Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/April

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:


 * Improve editing of translatable pages with Visual Editor.
 * Fix: Special:PageTranslation should not output one message box per invalid unit ID
 * Fix: "Please specify a valid format" notice when trying to export translation on translatewiki.net
 * Fix: "Special:ImportTranslations always reports "There were no changes for this language."

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 8.207 (+135); MediaWiki.org 6.161 (+23); Commons 1.720 (-21) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 455 (+0) wikis.

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,


 * Add "quick actions" menu to the current language selector
 * 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):

We are planning to sunset the this extension. Please see this task for more information.
 * 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 2022.04 was released this month. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes.

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 Version 1.0.9 (2022-04-20) was released. See the changelog here.
 * Languages added and changes
 * Add Efik (efi) (PR #217)
 * Fix the geo data of Karay-a (krj) (PR #218)
 * Redirect "Eastern Yiddish" (ydd) to Yiddish (yi) (PR #220)
 * Change trp autonym (PR #223)
 * Remove Livvi Karelian from Asia (PR #222)

banana-i18n
 * No updates

jquery.i18n
 * Maintenance updates only.

jquery.uls
 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts
 * No updates

jquery.ime
 * Maintenance updates only.

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.


 * Made progress on requiring full deployments for configuration changes. This will help reduce configuration changes causing site outages.

Language configuration updates

 * Fix the autonym of Okinawan (ryu)
 * Update Kokborok language configuration
 * Remove Eastern Yiddish (ydd)
 * Add Efik (efi)

Stats

 * About 64 (-20) new users
 * About 369 (-18) translators made about 36.073 (859) edits
 * About 73 (-7) translators reviewed about 10.844 (2.701) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates.

Public communication and outreach

 * We organised Global Wikimedia Sessions to offer a glimpse into the multilingual nature of Wikimedia projects, and the technologies that enable translation and localization. See more here to register for upcoming sessions https://office.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Wikimedia_Sessions

Team status

 * Emeka Chukwukere joined the team as a test engineer.