Project:News/Archive/2012

December 2012

 * 2012-12-31: Uptime for december: 99.53%
 * 2012-12-31: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Google Custom Wiki Search (2).
 * 2012-12-30: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Page Creation Notif (4).
 * 2012-12-25: Support was added for MediaWiki extension My Variables (1).
 * 2012-12-23: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Guided Tour (1).
 * 2012-12-22: A new Translation Rally has started. Make 500 new translations before the end of 2012 to share in 1,000 Euro!
 * 2012-12-21: translatewiki.net staff has mailed out its December 2012 newsletter. You did not get it? Confirm your e-mail address!
 * 2012-12-20: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Secure Sessions (11).
 * 2012-12-19: Support for StatusNet was dropped, as the product will be discontinued.
 * 2012-12-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Getting Started (6).
 * 2012-12-10: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Map Sources (16).
 * 2012-12-08: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Magic No Cache (1).
 * 2012-12-07: Support was re-added for MediaWiki extension Wikilog (25).
 * 2012-12-03: We had downtime about from 2150 to 2350 UTC.

November 2012

 * 2012-11-26: translatewiki.net staff has mailed out its November 2012 newsletter. You did not get it? Confirm your e-mail address!
 * 2012-11-25: After a renewed attempt in August and October, conversations with GNU Mailman reach a definite halt.
 * 2012-11-24: Support was re-added for a bunch of MediaWiki extension after migration from SVN to Git.
 * 2012-11-24: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Lightweight RDFa (25).
 * 2012-11-22: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Download Counter (1).
 * 2012-11-22: Support was added for Etherpad lite (75).
 * 2012-11-15: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Template Sandbox (24).
 * 2012-11-13: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Gitweb (1).
 * 2012-11-10: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Semantic Extra Special Properties (12).
 * 2012-11-04: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Custom Data (1).
 * 2012-11-04: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Host Stats (3).
 * 2012-11-03: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Credits Source (1).
 * 2012-11-02: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Geo Crumbs (1).
 * 2012-11-02: Support was added for MediaWiki extension HTML Tags (3).

October 2012

 * 2012-10-29: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Insider (4).
 * 2012-10-29: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Listings (9).
 * 2012-10-28: We switched the webserver from lighttpd to nginx. HTTPS should now work also for Chrome users.
 * 2012-10-28: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Math Search (1).
 * 2012-10-26: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Solarium (1).
 * 2012-10-24: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Event Logging (1).
 * 2012-10-24: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Agora (1).
 * 2012-10-23: Support was re-added for a bunch of MediaWiki extension after migration from SVN to Git.
 * 2012-10-17: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Related Sites (2).
 * 2012-10-17: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Toc Tree (4).
 * 2012-10-17: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Geo Math (3).
 * 2012-10-17: Support was added for MediaWiki extension SSL Client Authentication (16).
 * 2012-10-17: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Related Articles (2).
 * 2012-10-15: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Persona (2).
 * 2012-10-15: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Calendar (1).
 * 2012-10-11: Support was added for Toolserver tool Wlmsurvey (69).
 * 2012-10-08: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Data Values - Value Formatters (1).
 * 2012-10-05: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Data Values - Value Validators (1).
 * 2012-10-05: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Data Values - Value Parsers (1).
 * 2012-10-05: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Data Values - Data Types (9).
 * 2012-10-05: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Data Values (2).
 * 2012-10-03: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Url Get Parameters (1).
 * 2012-10-03: Support was added for MediaWiki extension UR Names (1).
 * 2012-10-02: Support for ~260 MediaWiki extensions still in SVN (full list) has been dropped, as announced in August.

September 2012

 * 2012-09-26: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Post Edit (3).
 * 2012-09-21: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Carp (1).
 * 2012-09-09: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Revision Comment Supplement (51).
 * 2012-09-08: Till September 29th, Nike and Siebrand will be travelling (San Francisco with the l10n team) and will have limited capacity for.
 * 2012-09-08: Support for iHRIS is temporarily disabled pending investigation of a major quality issue.
 * 2012-09-07: Support was re-enabled for MediaWiki extension Parser Functions
 * 2012-09-07: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Comments (51).
 * 2012-09-07: Support was added for Waymarked Trails help pages (40).

