Hi!
More details:
The
WikiEditor extension is the most commonly used interface for editing
wiki pages in wikitext ("edit source") on all Wikimedia wikis. For many
years, there was a technical issue with localizing it: for security
reasons, many of its messages could be translated only by
administrators.
This
issue has recently been fixed by Jon Harald Søby (thanks!). Now all of
it can be translated by all translatewiki translators.
In
addition, several messages that had complex and repetitive HTML code
have been simplified as part of this update, and now it's generally
easier to translate them.
Because of all these technical updates, the translation of the extension
needs to be updated. Usually such things don't warrant a special
announcement, but given that WikiEditor is such a central and prominent
component in the editing experience, I think it's justified this time.
According
to the usual deployment schedule, all the translations that will be
done before Monday morning (UTC) will be deployed between July 11 and
July 13.
If any technical support is necessary with using translatewiki, I'm happy to help.
Thanks again to Jon Harald for fixing this old bug, and thanks in advance to all the wonderful volunteer translators!
If you're curious about the technical details behind this bug, see: