Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2018/August

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 newsletter and updates about version 2.


 * Warning for too much unmodified content per paragraph to prevent machine translation misuse.
 * Improved template translation by avoiding the mapping of parameters that do not exist in the target language.
 * Support for videos, and inline images.
 * Published a list of representative wikis that will facilitate focusing on the impact our work has towards the stated goals.
 * Improved support for references that appear in several paragraphs, and citation templates to avoid dirty markup.
 * Performance improvements to avoid delay when typing in large article translation.
 * More reliable application of initial translations by avoiding to leave the paragraph unusable when Machine Translation fails and when switching to not use machine translation.
 * Improved issue communication system by allowing to mark issues as resolved for the current session, showing information about issues when they are relevant, and more clear message when there is too much unmodified machine translation.
 * More reliable processing of the content to avoid some images not being displayed in the source article, wide images overflowing their column, and stub templates to avoid displaying them.
 * Better support for content persistency when using the browser back button.
 * Adjusted look for link information to improve consistency with Visual Editor and avoid code duplication.
 * Support for keyboard navigation across paragraphs in the translation.
 * On request from the users, new machine translation engine - LingoCloud added for users translating into Chinese and Japanese.

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.



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

 * No release this month.

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
 * No changes.

jquery.webfonts
 * No changes.

jquery.ime
 * No changes.

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.


 * MediaWiki extension used on Wikimedia sites are now reorganized. Until recently it was divided into "Main" (most common extensions) and everything else. It is now divided into several more groups by themes: Main, Fundraising, Media, Wikivoyage, Technical (API, Ops), etc. The intention is to helping volunteer translators prioritize their work more efficiently. See Phabricator task.