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Weekly code changes, week 28

The following is a summary of code changes we did during week 28 (July 12-July 18) of 2010, and which were deployed on July 19, 2010 14:00 UTC.

Bugfixes

  • Fixed a bug in MediaWikiAuth extension related to e-mail address and real name importing
  • Fixed a PHP parse error in Pig Latin (en-piglatin) internationalization file

As always, if you find any bugs, please don’t hesitate to report them to us by using our bug tracker (Bugzilla).

Weekly code changes, week 27

The following is a summary of code changes we did during week 27 (July 4-July 11) of 2010, and which were deployed on July 12, 2010 14:00 UTC.

Bugfixes

Internationalization and localization

  • Updated Pig Latin English (en-piglatin) and lolcat English (en-lolcat) translations
  • Fixed i18n bug in AJAX Poll extension — the extension was showing “There were 1 votes” instead of “There was one vote”. Translations of the ‘poll-info’ system message for Arabic (ar), Breton (br), German (de), Greek (el), Interlingua (ia), Macedonian (mk), Norwegian (no), Polish (pl), Piedmontese (pms) and Russian (ru) are thus outdated and we ask translators to update the message as per the English source text.
  • Dutch (nl) i18n for SiteMetrics social extension by Jedimca0
  • Initial Indonesian and Luxembourgish translations for HAWelcome extension, courtesy of translatewiki.net
  • Almost complete Polish (pl) localization for PrivateDomains, courtesy of translatewiki.net

New features

  • Special:Invite — a new special page for private wikis so that the stewards of private wikis can invite other users to the wiki
  • Special:Phalanx — a new, staff-only spam filter, which replaces the old regexBlock and spamRegex extensions

As always, if you find any bugs, please don’t hesitate to report them to us by using our bug tracker (Bugzilla).

ShoutWiki is live!

The ShoutWiki staff have been busy improving our sites for the last few days.

It is safe to say that we have left the “hidden in the basement” stage of development and stepped into the public with our “beta site“, that we call the “Hub”. It will serve the role of a central wiki for the coordination of all sites – it is the site to look for feature documentation, staff contact details and support.

It is also the place to start your own wiki, if you wish to. If you don’t want to start a wiki, you can browse the list of ShoutWiki-hosted wikis and join an existing one!

In addition to English, ShoutWiki Hub is available in Finnish (Suomi) and Dutch (Nederlands) — so come and join us today!

If you have any questions, don’t hesistate to ask! ShoutWiki offers many different ways of communication, ranging from traditional e-mail to IRC channels and more

Summer update

Hi all,

it’s been a busy summer here at ShoutWiki, and I’d like to tell you a bit about all the cool stuff we’ve developed during summer 2009!

  • SharedNewtalk — cross-wiki notifications of new messages on your personal talk pages. For example, when user A leaves a message on your talk page on wiki B and user C leaves a message on your talk page on wiki D, you will be notified about all of these messages the next time you log in to ShoutWiki. Cool or what?
  • Commenting and Voting — social commenting and voting is available on request, also for wikis that do not use the social tools package.
  • New skins — we’ve developed a bunch of new premium skins! Stay tuned for more…
  • Special:Interwiki — want to know what interwiki prefixes are available on your wiki? Or interlanguage prefixes? We thought so and decided to improve the existing Special:Interwiki extension in order to make your life a bit easier.
  • New languages — ShoutWiki supports lolcat and Pig Latin variants of English language. Have you ever seen a wiki with lolcat or Pig Latin as the default? I bet you haven’t, because these language variants are unique to ShoutWiki.

I would also like to thank our hard-working beta testers and staff members for all the work they’ve done during the summer. Without you, we wouldn’t be here now.

Beta is here!

Hey all! The main page of our site is now open for viewing, check it out on shoutwiki.com now.

We’re in a limited beta phase right now, meaning that a selected group of users have access to the site for testing purposes. These beta-testers will ensure that everything works properly before we open up the whole site for everyone.

We hope to launch the site in summer 2009 for the rest of the world.

If you would like us to host your wiki or you have some questions about the service, give us a shout at support@shoutwiki.com.

I hope to see you on the wiki!

Beta Main Page

Beta Main Page

Welcome!

Welcome to the ShoutWiki blog!

ShoutWiki is a free wiki-hosting company currently in development.

Why choose ShoutWiki?

  • Wikis made by you, for you
  • Newest stable version of the MediaWiki software
  • Lots of additional features, such as embedded YouTube videos, calendars and much more!
  • Great customer support by an experienced staff (more detailed information to come!)
  • Many different types of wikis to choose from (including those without ads, for a small fee)
  • Shared login between all wikis (excluding private ones)

When will you open?

We plan to have a beta phase open to users in the near future (sometime in 2009).  Please follow this blog for more information or e-mail us at info@shoutwiki.com stating your interest.

Stay tuned!

We plan to post more often and chronicle the evolution of ShoutWiki.