MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle

The MediaWiki language extension bundle provides easy way to bring ultimate language support to your MediaWiki. The bundle is a collection of selected few MediaWiki extensions needed by any wiki which desires to be multilingual.

Introduction
The Universal Language Selector is a must have, because it provides an essential functionality for any user regardless of the number of languages they speak: language selection, font support for displaying scripts badly supported by operating systems and input methods for typing languages that don't use the Latin alphabet. It includes freely-licensed fonts, which cover most of the major languages of America, Europe, Middle East, India and South East Asia.

Maintaining multilingual content in a wiki is a mess without the Translate extension, which is used by Wikimedia, KDE, translatewiki.net and other sites, where hundreds of 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 clutter.

Don't miss the chance to practice your rusty language skills, use the Babel extension to mark the languages you speak and find other speakers of the same language in your wiki. And finally the cldr extension is a database of language and country translations.

MLEB has a monthly release schedule, so that you can easily stay on the cutting edge with the constantly improving language support. The bundle comes with clear installation and upgrade instructions (see below). 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.

Latest release

 * 2015.08: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2015.08.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 21cb43509d1e6da3cadc7e594866215d430e110aea5d04857e5cffd2a69db031 [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki: 1.23.x, 1.24.x and 1.25.x.
 * Translate:
 * Special:SearchTranslations has acquired lots of new features, such as cross language search. To take advantage of all the new features, you need to reindex the index with "php scripts/ttmserver-export.php --reindex". You also need to update ruflin/elastica to 2.2.0 or later, or recent version of CirrusSearch which bundles it.
 * UniversalLanguageSelector:
 * ULS will use jQuery.i18n from MediaWiki core if available.
 * Updated the default geoiplookup URL.
 * ULS supports extension registration now.
 * New Input Methods and fonts are added.

Previous releases

 * 2015.04: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2015.04.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 0aaae92b987130068b9fc03595428286d96541a947cbd137147ae7c0f50d9241 [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki: 1.23.x and 1.24.x.
 * Babel:
 * Restore compatibility with MediaWiki 1.24 and older version.
 * CLDR:
 * Update to CLDR 27.0.1
 * Translate:
 * Styled search result navigation buttons in Special:SearchTranslations
 * Fixed Special:PagePreparation, now works better and has autocompletion
 * UniversalLanguageSelector:
 * Show the Common language section only if the list is long enough.
 * Make ULS IME working in Content Translation.


 * 2015.03: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2015.03.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 938444aecd01df92d340e69b0f1c341de7085269bf5e6bbb28b82f41e816cc6d [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki: 1.23.x and 1.24.x.
 * LocalisationUpdate:
 * A bug that prevented extension and skin i18n files to be updated is fixed now.
 * Translate:
 * Improvements in the message group selector.
 * UniversalLanguageSelector:
 * Fixed issues related to the tooltip for ULS cog (trigger icon at the sidebar interlanguage position).


 * 2015.02: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2015.02.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 536cf86e7080d8293a02cb59f99d96328c7009c8239e818556b28b77b02ff88d [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki: 1.23.x and 1.24.x.
 * Translate:
 * Improvements in Special:PagePreparation.
 * Performance improvements by removing unneeded queries.
 * UniversalLanguageSelector:
 * Restore compatibility with IE8. If you still have any issue, please report it!


 * 2015.01: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2015.01.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 7a53ed826ae14ffe279fc4231cc47d367f668723a5843ad62c13a8f17d339744 [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki: 1.23.x and 1.24.x.
 * LocalisationUpdate:
 * Added support for updating skins.
 * Translate:
 * Added Content Translation Machine Translation backend support.
 * Message group configurations are now optionally validated.
 * Make 'fuzzy' as a default action for changes in source language in Special:ManageMessageGroups.
 * UniversalLanguageSelector:
 * This version has compatibility issues with Internet Explorer 8. Support will be restored in the next MLEB release.


 * 2014.12: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.12.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 5a0e00d27e2a81b896de4015a8f0933f24ea3409e554b0ba7f2e3c27ec27430f [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki: 1.23.x and 1.24.x.
 * Translate:
 * Due to MediaWiki core plural rule changes, Translate extension contains interface translations which are not compatible with any released version of MediaWiki. If you are using Translate in the affected languages, (See https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/04/updates-in-mediawiki-internationalization-reflect-changes-from-cldr/ for more details and list of affected languages) you might want to consider using MLEB 2014.09 instead. The issue manifests as incorrect plural forms used in the interface for certain numbers.
 * T76184: Improvements in ElasticSearch TTM. Query results are now more reliable and consistent.
 * UniversalLanguageSelector:
 * As a part of refactoring ULS design, world map from ULS has been removed. You can track progress of task at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85519


