Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/February

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 2.

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,


 * Removed old MessageChecker code. This has been replaced by the new validator framework. (Phab:T241465)

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 4796 (+30); MediaWiki.org 4731 (+14); Commons 1304 (+14) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 306 (+1) wikis |1.

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,


 * 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
Babel (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation, performance 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.
 * Improvements to the earlier changes made for sending user's message. (Phab:T144780)

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 2020.01 was released last month. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in April, 2020.

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.



Project Milkshake
Project Milkshake consists of four re-usable jQuery internationalization libraries.

jquery.i18n



jquery.uls



jquery.webfonts



jquery.ime



translatewiki.net
See translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

 * About 71 (+5) new users
 * About 297 (-15) translators made about 42.100 (+100) edits
 * About 75 (-3) translators reviewed about 16.300 (-16.400) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation updates only.

Team status

 * Chelsea Riley joined the Technical Program Management team in the Product department. She will be the Program Manager for the Inuka and Language teams.