Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2019/March

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.
 * Cron script has been deployed to purge unused unpublished drafts older than 1 year and 3 months. It will run at every 15 days.

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.


 * During translation hiding the priority language notice if target language is message documentation. (T217419)
 * Fixed page name suggestion dropdown not working on Special:PageMigration. (T217726)
 * Fixed a scenario where the message workflow status would appear when translating to the source language. (T217637)
 * Fixed broken Special:PageMigration due to errors from MessageCollection API. (T217727)
 * Added a link to Special:PageMigration after a page is marked for translation for the first time. (T178642)
 * Removed display of the workflow status for the source language / message group on the Stats page. (T160511)

And a bunch of other behind the scenes improvements. Please follow this link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension.

Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta 4810 (+36); MediaWiki.org 4138 (+20); Commons 1145 (+198) [1][2][3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 207 (+0) 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



jquery.uls



jquery.webfonts



jquery.ime


 * Amir Aharoni and Kartik Mistry cleaned up failing tests and switched to stylelint and eslint.
 * Amir Aharoni added New tilde-based layouts for several languages of Africa: Kabyle, Kabiye, Kikuyu, Luganda, Lingala, Malagasy, Northern Sotho, Koyraboro Senni, Sango, Sotho, Venda
 * Yuping Zuo added Latin Pinyin transliteration keyboard.



translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.



Deployments and other site related updates




Cross team work/requirements

 * Work in progress to migrate cxserver service to Kubernetes with SRE.