[Mediawiki-i18n] [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2013.08 release

Alolita Sharma asharma at wikimedia.org
Thu Aug 29 19:37:55 UTC 2013


Thanks for sharing Kartik!

-Alolita


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Kartik Mistry <kartik.mistry at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to announce the release of MediaWiki language extension
> bundle 2013.08
>
> *
> https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.08.tar.bz2
> * sha256sum:
> 21b3abf3a8e19d0c746d41d246e4bc8883d0f5e179d894e1720500031c621f2c
>
> 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
>
> == Babel, CLDR and LocalisationUpdate ==
> * Only localisation updates.
>
> == Translate ==
> === Noteworthy changes ===
> * Initial translation area height is increased. With a higher
> translation area it provides more space for suggestions.
> * Bug 47861: Allow text selection in page mode of Special:Translate so
> that parts of original message can be copied and pasted.
> * Bug 46875: The tooltip highlighting the proofread action now appears
> less often in incorrect places.
> * Bug 36692: On language stats and message group stats, rows can no
> longer get stuck in highlighted state.
> * On translation pages, a "Translate" tab is shown instead of "Edit"
> tab to improve usability and discoverability of the translation
> functionality.
> * Bug 49850: The page mode of Special:Translate parsed incorrectly
> some square brackets as external links. Now it checks for supported
> protocol before turning it into a link.
> * Bug 52623: Discard changes button now works as expected in Google Chrome.
> * Map 'be-tarask' language to 'be' language in Yandex machine
> translation suggestion.
> * Bug 52272: Assistant languages suggestions ('In other languages')
> are no longer stripped of newlines.
> * A step forwards for arbitrary source language for translatable pages
> was taken. Translate now extension now respects the page soure
> language returned by MediaWiki. There is still no user interface to
> set the page source language.
> * Bug 49326: Add "notify translators" link after marking page for
> translation when TranslationNotifications is installed.
> * Loading of message content now works correctly. It was broken with
> namespaces which did not force capitalization of the first letter.
> * Bug 52216: Special:AggregateGroups has now better group selector
> which supports search.
>
> === Changes relevant to API users and developers ===
> * Check for and disallow dynamic groups in ApiQueryMessageGroupStats.
> * Reimplement beforeSubmit, afterSubmit and afterRegisterFeatures
> hooks to support them in the new TUX editor.
>
> == UniversalLanguageSelector ==
> === Noteworthy changes ===
> * Added support for event logging. To use it you need to install the
> EventLogging extension. The support is considered to be experimental.
> To enable event logging, add following lines to your LocalSettings.php:
>
> require_once "$IP/extensions/EventLogging/EventLogging.php";
> $wgMainCacheType    = CACHE_MEMCACHED;
> $wgMemCachedServers = array( '127.0.0.1:11211' );
> $wgEventLoggingBaseUri = 'http://localhost:8080/event.gif';
> $wgEventLoggingFile = '/var/log/mediawiki/events.log';
>
> To learn more about setting up EventLogging extention, see:
> [1]
> https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-EventLogging/blob/master/server/README.rst
> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EventLogging
>
> * The libraries are loaded on demand, when they are actually used for
> reducing traffic.
> * Language settings are closed when clicked outside ULS langauge
> selection window.
> * Bug 50564: When the user makes changes in multiple modules and
> clicks  the Cancel button or closes the language settings after that,
> cancel the  changes in all the modules.
> * Bug 50562: Canceling font change doesn't work for system font.
> * Internal code changes to improve performance and make loading faster.
> * Top position the ULS for IME menu with reference to the input field
> instead of ... menu item to fix weird positioning at some places.
> * Bug 51923: Use no-repeat follow url for background images to remove
> possible duplicate images
> * Fix wrong language comparison in webfonts so that expliticit
> fontfamily style are not added to child elements.
> * Use events instead of callbacks for success or no results in the ULS
> search box. This allows extension users to bind for this event and
> reduces callbacks.
> * Use mw.hook for notifying cancel of settings window to modules.
> * Documentation fixes.
>
> === Browser Blacklisting ===
> * Currently, Internet Explorer < 7 is blacklisted for MediaWiki
> version 1.22 and Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are explicitly blacklisted
> for MediaWiki before version 1.22
>
> === Fonts ===
> * Added Gentium font for Latin languages rich with diacritics like
> IPA, Vietnamese and Polytonic Greek.
> * Added Junicode font for Old English.
> * Added Phetsarath font for Lao.
> * Added lklug font for Sinhala.
> * Added the Nuosu SIL font for the Yi language.
> * Added Xerxes for for Old Persian.
> * Added Shapour font for Pahlavi script.
> * Added Nazli as a serif font for Persian script.
>
> === Input methods ===
> * Bug fixes in Gujarati Phonetic, Gujarati Inscript 2, Punjabi
> Phonetic and Oriya keyboards that didn't allow typing some characters.
> * Added Kyrgyz Cyrillic keyboard.
> * Added IPA X-SAMPA layout.
> * Fixed the IPA-SIL layout: use the "modifier letter apostrophe" for
> ejective consonants.
> * Fixes ZWNJ character issues for Hindi and Marathi input methods.
> * Updated Javanese keyboard.
> * Removed outdated Myanmar keyboard.
>
> --
> Kartik Mistry | IRC: kart_
> {0x1f1f, kartikm}.wordpress.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Wikitech-l mailing list
> Wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l




-- 
Alolita Sharma
Director of Engineering
Language Engineering (i18n/L10n)
Wikimedia Foundation
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-i18n/attachments/20130829/eb34caa5/attachment.html>


More information about the Mediawiki-i18n mailing list