Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2018/May

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.


 * Support for Captcha confirmation when target wikis request it.
 * Layout adjustments to keep article titles visually aligned, make visual alignment reliable when resizing the browser window, and avoid menus to hide behind the main content.
 * Showing a clean source article by removing irrelevant sections and hidden categories.
 * Definition of success metrics: number of newcomers, percentage of successful completion, number of errors, and translation survival.
 * Support for links with new link cards allowing to preview their content in both languages and manipulate links, support to search for links in the target wiki, and better control for text input cursor placement when editing links.
 * Use of updated API for short descriptions which allows local wikis to override Wikidata default descriptions.
 * Starting translations from a link is more fluent by automatically selecting the article to translate.
 * More reliable saving by including source information, and language selection to avoid duplicates.
 * Improved testability: editor version is persistent when navigating from dashboard, and captcha support added in the test environment.
 * Automatic translation card with options to select the Machine Translation provider from those available, copying the source text or starting from scratch. Modifications on the original automatic translations are kept persistent with an option to reset them.
 * Improving the persistence of categories and solving issues with missing categories.
 * Improvements in code modularization, API parameter consistency, and regressions in the visual alignment of paragraphs.

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.

Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta 4405; MediaWiki.org 3677; Commons 756 [1][2][3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 206 wikis Wikiapiary

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 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: A keyboard for the Fon language, spoken in Benin, was added by Mahuton, Amir, and Santhosh at the Hackathon in Barcelona.

jquery.uls

jquery.webfonts

jquery.ime

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.

Stats
Sources: [4 ] [5 ] [6 ] [7 ] [8 ]