Wikimedia Language engineering/Reports/2021/October

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:


 * SECURITY: Allow revdel-related actions in translatable pages
 * Special:Translations: Fix language attribute for message documentation
 * Performance optimizations for Translate metadata (Phabricator)
 * Special:ActiveLanguages: Fix language attribute for message documentation
 * Support Translation Aid: Update  to return the complete URL
 * Special:Translate: Ensure translated name of group is displayed
 * Custom group configuration: Rename validator keymatch option to include
 * Custom group configuration: Add support to exclude messages from validation

Please follow this link to see a full list of patches submitted to the extension during this month.

Usage data

 * Translatable pages: Meta 7.171 (+186); MediaWiki.org 5.858 (+32); Commons 1.577 (-17) [ 1][ 2][ 3]
 * Translate extension is installed on 447 (+12) wikis.

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,


 * Fix compatibility with MediaWiki 1.35
 * SECURITY: Language name search: Avoid searching for very long search keys to avoid potential DDOS attacks.
 * Update language name search data

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.

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 2021.10 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.


 * Languages added:
 * S'gaw Karen (ksw)
 * Farefare (gur; also known as Frafra, Gurene, and Ninkare)
 * Language configuration changes:
 * The name Chinese (Taiwan) changed from 台灣 to 臺灣 by community request.

Reusable JavaScript libraries for language support
language-data


 * Renamed language gur from Gurenɛ to Farefare: A more general and inclusive name.
 * Added Nigerian Pidgin (pcm)

banana-i18n


 * No changes

jquery.i18n


 * No changes

jquery.uls


 * Localisation updates
 * Security fixes for dev dependencies

jquery.webfonts


 * No changes

jquery.ime


 * Add Farefare tilde keyboard (PR)

translatewiki.net
See also translatewiki.net news page.


 * We are now back to using the latest version of Mediawiki code.

Language configuration updates

 * Added Nigerian Pidgin (pcm)

Stats

 * About 89 (-7) new users
 * About 373 (-3) translators made about 47.882 (+1.550) edits
 * About 99 (+9) translators reviewed about 5.854 (-9.222) translations

TwnMainPage

 * Localisation and maintenance updates only.