Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/October

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:


 * 725283: SECURITY: Allow revdel-related actions in translatable pages | https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/725283
 * 727430: Special:Translations: Fix lang attribute for message documentation | https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/727430
 * 724995: Optimize metadata query in Recent(Additions)MessageGroup | https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/724995
 * 730040: Special:ActiveLanguages: Fix lang attribute for message documentation | https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/730040
 * 725006: Update %MESSAGE_URL% to return the complete URL | https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/725006
 * 731970: Special:Translate Pass context to localise group label | https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/731970
 * 730035: Group configuration: Rename validator keymatch option to include | https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/730035
 * 730034: Add support to exclude messages from validation | https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/Translate/+/730034

Please follow this link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta 7.171 (+186); MediaWiki.org 5.858 (+32); Commons 1.577 (-17) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 447 (+12) 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,



Please follow this link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

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.

TODO: Update based on whether there was an MLEB release.

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:
 * S'gaw Karen (ksw)
 * Farefare (gur; also known as Frafra, Gurene, and Ninkare)
 * Language configuration changes:
 * The name Chinese (Taiwan) changed from 台灣 to 臺灣 by community request.
 * Internationalization feature changes: TODO (remove if none)

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
language-data


 * Renamed language gur from Gurenɛ to Farefare: A more general and inclusive name.
 * Added Nigerian Pidgin (pcm)

banana-i18n



jquery.i18n



jquery.uls



jquery.webfonts



jquery.ime


 * Keyboards added and changed (TODO, remove if none)

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.



Language configuration updates

 * Added Nigerian Pidgin (pcm)



Stats

 * About TODO (TODO) new users
 * About TODO (TODO) translators made about TODO (TODO) edits
 * About TODO (TODO) translators reviewed about TODO (TODO) translations