailing basic information about languages, such as their autonym, their
writing script, and region(s) of the world where they are spoken.
https://github.com/wikimedia/language-data
August was, so far, the most active month of 2017 for translatewiki.net
with the highest number of translation updates (55k) and translation
reviews (15k) by over 350 translators.
**Full report**
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Nikerabbit/Monthly_report/2017-08
For those unfamiliar with this report, its goal is to summarize all
technical changes to internationalization, translation tools and other
language support products. It also highlights the diversity of contributors
to this area and that many of them are volunteers.