Extension:LocalisationUpdate

This extension comes with MediaWiki 1.21 and above. Thus you do not have to download it again. However, you still need to follow the other instructions provided.

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LocalisationUpdate Release status: stable
Implementation	Database
Description	Allows to keep the localized messages as up to date as possible
Author(s)	Tom Maaswinkel (12wiki), Niklas Laxström (maintainer)
Latest version	1.4.0 (2016-10-13)
Compatibility policy	master
MediaWiki	1.30+
Database changes	No
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	Included in Language Extension Bundle Download extension Git [?]: Download Git master browse repository (GitHub) commit history code review Readme
Example	Wikipedia
Hooks used MessageNotInMwNs LocalisationCacheRecache
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The LocalisationUpdate extension allows to update the localizations for MediaWiki messages at any time, without needing to upgrade the MediaWiki software.

Installation

• Download and place the file(s) in a directory called LocalisationUpdate in your extensions/ folder.

• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php:

  wfLoadExtension( 'LocalisationUpdate' );
  $wgLocalisationUpdateDirectory = "$IP/cache";
  

• Create a cache folder in the installation directory, and be sure the server has permissions to write on it.
•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Configuration

$wgLocalisationUpdateDirectory

Directory to store cache files in, if not set then it uses default $wgCacheDirectory . LocalisationUpdate requires some place to store files in to work; if neither $wgLocalisationUpdateDirectory nor $wgCacheDirectory is set, LocalisationUpdate's update.php script will not work.

$wgLocalisationUpdateDirectory is set to false by default.

$wgLocalisationUpdateRepository

Default repository source to fetch translation. GitHub is set to default repository. This is added with version 1.1.

$wgLocalisationUpdateRepositories

Array of repositories URLs from which to retrieve localisations for core MediaWiki and extensions. Default is set to GitHub's MediaWiki Git repositories and you should not change this unless you know what you're doing. This is added with version 1.1.

Example for using github

$wgLocalisationUpdateRepositories['github'] = array(
	'mediawiki' =>
		'https://raw.github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/master/%PATH%',
	'extension' =>
		'https://raw.github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-%NAME%/master/%PATH%',
	'skin' =>
		'https://raw.github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-skins-%NAME%/master/%PATH%'
);

Example for local filesystem configuration

$wgLocalisationUpdateRepositories['local'] = array(
	'mediawiki' =>
		'file:///resources/projects/mediawiki/master/%PATH%',
	'extension' =>
		'file:///resources/projects/mediawiki-extensions/extensions/%NAME%/%PATH%',
	'skin' =>
		'file:///resources/projects/mediawiki-skins/skins/%NAME%/%PATH%'
);

Usage

Whenever you want to run an update, run php extensions/LocalisationUpdate/update.php on the command line, or set up a cron job.

LocalisationUpdate does not update translations automatically

If you are on a unix-like system, you should add LocalisationUpdate to crontab:

crontab -e
# Add the following line
@daily php /path/to/your/wiki/extensions/LocalisationUpdate/update.php --quiet

If localization updates don't seem to come through, you may need to run php maintenance/rebuildLocalisationCache.php --force.

Script parameters

--repoid: Fetch translations from repositories identified by this

See also

• Localisation
• Technical details about how this runs on Wikimedia projects.