Project:News/Archive/2008

December 2008

 * 2008-12-31: The last day of the year. Soon is it time to reflect on the year 2008 and set new goals for 2009. Thank you for your support and all your efforts!
 * 2008-12-30: Support was added for (1)
 * 2008-12-28: Mantis internationalisation has gotten a big improvement now that multiple parameters in a message are numbered. Please check your.
 * 2008-12-26: After the extremely busy 25 December 2008, today another busiest day ever has been measured. In total some 9,500 translations and corrections were made! Already after two days the "End of year translation rally" has already proved to be a huge success. Depending on funding that we hope to acquire, we will most definitely consider repeating events of this kind.
 * 2008-12-25: Today Betawiki is having its busiest day ever. By the end of the day, we will have gotten way past 5,000 translation edits (5,876 to be precise). That is more than three times the average number of translation edits. Thank you for your contributions!
 * 2008-12-24: Betawiki staff season greetings and translation bounty
 * 2008-12-20: Support was added for (9), and  (6)
 * 2008-12-18: Support was added for (1)
 * 2008-12-16: Betawiki now has a new favicon, and we have Danny B. to thank for it!
 * 2008-12-16: Security updates have been made for MediaWiki 1.13.3 and 1.12.3. Of course they also contain localisation updates made with Betawiki!
 * 2008-12-15: Betawiki staff has mailed out its fourth newsletter. You did not get it? Confirm your e-mail!
 * 2008-12-15: We have had a long standing issue with edits by bots from localhost; the URLs in notification e-mails contained links to localhost. This should be fixed now.
 * 2008-12-04: Support was added for (6)
 * 2008-12-01: Another month has ended, and a new month has begun. The MediaWiki aggregated statistics were updated - get your friends that speak less resourced languages in, please, because we need their help making MediaWiki better!

November 2008

 * 2008-11-30: Special:LanguageStats gives a real-time overview of translation statistics for a language. In the future the results may be cached for a few hours.
 * 2008-11-29: Support was added for (9), a Python MediaWiki parser
 * 2008-11-28: Support was added for (13)
 * 2008-11-25: We had a short planned, unannounced downtime of less than two minutes for a server update from 20:05 UTC
 * 2008-11-24: Fallback messages in the edit page can now be edited with one click
 * 2008-11-24: Annoyed by the English or a fallback language in the Betawiki user interface or on the Betawiki main page?
 * 2008-11-24: Special:Translations can give an overview of all translations for one message.
 * 2008-11-19: Support was added for the 12 (95) ( (3),  (4),  (2),  (8),  (1),  (42),  (4),  (1),  (19),  (1),  (9), and  (1))
 * 2008-11-16: Support was added for (496)
 * 2008-11-03: Support was added for (7)
 * 2008-11-01: Support was added for (36) and  (32)
 * 2008-11-01: Another month has ended, and a new month has begun. The MediaWiki aggregated statistics were updated - get your friends that speak less resourced languages in, please, because we need their help making MediaWiki better!

October 2008

 * 2008-10-31: Support was added for (69)
 * 2008-10-29: Support was added for (2), and  (4)
 * 2008-10-28: Localisation of special page names, namespaces, skin names and magic words is done at Special:Magic
 * 2008-10-28: Have you worked on or  already?
 * 2008-10-27: Support was added for (14),  (1), and  (1).
 * 2008-10-26: Support was added for (12), and  (5)
 * 2008-10-24: (78) and  (83) were added as
 * 2008-10-24: Support was added for (18)
 * 2008-10-18: Statistics updates were broken for a few days. Luckily NicDumZ fixed pywikipediabot today and statistics have been updated again.
 * 2008-10-09: Soon the MediaWiki namespace Image will be renamed to File. Please update your namespace names now, and we will update them in MediaWiki as soon as the change happens for English.
 * 2008-10-06: About 50 messages were added to the MediaWiki core in the past few days. Some because extensions were merged into MediaWiki core, but more than 75% is new. !
 * 2008-10-05: Support was added for (25)
 * 2008-10-02: Support was added for (5)
 * 2008-10-01: Many MediaWiki core messages were added or updated. !
 * 2008-10-01: Another month has ended, and a new month has begun. The MediaWiki aggregated statistics were updated - get your friends that speak less resourced languages in, please, because we need their help making MediaWiki better!

