Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/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 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 "When translating in Page mode, modifying and publishing a message causes its to become empty"
 * Fix fatal on Special:ImportTranslations during import
 * Fix "Moving a translatable page makes all translation units no longer outdated"
 * Fix "A translatable page should not be considered as broken when last change in history is a log entry"
 * Fix "Translation units to be deleted appear with unit ID -1 on Special:PageTranslation"
 * Show correct number of units marked for translation on SpecialPageTranslation
 * Extended export.php's capabilities to allow exporting everything with a single invocation
 * BREAKING CHANGE: export.php: remove  argument
 * Fix "Discouraged translatable page is no longer discouraged after move"

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 6.758 (+109); MediaWiki.org 5.725 (+72); Commons 1.616 (+34) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 432 (+9) 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,


 * Fix regressions in ULS entry point setup
 * 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.
 * Add es-419 for German
 * Add monolingual codes mix, cdo-hani, hak-hans, hak-hant

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 2021.07 was released this month, July, 2021. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in October, 2021.

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:
 * Baoule (bci)
 * Gun (guw)

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
language-data


 * Language added: Levantine Arabic (ajp)
 * Work is underway to make library updating more automatic

banana-i18n


 * Add support for formatnum with digit grouping transformation (PR)
 * New version released: 2.2.0

jquery.i18n


 * No updates

jquery.uls


 * Localisation updates

jquery.webfonts


 * Maintenance updates

jquery.ime


 * No updates

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.


 * Exports for non-mediawiki projects has now been automated

Language configuration updates

 * None

Stats

 * About 85 (+24) new users
 * About 376 (+34) translators made about 39.038 (+4.083) edits
 * About 83 (+4) translators reviewed about 22.728 (+17.417) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

Team status

 * Chelsea Riley, Program Manager for the Language team for 1 and half years left the team in July 2021.