http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/701 <pre>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 </pre> Runa Bhattacharjee 2013-05-07T04:11:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/698 <pre>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 _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-i18n mailing list Mediawiki-i18n&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n </pre> Niklas Laxström 2013-05-03T15:02:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/697 <pre>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! ---- [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/36391/3 [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/55496/ </pre> Paul Selitskas 2013-05-01T19:56:28 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/691 <pre>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 _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-i18n mailing list Mediawiki-i18n&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n </pre> Praveen Singh 2013-04-29T06:24:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/688 <pre>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 _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-i18n mailing list Mediawiki-i18n&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n </pre> Or Sagi 2013-04-27T23:46:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/685 <pre>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 _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-i18n mailing list Mediaw</pre> Niklas Laxström 2013-04-26T15:27:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/684 <pre>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 </pre> Runa Bhattacharjee 2013-04-25T19:45:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/677 <pre>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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Runa Bhattacharjee &lt;rbhattacharjee&lt; at &gt;wikimedia.org&gt; Date: Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 1:02 AM Subject: [Language Engineering] Bug triage on Wednesday, April 24 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT To: mediawiki-i18n&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Mailing List &lt;wikimedia-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org&gt;, wikitech-l&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org What: Translation User Interface bug triage Date: Apr</pre> Runa Bhattacharjee 2013-04-24T07:08:31 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/674 <pre>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 </pre> Runa Bhattacharjee 2013-04-19T19:32:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/662 <pre>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 &lt;http://pauginer.github.io/prototy</pre> Pau Giner 2013-04-18T16:50:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/661 <pre>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://he</pre> Runa Bhattacharjee 2013-04-17T18:14:56 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/658 <pre>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 availab</pre> Stephen E Slevinski Jr 2013-04-15T18:26:22 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/654 <pre>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 &gt;= 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, </pre> Felix Natter 2013-04-14T12:43:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/652 <pre>* Hello, * * * * 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. * * * * Thanks * * Runa * * * * 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 &lt;runa&lt; at &gt;wikimedia.org&gt; before the event and can be addressed during the office-hour. * ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Runa Bhattacharjee &lt;rbhattacharjee&lt; at &gt;wikimedia.org&gt; Date: Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:07 PM Subject: [Language Engineering] Office hour on 10th April 2013 at 1700 UTC/1000 PDT To: mediawiki-i18n&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Mailing List &lt; wikim</pre> Runa Bhattacharjee 2013-04-10T07:02:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/650 <pre>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 _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-i18n mailing list Mediawiki-i18n&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n </pre> Niklas Laxström 2013-04-05T09:21:06 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/649 <pre>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 &lt; at &gt; 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 === ==== Trans</pre> Amir E. Aharoni 2013-03-31T13:12:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/645 <pre>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 &lt; http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions#System_messages&gt; ? -- =S Page software engineer on Editor Engagement Experiments team _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-i18n mailing list Mediawiki-i18n&lt; at &gt;lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n </pre> S Page 2013-03-28T06:19:31 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/644 <pre>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://</pre> Niklas Laxström 2013-03-26T10:00:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/642 <pre>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/Media</pre> Runa Bhattacharjee 2013-03-05T05:55:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/640 <pre>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 &lt; at &gt; 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 </pre> Amir E. Aharoni 2013-02-28T12:05:44 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n/638 <pre>The Language Engineering team is in the process of redesigning the Translate extension &lt;http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate&gt;. The Translate extension turns MediaWiki into a localisation platform, and it is used in Meta-Wiki, mediawiki.org and a few other Wikimedia wikis, as well as other opensource projects, to make them available in multiple languages. We are planning to do a walkthrough for the latest revision of the designs tomorrow. Since the extension is used by many different projects and users, we want to make this meeting open to get feedback from anyone interested. So we welcome you to join us in the discussion: *When.* Wednesday 27 of February at 8:30 PST (San Francisco), 16:30 UTC (UK), 17:30 CET (most of Europe), and 22:00 IST (India). *What.* During the meeting we'll discuss information from our design specification&lt;http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Translate-workflow-spec.pdf&gt; and the current implementation available at translatewiki.net&lt;http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?</pre> Pau Giner 2013-02-26T13:17:19 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki.i18n