Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2018/February

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.

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 4332; MediaWiki.org 3638; Commons 735 [1][2][3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 210 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.

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.
 * The Compact Language Links feature was enabled for the anonymous users on the English Wikipedia, completing its graduation out of beta in Wikipedias. (Phabricator)
 * Towards the deployment, several bugs were fixed in the search box, accessibility, design, and several other issues
 * Blog post: New Wikipedia feature gives you the power to choose whatever language you want

Other extensions
Babel (part of MLEB):

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

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

TranslationNotifications:

Project Milkshake
Project Milkshake consists of four re-usable jquery internationalization libraries.

jquery.i18n

jquery.uls

jquery.webfonts

jquery.ime

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

 * About 90 (-5) new users
 * About 330 (-55) translators made about 54k (-21k) edits
 * About 105 (+10) translators reviewed about 22k (-3k) translations

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Team status

 * Pau and Amir attended the prehackathon event in Olot. The event was dedicated to working on internationalization issues and preparing more thorough work for the main hackathon. Some achievements:
 * Pau created designs for integrating language proofing tools into Content Translation.
 * Pau and Amir worked on improving the integration of Apertium into Content Translation and Wikidata.
 * Amir started triaging the i18n Phabricator board. It had over 1000 completely unsorted tasks, and now it starts to be sorted into over 20 groups. This will make it easier to start prioritizing and resolving them, as planned work, as volunteer tasks, or as hackathon tasks.