Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/June

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:


 * Add support to delete message bundles
 * Add support for priority languages for message bundles
 * Add support for metadata and setting source languages for message bundles
 * Avoid recreation of translation pages on bulk deletion of pages
 * Allow CSV export for message groups
 * Add script to import translations from CSV file

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 8.349 (+21); MediaWiki.org 6.204 (+1); Commons 1.746 (+13) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 456 (0) 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,


 * 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 maintenance updates.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):
 * Localisation maintenance updates.

TranslationNotifications:
 * Localisation maintenance updates.

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 2022.04 was released in April 2022. Please see the corresponding release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in July, 2022

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.


 * Languages added: TODO (remove if none)
 * Language configuration changes: TODO (remove if none)
 * Internationalization feature changes: TODO (remove if none)

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
language-data language-data will be released this month. This section will be updated when that's available.


 * Languages added and changes
 * Rename Okinawan PR #225
 * Update Kinyarwanda autonym PR #227
 * Add Campidanese Sardinian (sro) PR #228
 * Update autonym for the Efik language PR #231
 * Add Tai Nüa (tdd) PR #233
 * Add Bura PR #237
 * Change Kanuri autonym to lowercase PR #238

banana-i18n
 * No updates

jquery.i18n
 * No updates

jquery.uls
 * For language links, use full space in  elements PR #447
 * Localisation and maintenance updates.

jquery.webfonts
 * No updates

jquery.ime
 * Fix height of selected keyboard text PR #685
 * Keyboards added and changed:
 * Add keyboards for Nyanja and Tumbuka PR
 * Add the macron sign to the Ewe keyboard PR
 * Improve the name for the mul-* keyboards PR
 * Add Kanuri tilde keyboard PR
 * Add Bura tilde keyboard PR

translatewiki.net
See translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates

 * Add default assistant languages for Mara and Mizo
 * Add assistant languages for Chewa and Tumbuka
 * Add Bura (bwr) and update Kanuri (kr)

Stats

 * About 75 (-57) new users
 * About 379 (-35) translators made about 44.207 (5.228) edits
 * About 86 (+11) translators reviewed about 8.493 (+2.500) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.