Hello, and happy Africa day!
[ crossposted to African Wikimedians list, general Wikimedia list, and
mediawiki-i18n ]
To celebrate this, I am announcing the completion of a little pet project
that I started a year ago: it is now easy to type in all the languages of
Africa in which there is a Wikipedia or an active Incubator.
This is available in all Wikimedia projects and in translatewiki.net. This
release is intended for desktop and laptop computers. For mobile phones and
tablets, I strongly recommend trying apps such as Gboard, SwiftKey, or
African Keyboard.
For full details and project description see this blog post:
https://aharoni.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/happy-africa-day-keyboards-for-all…
Or jump straight into the (easy!!!) technical documentation here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Inp…
These keyboards were tested by myself, and some of them were also tested by
a few other people who speak these languages, and as far as I know they are
easy to enable and disable and the work correctly. However, it's possible
that some things are missing: I could have missed some letters, I could
have made mistakes in documentation, I could have missed some languages.
Please contact me if you find any problems.
Thanks!
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Hello all,
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension
Bundle 2019.04. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki
1.31 and 1.32 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-2019.04.tar…
* sha256sum: 5fbbd39acd1cc0e1edbd542a390daf1992d1526134ceb69248cdb4dced58f3a9
* Signature: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2019.04.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/
* Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode
Release notes for each extension are below.
-- Kartik Mistry
== Highlights and upgrade notes ==
== Babel ==
* Maintenance and localization updates only.
== CleanChanges and cldr ==
* PHP entry point has been removed. Warning will be displayed for
deprecated PHP entry point. (T140007)
* Maintenance and localization updates.
== LocalisationUpdate ==
* Maintenance updates only.
== Translate ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Fixed fatal error on PageContentLanguage hook subscriber (T214358)
* Replaced usage of mw.translateHooks with mw.hook. Deprecation
warning will be shown while using functions under mw.translateHooks
(T72031)
* Added support for newer versions of the Elastica extension while
maintaining backward compatibility for older version REL 1.31
(T218100)
* Fixed page suggestion control on Special:PageMigration (T217726)
* Fixed broken Special:PageMigration (T217727)
* Add link to Special:PageMigration when page is marked for
translation (T178642)
* Removed display of the message group state for the source language (T160511)
* Fixed invalid display of priority language notice (T217046)
* Added better error handling in Special:SearchTranslations (T159221)
*Display proper notice when translations to non-priority languages are
blocked (T218777)
*Fixed "proofreading" status appearing for source language on the
MessageGroup and Language stats page (T160511)
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
* Various performance fixes.
* Maintenance and localization updates.
==== Input Methods ====
* New tilde-based layouts for several languages of Africa: Kabyle,
Kabiye, Kikuyu, Luganda, Lingala, Malagasy, Northern Sotho, Koyraboro
Senni, Sango, Sotho, Venda.
* Added Latin Pinyin transliteration keyboard
==== Fonts ====
* Added fonts for Church Slavonic. (T156843)
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Kartik Mistry | કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી
kartikm.wordpress.com
Hello! I know this list is supposed to be for MediaWiki. This more of a PHP
question, hope that's okay:
I am trying to add support for Hindu–Arabic numerals like ١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩٠ to my
application for the Kurdish language (ckb) [1]. On my local install (Ubuntu
18.04), the numerals are visible for ckb and PHP properly shows them using
NumberFormatter. But in production (Debian Jessie 8.11), it's still showing
westernized Arabic like 1234567890 [2]. Both installs are using the same
version of PHP (7.2.10), and the same version of ext-intl (1.1.0).
I don't think it's related to fonts, because the same Hindu-Arabic numerals
work when viewing in Arabic (ar) [3].
Can you think of any reason for this discrepancy? I thought it was all in
PHP, but maybe there's some other library that needs to be updated?
Thank you!