September 2008

 * 2008-09-30: Support was added for (48)
 * 2008-09-30: support is no longer experimental.
 * 2008-09-17: was added to enable localisation of user interface text containing " | " as a separator. We have changed it on Betawiki to " &bull; ". Please report any remaining uses of the pipe sign as separator at Support.
 * 2008-09-09: Support was added for recognition of, and a bug was fixed in the recognition of
 * 2008-09-09: All Mantis messages have been added, providing for proper fuzzy support.
 * 2008-09-09: Support was added for (2)
 * 2008-09-07: Support was added for (1,158), a free popular web-based bugtracking system written in PHP. More information on the product can be found on its website.
 * 2008-09-05: Support was added for (21)
 * 2008-09-04: More support for localisation of special page names for MediaWiki extensions was added. The special page names can be translated on Special:Magic. Please remember to request a commit of Magic, Special Page names, Skin names or Namespaces on Translating:Tasks.
 * 2008-09-04: Support was added for (5)
 * 2008-09-03: Support was added for (7). Messages for this extension are likely to change, as there are some i18n issues.

August 2008

 * 2008-08-31: Betawiki staff has mailed out its third monthly-ish newsletter. You did not get it? Get your e-mail confirmed!
 * 2008-08-31: Support was added for (22)
 * 2008-08-30: Pages have been created for all translations of all supported projects. This will improve support for fuzzying pages a lot, as we will now fuzzy every available translation, instead of only those made in Betawiki.
 * 2008-08-30: Because the extension of the week was inactive, we have now introduced extension of the month, which will start in September.
 * 2008-08-28: Editing was broken for about 8 minutes because of a broken software update (21:31-21:39 UTC).
 * 2008-08-26: We are rewriting and restructuring the documentation. Please bear with us and all help is welcome.
 * 2008-08-25: A new interwiki was added to refer to MediaWiki Subversion revisions. Example: mwr:39946.
 * 2008-08-24: 52 new MediaWiki core messages were added for a new feature Visual diff. We think there are still some issues with the current i18n implementation. Please report issues any ideas on Support.
 * 2008-08-24: The message groups for, , , and have been updated.
 * 2008-08-22: Support was dropped for our gettext experiment with the Mobile Broadband Configuration Assistent. Unfortunately the Gnome translation community no longer wants to accept localisation updates from outside their own project. We think this means that as a FOSS community, we still have a lot to learn about communication, collaboration, and mutual respect.
 * 2008-08-16: Support was added for (7),  (1), and  (100).
 * 2008-08-15: More support for localisation of special page names for MediaWiki extensions was added. The special page names can be translated on Special:Magic. Please remember to request a commit of Magic, Special Page names, Skin names or Namespaces on Translating:Tasks.
 * 2008-08-10: Support was added for (8)
 * 2008-08-05: We have started to import *all* available core messages for MediaWiki. This will enable a more complete fuzzy policy. With this, we are also introducing an experimental two-way synchronisation for messages related to MediaWiki, guaranteeing a smoother collaboration with developers that work on localisations through other methods.
 * 2008-08-04: On translation pages a toolbox menu item was added that leads to a page displaying all pages with all translations for the message ("Other translations"). This was previously implemented in JavaScript and could not be localised. Please localise the and the  with priority, so you can feel very at home working in this environment.
 * 2008-08-04: The messages for the are now stable. Please help them get translated!
 * 2008-08-01: 21 MediaWiki core messages were changed to improve usability. Links were added and some rephrasing was done. Please check the, and the for your language.
 * 2008-08-01: In July 2008 Betawiki users have contributed to the localisation of more than 200 languages. Thank you! List: ab, af, aln, am, an, ang, ar, arc, arn, arz, as, ast, avk, az, ba, bat-smg, bcc, bcl, be, be-tarask, bg, bi, bn, br, bs, bug, ca, cdo, ce, ceb, ch, co, crh-cyrl, crh-latn, cs, csb, cu, cy, da, de, de-formal, diq, dlc, dsb, dz, ee, el, en-gb, eo, es, et, eu, ext, fi, fiu-vro, fo, fr, frc, frp, fur, fy, ga, gag, gan, gd, gl, gn, grc, gsw, gu, gv, hak, haw, he, hi, hif-latn, hil, hr, hsb, ht, hu, hy, ia, id, ie, ig, ike-cans, ilo, io, is, it, ja, jut, jv, ka, kaa, kab, kk-arab, kk-cyrl, kk-latn, km, kn, ko, ksh, ku-arab, ku-latn, kv, la, lb, lfn, lg, li, lij, lmo, ln, lo, loz, lt, lv, mai, mdf, mg, mhr, mk, ml, mn, mr, ms, mt, mwl, mwv, my, myv, nah, nan, nap, nds, nds-nl, nds_nl, ne, new, niu, nl, nl-be, nn, no, nov, nso, oc, os, pa, pam, pap, pfl, pl, pms, pnt, ps, pt, pt-br, pt-pt, qu, rif, rm, rmy, ro, rtm, ru, ruq-cyrl, ruq-latn, sah, sc, scn, sco, sd, sdc, se, sei, sk, sl, sma, so, sq, sr, sr-ec, sr-el, srn, stq, su, sv, sw, sxu, szl, ta, te, tet, tg-cyrl, th, tk, tl, to, tr, ts, tt-cyrl, ttt, tyv, udm, uk, ur, uz, vec, vi, vls, vo, wa, war, wo, wuu, xmf, yi, yue, zea, zh-classical, zh-hans, zh-hant, zh-tw

