Project:News/Archive/2011

December 2011

 * 2011-12-29: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Tweet A New (15).
 * 2011-12-23: A new Translation Rally has started. Make 500 new translations for Wikipedia, Kiwix or MediaWiki before 2012 to share in 1,000 Euro!
 * 2011-12-21: Support was added for MediaWiki extension No Bogus Userpages (3).
 * 2011-12-21: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Featured Feeds (16).
 * 2011-12-20: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Mark As Helpful (5).
 * 2011-12-20: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Translate SVG (12).
 * 2011-12-19: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Solr Store (5).
 * 2011-12-19: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Page In Cat (1).
 * 2011-12-19: Support was added for MediaWiki extension User Functions (1).
 * 2011-12-18: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Sound Manager 2 Button (2).
 * 2011-12-18: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Score (12).
 * 2011-12-15: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Reassign Edits (11).
 * 2011-12-05: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Simple Farm (1).
 * 2011-12-05: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Semantic Web Browser (10).
 * 2011-12-05: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Batch User Rights (9).
 * 2011-12-02: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Help Commons (1).

November 2011

 * 2011-11-29: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Visual Editor (3).
 * 2011-11-28: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Add This (2).
 * 2011-11-18–20: India hackathon (Mumbai), where participants localized Kiwix into several Indic languages.
 * 2011-11-18: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Parser Fun (1).
 * 2011-11-18: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Interactive Block Message (1).
 * 2011-11-16: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Variables (1).
 * 2011-11-16: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Loops (2).
 * 2011-11-08: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Semantic Image Input (2).
 * 2011-11-08: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Header Tabs (1).
 * 2011-11-07: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Sternograph (4).
 * 2011-11-04: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Semantic Update On Purge (1).
 * 2011-11-04: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Regex Fun (2).

October 2011

 * 2011-10-28: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Hash Tables (1).
 * 2011-10-27: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Online Status Bar (6).
 * 2011-10-24: New feature enabled: message review. Please ask a bureaucrat or another translation reviewer to make you a reviewer. Remember: only experienced translators should be reviewers!
 * 2011-10-24: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Semantic Data Types (2).
 * 2011-10-24: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Fundraiser Landing Page (1).
 * 2011-10-21: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Frequent Pattern Tag Cloud (17).
 * 2011-10-21: Support was added for Toolserver project Catdown (23).
 * 2011-10-17: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Global User Groups (1).
 * 2011-10-17: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Contest (149).
 * 2011-10-17: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Shared Css Js (4).
 * 2011-10-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Last Modified (18).
 * 2011-10-14: Disabled Google translation suggestions for now (quota exceeded, fix is in works), enabled Apertium suggestions
 * 2011-10-04: Support was added for Toolserver project Toolserver Status (14).
 * 2011-10-03: Support was added for MediaWiki extension API Explorer (4).

September 2011

 * 2011-09-29: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Relation Links (1).
 * 2011-09-29: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Credit Tab (2).
 * 2011-09-22: Support for OpenLayers was dropped. There no longer is anyone to support the file format it uses or commit updates.
 * 2011-09-20: Support was added for Toolserver project WLM Files (24).
 * 2011-09-17: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Ad Manager (24).
 * 2011-09-16: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Nimbus (17).
 * 2011-09-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Survey (84).
 * 2011-09-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Wiki Object Model (3).
 * 2011-09-11: Support for the OpenStreetMap editor Potlatch was dropped, as the project has started using another standard editor.
 * 2011-09-10: The translation rally has ended. 24 users that made new translations for MediaWiki or Kiwix will share in 1,000 Euro. Thank you!
 * 2011-09-10: FUDforum 3.0.3 has been released. Download it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/fudforum/files/
 * 2011-09-05: FreeCol 0.10.2 has been released. Download it from http://freecol.org
 * 2011-09-02: A new translation rally has started. Make 500 new translations for MediaWiki or Kiwix before 2011-09-10 to share in 1,000 Euro!

