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Assigning tags to extension messages

Nick White — 2013-05-21T11:13:40

Hi,

I have an extension (a skin, actually, but functionally it's exactly
the same) which makes use of system messages to allow administrators
to add extra content to some areas of wiki pages. So by default the
messages are empty, and should never be translated.

You can see this in the Erudite.i18n.php change at
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/62623/

I would like to mark these messages as not to be translated.
It looks like one can do this within the mediawiki core using tags;
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Group_configuration#TAGS

But I can't see an equivalent method for extensions. Does such a
thing exist? I plan to mention in the 'qqq' entries that they
shouldn't be translated, but it would be nice if they could be
tagged so they weren't shown in the translation interface at all.

If no such mechanism exists, what would be the best way of adding
it? Using message documentation templates, or adding the possibility
of something like a local mediawiki-defines.txt file for extensions?

I don't know the i18n code very well, so perhaps there is a
perfectly good solution I am missing.

Thanks in advance,

Nick

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[Language Engineering] Office hour on May 8,2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT

Runa Bhattacharjee — 2013-05-07T04:11:21

Hello,

The Wikimedia Language Engineering team [1] invites everyone to join
the team’s monthly office hour on May 8, 2013 (Wednesday) at 1700
UTC/1000 PDT on #wikimedia-office. During this session we would be
talking about some our recent activities and updates from the ongoing
projects. Event details and the general agenda is mentioned below.

See you all at the IRC office hour!

Thanks
Runa

Event Details:
===========

# Date: May 8, 2013
# Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 1000-1100 PDT
#IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net

Agenda:
------------

# Introductions
# Universal Language Selector - Development updates, Deployment schedule
# MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle (MLEB) Release
# Maven program - upcoming events
# GSoC update - we are participating in GSoC
# Q/A - We shall be taking questions during the session. Questions can
also be sent to runa at wikimedia dot org before the event and can be
addressed during the office-hour.

[1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Language_Engineering_team

I18n deployment 2013-05-07

Niklas Laxström — 2013-05-03T15:02:21

When: Tuesday 2013-05-07 08:00 UTC
What:
* Run refresh-translatable-pages.php for remaining WMF wikis using
Translate extension (mediawiki and meta were done last week).
* Enable ULS for anonymous users without language selection. This
brings web fonts and input methods to anonymous users on wikis which
have ULS (meta, mediawiki, wikidata and couple of others). Tehnically:
$wgULSEnableAnon is replaced with $wgULSAnonCanChangeLanguage.

  -Niklas

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Provide genitive month names viamediawiki.language.monthNames

Paul Selitskas — 2013-05-01T19:56:28

Hello guys.

Could someone review the patch[1] providing genitive month names via
mw.language? Previously, another patch[2] was supplied for merge by Gerrit
that is dependent on my patch. The second patch fixes table sorting for
date columns in several languages which use genetive month names (like the
Slavic family) and is actually very relevant.

Thank you in advance!

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[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/36391/3
[2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/55496/

GSoC 2013 Proposal - jQuery.IME extensions for Firefox and Chrome

Praveen Singh — 2013-04-29T06:24:32

Hello,

I have drafted a proposal for my GSoC Project: jQuery.IME extensions for
Firefox and Chrome. I would love to hear what you think about it.
I would really appreciate any kind of feedback and suggestions. Please let
me know if I can improve it in any way.

My proposal can be found here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Prageck/GSoC_2013_Application

Thanks,

Praveen Singh
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GSoC 2013 proposal

Or Sagi — 2013-04-27T23:46:25

Hi all,
I'm glad to announce my GSoC 2013 proposal for translatewiki.net Android
application.
please review it at:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Orsagi/GSoC_2013_proposal
and feel free to leave your tips and comments.

Thanks,
Or
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I18n deployment 2013-04-30

Niklas Laxström — 2013-04-26T15:27:49

The next i18n deployment window is on Tuesday 2013-04-30 starting at 08:00 UTC.

