Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/February

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:


 * ExportTranslationsMaintenanceScript: Implement removal threshold
 * Do not lock pages indefinitely during translatable page moves
 * MessageGroupStats: Count optional messages with translations
 * Enable "opt-out" translation aware transclusion for templates
 * Add a Getting started with development guide for Translate

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 6.341 (+14); MediaWiki.org 5.476 (+41); Commons 1.522 (+9) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 410 (+1) 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,


 * Allow access to display and input settings in new vector (
 * Make Modern Vector compatible with ULS

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 language code pap-aw
 * Localisation and maintenance updates

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation and maintenance updates

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation and maintenance updates

TranslationNotifications:


 * Localisation and maintenance updates

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 lat month (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

Language Data - 2021-01-27 was released last month.

Other changes:
 * Add nan-hani (GitHub PR)
 * Consistently use parentheses in Chinese-script autonyms (GitHub PR)
 * Add a newline to the end of language-data.json (GitHub PR)
 * Update the autonym for guc (GitHub PR)
 * Add Nuer language (nus) (GitHub PR)
 * Add Aruba Papiamento (GitHub PR)
 * Add Carpathian Romani (GitHub PR)
 * Add Rohg to rtlscripts (GitHub PR)
 * Cleanup the data for the Talysh language (GitHub PR)

banana-i18n


 * Add support for formatnum operation (GitHub PR)

jquery.i18n


 * No updates

jquery.uls


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts


 * No updates

jquery.ime


 * Add Nuer Tilde keyboard (GitHub PR)

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.


 * 2021-02-11: Behavior of statistics has changed:
 * Translated optional are counted in both total and translated (previously they were not)
 * All language & message group statistics were refreshed to apply this change and correct any statistics that were outdated
 * 2021-02-03: Behavior of translation exports has changed:
 * Languages under export threshold are now updated if they have already been exported earlier.
 * Languages under removal threshold will be deleted. By default it is 0%, meaning that files with no non-outdated translations will be deleted. The removal threshold can be configured per project in the same way as export threshold.

Stats

 * About 84 (-6) new users
 * About 396 (-23) translators made about 43.672 (-8.749) edits
 * About 109 (-2) translators reviewed about 18.872 (TODO) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

Public communication and outreach



 * Section Translation New Ways to Contribute on Mobile Devices - presentation by Amir Aharoni, Pau Giner, and Nik Gkountas at the Wikimedia Wikimeet India conference