July 2008

 * 2008-07-19: The Flagged Revs extension (10 message groups, 220+ messages) has been removed from the Wikimedia Extensions meta message group. The reason for this is that the extension is highly specialised and used only in the German language Wikipedia. Because of the message volume and the highly specialised terminology which is very hard to translate, it was completely misrepresenting the translation status of extensions used in Wikimedia in the statistics. A column has been added to the stats to report on the translation status of Flagged Revs separately.
 * 2008-07-18: In the past few days, staff has performed a quality check on MediaWiki core and extension messages. This resulted in about 2.000 changes, most of them improvements. Where we were not able, or certain, we could fix the issue with the message, we fuzzied. Please check and fix the fuzzied messages in and  and  that are marked as problematic. Mind you: there can be false positives. Those should be quite obvious, though. After release of MediaWiki 1.13, 40-45 messages will be improved and fuzzied. Our quality assurance initiatives will continue!
 * 2008-07-14: Betawiki staff has mailed out its second monthly-ish newsletter. You did not get it? Get your e-mail confirmed!
 * 2008-07-13: Support was added for (4) Removed again. Will probably be added sometime soon.
 * 2008-07-13: Summary of changes to } since 1 July: 10 messages removed, 2 messages fuzzied, 6 messages added.
 * 2008-07-13: Message checks now run 4 times a day for and, and for . Some checks still need improvement.
 * 2008-07-13: Daily updated statistics pages for FreeCol, Mobile Broadband Configuration Assistant, and Vocabulary trainer have been added.
 * 2008-07-13: Message groups have been added for, and . The meta message groups have not been populated yet. Please use Support if you can give us a (semi) complete overview of the extensions any of these farms use. This way we aim to better facilitate the communities of those wikifarms. Additional goals are trying to get those farms to open more of their extensions and run more up-to-date versions of MediaWiki.
 * 2008-07-12: Support was added for (20), and  (31).
 * 2008-07-12: FreeCol 0.8.0 release is coming soon. There is new strings to translate.
 * 2008-07-10: Localisation for special page names for many extensions was added. Now supports 23 extensions.
 * 2008-07-09: Support was added for (2), and  (25).
 * 2008-07-09: MediaWiki is preparing for a 1.13 release. Complete your core message group now!
 * 2008-07-09: Support was removed for Word2MediaWikiPlus. The developers of the product did not live up to their promises. Our apologies for the time and effort you may have put into trying to get this product localised.
 * 2008-07-08: Graphs showing statistics are now available, see the language portals for some examples.
 * 2008-07-04: Support was added to MediaWiki for edit toolbar buttons localization.
 * 2008-07-01: Support was added for (2), and  (1).