For bug 46716 [1] we will run a script refresh-translatable-pages.php
for all wikis using the Translate extension. It will ensure that all
translation pages will be up to date. As a side effect, it will also
remove any fuzzy/outdated translations still left in translation pages
(many of those have already been removed due to updates triggered by
translation edits).

Potential real fix for bug 46716, will get deployed along with
1.22wmf3 [2] as well as the fix for bug 47178 [3]. This bug caused a
lot of unnecessary invalidation of translations, contributing to the
many complaints about the new way of handling outdated translations.
See [4].

[1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/46716
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_deployments
[3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/47178
[4] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44328

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Notes from the Language Engineering bug triage session held on 24 April, 2013

Runa Bhattacharjee — 2013-04-25T19:45:35

Hello,

The notes from the monthly bug triage session hosted by the Language
Engineering team on 24th April, 2013 can be found at:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Language_Testing_Plan/Triage20130424

This and notes from all the earlier triage sessions can now be seen
from the Language Testing page[1]. This list includes the open
sessions as well as the triage sessions that the language engineers
have from time to time. We'll be posting notes from our upcoming
sessions in future also in this section.

Thanks
Runa

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Language_Testing_Plan#Bug_Triage

[Language Engineering] Reminder: Bug triage on Wednesday, April 24 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT

Runa Bhattacharjee — 2013-04-24T07:08:31

Hello,

This is a reminder that the Language Engineering team will be hosting
a bug triage session today, i.e. 24th of April 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000
PDT on #mediawiki-i18n (Freenode). The bug list is at
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-i18n-2013-04 . Event details
can be found be in the section below.


Thanks
Runa

What: Translation User Interface bug triage
Date: April 24 2013
Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 1000-1100 PDT (Timezone conversion: http://hexm.de/r0)
Channel: #mediawiki-i18n (Freenode)
Etherpad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-i18n-2013-04
Questions can be sent to: runa at wikimedia dot org


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What: Translation User Interface bug triage
Date: April 24 2013
Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 1000-1100 PDT (Timezone conversion: http://hexm.de/r0)
Channel: #mediawiki-i18n (Freenode)
Etherpad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-i18n-2013-04
Questions can be sent to: runa at wikimedia dot org

Hello,

The Language Engineering team would like to invite everyone for the
upcoming bug triage session on Wednesday, April 24 2013 at 1700 UTC
(1000 PDT).  During this 1 hour session we will be using the etherpad
listed above to collaborate. We have already listed some bugs, but
please feel free to add more bugs, comments and any other related
issues that you’d like to see addressed during the session. You can
send questions directly to me on email or IRC (nick: arrbee). Please
see above for event details.

Thank you.

regards
Runa

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[Language Engineering] Bug triage on Wednesday, April 24 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT

Runa Bhattacharjee — 2013-04-19T19:32:55

What: Translation User Interface bug triage
Date: April 24 2013
Time: 1700-1800 UTC, 1000-1100 PDT (Timezone conversion: http://hexm.de/r0)
Channel: #mediawiki-i18n (Freenode)
Etherpad: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/BugTriage-i18n-2013-04
Questions can be sent to: runa at wikimedia dot org

Hello,

The Language Engineering team would like to invite everyone for the
upcoming bug triage session on Wednesday, April 24 2013 at 1700 UTC
(1000 PDT).  During this 1 hour session we will be using the etherpad
listed above to collaborate. We have already listed some bugs, but
please feel free to add more bugs, comments and any other related
issues that you’d like to see addressed during the session. You can
send questions directly to me on email or IRC (nick: arrbee). Please
see above for event details.

Thank you.

regards
Runa

Making inter-language links shorter

Pau Giner — 2013-04-18T16:50:04

As multilingual content grows, interlanguage links become longer on
Wikipedia articles. Articles such as "Barak Obama" or "Sun" have more than
200 links, and that becomes a problem for users that often switch among
several languages.

