Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2019/June

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. Also check out out the updates about version 2.

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.


 * Enable codehealth pipeline for the Translate extension. (T225581)
 * Search icon on the Manage Translator Sandbox is not positioned properly on Timeless theme (T226409)
 * Convert Translate to use extension registration (T87985)
 * Add progressive flag for submit button on Special:SearchTranslations
 * Extend message checker framework to support errors that prevent saving (T204568)
 * Invalid "more warnings" label shown during message translation (T220789)

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 4922 (+21); MediaWiki.org 4264 (+39); Commons 1266 (+18) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 292 wikis Wikiapiary. Drastic change when compared to last month is due to a bug with Wikiapiary noted here.

Universal Language Selector
Universal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB.



Other extensions
Babel (part of MLEB):



cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):



CleanChanges (part of MLEB):



LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):



TranslationNotifications:



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.

Next release for MLEB is in July, 2019

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.



Project Milkshake
Project Milkshake consists of four re-usable jquery internationalization libraries.

jquery.i18n



jquery.uls



jquery.webfonts



jquery.ime



translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.



Public communication and outreach

 * June 2019 Language showcase on the topic of Machine Translation