Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2020/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 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,


 * Improve and standardize the options on Translation move and delete pages. (Phab:T168591)
 * SpecialTranslate: Stop processing taction - (Gerrit Patch)
 * Remove $wgPageTranslationNamespace completely (Gerrit Patch)
 * SECURITY FIX: Translate: HTML from messages was not escaped in Special:ManageMessageGroups. If you do not use this page (e.g. only use translatable wiki pages) you are not affected. (Phab:T242115)
 * Support export for offline translation also from command line. (Phab:T248200)
 * Make Special:SupportedLanguages do less work during web requests (Gerrit Patch)
 * Special:ExportTranslations: Disallow exporting huge groups (Gerrit Patch)
 * Remove unused create-language-models.php script (Gerrit Patch)

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 4602 (-268); MediaWiki.org 4939 (161); Commons 1335 (+27) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 306 (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 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, performance and maintenance updates only.

cldr (Common Locale Data Repository) (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation, performance and maintenance updates only.

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation, performance and maintenance updates only.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation, performance and maintenance updates only.

TranslationNotifications:


 * Localisation, performance and maintenance updates only.

MassMessage:
 * Add fallback language support when sending translatable page as message (Phab:T165128)

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 2020.04 was released this month. 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.



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.



Stats

 * About 91 (+6) new users
 * About 369 (+41) translators made about 42.300 (-8.700) edits
 * About 98 (+11) translators reviewed about 15.000 (+4.900) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Tweaks for small screens. (Gerrit Patch)
 * Make project titles keyboard navigable. (Gerrit Patch)
 * Fix font styles. (Phab:T250171)
 * Localisation and maintenance updates.

Deployments and other site related updates

 * ContentTranslation now supports Google Translate machine translation in Amharic, Kyrgyz, Luxembourgish, Scots Gaelic and Xhosa languages. (T249852)
 * Default machine translation Chinese is set to Google Translate. (T249469)