Joyeux Anniversaire, MLEB! On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 4:46 AM Niklas Laxström <[email protected]> wrote:
> Slightly over ten years ago the Language team released the first MediaWiki > Language Extension Bundle, or MLEB for short. To date, we have made 64 > releases supporting MediaWiki versions from 1.19 to 1.40alpha, and PHP > versions from 5.2 to 8. > > Some things are still the same: > * MediaWiki version compatibility policy > * tarball releases > * the goal of providing top notch language support in a convenient package > > Some things have changed: > * we went from monthly releases to quarterly releases > * LocalizationUpdate is no longer included in the bundle because it was > made obsolete by automatic translation backports > > We don't know much about the users of the MLEB, but according to our > statistics, each tarball release is downloaded on average approximately 300 > times. Some people use MLEB releases via git. > > As the initiator of MLEB, I am happy to see how far we have come. Thanks > belong to Abijeet Patro and Kartik Mistry who together have done the actual > work to make the releases in the past years. > > Fun fact: the tool used to make MLEB releases is called melange. I don't > remember for sure, but I think the name was chosen because it's short for > "MEdiawiki LANGuagE'' and it had a quite appropriate meaning: "A mixture of > different things; a disordered mixture" (English Wiktionary). > > The first release announcement is quoted below. > > -Niklas > > ke 28. marrask. 2012 klo 12.17 Niklas Laxström ([email protected]) > kirjoitti: > >> The Wikimedia Language Engineering team is pleased to announce the >> first release of the MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle. The bundle >> is a collection of 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 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB >> >> The Universal Language Selector is a must have, because it 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't use Latin (a-z) alphabet. >> >> Maintaining multilingual content in a wiki is a mess without the >> Translate extension, which is used by Wikimedia, KDE and >> translatewiki.net, where hundreds of pieces of documentation and >> 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 distractions. >> >> Don't miss the chance to practice your rusty language skills and use >> the Babel extension to mark the languages you speak and to find other >> speakers of the same language in your wiki. And finally the cldr >> extension is a database of language and country translations. >> >> We are aiming to make new releases 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 >> installations. 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. >> >> Because this is our first release, there can be some rough edges. >> Please provide us a lot of feedback so that we can improve for the >> next release. >> >> -Niklas >> >> -- >> Niklas Laxström >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
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