June 2008

 * 2008-06-30: Support was added for (43).
 * 2008-06-28: Three new core messages were added:, and.
 * 2008-06-26: Support was added for (76).
 * 2008-06-25: Since the last notice, support was added for the following extension:, , , , and . Support was also added for the external application.
 * 2008-06-25: Special:AdvancedTranslate (old Magic) was improved and now supports translating special page aliases for extensions that support it. Please report any problems and similar to Support.
 * 2008-06-25: Support for Gettext project is in a test phase. In the future we may add new projects to Betawiki that use Gettext, stay tuned.
 * 2008-06-25: Experimental XLIFF export support shows in the task list. If you work with tools that use XLIFF, contact User:Nike. It is not possible to import changes back, so don't use it!
 * 2008-06-17: We had about 10 minutes for planned but unannounced downtime for merging our changes to updated MediaWiki code. It took longer than expected, as TeliaSonera in the time of fiber optics can't build a network that doesn't have 35% packet loss in the wrong time. Also, committed some local changes to core, so we have fewer custom changes if they stick.
 * 2008-06-16: We are suffering some brokenness pending an update to the latest software. RecentChanges is now broken. Update: fixed; somewhat. We need to make some additional effort to conform to the structure change in MediaWiki within the next day. Some RecentChanges features may not work for now.
 * 2008-06-12: Next FreeCol release 0.7.4 is planned on Monday 2008-06-16. Now is a good time to check and improve translations in existing languages.
 * 2008-06-09: One core message was added:.
 * 2008-06-09: Fuzzy messages are not counted as translated anymore at group statistics.
 * 2008-06-09: Support for Voctrain project has been added.
 * 2008-06-09: Support for additional namespaces for external message groups was added; export is said to be 5 times faster; after some initial problems Special:Recentchanges has been filled with new options.
 * 2008-06-02: This was my (User:Nike) first work day in my summer job where I will be expanding the functionality of the Translate extension. My first task is to have working general Gettext support.
 * 2008-06-02: We are now running lighttpd instead of apache2 as a web server. Unless there is problems, we will probably keep running lighttpd. Only user visible changes should be a new backups.translatewiki.net subdomain and that awstats are now behind http auth to keep robots etc out.
 * 2008-06-02: Support was added for (1),  (1), and  (5). The FlaggedRevs extension has been split into 10 message groups. A meta extension will be created for this.
 * 2008-06-02: The following core messages were added:, , , , , , and.
 * 2008-06-02: In May 2008 Betawiki users have contributed to the localisation of 201 languages. Thank you!
 * 2008-06-02: Deleted some invalid protections from database that showed up in Special:ProtectedPages.

May 2008

 * 2008-05-31: We are running Lighttpd as an experimental service on http://translatewiki.net:81 to see if it is more stable.
 * 2008-05-31: Unplanned downtime form 15:51 to 17:46 UTC, we are still investigating these issues and apologise for any inconvenience cause by them.
 * 2008-05-29: Support was added for (1).
 * 2008-05-29: The following core messages were add:, and.
 * 2008-05-28: The following core messages were add:, and.
 * 2008-05-27: We appear to be having some so far unexplained performance issues. We are investigating this. Unannounced short downtime may occur.
 * 2008-05-26: One core message was added:.
 * 2008-05-24: Support was added for (1).
 * 2008-05-23: GeShi syntax highlight plugin was installed.
 * 2008-05-23: Short unplanned downtime around from 07:30 to 07:45 UTC. Site was inaccessible.
 * 2008-05-23: Six core messages were added:, , , , and.
 * 2008-05-20: Have you translated the extension of the week: ? (used on Betawiki, but hopefully soon on Wikimedia wikis too)
 * 2008-05-20: Six core messages were added in the past few days. 2 core messages changed. Please update your translations!
 * 2008-05-19: Support was added for (16)
 * 2008-05-15: Support was added for (27), and  (6). Betawiki now supports 200 MediaWiki extension message groups.
 * 2008-05-14: One core message was added:.
 * 2008-05-13: The Wikimedia Foundation Board Elections are starting soon. Please donate some of your time to work on the extension.
 * 2008-05-13: (179) has been enabled again. We urge you to [ review all Flagged Revisions translations] as we may not have noticed some out of sync!
 * 2008-05-13: Have you translated the extension of the week: ? (used on Wikimedia Wikis)
 * 2008-05-12: Support was added for (64), and  (3).
 * 2008-05-12: Three new core messages were added:, , and
 * 2008-05-11: Messages for [ Freecol], the turn-based strategy game, were updated to the Freecol repository. Unfortunately we do not yet have statistics available. We hope to get them after the summer.
 * 2008-05-10: One core message was added:
 * 2008-05-09: Two core message was added: and
 * 2008-05-09: Support was added for (1)
 * 2008-05-07: We had server problems today for little over three hours. We are sorry about the inconvenience it has caused. Problem seems to be related to Apache and we are investigating how to prevent this from happening again.
 * 2008-05-07: Have you translated the extension of the week: ? (used on Betawiki)
 * 2008-05-07: In April 2008 Betawiki users have contributed to the localisation of 180+ languages. Thank you!
 * 2008-05-06: One core message was added:.
 * 2008-05-04: Support was added for (2), and  (98)

