Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/December

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:


 * TODO: Add changes

And a bunch of other behind-the-scenes improvements. Please follow [TODO this link] to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta TODO (TODO); MediaWiki.org TODO (TODO); Commons TODO (TODO) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on TODO (TODO) 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,


 * TODO: Add changes

Please follow [TODO this link] to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

Other extensions
Babel (part of MLEB):



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



CleanChanges (part of MLEB):



LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):



TranslationNotifications:



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.

TODO: Update based on whether there was an MLEB release.

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.



Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
language-data


 * Updated the configuration for Min Dong language (cdo; )
 * Added languages: Tyap (kcg), Nias (nia), Eleme (elm), Izhorian (izh), Nogay (nog)
 * Updated the autonyms for Komi-Permyak (koi), Livvi-Karelian (olo), Voro (vro), Shilha (shi)
 * Fixed a minor issue in the PHP library for the edge cases of no languages spoken in a territory
 * Add a test for validity of language codes
 * Fix GitHub build issues

banana-i18n



jquery.i18n



jquery.uls


 * Fix GitHub build issues



jquery.webfonts



jquery.ime


 * Add new keyboards for Tyap and Madurese



translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.


 * "Most used MediaWiki messages": Removed many technical and rarely used messages, and add several messages that appear on all Main pages.

Stats

 * About TODO (TODO) new users
 * About TODO (TODO) translators made about TODO (TODO) edits
 * About TODO (TODO) translators reviewed about TODO (TODO) translations