Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/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. 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:


 * Finished moving special pages to namespace
 * Add a new entity selector to select groups in Special:MessageGroupStats
 * Add UrlInsertableSuggester for Translate

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 7.951 (+349); MediaWiki.org 6.040 (+39); Commons 1.732 (+22) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 455 (+1) 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,


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

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 updates only.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation updates only.

TranslationNotifications:


 * Localisation 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 2022.01 was released last month. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in April, 2022

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:
 * Pannonian Rusyn (rsk)

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
language-data
 * Languages added and changes:
 * Add the Moore language (mos) (GitHub PR)
 * Add [ken] Kenyang (GitHub PR)
 * Add the Bulu language (bum) (GitHub PR)
 * Add Fante (fat) (GitHub PR)
 * Add Pannonian Rusyn (GitHub PR)
 * Fix the autonym for Rundi (rn) (GitHub PR)

banana-i18n
 * No changes

jquery.i18n
 * No changes

jquery.uls
 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts
 * No changes

jquery.ime
 * Maintenance updates
 * Add the General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages keyboard (GitHub PR)
 * Add Burkina Faso tilde keyboard (GitHub PR)
 * Add the Bulu language with Cameroon keyboard (GitHub PR)
 * Add Fante language with Akan keyboards (GitHub PR)
 * Cleanup Kashmiri Arabic keyboard code (GitHub PR)

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates

 * Add the Fante language (fat)
 * Add Panonian Rusyn
 * Add the Bulu language
 * Add Kenyang language

Stats

 * About 97 (+7) new users
 * About 388 (-21) translators made about 44.326 (+6.146) edits
 * About 73 (-8) translators reviewed about 9.152 (+2.625) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

Team status

 * Eugene Wang'ombe joined the Language team as Software Engineer (Contractor).