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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle

shortcut: MLEB

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

IntroductionEdit

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 common 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 Foundation, KDE, translatewiki.net and other sites. 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 (quarterly) 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.

Release notes and downloadsEdit

Latest releaseEdit

wfLoadExtension( 'Translate' );
  • Removed deprecated and unmaintained SolrTTMServer. Recommendation is to migrate to ElasticSearch. (Phab:T87985)
  • Dropped support for HHVM.

Previous releasesEdit

  • 2019.04: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2019.04.tar.bz2
    sha256sum: 5fbbd39acd1cc0e1edbd542a390daf1992d1526134ceb69248cdb4dced58f3a9 [1]
    Announcement and Release Notes
    • Compatible with MediaWiki 1.31, 1.32 and above and requires PHP 7.0.0 or above.
  • PHP entry point has been removed for CleanChanges and cldr. Warning will be displayed for deprecated PHP entry point. (T140007)
  • Fixed fatal error on PageContentLanguage hook subscriber (T214358)
  • Fixed broken Special:PageMigration (T217727)
  • Added support for newer versions of the Elastica extension while maintaining backward compatibility for older version REL 1.31 (T218100)
  • Added multiple new keyboard layouts in UniversalLanguageSelector.
  • 2019.01: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2019.01.tar.bz2
    sha256sum: 39f2e946e360ac868744dc8e6f62cb5723447415bd11bcbb4911eb0f3674360c [1]
    Announcement and Release Notes
    • Compatible with MediaWiki 1.31, 1.32 and above and requires PHP 5.5.9 or above.
  • $wgTranslateCC is deprecated now. It should be replaced by TranslatePostInitGroups hook. (T212836)
  • Added proofreading to (Language|MessageGroup)Stats. The statistics table also has updated styling. (T41279)
  • Skipping messages Special:Translate's page mode no longer sometimes marks the translation proofread. (T206748)
  • Translatable subpages are no longer moved when moving parent. (T114592)
  • Message group stats updating was broken in multiple ways. (T134252, T208521)
  • Added multiple new keyboard layouts in UniversalLanguageSelector.
  • 2018.10: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2018.10.tar.bz2
    sha256sum: c0a65956d4f8e49ba1b401372636b9575a5c17fbf2501fa14ff1c265dd778862 [1]
    Announcement and Release Notes
    • Compatible with MediaWiki 1.30, 1.31 and above and requires PHP 5.5.9 or above.
  • Updated cldr to version 34.0
  • LocalisationUpdates and UniversalLanguageSelector has removed PHP entry point. Please update your configuration!
  • Fixed an error in Translate that prevented Special:PageMigration from working.
  • UniversalLanguageSelector now supports UI language change when Global Preferences are present. (T198206)
  • UniversalLanguageSelector dropped support for discontinued freegeoip.net.
  • 2018.07: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2018.07.tar.bz2
    sha256sum: 36aa80c78be6dcfb533f96dc25afdabd2fd4716452c1b5a6f2bc982def1af7bc [1]
    Announcement and Release Notes
    • Compatible with MediaWiki 1.30, 1.31 and above and requires PHP 5.5.9 or above.
  • Updated cldr to version 33.
  • Special:SupportedLanguages: List of authors is now sorted by the number of contributions.
  • Message keys coming from external files are now handled with more care and less likely to produce invalid or inaccessible pages. (T193023)
  • refresh-translatable-pages.php script can now use JobQueue, which is more efficient on wikis with thousands of translatable pages. (T195347)
  • Custom languages defined in $wgExtraLanguages now always appear in Special:Translate and Special:SearchTranslations. (T112889)

Show all releases.

Downloading with GitEdit

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

 for ext in Babel cldr CleanChanges LocalisationUpdate Translate UniversalLanguageSelector
 do
   if [ ! -d "$ext" ]
   then
     git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/$ext.git
   fi
   cd $ext; git fetch --tags; git checkout 2019.10; cd ..
 done


InstallationEdit

Installation requirementsEdit

Installation requirements of each piece of provided software are included in the respective documentation. See in particular:

Add/update your LocalSettings.phpEdit

Near the end of LocalSettings.php, you have to place this configuration: 

wfLoadExtension( 'Babel' );

wfLoadExtension( 'cldr' );

wfLoadExtension( 'CleanChanges' );
$wgCCTrailerFilter = true;
$wgCCUserFilter = false;
$wgDefaultUserOptions['usenewrc'] = 1;

wfLoadExtension( 'LocalisationUpdate' );
$wgLocalisationUpdateDirectory = "$IP/cache";

wfLoadExtension( 'Translate' );
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['translate'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['translate-messagereview'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['translate-groupreview'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['translate-import'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['pagetranslation'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['translate-manage'] = true;
$wgTranslateDocumentationLanguageCode = 'qqq';
$wgExtraLanguageNames['qqq'] = 'Message documentation'; # No linguistic content. Used for documenting messages

wfLoadExtension( 'UniversalLanguageSelector' );

Update database tablesEdit

Command lineEdit

In the directory where your LocalSettings.php is located, run the following command: 

php maintenance/update.php

Web browserEdit

Go to example.com/mediawiki/mw-config/ (see Manual:Upgrading#Web browser) by using your domain and path and rerun install.

Configuring and using extensionsEdit

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

BackgroundEdit

MLEB does not use version-specific branches of extensions. It's a snapshot from master which is verified to be working with the specified MediaWiki releases. This means all MLEB extensions must follow the compatibility policy of supporting two latest stable MediaWiki releases in the master branch.

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.

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