User:Nikerabbit/Monthly report/2017-11

This the new Wikimedia language engineering monthly report. It continues the tradition of the monthly report published by the Wikimedia Language team which is discontinued in favour of Global Collaboration monthly report. This report is currently looking for a new location.

Monthly updates 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. Also check out out the newsletter.

Please see the ·Global Collaboration monthly report.

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.

· patches were merged this month.



Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta ·; MediaWiki.org ·; Commons ·
 * Translate extension is installed on · wikis Wikiapiary

Universal Language Selector
Universal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB.

· patches were merged this month.



Other extensions
Babel (part of MLEB):
 * User Iniquity removed the possiblity to customize cell spacing and padding using translatable messages. T178229

cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):
 * Santhosh Thottingal updated data to CLDR 32.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):
 * Niklas Laxström made it possible to only use the filters provided by the extension by disabling changes to the changes list using . This setting makes it compatible with the new recent changes filters.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):
 * No noteworthy changes.

TranslationNotifications:
 * No noteworthy changes.

MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle
No MLEB release this month. Current stable release is 2017.10. Next release is planned for 2018.01.

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.



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

jquery.i18n
 * Alexander Bolokhovetsky made it possible to append a version string to i18n files.
 * Santhosh Thottingal updated plural rules to CLDR 31 and updated CLDRPluralRuleParser.

jquery.uls
 * No changes.·

jquery.webfonts
 * No changes.

jquery.ime
 * No changes.

translatewiki.net

 * Niklas Laxström added support for using extensions on translatewiki.net that use submodules (for example Visual Editor).
 * Niklas Laxström enabled the new recent changes filters.
 * Niklas Laxström found a working fix to the session related issue that were hampering users ability to login or make edits on translatewiki.net.
 * See also translatewiki.net news page.

Stats

 * About 70 (=) new users
 * About 300 (-10) translators made about 34.000 (-4.000) edits
 * About 70 (-15) translators reviewed about 8.000 (-5.500) translations

Sources:     

TwnMainPage

 * No noteworthy changes.