Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2016/October

Monthly updates from the Wikimedia Language team focused on technical development of the software they maintain. Names of people assumed to contribute as volunteers are in bold text.

Content Translation
Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Also check out out the newsletter.


 * Volker Eckl replaced deprecate uses of the mw-ui-constructive CSS class. T146923
 * Santhosh Thottingal fixed a bug that caused some links to incorrect appear as red links. T145691
 * Santhosh Thottingal fixed an issue that broke integration with the recommendation tool. T147835
 * Ed Sanders updated the beta feature icon to match latest standards.
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Translate
Translate extension allows translation of software interface, manuals, announcements, banners etc. on Wikimedia special projects, translatewiki.net and other sites. Translate is part of MLEB.

About __ patches in total were merged in August.


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Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta __ (__) ; MediaWiki.org __ (__) ; Commons __ (__)
 * Translate extension is installed on __ wikis (__) Wikiapiary

Universal Language Selector
Universal Language Selector provides language choose, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB.

About __ patches were merged this month.


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Other extensions
Babel (part of MLEB):
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cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):
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CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
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LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):
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TranslationNotifications:
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MLEB
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Project Milkshake
Project Milkshake consists of four re-usable jquery internationalization libraries.

jquery.i18n
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jquery.uls
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jquery.webfonts
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jquery.ime
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translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.


 * Paladox added support for one new MediaWiki extension.
 * Niklas Laxström lifted the ban on three letter language codes for Android projects as it was no longer necessary. T38264
 * Niklas Laxström updated Chameleon MediaWiki skin to use repository from GitHub.
 * Niklas Laxström removed some no longer needed spam handling extensions from use at translatewiki.net.
 * Erik Moeller added support for new project: lib.reviews.
 * Niklas Laxström updated MLEB documentation in melange.
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Stats

 * About __ (__) new users
 * About __ (__) translators made about __ (__) edits
 * About __ (__) translators reviewed about __ (__) translations

Sources:     

TwnMainPage

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Deployments and other site related updates

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