Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/December

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.

Content Translation
Content Translation allows people to translate Wikipedia articles. Check out also the updates about version 3.

Translate
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:


 * Fix Special:MovePage being broken with MediaWiki < 1.36
 * Special:Translate: Add language name in editor placeholder
 * Special:Translate: Make target language selector more prominent
 * TranslatorActivity: Implement caching for inactive languages
 * Fire hook when translation view state changes. Hook:

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

 * Translatable pages: Meta 7.295 (+56); MediaWiki.org 5.956 (-94); Commons 1.706 (+146) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 454 (+3) wikis.

Universal Language Selector
Universal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB. Notable changes made include,


 * Handle "Enter" keyboard event for checkbox hack selectors

Please follow this link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

Other extensions
Babel (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):


 * Add Nanai (gld) and Nawdm (nmz)

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation updates only.

TranslationNotifications:


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle
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 2021.12 was released this month. This is a bug-fix release. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes.

The next release will happen next year in January.

MediaWiki core internationalization
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: TODO (remove if none)
 * Language configuration changes: TODO (remove if none)
 * Internationalization feature changes: TODO (remove if none)

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
language-data


 * Add Aleut languages
 * Update Abkhaz autonym

banana-i18n


 * No updates

jquery.i18n


 * No updates

jquery.uls


 * Localisation updates

jquery.webfonts


 * No updates

jquery.ime


 * Add diacritics to the Ga keyboard

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates

 * Add Aleut languages
 * Add Talysh in Cyrillic (tly-cyrl)

Stats

 * About 73 (+31) new users
 * About 328 (-30) translators made about 31.232 (-12.770) edits
 * About 67 (+27) translators reviewed about 3.780 (-2.303) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation updates only.

Team status

 * Gabriel Pita, QA Engineer for the Language Team for 1 year, 10 months left the team in December 2021.