 * 2014.11: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.11.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 39b397a05561f743962cfb499f59a58219338607ea13ebfcc7a8806105e7dedc [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki: 1.23.x and 1.24.x.
 * CLDR:
 * Fixed some time displays if CLDR had only partial localisation of time units.
 * Translate:
 * Translate WebAPI documentation is now localized. Only works in MediaWiki 1.24 and newer.
 * If you are using the Solr backend for the translation memory or the translation search, please let us know. If there are no users for the Solr backend, we will deprecate and later remove it in favor of the better maintained ElasticSearch backend.
 * UniversalLanguageSelector:
 * ULS WebAPI documentation is now localized. Only works in MediaWiki 1.24 and newer.
 * T67516: Removed font-size for ULS language selection panel buttons, which caused tiny font sizes on the Monobook skin.
 * Small compatibility fix when both ULS and VisualEditor are in use.
 * About 20 new languages are now supported in the language selector and a couple language names were changes.
 * Added support for WOFF2 webfont format. Note that there are no WOFF2 webfonts in the font repository yet due to pending issues in WOFF2 font generation.

$wgGroupPermissions['translate-proofr']['translate-messagereview'] = true; $wgAddGroups['translate-proofr'] = array( 'translate-proofr' );
 * 2014.10: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.10.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 49707823ec19d9eed1c21c37550a3b0a2c81ff83855aea2706287a5169e90468 [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki: 1.22.x and 1.23.x.
 * CleanChanges: Added support for ULS in language filter selector.
 * Translate:
 * New feature: Remove any page from translation with two clicks from Special:PageTranslation. Previously, translate tags had to be removed manually first.
 * Special:PageTranslation also has prettier warning and error notifications.
 * The user group translate-proofr is no longer created by default. If you were using it, you can add it back with following code in your LocalSettings.php:
 * Removed $wgTranslatePageMigration (enabled by default), $wgTranslateUseTux (no longer in use) and translate-proofr group (needs sysadmin action if in use).


 * 2014.09: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.09.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 9cfdc7d4fc87b4cd6f8d1d2e1593b8cd064b7a9a2773c1a6a554304949a609ec [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki: 1.22.x and 1.23.x.
 * CLDR is updated to 26.
 * Translate:
 * Regression fixed: Translate's compatibility with MediaWiki 1.22 has been restored.
 * Regression fixed: Fix translation ratios in translatable page language selector.
 * Special:MyLanguage is now in core. For backwards compatibility, translations of Special:MyLanguage aliases were moved to a separate file (Bug 69461).
 * $wgTranslatePageTranslationULS now works as intended on all translation pages by removing the language code from the page name.


 * 2014.08: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.08.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: f4663910facd2b34d4afb1af930f66adad22b2746f9395f7706f07751e633857 [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki: 1.22.x and 1.23.x.
 * Added Comic Neue font. It is available for English and other languages using the latin alphabet.
 * Translate
 * Breaking change: Dropped support for MediaWiki 1.21 (2014.05 is the latest version of MLEB as a whole which supports 1.21)
 * Avoid losing translators' edits: improved handling of expired sessions.
 * Restore progress icon for the current translation page (regression from MLEB 2014.07).


 * 2014.07: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.07.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 8af5c001db9375bf8dfd16495c7a88fc8dc9b4fe281b1048f6bea6c490bc4a9d [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki: 1.22.x and 1.23.x.
 * Updated to CLDR 25 and fixed rebuild script.
 * Display source language for the pages in Special:Translate
 * Fixed ElasticSearchTTMServer to not return matches for single word messages only.
 * Stopped using deprecated jquery.json module, this will make ULS slightly smaller.
 * Added Ludic (lud) transliteration and Tibetian (bo) EWTS layouts.


 * 2014.06: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.06.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 02721b25e8c8fe06889b825a1c03fc4c1b1e4268d1e56169815983b5e87e8932 [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki: 1.22.x and 1.23.x.
 * Translate: New feature, Special:PageMigration page has been added and feedback is welcome!
 * Translate: Email notifications are no longer sent upon translation review.
 * Translate: Regression fix: Message checker live updates is working again with this release.


