Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2017/May

Monthly updates from the Wikimedia Language team focused on technical development of the software they maintain. 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.

About ‘ patches were merged this month.



Usage data
Note: A spike in deletions caused by deletion of about 400 articles created as a vandalism in Kazakh Wikipedia.

Translate
Translate extension allows translation of software interface, manuals, announcements, banners etc. on Wikimedia special projects, translatewiki.net and other sites. Translate is part of MLEB.

About ‘ patches were merged in this month.



Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta 3708 (+76); MediaWiki.org 3405 (+27); Commons 633 (+9)
 * Translate extension is installed on 215 wikis (+5) Wikiapiary

Universal Language Selector
Universal Language Selector provides language choice, 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:

MLEB
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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.



Stats

 * About 80 (+15) new users
 * About 330 (=) translators made about 42.000 (+12.000) edits
 * About 90 (-5) translators reviewed about 10.500 (+1.500) translations

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