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 regular 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.

Downloading with 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 and using extensions
See the respective extension documentation pages. Do note that LocalisationUpdate does nothing by default and needs additional configuration to be run periodically.


 * Extension:Babel
 * Extension:CLDR
 * Extension:CleanChanges
 * Extension:LocalisationUpdate
 * Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector
 * Help:Extension:Translate

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.

MLEB releases are created with a tool called Melange. If you are interested in that code (e.g. you want to change its code), see the Melange repository in Git.