User:Nikerabbit/Monthly report/2017-09

This the new Wikimedia language engineering monthly report. It continues the tradition of the monthly report published by the Wikimedia Language team which is discontinued in favour of Global Collaboration monthly report. This report is currently looking for a new location.

Monthly updates 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.

Please see the ·Global Collaboration monthly report.

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.

· patches were merged this month.



Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta 3970 (+74); MediaWiki.org 3486 (+63); Commons 682 (+14)
 * Translate extension is installed on 218 (+7) wikis Wikiapiary

Universal Language Selector
Universal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB.

· patches were merged this month.



Other extensions
Babel (part of MLEB):
 * No noteworthy changes.

cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):
 * No noteworthy changes.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
 * Max Semenik updated some deprecated code.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):
 * No noteworthy changes.

TranslationNotifications:
 * No noteworthy changes.

MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle
·

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
 * No changes.

jquery.uls
 * Volker Eckl improved colors.
 * Niklas Laxström improved the display "no search results" view. T175233

jquery.webfonts
 * No changes.

jquery.ime
 * No changes.

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.


 * Felipe L. Ewald improved our custom error page.
 * Max Semenik started migration off of experimental HTML ids.

Stats

 * About 70 (-30) new users
 * About 310 (-50) translators made about 45.000 (-10.000) edits
 * About 70 (-30) translators reviewed about 13.000 (-2.000) translations

Sources:     

TwnMainPage

 * Željko Filipin deleted all Ruby code that was unused. T164479