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T213503
[2]
https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec-generalstats/en.wikipedia.org/%C3%89pine?usel…
[3]
https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec-generalstats/en.wikipedia.org/%C3%89pine?usel…
~Leon
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension
Bundle 2019.01. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki
1.31 and 1.32 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-2019.01.tar…
* sha256sum: 39f2e946e360ac868744dc8e6f62cb5723447415bd11bcbb4911eb0f3674360c
* Signature: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2019.01.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
* Talk with us at #mediawiki-i18n @ freenode
Release notes for each extension are below.
-- Kartik Mistry
== Babel ==
=== Highlights ===
* Maintenance and localization updates only.
== cldr ==
=== Highlights ===
* Maintenance updates only.
== CleanChanges ==
=== Highlights ===
* Maintenance and localization updates only.
== LocalisationUpdate ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Maintenance updates only.
== Translate ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* $wgTranslateCC is deprecated now. It should be replaced by
TranslatePostInitGroups hook. (T212836)
* Updated MicrosoftWebService to new API. (T46679)
* Added proofreading to (Language|MessageGroup)Stats. The statistics
table also has updated styling. (T41279)
* Fast proofreading is now possible with CTRL+Enter in the proofreading mode.
* Skipping messages Special:Translate's page mode no longer sometimes
marks the translation proofread. (T206748)
* Translatable subpages are no longer moved when moving parent. This
used to break those pages. Now they must be moved manually. (T114592)
* Message group stats updating was broken in multiple ways. Please
report if you still observe stale statistics. (T134252, T208521)
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Maintenance updates only.
==== Input Methods ====
* Added Tilde layouts for Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba.
* Added Ewe layout.
* Fixed Fon tilde input method.
* Added a transliteration layout for the Ho language in the Warang
Citi alphabet.
* Enable the Palochka layout for Ingush.
* Fixed the Blin / Tigre / Tigrinya GeezIM layouts.
* Fixed the Santali Ol Chiki InScript 2 layout.
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Kartik Mistry | કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી
kartikm.wordpress.com
Hello,
This is an announcement about the first installment of the Language
Showcase—a series of presentations about various aspects of language
diversity and its connection to Wikimedia Projects.
This first installment will deal with the challenges of the languages of
sub-Saharan Africa and the Wikimedia projects in them.
This session is going to be broadcast over YouTube, and a recording will be
kept for later viewing.
Please read below for the event details, including local time, youtube
links and do let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you!
Amir
== Details ==
# Event: Language Showcase #1
# When: December 6, 2018 (Thursday) at 13:00 UTC (check local time
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20181206T1300)
# Where:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoRrKnG2z2Y
# Agenda:
The challenges of the languages of sub-Saharan Africa and the Wikimedia
projects in them
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Hello all,
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension
Bundle 2018.10. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki
1.30 and 1.31 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-2018.10.tar…
* sha256sum: c0a65956d4f8e49ba1b401372636b9575a5c17fbf2501fa14ff1c265dd778862
* Signature: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2018.10.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/
* Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode
Release notes for each extension are below.
-- Kartik Mistry
== Highlights and upgrade notes ==
== Babel ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Update ISO 639 database from iso639-3.sil.org
* Keep BCP 47 and MediaWiki-internal codes separate (T199941)
== cldr ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Update to CLDR 34.0
== CleanChanges ==
* Maintainance updates only.
== LocalisationUpdate ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Remove PHP entry point. Please update your configuration!
* Fix handling of exception from GitHubFetcher. If l10n directory is
not found, it logs message and continue.
== Translate ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Show regular deletion form for pages that are never marked for translation.
* Page translation languages can be displayed in the sidebar.
* Various maintenance and stability updates.
* Fixed an error that prevented Special:PageMigration from working.
* TranslationStats' graphs now support high DPI displays using srcset.
* Database usage optimizations (run update.php!).
* Many special pages now look more consistent with other pages (OOUI).
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Remove PHP entry point. Please update your configuration!
