Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/October
 September 2021 |
Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for October 2021 | November 2021 |
Monthly updates from the Wikimedia Language team about changes to internationalization and translation and other language support features. Names of people assumed to contribute as volunteers are in bold text.
Highlights[edit]
Content Translation[edit]
Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Check out also the updates about version 3.
Usage data[edit]
| Content Translation monthly data | October 2021 | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Articles created (during the month) | 17614 | |
| Articles created till end of month | 1005401 | Million! |
| Number of new translators (during the month) | 1049 | |
| Highest number of articles created by one user
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
11405 | tr |
| Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
12065 | es |
| Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia | 1675 | es |
| Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
53147 | |
| Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
11903 | |
| Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
5709 | |
| Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3168 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
10283 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3639 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1328 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
130 | |
| Articles deleted (during the month) | 430 |
Other statistics[edit]
| Language | Revisions | Unique pages | Unique users |
|---|---|---|---|
| bn | 24 | 22 | 6 |
| ha | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| ig | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| th | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| yo | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Language | Absolute growth | Percent of growth |
|---|---|---|
| ky | 35 | 3500.00% |
| rw | 28 | 2800.00% |
| su | 11 | 1100.00% |
| ary | 7 | 700.00% |
| br | 7 | 700.00% |
| km | 7 | 700.00% |
| az | 51 | 566.67% |
| sh | 5 | 500.00% |
| is | 9 | 450.00% |
| hy | 19 | 380.00% |
| ur | 196 | 332.20% |
| ak | 3 | 300.00% |
| qu | 3 | 300.00% |
| ms | 182 | 288.89% |
| ig | 60 | 230.77% |
| eo | 96 | 208.70% |
| kn | 58 | 207.14% |
| hif | 4 | 200.00% |
| ht | 12 | 200.00% |
| nqo | 4 | 200.00% |
| ba | 136 | 194.29% |
| hi | 126 | 157.50% |
| ks | 3 | 150.00% |
| ko | 101 | 140.28% |
| uz | 12 | 109.09% |
| am | 1 | 100.00% |
| cu | 1 | 100.00% |
| lt | 6 | 100.00% |
| mt | 1 | 100.00% |
| shi | 1 | 100.00% |
| th | 18 | 94.74% |
| my | 13 | 76.47% |
| tg | 22 | 73.33% |
| el | 134 | 72.83% |
| af | 14 | 66.67% |
| sl | 10 | 55.56% |
| or | 20 | 54.05% |
| de | 34 | 53.97% |
| bg | 32 | 53.33% |
| bs | 20 | 50.00% |
| cy | 13 | 50.00% |
| la | 4 | 50.00% |
| en | 134 | 45.73% |
| nn | 23 | 40.35% |
| id | 26 | 37.14% |
| eu | 51 | 33.12% |
| uk | 190 | 32.37% |
| zu | 51 | 30.72% |
| tyv | 3 | 30.00% |
| ka | 20 | 28.57% |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| es | 1926 |
| fr | 1113 |
| tr | 959 |
| uk | 777 |
| ca | 769 |
| pt | 714 |
| ar | 711 |
| ha | 695 |
| it | 552 |
| zh | 498 |
| fa | 477 |
| ta | 461 |
| he | 450 |
| gl | 444 |
| en | 427 |
| tl | 393 |
| ja | 367 |
| el | 318 |
| ru | 310 |
| ur | 255 |
| tt | 250 |
| ms | 245 |
| zu | 217 |
| ba | 206 |
| hi | 206 |
| eu | 205 |
| te | 194 |
| bn | 193 |
| mk | 193 |
| ko | 173 |
| eo | 142 |
| cs | 139 |
| ro | 121 |
| sq | 116 |
| nl | 109 |
| da | 101 |
| de | 97 |
| id | 96 |
| bg | 92 |
| ka | 90 |
| vi | 89 |
| ig | 86 |
| kn | 86 |
| ml | 82 |
| pa | 82 |
| nn | 80 |
| az | 60 |
| bs | 60 |
| be | 58 |
| or | 57 |
| Language | Previous month |
|---|---|
| awa | 2 |
| ay | 1 |
| ban | 1 |
| bar | 1 |
| bm | 1 |
| ff | 1 |
| fy | 1 |
| gor | 1 |
| ki | 1 |
| ksh | 1 |
| lad | 1 |
| lb | 2 |
| lij | 1 |
| lmo | 1 |
| mai | 3 |
| min | 1 |
| nah | 7 |
| nia | 1 |
| nso | 1 |
| ny | 1 |
| os | 1 |
| pfl | 1 |
| pnb | 7 |
| ps | 3 |
| rm | 1 |
| rn | 2 |
| sa | 1 |
| sco | 5 |
