Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/August

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 2.

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:


 * Remove features and code from the old translation editor.
 * Force translation pages to have same content model as source page (Phab:T258756)
 * Do not list all pages when marking a page for translation (Phab:T255334)

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 5717 (+72); MediaWiki.org 5288 (+15); Commons 1358 (-4) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 366 (+53) 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,


 * Hide ULS language settings in Minerva skin (Phab:T259037)

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):
 * 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 2020.07 was released last month. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next MLEB release will be in 2020.10

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
 * No changes

banana-i18n
 * No changes

jquery.i18n
 * Maintenance update only

jquery.uls
 * Localisation updates only.

jquery.webfonts
 * No changes

jquery.ime
 * No changes

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

 * About 71 (-20) new users
 * About 364 (-31) translators made about 40.300 (+4.300) edits
 * About 86 (-19) translators reviewed about 25.800 (+8.000) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates.