Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/July

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:


 * Fix "Impossible to mark pages for translation using the mobile site"
 * Allow filtering the translation review log by subtypes of actions
 * Drop support for MediaWiki 1.36

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 8.559 (+210); MediaWiki.org 6.237 (+33); Commons 1.741 (-5) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Wikiapiary is down. Translate extension is installed on - (-) 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,


 * Add support for empty states to the current language selector
 * Drop support for MediaWiki 1.36
 * 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):


 * Drop support for MediaWiki 1.36
 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

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


 * Localisation updates only.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

LocalisationUpdate:


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

TranslationNotifications:


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

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 was released this month. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes.

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 Version 1.1.0 (2022-07-07) was released. See the changelog here.
 * Languages added and changes:
 * Add Wolaytta (wal) (PR)
 * Add Kalanga (kck) (PR)
 * Add Yonaguni (yoi) (PR)
 * Fix Wolaytta autonym (PR)
 * Fix Bunun autonym (PR)

banana-i18n


 * Setup a website for banana-i18n - https://wikimedia.github.io/banana-i18n/
 * Update dev dependencies to fix security issues (PR)

jquery.i18n


 * Fix chrome cors policy when running the demo (PR)

jquery.uls


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts


 * No updates

jquery.ime


 * Keyboards added and changed:
 * Add Esan tilde keyboard
 * Add Setswana tilde keyboard

translatewiki.net
See translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates

 * Make Punjabi variants (pa/pnb) each other's assistant
 * Add default assistant languages for Munda languages
 * Add default assistant languages for Sotho-Tswana languages
 * Add Yonaguni language (yoi)
 * Add Kalanga (kck)
 * Add Wolaytta language (wal)
 * Add Bunun (bnn)

Stats

 * About 100 (+25) new users
 * About 377 (-2) translators made about 52.208 (+8.001) edits
 * About 83 (-3) translators reviewed about 11.056 (+2.563) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Allow search engine indexing the main page
 * Localisation updates