Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/April

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 moveTranslatablePage script (, Help:Extension:Translate/Move_translatable_page)
 * Support new HTML-y translation variable syntax

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 6.509 (+4); MediaWiki.org 5.554 (+33); Commons 1.551 (+26) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 419 (+9) 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,


 * Avoid JavaScript errors for tipsy if no entry point on the page
 * Simplify undo tooltip positioning
 * Update Junicode to 1.002

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):


 * Add termbox languages cak, cnh
 * 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 2021.04 was released in April, 2021. Please see the release notes for a list of changes. Next release will be in July, 2021.

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 to core:
 * Dagbani
 * Internationalization feature changes:
 * Removed unnecessary control character from Names.php (gerrit)

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
language-data
 * Languages added and changed: Dargwa (a.k.a. Dargin, dar)
 * Cleared the usage of the Ojibwe language in language-data and translatewiki

banana-i18n
 * Released Version 2.1.0. Please see release notes.

jquery.i18n
 * No updates

jquery.uls
 * Update language-data

jquery.webfonts
 * No updates

jquery.ime
 * Updates in the Basaa and Palochka keyboards

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.

Language configuration updates

 * Added: Dargin (Dargwa, dar)
 * Removed:
 * Dagbani, graduated to core
 * Chippewa, merged with Ojibwe

Stats

 * About 89 (-10) new users
 * About 412 (-14) translators made about 41.196 (-9.784) edits
 * About 100 (-5) translators reviewed about 12.504 (+588) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.