Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/November

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 compatibility with VisualEditor
 * Fix: UI issue: the page moves from bottom to top when new messages are loaded in List tab
 * Add functionality to toggle all groups
 * Migrate Translate extension tables to abstract schema

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 7.239 (+68); MediaWiki.org 5.862 (+4); Commons 1.560 (-17) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 451 (+4) 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,


 * Disable language button background color on modern Vector
 * Lower .uls-menu z-index for Vector skin to avoid overlapping with the Vector sticky header
 * Fix: [Sticky header] ULS should remain fixed to header when scrolling
 * Add Awami Nastaliq 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):


 * Add Makhuwa, not part of CLDR
 * Add Pa'O (blk)
 * Add language codes mcn and tlh-latn / tlh-piqd
 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):


 * No updates

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 2021.11 was released this month. This is a bug-fix release. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes.

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: Logooli (rag), Aja (ajg), Nawdm (nmz), Ghanaian Pidgin (gpe), Aghem (agq) and Masana (mcn)
 * Changes:
 * Split Northern Thai to nod and nod-thai
 * Change names of Cyrillic-script languages to lowercase

banana-i18n
 * No updates

jquery.i18n
 * No updates

jquery.uls
 * Localisation updates

jquery.webfonts
 * No updates

jquery.ime
 * Released version 0.3.0
 * Security fixes for dev dependencies.
 * Improvement to test cases
 * Keyboards added:
 * Nawdm tilde
 * Mon Simplified Anonta
 * Aja tilde
 * Keyboard changes:
 * Add diacritics to the Ga keyboard
 * Small improvements in my-xkb layout (See: PR)

translatewiki.net
See translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates

 * Add Nawdm (nmz), Ghanaian Pidgin (gpe), Aja (ajg) and Logooli (rag) languages.

Stats

 * About 104 (+15) new users
 * About 358 (-15) translators made about 44.002 (-3.880) edits
 * About 94 (-5) translators reviewed about 6.083 (+249) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.