Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/July

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:


 * Extend page translation syntax by adding instruction to disable wrapping (Phab:T256625)
 * Simplify the output for the Special:PageTranslation (Gerrit Patch)
 * Convert special page translation marking form to OOUI (Gerrit Patch)
 * Display help message when editing a translatable page source (Phab:T192052)
 * Merge and bundle various scripts and styles together to reduce network requests.
 * SearchTranslations: Fix display of message groups in facet sidebar (Phab:T257268)
 * PageTranslation: Update the multiple language selector to OOUI
 * Remove various features from the legacy fallback editor to reduce code debt
 * Remove the custom edit buttons
 * Remove the translation in other language infobox

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 5645 (+985); MediaWiki.org 5273 (+138); Commons 1362 (+5) [ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 313 (+1) 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,


 * Stop loading ULS in unsupported skins. (Phab:T237036, Phab:T235712)
 * Localisation and maintenance updates.

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):


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.


 * Localisation, performance 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
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 2020.07 was released this month. Please see the release notes for a list of changes.

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.



Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
language-data


 * Released version 1.0.2 and 1.0.1. See changelog.



banana-i18n


 * Fix the way errors are thrown. (Github:a120a55cb1315975281212ca86cd3b7b5ff19b62)



jquery.i18n



jquery.uls


 * Update language-data version



jquery.webfonts



jquery.ime


 * Various maintenance fixes
 * Fix Devanagiri Danda (PR: #605)
 * Drop IE8 selection support (PR: #607)



translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.


 * 2020-07-29: There was approximately 6 minutes of downtime because of an incorrect configuration change.

Stats

 * About 91 (-6) new users
 * About 395 (+25) translators made about 35.900 (+1.800) edits
 * About 105 (+5) translators reviewed about 17.500 (+4.900) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates.



Deployments and other site related updates

 * Add Obolo (ann) and Mara (mrh) (Gerrit Patch)
 * Add Eleme language (Gerrit Patch)

Public communication and outreach



 * Language showcase July 2020, presented by Abijeet Patro, Niklas Laxström, and Amir E. Aharoni, on the topic of translatewiki.net and recent updates in it.