Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/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. 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,


 * Translate extension now requires PHP 7.2.x and MediaWiki 1.33 or above.
 * Improve performance with large message groups by implement maximum query size in MessageCollection. (Phab:T230100)

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 4766 (+80); MediaWiki.org 4717 (+299); Commons 1290 (+24) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 305 (+5) wikis |1.

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,


 * Add support for keyboard events for the setlang dialog (Gerrit Patch)
 * Remove setlang URL parameter on dialog close (Gerrit Patch)

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):
 * Updated to cldr 36.

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 2020.01 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.



Project Milkshake
Project Milkshake consists of four re-usable jQuery internationalization libraries.

jquery.i18n



jquery.uls



jquery.webfonts



jquery.ime



translatewiki.net
See translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

 * About 33 (-26) new users
 * About 312 (+8) translators made about 42.000 (-200) edits
 * About 78 (-2) translators reviewed about 32.700 (+24.650) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation updates only.

Team status

 * Petar Petković, Software Engineer on the Language team for more than 2 years left the team in January 2020. He had been instrumental in many of the feature updates for Content Translation. The Language team thanks him for his service and for being a valuable colleague.