As part of the future plans for the Universal Language Selector, we were
considering to:

   - Show only a short list of the relevant languages for the user based on
   geo-IP, previous choices and browser settings of the current user. The
   language the users are looking for will be there most of the times.
   - Include a "more" option to access the rest of the languages for which
   the content exists with an indicator of the number of languages.
   - Provide a list of the rest of the languages that users can easily scan
   (grouped by script and region ao that alphabetical ordering is possible),
   and search (allowing users to search a language name in another language,
   using ISO codes or even making typos).

I have created a prototype <http://pauginer.github.io/prototype-uls/#lisa> to
illustrate the idea. Since this is not connected to the MediaWiki backend,
it lacks the advanced capabilities commented above but you can get the idea.
If you are interested in the missing parts, you can check the flexible
search and the list of likely languages ("common languages" section) on the
language selector used at http://translatewiki.net/ which is connected to
MediaWiki backend.

As part of the testing process for the ULS language settings, I included a
task to test also the compact interlanguage designs. Users seem to
understand their use (view
recording<https://www.usertesting.com/highlight_reels/qPYxPW1aRi1UazTMFreR>),
but I wanted to get some feedback for changes affecting such an important
element.

Please let me know if you see any possible concern with this approach.

Thanks

[Language Maven Program] Notes from the first meeting held on 13th April 2013

Runa Bhattacharjee — 2013-04-17T18:14:56

Hello,

The Wikimedia Language Engineering team announced the launch of the
the pilot phase of the Language Maven outreach program during their
recent IRC office hour[1]. To kick-off the program, the team hosted an
online meeting with some of the Language Mavens where matters related
to the scope of the project were discussed. It was also proposed to
prepare checklists of the available tools and other related items that
can be used by the Mavens as ready-reckoners. Another meeting has been
set to be held during the month of May to be followed thereafter by
regular monthly meetings. The program has met with a positive response
and is expected to bridge the gaps that currently exist between the
Wikimedia projects in different languages. The summary of the
discussions can be found in the meeting notes[2]. Further discussions
will continue on the mediawiki-i18n mailing list.

We would also like to invite more participants into the program.
Please sign up by using the form located at the following link:
http://hexm.de/LangMavenSignUpForm

More details about the program can be found in the mediawiki page[3]
and questions can also be sent to the mailing list or directly to me
at: runa at wikimedia dot org

regards
Runa

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2013-04-10
[2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Language_tools/Language_Team_Plan/Language_Maven_Meeting_Notes_20130413
[3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Language_tools/Language_Team_Plan

Seeking code reviewers for SignWriting extension

Stephen E Slevinski Jr — 2013-04-15T18:26:22

Hoi,

I am the developer of the SignWriting MediaWiki Plugin. It enables a 
SignWriting viewer for MediaWiki software. It supports an International 
community and can be used for any sign language.

I just released a radically simplified version of the extension in 
Gerrit: 20 lines of PHP code and 50 lines of Javascript.
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/extensions/SignWritingMediaWikiPlugin.git;a=summary

I am hoping someone can look over the code and point out any flaws.

I'm hoping it can be deployed on Incubator. I reopened a bug from long ago.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22216

The PHP code makes a call to the Resource Module to load 
"signwriting_thin.js" (3 KB file). The Javascript runs on the client 
side only if Formal SignWriting is detected on the page.

There shouldn't be any security problems for the server running this 
extension and there is a miniscule cost to the user's browser.

The MediaWiki extension is a wrapper for the SignWriting Thin Viewer 
available on http://SignPuddle.com

Thanks for your consideration,
∼Steve

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Translate extension + mediawiki 1.14.1

Felix Natter — 2013-04-14T12:43:03

hi,

the freeplane project (http://freeplane.sourceforge.net) is currently
using mediawiki 1.14.1.
From this page:
  http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate
I derive that it's probably only supported in >= 1.19. Is this true?