August 2011

 * 2011-08-30: Support was added for StatusNet plugin Activity (13).
 * 2011-08-30: Support was added for MediaWiki extension New Users List (1).
 * 2011-08-25: Support was added for Encyclopedia of Life - Database (352).
 * 2011-08-25: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Photo Pop (6).
 * 2011-08-25: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Wikia Mobile (8).
 * 2011-08-25: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Wiki Features (5).
 * 2011-08-24: Please join us on 2011-08-31 for a MediaWiki bug triage covering i18n issues.
 * 2011-08-24: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Subpage Sortkey (1).
 * 2011-08-24: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Filter List Users (3).
 * 2011-08-24: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Shout Box (7).
 * 2011-08-22: Support for Omegawiki's Vocabulary Trainer was dropped (possibly temporarily) because it has been broken for a long time, so translations are useless.
 * 2011-08-22: Support for Wikimedia Mobile was dropped permanently. Please translate Mobile Frontend.
 * 2011-08-22: Downtime for about 129 minutes. Server was rebooted and MySQL didn't start.
 * 2011-08-21: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Confirm Email Prompt (2).
 * 2011-08-21: Downtime for about 35 minutes. Server crash for unknown reason.
 * 2011-08-21: Support for proper plural formatting has been added to Shapado. The plural implementation is now equal to that of OpenStreetMap.
 * 2011-08-20: Support was added for the Kiwix project (79).
 * 2011-08-18: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Automatic Board Welcome (1).
 * 2011-08-17: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Namespace Paths (1).
 * 2011-08-17: Support was added for MediaWiki extension User Debug Info (8).
 * 2011-08-17: We updated the online copy of our MediaWiki configuration.
 * 2011-08-17: Localisation support for MediaWiki 1.16 has been removed. Stable versions 1.17 (released) and 1.18 (not yet released) are supported at the moment.
 * 2011-08-17: Downtime for about 40 minutes. Server crash according to netcup.de.
 * 2011-08-15: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Admin Dashboard (41).
 * 2011-08-15: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Admin Dashboard - Quick Stats (9).
 * 2011-08-15: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Answers (119).
 * 2011-08-15: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Image Lightbox (18).
 * 2011-08-15: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Hulu Video Panel (1).
 * 2011-08-15: Support was droped for deleted Wikia MediaWiki extensions Control Center, Ez API and Wikia Game Guides.
 * 2011-08-14: Downtime for about 5 hours, because MySQL didn't start.
 * 2011-08-13: Everybody sleeping. Fixed error in WikimediaAgg, unknown group id. Fixed error in maps extension, svn externals were not updated. Fixed error in EOL by disabling it altogether.
 * 2011-08-09: Downtime for about 5 hours. MySQL did not start after reboot.
 * 2011-08-03: Support for magic words in MediaWiki extension Parser Functions was disabled because of compatibility issues (#language tag duplicate)
 * 2011-08-03: Downtime for about 40 minutes. Niklas broke the code.

July 2011

 * 2011-07-28: Downtime for about 30 minutes. Server was restarted. Repaired corrupted bw_searchindex table.
 * 2011-07-26: We knew we were having issues with the MySQL server not starting and Translation Memory not starting after a reboot. It looks like we may have resolved those. This should prevent unnecessary downtime after a server crash.
 * 2011-07-26: Downtime for about 30 minutes. Server was restarted.
 * 2011-07-26: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Edit Section Clearer Link (1).
 * 2011-07-26: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Tree And Menu (1).
 * 2011-07-26: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Collab Watchlist (65).
 * 2011-07-26: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Favorites (46).
 * 2011-07-22: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Edit Page Tracking (1).
 * 2011-07-2?: Downtime for about ?? minutes. Server was restarted.
 * 2011-07-19: Scheduled downtime for about 10 minutes. Server was restarted.
 * 2011-07-12: Downtime for about 75 minutes.
 * 2011-07-10: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Categorize (4).
 * 2011-07-01: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Campfire (2).
 * 2011-07-01: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Founder Progress Bar (123).
 * 2011-07-01: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Game Guides (1).
 * 2011-07-01: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Global Notification (2).
 * 2011-07-01: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Wikia Labs (61).
 * 2011-07-01: Support was droped for deleted Wikia MediaWiki extensions Ez API and Wikia Game Guides.

