Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/September

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 phplot graphs with Chart.js (Phab:T134634)
 * Convert Special:MovePage to use OOUI (Phab:T201284)

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 5721 (+4); MediaWiki.org 5314 (+26); Commons 1440 (+82) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 371 (+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,


 * Fixed bug in Compact Languages Links: the Chavacano language was not shown.
 * Add GochiHand font.

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:
 * Fix broken language selector on the Special:NotifyTranslator page
 * 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 last month. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next MLEB release will be in 2021.01

Translatable modules
The Translatable modules consultation was done during September. The next stage will be writing a development plan based on the community feedback.

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
language-data
 * changed cbk-zam to redirect to cbk.
 * updated autonyms for the two Altai languages.

banana-i18n
 * Introduce option to enable wiki links processing (#39)

jquery.i18n
 * No changes

jquery.uls
 * Remove png icons and use svg icons
 * Update language-data from upstream

jquery.webfonts
 * No changes

jquery.ime
 * Add middle tone (macron) and fix tests for Igbo - tilde

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

 * About 99 (+28) new users
 * About 377 (+13) translators made about 36.421 (-3879) edits
 * About 94 (+8) translators reviewed about 23.254 (-2546) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

Public communication and outreach



 * Language showcase September 2020, presented by Amir E. Aharoni, on the topic of Translatable modules.
 * At Wikimedia Conference Russia 2020, Saint Petersburg: A presentation by Amir E. Aharoni on the topic of Section translation (in Russian; English interpretation is available)