Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/March

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:


 * Fix "Suggestions with the same percentage are not sorted by usage"
 * Fix "[TUX] Provide feedback when saving a translation in proofreading mode"
 * Fix priority reason not appearing when marking page translation.
 * Avoid fetching language stats for all groups when Special:Translate is loaded to improve performance
 * Rename moveTranslatablePage script to moveTranslatableBundle
 * Parse magic words in  message

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 8.072 (+121); MediaWiki.org 6.138 (+98); Commons 1.741 (+9) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 455 (+0) wikis.

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,


 * Fix "ULS button in personal bar broken with classic vector".
 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

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 updates only.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation 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 2022.01 was released in January 2022. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in April, 2022

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.


 * Languages added: TODO (remove if none)
 * Language configuration changes: TODO (remove if none)
 * Internationalization feature changes: TODO (remove if none)

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
language-data


 * Languages added and changes
 * Fix the autonym for Rundi (rn) (GitHub PR)
 * Add Pannonian Rusyn (GitHub PR)

banana-i18n


 * No updates

jquery.i18n


 * No updates

jquery.uls


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts


 * No updates

jquery.ime


 * Maintenance updates only.

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.


 * Scheduled weekly backports for MediaWiki 1.38

Language configuration updates

 * Add the toki pona language (tok)

Stats

 * About 84 (-13) new users
 * About 387 (-1) translators made about 35.214 (9.112) edits
 * About 80 (+7) translators reviewed about 8.143 (-1.009) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

Deployments and other site related updates

 * Section Translation was enabled in Javanese, Tagalog, Mongolian, Telugu and Persian Wikipedias, along with Content Translation out of Beta feature.