Hello,
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension
Bundle 2013.09. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.20.7 and
MediaWiki 1.21.2.
* Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.09.tar…
* sha256sum: 2ac55639aeb43a6f3d198a87e10111f673eae1115225de072be73a1fa2052ab2
Quick links:
* Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB
* Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n
* Report bugs to: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org
* Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ freenode
Release notes for each extension are below.
Kartik Mistry
== CLDR ==
* Updated to CLDR v 24.
* Localisation updates.
== Babel and CleanChanges ==
* Only localisation updates.
== Translate ==
* Added initial support for insertables. This will be helpful in
typing and copy-paste of syntax like $1 and plural especially on
tablets (bug 38350). More about this feature:
http://laxstrom.name/blag/2013/09/18/insertables-in-translate-extension-mak…
* Removed non-breaking spaces in the language list shown on the top of
translatable pages. Non-breaking spaces makes the only places where
the browser can break the line is the languages containing a
(breaking) space, which are not the right places (bug 49900).
* Display the loading indicator in message group selector while
loading (bug 46829).
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
=== Noteworthy changes ===
* Web fonts are no longer loaded for autonyms in the interlanguage
area. This is a temporary change to improve performance; a more
comprehensive fix may be done in the future.
* Use correct name for wiki content language. An incorrect name could
appear when anonymous user could not change the language, and the
language of the translation differed from the content language (bug
49738).
* Revert font preview correctly when pressing cancel button (bug 53203).
* Make the "Cancel" and "Apply" buttons applicable for all modules (bug 53256).
* Fixed some edge cases in which the IME menu went off-screen.
* Show an autonym in the input menu title for languages that don't
have input methods instead of an empty title.
* Ability to customize the time out for the IME selector widget. This
helps during development/debugging sessions where you often wish that
the widget stayed little longer.
=== Fonts ===
* Set OskiEast font default for Canadian Syllabic language.
* Set Phetsarath font default for Lao language.
* Updated TuladhaJejeg font for Javanese to 2.0.1 version.
* Fixed name of Estrangelo Edessa font.
=== Input methods ===
* Added and improved Persian keyboard.
Thanks to entire Language Engineering team for making this release possible!
--
Kartik Mistry | IRC: kart_
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Hello,
This is reminder that the Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be
hosting an IRC office hour from 1700 to 1800UTC later today on
#wikimedia-office (FreeNode). Please see below for the event details.
Thanks
Runa
=== Event Details ===
What: WMF Language Engineering Office hour
When: September 25, 2013 (Wednesday). 1700-1800 UTC
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130925T1700
Where: IRC Channel #wikimedia-office on FreeNode
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Runa Bhattacharjee <rbhattacharjee(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 12:49 AM
Subject: Language Engineering IRC Office hour on September 25, 2013 at 1700 UTC
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org, MediaWiki
internationalisation <mediawiki-i18n(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
[Cross-posted]
Hello,
The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting an IRC office
hour on Wednesday, September 25, 2013 between 17:00 - 18:00 UTC. (See
below for timezone conversion and other details.) We will be talking
about some of our projects that are in development, a short round up
from Google Summer of Code and then taking questions for the remaining
time.
If there are things that you would like to bring to our attention then
this would be a good time to do so. Questions can also be sent to me
directly before the event. See you there!
Thanks
Runa
=== Event Details ===
What: WMF Language Engineering Office hour
When: September 25, 2013 (Wednesday). 1700-1800 UTC
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20130925T1700
Where: IRC Channel #wikimedia-office on FreeNode
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Language Engineering - Outreach and QA Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation
Everyone,
I have a few announcements (apologies for the delay as this was posted to
an internal WMF staff mailing list a few weeks ago).
First, I'd like to announce Oliver's transition to Product Analyst
(contractor, full time). As many of you know, Oliver has been working with
us for the past ~2 years as a Community Liaison. As Community Liaison, he
has helped provide the critical link between the English Wikipedia editing
community and WMF product teams on Page Curation, Echo, AFT, and
VisualEditor. Effective immediately, Oliver will be transitioning to the
newly created role of Product Analyst. In this role, Oliver will support
the Flow team in mapping out the myriad of complex workflows, templates,
bots, and other craziness that happens on talk pages, and also providing
analytical support to help the Flow team prioritize features. [*]
We are also welcoming Dan Garry (User: Deskana) as Associate Product
Manager (contractor, full time), working with Rob Lanphier's Platform team.
Dan has been an editor of the English Wikipedia since 2005, a sysop since
2006, bureaucrat since 2007, CheckUser since 2007. . .you get the picture.
