Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2019/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 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,


 * Prevent duplicate translation unit error from showing twice. (Phab:T236153)
 * Convert PageDisplayTitle to language variant. (Phab:T230681)

And a handful of other behind the scenes improvements. Please follow link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta 4686 (+4); MediaWiki.org 4418 (+37); Commons 1266 (+4) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 300 (0) wikis |1.

Comment: Changes for December, 2019 might appear less because the November, 2019 report was made quite late.

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 in the past month,


 * Update setlang to display confirmation dialog to change language. (Phab:T63115)

Please follow 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:


 * Added a fix for Translation Notification Bot sending the same message multiple times to every translator. (Phab:T144780)

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.

Next MLEB release will be in January, 2020.

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.



Project Milkshake
Project Milkshake consists of four re-usable jQuery internationalization libraries.

jquery.i18n



jquery.uls



jquery.webfonts



jquery.ime



translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.


 * On December 20th, 2019 we moved to a new server. Follow this link for more details. Thanks to https://netcup.de for making the server resources available.

Stats

 * About 59 (+3) new users
 * About 304 (+1) translators made about 42.200 (-6.300) edits
 * About 80 (-9) translators reviewed about 8.050 (-16.950) translations

Public communication and outreach

 * Language showcase 004, dealing with research about the Boost project on Javanese and Bengali Wikipedias.