Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2022/January

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:


 * Remove support for unused Configure extension integration.
 * Remove backward compatibility for MW <= 1.35
 * Add reason dropdown on PageTranslationDeletePage
 * Allow exporting AggregateMessageGroups in offline format via CLI

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 7.602 (+307); MediaWiki.org 6.001 (+45); Commons 1.710 (+4) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 454 (+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,


 * Update GentiumPlus font
 * Hide sticky header language button with preference disabled
 * Remove backward compatibility for MW <= 1.35
 * Improve the loading time of ULS language selector by fetching modules early

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 S'gaw Karen (ksw), not part of CLDR

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation updates only.

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):


 * Localisation 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 2022.01 was released this month. Please see the corresponding 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.


 * Languages added:
 * Fon (fon)
 * Variants on Northern Sami for fallback
 * Nkore (nyn)
 * Language configuration changes:
 * Albanian namespaces and magic words
 * Numbered lists for languages in the Burmese script are now shown with Burmese numerals

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
language-data


 * Release Language Data - 2022-01-18
 * Support for Node.js 10 has been removed
 * Languages added and changes:
 * Update Nheengatu (yrl) autonym (GitHub PR)
 * Fix the Angika (anp) autonym (GitHub PR)
 * Add the Nyankore language (nyn) (GitHub PR)
 * Add shy-latn, uz-cyrl and uz-latn (GitHub PR)
 * Add Fur (fvr) (GitHub PR)
 * Add se-fi, se-no and se-se (GitHub PR)
 * Update Toki Pona (GitHub PR)
 * Rename Seediq (trv) (GitHub PR)
 * Add the Moore language (mos) (GitHub PR)
 * Add [ken] Kenyang (GitHub PR)

banana-i18n

Version 2.3.3 was released with bug fixes:
 * Fix: wikilinks not respected after setLocale call (GitHub PR)
 * html sanitizing: Fix extra comma in node concatenation (GitHub PR, )

jquery.i18n
 * Move to using GitHub actions for CI (GitHub PR)

jquery.uls
 * Updated langauge-data to latest version
 * Maintenance updates

jquery.webfonts
 * Remove usage of deprecated jQuery.trim (GitHub PR)

jquery.ime
 * Change label from National to Jatiyo for bn-nkb keyboard (GitHub PR)
 * In functions calls accept langCodes that have no input methods (GitHub PR)

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.


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Language configuration updates

 * Add assistant languages for Somali
 * Add the Moore language
 * Add assistant languages for Kinyarwanda and Kirundi
 * Add the Nyankore language (nyn)

Stats

 * About 90 (+17) new users
 * About 409 (+81) translators made about 38.180 (+6.948) edits
 * About 81 (+14) translators reviewed about 6.527 (+2.747) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.