Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2015/November

Monthly updates from WMF Editing - Language team

Content Translation
Updates from the ongoing development and deployment for Content Translation. (Newsletter)

Development update

 * Personalized recommendations from the http://recommend.wmflabs.org/ by research team is integrated to suggestions system of CX. Users will get suggestions based on their previous translations as well.
 * The suggestions system now supports manually curated campaigns based on a category. Articles existing in a category in one language but not in another can be created as a campaign.
 * The UX of suggestions view improved further. More improvements and features planned for coming weeks
 * Design and development of parallel corpora based on translations in content translation started(https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111905)
 * The cxserver is getting migrated to service-runner. The rewritten version is planned to deploy in December 2015
 * Miscellaneous bug fixes based on user feedback

Other projects
Updates from Translate, Universal Language Selector, MLEB and other projects.

Development update
Translate had a lot of code maintenance:
 * The number and size of master database queries in message index were reduced significantly
 * Code style checkers were added and made to run automatically. Issues found by them were fixed (Thanks to Željko Filipin and Paladox)
 * Large cleanup to token handling

Universal Language Selector also had code cleanups.
 * The usage of jQuery.tipsy was reduced due to performance reasons (thanks to Ori Livneh).
 * A compatibility issue with Internet Explorer 8 was fixed (although the support for that browser will soon be dropped in general).
 * Input methods for Yoruba were added by update of jQuery.ime library.

Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta 2408 (+82); MediaWiki.org 2655 (+19); Commons 421 (+4)
 * Translate extension is installed on 205 wikis (+2), according to Wikiapiary

Machine Translation

 * ContentTranslation added new MT service Yandex for English to Russian (T89844).

Campaign

 * 'article-recommender-1' campaign was added which is used in article suggestion.

Team status

 * No changes