 * 2014.05: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.05.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: f53030ce7e6e0619f9a075877bc85423c0a28f46ffb296dbed5733502683b9b3 [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki: 1.21.10 and 1.22.7.
 * Translate: When a user is promoted from translator sandbox, it is treated as account creation. Promoted users can now receive NewUserMessage.
 * CLDR: The fallback logic should not merge the time units from languages in fallback chain. It should use time units from a fallback language only when time units are not defined.
 * Always display assistant languages in compact language list when defined by user in Translate extension.
 * Added 'Hussaini Nastaleeq' font for Urdu.
 * 2014.04: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.04.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: f20631d2629e0cf80df8ca022e6eec4d6d784e0cd39799f9fd46f338f4a7381a [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki: 1.21.9 and 1.22.6.
 * LocalisationUpdate now updates messages for older MediaWiki versions.
 * Set JSON message format as default for MediaWiki extensions.
 * Allow overriding the header styles from typography refresh.
 * Added Batak input method.


 * 2014.03: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.03.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: f3a253e05f6b7c4f451882a1a78a138a1dcaecd2777237d0c2b8af7c3ecced70 [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki: 1.21.7 and 1.22.4.
 * LocalisationUpdate is rewritten for JSON file format support for extensions. This is compatible with MediaWiki 1.19 and above.
 * ULS adds compact language links as new BetaFeature.


 * 2014.02: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.02.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 5c5636332b38a7ce9ac12fac74f0402afdc592aa58795b51dc4747877db340da [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki: 1.21.5 and 1.22.2.
 * Added AppleFFS module for iOS/Mac OS X Localizable.strings files
 * Detect tofu before applying any default fonts. See: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/WebFonts#How_webfonts_are_applied.3F for technical documentation about how tofu detection works in ULS.
 * ULS is now much lighter for the browser thanks to many changes (see full Release Notes)


 * 2014.01: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2014.01.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 2dc673ba0bbc43a3d69237c15600171e85d3c56d9ff520e5bdb3eda0f2fdc74a [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki: 1.21.5 and 1.22.2.
 * Refactoring and performance improvements in ULS.
 * Regression fixes introduced in previous MLEB release in Translate.
 * Initial plural support for Android file format.


 * 2013.12: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.12.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 2ef19e31d685dd0d6e50088ec8bbb1cd3e74c694096dfa333efb61dcfee9c3c0 [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki: 1.21.3 and 1.22.0.
 * Refactoring and performance improvements in Translate Sandbox and TUX.
 * Added support to MediaWiki localisation format from PHP files to JSON files.
 * Language selector now opens an order of magnitude faster.
 * Initial support for webfonts in MobileFrontend.


 * 2013.11: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.11.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 926bdcb6aa9cc405dc54275a60fd1d13836ee0f36a1e9c1329f4f7eed94354ce [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki: 1.20.7 and 1.21.2.
 * Lots of cleanup, refactoring and performance improvements:
 * The ResourceLoader modules for ULS were redone. They are now lazy-loaded to improve the initial page loading time. To use features provided by ULS, such as styles, ULS data utils functions, and others, you must load the features separately in your extensions. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Developing_with_ULS for more details.
 * Cleanup, refactoring and performance improvements in Translate extension.


 * 2013.10: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.10.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 04b1a1db293439553c225765a41add5f0bcd3ad4dce7f89e1f098276470e96c4 [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki: 1.20.7 and 1.21.2.
 * Use the Autonym font for language autonyms in the Language Search box and Interlanguage links.
 * Introducing of the TranslationStash feature. It's the place where sandboxed users can store their translations before they are given full translator rights.


 * 2013.09: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.09.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 2ac55639aeb43a6f3d198a87e10111f673eae1115225de072be73a1fa2052ab2 [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki 1.20.7 and MediaWiki 1.21.2.
 * The latest development efforts are about fixing known bugs and improving performance.
 * Added initial support for insertables. This will be helpful in typing and copy-paste of syntax like $1 and plural especially on tablets (bug 38350). More about this feature at: http://laxstrom.name/blag/2013/09/18/insertables-in-translate-extension-make-translating-easier/
 * CLDR is updated to version 24.


 * 2013.08: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.08.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 21b3abf3a8e19d0c746d41d246e4bc8883d0f5e179d894e1720500031c621f2c [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * The latest development efforts are about fixing known bugs, improving performance and adding fonts.
 * EventLogging support has been added to ULS.
 * Several bugs were fixed in the Translate extension.


 * 2013.07: http://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.07.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: ca381ea1bc1f10c56df28353f91a25129c604ff11938b424833925e8716e2ff3 [1 ]
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * The ULS is stabilizing. The latest development efforts are about fixing known bugs, improving performance, and adding fonts.
 * Several bugs were fixed in the Translate extension.
 * Support for Yandex Translate API v1.5 was added to Translate.