April 2008

 * 2008-04-28: 5 new core messages were added. Please update your translations.
 * 2008-04-28: Have you translated the extension of the week: ? (will be used on Wikimedia sites)
 * 2008-04-26: Two new messages were added to [ Betawiki UI messages]
 * 2008-04-26: Support was added for (11)
 * 2008-04-23: 45 new core messages were added. Please update your translations.
 * 2008-04-22: 59 messages were added for [ Word2MediaWiki Plus]
 * 2008-04-22: Support was added for (1)
 * 2008-04-22: Three core messages were added:, and
 * 2008-04-21: Support was added for [ Word2MediaWiki Plus] (15)
 * 2008-04-20: Have you translated the extension of the week: ? (used on Semantic MediaWiki wiki)
 * 2008-04-19: Support was added for extensions (50, and 10 optional), and  (135, and 5 optional)
 * 2008-04-18: was changed and fuzzied.
 * 2008-04-16: Nine new core messages were added. Please update your translations.
 * 2008-04-16: Localisation checks are now updated daily on Betawiki and contain direct links
 * 2008-04-15: was changed and fuzzied.
 * 2008-04-14: was changed and fuzzied.
 * 2008-04-13: One core message was added: . Three core messages changed and were fuzzied:, , and
 * 2008-04-12: The project Skanwiki has started, a collaboration between Nordic languages. If you contribute to Danish, Nynorsk, Bokmål or Swedish, please join the effort.
 * 2008-04-12: Betawiki staff has mailed out its first monthly-ish newsletter. You did not get it? Get your e-mail confirmed!
 * 2008-04-12: 14 new core messages were added:, , , , and , and others. Please update your translations.
 * 2008-04-11: Support was added for extension (13)
 * 2008-04-11: Support was added for extension (8)
 * 2008-04-10: Have you translated the extension of the week: ? (used on Counter-Vandalism wiki)
 * 2008-04-10: Five new core messages were added for Special:Listgrouprights. Please update your translations.
 * 2008-04-09: A preference was added in the tab Misc to opt-out from receiving monthly newsletters from Betawiki staff. We think this frequency is non-intrusive and it will increase the number of regularly maintained languages, as well as keep users informed of what is happening within Betawiki, and things to come. A first mail to anyone with a confirmed e-mail address (even if opted out before that) is planned somewhere in the coming week. No newsletters will be delivered to users that have opted out after that. The newsletters will also be posted on-wiki (but that will not have that much impact if you are inactive...).
 * 2008-04-08: Several new core messages were added. Please update your translations.
 * 2008-04-07:, and were changed and fuzzied. Nine new core messages were added. Please update your translations.
 * 2008-04-07: Support for extension Flagged Revisions was removed. Betawiki admins think that the extension is too volatile at the moment to keep up with. Once there is more stability, it will be added again.
 * 2008-04-07: Support was added for extensions (2),  (1), and  (40)
 * 2008-04-07: Historical day: MediaWiki now has 100 languages with proper localisation of the most often used messages!
 * 2008-04-04: was reworded and fuzzied.
 * 2008-04-02: Eight new core messages were added:, , , , , , , and . Some related messages were fuzzied.
 * 2008-04-01: We integrated chat into the website with the Mibbit extension. Come on and have a chat!
 * 2008-04-01: Support was added for extension (3)
 * 2008-04-01: In March 2008 Betawiki users have contributed to the localisation of 180+ languages. Thank you!
 * 2008-04-01: Have you translated the extension of the week: ? (used on photo-op-wiki)