June 2011

 * 2011-06-26: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Category Sort Headers (1).
 * 2011-06-26: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Local jQuery (1).
 * 2011-06-26: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Signup API (1).
 * 2011-06-18: Support was added for StatusNet plugin Email Reminder (5).
 * 2011-06-18: Support was added for StatusNet plugin Spotify (1).
 * 2011-06-17 Downtime for about an hour.
 * 2011-06-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Mood Bar (1).
 * 2011-06-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Page Schemas (2).
 * 2011-06-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Code Editor (1).
 * 2011-06-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Oracle Text Search (2).
 * 2011-06-09: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Notificator (20).
 * 2011-06-05: Support was added for Toolserver tool Template Count (9).
 * 2011-06-05: Support was added for MediaWiki extension SQL2Wiki (9).
 * 2011-06-03: Please translate |User%3AMarkAHershberger%2Fblog-RTL-Developers-wanted Mark Herschberger's blog post asking for MediaWiki RTL developers.
 * 2011-06-02: Support was added for Encyclopedia of Life aka, EOL (213).

May 2011

 * 2011-05-30: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Wikia Quiz (49).
 * 2011-05-29: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Creative Commons Rdf (1).
 * 2011-05-29: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Dublin Core Rdf (1).
 * 2011-05-28: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Spark (2).
 * 2011-05-25: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Short Url (5).
 * 2011-05-24: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Semantic ACL (9).
 * 2011-05-22: ~60 minutes of downtime. Cause yet to be determined.
 * 2011-05-21: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Mobile - Game Guides (26).
 * 2011-05-21: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Mobile - Lyric Wiki (33).
 * 2011-05-21: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Mobile - Wikia Pad (10).
 * 2011-05-21: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Edit Page Layout (55).
 * 2011-05-18: ~45 minutes of downtime. Cause yet to be determined.
 * 2011-05-17: ~45 minutes of downtime. Cause yet to be determined.
 * 2011-05-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Private Domains (9). A lot of exinsting translations were imported. Please check these translations too.
 * 2011-05-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Wiki Love (19).
 * 2011-05-13: GerardM, Niklas, Raymond, SPQRobin, Purodha and Siebrand are at the Berlin Hackathon 2011.
 * 2011-05-11: The site was down for about 50 minutes because our hosting provider moved the VPS to another datacenter.
 * 2011-05-08: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Wiki Forum (88).
 * 2011-05-07: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Wiki Tweet (18).
 * 2011-05-07: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Semantic Watchlist (5).
 * 2011-05-07: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Elm Easy Ref (3).
 * 2011-05-04: Support was added for MediaWiki extension API Sandbox (21).
 * 2011-05-04: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Whitelist Pages (1).
 * 2011-05-04: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Protect Site (35).