He will be working with members of the Platform team on a variety of
projects, which could include Admin tools, OAuth/OpenID, community code
repository. He has a BS in Computer Science and is awaiting his thesis
approval for an MS in Integrative Systems Biology.
Both Oliver and Dan are planning on relocating to SF.
Also, please welcome Nick Wilson (User: Quiddity) as Community Liaison
(contractor, part time). Nick has been an editor on the English Wikipedia
since 2005 (over 37k edits) and has participated in community-lead
redesigns of hubs on the English Wikipedia, including the Main Page,
Community Portal, Help: Contents, and Portal: Contents. He will be working
as the CL for the Flow team, helping to ensure open lines of communication
between our editing community and the Flow team, and surfacing issues that
are important to our editors. Nick will be working remotely from Victoria,
BC, Canada.
Please join me in congratulating Oliver on his new role, and in welcoming
Dan and Nick!
Howie
[*] The Product Analyst role is new, and it may be a while before we have
it nailed down. To complicate things further, Oliver has been doing
Product Analyst-type activities (e.g. template inventory for Page Curation)
even as a CL :)
Based on many ideas that were put forth, I would like to seek comments on
this ZERO design. This HTML will be rendered for both M and ZERO subdomains
if varnish detects that request is coming from a zero partner. M and ZERO
will be identical except for the images - ZERO substitutes images with
links to File:xxx namespace through a redirector.
* All non-local links always point to a redirector. On javascript capable
devices, it will load carrier configuration and replace the link with local
confirmation dialog box or direct link. Without javascript, redirector will
either silently 301-redirect or show confirmation HTML. Links to images on
ZERO.wiki and all external links are done in similar way.
* The banner is an ESI link to */w/api.php?action=zero&banner=250-99* -
returns HTML <div> blob of the banner. (Not sure if banner ID should be
part of the URL)
Expected cache fragmentation for each wiki page:
* per subdomain (M|ZERO)
* if M - per "isZeroCarrier" (TRUE|FALSE). if ZERO - always TRUE.
3 variants is much better then one per carrier ID * 2 per subdomain.
P.S.
Redirector is a Special:Zero page, but if speed is an issue, it could be an
API calls (which seem to load much faster). The API call would redirect to
the target, or could either redirect to the special page for confirmation
rendering, or output HTML itself (no skin support, but avoids an extra
redirect). Might not be worth it as javascript will be available on most of
our target platforms now or soon.
I just went looking for the word "referer". The response started with
lots of instances of the word "reference". Put it in quotes, no
difference. Eventually resorted to Google.
Is MW.org using the exciting new search engine? Is there any way to
search without using synonyms?
- d.
Hello all,
last week I had been in Nanjing of China for my business. I tried to access to Wikipedia, my love, of course. Wow, I found I can access on my iPad. It's quite weird. So I tried again on my notebook computer, the firewall reset the session to stop me to access Wikipedia. That's exactly what I expected. The great fire wall of China was so vulnerable. Any idea why I could access on my iPad?
Best regards
Cheol
Hello,
I will be upgrading Jenkins tomorrow at 9:00UTC for a minor upgrade. I
will do it after the weekly i18n team rollout.
The upgrade should take roughly one hour, during that time any job
launched will be reported as LOST in Gerrit and would need to be
retriggered manually (by editing the commit summary for example).
Our bug:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/54396
Thanks!
--
Antoine "hashar" Musso
Excellent news! Would someone be able to provide or point to some
configuration and examples that English Wikisource can utilise to allow
some side-by-side searches, and some guidance that can be provided to the
community on the new features and their use (if there us any).
Regards, Billinghurst
>> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:48:00 -0700
>> From: Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org>
>> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Development
>> and Operations engineers <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Subject: Deployment highlights for the week of Sept 23rd
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> Here's what's coming up, deployment-wise, next week!
>>
>>
>> As always, full schedule here:
>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments
>>
>>
>> == Monday ==
>>
>> * MediaWiki 1.22wmf18 to all non-wikipedia project sites
>> * WikiData will be enabled on Wikimedia Commons (interwiki links)
>> * CirrusSearch (the new search backend) will be turned on as the
default
>> search backend for Italian Wikitionary and enabled as a secondary
>> backend for English Wikisource and Catalan Wikipedia.
>>
>>
>> == Tuesday ==
>>
>> * CirrusSearch will be enabled on the set of closed wikis (eg: old
>> Wikimania wikis).
>>
>>
>> == Thursday ==
>>
>> * MediaWiki 1.22wmf18 will be deployed to all Wikipedias
>> * MediaWiki 1.22wmf19 will be deployed to the set of test wikis plus
>> mediawiki.org
>>
>>
>>
>> Have a good weekend!
>>
>> Greg