March 2008

 * 2008-03-31: Support for the extension Makereviewer was dropped as it no longer exists (-/-26 messages, of which 2 have moved to Flagged Revs)
 * 2008-03-31: Two core messages were fuzzied:, and . Three core messages were added: , , and.
 * 2008-03-27: One core message was added:.
 * 2008-03-27: We suffered some network downtime from approximately 9.00 CET to 11.00 CET. Our apologies for the inconvenience this may have caused.
 * 2008-03-25: One core message changed and was fuzzied: . Two core messages were added:, and.
 * 2008-03-24: Have you translated the extension of the week: ? (to be used on Wikimedia Sites)
 * 2008-03-24: Three messages changed and were fuzzied: (part removed),  (punctuation added), and  (plural added). Two messages were added:, and.
 * 2008-03-23: We have added Google Adsense text advertisements at the bottom of the left column. Possible revenue will be used for the benifit of the Betawiki community.
 * 2008-03-23: Five new core messages were added:, , , , and.
 * 2008-03-22: New users are treated to a skin other than monobook: modern works better, we think
 * 2008-03-20: Support was added for extensions (16), and  (2)
 * 2008-03-20: Four new core messages were added:, , , and.
 * 2008-03-19: Nine new core messages were added for Special:Fileduplicatesearch (!).
 * 2008-03-19: A few small changed were made to Special:Translate: it shows untranslated messages (including fuzzy) by default now. Messages with long names are abbreviated at the beginning.
 * 2008-03-19: Due to some misconfiguration we had a malfunctioning wiki for about 30-40 minutes. The error has been corrected. Our apologies for any inconvenience it may have caused you.
 * 2008-03-19: Two new core messages have been added:, and . Five messages have been retired because they were no longer in use.
 * 2008-03-18: Six new core messages have been added:, , , , , and.
 * 2008-03-17: Have you translated the extension of the week: ? (to be used on Wikimedia Sites)
 * 2008-03-17: A new core message has been added:.
 * 2008-03-15: We have fuzzied all messages that had warnings. Please [ update your translations] [], [],[]!
 * 2008-03-15: Support was added for extension (1)
 * 2008-03-15: Three new core messages have been added:, , and.
 * 2008-03-14: Two new core messages have been added:, and.
 * 2008-03-14: was changed and fuzzied (101 times). Please [ update your translations]!
 * 2008-03-12: Support was added for extensions (1),  (1), and  (23)
 * 2008-03-12: Three new core messages have been added: and . ( as optional message for RTL wikis only.)
 * 2008-03-12: Many languages have fuzzied messages. Please [ update your translations]!
 * 2008-03-11: Three new core messages have been added:, and . ( as optional message for RTL wikis only.)
 * 2008-03-11: Support was added for extensions (1),  (49), and  (41)
 * 2008-03-10: Have you translated the extension of the week: ? (used on Wikimedia sites)
 * 2008-03-10: The bounty for milestone 4 (all extensions 65% translated) has been adjusted upward with EUR 25 to EUR 65. It is effective immediately, also for claims already in progress.
 * 2008-03-09: The core message has been added
 * 2008-03-09: In the past week, Jon Harald Søby has redesigned the language portals. We have about 230 of them. Although it is still work in progress, have a look!
 * 2008-03-08: Support was added for extensions (1), and  (1)
 * 2008-03-06: Two new core messages have been added:, and
 * 2008-03-06: Translators have been given access to deleted user contributions
 * 2008-03-06: Support was added for extensions, , and
 * 2008-03-02: In February 2008 Betawiki users have contributed to the localisation of 150+ languages. Thank you!
 * 2008-03-02: The Language project is still open. Make some money with your hobby!
 * 2008-03-02: Have you translated the extension of the week: ?
 * 2008-03-01: Support added for (40 messages),  (146 messages), and  (61 messages)
 * 2008-03-01: Message has changed, and was fuzzied

