Project:News/Newsletter 2008-08
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Hello, dear Betawiki user. This is our third e-mail newsletter, after the previous in mid July. It intends to keep you updated on Betawiki's developments, and is also aimed at reminding you to visit http://translatewiki.net at least once every month to update the language(s) you have been contributing to in the past, so that the localisations will stay up to date. Noteworthy events ----------------- * Niklas has finished the programming on his Summer Coding Project[1], and is working on the last task: documentation[2]. Please help out if you can. * Betawiki needs more projects besides MediaWiki, its extensions, FreeCol, and Vocabulary Trainer. If you are dissatisfied with the localisation process of your favourite free open source product, and have some pull in the project, please come talk to us. We currently support Java .properties, Gettext, and PHP $messages. Adding support for more file formats is relatively easy and needs some PHP coding. * The Betawiki Language Project is still running. Bounties are available for translations into dozens of languages from Africa, Asia, and Latin America, like Oriya, Afrikaans, Yoruba, Nyanja, Gikuyu, and Guaraní[3]. * Support for Mobile Broadband Configuration Assistant has unfortunately been dropped. News has reached us that the Gnome translator community does not appreciate outside help, as they communicated to the developer. * We have imported all messages of all supported products. This will enable us to provide more complete support when messages change. Messages will be synced both ways. * More details news is available on-wiki[4]. Status overview --------------- * MediaWiki core messages: 81 core messages were added since the last update bring the total to to 2,024. There are now 160 (-37 fewer) optional messages[5]. MediaWiki 1.13 was released recently, containing 59,000 more translated messages than MediaWiki 1.12. That is an addition of almost 20 full localisations! * MediaWiki extensions: Currently Betawiki supports 244 MediaWiki extensions, which is an increase of 9 since the last update. In total the supported MediaWiki extensions have 4,661 (+503) normal messages, and 126 (+28) optional messages[6]. * FreeCol: Localisation of FreeCol is continuing as normal, support for more languages is progressing steadily. FreeCol 0.8.0 alpha is available for download. Please update your translations for the release version. Current message volume 1,650 (+95) regular messages and 360 (unchanged) optional messages[7]. * Vocabulary trainer: this product makes it possible to use OmegaWiki word collections as input for vocabulary training[8]. It currently contains 64 (unchanged) messages. Statistics ---------- We run daily statistics on all supported products. Here is an overview of localisation statuses for the various products and a comparison with the previous report (12 July), per 30 August 2008. ------------------------------------------------ | Message group |12 Jul|30 Aug| change| ------------------------------------------------ | Supported MW languages | 317 | 318 | + 0% | | Most often used 98%+ | 111 | 112 | + 1% | | Core 90%+ | 67 | 67 | 0% | | WMF extensions 90%+ | 20 | 28 | + 40% | | Extensions 65%+ | 16 | 17 | + 6% | ------------------------------------------------ | FreeCol languages | 69 | 79 | + 15% | | FreeCol 90%+ | 11 | 12 | + 9% | ------------------------------------------------ | Voc. trainer languages | 27 | 44 | + 63% | | Voc. trainer 90%+ | 8 | 16 | +100% | ------------------------------------------------ Languages with the most edits in the past month -------------------------------------------------------- 1. Ripoarisch (ksh) (2,491 edits) 2. Egyptian Spoken Arabic (arz) (1,840 edits) 3. Esperanto (eo) (1,668 edits) 4. Interlingua (ia) (1,550 edits) 5. Occitan (oc) (1,432 edits) 6. Dutch (nl) (1,311 edits) 7. Bulgarian (bg) (1,146 edits) 8. Norwegian (no) (1,131 edits) 9. German (de) (1,101 edits) 10. Arabic (ar) (1,059 edits) Top contributors (excluding staff)[9] ------------------------------------ 1. Purodha (2,620 edits) Languages: Ripoarisch, German, Documentation 2. McDutchie (1,522 edits) Languages: Interlingua, Documentation 3. Yekrats (1,474 edits) Languages: Esperanto 4. Cedric31 (1,117 edits) Languages: Occitan, French 5. Helix84 (795 edits) Languages: Slovak 6. Omnipaedista (774 edits) Languages: Ancient Greek 7. Dalibor Bosits (763 edits) Languages: Croatian 8. Darth Kule (720 edits) Languages: Italian, Documentation 9. Петър Петров (715 edits) Languages: Bulgarian 10. Ramsis II (708 edits) Languages: Egyptian Spoken Arabic We welcome feedback about this newsletter. Please let us know by sending a reply to this mail. We will try to accommodate your wishes. Siebrand Mazeland Betawiki staff [1] http://nike.fixme.fi/blag/category/betawiki/ [2] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Index [3] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Language_project [4] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Betawiki:News [5] http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&task=untranslated&group=core [6] http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&task=untranslated&group=ext-0-all [7] http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&task=untranslated&group=out-freecol [8] http://www.omegawiki.org/extensions/Wikidata/util/voctrain/trainer.php [9] http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:ContributionScores ---- You are one of over 830 people receiving this e-mail because you have registered with Betawiki (http://translatewiki.net), the wiki for the localisation projects of MediaWiki, FreeCol, and others. This newsletter will be sent at most once every month (12 e-mails per year). 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