Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2019/January

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. Also check out out the newsletter and updates about version 2.
 * Improved error communication by surfacing pending issues when publishing.
 * More reliable navigation in the new translation dialog by opening links on a new window.
 * More reliable control of unreviewed content by adjusting the thresholds of the warning, reducing false positives and more strictly checking content copied from the source article.
 * Version 2 enabled by default, users migrated are shown an explanatory message. It's still possible to switch to version 1.
 * Better support for inline templates, keeping their contents in the translation as plain-text when the corresponding template is missing in the target wiki.
 * More clear language for the translation options with a clarifying message when machine translation is not available for the selected languages.
 * More fluent experience by avoiding scroll to jump after adding a link.
 * Improved support for transferring templates across languages by mapping parameters based on their names when template metadata is lacking.
 * More reliable generation of the published content by avoiding ID attributes to be included for tables, and keeping HTML entities (including spaces) when transferred into the translation.

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.



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



Other extensions
Babel (part of MLEB):



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



CleanChanges (part of MLEB):



LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):



TranslationNotifications:



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 also translatewiki.net news page.