User:Nikerabbit/Monthly report/2017-10

This the new Wikimedia language engineering monthly report. It continues the tradition of the monthly report published by the Wikimedia Language team which is discontinued in favour of Global Collaboration monthly report. This report is currently looking for a new location.

Monthly updates 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.

Please see the ·Global Collaboration monthly report.

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.

· patches were merged this month.



Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta 4039 (+69); MediaWiki.org 3485 (-1); Commons 696 (+14)
 * Translate extension is installed on 216 (-2) 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.

· patches were merged this month.



Other extensions
Babel (part of MLEB):
 * User Iniquity made design improvements. T176086
 * User Umherirrender improved code documentation.
 * Max Semenik removed translations for Tokipona.

cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):
 * User Umherirrender improved code documentation.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
 * User Umherirrender improved code documentation.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):
 * User Umherirrender improved code documentation.

TranslationNotifications:
 * User Umherirrender improved code documentation.

MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle
Kartik Mistry released MLEB 2017.10 which dropped support for MediaWiki 1.27.

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.



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

jquery.i18n
 * Santhosh Thottingal expanded documentation for plural support.
 * Santhosh Thottingal updated plural rules to CLDR 31 and CLDRPluralRuleParser to v.1.2.0.

jquery.uls
 * Volker Eckl updated colors to increase contrast.
 * Santhosh Thottingal started using language data from the new LanguageData library.

jquery.webfonts
 * No changes.

jquery.ime
 * James Forrester updated deprecated code in QUnit tests.

translatewiki.net

 * Martin Urbanec added Wikinity for translation.
 * Niklas Laxström added Subversion support to our new repository management script.
 * Federico Leva added Dissemin for translation.
 * User zoranzoki21 enabled TemplateSandbox.
 * See also translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

 * About 70 (=) new users
 * About 310 (=) translators made about 38.000 (-7.000) edits
 * About 85 (+15) translators reviewed about 13.500 (+500) translations

Sources:     

TwnMainPage

 * No noteworthy changes.