Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2015/August

Monthly updates from WMF Editing - Language team

Content Translation
Updates from the ongoing development and deployment for Content Translation.

Other projects
Updates from Translate, Universal Language Selector, MLEB and other projects.

Development Update

 * MLEB 2015.08 was released after a four month break since last release. It contains a lot of changes and it is last version planned to include support for the MediaWiki 1.23 LTS legacy release. It has already been downloaded 40 times only few days after the release and the previous release 2015.04 is a top 3 most downloaded releases with over 450 downloads.
 * The work on the Outreachy project by phoenix303 on improving Special:SearchTranslations of Translate is mostly finished. New features are available on Wikimedia sites in early September. We welcome feedback and bug reports on the new features and improved user interface.
 * Other extensions including Universal Language Selector and cldr had minimal updates to increase language support coverage and other small maintenance work.
 * Supported by volunteers and volunteer work, translatewiki.net keeps supporting translation of MediaWiki core and extensions. Thanks to our volunteer translators, MediaWiki gained a support for three new languages: Southern Kurdish, American sign language[1] and Adyghe. A new project, Crosswatch, was added for translation. The ElasticSearch version used by translatewiki.net was updated to 1.7 and its databases were reindexed to support the new translation search features.
 * Also by volunteer work, CLDR plural rule parsing code has been put into a new library. Work continues to make MediaWiki core use that library.

[1] An external JavaScript library is needed to display the script.

Usage Data

 * Translatable pages: Meta 2002 ( +119 ); MediaWiki.org 2529 (+86); Commons 392 (+7)
 * Translate extension is installed on 196 wikis (+6), according to Wikiapiary

Team status

 * No changes