MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle/2025.03
We would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2025.03. This bundle is compatible with MediaWiki 1.43.0. It requires PHP >= 7.4.0.
The next MLEB is expected to be released in 5-6 months after MediaWiki 1.44 release. If there are important bug fixes, we will do an intermediate release. Please give us your feedback at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB.
- Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2025.03.tar.bz2
- sha256sum: 4f173ea9ebd31f894861b1fd06124727fe788fb008f9b983fdbe0446151d7fe5
- Signature: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2025.03.tar.bz2.asc
Quick links:
- Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB
- Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-i18n.lists.wikimedia.org/
- Report bugs to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1464
Release notes for each extension are below.
Highlights
edit- Future releases of MLEB will no longer include the CleanChanges extension. The Language filter has been integrated into the Translate extension. The User filter will be deprecated; use the standard Special:Contributions page as an alternative.
- To enable the language filter on
Special:RecentChanges
, set$wgTranslateRecentChangesLanguageFilter = true;
- To enable the language filter on
Babel
edit- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
CleanChanges
edit- This extension will be removed from MLEB in the future.
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
cldr
edit- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
Translate
edit- Improve dark mode support (T371071) and use Codex icons across the interface. (T381834)
- Improvements to Special pages
- A new version of
Special:AggregateGroups
built using Codex is available. Append the query parameterrefresh=true
to use the new Codex version (T382949) - Tweak the interface on
Special:PageTranslation
to improve the behavior of back links and add more contextual help messages. - A new page,
Special:ManageMessageGroupSubscriptions
is available to review groups that a user is subscribed to. (T363663) - Improve usability of
Special:TranslationStats
by using HTML5 inputs (Gerrit change 1082566) - Display message group description on
Special:MessageGroupStats
(T65635) - Use BCP 47 language tags on
Special:ActiveLanguages
(T298852) - Add a dropdown on
Special:PageTranslation
to choose fuzzy status for all changed translation units (T298852) - Redesign how the currently selected group is displayed on
Special:Translate
(T369043) - Use user provided summary when a null edit is made on
Special:Translate
(T371502) - Ensure that message group state appear on
Special:MessageGroupStats
(T375356) - Allow hiding unchanged translation units on
Special:PageTranslation
(T300785) - Fix issue with
optional=1
in the URL being ignored onSpecial:Translate
. (T378804) - Add option to ignore targets that exist when moving translatable pages (T322582)
- A new version of
- Introduce
und
(undefined) language code for aggregate groups that don't have any language set. (T382949) - Improve rendering of translation progress indicator (T375633)
- Automatically create wanted categories marked for translation (T285463)
- Send notification to subscribers of aggregate group when one of the message groups are updated (T375376)
- Verify that user has
edit
right before allowing them to translate (T383040) - Revert fuzzy tag when a translation is undone or rolled back (T367934)
- Improve and unify the loading spinner displayed across the Translate extension (T383802)
- Do not allow editing of translation units in source language (T366425)
- Deprecation
- Remove deprecated script
moveTranslatablePage.php
(Gerrit change 1125031) - Remove deprecated
skip
option in export.php (Gerrit change 1125032) - Remove deprecated revision property from query message collection API (Gerrit change 1125035)
- Drop support for Elastica 6 MediaWiki extension (T369056)
- Remove deprecated script
- Future deprecation
- Localisation and maintenance updates.
UniversalLanguageSelector
edit- Localisation and maintenance updates only.