Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/May

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 support for MW <= 1.34
 * Allow showing yearly stats in Special:TranslationStats
 * Special:TranslationStats: Fix bug where last unit of the scale could be ignored
 * Improve display of very long insertables
 * Translation page deletion should not clear metadata
 * Add GroupsAid
 * BREAKING CHANGE: Remove Validator and LegacyValidatorAdapter
 * Remove  from   to conclude the namespace rename

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 6.555 (+46); MediaWiki.org 5.593 (+39); Commons 1.540 (-11) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 423 (+4) 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,


 * Restore suggested languages to compact languages button
 * Replace Jomolhari with BabelStone for Tibetan
 * Add hooks

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.
 * Add Northwestern Ojibwa (ojb)

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 2021.06 was released in June, 2021. This was a bugfix release. 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:
 * Malay in Arabic script (Jawi, ms-arab; for UI language and Wikibase values)
 * Ojibwe (ojb)
 * Wallisian (Faka‘uvea, wls)
 * Paiwan (pwn)
 * Language configuration changes:
 * Namespaces for Dagbani (dag) and Kinyarwanda (rw)
 * Autonym of Lombard (lmo)

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
language-data
 * Change lmo language name
 * Add Rohingya as a language of Bangladesh and Burma
 * Add the Paiwan language (pwn)
 * Make 'ha' the primary code for Hausa
 * Localisation and maintenance updates

banana-i18n
 * build: Reduce the bundle size by using terser plugin with rollup
 * Allow empty strings as messages
 * Localisation and maintenance updates

jquery.i18n
 * Maintenance, security and localization updates

jquery.uls
 * Localisation and maintenance updates only

jquery.webfonts
 * No updates

jquery.ime
 * Security and lint updates
 * Fix a rule in Urdu-phonetic and add tests and comments

translatewiki.net
See translatewiki.net news page.


 * We've moved to LiberaChat (irc.libera.chat); channel name: #translatewiki

Language configuration updates

 * Added: Paiwan (pwn), Malay in Arabic script
 * Fix the Fon language autonym
 * Removed languages that appear in core:
 * es-formal
 * hu-formal
 * kjp
 * mad
 * mnw
 * mrh
 * nys
 * shn
 * sty

Stats

 * About 97 (+6) new users
 * About 398 (-16) translators made about 53.238 (+12.042) edits
 * About 107 (+7) translators reviewed about 13.135 (+631) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.