Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2018/March

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. Also check out out the newsletter.

Usage data
Notes:
 * Crossed 300,000 published pages 🎉
 * Unusually large number of deletions in Arabic and Bengali because of vandalism.

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.

Usage data
''Numbers are as of XXX. Deltas are not shown because they are not comparable with previous and next month.''
 * Translatable pages: Meta XXX; MediaWiki.org XXX; Commons XXX [1][2][3]
 * Translate extension is installed on XXX wikis Wikiapiary

Universal Language Selector
Universal Language Selector provides language selector, list of suggested languages, input methods and web fonts. It is part of MLEB.

Significant changes:
 * Added the option for detailed logging of failed searches for language names, including page title and ULS instance. This will allow analyzing which articles are readers most interested in reading in different languages, and how are different instances of ULS are used, and to improve the functionality of the search box. (T179402)
 * Fixed Ctrl-Clicking in Compact Language Links, based on user feedback after deploying to the English Wikipedia (T189582)

Other extensions
Babel (part of MLEB):

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

CleanChanges (part of MLEB):

LocalisationUpdate (part of MLEB):

TranslationNotifications:

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
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Team news

 * Office hour hosted on March 24th, about Compact Language Links. See: log & video recording