February 2008

 * 2008-02-26: Messages categorystepper-desc, and multiboilerplate-desc have changed, and were fuzzied
 * 2008-02-26: Support added for [ Invitations] (19 messages), and [ Sub Page List 3] (3 messages)
 * 2008-02-25: four new core messages were added: tog-showhiddencats, hidden-categories, hidden-category-category, and hiddencategories. [ Translate!]
 * 2008-02-25: Message filepageexists has changed and was fuzzied. Please [ update your translations].
 * 2008-02-23: MediaWiki 1.12 has been branched. Keep on completing your message groups ([ 1], [ 2], [ 3]) and we will be maintaining 1.12 translations too (soon)!
 * 2008-02-22: Niklas and Siebrand have finally met in person. They will be visiting FOSDEM this weekend, where they will try and talk with other people involved in localisation and try and think of more nice wiki tools for the localisation community.
 * 2008-02-22: New core message added: feed-unavailable
 * 2008-02-22: Support added for Collection
 * 2008-02-21: New core message added: red-link-title
 * 2008-02-21: Support added for Google Maps
 * 2008-02-20: Have you translated the extension of the week: [ Translate]? (used here!)
 * 2008-02-20: Support added for CrowdAuthentication, EditOwn, GlobalUsage, googleAnalytics, and RandomImage
 * 2008-02-19: Support added for Data Transfer, Labeled Section Transclusion, and Timeline
 * 2008-02-18: Support added for Double Wiki, Poem, Random Root Page, and Wikihiero
 * 2008-02-17: MediaWiki 1.12 will be branched soon. Please try and complete your unfinished message group this week ([ 1], [ 2], [ 3])
 * 2008-02-17: two new core messages were added: undeletelink, and toomanymatches. [ Translate!]
 * 2008-02-15: captcha-edit was fuzzied as 'article' was changed to 'page'. Please check all your core and extension translations, as 'article' should not be used.
 * 2008-02-15: 18 core messages related to media files were updated and fuzzied. Please [ update your translations].
 * 2008-02-14: support for three new extensions was added: Crosswiki Block
 * 2008-02-14: Our provider has informed us of maintenance between 20:00 and 24:00 CET for a kernelupgrade. The expected downtime should not exceed 20 minutes. (done already)
 * 2008-02-13: Have you translated the extension of the week: [ Quiz]? (used on Wikiversity)
 * 2008-02-13: support for three new extensions was added: CommentPages, ForcePreview, and RightFunctions
 * 2008-02-11: Betawiki now uses the extension New User Message to provide a welcome message with useful information immediate after user creation so users can get up to speed more quickly.
 * 2008-02-10: Support for translation of messages of the following extensions was added: Who's Online, Title Key, Edit User, Import User, and New User Message
 * 2008-02-09: Group statistics are now updated automatically every day at about 21:50 CET
 * 2008-02-08: The message revreview-changed has changed and was fuzzied
 * 2008-02-06: Have you translated the extension of the week: [ New User Log]? (used on [ Betawiki])
 * 2008-02-06: several messages with extension descriptions for Special:Version were added. More extensions will probably follow.
 * 2008-02-05: The messages createaccount-text, editinginterface, and prefs-watchlist-days have changed.
 * 2008-02-05: Support was added for extension [ Semantic Calendar].
 * 2008-02-05: In January 2008 Betawiki users have contributed to the localisation of 130+ languages. Thank you!
 * 2008-02-03: extensions AutomaticGroups and Resign have been removed as they are obsolete. Extension [ Clean changes] was added.
 * 2008-02-02: about 10 descriptions for extensions were added. One message in Liquid Threads has changed and was fuzzied.
 * 2008-02-01: we have migrated to a new server. Please report any strange behaviour on Support.
 * 2008-02-01: we have installed a new server with more memory and are waiting for migration by our provider Netcup. This will result in some downtime. Please be patient and try again in 30 minutes...
 * 2008-02-01: support was dropped for extension Desysop, as the functionality is covered by the standard version of MediaWiki.

