Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/October

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:


 * Fix "Translation page does not contain the latest translations/last translation"
 * Fix "This namespace is reserved for content page translations" when trying to translate a recently created translation unit"
 * Fix mandatory deletion of sub pages when deleting translatable pages
 * Make Language stats appear better on mobile screens and make the header sticky

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 5788 (67); MediaWiki.org 5331 (+17); Commons 1460 (+20) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 374 (+3) 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,


 * Reduce JS loaded on critical path
 * Other 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):


 * 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 2020.10 was released last month. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next MLEB release will be in 2021.01

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


 * Released Language Data - 2020-10-27
 * Add a redirect from cbk-zam to cbk
 * Bump minimum Node.js version to 10.x

banana-i18n


 * Introduce option to enable wiki links processing (#39)

jquery.i18n


 * No changes

jquery.uls


 * Maintenance updates only

jquery.webfonts


 * Maintenance updates and bug fixes only

jquery.ime


 * Add middle tone (macron) and fix tests for Igbo - tilde

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.


 * There was approximately 3 minutes of downtime because of a faulty configuration change.

Stats

 * About 87 (-12) new users
 * About 379 (+2) translators made about 42.277 (+5.856) edits
 * About 85 (-9) translators reviewed about 9.373 (-13.881) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation updates only.

Public communication and outreach



 * The Translatable modules consultation is concluded. The project and the consultation summary were presented at the Wikimedia CEE Online Meeting 2020: Translatable modules: Better workflows for onwiki developers.
 * The presentation The frontend of WikiCite at the WikiCite 2020 Virtual conference by Amir Aharoni includes some discussion localization challenges with citations on Wikimedia projects and ideas about possible directions for solution.