Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/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 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:


 * Drop non-array based configuration support for Insertables
 * Fix: "ULS Language Selector search textbox is not accessible from the Translate Group Selector"
 * Stop hiding page heading on pages other than Special:Translate

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 6180 (+64); MediaWiki.org 5423 (+23); Commons 1486 (+9) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 405 (+26) 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,


 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

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.

There will be an MLEB release this month. We will update this space once it is available.

Previous release was: MLEB 2020.10. Please see the release notes for a list of changes.

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


 * Updated the configuration for Min Dong language (cdo; )
 * Added languages: Tyap (kcg), Nias (nia), Eleme (elm), Izhorian (izh), Nogay (nog)
 * Updated the autonyms for Komi-Permyak (koi), Livvi-Karelian (olo), Voro (vro), Shilha (shi)
 * Fixed a minor issue in the PHP library for the edge cases of no languages spoken in a territory
 * Add a test for validity of language codes
 * Fix GitHub build issues

banana-i18n
 * No updates

jquery.i18n
 * No updates

jquery.uls
 * Fix GitHub build issues
 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.

jquery.webfonts
 * No updates

jquery.ime


 * Add Madurese tilde keyboard (GitHub PR)
 * Add a keyboard for the Tyap language (GitHub PR)

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.


 * "Most used MediaWiki messages": Removed many technical and rarely used messages, and add several messages that appear on all Main pages.

Stats

 * About 68 (-22) new users
 * About 401 (+29) translators made about 50.944 (+12.101) edits
 * About 116 (+16) translators reviewed about 18.114 (+8.271) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.