 * 2013.06: http://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.06.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 6df32382ddec91ab61e3e74f2ede6c043220d5c1252ee3baf8efd1d6403b4d82
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * The "interlanguage" mode in ULS, which shows the ULS trigger as a cog icon in the interlanguage links area, is now considered stable. It can be enabled by setting $wgULSPosition to 'interlanguage'.
 * Several bugs were fixed in the Translate extension.
 * Support for currency was added to the CLDR extension.
 * 2013.05: http://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.05.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 9aea5b1dac2b38e44284373c849241fc694c78caff1d3ca3b4e6e72d66f2ab12
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * The new translation interface, known as Translate UX, is considered stable. Several bugs were fixed.
 * Some design changes were introduced to the Universal Language Selector. Work continued on the "interlanguage" mode, which shows the ULS trigger as a cog icon in the interlanguage links area. It can be enabled, but is still experimental. A known issue is bug 48898 - the "Apply settings" button doesn't close the Input settings panel after enabling or disabling the settings. The settings are saved, but the button doesn't work correctly.
 * CLDR was updated to version 23.1.


 * 2013.04: http://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.04.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: bd6aca60101308f429d90d421e35093328e7a05ea74d35c05a98474ab648dec4
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * The new translation interface, known as Translate UX, is being improved. In particular, several bugs affecting Microsoft Internet Explorer users were fixed.
 * The UniversalLanguageSelector extension is compatible with MediaWiki 1.20.4. It is not compatible with previous versions of MediaWiki.


 * 2013.03: http://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.03.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: be4c6b5f80e27396555dc09cef0cec92c78cca9eeef796a230da281734738810
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * The new translation interface, known as Translate UX, is now the default. It can be disabled by setting $wgTranslateUseTux to  in LocalSettings.php.
 * The diff feature on all old outdated translations is temporarily broken until all such old "fuzzy" messages are updated.
 * The UniversalLanguageSelector extension is updated to the latest version. It is compatible with MediaWiki 1.20.3. It is not compatible with previous versions of MediaWiki.


 * 2013.02: http://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.02.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 7fece850483e2b74539f69b461501d26487290293ae93b40cd31d6e96f90d112
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * UniversalLanguageSelector is rolled back to the 2012.12 version for compatibility with MediaWiki 1.20 because of a known issue where, with UniversalLanguageSelector enabled, preferences are not saved for logged-in users. Wait for 1.20.3 or use only with the last revision of the 1.20 branch.


 * 2013.01: http://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2013.01.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 55adb8b1a5197570fe76501454a66d2f1581bd6854e4091e2b56545a6d072d0b
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible only with MediaWiki 1.21alpha. 1.20.2 has a known issue where, with UniversalLanguageSelector enabled, preferences are not saved for logged-in users; wait for 1.20.3 or use only with the last revision of the 1.20 branch.


 * 2012.12: http://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2012.12.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: d27fdbbcdd73795914c6f6a8bdddedc3cea06c1ce968b9420f28028fda191a92
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki 1.20 and 1.21alpha


 * 2012.11: http://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2012.11.tar.bz2
 * sha256sum: 924e95b8d5b1c9cef17f72ffe141b06df310ca2cbe013816b5fb69b09732763a
 * Announcement and Release Notes
 * Compatible with MediaWiki 1.20 and 1.21alpha

Via Git
In your extensions directory do the following to get or update to the latest release and follow configuration instructions below.

extensions in subdirectory
If your directory layout looks like this: ./mediawiki/extensions/{A,B,C} go to mediawiki directory and extract the release file: tar xjf MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-.tar.bz2

The variable you have to add to your LocalSettings.php before the configuration below is: $EXT = "$IP/extensions";

extensions in top-level directory
If your directory layout looks like this: ./mediawiki/ ./extensions/{A,B,C} go to common parent directory and extract the release file: tar xjf MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-.tar.bz2

The variables you have to add to your LocalSettings.php before the configuration below is: $EXT = "$IP/../extensions"; $wgExtensionAssetsPath = "{$wgScriptPath}/../extensions";

Add/update your LocalSettings.php
Near the end, you have to place the configuration lines given above (pick from one of the two sections) followed by this:

Command line
In the directory where your LocalSettings.php is located, run the following command: php maintenance/update.php

Web browser
Go to example.com/mediawiki/mw-config/ by using your domain and path and rerun install.

Configuring LocalisationUpdate
If you are on a unix-like system, you should add LocalisationUpdate to crontab: crontab -e @daily php /path/to/your/wiki/extensions/LocalisationUpdate/update.php --quiet
 * 1) Add the following line

Background
MLEB does not use version-specific branches. It's a snapshot from master which is verified to be working with the specified MediaWiki releases.