{"id":579,"date":"2012-11-28T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T12:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laxstrom.name\/blag\/?p=579"},"modified":"2012-11-28T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T12:40:10","slug":"mediawiki-language-extension-bundle-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laxstrom.name\/blag\/2012\/11\/28\/mediawiki-language-extension-bundle-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle launches!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"magicdomid2\">The\u00a0Wikimedia Language Engineering team is pleased to announce the first release of\u00a0the\u00a0MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle. The bundle is a collection of a few selected MediaWiki extensions needed by any wiki which desires to be multilingual.<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid24\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid145\">This first bundle release (2012.11) is compatible with MediaWiki 1.19, 1.20 and 1.21alpha.<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid73\">Get it from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/wiki\/MLEB\">https:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/wiki\/MLEB<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid6\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid7\">The\u00a0<strong>Universal Language Selector<\/strong>\u00a0is a must have,\u00a0because\u00a0it 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&#8217;t use\u00a0Latin (a-z)\u00a0alphabet.<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid8\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid9\">Maintaining multilingual content in a wiki is a mess without the\u00a0<strong>Translate<\/strong>\u00a0extension, which is used by Wikimedia, KDE and translatewiki.net, where\u00a0hundreds of\u00a0pieces of documentation and\u00a0interface translations are updated every day;\u00a0with\u00a0<strong>Localisation Update<\/strong>\u00a0your users will always have the latest translations freshly out of the oven. The<strong>\u00a0Clean Changes<\/strong>\u00a0extension keeps your recent changes page uncluttered from translation activity\u00a0and other distractions.<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid10\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid146\">Don&#8217;t miss the chance to practice your rusty language skills\u00a0and\u00a0use the\u00a0<strong>Babel<\/strong>\u00a0extension to mark the languages you speak and\u00a0to\u00a0find other speakers of the same language in your wiki.\u00a0And finally the\u00a0<strong>cldr<\/strong>\u00a0extension is a database of language and country translations.<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid12\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid13\">We are aiming to make a new release 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 instructions. It 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.<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid14\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid15\">Because this is our first release, there can be some rough edges. Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/wiki\/Talk:MediaWiki_Language_Extension_Bundle\">provide us a lot of feedback<\/a> so that we can improve for the next release.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Wikimedia Language Engineering team is pleased to announce the first release of\u00a0the\u00a0MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle. The bundle is a collection of a few 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\u00a0https:\/\/www.mediawiki.org\/wiki\/MLEB The\u00a0Universal Language Selector\u00a0is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,2,11],"tags":[47,52,25],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-kde","category-mediawiki","category-vapaasuomi","tag-language-engineering-team","tag-mediawiki-language-extension-bundle","tag-translate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laxstrom.name\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laxstrom.name\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laxstrom.name\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laxstrom.name\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laxstrom.name\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/laxstrom.name\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/laxstrom.name\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laxstrom.name\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laxstrom.name\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laxstrom.name\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}