April 2011

 * 2011-04-27: Because of a server outage, the site was not available for about 40 minutes. Our apologies.
 * 2011-04-27: Support was added for MediaWiki extension File Attach (5).
 * 2011-04-27: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Custom User Signup (1).
 * 2011-04-26: Support was added for translation of the NOCC website (113).
 * 2011-04-24: The first day of the translation rally resulted in 13,000 contributions to translations. That is a translation volume we have never seen before. Thank you everyone who contributed!
 * 2011-04-23: A new Translation Rally has started. Contribute 500 new translations and share in 1,000 euro!
 * 2011-04-20: translatewiki.net staff has mailed out its April 2011 newsletter. You did not get it? Confirm your e-mail address!
 * 2011-04-18: Our server has been down for about an hour due to hardware failure.
 * 2011-04-17: Your help is requested on the Secure Poll extension used by Wikimedia.
 * 2011-04-17: Support was added for the Tagalog language to StatusNet.
 * 2011-04-17: Support was added for the Angika, Brahui, Central Dusun, Jamaican Creole English and Khowar languages to MediaWiki.
 * 2011-04-17: Support was added for StatusNet plugin Domain Whitelist (1).
 * 2011-04-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Ratings (7).
 * 2011-04-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Email Capture (9).
 * 2011-04-11: Support was added for StatusNet plugin API Logger (1).
 * 2011-04-11: Support was added for StatusNet plugin SQL Stats (1).
 * 2011-04-09: Keep up with translatewiki.net news on your favorite social media or follow the blogs.
 * 2011-04-09: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Semantic Glossary (18).
 * 2011-04-09: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Math (18).
 * 2011-04-08: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Web Fonts (4).
 * 2011-04-05: Support was added for the Toolserver project (50).
 * 2011-04-03: Major rework in MediaWiki is causing some issues here and there. Please be patient while we fix them (RESOLVED).
 * 2011-04-03: Support was added for StatusNet plugin QnA (42).

March 2011

 * 2011-03-31: StatusNet 1.0 will be released within a few weeks. Please complete your translations!
 * 2011-03-31: MediaWiki 1.17 RC will be released within a few weeks. Please complete your translations!
 * 2011-03-31: Support was added for StatusNet plugin Mollom (1)
 * 2011-03-30: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Link Suggest (2)
 * 2011-03-24: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Book Manager (5)
 * 2011-03-23: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Vips Scaler (1)
 * 2011-03-17: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Chat (8).
 * 2011-03-17: Support was added for StatusNet plugin SearchSub (28)
 * 2011-03-17: Support was added for StatusNet plugin TagSub (14)
 * 2011-03-15: Messages on talk pages should be working again thanks to Andrew.
 * 2011-03-15: 3 new message groups are supported for pywikipedia (4).
 * 2011-03-14: RobertL has made updates to improve the pywikipedia support.
 * 2011-03-12: GerardM published a blog post by Amir E. Aharoni advocating use of the Translate extension on Wikimedia's Meta.
 * 2011-03-11: Support was added for Mifos group Loan (UI) (82)
 * 2011-03-11: Support was added for Mifos group Savings (UI) (76)
 * 2011-03-11: Support was added for Mifos group Widget (UI) (28)
 * 2011-03-11: Support was added for StatusNet plugin Directory (9)
 * 2011-03-11: Support was added for StatusNet plugin Event (7)
 * 2011-03-11: Support was added for StatusNet plugin Poll (28)
 * 2011-03-09: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Array (1)
 * 2011-03-07: Resolved a malfunction in the scripts for statistics because of a no longer present symbolic link after the server move.
 * 2011-03-07: Messages on talk pages are a bit broken. You will unfortunately have to save messages twice for them to stick.
 * 2011-03-07: Support was added for iHRIS Qualify (14 message groups, 550 messages), part of iHRIS.
 * 2011-03-07: Support was added for iHRIS I2CE (36 message groups, 702 messages), part of iHRIS.
 * 2011-03-06: Support was added for iHRIS Common (40 message groups, 725 messages), part of iHRIS.
 * 2011-03-06: Support was added for iHRIS message group iHRIS Manage - Application Attachment (2)
 * 2011-03-06: Support was added for iHRIS message group iHRIS Manage - Confirmation (16)
 * 2011-03-06: Support was added for iHRIS message group iHRIS Manage - Confirmation Attachment (1)
 * 2011-03-05: Translatewiki.net has moved to a new server. Please report issues at Support.
 * 2011-03-04: 17 message groups have been added for iHRIS (608).
 * 2011-03-04: Integration work for iHRIS has begun again.
 * 2011-03-03: Support was added for StatusNet plugin Account Manager (1).
 * 2011-03-03: Support was added for StatusNet plugin AIM (3).
 * 2011-03-03: Support was added for StatusNet plugin Extended Profile (24).
 * 2011-03-03: Support was added for StatusNet plugin IRC (4).
 * 2011-03-03: Support was added for StatusNet plugin MSN (2).
 * 2011-03-03: Support was added for StatusNet plugin Strict Transport Security (1).
 * 2011-03-03: Support was added for StatusNet plugin XMPP (3).
 * 2011-03-02: As StatusNet is preparing for its 1.0 release, translatewiki.net now supports the 1.0.x branch. Support for 0.9.x has been dropped.
 * 2011-03-02: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Search Log (10)

