New subject: [Wikitech-l] i18n deployment 2013-01-15

12 Jan 2013

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superseded by that of UniversalLanguageSelector.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!

-- 
Siebrand Mazeland
Product Manager Language Engineering
Wikimedia Foundation

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