https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Scrum_of_scrums/2016-04-13
note: it looks like some of the wiki markup on etherpad wasn't proper, so
weird things happened like Collaboration is nested under Discovery. It's
not a sign of a re-org, just that people should go clean that up.
Hello all,
I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension
Bundle 2016.04. This bundle is The bundle is compatible with MediaWiki
1.25, 1.26 or above and requires PHP 5.5.9 or above.
Next MLEB is expected to be released in 3 months. If there are major
changes or important bug fixes, we will do intermediate release.
Please give us your feedback at
[[Talk:MLEB|https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB]].
* Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2016.04.tar…
* sha256sum: 113439ad94b1a75ab8616f41c4d120e12c1fa8c3888933ec136783bfbdc9bc70
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://phabricator.wikimedia.org/
* Talk with us at: #mediawiki-i18n @ Freenode
Release notes for each extension are below.
-- Kartik Mistry
== Babel ==
* Extension now uses extension registration. You should replace
require_once in LocalSettings.php with wfLoadExtension( 'Babel' );
* You can now use plain=1 as first parameter to
<nowiki>{{#babel:}}</nowiki> to skip header and footer.
== CLDR ==
* Updated to CLDR 29 release.
== CleanChanges ==
* Extension now uses extension registration. You should replace
require_once in LocalSettings.php with wfLoadExtension( 'CleanChanges'
);
* Images were further compressed with Zopflipng.
== LocalisationUpdate ==
* Extension now uses extension registration. You should replace
require_once in LocalSettings.php with wfLoadExtension(
'LocalisationUpdate' );
== Translate ==
* (T130390) Message group selector now works in Internet Explorer and
Edge browsers.
* Changing message group on Special:Translate now correctly updates
the shown message group description.
* (T53731) A bug was fixed that sometimes caused translation pages not
to update changes to the source page after marking it for translation.
After upgrading it is recommended to run
scripts/refresh-translatable-pages.php to ensure no pages contain
outdated content.
* (T78538) Insertables (buttons to quickly insert untranslatable parts
such as variables) are now displayed better and should no longer
overlap the translation or the buttons below.
* Solr backend for translation memory and translation search is
deprecated in will be removed in some future release. Please start
planning migration to ElasticSearch backend instead.
* (T122702) Translate no longer triggers bocus "you have unsaved
changes" warning on Special:Preferences with some versions of
MediaWiki.
* Fixed minor style issue of the message shown top of the page after
adding translate tags but before marking it for translation.
* (T111685) A graphical glitch that broke display of translation aids
have been fixed.
* (T50100) In the review mode the save button can be used to mark the
translation as reviewed unless the translation is edited.
* (T89813) There is now configuration variable to define aliases for
message group IDs. Mostly intended for migration if you need to change
IDs.
* JsonFFS now supports nested objects. Refer to the Translate
documentation [1] how to use this feature.
* (T89637) Translation of translatable pages to their source language
is now automatically prevented.
* A couple of issues that only happened when running Translate in
MySQL strict mode have been fixed.
* Images were further compressed with Zopflipng.
* Translate now uses less master database server if a slave server is available.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Group_configuration
== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
* Fixed issues related to the tooltip shown for language settings that
sometimes caused JavaScript errors.
* Images were further compressed with Zopflipng.
* Improvements to the compact language links feature.
* Fonts:
** Updated Amiri fonts.
* Input Methods:
** Input methods now work with VisualEditor
--
Kartik Mistry/કાર્તિક મિસ્ત્રી | IRC: kart_
{kartikm, 0x1f1f}.wordpress.com
Lots of pages on mediawiki.org are pretty much uneditable because they're
strewn with <translate> spanning multiple paragraphs that make VisualEditor
completely unusable and the source editor very difficult to use.
I'm trying to update documentation, and I'm seriously thinking of regexing
out all the <translate> stuff so I can actually edit the wiki pages.
This is probably not a good thing.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131516
-- brion
Hi everyone,
We would like to let you know that Kunal (User:Legoktm for those who
don’t already know) is moving inside the Editing Department from the
Collaboration Team to the Parsing Team.
The Collaboration team is grateful for Kunal’s great work over the past
year, especially on the backend for cross-wiki notifications. Prior to
that, Kunal spent two years working on SUL finalization, without which a
feature like cross-wiki notifications would not have been possible.
The Parsing team is very happy to have Kunal join them. Kunal is really
interested to work on implementing shadow namespaces [2] which enables
wikis to specify fallback wikis for pages that don’t resolve on the
local wiki. Among other things, this could enable creation of global
repositories for templates, for example, which interests us greatly.
There is this little detail of Kunal being a nominee for
affiliate-selected board seats [3] and what happens if he gets elected
[4]. We will cross that bridge when we get there. :-)
Trevor, Subbu, Roan.
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Shadow_namespaces
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Nominat…
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Questio…
Am 07.04.2016 um 23:01 schrieb Paul Topping:
> I have no problem with that but are some of these lists members-only? I was
> told when I replied that my message would be reviewed by the moderator as I
> wasn't a member. Perhaps that was the W3C list.
Oh... both the Wikimedia lists are members only, I'm afraid. The W3C list
requires a 1-click agreement to their terms. That's easier, but less likely to
involve Wikimedia people.
We plan to make this change on April 4 (this coming Monday), redirecting
plain http access to https.
A reminder that our dumps can also be found on our mirror sites, for those
who may have restricted https access.
Ariel Glenn
Due to popular demand, I've implemented a patch to dynamically convert all
Wikipedia content into Pig Latin. Give it a try and let me know what you
think:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/280927/
Note that this implementation is language agnostic, but it works best with
Latin scripts. For those of you looking for support for Pig Latin as a
language variant, try Liangent's patch instead:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/72053/
Cheers,
Kaldari
Hi,
It's well known that Wikipedia is facing threats from other social
networks and losing editors. While many of us spend time trying to make
Wikipedia different, we need to be cognizant that what other social
networks are doing is working. And if we can't beat them, we need to
join them.
I've written a patch[1] that introduces a new feature to the Thanks
extension called "feelings". When hovering over a "thank" link, five
different emoji icons will pop up[2], representing five different
feelings: happy, love, surprise, anger, and fear. Editors can pick one
of those options instead of just a plain thanks, to indicate how they
really feel, which the recipient will see[3].
Of course, some might consider this feature to be controversial (I
suspect they would respond to my email with "anger" or "fear"), so I've
added a feature flag for it. Setting
$wgDontFixEditorRetentionProblem = true;
will disable it for your wiki.
Please give the patch a try, I've only tested it in MonoBook so far, it
might need some extra CSS in Vector.
[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/280961
[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F3810964
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/F3810963
-- Legoktm