Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/October

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 "Translation page does not contain the latest translations/last translation"
 * Fix "This namespace is reserved for content page translations" when trying to translate a recently created translation unit"
 * Fix mandatory deletion of sub pages when deleting translatable pages
 * Make Language stats appear better on mobile screens and make the header sticky

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 5788 (67); MediaWiki.org 5331 (+17); Commons 1460 (+20) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 374 (+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,


 * TODO: Add changes

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

Other extensions
Babel (part of MLEB):



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



CleanChanges (part of MLEB):



LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):



TranslationNotifications:



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.

TODO: Update based on whether there was an MLEB release.

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



banana-i18n



jquery.i18n



jquery.uls



jquery.webfonts



jquery.ime



translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.



Stats

 * About TODO (TODO) new users
 * About TODO (TODO) translators made about TODO (TODO) edits
 * About TODO (TODO) translators reviewed about TODO (TODO) translations

Public communication and outreach



 * The Translatable modules consultation is concluded. The project and the consultation summary were presented at the Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2020: Translatable modules: Better workflows for onwiki developers.
 * The presentation The frontend of WikiCite at the WikiCite 2020 Virtual conference by Amir Aharoni includes some discussion localization challenges with citations on Wikimedia projects and ideas about possible directions for solution.