Mediawiki-i18n June 2020

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle launches
by Niklas Laxström 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

The Wikimedia Language Engineering team is pleased to announce the first release of the MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle. The bundle is a collection of selected MediaWiki extensions needed by any wiki which desires to be multilingual. This first bundle release (2012.11) is compatible with MediaWiki 1.19, 1.20 and 1.21alpha. Get it from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB The Universal Language Selector is a must have, because it provides an essential functionality for any user regardless on the number of languages he/she speaks: language selection, font support for displaying scripts badly supported by operating systems and input methods for typing languages that don't use Latin (a-z) alphabet. Maintaining multilingual content in a wiki is a mess without the Translate extension, which is used by Wikimedia, KDE and translatewiki.net, where hundreds of pieces of documentation and interface translations are updated every day; with Localisation Update your users will always have the latest translations freshly out of the oven. The Clean Changes extension keeps your recent changes page uncluttered from translation activity and other distractions. Don't miss the chance to practice your rusty language skills and use the Babel extension to mark the languages you speak and to find other speakers of the same language in your wiki. And finally the cldr extension is a database of language and country translations. We are aiming to make new releases every month, so that you can easily stay on the cutting edge with the constantly improving language support. The bundle comes with clear installation and upgrade installations. The bundle is tested against MediaWiki release versions, so you can avoid most of the temporary breaks that would happen if you were using the latest development versions instead. Because this is our first release, there can be some rough edges. Please provide us a lot of feedback so that we can improve for the next release. -Niklas -- Niklas Laxström

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Problems becoming a validated user
by Emyoulation＠yahoo.com 06 Jun '20

06 Jun '20

I'm trying to explored TranslateWiki to discover clues of how to make our MediaWiki installation more translator friendly. I cannot delve very deeply without be a becoming a validated translator. There is an option to sign up for an account without translating a page. But, unless you translate a page, that account cannot be validated and is auto-purged before even a week passes. With an unvalidated account, you can't post to the support discussion page, there is no eMail to request help, you're prohibited from posting a question to the Chat. The welcome eMail is a no-reply address. I am sorry that I do not have another language and cannot translate a page. How do I get past this hurdle? Brian McCulloughBAMaustin

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