MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle/2023.04

​We would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2023.04. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki >= 1.38.0 and requires PHP >= 7.4.0.

The next MLEB is expected to be released in 3 months. If there are very important bug fixes, we will do an intermediate release. Please give us your feedback at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB.

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• 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/postorius/lists/mediawiki-i18n.lists.wikimedia.org/
• Report bugs to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1464

Release notes for each extension are below.

Highlights

• This is the last release of MLEB supporting MediaWiki >= 1.38

Babel

• Fix "User categories creation should be able to use templates" (task T211665, Gerrit change 881947)
• Add ability to override Babel categories (Gerrit change 881944)
• Fix "Some language tags show wrong language ("English") in Babel boxes" (task T64714, Gerrit change 884400)

CleanChanges and cldr

• Localisation and maintenance updates.

Translate

• Optionally allow setting a source language for aggregate groups (task T281073)
• Allow fetching translation statistics for messages with same prefix (task T298966)
• Fix bug with importing fuzzy translations from .po files (task T323430)
• Add back-links in various special pages in the Translate extension
• Use a text-based group selector in Special:ExportTranslations in order to improve usability when a large number of message groups are present (task T331843)
• Show error message if group being exported has no translations for selected language (task T331824)
• Display "Translate" tab if a user has permission to translate irrespective of whether public editing is enabled (task T334330)
• Add support to configure readable and writable translation memory services separately (task T322284)
  • Support for the mirrors configuration parameter will be dropped in the next MLEB release.

UniversalLanguageSelector

• Localisation and maintenance updates.
• Fix issues with up/down keys navigation for the ULS menu (task T328956)
• Remove ULSMobileWebfontsEnabled configuration option (task T332837)