Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2018/December

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 saving process by avoiding saving to be unnecessarily triggered when content is transcluded.
 * More reliable notification for automatically deleted translations when the user is missing a local account in the current wiki to support backwards compatibility.
 * Better guidance when the original article has changed too much and cannot be updated without affecting the current translation, and facilitating access to the updated content in a separate tab/window.
 * Invite is shown to encourage users to try the new version.
 * Improved support for transferring templates by communicating when mandatory parameters (or no parameter at all) could not be mapped.
 * More effective warnings for unreviewed content, not interfering with content that the user started from scratch.
 * More solid integration of translation services by supporting a rate-limiter to prevent excessive request peaks and avoiding issues when the rate-limiter is unconfigured.
 * Improved entry points by allowing url-based campaigns to configure an edit tag to be used when the resulting translation is published.
 * Improved navigation across different errors and warnings on 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


 * Added new keyboard layouts for several languages of Western Africa: Ewe, Hausa, Igbo. (Amir. This fulfills a community wishlist item. The one for Hausa was already used in the outreach project in Nigeria.)
 * Improved layouts for Yoruba and Fon languages. (Amir, Mah3110)
 * Merged community-contributed new layouts for Santali (hpnrt) and Ho (Singkiring57) languages, as well as for several languages of Ethiopia (fgaim).

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.


 * As part of Google Code-In, the translatewiki configuration of several extensions was updated to split API messages (10 patches by Zoranzoki, 6 patches by rafidaslam; mentored by Amir, review help from Raymond Spekking and Niklas)