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December 2015

2015-12-25: Support was removed for MediaWiki extension Gather.
2015-12-16: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Notebook Viewer (1).
2015-12-16: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Add HTML Meta And Title (2).
2015-12-16: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Hmtl 2 Wiki (22).
2015-12-16: An issue that prevent deleting pages was fixed.
2015-12-08: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Event Bus (1).
2015-12-04: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension PCR GUI Inserts (1).
2015-12-04: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Cards (1).

November 2015

2015-11-16: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Semantic External Query Lookup (2).
2015-11-16: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension No Bogus Userpages (3).
2015-11-16: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Minimum Name Length (2).
2015-11-04: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Blue Spice - About Blue Spice (5).
2015-11-04: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Article Placeholder (15).
2015-11-01: Support was added for new MediaWiki skin Timeless (1).
2015-11-01: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Access Control (3).

October 2015

2015-10-21: DOWN for about 30 minutes due to incompatibilities after an HHVM update.
2015-10-15: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension ORES (5).
2015-10-13: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Kartographer (5).
2015-10-13: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Stat Counter (2).
2015-10-09: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension GPG Mail (5).
2015-10-07: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Mailgun (1).

September 2015

2015-09-29: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Cookie Policy (6).
2015-09-29: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Accessibility Simulation (3).
2015-09-29: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Action Edit Submit (1).
2015-09-25: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Interwiki Integration (12).
2015-09-25: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Date Diff (1).
2015-09-25: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Pipe Escape (1).
2015-09-25: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Azhar Auth (13).
2015-09-17: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Top Ten Pages (2).
2015-09-15: Restarted again after hosting provider investigation. It seems disk access is still low as it takes like 15 minutes to regenerate important caches MediaWiki needs for serving pages.
2015-09-14: DOWN We had around two hours of downtime. Same reason as yesterday. Disk access is very slow, so pages with uncached data may time out. We have asked our hosting provider to investigate.
2015-09-13: DOWN We had around six hours of downtime as our main server went unreachable for an unknown reason around 02.00 UTC.
2015-09-11: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Delete Pages For Good (8).
2015-09-09: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Google Analytics Metrics (1).
2015-09-09: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Google Places (1).
2015-09-09: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Php Tags Storage (1).
2015-09-09: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Petition (22).
2015-09-08: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Semantic Cite (46).
2015-09-06: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Smite Spam (35).
2015-09-04: Support was added for new MediaWiki extension Parsoid Batch API (1).

August 2015

2015-08-28: Apertium machine translation suggestions have been restored using a WMF hosted instance.
2015-08-21: HHVM upgraded to version 3.9.0.
2015-08-19: Support was added for the new project crosswatch (94).
2015-08-17: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Newletter (47).
2015-08-17: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Import Users (29).
2015-08-17: Support was added for MediaWiki skin Blueprint (2).
2015-08-15: DOWN for about 30 minutes due to hhvm segfaulting.
2015-08-14: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Quick Surveys (7).
2015-08-06: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Link Suggest 2 (2).
2015-08-04: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Test Language Name Grammar (5).
2015-08-03: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Text Scroller (1).
2015-08-03: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Edit Similar (6).
2015-08-02: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Spam Diff Tool (17).
2015-08-02: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Edit User (8).

July 2015

2015-07-29: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Quick Search Lookup (3).
2015-07-27: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Wikidata Page Banner (2).
2015-07-25: Support was added for MediaWiki skin apex (12).
2015-07-23: We have moved to new servers. netcup.de – Webhosting, vServer, Servermanagement has kindly made available two servers for us that have now been taken into production. If you notice any changes compared to the past week, good or bad, please let us know on the Support page. Please consider using netcup.de as your supplier for vServers and webhosting. Thanks!
2015-07-22: Multiple features are being removed from the deprecated translation editor (so-called "non-TUX"): workflow state selector (not used on translatewiki.net), translation suggestions, documentation for gettext projects (such as FUEL, iHRIS), getLastDiff. Further information might appear later this month in the release notes at mw:MLEB. Comments can be directed to Translation UX feedback.
2015-07-15 – 2015-07-19: VisualEditor translathon
2015-07-15: ElasticSearch (search, translation memory) was down for 30 minutes after failing to come up after reboot
2015-07-08: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Open Badges (38).
2015-07-08: Support was added for MediaWiki extension LanguageTool (1).
2015-07-07: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Ms Upload (16).
2015-07-07: Support was added for MediaWiki extension PGF/TikZ (30).
2015-07-05: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Timeline Table (9).
2015-07-05: Support was added for MediaWiki extension ConfirmEdit ReCaptcha NoCaptcha (7).
2015-07-01: Thanks and Echo extensions were installed on this wiki.