What is the easiest way to make this (or a similar extension) work with
mediawiki 1.14.1 (of course while keeping the existing pages)?
Currently we have only English pages, but the Freeplane user base is
growing so we need French pages as well.

Thank you! Best Regards,

[Language Engineering] Reminder: Office hour on 10th April 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT

Runa Bhattacharjee — 2013-04-10T07:02:06

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Hello,
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*
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This is a reminder that the Language Engineering team will be hosting an
IRC office hour today, i.e. 10th of April 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT on
#wikimedia-office (Freenode). The agenda can be found in the section below.
*
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Thanks
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Runa
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Agenda:
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   1.

   Introductions
   2.

   Translate UX - Deployment and other news
   3.

   Language Mavens - an outreach initiative with the Wikimedia language
   communities
   4.

   MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle (MLEB) Release
   5.

   Q/A - We shall be taking questions during the session. Questions can
   also be sent to runa at wikimedia dot org <runa< at >wikimedia.org> before
   the event and can be addressed during the office-hour.



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Hello,


The Wikimedia Language Engineering team [1] invites everyone to join the
team’s monthly office hour on April 10, 2013. We have some exciting updates
about our ongoing projects, some of which have also been shared in our
recent blog posts[2]. During this session we would like to walk through
some of them. The team would also like to introduce a new outreach program
which was mentioned in the last office hour held on 13th March 2013 [3].
 Event details and the general agenda is mentioned below.

See you all at the IRC office hour!

regards

Runa

Event Details:

==========

Date: 2013-04-10 (Wednesday)

Time: 1700 UTC, 1000 PDT

IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net


Agenda:


   1.

   Introductions
   2.

   Translate UX - Deployment and other news
   3.

   Language Mavens - an outreach initiative with the Wikimedia language
   communities
   4.

   MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle (MLEB) Release
   5.

   Q/A - We shall be taking questions during the session. Questions can
   also be sent to runa at wikimedia dot org <runa< at >wikimedia.org> before
   the event and can be addressed during the office-hour.




[1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Language_Engineering_team

[2]
http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/technology/features/internationalization-and-localization/

[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2013-03-13
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Upcoming i18n deployments

Niklas Laxström — 2013-04-05T09:21:06

Here are the current plans for i18n deployment next Tuesday (2013-04-09).

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/46840
* Update Translate Solr schema so that Special:SearchTranslations
actually works on Wikimedia sites using Translate.
* If the patch to operations is not merged and deployed in time this
will be postponed or I might request separate deployment window to
rebuild the data.

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/46754
* Enable WebFonts on Dhivehi projects (dv.wikipedia and dv.wiktionary)

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/43359
* Enable WebFonts on the Javanese projects

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/25326
* Devanagari transliteration tool for Bhojpuri Wikipedia

  -Niklas

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Announcement: release of MediaWiki LanguageExtension Bundle 2013.03

Amir E. Aharoni — 2013-03-31T13:12:04

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki language extension
bundle 2013.03

This release is compatible with MediaWiki 1.20.3.

* https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.03.tar.bz2
* sha256sum: be4c6b5f80e27396555dc09cef0cec92c78cca9eeef796a230da281734738810

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 < at > freenode

Release notes for each extension are below.

    Amir E. Aharoni

== Babel ==
Only localization updates.

== cldr ==
=== Highlights ===
* Adding support for time units

=== Noteworthy changes ===
* (bug 38209) Remove duplicate array keys

== CleanChanges ==
Only localization updates.

== LocalisationUpdate ==
Internal code cleanup and optimization, making updates faster.

== Translate ==
=== Highlights ===
==== Translation UX ====
The new Translation UX is getting out of the beta status and becoming
release-ready.

The variable $wgTranslateUseTux can be used to control which interface
will the users see by default. The default value is true. Set it to false
to make the old green-style translations editor show by default. The user
can choose the editor version by adding tux=0 or tux=1 to the URL.