August 2012

 * 2012-08-28: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Two Factor Authentication (21).
 * 2012-08-24: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Diagnosis (3).
 * 2012-08-22: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Tabber (1).
 * 2012-08-20: Unexplained severe slowness (basically down) around 21.00-22.15 UTC
 * 2012-08-18: The Translation Rally has ended. Thank you for your participation!
 * 2012-08-16: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Universal Language Selector (3).
 * 2012-08-16: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Biblio Plus (1).
 * 2012-08-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Donation Interface - Amazon Gateway (2).
 * 2012-08-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Semantic Genealogy (14).
 * 2012-08-11: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Formel Applet (1).
 * 2012-08-09: Support was added for MediaWiki extension PDF Export (36).
 * 2012-08-08: A new translatewiki.net Translation Rally with a EUR 1000,00 bounty will start today at 22:00 UTC, kindly sponsored by Wikimedia Nederland.
 * 2012-08-08: translatewiki.net staff has mailed out its August 2012 newsletter. You did not get it? Confirm your e-mail address!
 * 2012-08-06: Are you a designer and can you volunteer to create handout material for translatewiki.net?
 * 2012-08-05: Support was added for MediaWiki extension White Space (1).
 * 2012-08-03: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Mpdf (3).
 * 2012-08-03: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Diff (1).
 * 2012-08-02: Support was added for WikiLovesMonuments Mobile (86).
 * 2012-08-02: Raymond and Siebrand took long holidays in July, but we're back!

July 2012

 * 2012-07-23: First i18n update since the 13th (and last MediaWiki export of the month).
 * 2012-07-10: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Stick to That Language (3).
 * 2012-07-04: Begins overhaul of Support page via Support, using categories and Semantic MediaWiki to organize tasks and poke developers. All threads on Support and Translating talk:MediaWiki are checked and tagged. The process for this is documented.[//translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Support&oldid=4052922] [//translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Template:Support&oldid=4192633]
 * 2012-07-03: StatusNet translations are now for version 1.2.x.

June 2012

 * 2012-06-26: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Wikimedia Labs Messages (9).
 * 2012-06-21: Beta support was added for 101 localisation files of Mozilla Firefox (2,839). Translation of Firefox is only supported for Gujarati and Hebrew for now, because of the translation structure for Firefox (teams have to organise themselves, including their translation environment). If you are on a team and want to move to translatewiki.net for your language, please make it known on the support page, so we can work that out.
 * 2012-06-21: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Ether Editor (3).
 * 2012-06-21: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Wikimedia Shop Link (3).
 * 2012-06-21: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Pan Scroll (1).
 * 2012-06-17: for about 3 hours because of unexpected server restart.
 * 2012-06-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Semantic Expressiveness (6).
 * 2012-06-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Scribunto (28).
 * 2012-06-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Premoderation (66).
 * 2012-06-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Page Images (1).
 * 2012-06-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension OATH Auth (26).
 * 2012-06-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Echo (21).
 * 2012-06-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Did You Know (2).
 * 2012-06-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Access Control (4).
 * 2012-06-12: for about 15 minutes because of a MySQL misconfiguration.
 * 2012-06-03: After being left out in the MediaWiki git migration, we've re-enabled support for the MediaWiki installer.
 * 2012-06-03: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Last Modified/E3Experiments (1).