January 2008

 * 2008-01-31: Our hosting provider Netcup has kindly offered to upgrade our server. This means that we now have a little extra speed. We are currently planning steps to migrate to a different server where we will be getting even more memory at our disposal. This will most probably mean that Betawiki will be unreachable for about two hours somewhere in the coming week.
 * 2008-01-31: Have you translated the extension of the week: [ Wikidata Language Manager]? (used on OmegaWiki)
 * 2008-01-31: support was dropped for extensions GiveRollback and Oversight, as the functionality is covered by the standard version of MediaWiki.
 * 2008-01-31: 14 new core messages have been added so that Special:Version now supports localisation. Extension description localisation support has been added for Cite. More extensions are expected to follow.
 * 2008-01-29: Message changes: core { new: delete-confirm, delete-backlink (optional), delete-legend; changed deletecomment; removed confirmdelete, deletesub } and new message newuserlog-byemail for new user log.
 * 2008-01-29: Messages "hist-quality" and "hist-stable" from Flaggedrevs have changed.
 * 2008-01-27: We have cleaned up the user rights of Betawiki users. Formerly, everyone was given sysopship and bureaucratship. Now, these rights have been removed by most inactive users. Most users have now just translator rights.
 * 2008-01-27: New messages "filepageexists" (core) and "smoothgallery-gallery-not-found" (smooth gallery).
 * 2008-01-26: Support was added for extensions [ Category Stepper] and [ Multi Boilerplate].
 * 2008-01-24: .po export now opens in a download. This prevents all kinds of encoding issues on the side of the translator.
 * 2008-01-24: New messages were added: 'filedelete-reason-dropdown' containing a pre-defined list with reasons for deletion of a page,   'filedelete-reason-otherlist', and 'filedelete-otherreason'.
 * 2008-01-24: Have you translated the extension of the week: [ Username Blacklist]? (used on Wikimedia sites)
 * 2008-01-22: The message importsuccess has changed. It was fuzzied. The following core messages have been added: 'import-parse-failure', 'import-noarticle', 'import-nonewrevisions','xml-error-string'
 * 2008-01-17: Support was added for the translation of extension [ Parser Diff Test] used to compare old and new MediaWiki parser output. It was also added to the meta extension group [ Extensions used by Wikimedia].
 * 2008-01-16: The Language project has started today. It is a sponsored localisation drive for MediaWiki focused on languages from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and Latin America with currently poor localisation. Up to €200,00 ($293) per localisation can be collected to re-donated when all four translation milestones have been reached.
 * 2008-01-16: One extension message group was dropped and integrated into [ Wikidata Language Manager]. 83 more messages for OmegaWiki were added.
 * 2008-01-16: Have you translated the extension of the week: [ Parser Functions]? (used on Wikimedia sites)
 * 2008-01-15: Thanks to SPQRobin it is now possible to easily translate the Main Page of Betawiki from within the Translate module.
 * 2008-01-10: Support was dropped for MakeBot (19 messages) and MakeSysop (17 messages), as these extensions will be obsolete soon. We see no use in asking you to translate them anymore.
 * 2008-01-09: Support was added for the translation of extension [ Metavid Wiki]
 * 2008-01-09: Have you translated the extension of the week: [ Site Matrix]? (used on Wikimedia sites)
 * 2008-01-09: Support was added for the translation of extension [ Purge Cache]
 * 2008-01-08: Support was added for the translation of extension [ Semantic Drilldown]
 * 2008-01-07: We had a Chinese spider bot bugging us the past few days. This made Betawiki very slow sometimes. It looks like we have blocked it and things are back to normal.
 * 2008-01-07: Support was added for the translation of extension [ UsageStatistics]
 * 2008-01-06: The messages group extensions used by Wikimedia has been updated. ParserFunctions and FancyCaptcha had not been added yet. CentralAuth and Flagged Revisions have been added to the group because they are near production.
 * 2008-01-04: It is now possible to [ translate the custom user interface of Betawiki], which means only the sidebar currently. Also activated sidebar caching with expire time of 5 minutes, so don't wonder if your translations don't show up immediately.
 * 2008-01-04: The following messages have changed. 'This site' was replaced by in nocreatetext, rev-deleted-text-permission, filedelete-nofile, sorbsreason, sorbs_create_account_reason, farmer-list-wiki-text, and farmer-admimistration-listupdate-text. Please check outdated [ core], and [ extension] messages.
 * 2008-01-03: There are some new messages about upload import upload errors: "importuploaderrorsize", "importuploaderrorpartial" and "importuploaderrortemp". The message "importuploaderror" is deprecated.
 * 2008-01-03: In December 2007 Betawiki users have contributed to the localisation of 120+ languages. Thank you!
 * 2008-01-02: Support was added for the translation of extension [ SemanticForms]
 * 2008-01-02: Best wishes for 2008! Have you translated the extension of the week: [ Confirm Edit]? (used on Wikimedia sites)

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