Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/February
 January 2022 |
Wikimedia Language engineering monthly report for February 2022 | March 2022 |
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 | February 2022 | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Articles created (during the month) | 21537 | |
| Articles created till end of month | 1090489 | |
| Number of new translators (during the month) | 1224 | |
| Highest number of articles created by one user
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
19165 | tr |
| Highest number of translators for a Wikipedia
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
12620 | es |
| Highest number of translations last month for a Wikipedia | 3407 | tr |
| Total number of translators with only 1 published article
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
56039 | |
| Total number of translators with only 2 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
12657 | |
| Total number of translators with only 3 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
6004 | |
| Total number of translators with only 4 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3320 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 5 and < 20 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
10857 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 20 and < 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
3859 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 100 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
1419 | |
| Total number of translators with >= 1000 published articles
(cumulative number till end of the month) |
140 | |
| Articles deleted (during the month) | 515 |
Other statistics[edit]
| Language | Revisions | Unique pages | Unique users |
|---|---|---|---|
| az | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| bn | 252 | 77 | 22 |
| ha | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| ig | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| ku | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| sq | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| th | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Language | Absolute growth | Percent of growth |
|---|---|---|
| skr | 101 | 10100.00% |
| ig | 583 | 7287.50% |
| sn | 42 | 2100.00% |
| jv | 191 | 955.00% |
| rw | 17 | 850.00% |
| ur | 222 | 616.67% |
| co | 6 | 600.00% |
| haw | 6 | 600.00% |
| th | 39 | 557.14% |
| mr | 74 | 308.33% |
| kk | 3 | 300.00% |
| ka | 41 | 241.18% |
| sc | 5 | 166.67% |
| la | 3 | 150.00% |
| si | 6 | 150.00% |
| ko | 131 | 147.19% |
| af | 10 | 125.00% |
| fi | 12 | 120.00% |
| sl | 48 | 117.07% |
| lij | 2 | 100.00% |
| sh | 1 | 100.00% |
| ro | 66 | 70.21% |
| tr | 1415 | 69.64% |
| eu | 258 | 61.72% |
| nqo | 11 | 55.00% |
| ceb | 1 | 50.00% |
| kab | 15 | 50.00% |
| or | 10 | 50.00% |
| my | 15 | 46.88% |
| lld | 3 | 37.50% |
| id | 32 | 32.65% |
| sw | 15 | 31.91% |
| mk | 248 | 31.47% |
| bn | 195 | 26.57% |
| km | 2 | 22.22% |
| ba | 14 | 20.29% |
| mn | 1 | 20.00% |
| simple | 4 | 20.00% |
| hi | 27 | 18.24% |
| br | 2 | 16.67% |
| et | 1 | 16.67% |
| kn | 20 | 14.49% |
| en | 49 | 13.28% |
| el | 82 | 13.23% |
| bs | 8 | 12.50% |
| az | 3 | 8.82% |
| zh | 37 | 7.24% |
| ha | 9 | 4.66% |
| pa | 2 | 3.70% |
| pt | 18 | 3.56% |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| tr | 3447 |
| fr | 1414 |
| es | 1274 |
| mk | 1036 |
| uk | 967 |
| bn | 929 |
| fa | 913 |
| el | 702 |
| eu | 676 |
| ca | 620 |
| ig | 591 |
| zh | 548 |
| pt | 524 |
| ar | 483 |
| it | 460 |
| en | 418 |
| ta | 381 |
| gl | 358 |
| arz | 353 |
| he | 335 |
| ru | 321 |
| ja | 283 |
| ur | 258 |
| ko | 220 |
| jv | 211 |
| ha | 202 |
| ms | 182 |
| hi | 175 |
| nl | 175 |
| ro | 160 |
| kn | 158 |
| cs | 152 |
| id | 130 |
| te | 113 |
| skr | 102 |
| sv | 99 |
| mr | 98 |
| de | 89 |
| sl | 89 |
| ba | 83 |
| sr | 78 |
| tg | 77 |
| bs | 72 |
| sw | 62 |
| sq | 59 |
| ka | 58 |
| pa | 56 |
| eo | 53 |
| tt | 53 |
| da | 51 |
| Language | Previous month |
|---|---|
| bjn | 13 |
| gor | 1 |
| kg | 2 |
| mni | 3 |
| nov | 1 |
| sah | 5 |
| st | 2 |
| tw | 1 |
| war | 1 |
| zu | 12 |
| Language | This month |
|---|---|
| mi | 7 |
| ks | 6 |
| am | 5 |
| ak | 4 |
| hyw | 3 |
| sa | 3 |
| as | 2 |
| cv | 2 |
| pms | 2 |
| ug | 2 |
| an | 1 |
| chr | 1 |
| diq | 1 |
| dv | 1 |
| fo | 1 |
| fy | 1 |
| gan | 1 |
| ilo | 1 |
| ksh | 1 |
| li | 1 |
| lmo | 1 |
| nap | 1 |
| nds | 1 |
| ny | 1 |
| pnb | 1 |
| rm | 1 |
| sd | 1 |
| shi | 1 |
| trv | 1 |
| vec | 1 |
| vls | 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:
- Finished moving special pages to namespace (task T298960)
- Add a new entity selector to select groups in Special:MessageGroupStats (task T298960)
- Add UrlInsertableSuggester for Translate (task T300619)
And a bunch of other behind-the-scenes improvements. Please follow this link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.
Usage data[edit]
- Translatable pages: Meta 7.951 (+349); MediaWiki.org 6.040 (+39); Commons 1.732 (+22) [1][2][3]
- Translate extension is installed on 455 (+1) 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,
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
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 updates only.
CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):
- Localisation updates only.
TranslationNotifications:
- Localisation 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 2022.01 was released last month. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in April, 2022
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:
- Pannonian Rusyn (rsk)
Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support[edit]
- Languages added and changes:
- No changes
- No changes
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
- No changes
- Maintenance updates
- Add the General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages keyboard (GitHub PR)
- Add Burkina Faso tilde keyboard (GitHub PR)
- Add the Bulu language with Cameroon keyboard (GitHub PR)
- Add Fante language with Akan keyboards (GitHub PR)
- Cleanup Kashmiri Arabic keyboard code (GitHub PR)
translatewiki.net[edit]
See also translatewiki.net news page.
Language configuration updates[edit]
- Add the Fante language (fat) (Gerrit change 766077)
- Add Panonian Rusyn (Gerrit change 763908)
- Add the Bulu language (Gerrit change 763901)
- Add Kenyang language (Gerrit change 759460)
Stats[edit]
- About 97 (+7) new users [2]
- About 388 (-21) translators made about 44.326 (+6.146) edits [3][4]
- About 73 (-8) translators reviewed about 9.152 (+2.625) translations [5][6]
TwnMainPage[edit]
- Localisation and maintenance updates only.
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Cross team work/requirements[edit]
Public communication and outreach[edit]
Team status[edit]
- Eugene Wang'ombe joined the Language team as Software Engineer (Contractor).