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 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.
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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
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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.