Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/Skeleton

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:


 * Add support to delete message bundles
 * Add support for priority languages for message bundles
 * Add support for metadata and setting source languages for message bundles
 * Avoid recreation of translation pages on bulk deletion of pages
 * Allow CSV export for message groups
 * Add script to import translations from CSV file

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 8.349 (+21); MediaWiki.org 6.204 (+1); Commons 1.746 (+13) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 456 (0) 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,


 * Localisation and maintenance updates.

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):


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation maintenance updates.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation maintenance updates.

TranslationNotifications:


 * Localisation 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 2022.07 will be released this month. This section will be updated when it's been released.

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 and changes (TODO, remove if none)

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.



Stats

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