Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/June

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:


 * Remove TranslateMessageGroupPathVariables hook
 * Address voice and tone issues in Translate extension . See below for more details.
 * Add backport.php to support translation update to stable branches

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.

Configuration variable changes
Following configuration variable names have been updated:

The old variables will be supported for MLEB 2021.07 release but removed in the MLEB 2021.10 release.

If you have defined message groups defined with  attributes,   have been changed to

Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta 6.649 (+94); MediaWiki.org 5.653 (+60); Commons 1.582 (+42) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 423 (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,


 * TODO: Add changes

Please follow [TODO this link] to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

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
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.

TODO: Update based on whether there was an MLEB release.

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