May 2012

 * 2012-05-28: translatewiki.net staff has mailed out its May 2012 newsletter. You did not get it? Confirm your e-mail address!
 * 2012-05-27: All translators now have the right to review translations.
 * 2012-05-26: Because of issues the with source code management for MediaWiki extensions, no exports of translations can be made at the moment. Our apologies. All your translations will of course be updated as soon as the issue is resolved.
 * 2012-05-24: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Education Program (647).
 * 2012-05-15: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Akismet Klik (1).
 * 2012-05-13: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Select Tag (1).
 * 2012-05-11: We had deployment issue that broke our site code for about 60 minutes. For safety we enabled read only mode and restored known good state from backups. Database was not affected.
 * 2012-05-09: Issue with images (Instant commons) was resolved today.
 * 2012-05-08: Support was added for the Toolserver tool Mwsnapshots (19).
 * 2012-05-07: We've been having problems with MySQL for dew days - it crashing randomly. We have probably found the root cause and fixed it. We hit out file system's inode limit. netcup has raised the limit from the previous 1M to 5M, and after a restart of the server, we are now back in the clear, we think. Thank you for your patience.
 * 2012-05-01: Translation update process to Wikimedia wikis is currently broken.
 * 2012-05-01: Support was added for Waymarked Trails.

April 2012

 * 2012-04-30: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Wikidata Client (1).
 * 2012-04-30: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Wikidata Repo (13).
 * 2012-04-25: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Page Triage (59).
 * 2012-04-25: Support was added for MediaWiki extension All Time Zones (1).
 * 2012-04-20: for about 1 hour because of system issues.
 * 2012-04-20: We appear to be having some stability issues with our MySQL database server. Checks and configuration updates have been made. Let's hope for the best.
 * 2012-04-19: Target branch for StatusNet was changed from 1.0.x to 1.1.x.
 * 2012-04-16: translatewiki.net staff has mailed out its April 2012 newsletter. You did not get it? Confirm your e-mail address!
 * 2012-04-11: Support was added for Wiktionary Mobile.

March 2012

 * 2012-03-27: for about 6 hours
 * 2012-03-26: for about 6 hours
 * 2012-03-08: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Side Bar Menu (5).
 * 2012-03-06: Support was dropped for NOCC. The project had one maintainer that left. So sad :(.
 * 2012-03-05: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Hide Prefix (1).
 * 2012-03-05: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Semantic Title (1).
 * 2012-03-05: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Genderize (1).
 * 2012-03-04: translatewiki.net staff has mailed out its March 2012 newsletter. You did not get it? Confirm your e-mail address!

February 2012

 * 2012-02-27: Extension SimpleAntiSpam was installed to hopefully reduce the number of spam accounts that are being created.
 * 2012-02-26: Support was added for the OpenStreetMap editor Potlatch 2.
 * 2012-02-19: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Skin Per Namespace (1).
 * 2012-02-17: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Suhosin (1).
 * 2012-02-17: Support was added for MediaWiki extension AJAX Poll (9).
 * 2012-02-17: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Create Page (2).
 * 2012-02-13: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Etherpad Lite (2).

January 2012

 * 2012-01-31: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Preview Functions (1).
 * 2012-01-31: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Private Page Protection (2).
 * 2012-01-31: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Semantic Page Series (15).
 * 2012-01-27: Translate FUDforum and claim your bounty of US$50!
 * 2012-01-18: Conversations with GNU Mailman start.
 * 2012-01-18: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Swift Cloud Files (1).
 * 2012-01-16: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Interface Concurrency (1).
 * 2012-01-13: Special:PageTranslation now has better checking for invalid and duplicate translation unit names.
 * 2012-01-13: Special pages now have help links.
 * 2012-01-12: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Geo Data (9).
 * 2012-01-12: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Windows Azure Storage (1).
 * 2012-01-11: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Windows Azure SDK (1).
 * 2012-01-11: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Zero Rated Mobile Access (12).
 * Lots of gadgets have been broken, because they used to rely on legacy JavaScript features. We turned those legacy features off, so that we can find the scripts that need updating before they are permanently broken by future releases of MediaWiki. Most gadgets should have been updated, user scripts may still be broken. See more at ResourceLoader/Migration guide (users).
 * New feature for glorious translators. If you are a translation reviewer, at Special:Translate/core there is a new group "recent translations" at the bottom of the list. Use this with the accept messages task!
 * HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

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