Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/November

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:


 * Replace usage of jQuery show / hide in various pages
 * Remove FCFontFinder
 * Various code improvements to ManageTranslatorSandboxSpecialPage & TranslationStashSpecialPage
 * export.php: remove Gettext post processing support

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 6116 (+328); MediaWiki.org 5400 (+69); Commons 1477 (+17) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 379 (+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,


 * Handle Language Apply button little bit more sanely
 * CompactLinks: Better handling of opening links to new tab/window
 * Allow skins to register their own button and disable compact
 * Add the Boyo Gagrai for the Ho language in the Warang Citi script

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):
 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

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 2020.10 was released in October. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next MLEB release will be in 2021.01

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
 * No updates

banana-i18n
 * No updates

jquery.i18n
 * No updates

jquery.uls
 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts
 * No updates

jquery.ime
 * Add Obolo tilde keyboard

translatewiki.net
See translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

 * About 90 (+3) new users
 * About 372 (-7) translators made about 38.843 (-3.434) edits
 * About 100 (+15) translators reviewed about 9.843 (+470) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

Public communication and outreach



 * Amir Aharoni: A presentation on Global templates at the online Catalan wiki meeting (speech mostly in English, slides in English and Catalan).