The plan is to remove the old editor in the future.

==== Other notes ====
Several internal fixes were made in File Format Support (FFS) and in core
Translate features, but no new features were introduced. See below for details.

=== Noteworthy changes ===
==== Translate UX ====
* Proofreading view added to Translate UX.
* Page view added to Translate UX. It is similar to the default "List" view,
  but it gives every message more space and partially parses the messages rather
  than show them as plain text.
* Added a "Discard changes" button.
* Various visual design adjustments.
* (bug 45493) Do not consider empty string to mark a translation as "unsaved"
* (bug 45481) Move focus to search for the project selector
* (bug 45488) Remove delay in enablement of "save translation" button
* Allow inserting a translation from the helper language with a click
* Workflow state selector is now only shown for groups with states
  and the correct state is shown

==== File Format Support ====
* (bug 45354) XML for Android export should have escaped ' and "
* (bug 42635) Some GettextFFS messages were not unfuzzied on import:
  Handling of external changes only affecting the fuzzy flag are now
handled properly on import
* Add fuzzy support to AndroidXmlFFS
* Don't create empty files in AndroidXmlFFS
* Empty msgctxt is now exported correctly in GettextFFS
* (bug 42612) Have PythonSingleFFS observe the supplied mapping
  of internal language codes to product language codes

==== Other ====
* The "Recent Additions" filter displays only relevant messages -
without optional,
  ignored and discouraged.
* Converted the logging code to the new LogFormatter
* (bug 44328) Do not display fuzzy translations on translation pages
* Fix and speed up translatable pages moving
* (bug 45345) Run mapped code through wfBCP47()

== UniversalLanguageSelector ==
=== Highlights ===
UniversalLanguageSelector is updated to the latest version. The latest
release of MediaWiki 1.20 supports the recent updates for the preferences
handling, and this allows users properly save their ULS preferences.

=== Noteworthy changes ===
==== Display and design ====
* (bug 42384) Don't show the tooltip if the ULS panel is on
  (preventing the overlap)
* (bug 42440) Fix button state when canceling
* Styling of settings to fit the bottom of the ULS
* (bug 43568) Languages are shown multiple times
* (Bug 42439) Incorrect vertical alignment for Telugu web font

==== Webfonts ====
* Support for the Amiri webfont in the standard Arabic language (ar).
* Added the Alef font for Hebrew.
* Add Tuladha Jejeg font for Javanese

==== Other ====
* (Bug 42378) Make "disable IME tools" effects immediate as a preview
* Update jquery.uls and make it more modular
* Provide a base ULS RL module and separate UI language selection
* The non-standard language code als now redirects to the standard code gsw.

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long message names, "ph" for placeholder

S Page — 2013-03-28T06:19:31

While adding messages for a restyled login and create account forms I find
they're getting longer and longer.  E.g. the original field was named
"yourpassword", and I'm distinguishing the two forms' fields, so
userlogin-yourpassword. But when it comes to the placeholder text that
appears in the input field,
    'userlogin-yourpassword-placeholder'
feels just too long (34 characters).  I think as we start using HTML5
features and more fields get placeholders, it makes sense to use an
abbreviation for that 11 character, so
'userlogin-yourpassword-ph'

I explain this MessagesQqq.php, but how about mentioning abbreviations in  <
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions#System_messages> ?

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TUX deployment update

Niklas Laxström — 2013-03-26T10:00:44

We have completed the deployment of updated Universal Language
Selector and Translate to WMF during our i18n deployment window today.
This allows us to do final testing on WMF to see if there are any
blocking issues for enabling TUX translation interface by default [1]
as part of regular 1.22wmf1 branch deployments starting from April 1st
[2].

For translatewiki.net we are planning to enable TUX by default very soon.

So far things look good ----- only a couple of minor issues have been
reported. List of known issues and requests is in bugzilla [3].