June 2015

2015-06-22: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Twitter Login (6).
2015-06-18: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Debug Templates (37).
2015-06-18: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Hit Counters (9).
2015-06-14: Support was added for the project Wiki Ed Dashboard (102).
2015-06-14: Support was added for the project Entryscape (170).
2015-06-10: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Article Comments (27).
2015-06-08: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Ajax Login (7).
2015-06-08: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Auto Proxy Block (9).
2015-06-01: Support was added for MediaWiki skin erudite (4).

May 2015

2015-05-20: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Smite Spam (2).
2015-05-20: Support was added for MediaWiki extension OO Js UI Ajax Login (2).
2015-05-20: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Blue Spice - Deferred (11).
2015-05-18: Translation of special page aliases and magic words is no longer possible, see Gerrit:211677.
2015-05-17–26: Translation activity is 400 % higher than usual, which is great! However we are experiencing a severe overload of our (only) server. Actions on the site sometimes randomly fail in consequence.
2015-05-16: A new Translation Rally has started. Make 500 new translations for MediaWiki and other products before May 26th to share in 500 Euro!
2015-05-06: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Prezi (3).
2015-05-06: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Link Target (1).

April 2015

2015-04-30: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Mass Action (13).
2015-04-29: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Flickr API (1).
2015-04-29: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Mad Lib (1).
2015-04-27: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Safe Delete (6).
2015-04-20: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Wikidata Quality Constraints (8).
2015-04-20: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Wikidata Quality External Validation (26).
2015-04-07: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Donation Interface - Astro Gateway (2).

March 2015

2015-03-19: Wikimedia Foundation fixed their LocalisationUpdate. It had been broken since 2014-12-16.
2015-03-05: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Wikidata Quality (17).
2015-03-05: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Virtual Keyboard (2).
2015-03-05: Support was added for MediaWiki skin Mask (6).

February 2015

2015-02-24: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Semantic Meta Tags (1).
2015-02-21: Support was added for MediaWiki extension OAuth Authentication (14).
2015-02-20: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Semantic Interlanguage Links (19).
2015-02-20: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Semantic Breadcrumb Links (3).
2015-02-19: Europeana temporarily disabled. Will be restored ASAP when source files are fixed.
2015-02-19: Please translate all the most used MediaWiki messages (600). We just updated the list.
2015-02-17: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Contributors Addon (1).
2015-02-17: Support was removed for MediaWiki extension Less (integrated into Core)
2015-02-17: Support was removed for MediaWiki extension Strategy Wiki - Active Strategy (WMF centric, unused now)
2015-02-10: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Gather (10).
2015-02-08: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Rest Base Update Jobs (1).
2015-02-03: Support was added for MediaWiki extension X Analytics (1).

January 2015

2015-01-29: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Josa (1).
2015-01-26: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Google API Client (1).
2015-01-25: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Maintenance Shell (13).
2015-01-25: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Viki Title Icon (2).
2015-01-22: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Git Hub (4).
2015-01-19: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Citoid (9).
2015-01-18: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Cargo (39).
2015-01-16: Support was added for MediaWiki skin Tempo (4).
2015-01-07: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Api Feature Usage (32).
2015-01-06: Support was added for the new project iNaturalist (3288).
2015-01-06: Support was added for MediaWiki extension Paginate Text (1).
LocalisationUpdate has not been running since 17th December.

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