Dear translators, According to the last 'CTO weekly report'[1] Brion is about to branch MediaWiki version 1.12 this week. That means that this version of MediaWiki is the version of the software that new users of MediaWiki will be using for a while (outside of Wikimedia not everyone is always running the 'bleeding edge' version of MediaWiki). Even though this version of MediaWiki will have the largest increase ever in support for languages, this is the time to finish those loose ends. Please check if you have any remaining translations in the core messages or if you can at least complete the most often used messages in the languages you are able to contribute to in Betawiki[2]. End of year 2007 I sent out an overview of MediaWiki localisation[3]. In that report I set a few ambitious goals for MediaWiki localisation in 2008. I am happy to report that we are well on track to reaching those goals[4],[5]. However, it is very important to realise that localisation is an ongoing process: messages are being added constantly and sometimes they also change. These are all things that are made visible when using Betawiki as the platform for MediaWiki localisation. Based on user input, we also keep on improving the tools used. We still need more translators for languages that have not been worked on for a while and languages that still have large gaps in localisation. Some localisation statistics for languages that have the 10 largest Wikipedias: |-------------------------------------------| | language | mostused | core | WMF | ext* | |-------------------------------------------| | English | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | | German | 100% | 100% | 99% | 65% | | French | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | | Polish | 100% | 100% | 80% | 36% | | Japanse | 100% | 100% | 58% | 32% | | Italian | 100% | 100% | 64% | 26% | | Dutch | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | | Portugese | 100% | 100% | 100% | 74% | | Spanish | 100% | 92% | 24% | 16% | | Swedish | 100% | 100% | 100% | 56% | |-------------------------------------------| * Message groups are: most often used messages (mostused), all messages in standard MediaWiki (core), all messages used in extensions that Wikimedia wikis use (WMF), all extension messages (ext) Have a great wiki experience and thank you for your help! Cheers! Siebrand [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2008-February/036405.html [2] http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&task=untransla… [3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/translators-l/2007-December/000571.html [4] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Group_statistics [5] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Group_statistics_in_time