The following changes will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on Tuesday 09:00 UTC (01:00 PST):

* Backport of feature to "Allow preferences that need not be rendered in Special:Preferences"[1] to 1.21wmf7

* Update of extensions Translate[2] and UniversalLanguageSelector[3] to master in 1.21wmf7

* Disable extensions Narayam[4] and WebFonts[5] on all wikis with extension Translate enabled (see list below). Functionality of these extensions is superseded by that of UniversalLanguageSelector.

* Enable extension UniversalLanguageSelector to be enabled on all wikis with extension Translate enabled (see list below)

UniversalLanguageSelector will be enabled with:

* $wgULSEnableAnon set to false (see bug 41451[6] for details)

* $wgULSGeoService = false;

List of wikis with extension Translate enabled and the changes besides the language selector:

* bewikimedia (adds web fonts and input methods)

* incubatorwiki

* mediawikiwiki

* metawiki (also adds web fonts)

* outreachwiki (adds web fonts and input methods)

* testwiki (also adds input methods)

* wikidatawiki (also adds input methods)

* wikimania2012wiki (also adds web fonts and input methods)

* wikimania2013wiki (also adds web fonts and input methods)

[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/37395/

[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate

[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Universal_Language_Selector

[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Narayam

[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WebFonts

[6] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/41451

Cheers!

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Siebrand Mazeland
Product Manager Language Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation

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