February 2011

 * 2011-02-25: translatewiki.net staff has started installing a new server. We are planning to move to the new server within a week. Translatewiki.net will remain "Powered by netcup - Webspace and vServer".
 * 2011-02-24: The Narayam extension was enabled. It adds better support for typing of Malayalam and Tamil scripts. Please report any breaking issues to Support.
 * 2011-02-24: Support was dropped for Wikia MediaWiki extensions Shared Messages, Action Panel, Category Hubs, Editing Tips, Special Private Domains, Special Widget Dashboard, Widget Special Page (deleted).
 * 2011-02-22: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Narayam (12)
 * 2011-02-17: Support was added for StatusNet plugin Group Private Message (7).
 * 2011-02-17: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Article Comments (27).
 * 2011-02-17: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Spell Checker (11).
 * 2011-02-14: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Create New Wiki (48).
 * 2011-02-14: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Phalanx (81).
 * 2011-02-14: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Scavenger Hunt (57).
 * 2011-02-14: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Special Contact (24).
 * 2011-02-14: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Special User Data (10).
 * 2011-02-14: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Sponsorship Dashboard (84).
 * 2011-02-10: There was some downtime due to a failure in php-fcgi
 * 2011-02-09: Mifos has new strings to translate.
 * 2011-02-07: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Open Stack Manager (197)
 * 2011-02-05: Support was added for MediaWiki extension RDF (16)
 * 2011-02-04: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Include WP (7)
 * 2011-02-02: Our server provider has informed us that because of a technical failure the server has been offline for about three hours today.

January 2011

 * 2011-01-31: Support has been suspended for Europeana until the organisation has planned integration with translatewiki.net.
 * 2011-01-31: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Confirm Edit - reCAPTCHA (6)
 * 2011-01-27: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Email Users (6)
 * 2011-01-26: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Folk Tag Cloud (1)
 * 2011-01-25: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Ez API (1).
 * 2011-01-25: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Wikia Game Guides (5).
 * 2011-01-25: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Wikia Poll (6).
 * 2011-01-25: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Special Cache Epoch (9).
 * 2011-01-22: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Research Tools (6)
 * 2011-01-19: Support was added for MediaWiki extension GraphViz (1) (pending some proper i18n).
 * 2011-01-18: Support was added for Soxred's Toolserver X!'s Tools (31).
 * 2011-01-15: Support was finished and deployed for the Pywikibot project.
 * 2011-01-14: Support was finished and deployed for the Europeana project.
 * 2011-01-11: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Category Galleries (1).
 * 2011-01-11: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Interstitial (7).
 * 2011-01-11: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Logger (7).
 * 2011-01-11: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Mobile API (1).
 * 2011-01-11: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Page Layout Builder (154).
 * 2011-01-11: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Show Performance Stats (4).
 * 2011-01-11: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Skin Chooser (4).
 * 2011-01-11: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Time Ago Messaging (5).
 * 2011-01-11: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Unsubscribe (13).
 * 2011-01-11: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Wiki Stats (241).
 * 2011-01-11: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Wiki Builder (45).
 * 2011-01-11: Support was added for Wikia MediaWiki extension Wiki Payment (6).
 * 2011-01-03: Support was finished and deployed for the Open Images project.
 * 2011-01-02: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Sub Page List (10).

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