Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/September

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 rare JavaScript DataCloneError on Special:Translate
 * Special:PageMigration inserts comma instead of new line
 * Breaking change: Remove translation aids customization
 * Hook  has been removed
 * The page translation language list should use HTML list instead of literal bullet points
 * moveTranslatablePage script: Make moving of sub pages the default
 * PageTranslation: Prevent non-wikitext pages from being marked for translation
 * Translatable Page Move: Remove custom target page exists check
 * MovePage: Add support for moving talkpages
 * Breaking change: Remove getConfiguration and getFFS from MessageGroup
 * Optimizations towards fixing DBPerformance warning "Query returned XXXX rows: query: SELECT * FROM `translate_metadata`" on Meta-Wiki (, |Gerrit patches)
 * QueryTranslationStatsActionApi: Increase max value for days
 * Remove language attribute for Translate link on source page
 * translate.editor: use editfont in sourcemessage & editor (Fixes, )
 * Add  placehodler for support params
 * SECURITY: Allow revdel-related actions in translatable page
 * QueryMessageCollection: Warn if source language is disabled (Fixes, )

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 6.985 (+1); MediaWiki.org 5.826 (+76); Commons 1.594 (-12) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 435 (+3) 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,


 * Language button should prevent default click behavior
 * Language button icon/button should be consistent with other buttons
 * 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):


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

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


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):


 * 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 2021.07 was released in July, 2021. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in October, 2021.

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:
 * Xiang Chinese (hsn)
 * Kildin Sami (sjd)
 * Pite Sami (sje)
 * Language configuration changes:
 * Updated namespaces for Lombard

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
language-data
 * Add the Pa'O language (PR)
 * Update blk autonym (PR)

banana-i18n
 * gender: when gender not passed, avoid error, fallback to neutral (PR)
 * Avoid parser fail on html content with / and > (Commit)
 * Dependency updates

jquery.i18n
 * No changes

jquery.uls
 * ULS LCD: Check if region exists before adding languages (PR)
 * Localisation updates

jquery.webfonts
 * No changes

jquery.ime
 * Security fix for path-parse (PR)

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.


 * Server was updated to Debian 11

Language configuration updates

 * None

Stats

 * About 96 (+9) new users
 * About 376 (-25) translators made about 46.332 (-67) edits
 * About 90 (-3) translators reviewed about 15.076 (-20.823) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

Team status

 * Mary Munyoki joined the Inuka and Language teams as a Senior Technical Program Manager.