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
2021.10. This bundle is compatible with '''MediaWiki 1.35.3''' or above and
requires '''PHP 7.3.19''' or above.
Next MLEB is expected to be released in 3 months. If there are very
important bug fixes, we will do an intermediate release. Please give us
your feedback at [[Talk:MLEB|https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB]].
* Download:
https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2021.10.tar…
* sha256sum:
ce923b2a661e3a97ec8f0add9eb9369637e02cbb70a47b80a1e50f3e8c0001d6
* Signature:
https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2021.10.tar…
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/project/view/1464/
Release notes for each extension are below.
-- Kartik Mistry
== Highlights ==
* MLEB now requires MediaWiki 1.35.3 and PHP 7.3.19
* This release contains security fixes. We recommend updating as soon as
possible.
* Prevent non-wikitext pages from being marked for translation
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/718014|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T163254|Phabricator]])
* Add support for moving talkpages when moving translatable pages
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/709102|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T41023|Phabricator]])
* The translation UI (TUX) now uses the user preferred edit fonts when
displaying the source message & the editor ([[gerrit:c/719641|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T213658|Phabricator]])
== Known Issues ==
* The new Vector skin has a configuration parameter
<code>$wgVectorLanguageInHeader</code> that moves the language links from
the sidebar into a menu beside the page title. With MediaWiki 1.36, New
Vector (REL1_36 branch) and <code>$wgVectorLanguageInHeader</code> set to
true, the menu beside the title does not respond to click events and is
hence unusable. We recommend setting <code>$wgVectorLanguageInHeader</code>
to false if you are using MediaWiki 1.36.
== Babel, cldr, and LocalisationUpdate ==
* Localisation and maintenance updates.
== CleanChanges ==
* Fix: RecentChanges: When filtering with only a nonexistent user, changes
from all users are displayed ([
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/CleanChanges/+/730538
Gerrit], [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T293257 Phabricator])
* Localisation and maintenance updates.
== Translate ==
* SpecialPageTranslation: Show correct number of units marked for
translation ([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/705885|Gerrit]])
* Fix translation of pages with custom content models
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/693984|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T258756|Phabricator]])
* TranslatablePageMover: Fix incorrect target page validation
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/710285|Gerrit]])
* Extended export.php's capabilities to allow exporting everything with a
single invocation ([[phab:T287476|Phabricator]])
* Fix Discouraged translatable page is no longer discouraged after move
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/708493|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T287373|Phabricator]])
* Special:PageTranslation: Display consistent success/warning/error
messages ([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/714972|Gerrit]])
* Fix Pages discouraged from translation should warn translators
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/714215|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T237590|Phabricator]])
* Fix TUX should have try again button upon save failure
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/713234|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T272791|Phabricator]])
* TUX: Ensure optional message is checked based on URL options
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/713219|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T264075|Phabricator]])
* SpecialTranslate: Fix proofreading tooltip anchor
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/713637|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T281466|Phabricator]])
* Fix Page display title no longer translatable by default
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/709502|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T287816|Phabricator]])
* Fix TUX should not use a wrong uselang value as fallback
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/713601|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T279252|Phabricator]])
* Add new validator NotEmptyValidator
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/713880|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T261305|Phabricator]])
* Add dir/lang attribute for outdated translation header
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/714323|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T289440|Phabricator]])
* Special:PageTranslation: Require
<code><nowiki><translate></nowiki></code> tags on the latest version for
marking ([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/714971|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T289697|Phabricator]])
* Special:PageTranslation: <code>tpt-badtitle</code> expects a parameter
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/714970|Gerrit]])
* Use user preferred edit font in sourcemessage & editor
([[gerrit:c/719641|Gerrit]], [[phab:T213658|Phabricator]])
* Fix The page translation language list should use HTML list instead of
literal bullet points
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/718862|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T280742|Phabricator]])
* Remove language URL parameter in "Translate this page" link
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/720664|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T286110|Phabricator]])
* Add support for moving talkpages when moving translatable pages
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/709102|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T41023|Phabricator]])
* Redirect page should not block translation page
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/710300|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T284116|Phabricator]])
* Prevent non-wikitext pages from being marked for translation
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/718014|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T163254|Phabricator]])
* Update moveTranslatablePageScript.php to make moving sub pages the
default ([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/721821|Gerrit]])
* Fix Special:PageMigration - "query - messagecollection" API throws an
error ([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/723813|Gerrit]])
* Performance optimizations for Translate metadata
([[phab:T204026|Phabricator]])
* Add <code>%MESSAGE_URL%</code> placeholder for support params
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/724701|Gerrit]])
* Avoid outputting invalid lang="qqq" on Special:Translations and
Special:SupportedLanguages ([[phab:T259137|Phabricator]])
* Allow excluding certain messages from validation
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/730034|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T289480|Phabricator]])
* Special:Translate: Ensure translated name for the group appears
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/731970|Gerrit]])
* Localisation and maintenance updates
=== Security ===
* Allow revdel-related actions in translatable pages
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/725385|Gerrit]])
=== Breaking changes ===
* Export script: remove <code>--hours</code>
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/705677|Gerrit]])
* Remove translation aids customization (Hook:
<code>TranslateTranslationAids</code>)
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/715939|Gerrit]])
* Remove <code>$wgTranslateDelayedMessageIndexRebuild</code>
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/719062|Gerrit]])
* Remove <code>getConfiguration</code> and <code>getFFS</code> from
MessageGroup ([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/715946|Gerrit]])
* Group configuration: Rename validator keymatch option to include
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/730035|Gerrit]])
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
* '''SECURITY''': Language name search: Avoid searching for very long
search keys
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector/+/732274|Gerrit]],
[[phab:T293749|Phabricator]])
* Improve support for the new Vector Skin
* Remove configuration <code>ULSEnableAnon</code>
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector/+/707229|Gerrit]])
* Add support for multiple ULS buttons
([[gerrit:c/mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector/+/719325|Gerrit]])
* Localisation and maintenance updates.
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