Hello everyone,

During the Amsterdam Hackathon, we - siebrand, roberthl and myself - have been working on integrating TranslateWiki with pywikipedia.

Yesterday I have committed most of the changes to the rewrite branch. On TranslateWiki, the translations have been online since friday. We already have had 160 contributions!

At the moment, only replace.py uses TW translations. I will commit updated versions for category.py and interwiki.py today. Adapting a script to use TW takes about fifteen minutes. I will send an e-mail to pywikipedia-l on how to do this later today.

Please note the changes will *not* be backported to trunk, as the changes are significant. To help people in switching to the rewrite (it's practically painless!), I will send (another) e-mail to pywikipedia-l on how to set it up.

Best regards, Merlijn 'valhallasw' van Deen