* Support UI language change when Global Preferences are present. (T198206)
* Drop support for discontinued freegeoip.net.
* Correct alignment of cog in interlanguage links in Vector skin.
* ULS now sends Vary: Accept-Language header.
* Performance optimizations.
==== Input Methods ====
* Update Sarjom Baha layout.
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Kartik Mistry | કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી
kartikm.wordpress.com
<tl;dr>: Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors and
add your name to the mentors table and start tagging #GCI-2018 tasks.
We'll need MANY mentors and MANY tasks, otherwise we cannot make it.
Google Code-in is an annual contest for 13-17 year old students. It
will take place from Oct23 to Dec13. It's not only about coding:
we also need tasks about design, docs, outreach/research, QA.
Last year, 300 students worked on 760 tasks supported by 51 mentors.
For some achievements from last round, see
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/20/wikimedia-google-code-in-2017/
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 some smaller 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?
Note that "beginner tasks" (e.g. "Set up Vagrant") and generic
tasks are very welcome (like "Choose and fix 2 PHP7 issues from
the list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120336" style).
We also have more than 400 unassigned open #easy tasks listed:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/HCyOonSbFn.z/#R
Can you mentor some of those tasks 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. Read
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors
, ask if you have any questions, and add your name to
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2018#List_of_Wikimedia_mentors
(If you have mentored before and have a good overview of our
infrastructure: We also need more organization admins! See
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Admins )
Thanks (as we cannot run this without your help),
andre
--
Andre Klapper | ak-47(a)gmx.net
https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
Due to a regression, for a few months now Wikimedia Foundation has
stopped updating translations on its wikis every day.
Now that the harmful consequences have become clear, I've asked that we
returned to our normally scheduled localisation updates as for the
previous decade or so:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T203737
Non-Wikimedia wikis can still receive the best quality of service by
running the localisation update every day, thanks to translatewiki.net
translators and staff.
Federico
Hi all
Im translator Wladek92 on regular bases on TranslateWiki , Media, Common, and Semantic Media.
Can anyone explain why have I been kicked out ?
Thank you.
Christian.
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Hello all,
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension
Bundle 2018.07. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki
1.30 and 1.31 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-2018.07.tar…
* sha256sum: 36aa80c78be6dcfb533f96dc25afdabd2fd4716452c1b5a6f2bc982def1af7bc
* Signature: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2018.07.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/
* Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode
Release notes for each extension are below.
-- Kartik Mistry
== Highlights and upgrade notes ==
== Babel ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Fixed Mobileview. (T178782)
== cldr ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Updated cldr to version 33.
== CleanChanges ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Enable CCFiltersOnly by default.
[https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Gadgets/export/HoverPopTools
Gadget] can be use as replacement.
== LocalisationUpdate ==
* Maintainance updates only.
== Translate ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Special:SupportedLanguages: List of authors is now sorted by the
number of contributions.
* Message keys coming from external files are now handled with more
care and less likely to produce invalid or inaccessible pages.
([[phab:T193023|T193023]])
* Translation interface has a new keyboard shortcut for saving
translations: Ctrl+Enter. ([[phab:T194915|T194915]])
* Links in displayed message documentation now open in a new tab by default.
* refresh-translatable-pages.php script can now use JobQueue, which is
more efficient on wikis with thousands of translatable pages.
([[phab:T195347|T195347]])
* Translation interface: Fixed positioning of insertables in Timeless skin.
* Custom languages defined in $wgExtraLanguages now always appear in
Special:Translate and Special:SearchTranslations.
([[phab:T112889|T112889]])
* PHPlot is now listed as a composer dependency.
* Improved the interplay of $wgTranslateBlacklist and
blacklist/whitelist in message group configuration.
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Maintenance and localisation updates.
==== Input Methods ====
* Fixed rule for 'ж' in Serbian keyboard.
* Added Fon keyboard.
--
Kartik Mistry | કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી
kartikm.wordpress.com