| sg | 1 |
| smn | 4 |
| srn | 1 |
| tcy | 1 |
| tet | 1 |
| ti | 1 |
| tk | 3 |
| vec | 4 |
| yi | 1 |
| za | 1 |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| mni | 19 |
| tw | 4 |
| kaa | 3 |
| kw | 3 |
| ast | 2 |
| azb | 2 |
| chr | 2 |
| eml | 2 |
| gd | 2 |
| hsb | 2 |
| kk | 2 |
| sat | 2 |
| alt | 1 |
| av | 1 |
| bjn | 1 |
| dty | 1 |
| inh | 1 |
| iu | 1 |
| kab | 1 |
| kl | 1 |
| lbe | 1 |
| lld | 1 |
| mad | 1 |
| mi | 1 |
| nov | 1 |
| pdc | 1 |
| sah | 1 |
| sn | 1 |
| so | 1 |
| ss | 1 |
| tn | 1 |
| trv | 1 |
| tum | 1 |
| xmf | 1 |
Translate[edit]
Wikimedia's software is translated to hundreds of languages using the Translate extension for MediaWiki. In addition, it is used to translate help pages, newsletters, policies, announcements, banners, etc. It is installed on Wikimedia special projects, translatewiki.net and many other sites. Translate is part of MLEB. Improvements made in the last month include:
- SECURITY: Allow revdel-related actions in translatable pages (Gerrit change 725283)
- Special:Translations: Fix language attribute for message documentation (Gerrit change 727430)
- Performance optimizations for Translate metadata (Phabricator)
- Special:ActiveLanguages: Fix language attribute for message documentation (Gerrit change 730040)
- Support Translation Aid: Update
%MESSAGE_URL%to return the complete URL (Gerrit change 725006) - Special:Translate: Ensure translated name of group is displayed (Gerrit change 731970)
- Custom group configuration: Rename validator keymatch option to include (Gerrit change 730035)
- Custom group configuration: Add support to exclude messages from validation (Gerrit change 730034)
Please follow this link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.
Usage data[edit]
- Translatable pages: Meta 7.171 (+186); MediaWiki.org 5.858 (+32); Commons 1.577 (-17) [1][2][3]
- Translate extension is installed on 447 (+12) wikis [1].
Universal Language Selector[edit]
Universal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB. Notable changes made include,
- Fix compatibility with MediaWiki 1.35 (Gerrit change 734766)
- SECURITY: Language name search: Avoid searching for very long search keys to avoid potential DDOS attacks. (Gerrit change 733924, task T293749)
- Update language name search data (Gerrit change 732614)
Please follow this link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.
Other extensions[edit]
Babel (part of MLEB):
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
TranslationNotifications:
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle[edit]
The MediaWiki language extension bundle (MLEB) provides an easy way to bring ultimate language support to your MediaWiki. The bundle is a collection of a selected few MediaWiki extensions needed by any wiki which desires to be multilingual.
MLEB 2021.10 was released this month. Please see the release notes for a list of changes.
MediaWiki core internationalization[edit]
Changes to translations and equivalent localisation data (magic words, namespace names) are not included in this list. The volunteer translators are updating translations every day to keep up with changes.
- Languages added:
- S'gaw Karen (ksw)
- Farefare (gur; also known as Frafra, Gurene, and Ninkare)
- Language configuration changes:
- The name Chinese (Taiwan) changed from 台灣 to 臺灣 by community request.
Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support[edit]
- Renamed language gur from Gurenɛ to Farefare: A more general and inclusive name.
- Added Nigerian Pidgin (pcm)
- No changes
- No changes
- Localisation updates
- Security fixes for dev dependencies
- No changes
- Add Farefare tilde keyboard (PR)
translatewiki.net[edit]
See also translatewiki.net news page.
- We are now back to using the latest version of Mediawiki code.
Language configuration updates[edit]
- Added Nigerian Pidgin (pcm)
Stats[edit]
- About 89 (-7) new users [2]
- About 373 (-3) translators made about 47.882 (+1.550) edits [3][4]
- About 99 (+9) translators reviewed about 5.854 (-9.222) translations [5][6]
TwnMainPage[edit]
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.