Hi, I have signed up to MediaWiki on 7 February 2006, and currently have Subversion commit access from 7 December 2007. More information can be found in here.
Categoey SortKey extensions!!?? (to resolve the category sorting issue among those articles and sub-categories that belongs to the category) (MediaZilla:164)
The initial Chinese conversion was introduced by Zhengzhu on rev:5246 (MW 1.4+), the table has mome minor changes until rev:6329.
The first major changes was introduced on rev:28045, and rev:28077. This change resolved the Simplified / Traditional Chinese conversion with Regional phrases conversion. The changes are available on MW 1.12 onwards.
The major update of the Chinese parsal conversion was implemented on rev:37472. This change resolved the major parsal conversion issue of the Chinese words. The changes are available on MW 1.13 onwards.
Prior MW 1.11, the language code of the Chinese languages are divided by zh-cn, zh-hk, zh-sg and zh-tw respectively. The messages are merged into zh-hans and zh-hant, in addition of the localisation messages for the particular region such as zh-hk and zh-tw. This changes was applied on SVN r26179, and is provided on MW 1.12 onwards. Also from rev:36664, two variants zh-mo and zh-my had been added to the MW software, and these variants are provided on MW 1.13 onwards.
The Cantonese language is provided from MW 1.8 onwards, the Chinese languages (including its scripts languages) are provided from MW 1.10 onwards, the Classical Chinese language is provided from MW 1.11 onwards. The Afrikaans language is provided from MW 1.11 onwards. The Min-nan, Min Dong and Wu languages are provided on MW 1.12 onwards. The Chinese (Macau) and Chinese (Malaysia) language are provided on MW 1.13 onwards.
From MW 1.12 onwards, the localisation work will be commited directly to Subversion (Cantonese, Chinese and Old / Late Time Chinese) after the grant of the Subversion commit access, other localisation can be maintained through Betawiki.
The ISO-639-3 of Literary Chinese was adopted on 19 January 2009, and changes applied on rev:45980 reflecting the changes for this. Any new MediaWiki installations would need to use the lzh instead of zh-classical code. The changes will be apply on MW 1.15 onwards.
