Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/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.

Highlights

 * Content Translation had 6000 translations per week, mostly driven by Hausa and Arabic.
 * Work has begun on implementing Translatable modules.



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:


 * Breaking change: Remove timelimit param from ApiStatsQuery
 * Add a script to cleanup obsolete rows from translate_groupstats
 * Rename Special:SupportedLanguages to Special:ActiveLanguages externally
 * Limit the max number of pages that can be moved
 * Special:PageTranslation: Add tag for pages that support transclusion
 * Fix metadata handling for translatable page moves and deletions

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 6.505 (+164); MediaWiki.org 5.521 (+45); Commons 1.525 (+4) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 410 (+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,


 * Changes related to positioning of language menu below language button for new Vector

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):


 * Add termbox language ryu
 * Add monolingual language code nan-hani
 * Localisation and maintenance updates.

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 2021.01 was released in Jan, 2021. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in April, 2021.

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


 * Cleanup autonyms in the Chinese script to use consistent parentheses
 * Add languages: Belizean Creole, Basaa, Kom, and the Chinese-script variant of Min Nan

banana-i18n


 * No updates

jquery.i18n


 * No updates

jquery.uls


 * Add  and deprecate top and left (GitHub PR)

jquery.webfonts


 * No updates

jquery.ime


 * Add keyboards for Basaa and Kom languages

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.


 * Added languages: Kom, Basaa, Belizean Creole
 * Wayuu language graduated to core MediaWiki

Stats

 * About 99 (+15) new users
 * About 426 (+30) translators made about 50.980 (+7.308) edits
 * About 105 (+6) translators reviewed about 11.916 (-6956) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

Public communication and outreach



 * Workshop: "Translatewiki for beginners - Make Wikipedia fully usable in your language!" for the translators into the Dagbani language, but applicable to all languages