We also have an extensive contingency plan:
* The old editor can still be activated with tux=0 URL parameter on
Special:Translate
* If there are bigger problems we can also set $wgTranslateUseTux to
false which affects users not having a tux cookie.

As a heads up, later there will be an update to the search schema,
which entails rebuilding of all translation memory databases. This
enables case insensitive translation search and better tokenization.

[1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/03/25/redesigning-the-translation-experience-an-overview/
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Roadmap
[3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=%5BTUX%5D&list_id=189479

  -Niklas

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[Language Engineering] Office hour on 13th March2013, 1700UTC

Runa Bhattacharjee — 2013-03-05T05:55:42

Hello,

The Wikimedia Language Engineering team [1] invites everyone for the
team’s monthly office hours on March 13, 2013. The team has lots of
exciting updates about their projects, programs and events since the
last office hour in November 2012. Some of this has already been
shared in our recent blogs. Event details and the general agenda is
mentioned below.

See you all at the IRC office hour!

Thanks
Runa

Event Details:

Date: 2013-03-13
Time: 1700 UTC
IRC channel: #wikimedia-office on irc.freenode.net

Agenda:

# Introductions
# MLEB Release[2]
# Translate UX[3] - Updates
# Updates about participation in various community events
# Follow up from earlier office hours:
     Language Team (new) plans
     Testing Event plans
# Q/A - We shall be taking questions during the session. Questions can
also be sent to runa at wikimedia dot org before the event and can be
addressed during the office-hour.


[1] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Language_Engineering_team
[2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Language_Extension_Bundle
[3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate

MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2013.02

Amir E. Aharoni — 2013-02-28T12:05:44

Hallo,

I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki language extension
bundle 2013.02.

* https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.02.tar.bz2
* sha256sum: 7fece850483e2b74539f69b461501d26487290293ae93b40cd31d6e96f90d112

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 < at > freenode

Full release notes for each extension are below.

Note that the UniversalLanguageSelector extension was rolled back to
its 2012.12 version to ensure compatibility with MediaWiki 1.19 and
1.20. Because of an issue, which is fixed in 1.21 alpha, logged-in
user cannot save ULS preferences.

    Amir E. Aharoni, Niklas Laxström

==Babel==
Only localisation updates and code formatting without functional changes.

==cldr==
* Add English local name for the nds-nl language.
* Localisation updates.
* Experimental support for composer.json.

==CleanChanges==
Only localisation updates.

==LocalisationUpdate==
No changes.

==Translate==
=== Highlights ===
The highlight of this version is the continued work on the new translations
editor - "Translate UX" or "TUX" for short. In particular, preliminary
work began
on the proofreading view.
The TUX feature is still beta - all users will only see the old
translation editor. Add tux=1 to the URL to experiment with TUX and tux=0
to go back to the default editor.

=== Noteworthy changes ===
==== TUX ====
* (bug 44381) "[]" is no longer displayed in the old translation
editor in certain cases
* Add a "Paste original" button
* Collapse identical translation memory suggestions to save space
* Fix accesskeys for save and skip
* Proper formatting of left-to-right messages documentation in
right-to-left interface language
* Display a warning when translating to a non-priority language
* Fetch and show the description of a message group
* Show workflow state selector
* Machine translations are displayed as translation suggestionssee
* Do not show !!FUZZY!! marker to  translators

==== Other ====
* Experimental composer (http://getcomposer.org/) support
* Fix message key mangling in AndroidXmlFFS
* Do another sanity check in MessageHandle::isValid() to avoid
exceptions when message index is out of date
* (bug 45115) Only export languages that can be translated on command line
* (bug 45345) Add Language header to gettext file header
* Show that Special:AggregateGroups is a restricted special page

==UniversalLanguageSelector==
The UniversalLanguageSelector extension is rolled back in this release
to the 2012.12 version. The latest versions are not backwards compatible
with the released 1.19 and 1.20 MediaWiki versions.

The main issue is that saving ULS options to the user preferences
is impossible.

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